In The Garden VI: A Peach

Edward Dowden 1843 (Cork) – 1913



IF any sense in mortal dust remains
When mine has been refin'd from flower to flower,
Won from the sun all colours, drunk the shower
And delicate winy dews, and gain'd the gains
Which elves who sleep in airy bells, a-swing
Through half a summer day, for love bestow,
Then in some warm old garden let me grow
To such a perfect, lush, ambrosian thing
As this. Upon a southward-facing wall
I bask, and feel my juices dimly fed
And mellowing, while my bloom comes golden grey:
Keep the wasps from me! but before I fall
Pluck me, white fingers, and o'er two ripe-red
Girl lips O let me richly swoon away!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABBACDDCEFGEFG
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 607
Words 114
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

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