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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NATURE Matches Found: 5052 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "CONDUCT, FR. THE MAHABHARATA", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Heed how thou livest. Do no act by day Last Line: Another and a happier life for thee Subject(s): Human Behavior;worship; Conduct Of Life;human Nature (KTOS POWIEDZIAL), by MAREK BATEROWICZ Poem Source First Line: Someone said that love Last Line: Of your footprints Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of 20, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep is 20 Subject(s): Nature; Theater & Theaters; Stage Life 9, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: The baby's cough was still in my ears Last Line: The chamber of my .12-gauge %like a little throat, coughing Subject(s): Nature A BALLAD, by ANDRE HENRI CONSTANT VAN HASSELT Poem Text First Line: O restless swallow! Thou whose wings Last Line: "down in their depths he lies asleep!" Subject(s): Nature; Praise A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the woods my master went Last Line: Baltimore, november, 1880. Variant Title(s): The Cross;the Trees And The Master Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Easter; Forests; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Nature; Religion; Trees; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; The Resurrection; Woods; Theology A BIRD IN HAND, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look at this ball of intractable fluff Last Line: Not to be plundered, delight of the air! Variant Title(s): A Bird In The Hand Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Nature A BLESSING, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just off the highway to rochester, minnesota Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Variant Title(s): The Blessing Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Men; Minnesota; Nature; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 12, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair, if you expect admiring Last Line: I'll fly to her again, and sue for pity to renew my hopes distressed. Subject(s): Love – Nature Of A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 28, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reprove not love, though fondly thou hast lost Last Line: Receives her due increase. Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Beauty A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 40. COME AWAY! BRING ON THE BRIDE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What then is love but mourning? Last Line: Come away! Come away, my darling!' Subject(s): Love – Nature Of A BRIGHT DAY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My windows now are giant drops of dew Last Line: And sit beside me here, to wash his face. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Nature A BROKEN MY BRANCH, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Dead branch, you have chosen a flowery place Last Line: Is sad with a single martyrdom. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Nature; Trees A CAKE OF NINETEEN SLICES, by MARY JO BANG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was aware of the alarm Last Line: A real of no real appeal Subject(s): Cakes; Nature; Reality A CALL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk its ash-grey blossoms sheds on violet skies Last Line: Come, my children, with me to the ancient go. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): History; Nature; Historians A CANTICLE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely is daytime when the joyful sun goes singing Last Line: Of glimmering petals down an air from far away. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature A CHILD'S HOME - LONG AGO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The terse old maxim of the poet's Last Line: To roll an answering anthem through the gates. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Home; Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips A CITY VOICE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Outside here in the city the burning pavements lie Last Line: And god's green trees and god's blue skies above me for a space. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Cities; Nature; Urban Life A COMMENT ON THE SCRIPTURE: 'IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD', JOHN, I,1, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning was the word - saith john Last Line: That was in the beginning—is the end. Subject(s): Bible; Human Behavior; Life; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology A COROT IN NATURE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunset sky burns deep and red beyond Last Line: That such dear pathos maketh almost glad? Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Happiness; Nature; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight A COUNTRY PATHWAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come upon it suddenly, alone Last Line: That wanders home to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Country Life; Nature; Roads; Seasons; Fall; Paths; Trails A CREED, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God sends no message by me. I am mute Last Line: Welcomes the poor in spirit—who were least. Subject(s): Christianity; Faith; Humility; Nature; Oaths; Belief; Creed A CRITICAL MOMENT, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How capricious were nature and art to poor nell! Last Line: She was painting her cheeks at the time her nose fell. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cheeks; Nature; Noses; Paintings And Painters A CUT FLOWER, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand on slenderness all fresh and fair Subject(s): Nature A DARK MONTH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A month without sight of the sun Last Line: And the stars all night exult with us, hearing of joy that shall come with june. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Seasons; Sun; Bedtime A DIALOGUE BETWEEN A LOVER AND HIS MISTRESS, by SIDNEY GODOLPHIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, lucinda, since my fate Last Line: Not to know what to say. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of A DIRGE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is done thy long day's work Last Line: Let them rave. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Mortality; Rest; Nature A DREAM, by MINA MERRITT-SAEGER Poem Text First Line: Beneath the singing boughs and sacred stars Last Line: The perfume of love's immortality. Subject(s): Immortality; Love; Love - Nature Of A DREAM, OR THE TYPE OF THE RISING SUN, by JEAN ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loosed from its bonds my spirit fled away Last Line: But I observed it keeped most in awe. Alternate Author Name(s): Adam, Jean Subject(s): Nature A DROP OF DEW, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how the orient dew Last Line: Into the glories of the almighty sun. Variant Title(s): On A Drop Of Dew Subject(s): Christianity; Dew; Nature A FINE DAY ON LOUGH SWILLY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1824-1911) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft slept the beautiful autumn Last Line: And lost its way in the heaven. Subject(s): Nature A FOOL, A FOUL THING, A DISTRESSFUL LUNATIC, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With webs of cool Last Line: In folly's catalogue, distressful lunatic? Subject(s): Nature A FOREST GRAVEYARD, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The birds brood silent in the underbrush Last Line: Be I thy mourner, child, and thou my care! Subject(s): Forests; Graves; Humanity; Mourning; Nature; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement A FRIEND EXPECTED, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the chain of giant peaks Last Line: Through the fragrant, dew-lit ways. Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature A FRIEND'S PLEADING WORDS TO ANOTHER, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before you should lose me Last Line: I may be the eyeball amplifying the drippings of the sap. Variant Title(s): A Friend's Pleading Words To A Second Person Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Nature; Reunions; Dead, The; Burials A GEOLOGICAL NIGHTMARE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lurid volcanoes were guarding the pole Last Line: Where they wait them the dragon and ichthyosaur! Subject(s): Death; Dinosaurs; Fossils; Geology; Nature; Volcanoes; Dead, The A GLEE FOR WINTER, by ALFRED DOMETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence, rude winter! Crabbed Last Line: Make sweet may of winter weather. Subject(s): Nature; Winter A GUIDE TO THE FIELD, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the wild pasture, this mile of strewn grasses Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Pastures; Meadows; Leas A HINT OF SPRING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas but a hint of spring - for Last Line: And sniffed again -- so good I felt! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Spring A HOLIDAY, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My child in the smoke of the fire Last Line: And no farther Subject(s): Nature A HOME IN STRATHSPEY, by ALEXANDER WALLACE Poem Text First Line: Hurrah! For the moors all aglow with the heather Last Line: And the face long familiar has gone from strathspey. Subject(s): Home; Nature; Patriotism A HOOSIER CALENDAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bleak january! Cold as fate Last Line: Recollections. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Weather A HOT DAY IN AGRIGENTO, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Temples look like discarded alphabets. Subject(s): Thirst; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A JUNE DAY, by WILLIAM HOWITT Poem Text First Line: Who has not dreamed a world of bliss Last Line: Than the proud minstrel's echoing strings. Variant Title(s): A Summer Noon Subject(s): June; Nature; Noon A KIND OF MEADOW, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Landscape; Nature A KIND OF MUSIC, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Irrelevance charactizes the behavior of our puppy Subject(s): Dogs; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A KNOWLEDGE, by FLORENCE S. PAGE Poem Text First Line: I do not even love you any more Last Line: Yet I shall not forget you till I die. Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of A LAKE SUNRISE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Sheathed by the everlasting sky Last Line: Whereon an angel lingering may kneel and pray. Subject(s): Angels; Dawn; Lakes; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sunrise; Pools; Ponds A LATE HISTORY, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Black, under the candlesticks, moving in harness Last Line: Do I wake or sleep? It is late tonight as it will ever be Subject(s): History; Poetry & Poets; Books & Reading; Social Commentary; Nature; Eton College; Historians A LENTEN CALL, by HILDA JOHNSON WISE Poem Text First Line: Twas the second of march, in the present year Last Line: To the world, the flesh and the devil. Subject(s): Devil; Human Behavior; Lent; Lust; Religion; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology A LIGHT EXISTS IN SPRING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon a sacrament Subject(s): Nature; Religion A LITTLE HEART TO HEART WITH THE HORIZON, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go figure--it's a knitting performance every day Last Line: Admitted. Go figure Subject(s): Nature A LITTLE SONG OF LIFE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glad that I live am I Last Line: Nearer the sky. Subject(s): Life; Nature A LOVE SONG, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the fierce flames of love I'm in a sad taking Last Line: Wont let a poor man go about his business. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of A LOVE TEST, by CARL HERLOZSSOHN Poem Text First Line: Sweet, do you ask me if you love or no? Last Line: Believe me, darling, that your heart is mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Herlosssohn, Carl Subject(s): Doubt; Love - Nature Of; Romance; Skepticism A LOVE'S LIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Twas springtime of the day and year Last Line: Or for love dead? Subject(s): Love - Nature Of A LYRIC OF THE DAWN, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone I list Subject(s): Transience; Nature; Impermanence A MADRIGAL, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is a day, sweetheart, shining and bright Last Line: Love is a life, sweetheart, ending in death. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Nature Of A MEMORIAL ABSTRACT OF A SERMON PREACHED ON PROVERBS, XX, 27, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The human spirit, when it burns and shines Last Line: And shine for ever in jehovah's sight. Subject(s): Humanity; Life; Nature; Sermons A MEMORY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You remember, dear, together Last Line: In the purple, ample night. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Childhood A MEMORY: BANKS OF CALDER AND COUSIN DORA, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Straying, musing, singing, dreaming Last Line: She has passed away! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Brooks; Cousins; Death; Nature; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The A MID SONG FOR SPRING, by YORK SAMPSON Poem Text First Line: Early come the pasque flowers Last Line: When the winter's long! Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Spring; Winter A MIDSUMMER'S NOON IN THE AUSTRALIAN FOREST, by CHARLES HARPUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not a sound disturbs the air Last Line: Musing thus of quietness. Subject(s): Australia; Forests; Nature; Woods A MOSS-ROSE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the rose of all flowers be the rarest Last Line: The moss was a bonnet of plush. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Roses; Seasons A MOUNTAIN LODGE, by DOROTHY A. KROGMANN Poem Text First Line: Nestling amid the verdant steep Last Line: You know protection's care. Subject(s): Houses; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A NATURALIST'S GRIEVANCE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Flames there are that sink and chill Last Line: Charming every rapt spectator! Subject(s): Beauty; Muses; Nature; Summer A NEW LIFESTYLE, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People in this town drink too much Subject(s): Coffee; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A NEW OLD SONG, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring comes slowly up this way Last Line: The spring comes slowly up this way. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Nature; Singing & Singers; Spring A NEW TEMPERANCE POEM, IN MEMORY OF MY DEPARTED PARENTS, WHO WERE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My parents were sober living, and often did pray Last Line: And the people would have more peace in it to dwell Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drinks & Drinking; Human Behavior; Social Problems; Violence; Wine; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A NIGHT ON THE SAINT LAWRENCE (RIMOUSKI), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: If the world were itself alone, - mere mountains and seas and cities Last Line: Thou brooding, loving artist, whose holiest name is beauty. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Creative Ability; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Rivers; Inspiration; Creativity; Bedtime A NOCTURNAL REVERIE, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In such a night, when every louder wind / is to its distant cavern safe confined Last Line: Or pleasures, seldom reached, again pursued. Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Nature A NYMPHOLEPT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer, and noon, and a splendour of silence, felt Last Line: And nought is all, as am I, but a dream of thee. Subject(s): Light; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Pan (mythology); Sky; Summer A PAEAN TO THE DAWN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dusky sky fades into blue Last Line: I see the sunrise brighten! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dawn; Life; Love; Nature; Soul; Sunrise A PARABLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: With limbs at rest on the earth's green breast Last Line: The liberty they love. Subject(s): Freedom; Human Behavior; Nature; Liberty; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A PARAPHRASE ON THE 13TH ODE OF THE 3RD BOOK OF HORACE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While sol with thee, dear fountain, plays Last Line: While you reign each a naïad of the stream. Subject(s): Fountains; Nature; Praise; Water; Youth A PARAPHRASE ON THE 65TH PSALM, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, jehovah, grateful sion sings Last Line: And the full valleys laugh and sing and shout around. Subject(s): Bible; Earth; God; Nature; Praise; Prayer; World A PASSING HAIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us rest ourselves a bit! Last Line: It farewell a little while. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Grass; Kisses; Nature A PASTORAL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the lane beside the mead Last Line: In mary's breast. Subject(s): Courtship; Nature A PASTORAL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come you, mary, there's a dear! Last Line: Come you, mary! Subject(s): Courtship; Nature A PASTORAL OF TASSO, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy golden age Last Line: Comes once to set, it makes eternal night. Subject(s): Country Life; Grief; Life; Love; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness A PLAQUE FOR FOREST PARK, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The terrapin at times must surely tire Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A POEM FROM THE EDGE OF AMERICA, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are ways of finding things, like stumbling on them Last Line: Although it might by why Subject(s): Nature; Wyoming A POET'S APPEAL FOR THE NATURAL: 1, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: You may hover round the drowsy hearth Last Line: Calk-shod, across the continent. Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets A POET'S APPEAL FOR THE NATURAL: 2. THE TREES, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: And I love the shaggy bark on trees Last Line: "disfigures what you would refine!" Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets; Trees A POET'S APPEAL FOR THE NATURAL: 3. THE MOUNTAINS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: And measure not our mountain peaks Last Line: And trace his signature in stone! Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A POPLAR AND THE MOON, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There stood a poplar, tall and straight Last Line: The stars and lilies I could see. Subject(s): Nature; Soldiers' Writings A POSSET FOR NATURE'S BREAKFAST, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life scums the cream of beauty with time's spoon Last Line: And with this meat doth nature please herself. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Health; Nature; Reason; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking A PRAYER, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: May the strong arms of god be ever round about thee! Last Line: "die not thou for her,—never,—for I can." Subject(s): God; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Prayer; Religion; Theology A PRAYER, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O holy spirit of the hazel, hearken now Last Line: This wild-rose blossom of thy spirit fades away. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): God; Holy Ghost; Mythology - Celtic; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Prayer; Holy Spirit A PRAYER FOR EVERY DAY, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make me too brave to lie or be unkind Last Line: Let me be joy, be hope! Let my life sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology A PRE-ADAMITE ON EVOLUTION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: An aged king of gorillas sat Last Line: Nor dreamed that her kind could be free. Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Nature; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans A PRETTY WOMAN, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We came to the edge Last Line: Looking at her Subject(s): Nature A PRIVATE FALL, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mots of haydust rise and fall Last Line: And we tell no one Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Fall A PSALM OF THE WATERS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! This is a psalm of the waters Last Line: Cries, enter, and share with thy servant! Subject(s): Nature; Sea; Water; Ocean A REJECTED LOVER, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You 'never loved me, ada. These slow words Last Line: "thinking, ""he loved me well!"" clasp hands, and so pass by." Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Love - Nature Of A REMEMBRANCE OF AUTUMN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing stirs the sunny silence Last Line: Flee with them away! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Fall A REMINISCENCE, by OLIVER MARBLE Poem Text First Line: Twas long ago - but I remember Last Line: She left him too, sir — gad, she did! Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Women A REMINISCENCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose to the wind has yielded: all its leaves Last Line: O sorrow, and commune with thine heart: who knows? Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Nature; Roses; Soul A RESCUE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I wrote some words today that will see print Last Line: To all that lovely perishing outdoors Subject(s): Nature A RETURN, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We turned back mad from the mystic Last Line: But joy as an arctic sun went down. