Category Archives: Garden Poems

October gave a party; The leaves by hundreds came – The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples, And leaves of every name. The Sunshine spread a carpet, And everything was grand, Miss Weather led the dancing, Professor Wind the band.

Who loves a garden Finds within his soul Life’s whole; He hears the anthem of the soil While ingrates toil; And sees beyond his little sphere The waving fronds of heaven, clear.

Violets, daffodils, Roses and thorn Were all in the garden Before you were born. Daffodils, violets, Green thorn and roses Your grandchildren’s children Will hold to their noses.

The Lord God planted a garden In the first white days of the world, And he set there an angel warden In a garment of light enfurled. So near to the peace of Heaven, That the hawk might nest with … Continue reading →

The Year’s at the spring And the day’s at the morn; Morning’s at seven; The hillside’s dew-pearled; The lark’s on the wing; The snail’s on the thorn; God’s in his heaven– All’s right with the world!

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils, Beside the lake, beneath the tree, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as … Continue reading →

I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to … Continue reading →