The Garden that I Love
Title | The Garden that I Love PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Austin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | Gardens |
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Love in the Garden
Title | Love in the Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Pierre Otte |
Publisher | George Braziller Publishers |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 2000-05-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
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A garden is a peaceful, beautiful sanctuary, but beneath its serene appearance is a seething hive of sex, violence, and treachery--among its flowers and insects, that is. Based on years of voyeuristic observation, Love in the Garden reveals intricate, humorous, and often horrifying intimate details about the frenzied sexual lives of garden flowers and insects. Written with a poetic fancy and with wit, and from a shamelessly anthropomorphic viewpoint, Love in the Garden delights in the ingenuity and variety of the sexual tactics of insects and flowers. The bee orchid, for instance, attracts male bees by duplicating the scent emitted by female bees during mating season. A gullible male arrives and searches excitedly for the non-existent female opening. Then, a second male arrives, mistakes the first male for a female, and, as they wrestle and wiggle furiously, the bee orchid is pollinated. In the realm of insects, sex is often accompanied with violence and in some cases, even cannibalism. Take the notorious female praying mantis: in the midst of the sexual act, she beheads her enraptured male partner, who carries on though headless, while she devours him bite by bite. Love in the Garden does not aim to enrich the scientific knowledge of its reader. Instead, it hopes to involve the reader, through sexuality and all forms of sensation, in the turbulence of life.
Poems of sorrow, death and immortality
Title | Poems of sorrow, death and immortality PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 616 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | Poetry |
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Unveiling the Garden of Love
Title | Unveiling the Garden of Love PDF eBook |
Author | Lalita Sinha |
Publisher | World Wisdom, Inc |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1933316632 |
Epic love poems often share common thematic elements -love in union, love in separation, and love in reunion. This book investigates common threads and shared symbolism between the literary masterpieces The Story of Layla Majnun (written by Nizami in the Islamic Sufi tradition) and Gita Govinda (written by Jayadeva in the Hindu Bhaktic tradition). Book jacket.
The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1912
Title | The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1912 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 616 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | American poetry |
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The Garden of Love, and Royal Flower of Fidelity; a pleasant history ... Seventh edition, with amendments and alterations by S. N.
Title | The Garden of Love, and Royal Flower of Fidelity; a pleasant history ... Seventh edition, with amendments and alterations by S. N. PDF eBook |
Author | John REYNOLDS (Merchant, of Exeter.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 1733 |
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Love Garden
Title | Love Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Piczkó Katalin |
Publisher | Piczkó Katalin |
Pages | 283 |
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Genre | Family & Relationships |
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We all crave the feeling of intimacy and unison. Why then, do we grow apart? Where does love go? How can closeness, love and intimacy be preserved? Our Garden promotes understanding and the preservation of positive feelings.