Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Henry Austin Dobson. b. 1840824. A Garden Song
HERE in this sequester’d close | |
Bloom the hyacinth and rose, | |
Here beside the modest stock | |
Flaunts the flaring hollyhock; | |
Here, without a pang, one sees | 5 |
Ranks, conditions, and degrees. | |
All the seasons run their race | |
In this quiet resting-place; | |
Peach and apricot and fig | |
Here will ripen and grow big; | 10 |
Here is store and overplus,— | |
More had not Alcinoüs! | |
Here, in alleys cool and green, | |
Far ahead the thrush is seen; | |
Here along the southern wall | 15 |
Keeps the bee his festival; | |
All is quiet else—afar | |
Sounds of toil and turmoil are. | |
Here be shadows large and long; | |
Here be spaces meet for song; | 20 |
Grant, O garden-god, that I, | |
Now that none profane is nigh,— | |
Now that mood and moment please,— | |
Find the fair Pierides! |