My garden

A garden is a lovesome thing
God wot
Rose plot,
Fringed pool,
Fern'd grot
The veriest school
of peace and yet the fool
contends that God is not
Not God!
in Gardens when the eve is cool?
Nay, but I have a sign;
'Tis very sure God walks in mine.

by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Brown (1830-1897) , "My garden", from Old John and other Poems, published 1893

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Harry Brook (1893-?) , "My garden", published 1929. [unison voices and piano]
by Eleanor Everest Freer (1864-1942) , "My garden", published 1907 [voice and piano], from Six Songs to Nature, no. ?
by Mirrie Irma Hill (1892-?) , "A garden is a lovesome thing", published 1954. [mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano]
by Phyllis M. James , "My garden", published 1925. [voice and piano]
by Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867-1972) , "A garden is a lovesome thing", published 1912 [voice and piano], from Four Songs, no. ?
by (James) Albert Mallinson (1870-1946) , "A garden is a lovesome thing", published 1923. [voice and piano]
by Teresa del Riego (c1876-1968) , "A garden is a lovesome thing", published 1927. [voice and piano]
by Betty Roe (1930-) , "My garden", published 1991. [medium voice and piano]
by Powell Weaver (1890-1951) , "My garden", published 1940. [high voice and piano]

by Oliver Henry Edwards (1902-) , "Fy ngardd", published <<1937. [mezzo-soprano and piano]

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