Garden stories and poems

Do you have a favourite book or poem about gardens? Frances Burnett's "The Secret Garden" is an old favourite. A much better one, in my opinion, is "Tom's Midnight Garden" by Phillipa Pearce. It is achingly beautiful and although written for older children, it will appeal to every garden lover of any age.

Do you know of any garden poems? I collect them and have just added Kipling's "Glory of the Garden" (see web address below) I'd like to add any that you care to suggest.
Thanks

 

Not perhaps a favourite, but very evocative.

The Sunken Garden - Walter De La Mare

Speak not - whisper not
Here bloweth thyme and bergamot
Softly on the evening hour
Secret herbs their spices shower
Dark-spiked rosemary and myrrh
Lean-stalked, purple lavender
Hides within her bosom too
ll her sorrows, bitter rue

Breathe not trespass not
Of this green and darkling spot
Latticed from the moon's beams
Perchance upon its darkening air
The unseen ghosts of children fare
Faintly swinging, sway and sweep
Like lovely sea-flowere in its deep
While unmoved, to watch and ward
Mid its gloom'd and daisied sward
Stands with bowed and dewy head
That one little leaden Lad

[ 21. May 2006, 01:40 PM: Message edited by: Fran ]

 

Hornbeam,I carry in my wallet a poem by Sybil Johnson...Red Rose.

 

Oh Fran that is lovely.