Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?
Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are." - Alfred Austin
Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
- Alfred Austin
Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal. - Alfred Austin
Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.
Is life worth living? Yes, so long as there is wrong to right. So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives, And gracious charity … - Alfred Austin
Is life worth living? Yes, so long as there is wrong to right. So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives, And gracious charity …
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. - Alfred Austin
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. Sha… - Alfred Austin
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. Sha…
We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden. - Alfred Austin
We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.
Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here. - Alfred Austin
Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here.
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. - Alfred Austin
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till with stronger… - Alfred Austin
Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till with stronger…
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