Sunset . mblooms exuberantly and casts its fra-grance to the sea wind. And in spring,when the winter rains have greenedthe hills and changed the sea ledge, allthe way to Point Sur, to a mille-fleurtapestry, then the Jeffers garden is atits loveliest. In the hollow north of thehouse, the wild flowers come forth insuch abundance that Una at one timecounted 45 different kinds in bloom! It is only natural that Robinson Jef-fers poetry should reflect his love fortrees and flowers, yet no one has men-tioned the fact in those horrific essaysof stuff and nonsense that have beenwritten about him as the
Sunset . mblooms exuberantly and casts its fra-grance to the sea wind. And in spring,when the winter rains have greenedthe hills and changed the sea ledge, allthe way to Point Sur, to a mille-fleurtapestry, then the Jeffers garden is atits loveliest. In the hollow north of thehouse, the wild flowers come forth insuch abundance that Una at one timecounted 45 different kinds in bloom! It is only natural that Robinson Jef-fers poetry should reflect his love fortrees and flowers, yet no one has men-tioned the fact in those horrific essaysof stuff and nonsense that have beenwritten about him as the arch-poet ofmorbidity and madness. Scatteredthrough his noems are scores of pas-sages which describe the natural beautyof the Carmcl coast. With little effort Ihave compiled a list of almost 50 wildflowers and flowering vines and busheswhich bloom in his verse. It is easy enough for a poet, withthe aid of a thesaurus, to adorn hisverses with references to flowers, butsuch is not Jeffers fashion. He links. ?^e- -e^o A Debt-free Home
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