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The Melody of Earth

by Mrs. Waldo Richards

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  1. 1Dedication — Foreword
  2. 2Acknowledgments
  3. 3Within Garden Walls
  4. 4The Furrow
  5. 5“There Is Strength in the Soil”
  6. 6In the Womb
  7. 7Putting in the Seed
  8. 8The Whisper of Earth
  9. 9“Within the Garden There Is Healthfulness”
  10. 10In a Garden
  11. 11A Shower
  12. 12The Rain
  13. 13The Dews
  14. 14Sonnet
  15. 15Charm: To Be Said in the Sun
  16. 16The Dials
  17. 17To a New Sundial
  18. 18The Fountain
  19. 19The Pageantry of Gardens
  20. 20The Welcome
  21. 21The Joy of the Springtime
  22. 22Spring
  23. 23Primavera
  24. 24The Green o’ the Spring
  25. 25An April Morning
  26. 26“With Memories and Odors”
  27. 27April Rain
  28. 28While April Rain Went by
  29. 29Spring
  30. 30April Weather
  31. 31Daffodils
  32. 32The Crocus Flame
  33. 33The Early Gods
  34. 34A Tulip Garden
  35. 35Tulips
  36. 36A White Iris
  37. 37May Is Building Her House
  38. 38The Magnolia
  39. 39“Go Down to Kew in Lilac-Time”
  40. 40Beyond
  41. 41June
  42. 42June Rapture
  43. 43Columbines
  44. 44The Morning-Glory
  45. 45The Blossomy Barrow
  46. 46Larkspur
  47. 47The July Garden
  48. 48“Mid-Summer Blooms Within Our Quiet Garden-Ways”
  49. 49Poppies
  50. 50The Garden in August
  51. 51Sun, Cardinal, and Corn Flowers
  52. 52Sunflowers
  53. 53The End of Summer
  54. 54A Late Walk
  55. 55Color Notes
  56. 56The Golden Bowl
  57. 57The Autumn Rose
  58. 58Indian Summer
  59. 59“Frost To-Night”
  60. 60November Night — The Snow-Gardens
  61. 61A Song for Winter
  62. 62Wings and Song
  63. 63The Hummingbird
  64. 64Spring Song
  65. 65Nightingales
  66. 66The Goldfinch
  67. 67Kinfolk
  68. 68A Mocking-Bird
  69. 69The Cardinal-Bird
  70. 70Yellow Warblers
  71. 71Witchery
  72. 72The Spring Beauties
  73. 73The Mocking-Bird
  74. 74The Messenger
  75. 75Fireflies
  76. 76July Midnight
  77. 77The Cricket in the Path
  78. 78Rest at Noon
  79. 79Order
  80. 80The Night-Moth
  81. 81The Butterfly
  82. 82The Secret
  83. 83The Gardens of Yesterday
  84. 84Old Homes
  85. 85A Puritan Lady’s Garden
  86. 86The Old-Fashioned Garden
  87. 87A Colonial Garden
  88. 88In My Mother’s Garden
  89. 89To the Sweetwilliam
  90. 90Rose-Geranium
  91. 91Four O’Clocks
  92. 92Asking for Roses
  93. 93The Old Brocade
  94. 94Stairways and Gardens
  95. 95Old Mothers
  96. 96Pastures and Hillsides
  97. 97The Road to the Pool
  98. 98The Wild Rose
  99. 99Up a Hill and a Hill
  100. 100The Joys of a Summer Morning
  101. 101South Wind
  102. 102To a Weed
  103. 103The Pasture
  104. 104The Thistle
  105. 105Clover
  106. 106Wild Gardens
  107. 107The Dandelion
  108. 108Joe-Pyeweed
  109. 109To a Daisy
  110. 110A Soft Day
  111. 111Arbutus — Jewel-Weed
  112. 112The Wall
  113. 113Boulders
  114. 114Afternoon on a Hill
  115. 115The Golden-Rod
  116. 116The Path That Leads to Nowhere
  117. 117Lovers and Roses
  118. 118“Where Love Is Life”
  119. 119The Time of Roses
  120. 120Love Planted a Rose
  121. 121The Garden
  122. 122Cloud and Flower
  123. 123Progress
  124. 124“But We Did Walk in Eden”
  125. 125A Garden-Piece
  126. 126“How Many Flowers Are Gently Met”
  127. 127With a Rose, to Brunhilde
  128. 128“My Soul Is Like a Garden-Close”
  129. 129A Dream
  130. 130The Rose
  131. 131Prayer
  132. 132In a Garden
  133. 133A Song of Fairies
  134. 134A Song to Belinda
  135. 135Sweetheart-Lady
  136. 136Heart’s Garden
  137. 137A Rose Lover
  138. 138Sonnet
  139. 139A Song in a Garden
  140. 140“It Was June in the Garden”
  141. 141Two Roses
  142. 142Roses
