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“garden” across the centuries

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 1850s · 20 with this theme Show all eras

A Daughter of Eve

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A Daughter of Eve

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

An October Garden

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An October Garden

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Angela Sanger

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Angela Sanger

by Edgar Lee Masters · English

23 August 1868 - 5 March 1950 (~82)

Domicilium

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Domicilium

by Thomas Hardy · English

2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)

Frost To-Night

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Frost To-Night

by Edith M. Thomas · English

12 August 1854 - 13 September 1925 (~71)

I havn't told my garden yet

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I havn't told my garden yet

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Immortelle

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Immortelle

by May (Julian) Sinclair · English

24 August 1863 - 14 November 1946 (~83)

Le Panneau

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Le Panneau

by Oscar Wilde · English

16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900 (~46)

Moveless Memories

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Moveless Memories

by Philip Bourke Marston · English

13 August 1850 - 13 February 1887 (~37)

My heart shall be thy garden

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My heart shall be thy garden

by Alice Meynell · English

11 October 1847 - 27 November 1922 (~75)

New feet within my garden go

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New feet within my garden go

by Emily Dickinson · English

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Shut Out

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Shut Out

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Summer Sun

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Summer Sun

by Robert Louis Stevenson · English

13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894 (~44)

The Garden of Dreams

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The Garden of Dreams

by Bliss Carman · English

15 April 1861 - 8 June 1929 (~68)

The House That Was

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The House That Was

by Laurence Binyon · English

10 August 1869 - 10 March 1943 (~74)

The Rose and the Lily

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The Rose and the Lily

by Nixon Waterman · English

12 November 1859 - 1 September 1944 (~85)

The White Peacock

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The White Peacock

by William Sharp · English

12 September 1855 - 12 December 1905 (~50)

To a Garden

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To a Garden

by Violet Fane · English

24 February 1843 - 13 October 1905 (~62)

To My Wife

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To My Wife

by Oscar Wilde · English

16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900 (~46)

Vos Non Vobis

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Vos Non Vobis

by Edith M. Thomas · English

12 August 1854 - 13 September 1925 (~71)

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