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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BESIDE MY DOOR, by ISABEL STEWART MCMEEKIN Poet's Biography First Line: Why should a garden twelve feet square Last Line: Its twelve feet square, beside my door! | |||
Why should a garden twelve feet square Be like a church that's built for prayer? No marble walls encircle it, No waxen tapers here are lit, No incense burns before the Name, Yet scarlet lilies lift their flame And blue delphinium in a mass, More azure is than painted glass, These yellow daisies seem to hold More riches than plates heaped with gold: Lord, here is Eden come once more; Its twelve feet square, beside my door! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HERE IN MY HAND by ISABEL STEWART MCMEEKIN LUCIE by ISABEL STEWART MCMEEKIN PUZZLED by ISABEL STEWART MCMEEKIN WILD GEESE by ISABEL STEWART MCMEEKIN THE AUTHOR TO HER BOOK by ANNE BRADSTREET TAM O' SHANTER by ROBERT BURNS FALLING ASLEEP by SIEGFRIED SASSOON THE LOVER TO THE THAMES OF LONDON TO FAVOUR HIS LADY ... by GEORGE TURBERVILLE FOOTLIGHT MOTIFS: 4. NATALIE ALT by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |
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