Poems (Scudder)/An Old Garden

by Antoinette Quinby Scudder

AN OLD GARDEN

Foxgloves wax-white,
Pale yellow columbines,
African daisies with their velvet hearts
Rimmed twice around with fiery gold,
And peonies—

That splash their snow
Crimson and sunrise pink
Quite recklessly, and tall sweet-flags and wee
Button-shaped roses, and again,
More peonies.