Posts Tagged ‘John Keats’
Here are Sweet Peas
by John Keats Here are sweet peas on tip-toe for a flight With wings of gently flush o’er delicate white And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. John…
Read MoreThe Poetry of Earth is never Dead
by John Keats The Poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; That is the Grasshopper’s — he takes the lead In summer luxury, — he has never done With…
Read MoreJohn Keats
Ode to Autumn Today is the birthday of the English romantic lyric poet John Keats who was born in 1795. During his short life, (Keats died from tuberculosis at the age of 25), his poems didn’t make much of a mark. But after his death, Keat’s reputation grew, and today, he is considered one…
Read MoreOctober 31, 2019 Four Herbs for Women, 10 Black Foliage Plants, John Evelyn, John Keats, Andrew Jackson Downing, Richard Morris Hunt, Charles Totty, The Best of Thymes by Marge Clark, Cover Crops and Short Sunflowers
Today we celebrate the gardener who had his home and garden trashed by the Russian Czar and the poet who wrote one of his most famous poems under the plum tree in his garden. We’ll learn about the American Landscape Architect who never lived to see the big park he dreamed of, and we’ll learn…
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