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A REVERIE ON HATHERLEY CHURCHYARD, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Nay, mock me not with shifting human smiles Last Line: For thou art righteousness, and love, and christ, and god! Subject(s): Beauty; Churchyards; Earth; Love; Nature; Truth; World A RHAPSODY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a god most surely in the heavens Last Line: Of fair love lost for ever and a day. Subject(s): God; Happiness; Love; Nature; Religion; Joy; Delight; Theology A RING OF CHANGES, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shells, husks, the wandering Subject(s): Casals, Pablo (1876-1973); Dreams; Love; Nature; Music & Musicians; Relationships; Nightmares A ROOM WITH A VIEW, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At last, outside my window an expanse Subject(s): Landscape; Nature A ROUGH SKETCH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I caught, for a second, across the crowd Last Line: And nose like the beak of a bird of prey! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Moon; Nature A RULE OF LIFE, by LUCIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Use up thy store, for thou must die Last Line: Expense and thrift in balance fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucianus Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A SEA-BIRD; OFF PERU, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O to be a sea-bird one celestial day Last Line: In god's azure only sun and sea and I! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Nature - Religious Aspects; South America; Seagulls A SETTLER'S GRAVE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Far on the outflung headland thou dost lie Last Line: And in the boughs above the redbirds nest? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love; Nature; Pioneers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A SINGER WITH EYES OF SAND, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A singer with eyes of sand they said Last Line: In my hands. Subject(s): Nature A SLEEPING BEAUTY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An alien wind that blew and blew Last Line: As he turned to go -- yet, pausing, gazed? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Insects; Nature; Wind; Bugs A SNOW-STORM; SCENE IN A VERMONT WINTER, by CHARLES GAMAGE EASTMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a fearful night in the winter time Last Line: Where she lay when she floundered down. Subject(s): Nature; Snow; Vermont A SONG, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The other world's not for me -- Last Line: But to come back up: bud and leaf. Subject(s): Death; Nature; Dead, The A SONG AT THE WINEPRESSES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the end of the grape Subject(s): Nature; Santa Barbara, California A SONG FOR NOVEMBER (1), by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: A gray old hag, in cloak and hood Last Line: Our own, our own! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Nature; November; Singing & Singers; Songs A SONG O' CHEER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grampa he's a-allus sayin' Last Line: "old -- bob -- white!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Grandparents; Nature; Singing & Singers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers A SONG OF CONTRDICTIONS, by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The passions, in festival meeting Last Line: And light in the desolate soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Blanchard, Laman Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A SONG OF SEASONS, by ELIZABETH ROBERTS MACDONALD Poem Text First Line: Sing a song of spring-time Last Line: That will last for aye! Subject(s): Nature; Seasons A SONG OF THE HILLS, by MAY LACKEY CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: When blue mists of fair aurora Last Line: "youth is mating -- time is stealing." Subject(s): God; Nature; Singing & Singers; Songs A SONG TO PHILLIS, by WILLIAM WALSH (1663-1707) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis, we not grieve that nature Last Line: But in hopes to make him kind. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of A SONNET OF SPOUSAL, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Over the mountain hangs the hush of dawn Last Line: And worship in its holy evening hour! Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Maturity; Nature; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SONNET. PLATONIC LOVE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chaste cynthia bids me love, but hope no more Last Line: My love's immortal then, and mistress too. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of A SORCERER BEFORE MY HOUSE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: We who beheld this sight were two, I swear, pierre lelong and I Last Line: The better view, for nature has no fox so sly. Subject(s): Forests; Magic; Nature; Woods A SOUL THAT OUT OF NATURE'S DEEP, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: As well as where it is Subject(s): Worship; Children; Nature A SOUTH COAST IDYLL, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath these sun-warm'd pines among the heather Last Line: And feel the wind of tresses unbeholden. Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Nature; Nymphs; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore A SPRING DAY, by MARY CROSS Poem Text First Line: Neath the shady forest clusters Last Line: Of mays that once were mine! Subject(s): Nature; Spring A SPRING IDYLL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On my hangings of arras Last Line: Of saffron and ermine I rise. Subject(s): Nature; Spring A SPRING THOUGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the spring I have leaned me full close to the bark of a tree Last Line: In the secrets the bird and the rose and the tree have confessed. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Secrets; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs A STILL DAY IN AUTUMN, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love to wander through the woodlands hoary Last Line: Shows its bright wings and softly glides away. Variant Title(s): October Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Fall A STORM IN SUMMER, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature that day a woman was in weakness Last Line: Burst into tears. Subject(s): Nature; Storms; Wind A STORM IN THE DISTANCE (AMONG THE GEORGIAN HILLS), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see the cloud-born squadrons of the gale Last Line: To meet the healing kisses of the sun. Subject(s): Nature; Storms A STORY OF THE SEA-SHORE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sought the long clear twilights of my home Last Line: For, though he slay me, I will trust in god. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Christianity; Death; Decay; God; Homecoming; Longing; Love; Nature; Sea; Seashore; Story-telling; Waiting; Childhood; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore A STRATAGEM, by MICHAEL ANANIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Geography matters Last Line: And it is purple night Subject(s): Nature A SUDDEN SHOWER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Barefooted boys scud up the street Last Line: A dripping rooster on one leg. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Rain A SUMMER NIGHT, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Silent the vast of night Last Line: And share my brothers' silence. Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Silence; Summer; Bedtime A SUNSET, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond horizon's bar in twilight splendid Last Line: The mood of faith, of courage, and of reverence. Subject(s): Courage; Evening; Faith; Nature; Valor; Bravery; Sunset; Twilight; Belief; Creed A SUNSET AT LES EBOULEMENTS, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Broad shadows fall. On all the mountain side Last Line: And the long line of golden villages. Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight A SUPPLICATION, by EFFIE TRUEX COOK Poem Text First Line: I could not be Last Line: And tree. Subject(s): Nature; Solitude; Togetherness; Loneliness A THOUGHT, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If all the harm that women have done Last Line: To keep a small girl for the tenth of a year. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A TIME PAST, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old wooden steps to the front door Subject(s): Marriage; Family Life; Relationships; Past; Human Behavior; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature A TRAGEDY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: O king darius! Well I knew Last Line: One whom I glorify. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Nature; Spring; Tragedy A TREE, by MARCELLA DARLING MILBURN Poem Text First Line: A lullaby mother at evening Last Line: In a cold, cold clime. Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Trees A TRUE STORY (CONTINUED), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this great city now the haunt Last Line: Where purest love they feel; Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Nature; Rome, Italy A TRUE STORY OF GOD, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Henry thoreau is lost in the maine woods Last Line: Snapping from the flames like gunfire. Subject(s): Cruelty; Forests; Maine (state); Moose; Nature; Order; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Woods A TWILIGHT FANCY, by DORA READ GOODALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit here and the earth is wrapped in snow Last Line: That come to us when winter evenings come. Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight A VALLEY RIDE IN WINTER, by MARY DUNCAN UPHAM Poem Text First Line: The sunshine struck a glory on the day Last Line: Of state, the pageant vanishes,—the day is fled. Subject(s): Day; Nature; Winter A VISION OF SUMMER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a marvelous vision of Last Line: With a tremulous patter of rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Heaven; Nature; Summer; Vision; Paradise A VOTE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lest the misconst'ring world should chance to say Last Line: Or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day. Variant Title(s): A Wish;of Myself Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Gardens & Gardening; Law & Lawyers; Nature; Teaching & Teachers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Attorneys; Educators; Professors A VOYAGE TO TINTERN ABBEY, SELECTION, by SNEYD DAVIES Poem Text First Line: The crooked bank still winds to something new Last Line: Weep o'er its ruins, at its follies laugh. Subject(s): Nature A WALK, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday the only day we don't work Subject(s): Nature A WALK AT SUNSET, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When insect wings are glistening in the beam Last Line: Darkened by boundless groves, and roamed by savage men. Subject(s): Nature; Evening; Transience; Sunset; Twilight; Impermanence A WALL IN THE WOODS: CUMMINGTON, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it for, now that dividing neither Subject(s): Nature A WALTZ THOUGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When a man's prime passion, for years on years Last Line: Subtly shaping his witching waltz! Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Graves; Life; Love; Music & Musicians; Nature; Straw; Nightmares; World; Tombs; Tombstones A WEARY HEART, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye winds, that talk among the pines Last Line: To kiss the humblest flower ye love! Subject(s): Nature; Comfort A WINTER DAYBREAK ABOVE VENCE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Winter; Nature A WINTER SCENE AND REFLECTIONS, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To get at nature's finer nobler grace and power Last Line: Of mind and heart, a lumed light of all eternity. Subject(s): Life; Memory; Nature; Winter A WISH, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May it be mine, ye gods, to tread Last Line: To slumber undisturbed of dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Peace; Wishes; Nightmares A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 2, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, dear one, ask me not to leave thee yet Last Line: Tis all I ask of thee, this little grace. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of A WOODLAND RHYME, by ALEXANDER BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When spring's sweet life is young and fair Last Line: That touches mine. Subject(s): Nature A WORD TO PHILOSOPHERS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Cold philosophers, so apt Last Line: In its mystic involution. Subject(s): Love; Nature; Philosophy & Philosophers; Soul; Vision A WORD WITH THE WIND, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of days and nights that hear thy word of wintry warming Last Line: Far as foam that laughs and leaps along the sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Night; Sea; Wind; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean A WORLD FOR LOVE, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the world is all too rude for thee, with much ado and care Last Line: Herself grow eden once again, possest of love and thee. Subject(s): Earth; Love; Nature; World A YEAR'S CHANGES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This nadir: the wet hole Last Line: Or return to draw me back to a home. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Nature; Winter; Dead, The A.M.: THE HOPEFUL MONSTER, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So dawn. A morcellation of the dark, the one Last Line: What from the gut %the nerve emerges-- %step by step and sweat by sweat Subject(s): Nature ABBA JACOB AND ST. FRANCIS, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abba jacob with his invention Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Nature ABBA JACOB AND ST. FRANCIS, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abba jacob with his invention Last Line: Well, at least I don't call them %brother %and then kill them. %but I do %ask god's pardon Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Nature ABOUT THE FAIRIES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Pray, where are the little bluebells gone Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons ABOVE THE OXBOW, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this valley of discreet academies Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Nature ABOVE THE OXBOW, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this valley of discreet academies Last Line: And never saw how coolly we might move. For once %a high hush quieteens the crickets' cry Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Nature ABOVE THE RED DEEP-WATER CLAYS, by JAMES MCMICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Capacity is both how Subject(s): Nature ABOVE THE RIO GRANDE, PILAR, NEW MEXICO, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Fallen on the edge of a dirt road Last Line: Is rock and water %wind and dust Subject(s): Earth; Nature ABOVE THE RIO GRANDE, WHITE ROCK, NEW MEXICO, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Faint river sounds Last Line: Shines like a beacon %in the afternoon light Subject(s): Earth; Nature ABOVE THE SNOW, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Above the snow the milky way Last Line: To burn beyond recognition %beyond self Subject(s): Earth; Nature ABOVE THE TREE LINE, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: High above slopes %where no tree grows Last Line: And life belongs %to the strong Subject(s): Nature ACCOUNTABILITY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Folks ain't got no right to censuah othah folks about dey habits Last Line: Viney, go put on de kittle, I got one o' mastah's chickens. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ACID RAIN, by ED ZAHNISER Poem Source First Line: Upriver, handymen sell their houses back to strout realty Last Line: It's the tenth portion that anchors your barn Subject(s): Acid Rain; Environment; Nature ACROSS THE FIELDS TO ANNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often in the summer-tide Last Line: Across the fields to anne! Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Pan (mythology); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Summer; Songs ACROSS THE RIVER, TO THE EAST, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: A young roebuck darts across a clearing. The ancient shot Last Line: Is no other way, let it fall-that last foundation of the citadel Subject(s): Nature; Survival ACROSS THE ROAD, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: A donkey wobbles ears, shakes tail Last Line: At the fenced-in field %with apples in her hands Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature ACT OF GOD, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: All morning the heavens Last Line: As if they'd just been born Subject(s): Nature ACTAEON, by JOHN ERSKINE Poem Text First Line: Fair bloomed the happy world, fair bloomed the may Last Line: And when he passed, the quiet gloom returned. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature ACTRESSES I'VE KNOWN GROW YOUNGER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Wounds, I won three olympic gold medals Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Olympic Games; Veterans; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ACTS OF ENCLOSURE, by CAROLYN KOO Poem Source First Line: To please his eye, to conceal from a lordling the sight Last Line: The furze. Carp bump in a stew-pond dug by monks Subject(s): Nature AD ASTRA: 132, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Grant this mute sense stirs in the brute creation Last Line: It differentiates the brute from man! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Mankind; Nature - Religious Aspects; Human Race AD ASTRA: 137, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Before our minds may mirror the divine Last Line: And in her solitudes find calmer faith. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Mortality; Nature AD ASTRA: 145, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O god,-if in the spiritual mood Last Line: That all our nature yearneth for defeat? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Nature; Spirituality AD ASTRA: 153, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: But when the body with dread pain is bow'd Last Line: To discipline his will to god's command! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Nature - Religious Aspects AD ASTRA: 16, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Nature is like a woman greatly loved Last Line: No answering love-light to our own replies! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Nature Of; Women AD ASTRA: 19, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Love, at the highest, asks for no reward Last Line: He swings his burning thurible of spice. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Sacrifices AD ASTRA: 23, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Nature! Thy grandeur awes the ignoblest mind Last Line: The bright perceptions which first dwelt in her! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Male-female Relations AD ASTRA: 25, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And nowhere shines her presence so supreme Last Line: She fills with radiance earth and sea and sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Nature AD ASTRA: 26, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Nature and love are sisters that allied Last Line: When the great sun dies out upon the deep. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love - Nature Of AD ASTRA: 27, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: For what is nature with no comrade by Last Line: The worship of twin souls at nature's shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of AD ASTRA: 28, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O nature, lovely charmer, gentle bride! Last Line: Until in dreamy tracts of blue they die. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Nature AD ASTRA: 3, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O gentle love! Sooth whisperer to mankind Last Line: Cradling the great deeps of eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Future Life; Love - Nature Of; Nature; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AD ASTRA: 35, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O nature, tho' thy beauty never wanes Last Line: And all the stings of doubt at last remove. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations AD ASTRA: 38, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O ladye mine, I seek thee thro' the world Last Line: The lark soars, choiring in the uncharted blue. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love - Nature Of AD ASTRA: 70, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Mid nature's solitudes we needs must feel Last Line: Burdens more sad than human hearts may hold. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Relationships AD ASTRA: 8, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Can nature still the craving of the soul? Last Line: That stirs the spirit and unto healing moves. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love - Nature Of AD FRATREM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot let this perfect morning pass Last Line: Her garden slopes, and fruitful orchard vales. Subject(s): Grief; Morning; Nature; Oaths; Sea; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean ADDRESS TO NATURE ON ITS CRUELTY, by ELLEN+(2) JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: O nature, thou to me was cruel Last Line: Another genius of their gift Subject(s): Nature ADDRESSED TO A LADY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love my garden, though I dare confess Last Line: Nor how, nor whence, they come care I to seek. