Edgar Guest’s Bulb Planting Time is a gentle, moving poem about faith, loss and the quiet promise that what seems lifeless can bloom again. This Edgar Guest poem print sets the full poem in typewriter lettering over soft vintage-style tulips and daffodils, with the title and Guest’s name in elegant script.
Through a simple conversation over a tulip bed, the poem offers real comfort to anyone grieving, with the hope of spring always waiting beneath the frost. This garden poem print is a beautiful piece for keen gardeners and anyone who finds peace among growing things.
It makes a comforting sympathy gift for someone who has lost a loved one and needs a reminder that love lives on. It’s also a meaningful Easter gift that celebrates new life and renewal, or a birthday gift for a gardener who knows the joy of planting bulbs in autumn and waiting for spring.
Perfect For
Gardeners and flower lovers, anyone grieving a loved one, people of faith, fans of classic sentimental poetry, lovers of vintage botanical art.
UNFRAMED PRINT INFO:
MEDIUM: Photographic Fine Art Print (UNFRAMED)
SIZE: Please choose from the drop-down menu - Common print sizes are: 5x7, 8x10, 8.5x11, A4, 11x14, 12x16, 16x20, 18x24, and 24x36. Custom sizing is available, please send a message before completing your purchase to check the price of your custom size.
About your print:
Printed professionally on high-quality photographic paper (NOT cheap card stock!) with a beautiful lustre finish (closely related to matte) with a slight sheen, using archival inks that will last for years.
It arrives carefully wrapped, unmatted, and unframed.
FRAMED PRINT INFO:
Frames are available in the following sizes: 8x10", 11x14", 12x16", 16x20", 18x24", 24x36"
- Ayous wood .75″ (1.9 cm) thick frame from renewable forests
- Paper thickness: 10.3 mil (0.26 mm)
- Paper weight: 5.57 oz/yd² (189 g/m²)
- Lightweight
- Acrylite (Acrylic) front protector
- Hanging hardware included
- Available in Black, White, and Natural Wood - The default color is black but if you would like to change the color to white or natural wood, leave a message in the "message to seller" box at checkout.
PLEASE NOTE:
-Shipping upgrades are not available for framed prints.
-The framed print option does not include a mat
Bulb Planting Time
Last night he said the dead were dead
And scoffed my faith to scorn;
I found him at a tulip bed
When I passed by at morn.
“O ho!” said I, “the frost is near
And mist is on the hills,
And yet I find you planting here
Tulips and daffodils.”
“’Tis time to plant them now,” he said,
“If they shall bloom in Spring”;
“But every bulb,” said I, “seems dead,
And such an ugly thing.”
“The pulse of life I cannot feel,
The skin is dried and brown.
Now look!” a bulb beneath my heel
I crushed and trampled down.
In anger then he said to me:
“You’ve killed a lovely thing;
A scarlet blossom that would be
Some morning in the Spring.”
“Last night a greater sin was thine,”
To him I slowly said;
“You trampled on the dead of mine
And told me they are dead.”
Edgar Guest
Edgar Guest’s Bulb Planting Time is a gentle, moving poem about faith, loss and the quiet promise that what seems lifeless can bloom again. This Edgar Guest poem print sets the full poem in typewriter lettering over soft vintage-style tulips and daffodils, with the title and Guest’s name in elegant script.
Through a simple conversation over a tulip bed, the poem offers real comfort to anyone grieving, with the hope of spring always waiting beneath the frost. This garden poem print is a beautiful piece for keen gardeners and anyone who finds peace among growing things.
It makes a comforting sympathy gift for someone who has lost a loved one and needs a reminder that love lives on. It’s also a meaningful Easter gift that celebrates new life and renewal, or a birthday gift for a gardener who knows the joy of planting bulbs in autumn and waiting for spring.
Perfect For
Gardeners and flower lovers, anyone grieving a loved one, people of faith, fans of classic sentimental poetry, lovers of vintage botanical art.
UNFRAMED PRINT INFO:
MEDIUM: Photographic Fine Art Print (UNFRAMED)
SIZE: Please choose from the drop-down menu - Common print sizes are: 5x7, 8x10, 8.5x11, A4, 11x14, 12x16, 16x20, 18x24, and 24x36. Custom sizing is available, please send a message before completing your purchase to check the price of your custom size.
About your print:
Printed professionally on high-quality photographic paper (NOT cheap card stock!) with a beautiful lustre finish (closely related to matte) with a slight sheen, using archival inks that will last for years.
It arrives carefully wrapped, unmatted, and unframed.
FRAMED PRINT INFO:
Frames are available in the following sizes: 8x10", 11x14", 12x16", 16x20", 18x24", 24x36"
- Ayous wood .75″ (1.9 cm) thick frame from renewable forests
- Paper thickness: 10.3 mil (0.26 mm)
- Paper weight: 5.57 oz/yd² (189 g/m²)
- Lightweight
- Acrylite (Acrylic) front protector
- Hanging hardware included
- Available in Black, White, and Natural Wood - The default color is black but if you would like to change the color to white or natural wood, leave a message in the "message to seller" box at checkout.
PLEASE NOTE:
-Shipping upgrades are not available for framed prints.
-The framed print option does not include a mat
Bulb Planting Time
Last night he said the dead were dead
And scoffed my faith to scorn;
I found him at a tulip bed
When I passed by at morn.
“O ho!” said I, “the frost is near
And mist is on the hills,
And yet I find you planting here
Tulips and daffodils.”
“’Tis time to plant them now,” he said,
“If they shall bloom in Spring”;
“But every bulb,” said I, “seems dead,
And such an ugly thing.”
“The pulse of life I cannot feel,
The skin is dried and brown.
Now look!” a bulb beneath my heel
I crushed and trampled down.
In anger then he said to me:
“You’ve killed a lovely thing;
A scarlet blossom that would be
Some morning in the Spring.”
“Last night a greater sin was thine,”
To him I slowly said;
“You trampled on the dead of mine
And told me they are dead.”
Edgar Guest