The Melody of Earth / An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets

by Unknown

CONTENTS

WITHIN GARDEN WALLS

Earth	John Hall Wheelock	[2]
The Furrow	Padraic Colum	[3]
"There is strength in the soil"	Arthur Stringer	[4]
In the Womb	"A. E."	[4]
Putting in the Seed	Robert Frost	[5]
The Whisper of Earth	Edward J. O'Brien	[6]
"Within the garden there is healthfulness"	Emile Verhaeren	[6]
In a Garden	Horace Holley	[7]
A Shower	Rowland Thirlmere	[8]
The Rain	William H. Davies	[9]
The Dews	John B. Tabb	[9]
Sonnet	John Masefield	[10]
Charm: To be said in the Sun	Josephine Preston Peabody	[11]
The Dials	Arthur Wallace Peach	[12]
To a New Sundial	Violet Fane	[13]
The Fountain	Harry Kemp	[14]

THE PAGEANTRY OF GARDENS

The Birth of the Flowers	Mary McNeil Fenollosa	[18]
The Welcome	Arthur Powell	[19]
The Joy of the Springtime	Sarojini Naidu	[20]
Spring	John Gould Fletcher	[20]
Primavera	George Cabot Lodge	[21]
The Green o' the Spring	Denis A. McCarthy	[22]
An April Morning	Bliss Carman	[23]
"With memories and odors"	John Hall Wheelock	[24]
April Rain	Conrad Aiken	[25]
While April Rain went by	Shaemas O Sheel	[25]
Spring	Francis Ledwidge	[26]
April Weather	Lizette Woodworth Reese	[27]
Daffodils	Ruth Guthrie Harding	[28]
The Crocus Flame	Clinton Scollard	[28]
The Early Gods	Witter Bynner	[30]
A Tulip Garden	Amy Lowell	[30]
Tulips	Arthur Guiterman	[31]
A White Iris	Pauline B. Barrington	[32]
May is building her House	Richard Le Gallienne	[33]
The Magnolia	José Santos Chocano	[34]
"Go down to Kew in lilac-time"	Alfred Noyes	[35]
Beyond	Thomas S. Jones, Jr.	[36]
June	Douglas Malloch	[36]
June Rapture	Angela Morgan	[37]
Columbines	Arthur Guiterman	[39]
The Morning-Glory	Florence Earle Coates	[40]
The Blossomy Barrow	T. A. Daly	[40]
Larkspur	James Oppenheim	[42]
The July Garden	Robert Ernest Vernède	[43]
"Mid-summer blooms within our quiet garden-ways"	Emile Verhaeren	[44]
Poppies	John Russell Hayes	[45]
The Garden in August	Gertrude Huntington McGiffert	[46]
Sun, Cardinal, and Corn Flowers	Hannah Parker Kimball	[48]
Sunflowers	Clinton Scollard	[48]
The End of Summer	Edna St. Vincent Millay	[49]
A Late Walk	Robert Frost	[50]
Color Notes	Charles Wharton Stork	[50]
The Golden Bowl	Mary McMillan	[51]
The Autumn Rose	Antoinette De Coursey Patterson	[52]
Indian Summer	Sara Teasdale	[53]
"Frost to-night"	Edith M. Thomas	[54]
November Night	Adelaide Crapsey	[55]
The Snow-Gardens	Zoë Akins	[55]
A Song for Winter	Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer	[57]

WINGS AND SONG

"I meant to do my work to-day"	Richard Le Gallienne	[60]
The Hummingbird	Hermann Hagedorn	[61]
Spring Song	William Griffith	[62]
Nightingales	Grace Hazard Conkling	[63]
The Goldfinch	Odell Shepard	[63]
Kinfolk	Kate Whiting Patch	[65]
A Mocking-Bird	Witter Bynner	[65]
The Cardinal-Bird	Arthur Guiterman	[66]
Yellow Warblers	Katharine Lee Bates	[67]
Witchery	Frank Dempster Sherman	[68]
The Spring Beauties	Helen Gray Cone	[68]
The Mocking-Bird	Frank L. Stanton	[69]
The Messenger	James Stephens	[71]
Fireflies	Antoinette De Coursey Patterson	[72]
July Midnight	Amy Lowell	[72]
The Cricket in the Path	Amelia Josephine Burr	[73]
Rest at Noon	Hermann Hagedorn	[74]
Order	Paul Scott Mowrer	[75]
The Night-Moth	Marion Couthouy Smith	[75]
The Butterfly	Edwin Markham	[76]
The Secret	Arthur Wallace Peach	[77]

