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Alfred Austin [1835-1913] English
Rank: 102
Poet (with poems)

Laureate, Victorian


Alfred Austin DL was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, after an interval following the death of Tennyson, when the other candidates had either caused controversy or refused the honour.

Gardening, Nature, Sad, Society, Wisdom



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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. Gardening, Nature
101
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. Gardening
102
Tears are the summer showers to the soul. Sad
103
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. Society
104
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. Gardening, Nature
105
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. Wisdom
106

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