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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GARDENS & GARDENING Matches Found: 619 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A B C'S IN GREEN, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trees are god's great alphabet Last Line: I learn to read. Variant Title(s): A B C's Garden Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; God; Trees A BOUQUET OF ZINNIAS, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One could not live without delicacy, but when Last Line: Bruisable petals curve sweetly over their centers Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening A CALIFORNIA GARDEN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was fragrance too, that quietly crept Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A CERTAIN KIND OF EDEN, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems like you could, but Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Time; Hope; Optimism A CHINESE GARDEN, by MARGARET HOLLAND Poem Text First Line: Passion flowers entwine the orange trees Last Line: Pay homage to arbutus fair and bright. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A CITY GARDEN, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hid in a close and lowly nook Last Line: God grant some day your dreams come true. Subject(s): Cities; Gardens & Gardening; Urban Life A CITY GARDEN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun-warmed, where hudson meets the sea Last Line: My suzeraine -- the faery queen. Subject(s): Cities; Fairies; Gardens & Gardening; New York City - Colonial Period; Urban Life; Elves A CITY HOUSEWIFE'S RONDEL, by ELOISE HERRING GORHAM Poem Text First Line: I walk among my garden blooms Last Line: I walk among my garden blooms. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Walking A COQUETTE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am never in doubt of her goodness Last Line: Whose birthdays are three, when all told. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Romance; Spring A DESERTED GARDEN, by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: A garden old, deserted Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A DOOMED GARDEN, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A garden is not a place Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A FLOWER GARDEN AT COLEORTON HALL, LEICESTERSHIRE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, ye zephyrs! That unfold Last Line: Though entering but as fancy's shade. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A FORSAKEN GARDEN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland Last Line: Death lies dead. Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean A FRUIT-PIECE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The afternoon of summer folds Last Line: With heaven's own sacramental wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fruit; Gardens & Gardening; Summer A GARDEN, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: My love is red as oleander Last Line: Were meeter for my love to sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Soul A GARDEN IDYLL, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir poet, ere you crossed the lawn Last Line: Regretted -- that I'd left the other. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A GARDEN IN CHICAGO, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the mid-city, under an oiled sky Subject(s): Chicago; Gardens & Gardening A GARDEN MYSTERY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a garden all my own Last Line: I wish I hadn't thought of that! Subject(s): Children; Gardens & Gardening; Childhood A GARDEN OF SPICES, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All odors sweet of spice and balm Last Line: That we, dear lord, are thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love A GARDEN SONG, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this sequestered close Last Line: Find the fair pierides! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A GARDEN SPOT, by PRINGLE BARRET Poem Text First Line: A garden spot may be a noisy place Last Line: And god communes with earth the livelong day. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Wellesley College A GARDEN WALL, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roman wall was not more grave than this Last Line: But children's laughter, birds, and bits of sky. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A GARDEN; FOR GRETCHEN CARACAS AND HOWARD ROGOVIN, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This was my garden in 1985 Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening A GARDENER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dear mother earth, within your breast" Last Line: "flowers, and verdue in the spring" Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A GIRL'S GARDEN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A neighbor of mine in the village Last Line: To the same person twice. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A HAUNTED GARDEN, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the moss and stone / the lonely lilies rise Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A HOME-MADE FAIRY TALE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bud, come here to your uncle a spell Last Line: A kiss like the drip of a drop of dew! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Fantasy; Gardens & Gardening; Guitars A JAPANESE DWARF TREE, by ISABEL ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: So old, so tiny, it its bowl of blue Last Line: Of a million swords! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Japan; Trees; Japanese A LATE WALK, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I go up through the mowing field Last Line: To carry again to you. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A LITTLE DUTCH GARDEN, by HARRIET WHITNEY DURBIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I passed by a garden, a little dutch garden Last Line: And gretchen is holding it fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Whitney, Hattie Variant Title(s): The Old Sexton Subject(s): Children; Gardens & Gardening; Childhood A LITTLE GARDEN, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little garden on a bleak hillside Last Line: A little garden, loved with a great love! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A LOST EDEN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, it was a lonely place Last Line: Why should I be sad? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness A LOVE SYMPHONY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the garden ways just now Last Line: I fled back to your feet. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love A PORTRAIT, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a dear old lady Last Line: My winter garden waits. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A RECOLLECTION, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once there in my garden fair Last Line: We would love and prize and cheer. Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening; Memory A ROOM ON A GARDEN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O stagnant east-wind, palsied mare Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A ROSE, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day with bright, appealing face Last Line: His soul and breaks his fetter? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Perfume; Roses; Soul A ROSE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Thy purfled petals are like angels' lips Last Line: And thou a pledge whence all perfections are. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses A ROSE, by HELEN RAMSEY Poem Text First Line: A flake of dawn's new splendor Last Line: You voiceless living melody! Subject(s): Creative Ability; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Gifts & Giving; Love; Roses; Inspiration; Creativity A SELLER OF HERBS (A RHYME OF A BALTIMORE MARKET), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black, comely, of abiding cheer Last Line: And just as full of bees! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Herbs; Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Markets; Poetry & Poets; Supermarkets A SONG OF A GARDEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a thing a garden is Last Line: To bid grow, to increase! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Birds; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Herbs; Insects; Medicine; Quiet Life; Beekeeping; Nightmares; Bugs; Drugs, Prescription A STATUE IN A GARDEN, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was a goddess ere the marble found me Last Line: The dead leaves are falling. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Statues A SUMMER'S GARDEN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made a garden just to keep about me Last Line: The lives I entertained where are they now? Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A VINE-ARBOUR IN THE FAR WEST, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laura, my laura! Yes, mother! I Last Line: "but I'll say to him, ""o my poor father, we wait you, come in.""'" Subject(s): Arbors; Family Life; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Mothers; Sun; Relatives A VOTE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lest the misconst'ring world should chance to say Last Line: Or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day. Variant Title(s): A Wish;of Myself Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Gardens & Gardening; Law & Lawyers; Nature; Teaching & Teachers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Attorneys; Educators; Professors A WINTER EDEN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A winter garden in an alder swamp Last Line: To make it worth life’s while to wake and sport Subject(s): Winter; Gardens & Gardening A WINTER'S DAY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into my garden sweet and fair Last Line: And she asks how long the sun will shine. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love; Night; Sun; Winter; Bedtime A YARD-FENCE AND FLOWER-BEDS, by DELLA MCDANIEL Poem Text First Line: Old, junked machinery Last Line: With a yard-fence and flower-beds. Subject(s): Farm Life; Gardens & Gardening; Repairing; Agriculture; Farmers; Mending ACROSS THE BROWN RIVER, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brown river, finger of a broken fist Last Line: These eyes from outer space, evicted statues Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening AD ASTRA: 108, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O little lives, brought thro' the starry gloom Last Line: From joyless life, drawn from degenerate veins? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Paradise ADDRESSED TO A LADY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love my garden, though I dare confess Last Line: Nor how, nor whence, they come care I to seek. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Botany & Botanists; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Women ADMONITION, by FAITH HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: We cannot share the rose without its thorns Last Line: The stinging wounds that fill us with regret. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses AFTER READING 'AN ITALIAN GARDEN', by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To him no more an inward hate Last Line: Again might blossom to the moon! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Italy; Italians AFTER THE FROST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the frost! O the rose is dead Last Line: After the frost -- the frost! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Frost; Gardens & Gardening; Kisses; Roses AFTERMATH, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the fields where thou hadst mown in summertide Last Line: If her feet have hallowed for an aftermath? Subject(s): Catholics; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Spring; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Paradise AFTERMATH, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The herald redbreast sings his winter lays Last Line: Flaunts the imperial chrysanthemum. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses ALESSIO AND THE ZINNIAS, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: One summer -- was he eight Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening ALMANAC, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into my ravaged garden as into the tattered Last Line: I follow crossing over. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Decay; Gardens & Gardening; Rot; Decadence AN ATHENIAN GARDEN, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The burned and dusty garden said Last Line: Looked after him thro' happy tears. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Greece; Greeks AN ENGLISH GARDEN IN AUSTRIA (SEEN AFTER DER ROSENKAVALIER), by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is as one imagined it: an english garden Last Line: It is an one imagined it: an english garden Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening AN OCTOBER GARDEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my autumn garden I was fain Last Line: A rose to me though at the fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening AN OLD GARDEN, by HERBERT BASHFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old, gray fence is wrapped in vines Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening AN OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to wander at will in a garden Last Line: Are not in favor to-day! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening AN OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN, by PEARL PRISCILLA SMITH Poem Text First Line: There's an old-fashioned garden Last Line: That comes back to me! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening AN OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN, by DORA CLAIRE VANNIX Poem Text First Line: A nosegay of old-fashioned flowers came today Last Line: That in old-fashioned gardens, as elsewhere, my dwell. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Memory AN OLD-WORLD CONVENT GARDEN, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Walled quiet from the din Last Line: To come -- and go! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening AN ORCHID, by ROUTLEDGE CURRY Poem Text First Line: The old mahogany fireplace Last Line: To a point. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Orchids; Spring AN OXFORD GARDEN, by MARTHA HALE SHACKFORD Poem Text First Line: A shy elusive sound of soft winds blowing Last Line: And drifting silence over all the place. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Wellesley College ANNE HATHAWAY'S GARDEN, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: On such a day of quiet rain Last Line: And her long aching outgrown years? Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Hathaway, Anne (1556-1623) APPLE BLOSSOMS, by IVAN ALLEN Poem Text First Line: Apple blossoms! / sweetly blowing all around Last Line: Flickering with their elfish whims. Subject(s): Apple Blossoms; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring ASTROPHEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A star in the silence that follows Last Line: A star by a star. Subject(s): England; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roundels; Stars; English ATHOLE BROSE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Willie an' I cam doun by blair Last Line: And in by tullibardine. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Bees; Gardens & Gardening; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs ATTACK OF THE SQUASH PEOPLE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And thus the people every year Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Vegetables AU JARDIN, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O you away high there Last Line: Did he so? Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening AUTUMN CLEAN-UP, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There she is in her garden Last Line: Eager to begin Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening AUTUMN IN MY GARDEN, by MARION MACKENZIE Poem Text First Line: With autumn coming on I hastened home Last Line: Dust, ashes, on the ground. Subject(s): Autumn; Gardens & Gardening; Seasons; Fall BEE BALM, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I'm sticking a shovel in the ground Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening BEFORE THE MIRROR (VERSES WRITTEN UNDER A PICTURE), by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White rose in red rose-garden Last Line: The flowing of all men's tears beneath the sky. Variant Title(s): Before The Mirror Subject(s): Art & Artists; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Portraits; Roses; Whistler, James Abbott (1834-1903) BEGINNING TO GROW, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A fairy wakes and starts to sing Last Line: "I guess I'll have to grow!" Subject(s): April; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Growth; Plantation Life; Seeds; Spring BLOSSOM OF SNOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing a song of blossom Last Line: "with little marjory brown." