Come Into the GardenMacmillan, 1921 - 322 pages |
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actually Ajuga Genevensis apple arbor arborvitæ Aster Azalea Baneberry basin beauty bloom blossoms blue Boston ivy boundary branches building bush Cardinal flower climbing color course deciduous desirable earth effect entrance evergreen feature feet fence flowers fruit furnish grading grape green ground grow growth hardy harmony hedge Hemerocallis flava hence honeysuckle Hybrid Perpetuals Hybrid Tea inches Iris kind larvæ lawn Lobelia cardinalis Lupinus polyphyllus manure mass material matter of fact means moisture natural nectarines never Nymphæa ornamental perhaps Phlox pink plants plot pool porch possible practically privet proper pruning rear reason require rock garden roots roses screen shade shrubbery shrubs side small garden soil space specimen spring stone suburban summer surface thing Thuya tion trees usually varieties Veronica longifolia vines walk wall water-lily White wild garden winter wood Yellow
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Page 145 - 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.
Page 164 - Come down to Kew in lilac-time, in lilac-time, in lilac-time; Come down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London !) And you shall wander hand in hand with Love in summer's wonderland; Come down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London...
Page 181 - It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan To catch the breezy air; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there.
Page 231 - THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet, As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet ; Oh ! the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Page 145 - 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 robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.
Page 312 - Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden...
Page 201 - Iram indeed is gone with all its Rose, And Jamshyd's Sev'n-ring'd Cup where no one knows; But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields, And still a Garden by the Water blows. VI And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine High piping Pehlevi, with 'Wine! Wine! Wine! Red Wine!
Page 295 - He who sows the ground with care and diligence, acquires a greater stock of religious merit, than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers.
Page 10 - In every garden four things are necessary to be provided for, flowers, fruit, shade, and water ; and whoever lays out a garden without all these, must not pretend it in any perfection. It ought to lie to the best parts of the house, or to those of the master's commonest use, so as to be but like one of the rooms out of which you step into another.
Page 156 - When violets came and woods were green, And larks did skyward dart, A Love alit and white did sit, • Like an angel on his heart.