  143. 143Her Garden
  144. 144Ære Perennius
  145. 145Ever the Same
  146. 146The Message
  147. 147Tell-Tale
  148. 148Da Thief
  149. 149Results and Roses
  150. 150Underneath the Bough
  151. 151The Awakening
  152. 152Shade
  153. 153Selection From “Under the Trees”
  154. 154A Garden Friend
  155. 155A Lady of the Snows
  156. 156The Tree
  157. 157“Loveliest of Trees”
  158. 158The Spirit of the Birch
  159. 159Family Trees
  160. 160Idealists
  161. 161“Draw Closer, o Ye Trees”
  162. 162Trees
  163. 163The Trees
  164. 164The Poplars
  165. 165Trees
  166. 166The Lost Gardens of the Heart
  167. 167In an Old Garden
  168. 168The Garden of Dreams
  169. 169Homesick
  170. 170The Ways of Time
  171. 171A Midsummer Garden
  172. 172The White Rose
  173. 173A Haunted Garden
  174. 174The Dusty Hour-Glass
  175. 175The Song of Wandering Aengus
  176. 176The Three Cherry Trees
  177. 177Old Gardens
  178. 178The Blooming of the Rose
  179. 179The Garden of Mnemosyne
  180. 180Ballade of the Dreamland Rose
  181. 181The Flowers of June
  182. 182In Memory’s Garden
  183. 183Serenade
  184. 184“What Heart but Fears a Fragrance?”
  185. 185Years Afterward
  186. 186Autumnal
  187. 187“Oh, Tell Me How My Garden Grows”
  188. 188Her Garden
  189. 189The Little Ghost
  190. 190Roses in the Subway
  191. 191The Garden Over-Seas
  192. 192In the Garden-Close at Mezra
  193. 193The Cactus
  194. 194The White Peacock
  195. 195At Isola Bella
  196. 196The Fountain
  197. 197The Champa Flower
  198. 198In an Egyptian Garden
  199. 199Evening — in Old Japan
  200. 200Reflections
  201. 201In the Garden
  202. 202The Deserted Garden
  203. 203A Roman Garden
  204. 204Como in April
  205. 205An Exile’s Garden
  206. 206The Cloister Garden at Certosa
  207. 207A Garden in Venice
  208. 208In a Garden of Granada
  209. 209Amiel’s Garden
  210. 210Eden-Hunger
  211. 211The Garden at Bemerton
  212. 212In an Oxford Garden
  213. 213The Homely Garden
  214. 214A Breath of Mint
  215. 215A Seller of Herbs
  216. 216Lavender
  217. 217Dawn in My Garden
  218. 218The Proud Vegetables
  219. 219The Choice
  220. 220Thoughts Fer the Discuraged Farmer
  221. 221Grace for Gardens
  222. 222Silver Bells and Cockle Shells
  223. 223Spring Patchwork
  224. 224Baby’s Valentine
  225. 225Baby Seed Song
  226. 226Rain in the Night
  227. 227A Little Girl’s Songs
  228. 228When Swallows Build
  229. 229Spring Planting
  230. 230If I Could Dig Like a Rabbit
  231. 231The Little God
  232. 232Daisies
  233. 233The Anxious Farmer
  234. 234Over the Garden Wall
  235. 235The Flowerphone
  236. 236The Faithless Flowers
  237. 237The Flower-School
  238. 238Iris Flowers
  239. 239If I Were a Fairy
  240. 240Fringed Gentians
  241. 241The Scissors-Man
  242. 242The Garden of Life
  243. 243“The Lord God Planted a Garden”
  244. 244The Lilies
  245. 245Barter
  246. 246Sonnet
  247. 247The Tilling
  248. 248Safe
  249. 249Sorrow in a Garden
  250. 250Moth-Flowers
  251. 251Alchemy
  252. 252Flowers in the Dark
  253. 253Welcome
  254. 254The Child in the Garden
  255. 255A Wonder Garden
  256. 256From a Car-Window
  257. 257Song of the Weary Traveller
  258. 258Cobwebs
  259. 259Blind
  260. 260Herb of Grace
  261. 261Before Mary of Magdala Came
  262. 262Conscience
  263. 263Rosa Mystica
  264. 264The Mystery
  265. 265The Rose
  266. 266For These
  267. 267Samuel Gardner
  268. 268Seeds
  269. 269“Lord, I Ask a Garden”
  270. 270My Flower-Room
  271. 271“Vestured and Veiled With Twilight”
  272. 272The Fruit Garden Path
  273. 273Wood Song
  274. 274A Prayer
  275. 275The Philosopher’s Garden

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