In a Garden

Elizabeth JenningsElizabeth Jennings

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When the gardener has gone this garden
Looks wistful and seems waiting an event.
It is so spruce, a metaphor of Eden
And even more so since the gardener went,Quietly godlike, but of course, he had
Not made me promise anything and I
Had no one tempting me to make the bad
Choice. Yet I still felt lost and wonder why.Even the beech tree from next door which shares
Its shadow with me, seemed a kind of threat.
Everything was too neat, and someone caresIn the wrong way. I need not have stood long
Mocked by the smell of a mown lawn, and yet
I did. Sickness for Eden was so strong.
Elizabeth Jennings
About the poet

Elizabeth Jennings

1926 - 2001/EnglishElizabeth Joan Jennings (July 18, 1926 – October 26, 2001) was an English poet, noted for her clarity of style and simplicity of literary approach. Her Roman Catholicism coloured much of her work. She always made it clear that, whilst her l…

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