Unearthed Words

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All the words shared on The Daily Gardener podcast.

Celia Laighton Thaxter

August

By The Daily Gardener | August 1, 2020

by Celia Laighton Thaxter Buttercup nodded and said good-bye, Clover and Daisy went off together, But the fragrant Waterlilies lie Yet moored in the golden August weather. The swallows chatter about their flight, The cricket chirps like a rare good fellow, The asters twinkle in clusters bright, While the corn grows ripe and the apples…

Laurence Perugini Poppy (Papaveraceae)

The Brilliant Poppy

By The Daily Gardener | August 1, 2020

by Helen Winslow The brilliant poppy flaunts her head  Amidst the ripening grain,  And adds her voice to sell the song  That August’s here again.  ― Helen Winslow, American editor and journalist   As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Helen Winslow Related…

Our Fear That Summer Will Be Short

Our Fear That Summer Will Be Short

By The Daily Gardener | July 31, 2020

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the…

You Have Seen the Blossoms

By The Daily Gardener | July 31, 2020

by Hanshan You have seen the blossoms among the leaves; tell me, how long will they stay? Today they tremble before the hand that picks them; tomorrow they await someone’s garden broom. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Related posts: Good Tomato…

Old Poets

By The Daily Gardener | July 30, 2020

by Alfred Joyce Kilmer If I should live in a forest And sleep underneath a tree, No grove of impudent saplings Would make a home for me. I’d go where the old oaks gather, Serene and good and strong, And they would not sigh and tremble And vex me with a song. As featured onThe…

Spring

Spring

By The Daily Gardener | July 30, 2020

by Alfred Joyce Kilmer The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Alfred Joyce Kilmer Related posts: Old Poets Flowers Reflect the Human Search for…

Trees

By The Daily Gardener | July 30, 2020

by Alfred Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of…

Hot July Brings Cooling Showers

By The Daily Gardener | July 29, 2020

by Sara Coleridge Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots, and gillyflowers. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Sara Coleridge Related posts: A Swarm of Bees in July Hot July Brings Cooling Showers Flowers Reflect the Human Search for Meaning Ah, Summer The…

Ode to Tomatoes

By The Daily Gardener | July 29, 2020

by Pablo Neruda  The street filled with tomatoes midday, summer, light is halved like a tomato, its juice runs through the streets. In December, unabated, the tomato invades the kitchen, it enters at lunchtime, takes its ease on countertops, among glasses, butter dishes, blue saltcellars. It sheds its own light, benign majesty. Unfortunately, we must…

Good Tomato

Good Tomato

By The Daily Gardener | July 29, 2020

by Janice Northerns     She took the purity pledge (Sweet Baby Girl, Super Snow White, Artic Rose), fled the grasp of Big Beef and Better Boy on a Southern Night and, baptized in hydroponics, gleamed waxy and vapid under a fluorescent gaze.   She was a good girl (Beauty Queen, Gum Drop, Mighty Sweet,…

Thomas Tusser

Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, 1573

By The Daily Gardener | July 28, 2020

by Thomas Tusser In January, for example, the housewife should be busy planting peas and beans and setting young rose roots. During March and April she will work ‘from morning to night, sowing and setting her garden or plot’, to produce the crops of parsnips, beans, and melons which will ‘winnest the heart of a…

Tulip

You Are a Tulip Seen Today

By The Daily Gardener | July 28, 2020

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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