| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Garden |
| | | God the first garden made, and the first city, Cain. Cowley. | 1 |
| | And add to these retired Leisure, |
| That in trim gardens takes his pleasure. |
Milton. | 2 |
| | The garden lies, |
| A league of grass, washd by a slow broad stream. |
Tennyson. | 3 |
| | My garden is a forest ledge |
| Which older forests bound; |
| The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, |
| Then plunge to depths profound! |
Emerson. | 4 |
| | A little garden square and walld; |
| And in it throve an ancient evergreen, |
| A yew-tree, and all round it ran a walk |
| Of shingle, and a walk divided it. |
Tennyson. | 5 |
| | His gardens next your admiration call, |
| On every side you look, behold the wall! |
| No pleasing intricacies intervene, |
| No artful wildness to perplex the scene; |
| Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, |
| And half the platform just reflects the other. |
| The suffering eye inverted nature sees, |
| Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees; |
| With here a fountain, never to be playd, |
| And there a summer-house that knows no shade. |
Pope. | 6 |
| A garden, sir, wherein all rainbowed flowers were heaped together. Charles Kingsley. | 7 |
| | The splash and stir |
| Of fountains spouted up and showering down |
| In meshes of the jasmine and the rose: |
| And all about us peald the nightingale, |
| Rapt in her song, and careless of the snare. |
Tennyson. | 8 |
| | An album is a garden, not for show |
| Planted, but use; where wholesome herbs should grow. |
Charles Lamb. | 9 |
| Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse, too. Cowper. | 10 | | |
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