Garden Poems: Pocket Poets (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) [Hardcover]

John Hollander (Editor)

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Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets | Publication Date: April 23, 1996

The splendid poems in this collection both represent and glorify the cultivating instinct, and each of them succeeds in "annihilating all that's made," as Andrew Marvell puts it in one of the most famous of all English poems, "to a green thought in a green shade." Contents include poems on Paradises, Gardens of Love, Gardens in the Mind, Gardens and Seasons, Flowers, Gardeners, The Work of the Garden, Gardens of the Wild, City Gardens, Public Gardens, Ruined Gardens, and A Garden of Gardens. Contributors include John Milton, Ovid, E.E. Cummings, Thom Gunn, John Donne, James Merrill, Wallace Stevens, Robert Browning, Shakespeare, and many others.

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Lines Written In Kensington Gardens by Matthew Arnold
Out In The Garden by Kathleen Beauchamp
4: 12-16 by Bible
The Garden Of Love, Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
The Garden Of Writing by Nicolas Boileau-despreaux
Now Thin Mists Temper The Slow-ripening Beams by Robert Seymour Bridges
From The Deserted Garden by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Flower's Name by Robert Browning
Autumn Garden by Dino Campana
Cherry Ripe (with Music) by Thomas Campion
A Dream Garden [or, Love's Garden] by Geoffrey Chaucer
To A Bower by John Clare
City Gardens by George, The Younger Colman
Autumnal Work by Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella
On Pruning by William Cowper
The Work Of Gardening by William Cowper
Garden Abstract by Harold Hart Crane
Sonnet: 4 by Edward Estlin Cummings
The Poppy by Erasmus Darwin
Gardens No Emblems by Donald Davie
Myself by Walter John De La Mare
Twicknam Garden by John Donne
Prospects by John Dyer
In My Garden by Ralph Waldo Emerson
My Garden by Ralph Waldo Emerson
A King's Garden World by Fath Ali Khan
A Girl's Garden by Robert Frost
A Winter Eden by Robert Frost
A Garden Of Gardens (on A Chair In The Same Garden) by George Gascoigne
Inscription In A Garden by George Gascoigne
The World As Garden by George Gascoigne
Gardener by Robert Ranke Graves
The Garden by Debora Greger
The Garden by Nicholas Grimald
The Garden Of The Gods by Thomson William Gunn
The Lesson Of The Flowers by Hafiz Of Shiraz
In An Abandoned Garden by Han-shan
Domicilium by Thomas Hardy
The Garden Seat by Thomas Hardy
La Condition Botanique by Anthony Hecht
Flowers by Heinrich Heine
Paradise by George Herbert
To A Bed Of Tulips by Robert Herrick
The Emperor Of China Speaks by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
The Garden by John Hollander
Central Park by Martha Hollander
The Odyssey: The Gardens Of Alcinous by Homer
November by William Dean Howells
What The Flowers Said by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
Her Garden by Elizabeth Jennings
A Garden-dream by John Keats
Trees In The Garden by David Herbert Lawrence
The Garden Of The Sexes by Jay Macpherson
A Garden Shut by Jay Macpherson
De Hortis Julii Martialis by Marcus Valerius Martialis
The Garden by Andrew Marvell
The Mower Against Gardens by Andrew Marvell
Against Formal Gardens by William Mason
Weeds by Joseph Donald Mcclatchy
The Ravaged Villa by Herman Melville
The Garden Of Epicurus by George Meredith
A Vision Of The Garden by James Ingram Merrill
What Is A Garden by William Stanley Merwin
The Hardy Garden by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Spring In The Garden by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Southward Through Eden Went A River Large by John Milton
Southward Through Eden Went A River Large by John Milton
The Work Of The Garden (from Paradise Lost, Ix) by John Milton
A Garden By The Sea by William (1834-1896) Morris
Thunder In The Garden by William (1834-1896) Morris
The Garden Of Song by Moses Ibn Ezra
The Roof Garden by Howard Moss