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Gardens & Gardening; Snow BOTANICAL GARDENS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He follows me no more, I said, nor stands Last Line: "there shall be springs and springs!" Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening BROTHERS: 4. IN MY OWN DEFENSE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What could I choose Last Line: Could they have failed to hear. Subject(s): Brothers; Creation; Fathers; Gardens & Gardening; Sin; Half-brothers BUCOLIC COMEDY: GARDENER JANUS CATCHES A NAIAD, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baskets of ripe fruit in air Last Line: Quick as these. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening BY THE OLD COACH ROAD, by SUSAN WILBUR JONES Poem Text First Line: Butterfly weed creeps up on this old garden Last Line: Drops fragrance and white blossom. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Wellesley College CASTELLO, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The triton in the ilex-wood Last Line: The gardens of castello! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Italy; Italians CHAMPAK BLOSSOMS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Amber petals, ivory petals Last Line: To ravish the winds of spring. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Spring CHANGE IN RECURRENCE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood at the gate of the cot Last Line: And tap-tapped the shell hard on a stone. Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The CHEDDAR PINKS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid the squander'd colour Last Line: On a may morning. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening CHRIST AS A GARDENER, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boxwoods planted in the park spelled live Subject(s): Christianity; Gardens & Gardening; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology COLD AND QUIET, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold, my dear, -- cold and quiet Last Line: Love, now the children slumber, I come out to thee. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies; Love; Silence; Dead, The COME PLAY IN THE GARDEN, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little sister, come away Last Line: And mind whatever she may say. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening COMPENSATION, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: On days when I remember Last Line: Grow, I find, in shade. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening COMPENSATION, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: The moon floats grandly up through rose to blue Last Line: With cold and death comes more abundant life. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening COMUS, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the starry threshold of jove's court Last Line: Heav'n itself would stoop to her. Variant Title(s): A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before Earl Of Bridgewater Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening CONTRARY MARY, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, mary, quite contrary / how does your garden grow? Last Line: And pretty maids all in a row. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening COTTAGE GARDEN PRAYER, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Little garden gods Last Line: Little garden gods! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology COWLEY: THE GARDEN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fain would my muse the flow'ry treasures sing Last Line: And winter's coolness spite of summer's rays. Subject(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667); Gardens & Gardening CROOKED ANSWERS; DEDICATED TO THE LAUREATE: 2. MAUD, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, I cannot come into the garden just now Last Line: Why, it's not the least business of mine. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Gardens & Gardening; Women CRYSTAL CARAVANS UNTO THE PURPLE PALISADES, by ALICE FERRIN HENSEY Poem Text First Line: Unto the purple palisades that stand Last Line: Of our far land of dreams. Subject(s): Caravans; Gardens & Gardening; Landscape DAISY, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the thistle lifts a purple crown Last Line: And perish in our own. Subject(s): Absence; Children; Gardens & Gardening; Separation; Isolation; Childhood DANDELIONS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon my lawn, I know not why, the dandelions Last Line: Their birth, and shrivel at the slightest breath, and perish from the earth. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lawns; Lilacs; Weeds DAWN IN SPRING, by JEAN DREW FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: In the depth of silence Last Line: Where life will be retold. Subject(s): Future Life; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Spring; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise DE AMORE ET SPINIS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a garden fenced with glowing finger Last Line: One colour hath the blood and one the rose Subject(s): Flowers;gardens & Gardening;love DE HORTIS JULII MARTIALIS, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My martial owns a garden, famed to please Last Line: You half imagine all to be your own. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Rome, Italy DEAD LEAVES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fallen leaves were lying thick upon the Last Line: Be all wrong. Subject(s): Dirt; Gardens & Gardening; Lawns; Leaves; Nature; Public Health DESCRIPTION OF SPRING, by HENRY HOWARD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings Last Line: Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs. Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of Variant Title(s): "description Of Spring, Wherein Each Thing Renews Save Only The Lover;spring;summer;summer Is Come;sonnet;summer Is Gone;morte 42: Sonetto (imitated From Petrarch);spring, But;""the Soote Season, That Bud And Blome Furth Bringes""; Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness DESOLATED GARDENS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trampling armies leave discomforted Last Line: O desolated gardens, with your graves! Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Graves; Love; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones DID I SAY, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This time of year I kneel on my jacket. The ice Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Winter DIRTY POEM, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow lies on my fields Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening DISCIPLINE, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life is full of scented fruits Last Line: Thank heaven a garden lot is yours. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening DONNA CLARA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening-shaded garden Last Line: "israel of saragossa." Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Jews; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Judaism DOVECOTT MILL: 2. THE GARDENER'S HOME, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, you have seen it - a tempting spot! Last Line: Let the world outside go on as it will. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening DREAM GARDEN, by ELIZABETH M. TEFFAULT Poem Text First Line: Were I to plant a garden Last Line: There in the midst of it? Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening EARLIEST SPRING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Iron scallops border the path, barely Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening EARLY SPRING IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter's tune is up Last Line: When the sun runs high. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Spring; Vermont ELEGY WHILE PRUNING ROSES, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've weeded thier beds, put down manure and bark dust Subject(s): Roses; Gardens & Gardening; Death; Dead, The ELEVEN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And summer mornings the mute child, rebellious Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening ENCHANTMENT, by CHRISTINE L. HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: The garden by the river sleeps Last Line: The river by the garden sleeps. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening ENVIRONMENT, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a walled-in garden all about Last Line: And oh! The gate is locked; I have no key! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening EPIPSYCHIDION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet spirit! Sister of that orphan one Last Line: And come and be my guest -- for I am love's. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Sea; Viviani, Teresa Emilia; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Ocean EPITAPHS: A GREENSKEEPER, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With patient care and sublety Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening EVE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the first time a lovely scene Last Line: In god's own image made. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; God; Jews; Judaism EVENING, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The evening's angel passes where flowers glow.. Last Line: An angel gathers this sad dream of thine. Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight EVENING ON LAKE COMO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside my garden's ivied wall Last Line: The dreams of youth come back to me. Subject(s): Evening; Gardens & Gardening; Lakes; Life; Youth; Sunset; Twilight; Pools; Ponds FABLES: 1ST SER. 48. THE GARDENER AND THE HOG, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gard'ner, of peculiar taste Last Line: Shall mourn the folly soon or late. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Pigs; Boars; Hogs FALLING ASLEEP IN A GARDEN, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day the bees have come to the garden Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Sleep FEBRUARY: THINKING OF FLOWERS, by JANE KENYON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now wind torments the field Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening FESSEDEN'S GARDEN, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From this high window, in the twilight dim Last Line: The immortality of birds and flowers! Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Portland, Maine FIGHTING FOR ROSES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the last freeze, in easy air Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening FIRST FRUIT, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not pluck at all Last Line: O, shut hands, be empty another year. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Winter FLOWER OF A SOUTHERN GARDEN, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And bear my fleeting soul away to heaven Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven FLOWERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we are / running with the weeds Last Line: Is love Subject(s): Colors; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love FLOWERS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Her garden was her pleasure and her care Last Line: And by her flowers, in agony she wept. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Nature FOUR FOR THEODORE ROETHKE: 2. THE GARDEN, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ruined kingdom of his father's house Subject(s): Fathers; Gardens & Gardening FOUR SONGS OF FOUR SEASONS: 1. WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the garden Last Line: Praise him whose hand is the strength of the sea. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Singing & Singers; Winter FRAGRANCE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The woodsman loves the smell of pines Last Line: From the gardens of the sea. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances FRINGED GENTIAN, by ANNE ARNOLD CHASE Poem Text First Line: The sun-god, reaching down Last Line: We knelt and worshipped. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sun FROM AN OLD FRENCH SONG-BOOK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Within a dainty garden-close Last Line: And rosy as a little rose Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening FROM THE GARDEN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my beloved Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening FROST TO-NIGHT, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apple-green west and an orange bar Last Line: Half sad, half proud, my arms I fill. Subject(s): Cold; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Life G IS FOR GARDEN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I'll have the primrose grow in grass Last Line: Than seen in my half-strangled tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening GARDEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing at the window at night Last Line: A lord of shadows. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Growth; Shadows; Strength GARDEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O painter of the fruits and flowers Last Line: The beautiful is good. Variant Title(s): Hymn;laborers Together With God Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Religion; Theology GARDEN CLOSES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth buffets and harasses Last Line: For solace and for sleep. Subject(s): Earth; Faces; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Sleep; World GARDEN DAYS: 7. THE GARDENER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gardener does not love to talk Last Line: To play at indian wars with me! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Children; Gardens & Gardening; Childhood GARDEN FANCIES: 1. THE FLOWER'S NAME, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's the garden she walked across Last Line: Roses, you are not so fair after all! Variant Title(s): The Flower's Name Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses GARDEN FANCIES: 2. SIBRANDUS SCHAFNABURGENSIS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plague take all your pedants, say I! Last Line: Dry-rot at ease till the judgement-day! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Pedants GARDEN IN MIDSUMMER, by ELIZABETH HAWLEY TOWNER Poem Text First Line: A spell is on the garden like a bond Last Line: Whirls to her doom. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening GARDEN IN THE DARK, by AMY LANGLEY Poem Text First Line: Daylight has faded now Last Line: Darkness reigns here. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening GARDEN IN WINTER, by DOROTHY WHITEHEAD HOUGH Poem Text First Line: My garden is all put to bed for the winter Last Line: For another season of blooming. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Winter GARDEN LORE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a flowery shrub the may brings Last Line: "when your lady comes!" Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Hearts; May (month); Joy; Delight GARDEN OF THE HESPERIDES, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would that a single sigh could fall Last Line: When love world-wide has shown his mystery. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Hesperides (mythology) GARDEN OF THE NYMPHS, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cool waters tumble, singing as they go Last Line: My soul entrancing. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Mythology - Classical GARDEN OF THE WORLD, by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly swings over the violet Last Line: Watching his waves toss . . . Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening GARDEN RIVALS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pansy in the garden-bed Last Line: "likes the larkspur best of all!" Subject(s): Beauty; Carnations; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses GARDEN SONG, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gray cloud covers the coming morn Last Line: "still death is death while the breezes blow." Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Yale University GARDEN SYMPHONY, by HAZEL FRYE SCHWENTKER Poem Text First Line: My mother's garden brings to me Last Line: Of flower-misted summertime. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Mothers; Summer GARDEN THOUGHTS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some of us are roses Last Line: "and another ""bad""?" Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening GARDEN TIME, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I planted three small dreams today Last Line: They cannot help but grow! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses GARDEN: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are clear Last Line: I could break you. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Gardens & Gardening GARDEN: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wind, rend open the heat Last Line: Of your path. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Heat Subject(s): Bible; Gardens & Gardening; Heat GARDENER, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True bramin, in the morning meadows wet Last Line: See the plum redden, and the beurre stoop. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening GARDENERS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our bower is in a book Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening GARDENING, by ERME BURTON KAMMEYER Poem Text First Line: I want to make a garden Last Line: I'm cultivating god. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening GARDENING SONG, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: When I am in my garden Last Line: I print it on the sod. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening GARDENS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Go make thy garden fair as thou canst Last Line: May see it and mend his own Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening GARDENS, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: One can raise more in a garden than he'd think Last Line: Over and over in a hundred ways. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Grass GARDENS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wide, fair gardens, the rich, lush gardens Last Line: "where we kissed the mother and said ""good-night." Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies; Love; Poppies GARDENS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my walled california patio Last Line: Speaks on this bell's voice. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Marriage; Memory; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GARDENS AT DEERING, by KATHRYN DYE Poem Text First Line: So cool, so calm, these graceful lanes of grass Last Line: Resplendent in the plainest image cast. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening GARDENS OVERSEAS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: The gardens overseas are sweeter Last Line: August, 1918. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Ghosts; Supernatural GILBERT: 1. THE GARDEN, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the city hung the moon Last Line: And calm close smoothly o'er. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening GIRL BEFORE A SHRINE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three lilies grew in a garden Last Line: The lily-blooms and me! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Girls; God; Lilies; Love; Sea; Sin; Ocean GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 2. THE CLOISTER GARDEN AT CERTOSA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a place monastic, set above Last Line: Throws back the sun and tolls the tranquil hours. Subject(s): Certosa De Pavia, Italy; Gardens & Gardening GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 3. OLD STORY-TELLING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heedless gay folk, lying at ease amid Last Line: To tales eternized by boccaccio. Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Flowers; Gardens & Gardening GO, ROSE, GO, by WILLIAM BEALE Poem Text First Line: Go, rose, go, and on themira's breast Last Line: And for my rivals keep thy thorn. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses GOD IN A GARDEN, by FRANCES STOCKWELL LOVELL Poem Text First Line: I made a bit of a garden Last Line: God walks where gardens grow. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening GOD'S ACRE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, garden of confident hope Last Line: Each and all one by one. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Gardens & Gardening; Flowers GOD'S GARDEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The years are flowers and bloom within Last Line: And make them rose-like in his name. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; God; Religion; Theology GOD'S GARDEN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: God made a beauteous garden Last Line: That leads you on to heaven. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening GOD'S WEATHER: MAY, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: There's a blurr'd roll of drumbeats. The soft south wind straying Last Line: With the sigh of the southwind, the balm of god's weather. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Months; Old Age; Spring GRANDMOTHER'S GARDEN, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was the garden that grandmother made Last Line: Why, where should I be this blessed minute? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRATITUDE, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I upon the first creation / clapped my wings with loud applause Last Line: Weaned from earth, and led to god. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Religion; Theology GREEN PLACES IN THE CITY, by MARY ELIZABETH HEWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye fill my heart with gladness, verdant places Last Line: We, by these glimpses, may remember thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Mary Elizabeth Subject(s): Cities; Gardens & Gardening; Urban Life HANDS: THE GARDENER, by KATE M. CHIDESTER Poem Text First Line: His hands / are not the hands Last Line: In soil. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Hands HE KNOWS, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: Tis not in vain if in a glade Last Line: He knows! He knows! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Kisses; Nature HECTOR IN THE GARDEN, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nine years old! The first of any Last Line: And though hector is twice dead. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening HEPATICAS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: They are like sky children Last Line: "at this miracle of spring!" Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Hepatica; Plants; Spring; Joy; Delight; Planting; Planters HER GARDEN, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I let her garden go. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening HER GARDEN, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So quietly she turned her head Last Line: "and they will smile, and think of me." Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening HER GARDEN, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: I was such a quaint old garden Last Line: In her arms are purple flowers. Subject(s): Autumn; Gardens & Gardening; Seasons; Fall HER GARDEN, by RUBY BRANSFORD PEARCE Poem Text First Line: God made for her a garden Last Line: In the lives of those she taught. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; God HER GARDEN; IN MEMORY OF NELLIE SIDDENS BURKE, by EDITH W. L. FORBES Poem Text First Line: Now as the spring Last Line: Now in the spring. Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening; Love HIDDEN, by FLORENCE VAN FLEET LYMAN Poem Text First Line: My garden flowers, I know them all Last Line: I hide within my heart. Subject(s): Bashfulness; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Shyness HIS EXPLANATION, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: I never saw their color, only light Last Line: To lead me through this maze of fairyland. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love; Soul HIS WIFE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My wife is not afraid of dirt Last Line: She smells of mint and lemon balm Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Mariage HOEING, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes fear the younger generation will be deprived Last Line: Has never rendered thus the world fecunder Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening HOMEWARD BOUND, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the starry night is gone Last Line: Of our childhood . . . Long ago! Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Gardens & Gardening; Home; Lakes; Childhood; Pools; Ponds HONOLULU GARDEN, by J. F. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: A sickle moon is shining in my garden Last Line: And smooth the etchings made by time and grief. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening I FIX MY EYES ON A BLADE OF GRASS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Calm, sad, resigned Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Mowing & Mowers; Grass I WALK WITH BEAUTY, by IYDA REBECCA HIRSH Poem Text First Line: My lovely garden of flowers and grass was once a desolate spot Last Line: How beautiful are the morning glories round my kitchen door! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening I WILL ASK, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will ask primrose and violet to spend for you Last Line: Had awaked from sleep. Subject(s): Eden; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Sleep; Paradise IMPRESSIONS: LE JARDIN, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lily's withered chalice falls Last Line: Like little shreds of crimson silk. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN A CUBAN GARDEN, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hibiscus flowers are cups of fire Last Line: From the great black vulture circling the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN A DARKENING GARDEN, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gather together, against the coming of night Last Line: They lasted out our day Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN A FIELD OF GOLDENROD, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Around me-gold! Last Line: With joy's rich ecstacy. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Goldenrod; Happiness; Spring; Joy; Delight IN A FRIEND'S GARDEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long years have you been known to me, my friend Last Line: You stand revealed, as earlier you were not. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Friendship; Gardens & Gardening; Soul IN A GARDEN, by PAULINE B. BARRINGTON Poem Text First Line: Along my fence Last Line: Fell in my garden. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Iris (flower); Marigolds IN A GARDEN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale in the pallid moonlight, white as the rose on her breast Last Line: And he knew that her soul had passed. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN A GARDEN, by MAMIE GRAY PINKSTON Poem Text First Line: There is magic in a garden Last Line: Love and labor, faith and god. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN A GARDEN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what soft wings shall rise above this place Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN A GARDEN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baby, see the flowers! Last Line: Till good day shall smile away good night. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN A GARDEN, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is resting without sound or motion, Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Landscape; Connecticut IN A GARDEN, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day you said you loved me, we found ourselves Last Line: (looking the other way.) Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love - Beginnings; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets IN A GARDEN OF GRANADA, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: The city rumour rises all the day Last Line: For josé maria restrepo millán. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Granada, Spain IN A GARDEN; AT COLEORTON, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft is the medal faithful to its trust Last Line: Were shaped to cheer dark winter's lonely hours. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN A MONASTERY GARDEN, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the long salt ridges Last Line: And smiles in the eyes of god. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Monasteries; Abbeys IN A MOONLIT GARDEN, by ANTOINETTE DE COURSEY PATTERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has cast a spell upon my garden Last Line: Prevails a stillness, as of muted strings. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Moon IN A SOUTHERN GARDEN, by IRMA RICE MAYER Poem Text First Line: Wisteria vines festoon the trees Last Line: To steal a surreptitious kiss. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN AN AUTUMN GARDEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-night the air discloses Last Line: Beneath this haunted moon! Have you forgot? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Roses IN AN ENGLISH GARDEN, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this old garden, fair, I walk today Last Line: There is no hunger like the want of love! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love IN AN OLD GARDEN FORGOTTEN, by ARTHUR WALLACE PEACH Poem Text First Line: Here even sunbeams stumble as they thread Last Line: That dwells among the heart's forgotten things! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN ANY GARDEN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Down his long garden he did slowly go Last Line: With tears or laughterwhich, no man can say. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN AUTUMN TONES, by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS Poem Text First Line: They have not seen beyond their garden wall Last Line: Strange winds begrudge the gleaner's ancient share. Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Gardens & Gardening; Ghosts; Harvest; Supernatural; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight IN DEFENSE OF OUR OVERGROWN GARDEN, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night the apple trees shook and gave each lettuce a heart Last Line: To close I’m sorry there won’t be any salad and I love you Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Relationships IN LATE SPRING, by CHARLES LEO O'DONNELL Poem Text First Line: I mark me how to-day the maples wear Last Line: And take thy purple of the tiring hours. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring IN LUPUM, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the gates, thou gav'st a field to till Last Line: Take back your farm and hand me half a gill! Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 101, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unwatched, the garden bough shall sway Last Line: From all the circle of the hills. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Somersby, Lincolnshire: After Leaving The Rectory;mutability In Gardens Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN MEMORY OF BARRY CORNWALL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the garden of death, where the singers whose names are deathless Last Line: Though the dead to our dead bid welcome, and we farewell. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Procter, Bryan Waller (1787-1874); Dead, The; Cornwall, Barry [pseud.] IN MY NEIGHBOR'S GARDEN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the bound of mine own enclosure Last Line: Might seem the best to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Beauty; Bible; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses IN PRAISE OF ALLIUM, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one celebrates the allium Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening IN REGENT'S PARK, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Dear friends of feather, fin and fur Last Line: A special dinner too. Subject(s): Animals; Gardens & Gardening; Regent's Park, London; Zoos IN THE CONVENT GARDEN, by EDWARD MASLIN HULME Poem Text First Line: Within the convent garden, at the dusk Last Line: Near where the roses on the old wall dream. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Primroses; Roses IN THE GARDEN, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Text First Line: I spied beside the garden bed Last Line: "as you smell sweet to me!" Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Sun IN THE GARDEN, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a garden, which I think he loves Last Line: I turned -- and so she kissed me. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN THE GARDEN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We waited for the sun Last Line: Soonest had to go. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN THE GARDEN, by EDNA DAVIS ROMIG Poem Text First Line: A king had proudly walked within my garden Last Line: Along the paths a king was wort to go. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN THE GARDEN, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: Dawn brought the flush of a rose colored day Last Line: Star gleam and love in the garden tonight. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love IN THE GARDEN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I wonder if you know Last Line: Before I knew a joy had grown! Subject(s): April; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Joy; Delight IN THE GARDEN (1), by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bird came down the walk Last Line: Leap, splashless, as they swim. Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening IN THE GARDEN (2), by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New feet within my garden go Last Line: And still the punctual snow! Variant Title(s): Poem: 99;poem: 79;new Feet Within My Garden Go Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN THE GARDEN (WITH APOLOGIES TO ALFRED NOYES), by MARJORIE W. BRACHLOW Poem Text First Line: When the wind was a whispering phantom frightening Last Line: I see her gown like the starlight and hear her softly pass. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Noyes, Alfred (1880-1958) IN THE GARDEN OF LU SAN, by KATHRYN E. COLQUHOUN Poem Text First Line: By the rippling blue lagoon Last Line: (I, her hapless lover, chan). Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN THE GARDENS OF SHUSHAN, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be pitiful! Her lips have touched this cool Last Line: Are hers alone. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN THE LODI GARDENS, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The black, pensive, dense Last Line: Into the unanimous blue Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Cemeteries; Birds INSCRIPTION IN A GARDEN, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If any flower that here is grown Last Line: And so my wife taught me to say. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening INVENTORY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanksgiving today. Soaked with sleet Last Line: Here: in america. In america. Subject(s): Belgium; Confessions; Daughters; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Holidays; Honor; Larch Trees; Loss; Memory; Moving & Movers; Numbers; Omens; Refugees; Sons; Thanksgiving Day; Time; United States - Immigration & Emigtration JACINTHS AND JESSAMINES, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jacinths and jessamines and jonquils sweet Last Line: Should seek a sign at that dread sanctuary? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Passion; Roses JUBILATE AGNO: GARDNER'S TALENT, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the doubling of flowers is the improvement of the gardeners talent Last Line: For the poor man's nosegay is an introduction to a prince. Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Religion; Virtue; Theology KEEP OFF THE GRASS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thoughtless fellows blithely pass, and Last Line: And it will take him nineteen hours to tell just how he views such dubs. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Houses; Lawns; Towns KEEPING THINGS NEAT, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You plant a rosebush by your door, and Last Line: Hide. Subject(s): Admiration; Cleanliness; Gardens & Gardening; Housekeeping; Neighbors; Tools KING'S GARDEN, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who was the royal ming Last Line: As are the hands of gods. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Gardens & Gardening L'ENVOI, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Deep heart of love where never sound is heard Last Line: Loves which on earth were but in shadow thrown. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; God; Heaven; Love; Paradise LALLA ROOKH: PARADISE AND THE PERI, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: One morn a peri at the gate Last Line: "the gates are pass'd, and heaven is won!" Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; India LAPSED MEADOW, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild has its skills Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening LAST SPRING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning at the door Last Line: Of hope and spring! Subject(s): Birth; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery LATE ASTERS, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: Where wonted, luscious sweets of scent Last Line: Are golden treasure-trove from malabar. Subject(s): Asters; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love LAVENDER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There's a clump of lavender Last Line: Had such sweet strewings, said he. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Gardens & Gardening; Jesus Christ; Lavender; Linen; Sin LEAVING THE GARDEN, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time to remember again Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Fathers LET US DESTROY THE FORESTS ALL, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening LIFE'S GARDEN, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: Though time should turn earth's green to sere Last Line: And that shall gladden you and me. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; God; Heaven; Paradise LILACS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet wind climbed with a laggard pace Last Line: Would arrange the bottom of her china dream Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening LILI'S PARK, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's no menagerie, I trow Last Line: I must be free! Myself will force my freeing! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Suffering; Misery LILIES, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look to the lilies how they grow!' Last Line: Transplanted from this world to heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies; Love LILIES, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lilies, ah, the lilies! Last Line: A lilied beauty bring. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies LILY AND ROSE, by JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lily of white innocence, and sweet red rose Last Line: Thou needest thorns around thee. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Innocence; Lilies; Roses; Thorns LINES IN A SOVIET GARDEN, by WEET DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: Sun on the land, where perfumes call Last Line: God, what a day to be quite dead in! Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Dead, The LINES TO A GARDEN HOSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sprinkle, sprinkle, little hose" Last Line: Irresponsibility! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;floods;gardens & Gardening;water LISTENING TO THE GARDEN, by BRENDAN GALVIN Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Look at it this way: under the brass fanfare Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening LOVE'S GARDEN, by GIROLAMO PRETI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I to love's garden came, with my attire Last Line: I plough in stone, dig water, stop the wind. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love LOVELINESS IN A GARDEN, by EMMA VORIES MEYER Poem Text First Line: A garden is so lovely that Last Line: I know because of you! Alternate Author Name(s): Meyer, Emma Voorhees Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening LUPINE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I planted lupine and nasturtiums Last Line: In the pines. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 50, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the glimmering summer morning Last Line: Thou mournful and pale-faced man! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Summer MAGIC, by JEANNE FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: Today the air quivered suddenly Last Line: With the proper shades of green. Subject(s): April; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Spring MAGNOLIA GARDENS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a disappointment Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Gardens & Gardening MAURINE: PART 2, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To little birds that never tire of humming Last Line: "a grander man I never yet have seen." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love; Singing & Singers; Women MAYA TO HERSELF AND THEN TO HER GARDENER, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grass cut trees need pruning Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening MELBOURNE AND MEMORY: THE GARDENS, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wealth of the city hardens Last Line: Of breathing spirit! Surely, these will abide! Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Melbourne, Australia MERRILL'S GARDEN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a garden where the seeded stems of thin Last Line: And sees what once she saw and music hears of her living sons and dead. Subject(s): Eden; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening MIGNONETTE, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Today you sent me mignonette Last Line: In every spicy spray of mignonette! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Mignonettes; Roses MISTER HOP-TOAD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Howdy, mister hop-toad! Glad to see you out! Last Line: "howdy, mister hop-toad! How-dee-do!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Toads MODERN LOVE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Knee-deep among the buttercups, the sun Last Line: That lies before us, you of the dear eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love MONADNOCK FROM AFAR, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark flower of cheshire garden Last Line: To draw all fancies to this spot. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Monadnock (mountain), New Hampshire MOONLIGHT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your soul is a landscape rare Last Line: To the tall fountains, slender among the statuary Subject(s): Moon; Gardens & Gardens & Gardening; Soul; Love; Landscape MORAL ESSAYS: EPISTLE 4. TO RICHARD BOYLE, EARL BURLINGTON, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis strange, the miser should his cares employ Last Line: These are imperial works, and worthy kings. Variant Title(s): An Epistle To Richard Boyle: Of The Use Of Riches Subject(s): Boyle, Richard. 3d Earl Of Burlington; Gardens & Gardening; Hearne, Thomas (1678-1735); Herbert, Thomas. 8th Earl Of Pembroke; Jones, Inigo (1573-1652); Le Notre, Andre (1613-1700); Mead, Richard (1673-1754); Sloane, Sir Hans (1660-1753); Vitruvius Polli MOTHER'S GARDEN, by ALICE G. WARDEN Poem Text First Line: Mother's garden, seems to me Last Line: God reached down an' cared for it, too. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature - Religious Aspects MR. FINNEY'S TURNIP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Mr. Finney had a turnip Subject(s): Food & Eating;gardens & Gardening;nonsense MUSICAL GARDEN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Can't give you up, can't stop Last Line: Can't give it up! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love MUSTARD AND CRESS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Elizabeth, my cousin, is the sweetest little girl Last Line: She'll pop up green and bonny out of mustard and of cress. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening MY GARDEN, by KATHARINE CANBY BALDERSTON Poem Text First Line: I have a private garden plot Last Line: To walk in the garden again with you. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Wellesley College MY GARDEN, by CLARA MCKEE BEEDE Poem Text First Line: When I see the sun ashining Last Line: It's enough to make you laugh! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Harvest; Soil; Spring; Vegetables MY GARDEN, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A garden is a lovesome thing, god wot! Last Line: Tis very sure god walks in mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Religion; Theology MY GARDEN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The lilac in my garden comes to bloom Last Line: He swallows his own face in half a second! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening MY GARDEN, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could put my woods in song Last Line: He will spell in the sculpture, 'stay!' Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening MY GARDEN, by ETHEL ANNETTE GIFFORD Poem Text First Line: Come where the columbine and roses too Last Line: There in the golden silence with god. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening MY GARDEN, by P. R. HINES Poem Text First Line: A garden is a loathsome thing, god wot! Last Line: One garden plot. Subject(s): Brown, Thomas Edward (1830-1897); Gardens & Gardening MY GARDEN, by HARRIET DUFF PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: Come with me to my garden Last Line: Of gardens everywhere. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening MY GARDEN, by MARY M. RANDLEMAN Poem Text First Line: My garden is entrancing Last Line: Their magic over all. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilacs MY GARDEN, by MARION SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Four walls surround my garden Last Line: And the frigate bee curls his scented wings in sleep. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening MY GARDEN, by BESSIE G. STEPHANY Poem Text First Line: There is a garden in my heart Last Line: Will keep my garden green. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening MY GARDEN, by MARGARET ANN STEVENS Poem Text First Line: My garden is a plot of painted poems Last Line: When wooing winds come whispering in the morn. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening MY GARDEN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet garden, wreathed in fruits and flowers Last Line: To-morrow's sun may never shine. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roman Empire MY GARDEN, by ELEANOR SMITH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: My garden seemed an endless toil Last Line: And life at last -- a blended whole. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening MY GARDEN, by MARY RAMTHUN YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Once it was but barren land Last Line: All my garden whispers love. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening MY GARDEN GIRL, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: My garden girl with sunburned nose Last Line: My garden girl. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Relationships MY GARDEN GUESTS, by ROBERTA GAGE Poem Text First Line: A bluebird found a hole in my old china tree Last Line: God fits the need for them as for me. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Gardens & Gardening MY GARDEN OF FRIENDS, by NETTIE STEPHENSON BOWEN Poem Text First Line: I love my garden of friends Last Line: For the gardening is done by god. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Seeds MY HATE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hate is like ripe fruit Last Line: I must be stopped. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Fruit; Gardens & Gardening; Hate MY LADY OF DAWN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady rises with the day Last Line: Because they 're hers I love them. Subject(s): Admiration; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Morning; Women MY LITTLE GARDEN, by GWENDOLEN ALLEN Poem Text First Line: I love my little garden Last Line: And seeing god's handiwork all around, I no longer feel afraid. Subject(s): Contentment; Gardens & Gardening MY MASTER HATH A GARDEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my master hath a garden, full-filled with divers flowers" Last Line: And the gentle sounding flute Subject(s): Flutes;gardens & Gardening MY PROMENADE SOLITAIRE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up and down in my garden fair Last Line: As it follows its promenade solitaire? Subject(s): Earth; Gardens & Gardening; Solitude; World; Loneliness MY SWEET WOODRUFF, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more the flowers of spring are seen Last Line: But he will know. