Garden Bloggers Muse Day – 1st December 2008

From The Garden

 

Who loves a garden, loves a green-house too.

Unconscious of a less propitious clime,

There blooms exotic beauty, warm and snug,

While the winds whistle and the snows descend.

The spiry myrtle with unwith’ring leaf

Shines there, and flourishes.  The golden boast

Of Portugal and western India there,

The ruddier orange, and the paler lime,

Peep through their polish’d foliage at the storm,

And seem to smile at what they need not fear.

Th’ amomum there with intermingling flow’rs

And cherries hangs her twigs.  Geranium boasts

Her crimson honours, and the spangled beau,

Ficoides, glitters bright the winter long.

All plants, of ev’ry leaf that can endure

The winter’s frown, if screen’d from his shrewd bite,

Live there, and prosper….

  

William Cowper (1731-1800)

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~ by patientgardener on November 1, 2008.