Wild Roses by Vincent Van Gogh
JUNE
Mine is the month of roses; yes,
and mine is the month of marriages !
All pleasant sights and scents,
The fragrance of the blossoming vine,
The foilage of the valleys and heights
Mine are the longest days, the loveliest nights;
The mower's scythe makes music to my ear;
I am the mother of all dear delights
I am the fairest daughter of the year.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lovely, Carolyn...(I'm finnally getting to catch up a wee bit on all my backlogged blog reading/posting etc. And I have my post up too!
ReplyDeleteHere comes the warm weather for you, Carolyn Gail! I just turned off the heat on Friday, & we'll probably need the AC by the middle of the week. Hello summer. I had to post a bit from "A Midsummer-Night's Dream" for my June Muse post.
ReplyDeleteI hope your June is shaping up as a fair daughter for you in Chicagoland, Carolyn!
ReplyDeleteThanks for starting Muse Day - here's my entry for June 2008.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Hi Carolyn,
ReplyDeleteMy second piece of Longfellow for the weekend! Unbelievably someone at a London Tube station had scrawled a quote on the service bulletin board. The Big Sofa blog captured it for posterity.
I'm celebrating garden birds today with a piece from Ted Hughes
http://vegplotting.blogspot.com/2008/06/gbmd-garden-birds.html
Have a great Muse Day!
Great poem for June Muse Day. I just posted my poetry selection.
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Always Growing
Hi Carolyn,
ReplyDeleteThis is a very lovely painting and the poem. I think I didn't know it before, so thank you :)
I made my contribution here:
Ewa in the Garden: Muse Day#links
Carolyn, thanks so much. How cheery. I love how you've expanded my poetry reading.~~Dee
ReplyDeleteLoving the Longfellow! I posted some Jane Kenyon over at www.pleasanthillramblings.blogspot.com. Thanks, Carolyn!
ReplyDeletegreat poem! my GBMD post is up, too!
ReplyDeleteA lovely poem.
ReplyDeleteThe WWWs have their GBMD post up. We figured others would sing the praises of June, roses, sunshine, etc. So we took a slightly different angle. It's a bit chilly here for the 1st of June.
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Thanks to all of you for joining the June Muse Day. I will be over to read your selections.
ReplyDeleteLovely choice of poetry for June; it's my favorite month as well.
ReplyDeleteThis is my first Garden Muse Day post, and I have a late entry with some Robert Frost. I was waiting for the right photo op, but it didn't turn out. Sorry to be so tardy.
Not sure why we're showing up as "anonymous" but here is our URL.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.weedwhackinwenches.blogspot.com
Really enjoyed your site. The viburnum photos are lovely.
ReplyDeleteI'm gardening north west of Chicago in the Rockford area.
Hi Carolyn,
ReplyDeleteI haven't heard that term in a long time. "knee high to a grasshopper" I always use it. I visited your site a week or so ago and thought it was great. FYI, I have mentioned your site on my blog as a site to visit. Hope you get visitors.
(From Visions)
Very nice poem for June! Hey Carolyn, do you work with orchids? I have some questions about my dendrobium - maybe you can answer them?
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