Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GARDENING SONG, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY First Line: When I am in my garden Last Line: I print it on the sod. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening | ||||||||
WHEN I am in my garden I am a monk of old Illuminating missals With blue and green and gold. In cunning burnish'd letters He wrote the Name of God, In daffodils and tulips I print it on the sod. When I am in my garden I am of Aaron's race, A Levite, a precentor Who, in a holy place, For God's sake and for music's At Matins, Nones, and Prime, Sets every psalm and anthem To fitting tune and time. When I am in my garden I am the bridegroom's friend, With charge of all the jewels That he delights to send; The turquoise myosotis, Narcissus, ruby-eyed, Imperial crowns of amber I bear them to the bride. When I am in my garden My heart's a truant lark, My humbler limbs bend earthward, I sing and serve till dark; And when God takes the candle I rise from off my knee And hear the odours breathing The Name I cannot see. When I am in my garden I am a monk of old, Illuminating missals With blue and green and gold. In cunning burnish'd letters He wrote the Name of God, In basil sweet and mignonette I print it on the sod. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NOVEMBER GARDEN: AN ELEGY by ANDREW HUDGINS AN ENGLISH GARDEN IN AUSTRIA (SEEN AFTER DER ROSENKAVALIER) by RANDALL JARRELL ACROSS THE BROWN RIVER by GALWAY KINNELL A DESERTED GARDEN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS NOT THE SWEET CICELY OF GERARDES HERBALL by MARGARET AVISON AN OLD GARDEN by HERBERT BASHFORD A CHILD'S THOUGHTS by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY |
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