Posts Tagged ‘poetic gardens’
Forever in Bloom: Tennyson, John Banister Tabb, and Autumn’s Grace
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. Dahlias in bloom. November 19, 2019 On this day in 1850, Alfred, Lord Tennyson was crowned the Poet Laureate of Britain—a…
Read MoreGardeners of the Soul: Proust, Atwood, and Thoreau on Earth and Immersion
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. An elevated pot at the end of a garden walk. November 18, 2019 On this day, the garden and the literary…
Read MoreNovember Farewells: Cybrill’s Sweaters and Stoddard’s Autumn Reign
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. A November landscape. November 13, 2019 On this day, the first whispers of November thread their way through the garden. The…
Read MoreWS Merwin’s Birthday: Poet of Trees, Gardens, and Eternity
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. W.S. Merwin, a celebrated American poet and conservationist. September 30, 1927 On this day, the American poet W.S. Merwin — always…
Read MoreSeptember’s Goldenrod and Autumn Gusts
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. September’s Goldenrod September 27, 2019 As the year deepens and daylight slants across the garden wall, autumn speaks in a quieter…
Read MoreKubla Khan’s Xanadu: The Dreamlike Garden of a Mongol Emperor
Kubla Kahn’s Grandson Today is the birthday of the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kubla Khan, who was born on this day in 1215. Kubla Khan’s Summer Garden at Xanadu is the subject of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1797 poem Kubla Khan. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through…
Read MoreGoldenrod and September Signs: Thistledown, Harvest, and Autumn Winds
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. Solidago in the fall garden. September 23, 2019 On this crisp October evening, as goldenrod bows beneath the cooling sun and…
Read MoreMilkweed Wishes and September Reveries
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. Milkweed seed pod September 17, 2019 On this golden September afternoon, when the fields hum with the last whispers of summer…
Read MoreHannah Rebecca Hudson’s “My Garden”: A Queen Among Flowers and Fields
by Hannah Rebecca Hudson It is set by fields of clover And sentinelled with trees, Hosts of sunbeams range it over ‘Tis owned by birds and bees. Larkspurs, leaning out of places Where bashful myrtles creep, Peep at monk-flowers’ hooded faces And poppies gone to sleep. There are wild and headstrong briers And thistle knights…
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