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Botany & Botanists; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Women ADIRONDACK RETURN, by JEAN NORDHAUS Poem Source First Line: The faces on the porches Last Line: Like witnesses across the mountains, %puckering the lake with bitter warnings Subject(s): Nature ADVANCES, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seventy wingbeats Subject(s): Weather; Time; Nature; Mind, The ADVENT, by NAOMI RACHEL Poem Source First Line: They call for the rain Last Line: Of drought, and of water. %the patience of sacrifice Subject(s): Nature ADVICE, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, it is true that the landscape changed a little Last Line: So I beg you, no more of those lamentations Subject(s): Nature ADVICE TO MY BEST BROTHER, COLONEL FRANCIS LOVELACE, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frank, wilt live handsomely? Trust not too far Last Line: A cloudy tempest, and a too fair day. Subject(s): Advice; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ADVICE TO TRAVELERS, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: All this life you were cold Last Line: You will grow light enough %to vanish Subject(s): Central America; Nature ADVICE TO TRAVELERS II, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: When you wake, leave furtively Last Line: Be suspicious of the songs of sparrows %for there are no sparrows Subject(s): Central America; Nature ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES, by ANN PLATO Poem Text First Line: Day after day I sit and write Last Line: Be ever our desires. Subject(s): Advice; African Americans - Women; Human Behavior; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology ADVISING MYSELF, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the world comes to you muffled as through a glass Last Line: Burning with joy or despair, you've known she was right Subject(s): Advice; Youth; Love – Nature Of AERIAL ROCK - WHOSE SOLITARY BROW, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of golden sunset, ere it fade and die Subject(s): Nature AESTHETICS AND NECESSITY: 1. SACRAMENT, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: The sky's gentle dusking %each evening; the familiar Last Line: Give me your hand, I say, %and already you have Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) AESTHETICS AND NECESSITY: 2. SURREALISM, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: In darkness, the plains extend %unseen, forever Last Line: Cities burning, the horizon consumed %in spectacular, terminal combustion Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) AESTHETICS AND NECESSITY: 3. GLEN CANYON, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: The fire, a freight train %of sound, would have leaped Last Line: These clear perceptions %giving us ourselves? Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) AESTHETICS AND NECESSITY: 4. WATERSHED, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Late afternoon light %dresses the grasses Last Line: Is enough, touches me %here, yes, here Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) AFFECTEST THOU THE PLEASURES OF THE SHADE?, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In virgin dews of budding, balmy may! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Nature AFFINITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You and I have found the secret way Last Line: Is a living music in us yet. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Time; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AFRICA, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sat where the level sands Last Line: Rigid and black, as carved in stone. Subject(s): Africa; Nature; Singing & Singers; Songs AFRICAN DANCER, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: Your beauty is deep and comforting Last Line: Like the sand in your quicksand beds Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Nature Of; Negritude (literary Movement) AFTER A JUNE NIGHT'S STORM, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: O what a day of lovely light Last Line: By a draught of her gladdening wine. Subject(s): Nature; Storms; Wind AFTER A MONTH OF RAIN, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything I thought I wanted Subject(s): Nature AFTER A SOUTHERN VISIT, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: My aunt is epiphyte. She needs a tree Last Line: When life dries up she waits a coming of the rains Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature AFTER ALL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After all the hard noise Last Line: We tremble together in white Subject(s): Nature AFTER CAREFULLY LISTING MY 10,000 ILLUSIONS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In the depths was lost int he shallows Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imagination; Nature; Self-consciousness AFTER EULOGIES, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Tired of praising the dead Last Line: Of dark pines %beside the water Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature AFTER FIFTY YEARS OR TRACKING CLOUDS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How odd to see the mist so clearly Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Introspection; Nature AFTER HAYDN, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speeding around in a little car Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature AFTER I CAME BACK FROM ICELAND, by SHEENAGH PUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That we'd all settle for second best %once we'd forgotten there was something more Subject(s): Nature AFTER I CAME BACK FROM ICELAND, by SHEENAGH PUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Once we'd forgotten there was something more Subject(s): Nature AFTER IKKYU: 15, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Way up a sandy draw in the foothills Last Line: In the vast, heat-blurred landscape. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature AFTER PUMPING, by JOHN KINSELLA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In summer when the day Last Line: Always away from %the green incursion Subject(s): Nature; Summer; Water AFTER ROWING MY BLUE AND BROWN BOAT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The two loons close by, the theory of red wine Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Introspection; Nature; Rowing; Self AFTER SAPPHO'S PHAINETAI MOI, by CATHERINE A. SALMONS Poem Source First Line: Sweeter to me than any god Last Line: Friend without whom, nothing Subject(s): Friendship; Nature AFTER SIVIRIEZ, by FREDERIC WANDELERE Poem Source First Line: The train flies past but I see you Last Line: Always the same, in the same place Subject(s): Nature AFTER THE GENTLE POET KOBAYASHI ISSA, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In the saucepan Subject(s): Nature; Youth; Aging AFTER THE PARTY, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The guest, still drunk, sprawls in my bed Last Line: And the new wine is heated to start our day Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature AFTER THE RAIN, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain has ceased, and in my room Last Line: With purple ripples on her neck. Subject(s): Nature; Rain AFTER THE RAIN, by EDWARD SAPIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The elves peep through the ferny copse Last Line: And under the rainbow arch is gone. Subject(s): Nature; Rain; Water AFTER THE STORM, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ere the sparkling raindrops Last Line: Which cannot be undone. Subject(s): Nature; Storms; Trees AFTER THE WAR: 1. DROWNING, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: I loved you in ways you Last Line: I wish I had let you kill me Subject(s): Central America; Nature AFTER THE WAR: 2. THE LATE SHOW, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Memory crawls from every muscle in my body Last Line: On the plane coming home Subject(s): Central America; Nature AFTER THE WAR: 3. THE POLITICS OF COMPASSION, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: My youth and your hard destiny Last Line: Medicine taken again and again Subject(s): Central America; Nature AFTER THE WAR: 4. FUNERAL RITES, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: My fingers are like sticks and I don't mind Last Line: That year I was with you, that year I burned Subject(s): Central America; Nature AFTER THE WINTER, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some day, when trees have shed their leaves Last Line: And ferns that never fade. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Nature AFTER TRAVELING IN KYOTO, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Through the barrier gate Last Line: And the calm house rocks like a boat Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature AGAIN THE APPLES RIPEN LIKE HILLS, by REG SANER Poem Source First Line: ... And our october fields dwindle off Last Line: For hiking there still, for gathering everything %parting with nothing Subject(s): Environment; Nature AGAINST DRESS, TO A LADY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why will neaera fondly deck Last Line: Untaught and artless charm the vale. Subject(s): Beauty; Clothing & Dress; Nature; Vanity AGNOSTIC TO MYSTIC, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why does it matter to you whether heaven or god Last Line: Sometimes, oh, sometimes it seems—! Subject(s): Cold; Earth; Mysticism; Nature; Weather; World AIR CASTLES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I'd build an air castle for thee, love, and me Last Line: This world would but usher love's eternity. Subject(s): Castles; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Passion AIRSTRIP, by KERSTIN THOREK Poem Source First Line: On a clear newly-scoured fall evening I tend to Last Line: Where the still-healed nature constantly broods Subject(s): Nature; Relationships AL FRESCO, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dandelions and buttercups Last Line: Their dwelling here for memory's sake. Subject(s): Nature ALAS, KIND ELEMENT!, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then I was sealed, and like the wintering tree Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Nature ALCHEMY, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Stars die in the milky way Last Line: Atmosphere %whose body? Subject(s): Earth; Nature ALDERS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Growing in moist earth Last Line: Like a body being swept %by dreams Subject(s): Leaves; Nature; Trees ALHAMBRA SONGS: 1. THE DREAM OF ALAHMAR, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: - 'rouse thee, alahmar!' cried the angel's voice Last Line: "who prayed,—who toiled,—who conquered,—and is old!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Nature; Spain ALL BENEATH THE SUN HASTETH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: All hopeful, day is nearing Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Nature; Hope ALL FLESH, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not need the skies' Last Line: Inestimably naught! Subject(s): God; Nature ALL I WANT TO BE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Seeding the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Blackbirds; Nature ALL MY LIFE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Running the locomotive Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Nature; Self ALL ROADS LEADING ME TO, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: To night and its %faith in the time %of healing Subject(s): Forests; France; Healing; Nature; Paintings And Painters ALL SOULS DAY, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: The click of balls on the pool table Last Line: With a pattern of blue doves Subject(s): Nature ALL THOSE SPIN BUTCHERS DROOLING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Bullet for television Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Life; Nature ALL THOSE YEARS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nickel-and-dime Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Nature; Time ALL WE KNOW OF BLESSINGS, by LISA BARNETT Poem Source First Line: An hour ago, sleet Last Line: Are all we know of blessings, %all we need Subject(s): Blessings; Nature ALLEGHENY MOON, by ROSALIE SANARA PETROUSKE Poem Source First Line: On the wall my mother's antique clock Last Line: Mouth filled with red blossoms, hooves brushing %the ground above her Subject(s): Love; Nature ALLEGORY OF THE BEES, by PAUL LAKE Poem Source First Line: Affectless drones, observing the wild dance Last Line: While honey-drudgers leave in steady lines %tracking the legend to tis honeyed source Subject(s): Bees; Honeycombs; Insects; Nature ALMA: OR, THE PROGRESS OF THE MIND: CANTO 1, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Matthew met richard, when or where Last Line: Not to be thought expert in both. Subject(s): Aristotle (384-322 B.c.); Grief; Love; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness ALONE IN THE CAR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Some good news Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Hope; Nature ALONE IN THE WOODS, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone in the woods I felt Last Line: More and more %in the wrong direction Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Trees ALONE WITH THE ISRAELITES, by RYAN OBA Poem Source First Line: I have taken to watching my plants turn toward the sun Last Line: Who would hold heaven in the hollow of his hand? Subject(s): Israel; Nature ALPINE SONNETS 2: THE SNOW-FIELD, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White death had laid his pall upon the plain Last Line: To cheer my pilgrim-heart no more alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ALPINE SONNETS 3: MOVING BELLS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the hour that comes, with dusky hair Last Line: That wander far among the sleeping hills. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Alps; Bells; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ALREADY THERE, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: In my dream, a branch Last Line: As if they were not %already there Subject(s): Earth; Nature ALTER EGO, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: At times, I wish I had been able %to stay on in the home place Last Line: On winter nights, my outside light %would perforate the dark Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Nature; Summer AMANTES, AMENTES, by HENRY HARRISON Poem Text First Line: Lovers, lunatics. There must be truth Last Line: A thing I realize I ought not to! Subject(s): Fools; Love - Nature Of; Youth; Idiots AMBER LANDS, by TOM MACINNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a luminous valley once I awoke Last Line: Away and away in the amber lands! Subject(s): Nature; Valleys AMERICA, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: And this was once the realm of nature, where Last Line: And charm the ear with numbers half divine. Subject(s): Change; Freedom; Nature; United States; Liberty; America AMERICAN CHINESE, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: Lacking traditional robes Last Line: At ninety miles per hour Subject(s): Nature AMERICAN DIPPER, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Office politics %and the pettiness of each day Last Line: Who dives into the cold %factual current, eyes open Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) AMICO SUO, by HERBERT P. HORNE Poem Text First Line: When on my country walks I go Last Line: The weeds, the grass, the common wort. Subject(s): Nature AMIDST A THOUSAND CLOUDS AND TEN THOUSAND STREAMS, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Here it's as tranquil as autumn river water Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Nature; Zen Buddhism AMONG MY FRIENDS LOVE IS A GREAT SORROW, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That one might have for an honest living Subject(s): Love – Nature Of AMONG THE LAKES, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Perhaps the roman, when he ruled this land Last Line: Ullswater, derwentwater, windermere. Subject(s): England; Lakes; Nature; English; Pools; Ponds AMOR TRIUMPHANS: 1. ENVOI, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All that remains for me Last Line: For ever, for your sake. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of AMOR TRIUMPHANS: 2. WHY?, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is it, since I know you now Last Line: Knowing you, I believe you now? Subject(s): Love - Nature Of AMORES [THE LOVES]: BOOK 1, ELEGY 9. EVERY LOVER IS A SOLDIER, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All lovers are campaigners, and cupid has his wars Last Line: Love is the soul of action, the soul of enterprise Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Love - Nature Of AMORETTI: 22, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This holy season, fit to fast and pray Last Line: Amongst thy deerest relicks to be kept. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): "this Holy Season Fit To Fast And Pray,""; Subject(s): Love – Nature Of AMORINO, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Was it a mere caprice of mateless passion? Last Line: His little share of immortality. Subject(s): Love – Nature Of AMORIS VICTIMA: 2, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All that I know of love I learnt of you Last Line: You gathered from the very hands of love. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of AMY'S CRUELTY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair amy of the terraced house! Last Line: Till doted on for ever!' Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Love - Nature Of; Kindness; Unkindness; Male-female Relations AN ANSWER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You call me cold: you wonder why Last Line: The touch of ice and fire is one. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Blindness; Love; Nature; Stoicism; Visually Handicapped AN ANTHEM IN HEAT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Now praise the lord, both moon and sun Last Line: And bids us live at evenfall. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life; Evening; God; Nature; Praise; Summer; Wind; Sunset; Twilight AN APPARATUS, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: From where I sit, I can see other Subject(s): Nature AN AUTUMN VISION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it midsummer here in the heavens that Last Line: The limitless lightnings of vision and passion, the measureless music of love. Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Storms; Vision; Fall AN AUTUMNAL TONIC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mystery is it? The morning Last Line: With the hale harvest-hands of the past. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Indian Summer; Nature; Seasons; Fall AN ELEGY ON AN INFANT, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, shepherds, on this grave your flourets Last Line: In safety listens to the distant shrieks. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Innocence; Lament; Mourning; Nature; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement AN ENIGMA, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chloe, I boast celestial date Last Line: What thousands I deny. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World AN EPISTLE TO DR. GUIBBONS, A CELEBRATED PHYSICIAN, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To trace all-wondrous nature's latent ways Last Line: Should be himself detain'd amidst us too. Subject(s): Death; Healing; Letters; Nature; Physicians; Praise; Dead, The; Cures; Doctors AN ESSAY ON MAN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, my st. John! Leave all meaner things Last Line: And all our knowledge is, ourselves to know. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Mankind; Nature; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Human Race AN EVENING SCENE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here all is joy and all is light Last Line: Knows the whole secret and is blest. Subject(s): Creation; Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight AN EVENING WALK IN BENGAL, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our task is done! On gunga's breast Last Line: His peace on earth, -- his hope of heaven! Subject(s): Jungles; Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips AN HOUR OF IDLENESS; IN THE SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS, by MARION CUMMINGS Poem Text First Line: To lie here prone, wholly at rest Last Line: (I know the lore of fairies) on fern seed. Subject(s): Nature; Santa Cruz Mountains, California AN HOUR OF ROMANCE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were thick leaves above me and around Last Line: My heart so leaped to that sweet laughter's tone. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Nature; Women AN IDEAL TRIO, by LI PO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An arbor of flowers Last Line: Away in the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Friendship; Nature; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse AN IMITATION (TO M.M.), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my sylvia, let us rove Last Line: Sporting o'er the velvet green. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Dramatists; Fairies; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Elves; Male-female Relations; Dramatists AN INDIAN SONG, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wanderer in the southern weather Last Line: A vapory footfall on the ocean's sleepy blaze. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Nature AN INVOCATION TO A WATER-NYMPH, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair pearl crown'd nymph, whose gushing Last Line: That o'er thy cavern waves his solemn shade. Subject(s): Nature; Nymphs; Praise AN ODE UPON A QUESTION WHETHER LOVE SHOULD CONTINUE FOREVER, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Having interr'd her infant-birth Last Line: Their ravish'd spirits did possess. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Variant Title(s): Ode Upon Question Moved: Whether Love Should Continue Ever Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth AN ODE WRITTEN ON A GROTTO NEAR FARNHAM IN SURRY, CALL'D LUDLOW'S CAVE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close in this deep retreat Last Line: "change it for a darker grave." Subject(s): Death; Nature; Nymphs; Rest; Virtue; Dead, The AN OLD HOUSE UNROOFED BY AN AUTUMN GALE, by TU FU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roof of my house has been blown away Last Line: Could such great blessing to the world be sent Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Aging; Nature AN OLD MAN'S MEMORY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The delights of our childhood is Last Line: And the joy of the swet of his brow! