02353cam a22003133u 4500 77200 UtSlPG 20260610134804.0 m cr n 260607r20251903utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PR Adcock, Arthur St. John, 1864-1930 From a London garden Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2025-11-09 Carol Brown, Tim Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) 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.) Originally published: London: David Nutt, 1903 English poetry https://archive.org/details/fromlondongarden00adco/page/n5/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77200 117920 117920