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A Lake Of Lovely Flowers
Near where I live there is a lake as blue as blue can be, winds make it dance as they go blowing by. I think it curtseys to the sky.
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A Bird Sings Because It Has A Song
I wonder if it is a bird that sings within the hidden tree, or some shy angel calling me to follow far away?
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Life Is Like A Cactus
The scarlet flower, with never a sister-leaf, stemless, springs from the edge of the Cactus-thorn.
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Flowers Are Happy Things
When daisies pied and violets blue, and lady-smocks all silver-white, and cuckoo-buds of yellow hue do paint the meadows with delight.
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Love Is A Fruit In Season At All Times
In the fifth month, when orange-trees fill all the world with scent, I think of the sleeve of a girl who loved me.
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Grace For Gardens
Bless the little gardens and the good green growing! Give us sun, give us rain, bless the orchards and the grain!
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The Hummingbird
What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?
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Intimate Contact With Nature
The gray of slender trees, the softer gray of melting skies. What sobering ecstasies one drinks on such a day with chastened eyes!
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Gardens And Flowers
O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, by that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem.
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From The Plant's Point Of View
My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view.
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Butterflies Are But Winged Flowers
As butterflies are but winged flowers, half sorry for their change, who fain, so still and long they live on leaves.
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A Poem Lovely As A Tree
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.
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