Favorite Poems for the Garden by Bushel & Peck Books
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Favorite Poems for the Garden by Bushel & Peck Books
This charming hardcover book, released in April 2022, is a veritable bouquet of pastoral poems that celebrate the sights, sounds, and scents of the country garden.
Within its pages, you'll find beloved works by literary luminaries such as Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Sarojini Naidu, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, among many others.
The poems in this collection evoke the magic and wonder of the garden, from the hopeful promise of spring to the languid beauty of summer and the bittersweet fading of autumn.
Take, for instance, these lines from Robert Frost's Putting in the Seed:
You come to fetch me from my work to-night
When supper's on the table, and we'll see
If I can leave off burying the white
Soft petals fallen from the apple tree.
(Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite,
Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;)
And go along with you ere you lose sight
Of what you came for and become like me,
Slave to a springtime passion for the earth.
How Love burns through the Putting in the Seed
On through the watching for that early birth
When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed,
The sturdy seedling with arched body comes
Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.
This book is 98 pages of poetic garden bliss.
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