Eden garden

English Alternative forms en Eden-garden Proper noun The Garden of Eden. en 1920 Edward Carpenter Edward Carpenter Pagan and Christian Creeds 1921 New York Harcourt, Brace and Co. 175 What a strangely apt picture in a few words (if we like to take it so) of the long pilgrimage of the Human Race, its early and pathetic clinging to the tradition of the Eden-garden, its careless and vigorous boyhood, its meditative youth, with consciousness of sin and endless expiatory ritual in Nature's bosom, its fleeting visions of salvation, and finally its complete disillusionment and despair in the world-slaughter and unbelief of the twentieth century! Noun + An idyllic place wherein innocence and perfection reign; any delightful region or abode; a wondrously abundant garden or lush natural habitat. en 1920 Edward Carpenter Edward Carpenter Pagan and Christian Creeds 1921 New York Harcourt, Brace and Co. 175 But the forgetfulness was not entire; the memory lingered long of an age of harmony, of an Eden-garden left behind. en 1986 Dolores Rosenblum Christina Rossetti: The Poetry of Endurance Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 73 The origin of these fruits is an Eden-garden, she thinks. A state or condition of unsullied innocence. en 1849 Hogg's Instructor Edinburgh James Hogg 810 1 Nature, in endowing her little ones - in planting in the heart of each of them an Eden garden, fairer than the terrestrial paradise which Adam lost - reads a great lesson to their guides and teachers.