Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GARDEN-GLOW, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: Eden was a garden
Last Line: Eden's still a garden.
Subject(s): Eden


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.





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