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Past; Spring; Youth AN OLD ROAD, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A host of poppies, a flight of swallows Subject(s): Nature AN OLD STORY, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like an old story's need for detail Subject(s): Love - Nature Of AN OLD TREMBLING, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often one wonders what the snake does all day in its pit Subject(s): Nature; Snakes AN ORCHID, by ROUTLEDGE CURRY Poem Text First Line: The old mahogany fireplace Last Line: To a point. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Orchids; Spring ANACTORIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life is bitter with thy love; thine eyes Last Line: Thick darkness and the insuperable sea. Subject(s): Beauty; Kisses; Life; Love - Nature Of ANALYZE LOVE, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: Analyze passion; it resolves to this Last Line: And still once more return to earthly pain. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of ANAMNESIS AND NOSTALGIA; TO LIONEL JOHNSON, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The traveller in a burning clime Last Line: And something of a mortal pang. Subject(s): Country Life; England; Johnson, Lionel (1867-1902); Longing; Nature; Nostalgia; English ANATOMICAL SONG, by KERSTIN THOREK Poem Source First Line: I can't be had in furnished rooms Last Line: Even though our tongues are on the edge of convulsion Subject(s): Humanity; Language; Nature ANCESTOR OF THE HUNTING HEART; AFTER BREUGEL, by JOHN HAINES Poet Analysis First Line: There is a distance in the heart Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation ANCESTOR OF THE HUNTING HEART; AFTER BREUGEL, by JOHN HAINES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a distance in the heart Last Line: The rest are camped indoors, %their damped fires smoking %inthe early dusk Subject(s): Environment; Nature ANCESTORS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: These mountains are my parents Last Line: To the sky, offering %all they have Subject(s): Earth; Nature AND IN THE CENTER RING ..., by BURTON RAFFEL Poem Source First Line: Flowers, once they've done their turn Last Line: Bursting, fill both earth and air Subject(s): Flowers; Nature AND KNEELING AT THE EDGE OF THE TRANSPARENT SEA I SHALL SHAPE FOR ..., by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wife is in the grip of being Last Line: Not a bird not a breath in sight Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Marriage; Sea; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean AND MAUN I STILL ON MENIE DOAT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again rejoicing nature sees Last Line: When nature all is sad like me! Subject(s): Nature; Spring AND WHEN SUMMER COMES TO AN END, by NINA CASSIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: What's the good of living %with the idea of spring %- dangerous as any utopia? Subject(s): Nature ANGELIC LOVE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angelic love that stoops with heavenly lips Last Line: O thou of mortal visions most divine! Subject(s): Angels; Love - Nature Of ANGER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anger which breaks a man into children Subject(s): Human Behavior; Psychoanalysis; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Psychoanalysts; Psychotherapy ANIMA URBIS, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, city, by two rivers made an isle Last Line: Since I have so loved you -- do you love me? Subject(s): Cities; Life; Love; Nature; Soul; Urban Life ANIMAL CAUTION, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I touch the cairn Subject(s): Human Behavior; Children; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Childhood ANIMAL'S CHRISTMAS, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: Thet are always living %in christmas Last Line: From their nostrils %they breathe good news Subject(s): Nature ANNUALS, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trees hold against Subject(s): Nature ANNUALS, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trees hold against Last Line: This empire's time %running out, color %the correct landscape %to show what's left you Subject(s): Nature ANOTHER LITTLE GOD, by PATTIANN ROGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You don't know how important Last Line: Lie still and remember Subject(s): Nature ANOTHER PLACE, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You come to a place in winter woods Last Line: Slowly it begins to change you into %something better than yourself Subject(s): Nature ANOTHER SPRING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Over the breadboard Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Nature; Spring ANOTHER SPRING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seasons revolve and the years change Subject(s): Nature; Spring ANOTHER SPRING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seasons revolve and the years change Last Line: Slide unconsciously by us like water Subject(s): Nature; Spring ANOTHER TWILIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far out across the great valley Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight ANOTHER TWILIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far out across the great valley Last Line: Peek out from the manzanita Subject(s): Evening; Nature ANSWER, by SARA HAMILTON BIRCHALL Poem Source First Line: Lavender for old loves Subject(s): Nature ANSWER, by JANE O. WAYNE Poem Source First Line: A certain piano phrase Last Line: The blur of watercolors, blues, pinks - and you, %yes - especially you Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Nature ANSWER TO 'SONG' BY M. W. M., by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wert thou by all affections sought Last Line: I love thee, 'cause thou canst deny. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of ANSWER TO A TIMID LOVER, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These shall be my songs to you Last Line: Lest you be stricken down with fear! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Fear; Nature ANSWER TO CLOE JEALOUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, fairest proof of beauty's power Last Line: Who, dying thus, persists to love thee. Subject(s): Beauty; Jealousy; Nature; Tears; Youth ANSWER TO SUCKLING'S SONG ( OUT UPON IT ), by TOBY MATTHEWS Poem Source First Line: Say, but did you love so long? Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Suckling, John (1609-1642) ANT AN ENGINEER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The pastry was delicious, and I wanted it myseld Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons ANT WORLD: THE LEAF-CUTTERS, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Cross-sectioned and cubed Last Line: Leaf bit by leaf bit Subject(s): Ants; Farm Life; Fields; Gardens And Gardening; Insects; Leaves; Nature; Trees ANTARCTICA, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: On this continent time is a whiteout Last Line: And then the disconnect Subject(s): Earth; Nature ANTICHROMATIC, by PAMELA ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A few people had gone out to see if the trees Last Line: It's reasonable, they had the most to lose. Then %we didn't know what to do Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam Subject(s): Nature ANTICIPATION, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: Pine tree: / sun still Last Line: Fulfill! Subject(s): Nature; Pine Trees; Trees ANTIPHONAL HYMN IN PRAISE OF INANNA, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: No one has sung 'let the world know!' Last Line: O my lady, wife of an, I have told you fury! Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion ANTLER, by DAVID SPICER Poem Source First Line: It can be anything your eyes carve Last Line: Even the wind stepping aside Subject(s): Nature ANTS AT NIGHT, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: All day they vanished %down the dark funnel Last Line: Which they carry back %to nourish the community Subject(s): Earth; Nature ANXIETY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little bird sat on the edge of her nest Subject(s): Nature; Spring ANY MINOR WORLD, by PAULA MCLAIN Poem Source First Line: The mud-dauber's nest is ugly and efficient Last Line: The window's edge with web, I'm almost still %and still there Subject(s): Earth; Nature ANY TIME, O LORD, by JOSEPHINE VAN DOLZEN PEASE Poem Text First Line: The sky is sweet Last Line: Untitled Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects ANY WIFE, by ALBERTINE H. MILLER Poem Text First Line: It is the small familiar things that hurt Last Line: So faulty and so human, but so dear. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature APACHE PLUME; 1. THE BEGINNING WEB, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blue flax blossoming near the greenhouse Last Line: Hear free-tailed bats swirling out into the dark. Subject(s): Nature APACHE PLUME; 4. THE ARCHITECTURE OF SILENCE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gate was unlocked. We drove to the road's end; grapefruit lay Last Line: Stop dropping Subject(s): Nature; Rain APACHE PLUME; 7. APACHE PLUME, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing out of an arroyo, I reach my hand Last Line: I know this instant moment which is ours. Subject(s): Desire; Nature APACHE PLUME; 8. ANAMNESIS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind erases our footprints on a transverse dune Last Line: One by one they flare off into indigo air. Subject(s): Desire; Knowledge; Nature APATHY, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waking, you sag. Fatigue is different: the body, like steps Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature APHRODITE OF THE FLOWERS AT KNOSSOS COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN'S MOUNTAIN, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Leave crete and come to this holy temple Last Line: And mingle our celebration wit sud- %den joy Variant Title(s): To Aphrodite Of The Flowers, At Knosso Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Nature APPEAL TO THE MOONGOD NANNA-SUEN TO THROW OUT LUGALANNE ..., by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: O suen, the usurper lugalanne means nothing to me! Last Line: Inanna! %let me call to her! Ace is dust Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion APPLE BLOSSOM TIME, by JESSIE H. WIXOM Poem Text First Line: Apple blossoms softly falling Last Line: Yellow water lilies lie. Subject(s): Nature; Summer APPLE BLOSSOMS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The orchard trees are white Subject(s): Apple Trees; Nature; Spring; Trees APPRECIATION, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth was not earth before her sons appeared Last Line: That change in thee, if not thyself, I claim. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World APPROACH, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let what declines find a level of its own Last Line: Theories of season, its rising %and falling, the guards at last coming around Subject(s): Nature APPROACHING AUGUST, by SANDRA ALCOSSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night takes on its own elegance Last Line: And then the moon Subject(s): Nature APPROACHING AUGUST, by SANDRA ALCOSSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night takes on its own elegance Last Line: And then the moon Subject(s): Nature APPROACHING NIGHT, by A. W. RANSOM Poem Text First Line: The fervid heat is ebbing toward the finish of the day Last Line: While blissful hope assures us the coming of the dawn. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Bedtime APPROXIMATELY FOREVER, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But she wasn't holding that snake Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Change; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships APRIL, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The charm is working, now Subject(s): Nature APRIL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An altered look about the hills Last Line: Receives its annual reply. Variant Title(s): Poem: 140;poem: 90 Subject(s): April; Nature APRIL, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: Even when all my body sleeps Last Line: My dust will dream of you! Subject(s): April; Graves; Love - Nature Of; Tombs; Tombstones APRIL, by SAMUEL LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Again has come the springtime Subject(s): Nature APRIL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A black north wind that chills Last Line: When I was young! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): April; Country Life; Memory; Nature; Spring; Youth APRIL IN THE HILLS, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today the world is wide and fair Last Line: Till earth and I are one. Subject(s): April; Earth; Nature; Spring; World APRIL MORNING, by GEORGE ELLISTON Poem Text First Line: I would spend a morning Last Line: But how shall I begin? Subject(s): April; Nature APRIL MUSIC, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lyric sound of laughter Subject(s): April; Nature APRIL SHOWER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Patter, patter, let it pour Subject(s): Nature; Spring APRIL'S COMING, by LANCASTER POLLARD Poem Source First Line: April comes with sudden showers Subject(s): April; Nature APRIL, FR. JOY O' LIFE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Something tapped at my window-pane Last Line: And here was april come back again. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): April; Nature ARBOR DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: On arbor day / we think of birds and greening trees Last Line: On arbor day. Subject(s): Arbor Day; May (month); Nature; Trees ARBUTUS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It trailed on a sheltered hillside Subject(s): Nature; Spring ARCHAEOLOGY OF LOVE, by RICHARD MURPHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You have netted this dawn Last Line: To a grove of suns Subject(s): Love - Nature Of ARCHEOLOGIES, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder about all the thoughts Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ARCHES, by STEPHEN LEFEBURE Poem Source First Line: When you come here, if you can Last Line: Gestures you can never part from Subject(s): Nature; Stones ARCHITYPAL LIGHT, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Almost silent, the canoe %slips %into bayou Last Line: My hair, my face, %as I face forward Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) ARCTURUS IS HIS OTHER NAME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "over the stile of ""pearl." Subject(s): Nature; Names AREITO, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is my mitote, Subject(s): Language; Relationships; Nature; Words; Vocabulary ARMOR, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot hurt me any more Last Line: Oh, god, I love the old way best! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love - Nature Of ARNO'S VALE, SELECTION, by CHARLES SACKVILLE (1711-1769) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When here, lucinda, first we came Last Line: "adieu the sweets of arno's vale." Alternate Author Name(s): Dorset, 2d Duke Of Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Nature ARRANGEMENTS, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like a manuever that doesn't start in silence Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I started on a lonely road Last Line: Till I am lost amid the crowd. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Life; Nature; Roads; Youth; Paths; Trails ART IS PARALLEL TO NATURE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cezanne saw the parallel so well and Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Nature; Paintings & Painters; Roads; Tourists; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips ART IS PARALLEL TO NATURE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cezanne saw the parallel so well and Last Line: Waiting for reinvigoration Subject(s): Art And Artists; Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Nature; Paintings And Painters; Roads; Tourists; Travel ARTICHOKE, by JODY GLADDING Poem Source First Line: Summer's yield %will be apparent, offered Last Line: And eat each chamber whole Subject(s): Nature ARTIFICE DISOWNED BY LOVE, by JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot think love thrives by artifice Last Line: Doth show its wish at once, and means no more! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of ARTIST IN A NEW SEASON, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Black stoneware plate. Orange segments Last Line: Your mouth that takes my tongue Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature AS A BOY WHEN DESPERATE I'D PRAY WITH BARE KNEES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But from the window I look like an old man Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Boys; Men; Nature; Old Age; Prayer; Youth AS A CHILD I LOVED TO SQUARE-DANCE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: After it touched a new girl's hand Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Children; Courtship; Nature; Youth AS ELSEWHERE,', by CAROL ANN DAVIS Poem Source Last Line: You'd be foolish to name Subject(s): Nature; Thought AS IF GALVANIC, by ALLAN PETERSON Poem Source First Line: As soon as I sweep, the thrashers put the leaves back Last Line: Nothing like magnets' spinning and clicking little dogs Subject(s): Leaves; Nature AS IN THE BEGINNING, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: In the very far beginning, when our fathers lived in caves Last Line: Yet 'twas only just the night-jar, just the plopping water-rat! Subject(s): Nature; Past AS IT HAPPENS THIS MORNING, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: This mountain lake gives everything back Last Line: Of stones, dry twigs in hand %for another small, essential fire Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING, by MILDRED FOCHT Poem Text First Line: Up in my tower I sat alone Last Line: And flung an ink bottle full in his face. Subject(s): Nature; Trees AS LONG AS THE WOODPECKER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A little life left in the shell Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Woodpeckers AS RIVERS OF WATER IN A DRY PLACE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Lonely, lonely lay the hill Last Line: Fresh as god's latest word! Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Water; Streams; Creeks AS SLEEP IS, by EDNA BUTLER TRICKEY Poem Text First Line: As sleep is to a day Last Line: A tune—and then, to smile. Subject(s): Day; Life; Love; Love - Nature Of; Sleep AS THE TIDE COMES IN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The long-winged terns dart wild and dire Subject(s): Nature ASH ODE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I saw you ahead I ran two blocks Subject(s): Love - Nature Of ASPARAGUS, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This afternoon a man leans over Last Line: You're very lucky Subject(s): Asparagus; Love - Nature Of; Vegetables ASPARAGUS, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This afternoon a man leans over Last Line: Listen, I say to him, %you're very lucky Subject(s): Asparagus; Love - Nature Of; Vegetables ASPECTS OF ROBINSON, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Robinson at cards at the algonquin Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ASPEN RANCH ROAD, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The light snow is silver on the road Last Line: Cold and white %as naked birches Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Nature; Trees ASPENS, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: One chosen year in four Last Line: The darkening woods before the snow Subject(s): Nature AT 62 I'VE OUTLIVED 95 PERCENT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Just before dark Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Old Age AT A GATE ON THE HILL, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At a gate on the hill in the parting hour Last Line: "in a deathless tryst with thee!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Memory AT BRANDON, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the ivied house the starling Last Line: Made a lover of the night. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Night; Bedtime AT BREAD LOAF INN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Above the woody summits of these hills Last Line: And man with nature climb the slope to heaven. Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Heaven; Nature; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Paradise AT BROAD RIPPLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, luxury! Beyond the heat Last Line: And feel the best of life is mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Calm; Nature; Rivers; Water; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility AT CROW'S NEST PASS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At crow's nest pass the mountains rend Last Line: At crow's nest pass. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Nature AT DAWN, A RABBIT STRETCHES TALL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To eat the red asparagus berries Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Rabbits AT ELEUSIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men of eleusis, ye that with long staves Last Line: With their bowed necks of burden equable. Variant Title(s): At Eleven Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature AT FONT-GEORGES, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fields so still and green Last Line: Phosphor with flowers. Subject(s): Nature AT GULL LAKE: AUGUST, 1810, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gull lake set in the rolling prairie Last Line: Knew where she lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Lakes; Native Americans; Nature; Pools; Ponds; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AT HOCHFINSTERMUNZ, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more between its walls of pines Last Line: And, dying, trust thee for the rest. Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Pan (mythology); Soul; Switzerland; Swiss AT LONG LAST, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Late, late, the prize is drawn, the goal attained Last Line: Is never paid in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature AT MALHEUR GAME REFUGE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coyote butte rinsed by earthlight begins Last Line: This day floods over the earth and splashes %against you. In the sky your way appears: true north Subject(s): Environment; Nature AT MARYHAVEN, by RUTH GENEVIEVE WORK IODICE Poem Source First Line: Firstlight through austrian shades - the old queen Last Line: Tomorrow, sabbath, and the holy bread - Subject(s): Nature AT MARYHEIGHTS, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: The flowers rise in columns here Last Line: On a landscape %incandescent, human Subject(s): Nature AT MOMENTS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: In early spring, she writes to her lover Last Line: As maoris did at moments of danger. Subject(s): Nature; New Zealand - Maoris; Spring AT MY AGE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Time to move faster? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Nature; Time AT MY CABIN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The narrow river into the trees Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers AT SCOTT'S BLUFF, NEBRASKA, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Wind %is the language of this morning Last Line: This is memory, this %could be grief Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) AT STOKE, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have lived in a single landscape. Every tone Last Line: This place, the first to seize on my heart and eye, %has been their hornbook and their history Subject(s): Nature AT SUNSET, by MATTIE A. W. CLARK Poem Source First Line: Sunset glories are smiling down Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons AT SUNSET, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The robin warbles in the dusk Last Line: And know the glories of thy will. Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Nature; Robins; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness AT SUNSET, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Belov'd meran, supremely fair! Last Line: The past's sweet benison of peace. Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Past; Rome, Italy; Sunset; Twilight AT THE BANK OF A LAKE, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Black sedans the mayor ordered %from the city Last Line: Of a naked moonlit woman %asleep beside a lake Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Nudity; Old Age AT THE CABIN I LEFT HE CANOLA BOTTLE OPEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I had invented the mouse atom bomb Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death - Animals; Mice; Nature AT THE END, JUST A PINCH OF THE WORLD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The hem of a sheet Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Nature AT THE FALLS, by MARTHA CARLSON-BRADLEY Poem Source First Line: Above the current Last Line: The water so loud we have to shout Subject(s): Nature; Waterfalls AT THE LUDINGTON GARDENS, by ROSALIE SANARA PETROUSKE Poem Source First Line: The night I drive through is pregnant with sound Last Line: Thickening leaves the way your legs %once wrapped around mine Subject(s): Love; Nature AT THE PIPERS' CLUB, by BIDDY JENKINSON Poem Source First Line: The session was ending Last Line: So far I've spent three times a year and a day %whistling Subject(s): Nature; Women AT THE ROAD'S EDGE, by DON WELCH Poem Source First Line: At the road's edge the snowbirds Last Line: What was it, I asked, I had come for? Subject(s): Nature; Roads; Travel AT THE SAND CREEK BRIDGE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The path of most insistence Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Guns; Mountains; Nature; Rivers; Trout; Anglers; Hills; Downs (great Britain) AT THE TIP OF MEMORY'S, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is the nib of a pen Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory; Nature AT THOUGHT OF HILLS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At thought of hills where streams begin Last Line: A little hill. ...To ease my mind. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Thought; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Thinking; Journeys; Trips AT TIVOLI BAYS, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In tivoli bays, where the rapes happened that spring Last Line: Their ears twitching, legs cocked to explode Subject(s): Nature AT TOWER PEAK, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every tan rolling meadow will turn into housing Subject(s): Nature; Mountain Climbing ATLANTIC DOLPHINS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Dolphins leap in the dawn Last Line: From the distant currents %of the sky Subject(s): Earth; Nature ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 10, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two dark figures, wild and surly Last Line: And thy hour will sound to-morrow! Subject(s): Hate; Life; Nature ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 4, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ronceval, thou noble valley! Last Line: Capers here and there thus strangely. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature ATTITUDE OF RAGS, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It felt like a story sorry sorry it'd lost all its sentences Last Line: Was. We were rags in all in the hands of a nacroleptic duster Subject(s): Boats; Nature AUGURY, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fish faced into the current Last Line: Of the sun, %unpoison great lakes, %turn back %the rat on the road Subject(s): Nature AUGURY, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your pinkling, winter-white shoulders bent Last Line: By my own deliberate confusions: bare- %shouldered, burning,imperilled in the yard Subject(s): Nature AUGUST, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far off among the fields and meadow rills Last Line: In the hot sunshine snaps his castanets. Subject(s): Nature; Summer AUGUST, by WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dust on my mantle dust Subject(s): Nature AUGUST, by CHARLES MAIR Poem Text First Line: Dull august! Maiden of the sultry days Last Line: The toil and languor of the sultry days. Subject(s): August; Nature AUGUST, by JOHN MARTIN SMITH Poem Text First Line: Nature's magnificent carpet spread Last Line: Mindful of the eve's release. Subject(s): Nature AUGUST, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Buttercup nodded and said good-by Last Line: While the corn grows ripe and the apples mellow Subject(s): Nature AUGUST (1), by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A day of torpor in the sullen heat Last Line: Within the arms of night. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): August; Nature; Night; Sailing & Sailors; Bedtime AUGUST AFTERNOON, by J. P. IRVINE Poem Source First Line: In stifling mows the men became Subject(s): August; Nature AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN GREEN, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At summer camp, / I wrapped my arms around Last Line: In my own small commonwealth Subject(s): Camping; Trees; Bronx, New York City; Country Life; City & Town Life; Nature; Camps; Summer Camps AUTOCHTHON, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the spirit astir Last Line: The foreknowledge veiled in our face. Subject(s): Nature AUTOPHAGIA IN TRAUMATIZED RATS DURING INANITION, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: Carroll blue nash and his traumatized rats Last Line: (nash said) themselves 'from this source' Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Rats; Science AUTUMN, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What did autumn murmur? Last Line: Autumn's come! Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by ALBERT LAIGHTON Poem Source First Line: The world puts on its robes of glory now Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons AUTUMN, by A. W. RANSOM Poem Text First Line: Along the grass strange shadows play Last Line: While god the nearer seems. Subject(s): Autumn; God; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay william, nay, not so; the changeful year Last Line: God, always, everywhere, and all in all. Subject(s): Autumn; Comfort; Death; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Presence; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The AUTUMN BEAUTIES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From stubble field, woodland and meadow Last Line: Nothing could lovelier be. Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Nature; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN BEES ON BROCCOLI BLOSSOMS GONE-BY, by GARY FRANCIS MARGOLIS Poem Source First Line: Now the honey flow is over Last Line: When a new blossom will bring them %back out of autumn's morphine hive Subject(s): Nature AUTUMN BURNS ME, by LENRIE PETERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn burns me with Last Line: And in a shadow of mist %in wonder; for autumn is wonder and wonder is hope Subject(s): Nature AUTUMN DAWNING, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A long roadway %between gray cliff sides Last Line: Between his nimble hounds, a hunter is walking Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Autumn; Home; Jungles; Nature; Seasons AUTUMN DUSK, AND IN THE GRASS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Drain off the light Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Autumn; Insects; Nature; Seasons; Spiders AUTUMN EVEN-SONG, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long cloud edged with streaming grey Last Line: For me yon valley-cottage beckons warm. Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN FANTASY, by JEAN PRITCHARD Poem Text First Line: Autumn has bestowed her accolade Last Line: Your whispered summons come. Subject(s): Autumn; Blue Ridge Mountains; Fantasy; Nature; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN FRUIT, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: I'm learning now to wait and not to rush Last Line: Force the sour unready meat Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature AUTUMN GARDEN, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My tent stands in a garden Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons AUTUMN LANDSCAPE, by HO XUAN HUONG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drop by drop rain slaps the banana leaves Last Line: Whoever sees this landscape is stunned. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Human Behavior; Nature; Rivers; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Vietnam; Wine; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature AUTUMN LEAVES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn leaves are falling, and poets Last Line: Kidlets on the floor, around me joy and laughter, and neighbors at the door. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN LEAVES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come, little leaves,' said the wind one day Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons AUTUMN MESSAGES, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: The flowers that as they fade fling parting kisses tender Last Line: That I should care for thee! Subject(s): Autumn; Farewell; Love - Nature Of; Seasons; Fall; Parting AUTUMN ON THE LAND, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man, a field, silence - what is there to say? Last Line: Your bland philosophy of nature, earth %has of itself no power to make men wise Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Nature AUTUMN SONG, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn has emptied heaven of its birds Last Line: And crows talk hoarsely in the frozen wood Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Migration; Nature; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN SONG, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No clouds are in the morning sky Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons AUTUMN WINDS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn gales are blowing Last Line: I'd breathe my life away. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Autumn; Life; Nature; Seasons; Wind; Fall AUTUMN'S END, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: Nothing takes me back Last Line: To shine like music must, %momentarily, to the blind Subject(s): Nature AUTUMN'S ORCHESTRA, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Know by the thread of music woven through Last Line: Shall voice my answering. Good-night, good-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Nature; Sound AUTUMNAL, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The saffron-colored leaves are cresting into their moment. It's Last Line: It is to be here. And because we are not gone, still we are early Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Wind AUTUMNAL LEAVES, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: No more ye sway and shimmer in the sky Last Line: The efflorescence of the opening year. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Fall AVIARY, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: A quick flash of color Last Line: Adrift with leaves. For the moment, %she has stopped eating Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) AVOWAL, by JEAN MARIE MATHIAS P. A. VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forest and plain are gone Last Line: As nights bereft of wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Villiers De L'isle-adam, Auguste De Subject(s): Nature; Weariness; Fatigue AWAKE, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: When the wind sleeps Last Line: I watch %the new moon Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature AWAKE IN PARIS ALL NIGHT LISTENING TO RAIN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Waiting for the luck of a roadkill possum Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Food And Eating; Nature BABY-BIRD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baby-bird, baby-bird Last Line: Known of one sweet bird. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Singing & Singers BACCHUS SEES ARIADNE, by RITA SIGNORELLI-PAPPAS Poem Source First Line: He felt as he watched her nude Last Line: And later place among the stars Subject(s): Nature; Nudity; Women BACHELOR SEA LIONS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Bachelor sea lions %sit on the rocks Last Line: Bellowing out their sorrow Subject(s): Nature BACK YARD, by PETER BALAKIAN Poem Source First Line: Out of blueness Last Line: Then... %neither a twig %nor the obelisk of a birch %can measure a distance Subject(s): Nature BALLAD, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me if I laugh Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Youth BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'I WOULD GIVE TWENTY POUND', by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's no woman, but I'm caught Last Line: And for th' asking she shall have it. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'ONCE I LOVED A MAIDEN FAIR', by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair one! If thus kind you be Last Line: When y' are not, forsake you. Subject(s): Beauty; Love – Nature Of; Likes & Dislikes BALLADE OF A DEAD LADY, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All old fair things are in their places Last Line: Ah! Where have they hidden those great eyes? Subject(s): Aging; Death; Nature; Spring; Youth; Dead, The BALLADE OF FANCY FAIR, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: In april hours / its booths we knew Last Line: In fancy fair! Subject(s): Love; Nature BALLADE OF MIDSUMMER DAYS AND NIGHTS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a ripple of leaves and a tinkle of streams Last Line: Midsummer nights! O midsummer nights! Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): Midsummer Days And Nights Subject(s): Nature; Summer BALLADE OF WENCHES, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Peddle indulgences, as you may Last Line: Taverns and wenches, every whit. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature BALLADE: 1, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Resound my voice, ye woods, that hear me plain Last Line: But, as reward, death for to be my meed? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods BALLADE: 14, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That time that mirth did steer my ship Last Line: And should be while that life doth dure. Subject(s): Fortune; Happiness; Hate; Life; Nature; Pain; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery BALLET, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you not weary Last Line: Our laughter. Subject(s): Nature; Solitude BALM OF NATURE, by ALICE GILL BENTON Poem Text First Line: I cannot nurse an ancient grief Last Line: Enchanting hills are beckoning. Subject(s): Nature BAMBOO, by CHU TA Poem Source First Line: I sketch bamboo with cinnabar, Last Line: Dragonflies, and rosy clouds Subject(s): Bamboo; Nature BAMBOO GROVE, by P'EI TI Poem Source First Line: I come humbly to the bamboo grove Last Line: The bright moon, how we shine together Subject(s): Bamboo; Leaves; Nature; Pandas; Zen Buddhism BANISHMENT FROM UR, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: You asked me to enter the holy cloister Last Line: My soft mouth of honey is suddenly confused. %my beautiful face is dust Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion BANISHMENT FROM UR, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: You asked me to enter the holy cloister Last Line: My beautiful face is dust Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion BANK-SWALLOWS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In a village of bank-swallows Subject(s): Nature; Summer BAPTISM WITH WATER MOCCASIN, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: His bulk amazed us Last Line: We knows where he at.' Subject(s): Nature BARN, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: All night %its creaking timbers Last Line: Voyagers come forward %two by two Subject(s): Nature BARTER, by MARIE BLAKE Poem Text First Line: I will exchange a city for a sunset Last Line: For one far summit, blue against the sky. Subject(s): Nature BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here are half a dozen leaves Last Line: Of fire held in the hand Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; Poetry And Poets; Seasons BASILICA OF OUR LADY OF GOOD HEALTH, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: They shaped you from tzintzingue paste, rich yellow corn Last Line: The one shaped like a heart %I want a miracle for every part of my body Subject(s): Central America; Nature BATS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Sleeping through the desert heat Last Line: Still calls me deeper %into the sky Subject(s): Earth; Nature BAVARIA, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain skies were clear Subject(s): Nature BE STILL, O YE WINDS!, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be still, o ye winds! And attentive, ye swains! Last Line: Gives joy to the night, and enlivens the day. Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Love - Nature Of; Joy; Delight BEALL MOUNTAIN SEASONAL: 3. THE FIRST DAY OF WINTER, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many birds %will disappear Last Line: Rusted away %already? Subject(s): Nature BEAR AT THE DUMP, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst the too much that we buy and throw Last Line: Fed on the slow-simmering dump, and gone %into the bug-thickwoods and anecdote Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Nature BEAR COUNTRY, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: There's a bear nearby Last Line: Can you feel him? Subject(s): Nature BEAUTIFUL ISLAND OF CEYLON, by PHILLIPS BROOKS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, this beautiful island of ceylon Subject(s): Nature; Winter BEAUTY, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horns to bulls wise nature lends Last Line: Fire and sword with ease subdues. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Women BEAUTY, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horns to bulls wise nature lends Last Line: Fire and sword with ease subdues. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Women BEAUTY, by WILLIMINA L. ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Spelled like a quest between the eyebrows, as the day's red Last Line: And shimmering folds of arctic jewels veiled her, and made the earth a sanctuary for her sake. Subject(s): Nature BEAUTY IN DEATH, by A. M. WATTS Poem Text First Line: We see a beauty in the dying leaves Last Line: A life with words and deeds of love aglow. Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Death; Nature; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The BEAUTY OF NATURE, by HENRY ALFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I listen'd to a voice that spake Last Line: Like guardian spirits watch the slumbering earth? Subject(s): Nature BEAUTY SHIELDS, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: The snow has fallen softly through the night Last Line: Be suffered and ignored by wise humanity. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Snow BEAUTYWORKS, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ...All kinds of beauty in the world dense pressed-down spots in grass Last Line: Always on the other side of conciousness, no way .. This is beauty ... %to understand a thing about Subject(s): Beauty; Nature BEAVER-TAIL ROCKS; CANONICUT, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fare forth my soul, fare forth, and take thine own Last Line: Things that thy love may hear but never tell. Subject(s): Love; Nature BECAUSE AT LAST YOU'LL HAVE TO TURN AROUND, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: When someone else's sadness sends you Last Line: The make-shift firing range your heart thumps %old emotions,pity and fear Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) BECAUSE I AM HEIR TO MANY THINGS, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Warmth of dandelion, shamble of bear Last Line: Wishing for love in a preposterous season Subject(s): Life; Nature BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, by MURRAY L. MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: It is because I love you I am sad Last Line: And I be poor -- were you not cause for living. