A Girl's Garden Poem by Robert Frost

A Girl's Garden

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A neighbor of mine in the village
Likes to tell how one spring
When she was a girl on the farm, she did
A childlike thing.

One day she asked her father
To give her a garden plot
To plant and tend and reap herself,
And he said, 'Why not?'

In casting about for a corner
He thought of an idle bit
Of walled-off ground where a shop had stood,
And he said, 'Just it.'

And he said, 'That ought to make you
An ideal one-girl farm,
And give you a chance to put some strength
On your slim-jim arm.'

It was not enough of a garden
Her father said, to plow;
So she had to work it all by hand,
But she don't mind now.

She wheeled the dung in a wheelbarrow
Along a stretch of road;
But she always ran away and left
Her not-nice load,

And hid from anyone passing.
And then she begged the seed.
She says she thinks she planted one
Of all things but weed.

A hill each of potatoes,
Radishes, lettuce, peas,
Tomatoes, beets, beans, pumpkins, corn,
And even fruit trees.

And yes, she has long mistrusted
That a cider-apple
In bearing there today is hers,
Or at least may be.

Her crop was a miscellany
When all was said and done,
A little bit of everything,
A great deal of none.

Now when she sees in the village
How village things go,
Just when it seems to come in right,
She says, 'I know!

'It's as when I was a farmer...'
Oh never by way of advice!
And she never sins by telling the tale
To the same person twice.

Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: girl
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
* Sunprincess * 14 November 2015

......a lovely write....love this ★

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Mahesh P. Bhanderi 23 May 2015

Its wonderfull

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Rishad Mk 11 May 2015

Beautiful poem about nature and a girl.nice natural imaginary used.

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Mahesh P. Bhanderi 23 May 2015

Wow! Its awesome

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Augustus Billy Mutebesi 10 August 2016

quite a lovely poem this is!

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Dr Antony Theodore 03 May 2020

To plant and tend and reap herself, And he said, 'Why not? ' what a kind of imagination of the great Robert Frost. tony

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Richard Ponsonby 03 May 2020

How does this cretin's work survive, unless there is a market for reader's half alive

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Anil Kumar Panda 03 May 2020

Nice poem. Enjoyed thoroughly. Thanks for sharing.Loved it.

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Kumarmani Mahakul 03 May 2020

The inscription is so touching and interesting. Beautiful poem composed by Robert Frost.

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Mahtab Bangalee 03 May 2020

the wandering garden girl Whose alliance with nature Laughs, plays, speaks to the mind Feelings sleep in the lap of nature

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