Posts Tagged ‘May blossoms’
A Victorian Ode to May: Phebe Holder’s Botanical Poetry
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 1, 1890 On this day in horticultural history, the enchanting poem “A Song of May” by the esteemed New England poet and gardener Phebe Holder graced the pages of newspapers, captivating readers…
Read MorePhebe Ann Holder: Songs of May Blossoms and October’s Calm
Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Phebe A. Holder November 27, 2020 Today marks the birthday of Phebe Ann Holder, the New England poet born on this…
Read MoreCicely Mary Barker’s “The Lilac Fairy”: A Maytime Song of Beauty and Scent
by Cicily Mary Barker White May is flowering, Red May beside Laburnum is showering Gold far and wide; But I sing of Lilac, The dearly-loved Lilac, Lilac, in Maytime A joy and a pride! I love her so much That I never can tell If she’s sweeter to look at, Or sweeter to smell. Today’s…
Read MoreJames Henry Leigh Hunt’s “May and the Poets”: A Garland of Verse for Spring
by Leigh Hunt There is May in books forever; May will part from Spenser never; May’s in Milton, May’s in Prior, May’s in Chaucer, Thomson, Dyer; May’s in all the Italian books — She has old and modern nooks, Where she sleeps with nymphs and elves, In happy places, they call shelves, And will rise…
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