“Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing: -“Oh, how beautiful!” and sitting in the shade.”
Rudyard Kipling, “The Glory of the Garden”
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Selected Poems on Gardens
- The Glory of the Garden– Rudyard Kipling
- Fireflies in the Garden – Robert Frost
- My Garden – Emily Dickinson
- Come Slowly Eden – Emily Dickinson
- From The Garden of Heaven– Hafiz
- To linger in a garden fair – Hafiz
- The Garden of Love – William Blake
- One Vast Garden – Sri Anandamayi Ma
- Sunlight on the Garden – – Louis MacNeice
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Poem about Gardens
In the corner of his garden, there’s a patch he used to keep
All to himself, to allow nature to creep
There are no trimmed edges
or prim, proper hedges
He left his earth still and alone
Allowed the forces of nature to roam
He said that you don’t always have to be tidy and neat
Just watch the beauty of opportunity grow at your feet
He said just watch the earth produce its own glory
And I watched…and held on to his story
My grandad was right
Add water and light
Behold the sight
There are poppies and flowering weeds
Buttercups and oat coloured reeds
Daisies gingerly lift their heads
Dandelions roar from muddy beds
Purple thistles and strange grasses
Colours that alight and ignite masses
Dark ferns and heathers
Dandelion clock feathers
Birds foot trefoil, a four leafed clover
My grandad’s story is not over
He may have gone, I may have cried
But the beauty he predicted never died
By: Melanie Waters
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