THE GARDENS OF YESTERDAY

The Garden	Gertrude Huntington McGiffert	[80]
Old Homes	Madison Cawein	[81]
A Puritan Lady's Garden	Sarah N. Cleghorn	[82]
The Old-fashioned Garden	John Russell Hayes	[83]
A Colonial Garden	James B. Kenyon	[86]
In my Mother's Garden	Margaret Widdemer	[87]
To the Sweetwilliam	Norman Gale	[88]
Rose-Geranium	Clement Wood	[90]
Four O'Clocks	Julia C. R. Dorr	[91]
Asking for Roses	Robert Frost	[92]
The Old Brocade	M. G. Brereton	[93]
Stairways and Gardens	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	[94]
Old Mothers	Charles Ross	[95]

PASTURES AND HILLSIDES

Song from "April"	Irene Rutherford McLeod	[98]
The Road to the Pool	Grace Hazard Conkling	[99]
The Wild Rose	Charles Buxton Going	[99]
Up a Hill and a Hill	Fannie Stearns Davis	[100]
The Joys of a Summer Morning	Henry A. Wise Wood	[101]
South Wind	Siegfried Sassoon	[102]
To a Weed	Gertrude Hall	[102]
The Pasture	Robert Frost	[104]
The Thistle	Miles M. Dawson	[104]
Clover	John B. Tabb	[105]
Wild Gardens	Ada Foster Murray	[106]
The Dandelion	Vachel Lindsay	[107]
Joe-Pyeweed	Louis Untermeyer	[108]
To a Daisy	Alice Meynell	[109]
A Soft Day	W. M. Letts	[110]
Arbutus	Adelaide Crapsey	[111]
Jewel-Weed	Florence Earle Coates	[111]
The Wall	Abbie Farwell Brown	[112]
Boulders	Charles Wharton Stork	[114]
Afternoon on a Hill	Edna St. Vincent Millay	[115]
The Golden-Rod	Margaret Deland	[116]
The Path that leads to Nowhere	Corinne Roosevelt Robinson	[117]

LOVERS AND ROSES

The Message	George Edward Woodberry	[120]
"Where love is life"	Duncan Campbell Scott	[121]
The Time of Roses	Sarojini Naidu	[122]
Love planted a Rose	Katharine Lee Bates	[123]
The Garden	Alice Meynell	[123]
Cloud and Flower	Agnes Lee	[124]
Progress	Charlotte Becker	[125]
"But we did walk in Eden"	Josephine Preston Peabody	[125]
A Garden-Piece	Edmund Gosse	[126]
"How many flowers are gently met"	George Sterling	[127]
With a Rose, to Brunhilde	Vachel Lindsay	[127]
"My soul is like a garden-close"	Thomas S. Jones, Jr.	[128]
A Dream	Antoinette De Coursey Patterson	[129]
The Rose	Grace Hazard Conkling	[130]
Prayer	John Hall Wheelock	[130]
In a Garden	Livingston L. Biddle	[131]
A Song of Fairies	Elizabeth Kirby	[131]
A Song to Belinda	Theodosia Garrison	[132]
Sweetheart-Lady	Frank L. Stanton	[133]
Heart's Garden	Norreys Jephson O'Conor	[133]
A Rose Lover	Frederic A. Whiting	[134]
Sonnet	Elsa Barker	[135]
A Song in a Garden	Theodosia Garrison	[135]
"It was June in the garden"	Emile Verhaeren	[136]
Two Roses	William Lindsey	[138]
Roses	Wilfrid Wilson Gibson	[138]
Her Garden	Louis Dodge	[139]
Ære Perennius	Charles Hanson Towne	[139]
Ever the Same	Josephine Preston Peabody	[140]
The Message	Helen Hay Whitney	[141]
Tell-Tale	Oliver Herford	[142]
Da Thief	T. A. Daly	[143]
Results and Roses	Edgar A. Guest	[145]

