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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 1900s · 23 with this theme Show all eras

Amid the Roses

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Amid the Roses

by Alice Dunbar Nelson · English

19 July 1875 - 18 September 1935 (~60)

Blight

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Blight

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

Clearly my ruined garden as it stood

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Clearly my ruined garden as it stood

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

Cobwebs

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Cobwebs

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

Dear heart, why will you use me so?

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Dear heart, why will you use me so?

by James Joyce · English

2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941 (~59)

Garden

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Garden

by Hilda Doolittle · English

10 September 1886 - 27 September 1961 (~75)

Garden Abstract

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Garden Abstract

by Hart Crane · English

21 July 1899 - 27 April 1932 (~33)

If it should rain

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If it should rain

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

Irish Ivy

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Irish Ivy

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

La Fileuse

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La Fileuse

by Paul Valéry · French

30 October 1871 - 20 July 1945 (~74)

Love in September

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Love in September

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

Mrs. Willow

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Mrs. Willow

by John Drinkwater · English

1 June 1882 - 25 March 1937 (~55)

Postscript

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Postscript

by Hart Crane · English

21 July 1899 - 27 April 1932 (~33)

Results and Roses

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Results and Roses

by Edgar A. Guest · English

20 August 1881 - 5 August 1959 (~78)

Reverie

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Reverie

by William Soutar · English

28 April 1898 - 15 October 1943 (~45)

Rosemary for Remembrance

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Rosemary for Remembrance

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

The Garden Party

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The Garden Party

by Hilaire Belloc · English

27 July 1870 - 16 July 1953 (~83)

The Gardener

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The Gardener

by Francis Ledwidge · English

19 August 1887 - 31 July 1917 (~30)

The Gardener in Haying-Time

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The Gardener in Haying-Time

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

The Little Ghost

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The Little Ghost

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

The Little Ghost

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The Little Ghost

by Patrick Reginald Chalmers · English

27 June 1872 - 12 September 1942 (~70)

The Wrong House

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The Wrong House

by A. A. Milne · English

18 January 1882 - 31 January 1956 (~74)

Walking in gardens

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Walking in gardens

by Dylan Thomas · English

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

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