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“garden” across the centuries

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gardens 3 poems gardener 3 poems

Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced this theme. Click an era to focus the poem list below (click again to show samples from all eras).

pre-1500 1 / 28 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 9 1550s 2 / 89 1600s 1 / 176 1650s 0 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 4 / 161 1800s 5 / 683 1850s 20 / 938 1900s 23 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1800s · 5 with this theme Show all eras

Captain Cook (To My Brother)
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Captain Cook (To My Brother)

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon · English

Letitia Elizabeth Landon portrait

14 August 1802 - 15 October 1838 (~36)

Come into the garden, Maud
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Come into the garden, Maud

by Alfred Lord Tennyson · English

Alfred Lord Tennyson portrait

6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892 (~83)

I Remember, I Remember
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I Remember, I Remember

by Thomas Hood · English

Thomas Hood portrait

23 May 1799 - 3 May 1845 (~46)

My Garden
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My Garden

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

Ralph Waldo Emerson portrait

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

The Dial of Flowers
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The Dial of Flowers

by Felicia Dorothea Hemans · English

Felicia Dorothea Hemans portrait

25 September 1793 - 16 May 1835 (~42)

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