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Spring MY WINDOW GARDEN, by IVA H. DREW Poem Text First Line: I have a little garden box Last Line: And always birds to sing. Subject(s): Flowers; Future; Gardens & Gardening; Windows NATURAL QUESTION, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What rich joke does Last Line: As if to tickle it forth? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening NEW-TURNED SOIL, by ALICE PROKASKY Poem Text First Line: The smell of new turned garden soil Last Line: A scent a rose may not excel. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening NIGHT IN A GARDEN, by MARY MORRIS DUANE Poem Text First Line: The night is still Last Line: And life eternal springs. Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime NIGHT-SCENTED STOCK, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White, white in the milky night Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Night; Parties; Gardens & Gardening; Bedtime NOT THE SWEET CICELY OF GERARDES HERBALL, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Myrrh, bitter myrrh, diagonal, Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening NOVEMBER GARDEN: AN ELEGY, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The zinnias - cut-and-come-again Last Line: To the first hard freeze. They cannot stop Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 12. LOST INHERITANCE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is my lost inheritance. I look Last Line: To sod restores old functions I forsook. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Inheritance And Succession OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 13. VICISSITUDE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange that a sod for just a thrill or two Last Line: Exchange for burning tears its peaceful dew! Variant Title(s): Strange Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Oxford, England OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 26. LIFE'S USURPATION, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell them, sweet evening breeze poised here, no less Last Line: I must yield up my cherished loneliness. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Life OCTAVES IN A GARDEN: 4, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As one whose road winds upward turns his face Last Line: From the assembly of my thoughts and days. Variant Title(s): In An Oxford Garden Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Oxford, England OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 11, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soon will sweet primrose be a faded crone Last Line: To live in silence and to pass unknown. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Primroses OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 23. DUST OF EDEN, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some dust of eden eddies round us yet Last Line: "and pitying leaves looked down and sighed, ""forget." Subject(s): Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Paradise OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 24. RESTORATION, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To one tired heart I said: if it be true Last Line: That once in many a labyrinth was your clew. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Oxford, England OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 28. THE ONE FLOWER, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before an inn hearth's tale-begetting flame Last Line: With purest bud that e'er to blossom came. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Trees OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 29, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As those great petals burst asunder there Last Line: "and never another bloom that tree may bear." Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nature OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 33, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A great nelumbo heavy on the breast Last Line: Of the dear face that waits me down the west. Subject(s): Absence; Gardens & Gardening; Oxford, England; Separation; Isolation OCTOBER, by HENRI DEWITT SAYLOR Poem Text First Line: There's a murmur in the meadow Last Line: For the pageantry of fall. Subject(s): Beauty; Fields; Gardens & Gardening; October; Pastures; Meadows; Leas OCTOBER GARDEN, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: My garden feels the touch of fall Last Line: Will show her to the world a slattern! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; October OLD CLO', by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was just coming in from the garden Last Line: "I was nearer the gods when ""old clo'." Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening OLD-FASHIONED VERMONT FLOWERS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like vermont's old-fashioned flowers Last Line: To bloom around our woodhouse door. Subject(s): Farm Life; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers ON A TUFT OF GRASS, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weak, slender blades of tender green Last Line: Without or sorrow or regret. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening ON COWPER'S GARDEN AT OLNEY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From this forlornest place, at morn and even Last Line: "of truth to madness even than shun that fountain's brink." Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Gardens & Gardening; Poetry & Poets ON FLOWERS. ON NEGATIVE EVOLUTION, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the front-end loader ran over my wife's montauk daisies Last Line: Have been more careful with my wife's god-damned daisies Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening ON LORD COBHAM'S GARDEN, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It puzzles much the sage's brains Last Line: That paradise is stow. Subject(s): Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Paradise ON THE BLEAKNESS OF MY LOT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Fructified in sand Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening OUT IN THE GARDEN, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the garden Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening OVER THE ROSE-LEAVES, UNDER THE ROSE, by JOHN BENNETT (1865-1956) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you say you loved me then Last Line: Or make it bloom again? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Marriage; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PAEONIA 'SOUVENIR DE MAXIME CORNU', INCIDENTALLY, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ground wants rain. Crouched here Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Gardens & Gardening; Hands; Rain; Freedom; Liberty PAIN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a gardener to weed Last Line: And, for the fruit, to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Pain; Suffering; Misery PANSY, by LENA LULL RUMRILL Poem Text First Line: I walked into my garden Last Line: "to come up through the ground." Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Pansies; Spring PASSING AND PERMANENT, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stately boats, with happy crowds Last Line: Do not drain your glass! Subject(s): Boats; Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness PATTERNS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk down the garden paths Last Line: Christ! What are patterns for? Subject(s): Absence; Clothing & Dress; Fashion; Freedom; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Love - Loss Of; World War I; Separation; Isolation; Liberty; First World War PAULUM SYLVAE, OR A PLEA FOR A GARDEN GROVE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou bid'st me take the axe, and rudely smite Last Line: No axe shall part my woodland moon and me. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening PENTHOUSE GARDEN, by FLORIAA WATTS SMYTH Poem Text First Line: They raised our brother tree from ground to roof Last Line: "that north-east corner. Yes. That's all. Good-bye." Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening PHILOSOPHER'S GARDEN, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: See this my garden Last Line: Thoughts that aspire. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Religion; Theology PINK DAISIES, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: A couple av childer played out in a field Last Line: Ay, an' trudged the lone boreen! Subject(s): Children; Daisies; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Memory; Solitude; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness PLANNING THE GARDEN, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bring pencils, fine pointed Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening PLANTING BULBS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Setting my bulbs arow Last Line: No more weeping, but laughter. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Winter; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life PLANTING FLOWERS ON THE EASTERN EMBANKMENT, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I took money and bought flowering trees Last Line: Sits till evening and will not move from the place! Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Flowers; Gardens & Gardening PLEASANT TO THE SIGHT, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the tree, the lordly tree Last Line: A hog, up to his very eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening POPPIES IN OCTOBER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening PRAYER, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a garden of red tulips Last Line: Fold round and crush out life / forever Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; World War I PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 129, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My glorious lord. What shall thy spouse, descry Last Line: Filld with this precious aire, thy praises pipe. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Puritans In Literature PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 83, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A garden, yea a paradise indeed Last Line: And blossom aromatick praise the while. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Puritans In Literature PRIAPUS AND THE POOL, SELECTION, by CONRAD AIKEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First the white crocus, and then the purple; then the rain Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening PRIMORDIAL SPRINGS, by JOACHIM GASQUET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are you sleeping, springtime of the world? Last Line: Springs I have never known. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Melancholy; Mourning; Spring; Dejection; Bereavement PRO FEMINA: FOUR. FANNY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At samoa, hardly unpacked, I commenced planting Last Line: Never again succumb to the fever of planting. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Marriage; Mothers; Samoa; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism QUARREL IN THE BERRY PATCH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gave you the cherries this year, Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Birds RAIN, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All afternoon it rained, then Subject(s): Rain; Barbed Wire; Swamps; Fathers; Gardens & Gardening; Forests; Life; Bogs; Fens; Marshes; Woods RENDEZVOUS, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves put a frivolous stencil Last Line: Floating out. ... Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Vines And Vineyards REST, by MARY M. SINGLETON CURRIE Poem Text First Line: In green old gardens, hidden away Last Line: Making the most of its shadowy day. Alternate Author Name(s): Fane, Violet; Lamb, Mary Montgomerie; Singleton, Mrs. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening RETURNED, by ROSE MOSS SCOTT Poem Text First Line: This is the path I traveled when a child Last Line: Shorn of old love, unburdened of my hope. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Houses REVISITATION, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is here-the lime tree in the garden path Last Line: The harsh gate jars upon its hinges still. Subject(s): Forests; Gardens & Gardening; Lime Trees; Nature; Woods RHODOCLEA'S GARLAND, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This garland of fair flowers, by me Last Line: Rhodoclea! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Courtship; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love RICHES, by OLIVE BODA BROWN Poem Text First Line: Many have wealth and yet are poor Last Line: Where my rainbow garden grew! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Poverty ROOTS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evenings seem endless, now Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening ROSA MYSTICA, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This rose so exquisite Last Line: There is the rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Flowers; Future Life; Gardens & Gardening; God; Praise; Roses; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ROSE PETALS, by BLANCHE WHALEN CRITZMAN Poem Text First Line: Rose petals, rose petals, everywhere lying Last Line: A tear. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses ROSE PETALS, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: I looked within the petals of a rose Last Line: Within the petals of a rose. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses SACRED FRUIT, by HAZEL MCGEE BOWMAN Poem Text First Line: A secret garden blossoms where this hour Last Line: And gentle forest folk, or a little child! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening SANCTUARIES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou givest me greenest sanctuaries Last Line: With me and talk. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Forests; Gardens & Gardening; God; Hearts; Sanctuaries; Woods SANCTUM, by BEULAH B. MALKIN Poem Text First Line: I built a tiny garden Last Line: Until you entered there. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening SCARECROW GARDENS, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late-summer squash put out to sea Last Line: In many forms: the best is art. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Art & Artists; Gardens & Gardening; Gold SHAKESPEARE'S FLOWER GARDEN, by JANE RAWLINS SHEEAN Poem Text First Line: The flowers that grew in shakespeare's garden lift Last Line: That live within his tender magic song! Subject(s): Dramatists; Gardens & Gardening; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Sonnet (as Literary Form) SHALIMAR GARDENS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the garden of earth a square of water Last Line: To die again, into the living stone. Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Feminism SHELTERED GARDEN, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have had enough Last Line: Wind-tortured place. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Gardens & Gardening; Nature SHUT OUT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The door was shut. I looked between Last Line: And dear they are, but not so dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening SISTER SONGS; AN OFFERING TO TWO SISTERS: THE PROEM, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shrewd winds and shrill - were these the speech of may? Last Line: For singing to sylvia. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening SONG, by MABEL B. FREDERICK Poem Text First Line: Sing ho for a garden Last Line: Is a mirror for you. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Singing & Singers; Songs SONG OF A STORMY NIGHT, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my pale garden yesternight Last Line: With flowers of patience and content. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening SONGS OF THE WIVES OF SOLOMON: THE ESCAPE, by ELIZABETH DEWING KAUP Poem Text First Line: I have run through the great gates of the garden into Last Line: Remained in the shining garden alone in the spring night. Alternate Author Name(s): Dewing, Elizabeth Bartol; Dewing, E. B. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Spring SONGS: 4. SAY NOT I NEVER TOLD MY LOVE FOR THEE, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: My love for thee, my sweet and infinite love. