“There Is a Garden in Her Face” Summary

“There Is a Garden in Her Face” Themes

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  Women's Tantalizing Beauty

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Line-by-Line Explanation & Analysis of “There Is a Garden in Her Face”

• Lines 1-4

  There is a garden in her face
  Where roses and white lilies grow;
  A heav'nly paradise is that place
  Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow.

  

  

  

  

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• Lines 5-6

  There cherries grow which none may buy,
  Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry.

  

  

  

  

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• Lines 7-12

  Those cherries fairly do enclose
  Of orient pearl a double row,
  Which when her lovely laughter shows,
  They look like rose-buds fill'd with snow;
  Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy,
  Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry.

  

  

  

  

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• Lines 13-18

  Her eyes like angels watch them still,
  Her brows like bended bows do stand,
  Threat'ning with piercing frowns to kill
  All that attempt with eye or hand
  Those sacred cherries to come nigh,
  Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry.

  

  

  

  

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“There Is a Garden in Her Face” Poetic Devices & Figurative Language

• Conceit

  

  

  

  

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• Simile

  

  

  

  

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• Refrain

  

  

  

  

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• Allusion

  

  

  

  

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• Alliteration

  

  

  

  

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“There Is a Garden in Her Face” Vocabulary

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• Wherein
• Cherry ripe
• Orient
• Peer
• Nigh

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Form, Meter, & Rhyme Scheme of “There Is a Garden in Her Face”

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Literary and Historical Context of “There Is a Garden in Her Face”

More “There Is a Garden in Her Face” Resources

• External Resources

  • The Poem as a Song — Listen to this poem set to music, as Campion intended.

  • Two Books of Ayres — See images from one of Campion's collections of lute songs (or "airs"). "There is a Garden in her Face" was published in a later volume of the same series.

  • A Brief Biography — Learn more about Thomas Campion's life and work via the Poetry Foundation.

  • The Poem Aloud — Listen to a reading of the poem.