UNDERNEATH THE BOUGH

Miracle	L. H. Bailey	[148]
The Awakening	Angela Morgan	[149]
Shade	Theodosia Garrison	[150]
Selection from "Under the Trees"	Anna Hempstead Branch	[151]
A Garden Friend	Catherine Markham (Mrs. Edwin Markham)	[152]
A Lady of the Snows	Harriet Monroe	[153]
The Tree	Evelyn Underhill	[153]
"Loveliest of trees"	A. E. Housman	[155]
The Spirit of the Birch	Arthur Ketchum	[156]
Family Trees	Douglas Malloch	[156]
Idealists	Alfred Kreymborg	[158]
"Draw closer, O ye trees"	Lloyd Mifflin	[159]
Trees	Bliss Carman	[160]
The Trees	Samuel Valentine Cole	[162]
The Poplars	Theodosia Garrison	[164]
Trees	Joyce Kilmer	[165]

THE LOST GARDENS OF THE HEART

As in a Rose-Jar	Thomas S. Jones, Jr.	[168]
In an Old Garden	Madison Cawein	[169]
The Garden of Dreams	Bliss Carman	[169]
Homesick	Julia C. R. Dorr	[170]
The Ways of Time	William H. Davies	[172]
A Midsummer Garden	Clinton Scollard	[172]
The White Rose	Charles Hanson Towne	[173]
A Haunted Garden	Louis Untermeyer	[174]
The Dusty Hour-Glass	Amy Lowell	[176]
The Song of Wandering Aengus	W. B. Yeats	[177]
The Three Cherry Trees	Walter de la Mare	[178]
Old Gardens	Arthur Upson	[179]
The Blooming of the Rose	Anna Hempstead Branch	[179]
The Garden of Mnemosyne	Rosamund Marriott Watson	[181]
Ballade of the Dreamland Rose	Brian Hooker	[181]
The Flowers of June	James Terry White	[183]
In Memory's Garden	Thomas Walsh	[183]
Serenade	Marjorie L. C. Pickthall	[184]
"What heart but fears a fragrance?"	Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi	[185]
Years Afterward	Nancy Byrd Turner	[186]
Autumnal	Richard Middleton	[186]
"Oh, tell me how my garden grows"	Mildred Howells	[188]
Her Garden	Eldredge Denison	[189]
The Little Ghost	Edna St. Vincent Millay	[190]
Roses in the Subway	Dana Burnet	[191]

THE GARDEN OVER-SEAS

A Garden Prayer	Thomas Walsh	[194]
In the Garden-Close at Mezra	Clinton Scollard	[195]
The Cactus	Laurence Hope	[195]
The White Peacock	William Sharp	[196]
At Isola Bella	Jessie B. Rittenhouse	[198]
The Fountain	Sara Teasdale	[199]
The Champa Flower	Rabindranath Tagore	[200]
In an Egyptian Garden	Clinton Scollard	[201]
Evening in Old Japan	Antoinette De Coursey Patterson	[202]
Reflections	Amy Lowell	[203]
In the Garden	Pai Ta-Shun	[204]
The Deserted Garden	Pai Ta-Shun	[204]
A Roman Garden	Florence Wilkinson Evans	[205]
Como in April	Robert Underwood Johnson	[207]
An Exile's Garden	Sophie Jewett	[207]
The Cloister Garden at Certosa	Richard Burton	[208]
A Garden in Venice	Dorothy Frances Gurney	[209]
In a Garden of Granada	Thomas Walsh	[210]
Amiel's Garden	Gertrude Huntington McGiffert	[211]
Eden-Hunger	William Watson	[212]
The Garden at Bemerton	Lizette Woodworth Reese	[212]
In an Oxford Garden	Arthur Upson	[213]

