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Algernon Swinburne and A Forsaken Garden: The Ghost of a Lost Paradise
by Algernon Swinburne The poet Algernon Swinburne was born on this day in 1837. In his poem, A Forsaken Garden, he describes a garden – or rather, “the ghost of a garden.” At the show’s beginning, we talked about our dreams for our gardens. In this poem, the dreamer of the garden has left, and…
John Greenleaf Whittier and The Mayflower: Faith in Bloom
by John Greenleaf Whittier The Mayflower is a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier (Books by this author) Here’s an excerpt: O sacred flowers of faith and hope, As sweetly now as then Ye bloom on many a birchen slope, In many a pine-dark glen. Behind the sea-wall’s rugged length, Unchanged, your leaves unfold,…
Rebecca Salsbury Palfrey Utter and The Wake-Robin: A Bloom Late for Spring
by John Burroughs When leaves green and hardy From sleep have just uncurled – Spring is so tardy In this part of the world – There comes a white flower forth, Opens its eyes, Looks out upon the earth, In drowsy surprise. A fair and pleasant vision The nodding blossoms make; And the flower’s name…
Maria Sibylla Merian’s Description of a Pineapple and Butterfly
by Maria Sibylla Merian Here’s a description of a pineapple and butterfly in Merian’s own words: “This is a ripe Ananas (pineapple), which must be peeled to be eaten. This fruit tastes [like] one had mixed grapes, apricots, red currants, apples, and pears, and [we could] taste all of them at once. Its smell…
Louis MacNeice: Sunlight on the Garden and the Shadows of Time
by Louis MacNeice The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold; When all is told We cannot beg for pardon. Our freedom as freelances Advances towards its end; The earth compels, upon it Sonnets and birds descend; And soon, my friend, We shall have…
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