Nature

The Garden

by Sara Teasdale 1884–1933

From Flame and Shadow (1920)

Nature

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?

MLA

Teasdale, Sara. “The Garden.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/teasdale/245/.

Chicago

Teasdale, Sara. “The Garden.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/teasdale/245/.

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