Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. V. Browning to Rupert Brooke

William Morris (1834–1896)

Extracts from Poems by the Way: The Flowering Orchard

[For a Silk Embroidery]

LO, silken my garden

and silken my sky,

And silken my apple-boughs

hanging on high;

All wrought by the worm

in the peasant-carle’s cot

On the mulberry leafage

when summer was hot.