| 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] |
WITHIN GARDEN WALLS
EARTH
Grasshopper, your fairy song
And my poem alike belong
To the deep and silent earth
From which all poetry has birth;
All we say and all we sing
Is but as the murmuring
Of that drowsy heart of hers
When from her deep dream she stirs:
If we sorrow, or rejoice,
You and I are but her voice.
Deftly does the dust express
In mind her hidden loveliness,
And from her cool silence stream
The cricket's cry and Dante's dream:
For the earth that breeds the trees
Breeds cities too, and symphonies,
Equally her beauty flows
Into a savior or a rose.