Posts Tagged ‘Robert Herrick’
Of Husbandry and Fleeting Blossoms: Tusser’s Garden Counsel and Herrick’s Flowering Muse
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. Summer blooms in the glow of a setting sun. July 28, 2020 Today we travel back in time to the gardens…
Read MoreYou Are a Tulip Seen Today
by Robert Herrick You are a tulip seen today, But (dearest) of so short astay That where you grew, scarce man can say. You are a lovely July-flower, Yet one rude wind, or milling shower. Will force you hence, and in an hour. You are a sparkling rose in the bud. Yet lost ere that…
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