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For Flowers That Bloom About Our Feet
by Ralph Waldo Emerson For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum and bee; For all things fair we hear or see; Father in heaven, we thank Thee! As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most…
God’s Garden
by Robert Frost God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said, “To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But…
If Words Are Seeds
by R.H. Swaney If words are seeds, let flowers grow from your mouth, not weeds. If heart are gardens, plant those flowers in the chest of the ones who exist around you. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. R.H. Swaney Related posts:…
Keeping July
by Joanna O’Sullivan Dens of chairs and blankets, a circus show at home, lines and nets and rackets, no-one keeping score. Eight books each to represent, a fox in socks surveys, on July first the power went and the movie was delayed. Calves the very height of style in all their sepia glory, starlings at…
The Gardener Does Not Love To Talk
by Robert Louis Stevenson The gardener does not love to talk. He makes me keep the gravel walk; And when he puts his tools away. He locks the door and takes the key. He digs the flowers, green, red, and blue. Nor wishes to be spoken to. He digs the flowers and cuts the hay. …
Summer is the Time
by Ada Louise Huxtable Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words…
Dog Days
by Amy Lowell A ladder sticking up at the open window, The top of an old ladder; And all of Summer is there. Great waves and tufts of wistaria surge across the window, And a thin, belated blossom Jerks up and down in the sunlight; Purple translucence against the blue sky. “Tie back this branch,”…
An Afternoon in July
by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon How hushed and still are earth and air, How languid ‘neath the sun’s fierce ray – Drooping and faint – the flowrets fair, On this hot, sultry, summer day. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon…
Cool in the Very Furnace of July
by John Drinkwater Cool in the very furnace of July The water-meadows lie; The green stalks of their grasses and their flowers They still refresh at fountains never dry. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. John Drinkwater Related posts: Flowers Reflect the…
Ah, Summer
by Russell Baker Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Russell Baker Related posts: And Here are Butterflies Poor Things Ah, Summer Garden Failures Meadow-Sweet I Have Great Faith in…
Here are Sweet Peas
by John Keats Here are sweet peas on tip-toe for a flight With wings of gently flush o’er delicate white And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. John…
Hot Lavender, Mints, Savory, Marjoram
by William Shakespeare Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram. The marigold that goes to bed with the sun. And with him rises, weeping; these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age. You’re very welcome. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the…
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