Eden was a garden: Green things growing, lily and rose, Violet tenderness, poppy glows, Beets and onions and such as those, -- Eden was a garden. Adam worked the garden: Morning dews in the delicate light, Callouses, backache, proper and right, Sleep, ah! sleep through the soft, sweet night, -- Adam worked the garden. Eve, too, in the garden: Lilies and poppies the woman out-glowed, Tied, and weeded, and carried a load, Brought the water as Adam hoed, -- Eve, too, in the garden. Eden's still a garden: Work, untrammelled, with hand and heart, Dirt, clean dirt, and a little of art, And a glorious woman doing her part, -- Eden's still a garden. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SEA SONG by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM SEA UNICORNS AND LAND UNICORNS by MARIANNE MOORE BINGEN ON THE RHINE by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON IN PROGRESS by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI ODE 13. ON THE CHARMS OF PEACE by BACCHYLIDES SEEING A STRANGE WOMAN DEAD by A. G. BECKMANN |