How lovely is the silence of green, growing things— Orchard blossoms, apple, plum, and pear, Branches laden down by fruit they bear, Fields of everlasting, creeping vine, Mountain-forest, hemlock, balsam, pine, Gentian, asters, sweet-fern on the hill, All praise Him in their beauty—keeping still. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON AN INTAGLIO HEAD OF MINERVA (1) by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH MY LOVE'S GUARDIAN ANGEL by WILLIAM BARNES DANIEL WEBSTER by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES THE REVENGE OF RAIN-IN-THE-FACE by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW |