"medievalism) is insufficient. The interweaving of death and life images gives expression to the greater concern for the afterlife, and the movement of the human race into a different age from past monuments. The well-known song ""Come into the garden, Maud"" appears at the end of the first part of ""Maud"". Maud, and Other Poems Maud and other poems was Alfred Tennyson's first collection after becoming poet laureate in 1850, published in 1855. Among the ""other poems"" was ""The Charge of the Light Brigade"", which had already been published in the ""Examiner"" a few months before. It was considered a"
"brother goes to London for a week, giving the narrator a chance to court Maud, but on his return he arranges a ball, invites the collier and leaves the narrator out. During the ball the poet waits for Maud in the garden, leading to the famous line ""Come into the garden, Maud"". Early in the morning Maud comes out. Shortly afterwards Maud's brother also comes out and strikes the narrator. The poet kills him in an unnarrated duel. The narrator is forced to flee to France where he learns later that Maud has also died. The reason is unclear, but"
"In the Garden (1912 song) ""In the Garden"" (sometimes rendered by its first line ""I Come to the Garden Alone"" is a gospel song written by American songwriter C. Austin Miles (1868–1946), a former pharmacist who served as editor and manager at Hall-Mack publishers for 37 years. According to Miles' great-granddaughter, the song was written ""in a cold, dreary and leaky basement in Pitman, New Jersey that didn't even have a window in it let alone a view of a garden."" The song was first published in 1912 and popularized during the Billy Sunday evangelistic campaigns of the early twentieth"
"The Garden (poem) ""The Garden"", by Andrew Marvell, is one of the most famous English poems of the seventeenth century. This poem was first published in Miscellaneous Poems. It was published for Robert Boulter, in 1681. This was the first edition. Miscellaneous Poems was sent to the press by Mary Marvell, who claimed she was Andrew's widow. Andrew Marvell's poem The Garden is a romantic poem. The poet's personal emotions and feelings are told throughout the words of nature. The poet explains the value of nature and is explaining it through the poem. Marvell recast much of his poem in"
"Sarah Maguire Sarah Maguire (26 March 1957 – 2 November 2017) was a British poet, and translator. Born in London, Sarah Maguire left school early to train as a gardener with the London Borough of Ealing (1974–77). Her horticultural career had a significant impact on her poetry: her third collection of poems ""The Florist's at Midnight"" (Jonathan Cape, 2001) brought together all her poems about plants and gardens, and she edited the anthology ""Flora Poetica: the Chatto Book of Botanical Verse"" (2001). She was also Poet in Residence at Chelsea Physic Garden, and edited ""A Green Thought in a Green"
"false by Tennyson, while also expressing his own judgement on the whole event as ""a bit of a joke"". Another of the ""other poems"" was ""Come into the Garden"". The poem was inspired by Charlotte Rosa Baring, younger daughter of William Baring (1779–1820) and Frances Poulett-Thomson (d. 1877). Frances Baring married, secondly, Arthur Eden (1793–1874), Assistant-Comptroller of the Exchequer, and they lived at Harrington Hall, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, which is the garden of the poem (also referred to as ""the Eden where she dwelt"" in Tennyson's poem ""The Gardener's Daughter""). The first part of the poem dwells on the funeral of"
"Benjamin Maund Benjamin Maund (1790–1863) was a British pharmacist, botanist, printer, bookseller, fellow of the Linnean Society (1827) and publisher of the ""Botanic Garden"" and ""The Botanist"". He served on the committee of the ""Worcestershire Natural History Society"" where he started a monthly botanical publication. Starting in 1825, Maund produced ""The Botanic Garden"" from his press at Bromsgrove in Worcestershire. The 13 volumes of this periodical depicted with great delicacy ornamental flowering plants cultivated in the Royal Gardens and was dedicated to the young Queen Victoria. Eminent botanical artists such as Augusta Innes Withers, Edwin D. Smith, Mrs. Edward Bury"
"Andrew Marvell Andrew Marvell (; 31 March 1621 – 16 August 1678) was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of John Milton. His poems range from the love-song ""To His Coy Mistress"", to evocations of an aristocratic country house and garden in ""Upon Appleton House"" and ""The Garden"", the political address ""An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"", and the later personal and political satires ""Flecknoe"" and ""The Character of Holland"". Marvell was born"
"Latin, ""Hortus"", printed to follow ""The Garden"" in the 1681 posthumous ""Miscellaneous Poems"": <poem> ""Quisnam adeo, mortale genus, præcordia versat? ""Heu Palmæ Laurique furor, vel simplicis Herbæ!... </poem> The Garden (poem) ""The Garden"", by Andrew Marvell, is one of the most famous English poems of the seventeenth century. This poem was first published in Miscellaneous Poems. It was published for Robert Boulter, in 1681. This was the first edition. Miscellaneous Poems was sent to the press by Mary Marvell, who claimed she was Andrew's widow. Andrew Marvell's poem The Garden is a romantic poem. The poet's personal emotions and feelings"
"have lost you, I must take up this thread’...This kind of stitching together has been seen before, most obviously perhaps in another poet who shares Maguire’s botanical and ecological preoccupations, Michael Longley. Sarah Maguire Sarah Maguire (26 March 1957 – 2 November 2017) was a British poet, and translator. Born in London, Sarah Maguire left school early to train as a gardener with the London Borough of Ealing (1974–77). Her horticultural career had a significant impact on her poetry: her third collection of poems ""The Florist's at Midnight"" (Jonathan Cape, 2001) brought together all her poems about plants and gardens,"
"red and stout"" after giving birth to twins. Both eventually come to regret the marriage: Maud because she finds the Judge's emphasis on knowledge boring, while the Judge bemoans Maud's lack of refinement and social grace. Maud Muller ""Maud Muller"" is a poem from 1856 written by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892). It is about a beautiful maid named Maud Muller. One day, while harvesting hay, she meets a judge from the local town. Each is smitten with the other. The judge thinks that he would like to be a local farmer married to Maud, while she thinks that she would"
"The Sunlight on the Garden The Sunlight on the Garden is a 24-line poem by Louis MacNeice. It was written in late 1936 and was entitled ""Song"" at its first appearance in print, in The Listener magazine, January 1937. It was first published in book form as the third poem in MacNeice's poetry collection The Earth Compels (1938). The poem explores themes of time and loss, along with anxiety about the darkening political situation in Europe following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. It is one of the best known and most anthologized of MacNeice's short poems. George Macbeth"
"The Ballad of Molly Mogg The Ballad of Molly Mogg (first published as ""Molly Mogg, or the Fair Maid of the Inn"") is a poem written by John Gay with contributions from Alexander Pope and Dean Swift. It is written about Molly Mogg, the beautiful barmaid at the Rose Inn, Wokingham, England. In the early 18th century, Gay, Swift and Pope were regular customers to the Rose Inn public house in Wokingham, which was run by John Mogg (though John Timbs identifies the public house as the Rose Inn in Covent Garden) On one visit, they were forced to stay"
"Errand into the Maze Errand into the Maze is a Martha Graham ballet based on a poem by Ben Belitt set to music by Gian Carlo Menotti. The surrealistic set was designed by Isamu Noguchi, the costumes by Graham herself. The dance uses the Greek myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur to explore the theme of conquering one’s inner demons, more specifically the fear of sexual intimacy. The piece premiered at the Ziegfeld Theatre on February 28, 1947, with Graham as the protagonist, a sort of female Theseus, and Mark Ryder as the Minotaur-like character. The original program notes describe"
"Ce fut en mai ""Ce fut en mai"", or ""Ce fu en mai"", is a French trouvère song, written in the 13th century by Moniot d'Arras. Its lyrics, in Old French, describe how a man sees a knight and a maiden cavorting in a garden. He follows them, and tells them of his unrequited love; they comfort him, and he cries and commends them to God. The song is a pastourelle and chanson, and was originally accompanied by dancing and medieval instruments like the vielle. ""Ce fut en mai"" has recently been recorded by early music performers such as Paul"
"In the Garden (Van Morrison song) ""In the Garden"" is a spiritually inspired song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and included on his 1986 album ""No Guru, No Method, No Teacher"". The album version of the song was recorded in 1985 at Studio D at the Sausalito & Record Plant in Sausalito, California. The lyrics of ""In the Garden"" contain a line which gives the album its name: ""No Guru, no method, no teacher/ Just you and I and nature/And the Father in the garden."" Some of the words also fall back to ""Astral Weeks"" territory with mentions"
"attitude to what matters in life. Ce fut en mai ""Ce fut en mai"", or ""Ce fu en mai"", is a French trouvère song, written in the 13th century by Moniot d'Arras. Its lyrics, in Old French, describe how a man sees a knight and a maiden cavorting in a garden. He follows them, and tells them of his unrequited love; they comfort him, and he cries and commends them to God. The song is a pastourelle and chanson, and was originally accompanied by dancing and medieval instruments like the vielle. ""Ce fut en mai"" has recently been recorded by"
"craftier sons invade, And Theft and Murder take the garb of Trade! —The Slave, in chains, on supplicating knee, Spreads his wide arms, and lifts his eyes to Thee; With hunger pale, with wounds and toil oppress'd, 'Are we not Brethren?' sorrow choaks the rest; —Air! bear to heaven upon thy azure flood Their innocent cries!--Earth! cover not their blood! (I.ii.414-430) </poem> ""The Botanic Garden"" was reissued repeatedly in Britain, Ireland and the United States throughout the 1790s. Until the publication of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's ""Lyrical Ballads"" in 1798, Darwin was considered one of England's preeminent poets."
"The Botanic Garden The Botanic Garden (1791) is a set of two poems, ""The Economy of Vegetation"" and ""The Loves of the Plants"", by the British poet and naturalist Erasmus Darwin. ""The Economy of Vegetation"" celebrates technological innovation, scientific discovery and offers theories concerning contemporary scientific questions, such as the history of the cosmos. The more popular ""Loves of the Plants"" promotes, revises and illustrates Linnaeus's classification scheme for plants. One of the first popular science books, the intent of ""The Botanic Garden"" is to pique readers' interest in science while educating them at the same time. By embracing Linnaeus's"
"Le jardin clos Le jardin clos, Op. 106, is a song cycle by Gabriel Fauré, of eight mélodies for voice and piano. It is based on eight poems from the collection ""Entrevisions"" by Charles van Lerberghe. Fauré composed the cycle in 1914, starting it in Germany and continuing in Switzerland and France after he fled Germany on the outbreak of World War I. The song cycle was composed over the period July to November 1914. Fauré wrote the first song, ""Exaucement"", during his stay of 21–30 July at Bad Ems, where he hoped to improve his health, particularly his hearing"
"Mahmoud Shabestari Mahmoūd Shabestarī (1288–1340) () is one of the most celebrated Persian Sufi poets of the 14th century. Shabistari was born in the town of Shabestar near Tabriz in 1288 (687 AH), where he received his education. He became deeply versed in the symbolic terminology of Ibn Arabi. He wrote during a period of Mongol invasions. His most famous work is a mystic text called ""The Secret Rose Garden"" (""Gulshan-i Rāz"") written about 1311 in rhyming couplets (Mathnawi). This poem was written in response to seventeen queries concerning Sufi metaphysics posed to ""the Sufi literati of Tabriz"" by Rukh"
"The Garden of Fand The Garden of Fand (1916) is a tone poem by the English composer Arnold Bax. It was inspired by an Irish mythical figure, Fand, the daughter of the lord of the ocean. The work does not portray the events of the mythical tale, but evokes Fand's island. The composer had been greatly influenced by Celtic culture in his earlier works, but described this one as his last in that vein. The work was complete in piano score shortly before the First World War, and orchestrated in 1916. It was premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted"
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd ""When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"" is a long poem in the form of an elegy written by American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892) in 1865. The poem, written in free verse in 206 lines, uses many of the literary techniques associated with the pastoral elegy. It was written in the summer of 1865 during a period of profound national mourning in the aftermath of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Despite the poem being an elegy to the fallen president, Whitman neither mentions Lincoln by name nor discusses"
"Lewis Carroll was readying ""Alice's Adventures Under Ground"" for publication he replaced a parody he had made of a negro minstrel song with a parody of Howitt's poem. ""The Mock Turtle's Song"", in Lewis Carroll's ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"", is a parody of Howitt's poem; it mimics the meter and rhyme scheme, and parodies the first line, but not the subject matter, of the original. The Spider and the Fly (poem) The Spider and the Fly is a poem by Mary Howitt (1799–1888), published in 1828. The first line of the poem is ""'Will you walk into my parlour?' said"
"suggested as more likely. Alexander Garden (poet) Alexander Garden or Gardyne (c. 1585 - c. 1642) was a Scottish poet from Aberdeenshire. He is believed to have graduated from Marischal College before 1609 when a work of his was published calling him ""Mr."", implying he had the degree of MA. This book was ""A Garden of Grave and Godlie Flowers"": a collection of poems, elegies and prayers in praise of King James, other public figures and also friends. His ""The Theatre of the Scottish Kings"" (c. 1625, but started in 1612) and ""A Theatre of Scottish Worthies"" are a series"
"works in the LP and then the CD catalogues from the 1960s onwards, ""The Garden of Fand"" has received several modern recordings, including one conducted by Boult, fifty-two years after he introduced the work to England. Bax's score was used by Frederick Ashton for his ballet, ""Picnic at Tintagel"" (New York City Ballet, 1952). The Garden of Fand The Garden of Fand (1916) is a tone poem by the English composer Arnold Bax. It was inspired by an Irish mythical figure, Fand, the daughter of the lord of the ocean. The work does not portray the events of the mythical"
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came ""Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"" is a poem by English author Robert Browning, written in 1855 and first published that same year in the collection titled ""Men and Women"". The title, ""Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"", which forms the last words of the poem, is a line from William Shakespeare's play ""King Lear"" (""ca."" 1607). In the play, Gloucester's son, Edgar, lends credence to his disguise as Tom o' Bedlam by talking nonsense, of which this is a part: Child Rowland to the dark tower came,His word was still"
"""Tonight or Never"" which had recently been made into a motion picture. Garden is cited with other artistic figures of the period in Hugh MacDiarmid's poem ""A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle"" (ll.30–2): <poem style=""margin-left: 2em;"">Whaur's Isadora Duncan dancin nou, Is Mary Garden in Chicago still And Duncan Grant in Paris – and me fou?</poem> Allen Ginsberg contrasts the relative silence surrounding Garden's death with the uproar caused by the death of Jack Ruby in ""Bayonne Turnpike to Tuscarora,"" from the 1973 award-winning collection ""The Fall of America"": <poem style=""margin-left: 2em;""> Mary Garden dead in Aberdeen, New Years' 1967"
"The Hind and the Panther The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts (1687) is an allegory in heroic couplets by John Dryden. At some 2600 lines it is much the longest of Dryden's poems, translations excepted, and perhaps the most controversial. The critic Margaret Doody has called it ""the great, the undeniable, ""sui generis"" poem of the Restoration era…It is its own kind of poem, it cannot be repeated (and no one has repeated it)."" Dryden converted to Catholicism more or less simultaneously with the accession of the Roman Catholic king James II in 1685, to the"
"Alexander Garden (poet) Alexander Garden or Gardyne (c. 1585 - c. 1642) was a Scottish poet from Aberdeenshire. He is believed to have graduated from Marischal College before 1609 when a work of his was published calling him ""Mr."", implying he had the degree of MA. This book was ""A Garden of Grave and Godlie Flowers"": a collection of poems, elegies and prayers in praise of King James, other public figures and also friends. His ""The Theatre of the Scottish Kings"" (c. 1625, but started in 1612) and ""A Theatre of Scottish Worthies"" are a series of short poems about"
"In a Monastery Garden In a Monastery Garden is a piece of light classical music by Albert Ketèlbey who composed it in 1915 after a visit to a real monastery garden. It was especially successful when performed by Ronnie Ronalde who often performed it as his finale and sold over a million recordings. There are conflicting accounts of the origins of this piece. Here are four accounts: 1. From ""Franciscans Here and There"", no.34: During Fr. Edgar's noviciate... a visit was made to Chilworth in 1910 by Fr. Edgar's brother, Joseph. The latter, as J.H. Larway, was a well-known music"
"May Kendall May Kendall (Born Emma Goldworth Kendall) (1861 – 1943) was an English poet, novelist, and satirist. She is best known as the co-author of the novel ""That Very Mab"" and the poetry collections ""Dreams to Sell"" and ""Songs from Dreamland"". Possibly her most anthologized poem, ""Lay of the Trilobite,"" is a satire of the popular English response to Darwin's evolutionary theory. ""Lay of the Trilobite"" was originally published in Punch Magazine, to which Kendall contributed for ten years. Much of her literary output focuses on evolution and other scientific discoveries, the New Woman, and satirical portraits of British"
"down through the tensed, arrested muscles,"" ""plunges into the heart and is gone."" - English translation by Stephen Mitchell </poem> The Panther (poem) The Panther (subtitled: ""In Jardin des Plantes, Paris"") is a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke written on 6 November 1902. It describes a captured panther behind bars, as it was exhibited in the Ménagerie of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. It is one of Rilke's most famous poems and has been translated into English many times, including by many distinguished translators of Rilke, like Stephen Mitchell, C. F. MacIntyre, J. B. Leishman and Walter Arndt, Jessie"