Pleasures of the garden : a literary anthology

9780712357203
0712357203

224 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm

Paradise made (Genesis) / John Gerard
Homeward / Tao Yuan Ming
Bright green and lush (Romance of the rose)
The air of paradise / Hafez
Purest of human pleasures / Francis Bacon
A brood of nightingales / William Lawson
Innocent delights / Joseph Addison
Syringa ivory pure / William Cowper
We talk also of a laburnum / Jane Austen
The pride of my heart / Mary Russell Mitford
How little one wants / Gertrude Jekyll
Enjoy thyself a day (Tale of the Garden Flowers, ancient Egyptian)
A garden enclosed (Song of Solomon)
The lusty month of May / Thomas Malory
A garden fair by music's tower / Stephen Hawes
Make me a mandrake / John Donne
No nook more Eden-like / Charlotte Brontë
The planet of love is on high / Alfred Tennyson
The cap and bells / William Butler Yeats
An abundance of brimstone / Diodorus Siculus
The blue fig with luscious juice o'erflows / Homer
All is calm and composed / Pliny the Younger
The pleasant whisking wind / Robert Laneham
A princelike garden / Francis Bacon
The Shalimar Bagh / Constance Villiers-Stuart
The genius of the place / Alexander Pope
A labyrinth of my own raising / Joseph Addison
The horticultural xenophobe / Tobias Smollett
In the hands of the improvers / Jane Austen
The simplest way / William Morris
No plan of any kind / William Robinson
Tears of ecstacy / Reginal Farrer
A garden of sweet scents / Gertrude Jekyll --Whatever had the most blooms / Bai Juyi
A full dung barrow / Walafrid Strabo
Nosegays and posies / John Gerard
Bring your orange tress boldly out / John Evelyn
Vegetable pride / Erasmus Darwin
Gross fog boeotian / William Cowper
Snapdragons blooming / Thomas Jefferson
A bachelor of husbandry / Philip Yorke
Well stricken in years / Robert Louis Stevenson
They gardened in bloomers (Punch magazine)
A cast-iron back with a hinge in it / Charles Dudley Warner
Being entirely ignorant / Elizabeth von Arnim
The unkindest cut / Samuel Reynolds Hole
Grubbing weeds from gravel-paths with broken dinner-knives / Rudyard Kipling
The actual tools / Gertrude Jekyll
The smoke's smell / Edward Thomas
The belly of the dragon (Japanese gardens)
Your leaves are always at his lotus feet (Bhagavata Purana)
Invisible wisdom / John Gerard
Clad in tattered dervish rags / Baqi
A pleasing savour of sweet instructions / John Parkinson
Killing and quickening / George Herbert
Fresh and spruce / Henry King
A green thought in a green shade / Andrew Marvell
Slow but sure / John Bunyan
Human grandeur is very dangerous / Voltaire
Prostrate peas / Henry James
Good taste and not a gaudy pride / John Clare
Paying back the garden / Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Roses and lovers / Algernon Charles Swinburne
Manifest autobiography / Alfred Austin
Persevere! / Helena Rutherford Ely
It isn't quite a dead garden / Frances Hodgson Burnett
A naton of gardeners / Avray Tipping
Even God would have to have a nose / D.H. Lawrence
Egoistic reverie / William Cowper, Edmund Gosse, Forbes Sieveking
Envoi: ferned grot / T.E. Brown

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Hardyment, Christina, editor