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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN THE GARDEN, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY
First Line: I spied beside the garden bed
Last Line: "as you smell sweet to me!"
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Sun
First Line: I spied beside the garden bed
Last Line: "as you smell sweet to me!"
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Sun
I SPIED beside the garden bed
A tiny lass of ours,
Who stopped and bent her sunny head
Above the red June flowers.
Pushing the leaves and thorns apart
She singled out a rose,
And in its inmost crimson heart,
Enraptured, plunged her nose.
"O dear, dear rose, come, tell me true —
Come, tell me true," said she,
"If I smell just as sweet to you
As you smell sweet to me!"
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