Bad-tempered, I Got Back by Oshima Ryota
The Weeping Garden by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
A Doomed Garden by Octavio Paz
She Finds Herself In A Garden by Angelo Poliziano
No Barren Leaves by John Pomfret
Cowley: The Garden by Alexander Pope
To Build, To Plant, Whatever You Intend by Alexander Pope
Metamorphoses: Before Gardens. The Golden Age by Publius Ovidius Naso
Conservation by Quintus Horatius Flaccus
On Grafting by Thomas Randolph
Of Roses And Hyacinths by Rene Rapin
Design In Living Colors by Adrienne Cecile Rich
The Parks: Ii by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Parks: Vii by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Garden by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Transplanting by Theodore Roethke
The Garden Of Joy by Isaac Rosenberg
An October Garden by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The House Of Life: 19. Silent Noon by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Frost by Victoria Mary Sackville-west
June by Victoria Mary Sackville-west
June by Victoria Mary Sackville-west
Pruning In March by Victoria Mary Sackville-west
In Winter by Sato Norikiyo
The Gardener's Lesson (from Richard Ii) by William Shakespeare
The Garden by James Shirley
The Garden Of Adonis by Edmund Spenser
In The Bower Of Bliss by Edmund Spenser
Banal Sojourn by Wallace Stevens
Garden Days: 7. The Gardener by Robert Louis Stevenson
An Athenian Garden by Trumbull Stickney
The Garden At St. John's by May Swenson
A Forsaken Garden by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Garden Of Proserpine by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Mill Garden by Algernon Charles Swinburne
An Arabian Night Garden by Alfred Tennyson
In Memoriam A.h.h.: 101 by Alfred Tennyson
Song by Alfred Tennyson
Stanzas 1 - 10 by Alfred Tennyson
Suburban Garden by Alfred Tennyson
Digging (1) by Philip Edward Thomas
Late Spring by James (1700-1748) Thomson
Lotus Lake by Ts'ao P'i (187-226)
The Seeds Of Love by Anonymous
Gardener by Mark Van Doren
The Gardener To His God by Mona Van Duyn
L'allee by Paul Verlaine
The Garden Of Bermuda by Edmund Waller
Public Gardens (on St. James' Park) by Edmund Waller
The Garden by Robert Penn Warren
Garden (crete -- New York) by Rosanna Warren
The Wild by Joseph Warton
Caserta Garden by Richard Wilbur
Impressions: Le Jardin by Oscar Wilde
Le Jardin Des Tuileries by Oscar Wilde
The Tulip Bed by William Carlos Williams
The Widow's Lament In Springtime by William Carlos Williams
Time And The Garden by Yvor Winters
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

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The splendid poems in this collection both represent and glorify the cultivating instinct, and each of them succeeds in "annihilating all that's made," as Andrew Marvell puts it in one of the most famous of all English poems, "to a green thought in a green shade." Contents include poems on Paradises, Gardens of Love, Gardens in the Mind, Gardens and Seasons, Flowers, Gardeners, The Work of the Garden, Gardens of the Wild, City Gardens, Public Gardens, Ruined Gardens, and A Garden of Gardens. Contributors include John Milton, Ovid, E.E. Cummings, Thom Gunn, John Donne, James Merrill, Wallace Stevens, Robert Browning, Shakespeare, and many others.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Everyman's Library (April 23, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679447261
• ISBN-13: 978-0679447269
• Product Dimensions: 4.3 x 0.7 x 6.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars excellent selection of poems on garden themes, July 16, 2010

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This review is from: Garden Poems: Pocket Poets (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (Hardcover)

The anthologies produced in this Pocket Poets series are generally excellent and well and carefully selected. These are very interesting poems and illustrate the categories or, rather, sub-categories of garden theme poems. Great reading experience.