Living

Some One in the Garden

by Mary Mapes Dodge 1831–1905

From Rhymes and Jingles (1875)

Living

Some one in the garden murmurs all the day;
Some one in the garden moans the night away;
Deep in the pine-trees, hidden from our sight,
He murmurs all day, and moans all the night.

MLA

Dodge, Mary Mapes. “Some One in the Garden.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dodge_mm/17/.

Chicago

Dodge, Mary Mapes. “Some One in the Garden.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dodge_mm/17/.

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