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Every Flower Is A Soul
There flames the first gay daffodil where winter-long the snows have lain: who buried Love, all spent and still?
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The Hum Of Bees
Like trains of cars on tracks of plush, I hear the level bee: A jar across the flowers goes, their velvet masonry.
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The Loveliest Of Trees
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough, and stands about the woodland ride.
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I Have So Fair A Garden
The blackbirds and the blackguards that keep robbing me of pie; for what do such things matter when I have so fair a garden?
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Gardening Makes Our Lives Whole
My heart shall be thy garden. Come, my own, into thy garden; thine be happy hours among my fairest thoughts.
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A Garden Is A Magical Place
Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen.
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The Fruit Of Your Own Hard Work
Wise man, wise man, things that grow have some power that you don't know. And my garden's wiser far than your books.
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A Garden Is A Good & Loyal Friend
Green! What a world of green! My startled soul panting for beauty long denied, leaps in a passion of high gratitude.
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Making All The Summer Sweet
Out of winter's flying sleet, she is making all the summer sweet, and the brown leaves spurned of November's feet.
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A Breath Of The Old Life
A pungent spray of rose-geranium — a breath of the old life. It brings up the little five-room cottage where I was born.
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There Is Strength In The Soil
There is strength in the soil; in the earth there is laughter and youth. There is solace and hope in the upturned loam.
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The Birth Of The Flowers
God spoke! And from the arid scene sprang rich and verdant bowers, till all the earth was soft with green.
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