From a London garden by Arthur St. John Adcock
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From a London garden by Arthur St. John Adcock is a poetry collection written in the early 20th century. The book offers reflective, lyrical meditations on love, time, mortality, faith, work, and the contrasts between London’s urban life and the renewing force of nature. Its likely topic is the inner life of ordinary people as they move through seasons of the city and the heart, finding dignity, beauty, and consolation in transience.
Across concise, musical poems, the speaker watches time weave day into night and spring into summer, weighing youth against age, success against failure, and worldly noise against quiet hope. City pieces observe poverty, weariness, and social injustice while granting sleep and mercy to the crowded streets; garden and seasonal lyrics praise winds, buds, dawns, and the sea as emblems of rebirth. Love poems consider pride, equality, parting, and remembrance; spiritual poems balance doubt with humble trust, seeing death as a door, not an end. Throughout, art and memory act as cupbearers, lifting what would vanish into something we can taste again, and the closing notes affirm that while dreams fade, steadfast love and courageous work redeem what time takes. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Adcock, Arthur St. John, 1864-1930 |
|---|---|
| Title | From a London garden |
| Original Publication | London: David Nutt, 1903. |
| Credits | Carol Brown, Tim Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | English poetry |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 77200 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-77200-4 |
| Release Date | Nov 9, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 255 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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