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“Our little kinsmen after rain In plenty may be seen, a pink and pulpy multitude The tepid ground upon; A needless life if seemed to me Until a little bird As to a hospitality Advanced and breakfasted.”

Ifs May Littles Bird Rain Garden Plenty Multitudes Hospitality

Book:Poems: including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts

Source: Poems: including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts

“Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.”

Father Rain Garden Heat Temper Gardening Unleashed

Book:The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day at war, worse than a man's working day. ... To men, women's work was like the rain-bringing clouds, or the rain itself. The task involved was carried out every day as regularly as sleep. So men were happy - men in the Middle Ages, men at the time of the Revolution, and men in 1986: everything in the garden was lovely.”

Men War Hard Age Women Sleep Middle Revolution Involved Bed Rain Garden Tasks Clouds Lovely Get Up Inequality Sexism Middle Ages Men Women Happy Man

Author:Marguerite Duras

“For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.”

Water Rain Garden Rivers Pool Mars Fountain Frogs Refreshments

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling upwards? Where is the marvel of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon if we are to allow of a hanging world at the Antipodes?”

Ifs Men World Believe May Fall Growing Tree Feet Higher Rain Garden Foolish Backwards Babylon Rain Falling Antipodes

Author:Lactantius

“I cry when I work in the garden, because the Sun, the rain, the wind and the Earth all work together to make us food and flowers. It just blows me away.”

Earth Together Sun Cry Wind Flower Rain Garden Blow Working Together

Author:Robin Lim

“I never seem to find what I'm looking for, though. I suppose I feel, these days, too aware of schedules and things, to let myself get lost in the rain. Anyway, I came back home, and it was still raining, and as I was approaching the driveway of the house, and the front garden with its bushy flower bed, I caught a cooking smell from somewhere on the air. I don't know why, exactly, but it appealed to me as a Nagai Kafu moment.”

Knows Feels Stills Moments Home Seems House Lost Air Fronts Flower Bed Rain Garden Cooking Caught Smell These Days Schedules Back Home Driveway

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.”

Feels Sometimes Ordinary Rain Garden Standing Silent Warm Invisible Sunday Peacefulness

Book:Gilead: A Novel

Source: Gilead: A Novel

“The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.”

Knows Said Felt Know How Wind Flower Bed Rain Garden Lays

Book:The poetry of Robert Frost

Source: The poetry of Robert Frost

“And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain.”

Grows Walks Watches Sky Tomorrow Ocean Rain Garden Boat Wet Sailing Getting High Ferry

Author:Van Morrison

“It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white sand shore. It is moonlight. The garden is silent. I stand in my room alone. Across my wall, from the far-off moon, A rain of fire is thrown. There are houses hanging above the stars, And stars hung under the sea, And a wind from the long blue vault of time Waves my curtains for me. I wait in the dark once more, swung between space and space: Before the mirror I lift my hands And face my remembered face.”

Source: The Charnel Rose. Senlin: Biography and Other Poems

“Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Soon it began to drizzle for the second time that night. The drops grew heavier and became visible in the headlights of the cars. It was said by some of the police on the scene that God was crying for the girl in the garden. To others, it was only rain.”

Said Night Girl Lines Car Cry Grew Scene Rain Garden Police Finals Visible Headlights Drizzle

Author:George Pelecanos

“Sitting in an English Garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come You get a tan from standing in the English rain.”

Ifs Waiting Sun Sitting Rain Garden Standing

Author:John Lennon

“The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain.”

Firsts Has Beens Two Sometimes Lasts Economy Wonderful Duty Rain Garden Rivers Foundation Firsts And Lasts

Author:Wendell Berry

“We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.”

Three Party Events Rain Garden Edges Sunday Atoms Galaxy Predicting Nucleus Arcadia Auntie

Author:Tom Stoppard

“listen to me as one listens to the rain, the years go by, the moments return, do you hear the footsteps in the next room? not here, not there: you hear them in another time that is now, listen to the footsteps of time, inventor of places with no weight, nowhere, listen to the rain running over the terrace, the night is now more night in the grove, lightning has nestled among the leaves, a restless garden adrift-go in, your shadow covers this page.”

Years Moments Running Night Next Rooms Return Pages Shadow Rain Garden Weight Lightning Restless Inventor Footsteps Listen To Me Grove Another Time Adrift Terrace

Author:Octavio Paz

“The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again”

Black Church Darkness Wind Wall Rain Garden Autumn Towers Dreary Foreboding Old Churches

Author:Emily Bronte

“As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.”

Grows Flower Rain Garden Thorns Marshes

Book:Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

“In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin and guide of its contours and gradients and of all the lives - the plants and small creatures, and the culture - that evolved here. That was always here to be seen, of course, and the recognition has forced itself, in one form or other, upon people in every part of the world who have been directly involved with the growing of living things. The gardener who ignores it is soon left with no garden.”

People World Has Beens Form Culture Courses Left Water Growing Involved Creatures Rain Garden Rivers Plant Guides Recognition Regions Testament Living Things Gardener Small Creatures

Author:W. S. Merwin

“Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of the spring - these are even more deeply moving. Branches about to blossom or gardens strewn with flowers are worthier of our admiration.”

Looks Long Moving Spirituality Flower Moon Spring Rain Garden Passing Passings Branches Admiration Gardening April Springtime Cherries Cherry Blossom

Author:Yoshida Kenko

“My heart is a garden tired with autumn, Heaped with bending asters and dahlias heavy and dark, In the hazy sunshine, the garden remembers April, The drench of rains and a snow-drop quick and clear as a spark; Daffodils blowing in the cold wind of morning, And golden tulips, goblets holding the rain - The garden will be hushed with snow, forgotten soon, forgotten - After the stillness, will spring come again?”

“It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost and labour, a thousand rills gush downward, terrace by terrace, channeling the stone rails of the balusters, leaping from step to step, dripping into mossy conches, flashing in spray from the horns of sea-gods and the jaws of mythical monsters, or forcing themselves in irrepressible overflow down the ivy-matted banks.”

Giving Character Water Steps Sea Cost Thousand Rain Garden Rivers Stones Monsters Labour Peculiar Horns Rail Ivy Spray Channeling Overflow Dripping Terrace Irrepressible

Author:Edith Wharton

“The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.”

World Spiritual Spirit Religion Spirituality Water Tree Rain Garden Rivers Environmental Unconscious Rivers And Water Water Fountain

Book:The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks

Source: The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks

“I realize that the memories I cherish most are not the first night successes, but of simple, everyday things: walking through our garden in the country after rain; sitting outside a cafe in Provence, drinking the vin de pays; staying at a little hotel in an English market town with Larry, in the early days after our marriage, when he was serving in the Fleet Air Arm, and I was touring Scotland, so that we had to make long treks to spend weekends together.”

“The more a church flourishes, the more, I believe, do hypocrites get in, just as you see many a noxious creeping thing come and get in a garden after a shower of rain. The very things that make glad the flowers bring out these noxious things. And so hypocrites get in and steal much of the church's sap away.”

Believe I Believe Church Flower Rain Garden Glad Stealing Showers Hypocrite Sap

Book:Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series

Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series