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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 laughter—which, 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 listen—to 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: "alone—alone 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 grow—and 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 triumphantly—ah, 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