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Sat 1 Mar, 2003 09:47 am
Thomas Campion wrote:
THERE IS A GARDEN IN HER FACE.
by Thomas Campion.
There is a Garden in her face,
Where Roses and white Lillies grow ;
A heau'nly paradice is that place,
Wherein all pleasant fruits doe flow.
There Cherries grow, which none may buy
Till Cherry ripe themselues doe cry.
Those Cherries fayrely doe enclose
Of Orient Pearle a double row ;
Which when her louely laughter showes,
They look like Rose-buds fill'd with snow.
Yet them nor Peere nor Prince can buy,
Till Cherry ripe themselues doe cry.
Her Eyes like Angels watch them still ;
Her Browes like bended bowes doe stand,
Threatning with piercing frownes to kill
All that attempt with eye or hand
Those sacred Cherries to come nigh,
Till Cherry ripe themselues doe cry.
One thread of meaning in this poem is, in my view, the love and passion we have for our gardens - or, in my case, for my old garden, since I have but a balcony as a canvas, now.
This thread is an invitation for A2kers to join to create a perfect imaginary garden - arbours, parterres, ha-has, flowers, shrubs, water, meadows, trees - what shall we build?
If we have ha-has, we might also have some nice sheep...
Sheep? Heavens forbid, they will eat up all the flowers. The only animals I would like to see in this imaginatory garden are cats.
About plants: I would propose Japanese cherry trees.
A beautiful little pool, complete with a small waterfall, surrounded by rocks. with a couple of benches facing the pool. The pool would be heated, so that tropical fish could live there!
The cherry trees might go well around the pool, no?
Animals - hmm - cats in a garden are lovely, but what of our birds? Perhaps separate parts...
I need to have a birch grove, with a little winding path, and bulbs like daffodils, irises, freesias, hyacinths and so on planted throughout.
Can cats and birds get along together? IMO, cats hunt birds(if the latter are not ostriches)...
Deb, Resisting the urge to say in an octopuses' garden. <smile>
My Garden would be a garden with a gate.
One tree would stand alone, a guardian strong.
No tree of knowledge harshly lined with fate,
Just one that whispers "green" with gentle song.
No beasts unless they should desire to be,
no people, just a tiny bit of me.
and then there must be you, and you, and you.
and snakes, with just a subtle tinge of blue.
For we must learn to live among the worst,
Before the rain can then dilute the curse.
Steissd, cats hunt birds in other places than your opinion, bless 'em! LOL!
Letty - lovely - blue snakes are fine - but I want more than ONE tree! Lol.
I dreamed, last night, that I was bitten by a cobra - what can THAT mean?
It means, dear Deb, that in a former life you were a mongoose. Hey, if we are to have cobras in our garden, we must have mongeese.
Cinderella dressed in yella
went upstairs to kiss her fella
by mistake she kissed a snake
how many doctors did it take?
(1...2...3...4...)
[Children's jump-rope rhyme which has undergone reams of analysis, called to mind by Deb's cobra dream...]
are there real toads in the imaginary garden?
Only in the great South West. In the North, East, and South they have frogs.
Well I found a site that describes a ha ha. But I don't want a ha ha without a lamb on the other side of it.
http://www.gardenvisit.com/t/w9.htm
Toads? As long as they are not cane toads I am happy, oh dry and bathetic one!
Frogs are EXCELLENT!!!!
Baa baas over the haha? - aha - fine.
Dlowan wrote:I dreamed, last night, that I was bitten by a cobra - what can THAT mean?
Maybe, this means that you want to visit India during your next leave?
BTW, I think that orchids would be good for the virtual garden. Not being a botanist, though, I do not know whether these plants can peacefully coexist with Japanese cherry trees...
I think imaginary is the key word, Steissd - we can what we please.
One orchidary, as opposed to an orchidectomy, coming up!
I want to make a little magical garden for my neice. You know, canopied trees with a little table for tea beneath, wild looking flowers and shrubs, stepping stones and such. My sister just bought a house with a huge yard. In the middle of the yard are three old apple trees clumped together........
My little bit of heaven would be full of those doodads I can never afford. A ton of gazing balls all colors, faries and elves of course. and tons of wind chimes in every tree.
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