THE HOMELY GARDEN

"Grandmother's gathering boneset"	Edith M. Thomas	[216]
A Breath of Mint	Grace Hazard Conkling	[217]
A Seller of Herbs	Lizette Woodworth Reese	[218]
Lavender	W. W. Blair Fish	[219]
Dawn in my Garden	Marguerite Wilkinson	[221]
The Proud Vegetables	Mary McNeil Fenollosa	[221]
The Choice	Katharine Tynan	[223]
Thoughts fer the Discuraged Farmer	James Whitcomb Riley	[225]
Grace for Gardens	Louise Driscoll	[226]

SILVER BELLS AND COCKLE SHELLS

Planting	Robert Livingston	[230]
Spring Patchwork	Abbie Farwell Brown	[231]
Baby's Valentine	Laura E. Richards	[232]
Baby Seed Song	E. Nesbit	[234]
Rain in the Night	Amelia Josephine Burr	[235]
A Little Girl's Songs—I, Spring Song; II, Velvets (By a Bed of Pansies)	Hilda Conkling (six years old)	[236]
When Swallows Build	Catherine Parmenter (eleven years old)	[238]
Spring Planting	Helen Hay Whitney	[239]
If I could dig like a Rabbit	Rose Strong Hubbell	[239]
The Little God	Katharine Howard	[240]
Daisies	Frank Dempster Sherman	[241]
The Anxious Farmer	Burges Johnson	[242]
Over the Garden Wall	Emily Selinger	[243]
The Flowerphone	Abbie Farwell Brown	[244]
The Faithless Flowers	Margaret Widdemer	[245]
The Flower-School	Rabindranath Tagore	[246]
Iris Flowers	Mary McNeil Fenollosa	[247]
If I were a Fairy	Charles Buxton Going	[249]
Fringed Gentians	Amy Lowell	[250]
The Scissors-Man	Grace Hazard Conkling	[250]

THE GARDEN OF LIFE

God's Garden	Richard Burton	[254]
"The Lord God planted a garden"	Dorothy Frances Gurney	[255]
The Lilies	George E. Woodberry	[255]
Barter	Sara Teasdale	[256]
Sonnet	John Masefield	[257]
The Tilling	Cale Young Rice	[258]
Safe	Robert Haven Schauffler	[259]
Sorrow in a Garden	May Riley Smith	[260]
Moth-Flowers	Jeanne Robert Foster	[262]
Alchemy	Sara Teasdale	[262]
Flowers in the Dark	Sarah Orne Jewett	[263]
Welcome	John Curtis Underwood	[264]
The Child in the Garden	Henry van Dyke	[265]
A Wonder Garden	Frederic A. Whiting	[266]
From a Car-Window	Ruth Guthrie Harding	[267]
Song of the Weary Traveller	Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff	[267]
Cobwebs	Louise Imogen Guiney	[268]
Blind	Harry Kemp	[269]
Herb of Grace	Amelia Josephine Burr	[270]
Before Mary of Magdala came	Edwin Markham	[270]
Conscience	Margaret Steele Anderson	[273]
Rosa Mystica	Katharine Tynan	[273]
The Mystery	Ralph Hodgson	[275]
The Rose	Angela Morgan	[275]
For These	Edward Thomas (Edward Eastaway)	[276]
Samuel Gardner	Edgar Lee Masters	[277]
Seeds	John Oxenham	[278]
"Lord, I ask a Garden"	R. Arevalo Martinez	[279]
My Flower-Room	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	[280]
"Vestured and veiled with twilight"	Rosamund Marriott Watson	[282]
The Fruit Garden Path	Amy Lowell	[283]
Wood Song	Sara Teasdale	[284]
A Prayer	Edwin Markham	[284]
The Philosopher's Garden	John Oxenham	[285]
Index of Titles		[287]
Index of Authors		[297]

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