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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUMMER EVEING. RETIREMENT OF A GARDEN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography
First Line: Scaped from the day's long heats and hustling crowds
Last Line: It plies, henceforth, between that hope and heaven.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening
First Line: Scaped from the day's long heats and hustling crowds
Last Line: It plies, henceforth, between that hope and heaven.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening
'Scaped from the day's long heats and hustling crowds,
How much for that sweet silence I condon'd!
The gold moon glimpsed from out faint-stirring clouds,
And near the nested bird the beetle dron'd;
Pensive upon my garden-chair I sat,
And gave my spirit up to evening dreams,
Haunted by fragments of that meagre chat,
That held so long, and touched such weary themes,
All worthless! Near me lay that burial sod
Where to a shining thread such power was given;
A little, aimless, ferrying, light that stood,
And moved and stood again, at random driven,
But made, by hope, significant for good,
It plies, henceforth, between that hope and heaven.
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