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses SONNET: IN THE GARDEN, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet sounds, and scents, and colours join to woo Last Line: Of the eternal splendour of the sun. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening SONNET: MAGNOLIA GARDENS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, found at last - the earthly paradise! Last Line: Unfolds her blossoms, and outbreathes her balm! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Magnolias SPHINX AMONG THE ROSES, by FRIEDRICH ADOLF AXEL DETLEV VON LILIENCRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shaped of white stone, in the june garden lies Last Line: In the still garden only sparrows chat. Alternate Author Name(s): Liliencron, Detlev Von Subject(s): Egypt; Gardens & Gardening; Sphinx SPRING (2), by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round the green-kindling hawthorn hill Last Line: Girdled the glad white-flowering hill. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Temples; Graveyards; Mosques SPRING APPLE TREE; AQUARELLE, by IGOR SEVERIANIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An apple-tree in spring shakes me,-to see it grow Last Line: And I lift up my lips to kiss her flowering face. Alternate Author Name(s): Severyanin, Igor Subject(s): Apple Trees; Flowers; Fruit; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Spring; Trees SPRING SONG, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every sage this scheme indorses: make Last Line: Demijohns. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring SPRING SONGS, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: The rivulet beneath the brae Last Line: As by thy voice,thou happy-hearted child! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring SPRING WILL COME, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring will come to help me: she'll be Last Line: Naught she cares for harvest that lies so far away. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Spring; Joy; Delight SPRUNG, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The ministerial shapes of / chinese women Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Family Life; Relatives STILL DAYS AND STORMY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday the wind blew Last Line: Is she yet mine? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Marigolds; Wind SUMMER EVEING. RETIREMENT OF A GARDEN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text 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 SUMMER NIGHT PIECE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The garden is steeped in moonlight Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening SUMMER SUN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great is the sun, and wide [or, wise] he goes Last Line: The gardener of the world, he goes. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): Garden Days: 4. Summer Sun Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Sun SUNKEN GARDENS, by ADA VAN LOON BRANDOW Poem Text First Line: Your eyes, dear one, as sunken gardens deep Last Line: Of life, when cups are drunken to their fill. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Life; Soul SUSTENANCE, by VERLIE PARRY STORY GILES Poem Text First Line: Her heart is fragrant, garden place Last Line: Dispends sustenance of loveliness. Subject(s): Beauty; Gardens & Gardening SWEET OATH IN MALLORCA, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you had, suddenly, been where I've been Last Line: Then had you sworn the same sweet oath as I! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Mallorca; Majorca SWEET TIME, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The largest bud in creation travels Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening TANKA DIARY (3), by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't need picket fences, brick wall, Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Home TANKA DIARY (4), by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening TESTIMONY, by EVA MOAD TURNER Poem Text First Line: My garden bears testimony to divinity Last Line: Autumn's arabesques of flame and gold. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Religion; Theology TESTING GARDENING, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the garden I watch myself take care Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE ANGEL OF GOD IN THE GARDEN OF DAME PHANTASY, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Dame fancy's garden hath a deep bocage Last Line: The simples of her art will make them live alway Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Angels; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Love; Music & Musicians; Paradise THE ASH TREE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother led me out Subject(s): Grandparents; Gardens & Gardening; Childhood Memories; Ash Trees; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE BIRTH OF SPRING, by HILDEGARDE FRIED DREPS Poem Text First Line: The birth of spring, with ambient sunshine, revives Last Line: And sunshine, birds and rain. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Spring THE BIRTH OF THE FLOWERS; A VISION, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time, when all was still Last Line: To listento the watchman bawling! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Passion; Perfume; Poetry & Poets; Spring THE BIRTH OF THE INVISIBLE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O scene of enchantment! O vision of bliss! Last Line: As in accents sepulchral it groaned -- I am death! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Birth; Death; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The THE BREATH OF SWEET, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now did wallflower breathe Last Line: His cold shade beneath. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Rebirth; Dead, The; Paradise THE BROKEN-HEARTED GARDENER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I'm a broken-hearted gardener, and don't know what to do" Last Line: And honour my death with a double encore Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening;love - Complaints THE BURIED FLOWER, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the silence of my chamber Last Line: Breaks o'er deathless paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Mourning; Night; Bereavement; Bedtime THE CASCADE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the mountain gray Last Line: Has lasted a thousand years. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lakes; Life; Pools; Ponds THE CATALPA, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE CHILD IN THE GARDEN, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When to the garden of untroubled thought Last Line: "I am the little child you used to be." Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Children; Gardens & Gardening; Religion; Childhood; Theology THE CHOICE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When skies are blue and days are bright Last Line: And its tall cote of irised doves. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE COLLEGE GARDEN; IN 1917, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The infinitude of life is in the heart of man Last Line: Into the choking storage of the quenchless sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE CONNOISSEUSE OF SLUGS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a connoisseuse of slugs Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening THE CRAB CACTUS BLOOMS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Today a miracle was swiftly wrought Last Line: "a ""christmas carol,"" bursting into bloom!" Subject(s): Cactus; Christmas Carols; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Leaves; Nature THE CROCUS BED, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yellow as the noonday sun Last Line: Crocuses must leave us soon. Subject(s): Crocuses; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Plants; Spring; Planting; Planters THE DAISY, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little daisy Last Line: In field and garden everywhere Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies THE DAISY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The daisy blossoms on the rocks Last Line: St stephen's constancy. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Trees THE DESERTED GARDEN, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mind me in the days departed Last Line: That happy child again. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE DESERTED GARDEN, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where robins walked with mincing steps Last Line: To robins in my face. Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Robin Hood; Spring THE DESERTED GARDEN, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a village in a far-off land Last Line: Came the sweet invocation of the evening bell. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE DESERTED HOUSE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old house stands deserted, gray Last Line: About the old house clings its peace. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Houses, Deserted; Peace THE DESPOT, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The garden mould was damp and chill Last Line: That had not know that they were weeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Socialism THE DIFFERENCE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Let two go forth into the garden of life Last Line: They find themselves, and that is all they find. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Paradise THE DOODLE-BUGS'S CHARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When uncle sidney he comes Last Line: "come up an' git some bread!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Family Life; Gardens & Gardening; Insects; Relatives; Bugs THE DYING MAN IN HIS GARDEN, by GEORGE SEWELL Poem Text First Line: Why, damon, with the forward day Last Line: "but rosemary, will with thee go." Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Dead, The THE EMPEROR'S GARDEN, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in the sultry heat of midsummer Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE ENCHANTED GARDEN, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what a garden it was, living gold, living green Last Line: Ah that a garden enchanted should wither to this! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE FAUN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within my garden's silence and seclusion Last Line: Thy pagan soul! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Past THE FIELDS OF EVEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O stiller than the fields that lie Last Line: May find a god to love him! Subject(s): Fields; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FLOWER-GIRL, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose or jasmine? Last Line: And the sunflower of thy heart! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love; Sunflowers THE FLOWERS OF ETERNITY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The good deeds we have sown Last Line: In that fair realm beyond the sun. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Roses THE FORMAL GARDEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond its dignified border Last Line: Set in the wildwood of joy. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE FOUNTAIN, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My garden fountain sings tonight Last Line: And dream of sorrow's girding spheres. Subject(s): Fountains; Gardens & Gardening THE FOUNTAIN (1), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All through the deep blue night Last Line: And the gleaming dew-drops fell. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE FROZEN GARDEN, by LISL RAYNEL Poem Text First Line: Those leaves too green and tender to withstand Last Line: This once was eden. Let us not look back. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE FRUIT GARDEN PATH, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The path runs straight between the flowering rows Last Line: You are my home, do you not understand? Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE GARDEN, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: O what a world of beauty lies within Last Line: With a most tremulous stillness. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Youth; Nightmares THE GARDEN, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What makes a garden? Last Line: God and lovers know! Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE GARDEN, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One sound. Then the hiss and whir Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE GARDEN, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were after crevices, whatever god had Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Seekinmg; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE GARDEN, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How vainly men themselves amaze Last Line: Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers? Subject(s): Contentment; Gardens & Gardening; Retirement; Solitude; Loneliness THE GARDEN, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart shall be thy garden. Come my own Last Line: With wings that dip beyond the silver seas. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE GARDEN, by ROSE PARKWOOD Poem Text First Line: Two of thy children one summer day worked in their garden, lord Last Line: Two of thy children, all the days of their life will work in thy garden, lord! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Religion; Worship; Theology THE GARDEN, by LOIS STANTON PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: A haven of rest to soul and to eye Last Line: And each precious blossom breathes the word love. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Paradise THE GARDEN, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a fenceless garden overgrown Last Line: Love-rooted in god's garden of the mind. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE GARDEN, by MARY CHISHOLM SEAGER Poem Text First Line: I want to live in a garden Last Line: Than any place I know! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE GARDEN, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It shines in the garden Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Family Life; Relatives THE GARDEN, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is a garden tired with autumn Last Line: After the stillness, will spring come again? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE GARDEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a garden where he took Last Line: Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Easter; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection THE GARDEN, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How kind, how secretly, the sun Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Autumn; Fall THE GARDEN AT BEMERTON, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Year after year, from dusk to dusk Last Line: Across the amber air! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE GARDEN BY MOONLIGHT, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A black cat among roses Last Line: When I am gone. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE GARDEN IN SPRING, by EDITH MCNALL Poem Text First Line: When the garden gate is open Last Line: In weariness. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening THE GARDEN IN THE SKIES, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: I see a garden in the skies Last Line: From a flower bed in the skies! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Paradise THE GARDEN OF ADONIS, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is no fabled garden in the skies Last Line: And praise the gods for immortality. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) THE GARDEN OF BOCCACCIO, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of late, in one of those most weary hours Last Line: With that sly satyr peeping through the leaves! Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Gardens & Gardening THE GARDEN OF CYMODOCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea, and bright wind, and heaven of ardent air Last Line: Breathe back the benediction of thy sea. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE GARDEN OF EPICURUS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That garden of sedate philosophy Last Line: The crucifix that came of nazareth. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE GARDEN OF GOD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a vineyard where grape-laden boughs Last Line: The bible, the garden of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Bible; Gardens & Gardening; God; Religion; Theology THE GARDEN OF GOD, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the iron cities Last Line: To sweeten the dead air. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; God; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion; Theology THE GARDEN OF IREM, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you seen the garden of irem? Last Line: The blossoms are shaken by allah's breath. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Dead, The THE GARDEN OF LIFE, by LYNN K. RUMELL Poem Text First Line: There are beautiful walks in the garden of life Last Line: And the rose-path -- cannot hold you -- no, never! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE GARDEN OF LOST ROSES, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, beware, sister mine, of the gardens Last Line: On the dreams that can never come true. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses THE GARDEN OF METRODORUS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The athenians mark the moss-grown gate Last Line: Which noteless thus apart can keep its dell? Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Greece; Greeks THE GARDEN OF MORPHIA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A loaded needle's plunge, a little wait Last Line: My garden is a prison at the best. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Sleep THE GARDEN OF ROSES, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of the beautiful garden of roses Last Line: "and the moon and the stars by night!" Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses THE GARDEN OF THE GODS, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the rocky peak that hides Last Line: His voice, nor be afraid. Subject(s): Egypt; Gardens & Gardening; Nature THE GARDEN REFUSED, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a garden, made for our delight Last Line: Oh dewy lawns untrodden by our feet! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Socialism THE GARDEN UNDER LIGHTNING, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the storm that muffles shining night Last Line: And vanishes! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Lightning; Storms; Lightning Rods THE GARDEN VIGIL, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the deep silence of the garden-bowers Last Line: May in thy flame adore his hidden face. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Rest; Silence; Graveyards; Dead, The THE GARDEN WALK, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You planted lilies and iris - both are here Last Line: Your music-freighted lips send from the tomb no word. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE GARDEN WASN'T A GARDEN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: And put him safe to bed Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Castle THE GARDEN-MAKER, by L. D. MORSBACH Poem Text First Line: An old slat bonnet hid her face Last Line: Gave gladly back the smile of god. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Plants; Vegetables; Planting; Planters THE GARDENER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The gardener stands in his bower door Last Line: An' the cauld wind on your breast Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE GARDENER, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At evening, I have seen him wander in Last Line: "it would reply: ""my master is this gardener." Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Spring THE GARDENER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who comes to tend the garden Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Women THE GARDENER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among the flowers, like flowers, her slow Last Line: And sees a garden blowing in the fire. Subject(s): Fire; Gardens & Gardening THE GARDENER, by EMALENE SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: A gardener tended his plot Last Line: And the gardener is . . . God. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE GARDENER OF SINOPE, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where loud the pontine billows roar Last Line: Two claimed a murderer's reward. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Murder THE GARDENER'S DAUGHTER, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning is the morning of the day Last Line: Now the most blessed memory of mine age. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Country Life; Gardens & Gardening; Landscape; Love THE GARDENER'S LITANY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We plant, it is true Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE GARDENS OF ADONIS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, I would tell a ghostly thing Last Line: And we, the summer long, shall bring thee flowers. Subject(s): Adonis; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Mythology - Classical; Spring THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE INCONVENIENT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gardening is often a measured cruelty: Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE GRIM GARDEN, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the old earth that the worms ate Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE HEART'S GARDEN, THE GARDEN'S HEART (COMPLETE), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young rice plants are just being Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love THE HUNNEWELL GARDENS, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The light of the azaleas has paled Last Line: And death, god's angel, comes and shuts the scene. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Paradise THE HYACINTH GARDEN IN BROOKLYN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A year ago friends Last Line: In paradise. Subject(s): Brooklyn, New York; Gardens & Gardening; Hyacinths THE IMPERFECT PARADISE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Which season is the loveliest of all? Subject(s): Seasons; Gardens & Gardening; Squirrels; Nature THE ISLANDS: 6, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my garden Last Line: Broken by the wind at last. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Gardens & Gardening THE IVY CROWN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The whole process is a lie Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening THE LADY HAS A GARDEN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The lady has a garden wide Last Line: My garden is my window sill! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE LILY OF MALUD, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lily of malud is born in secret mud Last Line: But she knows not what it was. Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies THE LITTLE GARDEN, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three rows of peas and three of beans Last Line: Who makes a garden makes a home. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE LITTLE OLD CUPID, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a very small garden Last Line: He stood aiming at me. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE LITTLE PLANT ON THE WINDOW SPEAKS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: If you had let me stay all winter long / outside Last Line: And great big gardens call you out to play. Subject(s): Children; Gardens & Gardening; January; Plants; Play; Childhood; Planting; Planters THE LONELY GARDEN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder what the trees will say Last Line: When they find out he's marched away. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; World War I; First World War THE LOVE-TOKEN, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: She has griffins twain to guard her gate Last Line: And the lady lean'd over the window-bar! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love; Singing & Singers THE MAD GARDENER'S SONG, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just the place for a snark! The bellman cried, Last Line: "extinquishes all hope!" Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Variant Title(s): Some Hallucinations;the Gardener's Song;the Strange Wild Song Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness THE MANOR GARDEN, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fountains are dry and the roses over Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE MENTAL HOSPITAL GARDEN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is far to assisi Last Line: The full meaning / of it / all Subject(s): Religion; Psychiatric Hospitals; Gardens & Gardening; Theology THE MILL GARDEN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stately stand the sunflowers, glowing down the garden-side Last Line: Fair befall the fair green close that lies below the mill! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening THE MOCKING-BIRD [IN A GARDEN], by EDNAH PROCTOR CLARKE HAYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen to that bird! His song - what poet pens it? Last Line: Pours the whole forest from one tiny throat! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Mockingbirds THE MOWER AGAINST GARDENS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Luxurious man, to bring his vice in use Last Line: The gods themselves with us do dwell. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature THE NEW DOLL'S HOUSE: 6. THE GARDEN, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The garden full of Last Line: Trees and chickens. Subject(s): Chickens; Gardens & Gardening; Trees THE ODYSSEY: THE GARDENS OF ALCINOUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close to the gates a spacious garden lies Last Line: The people one, and one supplies the king. Subject(s): Country Life; Gardens & Gardening; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE OLD GARDEN, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I chanced upon the little bowered retreat Last Line: My mother, smiling at the other flowers. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE OLD MANORIAL HALL, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she was born I had been long the gardener of the hall Last Line: The old manorial hall. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE OLD MILL GARDEN, by MARGARET YOST ZETHMAYR Poem Text First Line: Trickling water Last Line: But its memory will stay! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE PALM TREE, by ABD-AR RAHMAN I Poem Text First Line: In the midst of my garden Last Line: Never forsake you. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Palm Trees THE PARIAH, by ROSE TOOTHAKER MILLILKEN Poem Text First Line: I saw her kneeling in the garden plot Last Line: I somehow knew her soul had found its god. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Estrangement; Outcasts; Childhood THE PICTURE, by ARTHUR B. RHINOW Poem Text First Line: Gardener - we shall have to cut you down Last Line: Tree -- maybe your picture is too small. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Landscape THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE MYSTIC SUMMER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not the dropping of the flower Last Line: The mystic summer wanes away. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Summer THE POSTERN GATE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I chose me a lovely garden Last Line: "is gilding the postern gate." Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Life; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness THE PROGRESS OF SPRING, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ground-flame of the crocus breaks the mold Last Line: Life which is life indeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Landscape THE RAIN-SWEPT GARDEN, by HENRY S. LOVEJOY Poem Text First Line: The heavy drops on the canna's leaf Last Line: She rises to answer the bright sun's call. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Yale University THE ROSE, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child of summer, lovely rose Last Line: Tis lasting beauty to be wise! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Summer; Youth THE ROSE I GREW, by JULIA S. ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: In pensive mood Last Line: As one I grew and watched from day to day! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses THE ROSE'S PHILOSOPHY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When red and white the rose of june Last Line: Who loves the rose must love the thorn' Subject(s): Flowers;gardens & Gardening;labor & Laborers;perfume;philosophy & Philosophers;roses THE ROSEBUSH, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bush whereon the blushing rose, when Last Line: In sorrow and in pain. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses THE ROUND, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Light splashed this morning Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening THE SADNESS OF SUMMER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O beautiful summer! Thou bringest again Last Line: We hear the sweet whisper, we 're fain to obey. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Desire; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Roses; Death - Babies; Paradise THE SCHOOLMISTRESS; IN IMITATION OF SPENSER, by WILLIAM SHENSTONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me! Full sorely is my heart forlorn Last Line: Till reason's morn arise, and light them on their way. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Poetry & Poets; Schools; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Students THE SEA GARDEN; TO ELLEN PAINTER CUNNINGHAM, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You snatched your garden from out the sea Last Line: Till earth locks tight what the heavens lose. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE SEAGULL; CHEKHOV AT YALTA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A winter evening at the cottage by the bay Last Line: "I will write that we have departed for france, for italy." Subject(s): Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904); Family Life; Funerals; Gardens & Gardening; Graves; Tuberculosis; Relatives; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Consumption (pathology) THE SEASONS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In springtime life from out the earth Last Line: And loving hearts surround. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Seasons; Spring THE SEASONS: SPRING, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, gentle spring, ethereal mildness, come Last Line: To scenes where love and bliss immortal reign. Subject(s): Animals; Gardens & Gardening; Landscape THE SECRET GARDEN, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way you see it first is through Last Line: Before we're through with tea. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Flowers; Food & Eating; Gardens & Gardening; Green (color); Guests; Lilies; Secrets; Tea; Worms; Visiting THE SEEDS OF LOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I sowed the seeds of love Last Line: In time it will rise again Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening;love - Beginnings THE SOURCE, by ISLA PASCHAL RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: No rain for weeks ... A burning sun ... Scorched Last Line: "alonealone with god) ""all night in prayer!" Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Zinnias THE SPLENDOR OF LILIES, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, rare as the splendor of lilies Last Line: To carpet a path for our king. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Easter; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Lilies; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection THE SUMMER GARDEN, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I long for the roses, the roses that loom Last Line: And whence comes the light none may fathom or know. Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE SUNKEN GARDEN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speak not - whisper not Last Line: That one little leaden lad. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE SWEET-BRIAR, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet-briar flowering Last Line: Held the trusting heart of a little child. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Daisies; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Perfume; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE TASK: BOOK 3. THE GARDEN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one who, long in thickets and in brakes Last Line: For whom god heard his abraham plead in vain. Subject(s): Country Life; Gardens & Gardening; Truth THE TEMPLE GARDEN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fountain's low singing is heard in the wind Last Line: Where sweep those dark branches of shadowy green! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE TIME OF ROSES, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, it is the time of roses! Last Line: Crown me with the rose of love! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Love - Nature Of; Perfume; Roses THE TREE MEN CALLED BEAUTIFUL, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: They distorted and twisted my life Last Line: But I have grown free, as the gods intended trees to growand women. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Trees THE TWO DREAMS, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will that if I say a heavy thing Last Line: "here dead she lieth, for whose sake love is dead." Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Gardens & Gardening; God; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares THE TWO GARDENS, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When harry and dick had been striving to please Last Line: The fruit of his patience and care. Subject(s): Boys; Gardens & Gardening THE UNPEOPLED, CONVENTIONAL ROSE-GARDEN', by KENNETH REXROTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are cannas now on the guarded lawns Last Line: The brittle privet leaves, the day sleeps Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Lament; Love - Loss Of THE VANISHED VOICE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There stood a tree beside his boyhood's door Last Line: Youth in the air and sunset in the west. Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Singing & Singers; Trees; Voices; Youth; Songs THE VILLAGE GARDEN, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where your garden fenced about and still is Last Line: The peace my spirit longs for may be mine ? Variant Title(s): The Call Of The City Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE VIREO, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An adam and eve in the autumn of their fall Last Line: Flutters a blessing about our nettled knees. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love THE WALL-FLOWER, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wall-flower - the wall-flower Last Line: Thou art the flower for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Graves; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Tombs; Tombstones THE WARS OF THE ROSES, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, white, white brother, tossing in the garden! Last Line: So we whisper, so we shake, so we dream o' nights Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; War Of The Roses THE WEEDS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the lawn, beside the red house Last Line: In the dusk of late summer. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Mothers & Sons; Plants; Weeds; Planting; Planters THE WILD ROSE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High climbs june's wild rose Last Line: The clouds of an evetide's wreath. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; June; Roses THE WOMAN'S THANKS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is so much strong men are thankful for Last Line: My thanks for these thy little blessings' sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; God; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; Sabbath; Thanksgiving; Women; Sunday THE WORLD'S DESIRE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty is like a star Last Line: Melody, fragrance and fire! Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Sleep; Nightmares THE YEAR AFTER, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up and down my garden the roses are a-revel Last Line: -- yet 'tis you, you only, who know their dear lost names! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE YEAR OF THE ROSE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the depths of the green garden-closes Last Line: Over the red rose-land. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses THE YELLOWBIRD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hey! My little yellowbird Last Line: Pippin on the tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening; Trees THERE SHE IS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I go into the garden, there she is Last Line: It will have to include her Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Imagination; Women THESE LITTLE ONES, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What of the garden I gave?' / god said to me Last Line: Thou fool!' god said. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Children; Gardens & Gardening; Socialism; Childhood THEY'LL SPEND THE SUMMER, by BECKMAN. JOSHUA Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening TIME'S GARDEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Years are the seedlings which we care- / less sow Last Line: The year you gave, beloved, your rosemary. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Love TO A FRIEND WHO SENT ME A BOX OF VIOLETS, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, more than violets Last Line: Bless thee, the giver. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Violets TO A GARDEN -- ON LEAVING IT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet garden! Peaceful spot! No more in thee Last Line: My love-led soul will wander back to thee. Subject(s): Farewell; Gardens & Gardening; Parting TO A GARDEN IN APRIL, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, and are you pleading now for pardon? Last Line: You hide in leaf, but oh! Your buds are swelling. Subject(s): April; Gardens & Gardening; Reproduction; Mating TO A POT OF HELIOTROPE, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Shake out your purple petals Last Line: Hung in the breeze to blow. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heliotropes; Roses TO A ROSEBUD, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little timid rose Last Line: Lo, thou art dead! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Dead, The TO A SNOWDROP, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lone flower, hemmed in with snows, and white as they Last Line: And pensive monitor of fleeting years! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening TO A WATER-LILY, by C. WENTWORTH Poem Text First Line: Thin ivory petals upon dark blue waters Last Line: Between the hills. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies; Love; Romance TO BROWNING, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If yellow betokens infidelity Last Line: Effrontery. Variant Title(s): Injudicious Gardening Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Gardens & Gardening; Poetry & Poets TO BUTTERFLY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember how the twilight stood Last Line: When it is march -- do you remember still? Subject(s): Birds; Evening; Gardens & Gardening; Moon; Silence; Sunset; Twilight TO ONE IN A GARDEN, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were other than, alas, I am Last Line: To the full deluge of the descending rain? Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening TO SPEND THE AFTERNOON, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To spend the afternoon, absorbed and pale Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 2: 3. ARBOR VITAE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With honeysuckle, over-sweet, festoon'd Last Line: And eats its dead-dog off a golden dish. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening TOOLS, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We found ready to our hands in the beginning Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Tools TOUCH ME, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is late, my heart Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Marriage; Time; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. AMONG THE FERNS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay among the ferns Last Line: Death shall change as the light 'twixt moonset and dawn. Subject(s): Equality; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Nature TOWN AND COUNTRY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flowers are blooming in the woods, the Last Line: "when the sun goes down, if I can chase myself to town, to see the movie shows." Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Towns; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TOYONS IN A BERKELEY GARDEN, by MAME NESBIT HAYNES Poem Text First Line: O toyons, growing by the garden wall Last Line: Of a friend, I greet you! Subject(s): Berkeley, California; Gardens & Gardening; Holly TRAGEDIES: 11, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: In the middle of my garden-bed Last Line: And die along with me! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses TRANSFORMATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a garden far in fancy Last Line: In the certainty of dreams. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Imagination; Fancy TRANSITION, by RAYMOND R. WILLOUGHBY Poem Text First Line: Where'er we turn, the specter waits Last Line: That all things work with joy, and sleep at close of day. Subject(s): Children; Death; Flowers; Friendship; Gardens & Gardening; Childhood; Dead, The TRANSPLANTING, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Watching hands transplanting Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening TREES, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a tree Last Line: But only god can make a tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Environment; Faith; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Religion; Soldiers; Travel; Trees; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Theology; Journeys; Trips; First World War TREES IN THE GARDEN, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah in the thunder air / how still the trees are! Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Trees TULIPS, by FRANCES HALLEY BROCKETT Poem Text First Line: A thousand tulip bulbs she bought last autumn Last Line: The beauty that she grubbed and planted for. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Plants; Spring; Tulips; Planting; Planters TULIPS, by VESTA C. WESTFALL Poem Text First Line: I know a garden where gay tulips grow Last Line: That dawn may find them of herself, a part. Subject(s): Colors; Gardens & Gardening; Tulips TWO CUTWORMS, by FLORENCE DAZEY REED Poem Text First Line: I had a beautiful pansy Last Line: And whispered of hope. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening UNCLE AN' AUNT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy uncle us'd to be Last Line: In leafy boughs a-swaÿèn. Subject(s): Aunts; Farm Life; Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Summer; Uncles; Agriculture; Farmers; Joy; Delight UNDER THE SHADOW OF KILEY'S HILL, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place where they all were bred Last Line: Under the shadow of kiley's hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cattle; Death; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Dead, The UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 7. TO A GARDENER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, in my mountain-side demesne Last Line: Of country wine, divinely sup. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): To A Gardener Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening UNDINE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of como, whose rhythmical call Last Line: Lured there to ecstasy, lulled there to sleep. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love; Music & Musicians; Sleep UNTITLED, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the buried stones have risen and would almost talk Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Landscape VANITAS VANITATUM, FR. THE DEVIL'S CASE LAW, by JOHN WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the flowers of the spring Last Line: And weave but nets to catch the wind. Variant Title(s): All Is Vanity;dirge;the Burial Subject(s): Funerals; Gardens & Gardening; Mortality; Burials VAUXHALL GARDENS, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There, beneath the evening star Last Line: And chasten'd pleasures foots it there! Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Boston; Gardens & Gardening; Vauxhall Gardens, London VENUS IN A GARDEN, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas at early morning Last Line: Gathered from the roses red. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Goddesses & Gods; Hearts; Love; Mythology; Roses VERMONT WILD FLOWERS IN AUGUST, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild flowers all vermonters love Last Line: The chickory and lady's lace. Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Harvest; Mountain Life - Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WAIFS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Between the road and garden bed Last Line: And bore it home triumphantlyah, then, it knew at last! Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; September WALDEN, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my garden three ways meet Last Line: To draw the dregs of wine. Variant Title(s): In My Garden Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Walden Pond, Massachusetts WASH DAY, by JANE KENYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How it rained while you slept! Wakeful Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening WEED PULLER, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the concrete benches Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening WHAT I MISTOOK FOR HEATHER, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was creeping thyme the gardener said, Last Line: Far step across the moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I am in the garden Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening WHEN ROSELEAVES FALL, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When roseleaves fall in evenings cold Last Line: When roseleaves fall. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Stoicism; Summer WHEN SPRING COMES BACK, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When spring comes back the violets lift Last Line: Among the garden mazes. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Violets WHEN THEY REQUIRE GARDENS ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When they require gardens in their lives Last Line: Whose dancers, mimes and clowns with moons conspire. Subject(s): Eyes; Gardens & Gardening WHERE BEAUTY DWELLS, by JOHN MARTIN SMITH Poem Text First Line: I walked in a garden of beauty today Last Line: For you are my queen among the flowers. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses WHO IS IT?, by DUDLEY POORE Poem Text First Line: Who is it waves to you out of the trembling fountain? Last Line: His despairing image. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening WILD ASTERS, by SARA V. PRUESER Poem Text First Line: They fly a silent retreat Last Line: With blossoms rare and select. Subject(s): Asters; Colors; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WILD EDEN, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a garden enclosed / in the high places Last Line: Fly to wild eden! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening WILD GARDENS, by MARY ATHEY Poem Text First Line: Strange and lovely things have drifted Last Line: Comfort me, under the young spring sky. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening WILD ROSE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do I believe? O lovely rose Last Line: So I believe in thee! Subject(s): Faith; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roses; Belief; Creed WORMWOOD: THE SECRET GARDEN, by THOMAS KINSELLA Poet's Biography First Line: The place is growing difficult. Flails of bramble Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening WRITTEN AT PARIS. MDCC, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all that william rules, or robe Last Line: And thy petitioner shall pray. Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Paris, France; Dead, The YELLOW FLOWERS, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Pie-wedge petals Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening YOUR GARDEN, by THEODORA ROSCOE Poem Text First Line: The violets are here to be picked Last Line: A breath? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening YOUTH AND AGE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wanton youth, this wind was not Last Line: "the heart of youth is wise." Subject(s): Aging; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Memory; Wind; Wisdom; Youth |
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