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Nature Of; Sorrow; Sadness BECOMING A REDWOOD, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stand in a field long enough, and the sounds Last Line: Part of the midnight's watchfulness that knows %there is no silence but when danger comes Subject(s): Environment; Nature BEDFELLOWS, by ANN LAUINGER Poem Source First Line: They must have slept out nine dark Last Line: So much as the foolish thought %that they were bedfellows Subject(s): Beds; Friendship; Nature; Seasons BEDOUIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O love is like an untamed Last Line: To lash the mad life out of it! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of BEDROCK, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Though I endure the shore Last Line: Came of hardship %wandering the mountains Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality; Nature; Relationships BEECHWOOD, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear me, o beeches! You Last Line: And all around gigantic beeches rise. Subject(s): Beech Trees; Forests; Leaves; Nature; Trees; Woods BEES, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After a bear ransacked their hive, strewing wood, wax Last Line: The bees swarmed the locked doors, fireplace screen, floor. The house %hummed Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Nature BEETHOVEN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That midnight pause, when the deep forest / hushes Last Line: Shakes the wet boughs of the dark—again—again. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Grief; Music & Musicians; Nature; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime BEFORE THE FROST, by CHARLIE MEHRHOFF Poem Source First Line: Wrapped myself %in the skin Last Line: To find my way %home Subject(s): Frost; Nature BEFORE THE LEAVES FALL, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder if oak and maple Last Line: May come through the ripening frost. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Leaves; Nature BEFORE THE RAIN, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We knew it would rain, for all the morn Last Line: Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain. Subject(s): Nature; Rain BEFORE THE TIME OF MOWING, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in long seedling grass the meadows lie Last Line: Such is her descant. Nay, but thou art pale! Subject(s): Beauty; Comfort; Death; Love; Nature; Dead, The BEFORE THIS, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Before the minutes Last Line: The small door of their lives Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Nature; Sunflowers; Trees BEGINNING, by ANN HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: My lady of the willamette valley Last Line: And crows caw out in their familiar tongues %from linden trees outside my garret window Subject(s): Nature BEING, by CAROL FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being a deer means grazing, suddenly lifting the head Last Line: Having sensed you, over the scent of grasses, who were invisible Subject(s): Nature BELIEVE ME, IF ALL THOSE ENDEARING YOUNG CHARMS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography Last Line: The same look which she turn'd when he rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Love – Nature Of BELONGING, by JAY PARINI Poem Source First Line: I do not belong here Last Line: It's not my world to give away Subject(s): Nature BELOW THE LAUREL TREE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Sneaking off through the gold trees? Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Trees BEND OF SPILLING, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: The face of where once was Subject(s): Nature; Swamps BENEDICTION, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Secrets sleep in the flesh Last Line: In silent benediction Subject(s): Earth; Nature BENEDICTION, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the rooftree of the midnight spreading Last Line: Child, to you. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Blessings; Nature BERCK-PLAGE, by SANDRA M. GILBERT Poem Source First Line: This is the sea, then, this great abeyance Last Line: There is no hope, it is given up Subject(s): Nature; Sky BERING BRIDGE, by ROALD HOFFMANN Poem Source First Line: The old men say Last Line: I see smog, the sky coming back down over california Subject(s): Nature BEST REWARD, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The best reward in going to the woods Last Line: Or answered by a certainn one, or two Subject(s): Nature; Solitude BESTIARY / BESTIARIO, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could speak with birds Last Line: What was the name of the cat Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Animals; Insects; Nature BETROTHED ANEW, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight fills the trembling air Last Line: I wove the blossoms of the spring. Subject(s): Love; Nature; Spring BETWEEN THE FOUR PADS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The fragrance of grass Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Grass; Nature BETWEEN US, by CLAIRE GENOUX Poem Source First Line: Between us the lavender fields Last Line: A summer of teeth planted in the red fruit Subject(s): Nature; Relationships BETWEEN US, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does my blood need a motive Last Line: Out of the same matter? Variant Title(s): I Have Already Written You Off Subject(s): Blood; Love - Nature Of BETWEEN WARS: SPRING 1992, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: Dry grass and moisture in the ground Last Line: And, wingless, raise a black wing in the air Subject(s): Nature BEYOND, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What trees were they? Their roots were Last Line: Moves there without disaster—while time's cloud fades on high. Subject(s): Nature; Thought; Thinking BEYOND MEASURE, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Three things the eye Last Line: The depth of the sea Subject(s): Nature BEYOND TIME, by MIECZYSLAW JASTRUN Poem Source First Line: I am not concerned at all with the golden age of those Last Line: That their shape with eyelids not quite closed %denies transience (of water, of clouds, of man) Subject(s): Nature BIANCA: 6. SLEEP, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if tired out with kisses Last Line: And fell asleep upon my breast. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Sleep BICYCLING IN THE GREAT SALT MARSH, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: On the packed sand road my tires Last Line: Touch my skin. Nothing has moved Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) BIG FAT GARTER SNAKE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For warmth on a cold night Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Cold; Nature; Snakes BIGHT, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At low tide like this how sheer the water is Last Line: All the untidy activity continues, %awful but cheerful Subject(s): Nature; Wharves BINSEY POPLARS (FELLED 1879), by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled Last Line: Sweet especial rural scene. Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Environment; Holidays; Nature; New Year; Poplar Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation BIOGRAPHY FOR THE USE OF THE BIRDS, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: I was born in the century of the death of the rose Last Line: All the angels of the earth have emigrated, %even the dark angel of the cacao tree Subject(s): Nature BIOMASS OF ANTS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of small homes, hard work, big women Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Nature BIRCH-WOOD, by LEO COX Poem Text First Line: I wandered down the dying afternoon Last Line: All things took on their dead, familiar shape. .... Subject(s): Afternoon; Birch Trees; Nature BIRCHES, REVISITED: OCTOBER, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At last the silver birches look like frost Last Line: That praises 'nature' like a long lost friend, %we who drive for groceries, shoes, and pens Subject(s): Nature BIRD, by MINNIE MARKHAM KERR Poem Text First Line: Love is a little trembling bird Last Line: Nor half so beautiful as its song. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of BIRD SONG IN BLIZZARD, by TERENCE MCGUIRE Poem Source First Line: He wanted to walk the small field Last Line: World spinning out of control Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Storms; Weather BIRD WITH BOSOM RED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When the winds of winter blow Subject(s): Nature; Winter BIRDING, by JANET HOLMES Poem Source First Line: Some pursue quantity, a lifelist Last Line: With their brilliant golds, %the crimsons you covet Subject(s): Life; Nature BIRDING, by JOHN+(5) SMITH Poem Source First Line: Do you remember your first bird Last Line: Isn't that what we call praying? Subject(s): Birds; Nature BIRDS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Think it's evening Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Rain BIRDS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are heading south, pulled Last Line: The mute weathervanes, %teaching all of us %with their tailfeathers %the true north Subject(s): Nature BIRDS AND BUGS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What to do next? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Flight; Insects; Nature BIRDS OF SCOTLAND, by HUGH MACDONALD Poem Source First Line: The bird of bonnie scotland Subject(s): Nature BIRDS' LAWN PARTY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The birds of the woodland, in soft summer weather Subject(s): Nature; Summer BIRTHDAY, by BIDDY JENKINSON Poem Source First Line: Such a little woman Subject(s): Nature; Women BIRTHDAY, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: The jobs you cannot or will not keep Last Line: That I will always be younger than you Subject(s): Central America; Nature BIRTHDAY, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is that they spend so much time in the sky Subject(s): Nature BIRTHDAY, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is that they spend so much time in the sky Last Line: A month or two before. It has to be %the oldest craving of all, the first mercy Subject(s): Nature BISCLAVERET, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In either mood, to bless or curse Last Line: The masses for our soul's full grace. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Mankind; Nature; Human Race BITTER THOUGHTS, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't listen to one stone this year Last Line: That saved the world and an overcoat that renewed it Subject(s): Nature BITTER THOUGHTS, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't listen to one stone this year Last Line: For most of a life, near a water-stained lampshade %that saved the world and an overcoat that renewe Subject(s): Nature BITTERSWEET ALONG THE EXPRESSWAY, by NORBERT KRAPF Poem Source First Line: As if in retreat Last Line: Peer through wire diamonds %with bright orange pupils Subject(s): Nature BLACK, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: What is blacker than an Last Line: What lies with %in Subject(s): Nature BLACK ARTS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: I adore the pitch black nature of life Last Line: How still the waters are in the dark wine %of the womb Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Art And Artists; Nature; Paintings And Painters BLACK ASHES, by MARTHA HASKELL CLARK Poem Source First Line: Sometime we shall remember them, the little camping Subject(s): Camping; Nature BLACK DOG ON WHITE SNOW, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: This is where I live! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Home; Nature BLACK LEAD MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Where the trail climbs free of brush Last Line: In the mountains shadow, %always, only the earth Subject(s): Mountains; Nature BLACK LEAVES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in a field, %in the black shade of an oak Last Line: You slip in & sleep like...Nothing at all Subject(s): Nature BLACK RIDERS: 9, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood upon a high place Last Line: One looked up, grinning, %and said, 'comrade! Brother!' Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Variant Title(s): To A Dais Subject(s): Nature BLACK SLEEVE FALLS BACK', by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A turkey vulture Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Turkey BLACK SNAKE; 2, by RAUL BOPP Poem Source First Line: Begins here, the ciphered forest Last Line: Tonight I will sleep with queen luzia's daughter Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Travel BLACK SNAKE; 4, by RAUL BOPP Poem Source First Line: This is the rotten-breathed forest Last Line: Today I will enjoy queen luzia's daughter Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Trees BLACK WATER GOING UNDER, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: There are lights you can't reach alone Last Line: Into the splintered oar, pull your weight %toward the light Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature BLACKBERRY FOOLS, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Devil's shoestrings, walls of woodbine Last Line: Heaving their priestly bait Subject(s): Nature BLACKBIRDS, by RUSSELL KESLER Poem Source First Line: For two weeks, now their wheezing treetop patter Last Line: Near dusk, with one mind their black clouds rise, %leaving silence empty as their yellow eyes Subject(s): Blackbirds; Nature BLACKJACK, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: When my great-great- %grandfather ace gutowsky Last Line: Their leaves as long as they can Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) BLACKOUT, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: Bill the hurricane is standing on my roof Last Line: But this black wall of water, this ocean %tipped on its side Subject(s): Disasters; Floods; Hurricanes; Nature; Rain; Weather BLAZES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A man come home with my brothers Last Line: I thought of a burning bush Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Fire; Love - Nature Of; Youth BLAZING IN GOLD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blazing in gold and quenching in purple Last Line: And the juggler of day is gone! Variant Title(s): Poem: 321;poem: 228 Subject(s): Nature BLEAK HOUSE, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drunks in the courtyard, dung and driftwood Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature BLESSING, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just off the highway to rochester, minnesota Last Line: That if I stepped out of my body I would break %into blossom Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Variant Title(s): The Blessin Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Men; Minnesota; Nature BLESSINGS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: God bless the little orchard brown Last Line: Many a night and morn! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blessings; Farm Life; God; Nature; Agriculture; Farmers BLIND CURSE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You could drive blind Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Nature BLIND MAN NAVIGATES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By stars behind the daylight Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Blindness; Nature BLISS, by JAY PARINI Poem Source First Line: It's happening: the full fell fall Last Line: Amid the grainy sands of snow and gravel, %the unending bliss of nothing more Subject(s): Nature BLISS, by EMMA STRAUB Poem Source First Line: These shit-covered lakes, empty driving ranges Last Line: Strike me down now if this isn't perfectly lovely Subject(s): High School Students; Nature; Peace; September; Teenagers BLOOD-ROOT, by E. S. F. Poem Source First Line: When 'mid the budding elms the bluebird flits Subject(s): Bloodroot; Nature BLOODLINES, by ROSALIE SANARA PETROUSKE Poem Source First Line: We are cousins %the same schizophrenic blood Last Line: Your mother, my mother, %the blood which binds us Subject(s): Love; Nature BLUE, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Clear sky slate Last Line: A poem in flight Subject(s): Nature BLUE HERON, by MARY BRENT WHITESIDE Poem Text First Line: Once in the evening it was there Last Line: The mystic heron vanished -- where? Subject(s): Herons; Nature BLUE KNOB, PA, by CAROLYN PAGE Poem Source First Line: See the yellow trucks and the ant men Last Line: It's a living Subject(s): Environment; Nature BLUE OF RAINFOREST..., by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Blue concerto, island Subject(s): Nature; Colors BLUE OF THE MUSSEL SHELL, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Sight lingers alone %the near angle of weathered Last Line: Colors this prospect, giving, just now, %the last light back Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) BLUE OX, by MARGOT TREITEL Poem Source First Line: In his dream he is getting off the boat Last Line: Axing the woods %into gardens, selling the quarter acres for a song Subject(s): Environment; Nature BLUEGRASS, by JEAN NORDHAUS Poem Source First Line: We drive to water Last Line: The ones we couldn't contemplate, %run lightly up and down the strings Subject(s): Nature BLUES HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there a fo rent Last Line: Territorial rights here Subject(s): Love – Nature Of BLUES TO THE STARS, by BARBARA SIEGEL CARLSON Poem Source First Line: Crickets croon while my hands smooth sheets Last Line: A little blues to the stars Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Nature BOB IN HIS VALLEY, by MARIA TERRONE Poem Source First Line: After twenty years in vermont Last Line: Unable to account for imbalance, %the fleeting weight it bore Subject(s): Life; Nature; Vermont BOBWHITES ON A SPRING MORNING, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: A bobwhite sounds through larks Last Line: On the presence of parallels Subject(s): Nature BODY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From the top of my head to my tiny toes Subject(s): Nature; Winter BOG AT QUODDY HEAD, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Wind, and spray, and circling Last Line: Of water, the whispered past %perfect Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) BONNIE CALLANDER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnie helen, will you go to callander with me Last Line: And revel amongst romantic scenery in the beautiful sunshine. Subject(s): Guests; Mountains; Nature; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: A LITTLE FIRE, A WILD FIELD, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: When I was a child, we could often see Last Line: Like light diffused through air %as thick as water Subject(s): Central America; Nature BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: FIRST NIGHT, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: The world beyond the page is yellow, the day is blue Last Line: Who will soon walk away from myself Subject(s): Central America; Nature BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: FRIDAY: POOR TOM THAT EATS THE SWIMMING.., by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Boy children are all around you Last Line: He is younger than the youngest child you know Subject(s): Central America; Nature BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: MONDAY: FALSE OF HEART, LIGHT OF EAR, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Lines we cast, dust that stings our eyes, hooks in Last Line: Stop right where you are Subject(s): Central America; Nature BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: NEXT DAY, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Stale, the hard loaf of our day Last Line: The days when stone could talk? Subject(s): Central America; Nature BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: OCEAN, AFTERNOON, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Sleep now in the parched sea of childhood Last Line: But skin with no love of breaking Subject(s): Central America; Nature BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: SATURDAY, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: My heart grows scales Last Line: I am dreaming %someone else's dream Subject(s): Central America; Nature BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: SECOND DAY, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: A bird whistles. You could not call that singing Last Line: And yellow green, in the dirty marketplace Subject(s): Central America; Nature BOOK OF THE WORLD, by PHILIP TERMAN Poem Source First Line: April afternoon silence Last Line: And the wings beat furiously silent above us Subject(s): April; Earth; Nature BOOK ON THE ARMS OF MY CHAIR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the morning before me Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Books; Morning; Nature BOOKS IN THE RUNNING BROOKS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is enough, enough, one said Last Line: To the purple west. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Nature; Reading BORROWED TIME, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Of all things Last Line: Him out of the soup Subject(s): Nature BOULEVARD OF HEROES, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: The day you took me up there, they marched Last Line: Fooling yourself. This is the safest life I know Subject(s): Central America; Nature BOUND CHILDREN, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: You, little blank slate Last Line: At play with forlorn pleasure Subject(s): Central America; Nature BOUNTY, by ROBERT PACK Poem Source First Line: Here come exploding waves Last Line: Though some hunched fear within their seed %dreads what elaborations will seize power next Subject(s): Nature BOUSTROPHEDON, by GARY J. WHITEHEAD Poem Source First Line: A small storm of swallows follows where the tines Last Line: Turning - turning about it's - back your at full Subject(s): Imagination; Nature BRAIN CHILDREN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mother brain, through tidal ebb and flow Last Line: Immutable as deity itself! Subject(s): Children; Human Behavior; Childhood; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature BRAIN OF THE SPIDER, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For a moment concentrate on a spider's brain Last Line: White speed of its sudden charges, %the raven segment it maintains for death Subject(s): Nature BRAMBLES, by WILLIAM LOPEZ Poem Source First Line: Rough brambles in the yard Last Line: Shoving through the brambles, rough %and veteran Subject(s): High School Students; Nature; Teenagers BRAVURA LAMENT, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would tell you the grass this spring was a pale Subject(s): Change; Lament; Nature; Time BRAVURA LAMENT, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would tell you the grass this spring was a pale Last Line: Drowning while showered by the fluid blow of keen insight Subject(s): Change; Lament; Nature; Time BREAD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still surmounting as I came Last Line: Have I journeyed here. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Nature BREADTH. CIRCLE. DESERT. MONARCH. MONTH. WISDOM, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not as height rises into lightness Last Line: Of common ending Subject(s): Nature BREAKING THROUGH, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Down the mountains Last Line: And nothing else you need Subject(s): Nature BRIGHT FLOWERS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love not so sorely the bright flowers Last Line: Wenches for summer festival. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature BRIGHTS: 1., by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: The only time I ever saw a fox Last Line: In increments, the little bodies %acccumulating weight Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) BRIGHTS: 2., by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Of course, we betray each other Last Line: Rise and fall with your breath %and look away Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) BRIGHTS: 3., by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Even the low crest Last Line: I realize their strange, mortal attraction %for the smaller animals Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) BRING ME THE SUNSET IN A CUP, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Nature BRINK, by BENJAMIN W. HOWARD Poem Source First Line: After the cold %light of march Last Line: Nurtured in damp remains Subject(s): Environment; Nature BROKEN WINGS, by FABIO FIALLO Poem Source First Line: The prison? It is very sad Last Line: My cell to paradise! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Nature Of BROOK, by RAFAEL MARIA DE MENDIVE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Laugh of the mountain! Lyre of bird and Last Line: Dwell in limpid fount! Subject(s): Brooks; Flowers; Nature; Roses; Spring BROTHER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not tell you though I were crucified Last Line: Aye, and when my need was, brother through the night! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Family Life; Love - Nature Of; Men; Relationships; Relatives BROTHER ROBIN, by MAY M. ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Listen! In the april rain Subject(s): Nature; Spring BROTHERLY LOVE; OR, THE SITE OF KING SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: There is a sweet traditionary tale Last Line: Each with the golden sheaves within his arms. Subject(s): Brothers; Churches; Family Life; Harvest; Love - Nature Of; Half-brothers; Cathedrals; Relatives BROWN, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: In this brown desert Last Line: An occasional shadow, %or are we the shadow? Subject(s): Nature BROWN STUMPS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Don't send up shoots %in spring Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Teeth BROWN TREES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now are the valleys brown 'twixt bluest hills Last Line: And they walking two and two, queens by their gowns. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Brown (color); Nature; Spring; Trees BRYANT, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For him all nature had a voice Last Line: Were companions all his life. Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Nature; Poetry & Poets BUCKET IN THE RAIN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Rejoice! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Rain BUDDHISTS SAY EVERYTHING IS LED BY MIND, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A bottle of red wine in thirty-three minutes Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Doubt; Nature BULLFROG GROANS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Under the cold often rises Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Nature BUMBLEBEE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Too many bs but life is like that Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Insects; Nature BURIAL GROUND, by SUSAN FROMBERG SCHAEFFER Poem Source First Line: Elephant-skinned trees, a tumble Last Line: And carve their names in stone Subject(s): Nature BURNING ISLAND, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wave god who broke through me today Subject(s): Nature; Buddhism; Religion; Buddha; Buddhists; Theology BUSH FROM MONGOLIA, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This bush with light green leaves Last Line: The big winter can come back, and only %bushes from mongolia will survive Subject(s): Environment; Nature BUT BEAUTIFUL EN MASSE, by ANNA MAY DUDLEY Poem Text First Line: When hollyhocks crowd close against a wall Last Line: Frail servants all -- but beautiful en masse. Subject(s): Nature BUT THE SEVENTEEN-YEAR CICADA, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Has only one syllable Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cicadas; Nature BUT TODAY, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Somewhere the tree is growing Last Line: I live my hour. Subject(s): Life; Love - Nature Of; Togetherness BUT WHERE IS THE RIVER, by SIMON PERCHIK Poem Source Last Line: And nothing but moonlight Subject(s): Nature; Rivers BUTTERFLIES, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Palettes of pigment Last Line: Dashed off quickly %masterpiece Subject(s): Nature BUTTERFLIES UNDER PERSIMMON, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a woman Last Line: And wished I could be like that Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Desire; Envy BUTTERFLY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To remind itself of something Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature BUTTERFLY, by STEVEN OSTERLUND Poem Source First Line: Adhered by its own juice Last Line: The cup is eternal, and feels %nothing Subject(s): Nature BUTTERFLY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Out in the garden wee elsie Subject(s): Nature; Summer BUTTERFLY'S BRAIN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Guides her to mexico Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animal Intelligence; Butterflies; Insects; Nature BUTTERFLY'S LESSON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The lilies were swinging their fair, white bells Subject(s): Nature; Summer BY A GATOR CREEK CANAL DURING THE DRY SEASON, by DUANE LOCKE Poem Source First Line: A thin line of black-blue edged dark water Last Line: All the sandgrains stand up Subject(s): Nature BY A LAKE, by BILL WOOD Poem Source First Line: This guy listens for the moon Last Line: Suddenly, they know what is human Subject(s): Environment; Nature BY CELIA'S ARBOUR, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By celia's arbour all the night Last Line: But tears of sorrow shed by me! Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Grief; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery BY NIGHT, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Sone nights it's impossible Last Line: Is singly subtracting the stars Subject(s): Nature BY THE CAM, by ELAINE FEINSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Tonight I think this landscape could Last Line: Pure again, an odd, tough, red leaf frozen %out of its year into the ice of the gutter Subject(s): Nature BY THE GREY GULF WATER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far to the northward there lies a land Last Line: And I wish I were back by the grey gulf-water. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Graves; Life; Nature; Singing & Singers; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones BY THE ROSANNA, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old grey alp has caught the cloud Last Line: And tops it in a silver fountain. Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) BY THE SHENANDOAH; OCTOBER, 1863, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My home is drear and still to-night Last Line: My courtney fair and my philip bold! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Nature; U.s. - History; Valor; Bravery BYNG INLET, ONTARIO, by MARC HARSHMAN Poem Source First Line: Sun-whitened rocks Last Line: North of understanding Subject(s): Canada; Nature CAELIA: SONNETS: 10, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To get a love and beauty so divine Last Line: Fortune my mistress, or you not so fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Time CAGE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the branches of the japanese cherry Subject(s): Nature; Relationships CAKE OF NINETEEN SLICES, by MARY JO BANG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was aware of the alarm Last Line: A real of no real appeal Subject(s): Cakes; Nature; Reality CALDER: A MEMORY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet calder! On thy flowery marge Last Line: Though youth and joy have fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Memory; Nature; Past; Youth CALIFORNIA OF THE SOUTH, by GRACE ELLERY CHANNING-STETSON Poem Text First Line: The land is a garden of glamour, where passes Last Line: Ere her youth shall have dimmed its immortal grace. Subject(s): California; Nature CALIFORNIA PRODIGAL, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eye follows, the land Subject(s): Nature CALL, by CORA D. FENTON Poem Source First Line: Have you heard the calling, calling, of the distance Subject(s): Nature CALL OF COAL, by MARTIN TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Only the outcasts know Last Line: That swirl down into the unknown Subject(s): Bible; Cain; Nature CALL [OF THE WOODS], by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must get out to the woods again, to the whispering Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Nature CALLING THE SUN, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: He stands %on a post Last Line: In a rooster's eyes Subject(s): Nature CAMBRIDGE SONGS. PLANCTUS: LAMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Wind is thin, %sun warm Last Line: Blossoms and seed, %my spirit rots Subject(s): Nature CAMINO REAL, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hot stink of skunk Last Line: Drawn by love's unprovable pull %I write this Subject(s): Nature; Writing And Writers CAMPBELL'S FUNERAL, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis well to see these accidental great Last Line: This all-unworthy wreath on such a poet's bier. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birth; Funerals; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Child Birth; Midwifery; Burials CAMPING ALONE, by ANTHONY PICCIONE Poem Source First Line: I lift %a small stone Last Line: Already we sense others Subject(s): Nature CAMPING IN THE CASCADES, by JOSEPH EDWARD POWELL Poem Source First Line: Hungry for bootprints, shades of differences Last Line: Heavenly bodies shine through our sleep Subject(s): Camping; Nature CAMPING SONG, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Has your dinner lost its savor? Subject(s): Camping; Nature CAN YOU COUNT THE STARS?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons CANARY, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When, to check, I swung my headlamp from the coal Last Line: & everywhere, forever. Here & there %& everywhere, forever Subject(s): Nature CANARY'S STORY, by E. V. S. Poem Source First Line: I have a little mistress Subject(s): Nature; Winter CANT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What cant, oh, what hypocrisy Last Line: Get everlasting bliss! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Hypocrisy; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CANTO: ROCKS: WHICH HOLD THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD THUS FAR, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look! It's a rock depicting the solid Last Line: Forward & back Subject(s): History; Nature; Stones; Historians; Granite; Rocks CANYON WINDS, NEW MEXICO, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Roaring through the cottonwoods Last Line: As I would do tonight Subject(s): Earth; Nature CAPRICE, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reprove me not that still I change Last Line: We'll chase the light, caprice! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Independence; Love; Nature; Soul CAPTION TO A LANDSCAPE, by AHMAD 'ABD AL-MUTI HIJAZI Poem Source First Line: A sun setting on a wintry horizon Last Line: But the child who drew it %has been crushed by the passage of days Subject(s): Nature CARETTA CARETTA, by JULIA OLDER Poem Source First Line: The loggerhead turtle Last Line: In a far corner of cassiopeia Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Sea Monsters CARIBOU, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: He walks kingly Last Line: Watch him pass %and sigh Subject(s): Nature CARMEL POINT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The extraordinary patience of things! Last Line: As the rock and ocean that we were made from Subject(s): Carmel, California; Nature; Patience CARMEL POINT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The extraordinary patience of things! Last Line: As the rock and ocean that we were made from Subject(s): Carmel, California; Nature; Patience CAROUSE, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn, in her scarlet cloak Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons CASIDA OF THE RECUMBENT WOMAN, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: To see you naked is to recall the earth. Last Line: The dead groan, waiting their turn Subject(s): Nature CASTILE, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, land of castile, you do raise me up Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips CASTILE, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, land of castile, you do raise me up Last Line: If worthy of you to the world they'll come down from the uplands Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Travel CAT, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: He has a history Last Line: His face like a head %served up on a plate Subject(s): Nature CATALOGUED, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: What is love like?' you ask. I guess Last Line: That love is you! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations CATALPA IN THE PARKING LOT, by NORBERT KRAPF Poem Source First Line: Stripped of its huge %heart-shaped leaves Last Line: Like the organs %of prehistoric animals Subject(s): Nature CATASTROPHISM, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: When I follow the line %of your arm, pointing Last Line: The swift, unlooked-for %passion when lives pool, lovely, %although mutable Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) CATCH AND RELEASE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: I should have remembered Last Line: Now numbered among my losses Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of CAUTION, by FRANCES BROWN (20TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: When you love, love these alone Last Line: Secure in insecurity. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Nature CAVATINA, by JEFFREY LEVINE Poem Text First Line: It may be there's a time of day when everything Subject(s): Beaujolais Wine; Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Love - Nature Of; Music & Musicians; Obsessions CAVE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Sightless, shadowless, %the toothless blindcat cruises Last Line: Of her home, this truth: so much was she loved Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) CAVE, by DIANE MORGAN Poem Source First Line: The dripping fingers point and press inexorably to earth Last Line: And point to earth Subject(s): Caves; Nature CEDAR FIRES, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cedar fires burn in my heart Last Line: Cedar fires burn in my heart. Subject(s): Cedar Trees; Nature CEDAR WAXWING, by CAROLE SIMMONS OLES Poem Source First Line: What keeps the full weight of my foot Last Line: I feel the voltage under feathers. %I open my palm Subject(s): Nature CELEBRATION, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brilliant, this day—a young virtuoso of a day Last Line: With the claims of reasonable gloom Subject(s): Nature CELEBRATION 1982, by TERRI MEYETTE Poem Source First Line: They say no one died Last Line: They won't look %they will just say %no one died Subject(s): Nature CEMETERY, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: White geese roam the meadow, Last Line: (green grow the rushes ho) Subject(s): Cemeteries; Funerals; Nature CEMETERY AUTUMN: 1, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: This september, lovebugs over east texas Last Line: And another's reddish hair Variant Title(s): Oak Grove Cemetery: Subject(s): Central America; Nature CEMETERY AUTUMN: 2, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Even this late in the evening, nettie's crypt Last Line: No small stone here to mark the story Variant Title(s): Oak Grove Cemetery: Subject(s): Central America; Nature CEMETERY AUTUMN: 3, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: That autumn, twilight at the blake graves Last Line: The one white angel looked away Variant Title(s): Oak Grove Cemetery: Subject(s): Central America; Nature CEMETERY AUTUMN: 4, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: A century-old tree dwarfs %mausoleum, angel, crypt Last Line: It is not love, %but heat only heat Variant Title(s): Oak Grove Cemetery: Subject(s): Central America; Nature CEMETERY AUTUMN: PRELUDE: THREE WIVES' SONNET, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: The wives did not survive. Over their graves Last Line: But the wives did not survive Variant Title(s): Oak Grove Cemetery: Prelude: Three Wives Sonne Subject(s): Central America; Nature CEREMONY, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: They wait months Last Line: As deja vu Subject(s): Nature CHAINSAW, by ROGER JONES Poem Source First Line: The way it pops and razzes Last Line: Ready to leap in your hand Subject(s): Nature; Saws CHAMBER MUSIC: 27, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I thy mithridates were Last Line: Ever so little falsity. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of CHAMBER MUSIC: 28, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle lady, do not sing Last Line: Love is aweary now. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of; Singing & Singers; Songs CHAMBER MUSIC: 30, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love came to us in time gone by Last Line: The ways that we shall go upon. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of CHAMELEON, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER Poem Source First Line: I caught a chameleon lizard Last Line: He just kept his eyes on me-- %as if waiting for me to change Subject(s): Nature CHANCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Give me a chance,' an acorn said Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons CHANGE, by RAYMOND KNISTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shall not wonder more, then Last Line: But I shall know. Subject(s): Change; Nature CHANGE, by JOHN CHARLES VAN DYKE Poem Text First Line: Through the warm rain Last Line: And then -- to dust again. Subject(s): Nature CHANGE ASSURED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This world it is a pleasant place Last Line: When it will be too warm Subject(s): Earth;nature;pleasure;seasons; World CHANGE: A LANDSCAPE, by DAVID G. W. SCOTT Poem Source First Line: A skin of ice covers the pond Last Line: And watch the kitchen garden blossom Subject(s): Nature CHANGELESS, by MARTHA HASKELL CLARK Poem Source First Line: They cannot change the hills: though they may hew Subject(s): Nature CHANGELINGS, by MARY FRANCES MARSHALL BUTTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Along the orchard's fragrant way Last Line: The patient days have wrought the spell Subject(s): Nature; Spring CHANT, by BOB VANCE Poem Source First Line: Where is the smell of sweetgrass here Last Line: The smell of %sweet %grass Subject(s): Camping; Grass; Nature CHANT OF THE SPRING RAIN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Rain like the rustling of fine garments Last Line: "and this is life and its mystery!" Subject(s): Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Rain; Spring; Weather CHARACTER OF LOVE SEEN AS SEARCH FOR THE LOST, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, the woman; I, the man; this, the world Last Line: Many desperate arms about us and the things we know Subject(s): Love - Nature Of CHARLES AUGUSTUS FORTESCUE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nicest child I ever knew Last Line: Simply doing right. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CHARRED BEYOND RECOGNITION' IS BAD NEWS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Have never returned to wood Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Nature CHASTITY MATTERS LESS THAN YOU THINK, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot retrieve Last Line: Through her millennia of little deaths. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Chastity; Nature CHATTAHOOCHEE, by PATRICK PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: Like a spirit moving through the flower Last Line: Bringing the scattered pieces back together Subject(s): Nature; Religion; Tragedy CHERRIES, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After auschwitz, it's been said, it's no longer possible Last Line: And birkenau and dachau, relishing the taste of cherries %inmy mouth, refusing to believe they are t Subject(s): Nature CHERRY PIE, by CONRAD ARTHUR HILBERRY Poem Source First Line: We're all acquainted with the airy Last Line: Shares the sheets with art Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Nature; Pies CHIGWELL, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: School that, in burford's honoured time Last Line: Tho' not quite all vexation. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Nature; Schools; Writing & Writers; Destiny; Students CHILD AND THE WORLD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I see a nest in a green elm-tree Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons CHILD'S GEOGRAPHY, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: After we had language you Last Line: Of memory where we float and cannot find %a place to land Subject(s): Central America; Nature CHILDHOOD FANCIES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The twilight gray is falling Subject(s): Nature; Summer CHILDREN DANCE: 6. THE LAND, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: We dance on chilean ground, sweeter Last Line: Today we just know how to dance! Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Chile; Nature CHILDREN'S CORNER, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: The game is pretend. The dark cape of superman Last Line: Starved by a happy childhood, our sad legacy Subject(s): Central America; Nature CHILDREN'S CRUSADE, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: The parade begins its black paper circuit Last Line: Taste of salt and sting your soft mouth Subject(s): Central America; Nature CHIMNEY SWIFTS, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Throughout the winter, we once believed, they hid Subject(s): Nature CHIMNEY SWIFTS, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Throughout the winter, we once believed, they hid Last Line: Is part of the enchantment, %is to believe they feel it, too, and act Subject(s): Nature CHOICES, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I go to the mountain side Last Line: "where a mountain / Subject(s): Nature CHOOSE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The single clenched fist lifted and ready Last Line: For we meet by one or the other. Subject(s): Anger; Friendship; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CHOSEN BY THE LION, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am the one chosen by the lion at sundown Last Line: And hearing me answer immediately, “yes!” Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Greeks CHOTT, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through the tent flap, across the air mattress, up over my Last Line: That glistening drop of poison at the tip of the scorpion's %tail Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D. Subject(s): Nature CHRIST'S-THORN, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Only a cloud Last Line: Have alas taken off Subject(s): Nature CHRISTMAS SILENCE, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Hushed are the pigeons cooing low Subject(s): Nature; Winter CHRYSALIS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Corpses push up through thawing permafrost Subject(s): Landscape; Nature CIRCLE AND THE CIRCLE'S PROOF, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Flower, yellow Last Line: The real title is %murder Subject(s): Nature; Relationships CIRCLE OF DAYS, by REEVE LINDBERGH Poem Source First Line: Lord, we offer thanks and praise Last Line: Around the circle of our days Subject(s): Creation; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Nature - Religious Aspects; Saints CITY DARK, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the early winter dusk the broken city dark Last Line: The dark of the city pavement, the faintly glittering slabs Subject(s): Nature CITY-WEARY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let's get out of here! Out of the din of it Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Nature CIVILIZATION, by PATRICIA SHIRLEY Poem Source First Line: Once upon a time, ancient forests of oak, walnut Last Line: Their ugly flow outdone the sullied waters %of the civilized world Subject(s): Environment; Nature CLARITAS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The all-day bird, the artist Subject(s): Nature; Sparrows CLASSIC BALLROOM DANCES, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandmothers who wring the necks Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CLASSROOM ON THE BLACK SEA, by JAMES SUTHERLAND-SMITH Poem Source First Line: Grass grows from the dark bottle of our dreams Last Line: And called it the music of our childhood Subject(s): Black Sea; Nature; Schools CLEAR SUMMER DAWN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Eyeballs it with a quawk Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dawn; Nature; Summer CLEARING, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Always in that clearing Last Line: And something like a name Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Nature CLEARING AT DAWN, by LI PO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fields are chill; the sparse rain has stopped Last Line: Blown by the wind slowly scatters away. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Nature; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CLEVEDON VERSES: 9. THE VOICES OF NATURE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This cluck of water in the tangles Last Line: And yet . . . I would go back. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Nature CLIMATOLOGY, by PHILLIP FOSS Poem Source First Line: The forest roars, recedes Last Line: The distant roar is an approaching black wall of hail Subject(s): Nature; Weather CLIMBING THE SMALL HILL, CRAIGBANK FARM, by PRISCILLA FRAKE Poem Source First Line: I still remember Last Line: As I swung over and stumbled down Subject(s): Mountains; Nature CLINGING, by GRACE SPEER FLICKINGER Poem Text First Line: I love to think a plumy cloud Last Line: That love can never die! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of CLOCK STOPPED AT 5:30 FOR THREE MONTHS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Have a drink, cook dinner Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Time CLOSE TO SLEEP, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: I am close to sleep Last Line: To help pass the time %until I get home Subject(s): Earth; Nature CLOSING, by JOAN PAYNE KINCAID Poem Source First Line: We're making a preserve in our yard... Last Line: Some comfort while they last? Subject(s): Home; Nature CLOSING OF THE SKY, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: The christmas pine Last Line: And resurrect the severed tree Subject(s): Nature CLOUDS, by LINCOLN COLCORD Poem Text First Line: The clouds rise over the high mountains Last Line: I should not have looked away. Subject(s): Clouds; Nature; Weather CLOUDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: High above us, slowly sailing Subject(s): Nature; Summer CLOUDS AND SKY, by LANCASTER POLLARD Poem Source First Line: One time when I was sick Subject(s): Nature COAST RANGE, by PAT LOWTHER Poem Source First Line: Just north of town Last Line: You can gut them %blast them %to slag %the shapes they've made in the sky %cannot be reduced Subject(s): Nature COFFIN HANDLE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Leaves a lasting impression %on a hand Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Nature COLD, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow. No roofs this morning, alps, ominous message Subject(s): Nature COLD, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow. No roofs this morning, alps, ominous message Last Line: Stealing the emergency away from us, %starving the animals eventually; first, the birds Subject(s): Nature COLDER THE RAINDROPS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The harder they knock %on the door Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Rain COLIN FORTUNATUS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Colin once a shepherd boy Last Line: Once more in the grass with goat-heeled pan, Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Nature; Shepherds & Shepherdesses COME AWAY, DEATH, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Willy nilly, he comes or goes, with the clown's logic Last Line: On the outmoded page of the apocalypse. Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Death; Nature; Dead, The COME CLOSE TO DEATH, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What's under your nose Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Nature COME FOR ARBUTUS, MY DEAR, MY DEAR, by SARAH LOUISE OBERHOLTZER Poem Source Subject(s): Arbutus; Nature COME HERE, LITTLE ROBIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Nature; Winter COME HITHER, YE WHO THIRST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Poor shipwreck of life, journey hither, %and we'll talk of life's troubles together Subject(s): Nature COME INTO ANIMAL PRESENCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: An old joy returns in holy presence Subject(s): Animals; Nature COME TO THINK OF IT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who you are Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Identity; Introspection; Nature; Self COME, MY BELOVED, HEAR FROM ME, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That whoso hears must hear again Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Nature; Love; Life COMING HOME FROM THE TAVERN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Doglike, the snake is getting comfortable Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Snakes COMING HOME LATE FROM THE TAVERN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But no, the death of a glorious mouse Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Metaphor; Mice; Nature; Poetry And Poets COMING OF DAWN, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thin silver cloud-veils hide the moon Last Line: The darkness fall, Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Weather COMMON NAMES & COMPANIES, by CAROLYN KOO Poem Source First Line: Present in every garden Last Line: Shuffling out of our path Subject(s): Names; Nature COMMUNING WITH MOTHER NATURE ON MOUNT WASHINGTON: 'I WALK ALONE'..., by MARTHA KINNEY Poem Source First Line: Hey, dig the marines taking a break Last Line: Right smack off the captain's knife Subject(s): Army Life; Nature; Women COMPARISON OF LOVE TO A STREAM FALLING FROM THE ALPS, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From these high hills as when a spring doth fall Last Line: The first estew is remedy alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 95;epigram: 10 Subject(s): Love - Nature Of COMPENSATION, by MARY BEALE CARR Poem Text First Line: The mountain wears a mellow mood today Last Line: Has drunk the cup of life that beauty spills. Subject(s): Nature COMPENSATION, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One launched a ship, but she was wrecked at sea Last Line: Lay the foundations for one island more. Subject(s): God; Nature; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Sleep; Ocean COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1802, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth has not anything to show more fair Last Line: And all that mighty heart is lying still! Variant Title(s): Sonnet;sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802;calm;morning In London;upon Westminster Bridge;westminster Bridge Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Cities; England; London; Morning; Nature; Rivers; Time; Urban Life; English COMRADES OF THE TRAIL, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Until the day the world shall die Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Nature CONCEPTION, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: I will collapse beneath this tender task Last Line: Within their thick green tongues Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Memory; Nature CONCERNING THE FLOODING OF PRAGUE AFTER CONSTANT RAINS, by ELIZABETH WESTON Poem Source First Line: The unkind skies have called up angry winds Last Line: Oh jove, who tames wild monsters of the deep, %incline your head and drown these many woes Subject(s): Nature CONCERT, by RAY CLARK DICKSON Poem Source First Line: There are no metaphors %to simplify Last Line: I adore your nest, he says, %--where the birds %--of flesh %--sing freely Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Symphonies CONCLUDING VERSES, AFTER RETURNING HOME FROM AN AUTUMNAL MORNING WALK, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the very carnival of nature Last Line: "with borrow'd light from thee, for they are thine!" Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Homecoming; Nature; Autumn; Thanksgiving; Mortality; Fall CONCRETE DELIVERY DELAYED BY GOOSE & GOSLING CROSSING..., by RICHARD KENNEY Poem Source First Line: Ok, right here's the first dry pavement geyser Last Line: And nothing in the whole world hard or straight %but the driver's eye and the goose's gait Subject(s): Nature CONDEMNING THE MOONGOD NANNA, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: As for me, my nanna ignores me Last Line: Turn them against your own body. %they are made for you' Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion CONEWANGO, by ANDREW ZAWACKI Poem Source First Line: Submerged now in the tadpole slaver and creosote thaw of spring Last Line: Say to the thrush, is bound to have changed by the times it reaches a %clearing Subject(s): Nature CONFUSED IN PASSAGE, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: We do not keep them Subject(s): Nature; Swamps CONGRESS AVENUE BRIDGE IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: Mexican free-tailed bats Last Line: Foretold the fall migration Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Nature CONNECTICUT HILLS, by MINERVA WRIGHT ROCKWELL Poem Text First Line: For countless centuries these hills have stood Last Line: Will sleep among these hills, to waken at their bidding. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) CONNECTIONS, by ROSE FLINT Poem Source First Line: If I am aware, then the notes come Last Line: We are all in it. All Variant Title(s): Serenad Subject(s): Nature CONQUEST, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have not conquered me, it is the surge Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Love - Nature Of CONSIDER THE GARDEN, by MICHAEL COLLIER Poem Source First Line: I worry for the borccoli's sake Last Line: And evening mist, and the disfigurement %we recognize as judgment in everything Subject(s): Nature CONSIDERATION, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I step into the grassy clearing just Last Line: Not wishing to disturb or be disturbed Subject(s): Nature CONSOLATION, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: I watch at eve thy bright inquisitive eyes Last Line: But with honour, truth, and destiny not slain. Subject(s): Consolation; Hearts; Love - Nature Of CONSTANT BEAUTY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's good to have the trees again, the singing of Last Line: And find the constant roses here to comfort us again. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Nature CONSULAR DIVIDES AND THE BUTTES GLOW, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Masts at the end of the streets Subject(s): Nature CONTENTMENT, by FLORA M. KENISTON Poem Text First Line: People who live where the sound of the ocean Last Line: Are sweetest of music which lulls me to sleep. Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life; Nature CONTINUITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: No sign is made while empires pass Last Line: Some yet more lovely masterpiece. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Art & Artists; God; Life; Nature - Religious Aspects CONTRAST, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world has many seas, mediterranean, atlantic, but Last Line: Mind to stand with the trees, one life with / the mountains Subject(s): Human Behavior; Nature; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CONVERSATION, by SARA HAMILTON BIRCHALL Poem Source First Line: A little road goes up the hill Subject(s): Nature CONVERSATION WITH THREE WOMEN OF NEW ENGLAND, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mode of the person becomes the mode of the world Subject(s): Human Behavior; Women; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature COOK COUNTY, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The northeast wind was the wind off the lake Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Variant Title(s): Weather Subject(s): Nature; Weather; Wind COOK COUNTY, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The northeast wind was the wind off the lake Last Line: And snow on the sand where in summer the water was... Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Variant Title(s): Weathe Subject(s): Nature; Weather; Wind COOL LOAM, by LOUISE MOSS MONTGOMERY Poem Text First Line: When beneath cool loam I lie Last Line: Even then can I forget? Subject(s): Nature COOL REFLECTIONS DURING A MIDSUMMER WALK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O spare me -- spare me, phoebus! If, indeed Last Line: Nymph of the stream, now take a grateful prayer. Subject(s): Beauty; Happiness; Mythology - Classical; Nature - Religious Aspects; Paganism & Pagans; Prayer; Summer; Joy; Delight COOL, OH NO COOL, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: From which you may not fly Subject(s): Love – Nature Of COQUETTE, by KEITH STUART Poem Source First Line: I am wearied with insatiable longing Subject(s): Nature CORDUROY ROAD, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Crossing the high %wet slope, ascending Last Line: Textured surface that we follow down Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) CORMORANT, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Men speak lightly of frustration Last Line: The steamered boats of tourists %rocking under sake fumes Subject(s): Nature CORMORANT BOATS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: One night in japan Last Line: While my fingers fumble %at the leash Subject(s): Earth; Nature CORN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There is a plant you often see Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons CORRESPONDENCES; HEXAMETERS AND PENTAMETERS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All things in nature are beautiful types to the soul that will read them Last Line: Seeing in all things around, types of the infinite mind. Subject(s): Nature COSMOS, by LILLIAN CRELLIN Poem Text First Line: One morning I sat at my window at dawn Last Line: God's whisper of love through all life's long way. Subject(s): Cosmology; Nature; Sight COTTON PLANT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sing, oh sing for the cotton plant! Subject(s): Nature; Summer COULD LOVE IMPART, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To star, the cope of night! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Nature COUNSEL, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, like ulysses Last Line: Love is unreturning! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of COUNTRY OF ROCKS, by LORI POWELL Poem Source First Line: When all has gone soft Last Line: Lodge a stony finger under my ribs Subject(s): Nature COUNTRY OF THE PROUD, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fall over rock Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Streams; Nature COUNTRYSIDE: 12, by JOSE GOMES FERREIRA Poem Source First Line: So many flowers - blue, green, white, yellow, red and the lilies Last Line: Fragrant with the wonder of existence %and the dream of all natural things Subject(s): Colors; Country Life; Flowers; Nature COURTESY, by DANIEL SARGENT Poem Text First Line: Blessed be god who made such pretty briches Last Line: The beach grass the embroidery of the wave. Subject(s): Creation; God; Nature - Religious Aspects COVENANT, by ANDREW ZAWACKI Poem Source First Line: Follow that noise which beckons you toward the border: the road Last Line: Keeping the light from leaving too soon Subject(s): Nature COWDOGS CAUGHT THEIR FIRST JACKRABBIT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Growling to protect his trophy, the bloody ears Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Nature; Rabbits COWS, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Seen from a distance, dappled and picturesque Last Line: Might break the bonds by which it enslaves itself %climb over the fence to take a closer look Subject(s): Nature COYOTE CREEK, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was a small canyon, very small Last Line: While the sun sank all at once behind him. Subject(s): Family Life; Gifts & Giving; Nature; Prayer; Relatives CRACK INSIDE MY BREAST, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A crack inside my breast split through bone Last Line: A needle rises, every circle I walk out in the open, so %this in how I write juices, nerves and Subject(s): Nature CRADLE SONG, by CARIS BROOKE Poem Text First Line: O blue eyes close in slumber Last Line: While baby is asleep. Subject(s): Nature; Summer CRAGS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a good and reverend man Last Line: In his by nature's sacred right. Subject(s): Time; Life; Nature CRAWLING OUT AT PARTIES, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My old reptile loves the scotch Last Line: The stagnant, sobering water. Subject(s): Animals; Human Behavior; Parties; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CRAYONS: A RAINBOW POEM, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: This box contains the wash of blue sky Last Line: All %the %colors %of %the %world Subject(s): Nature CRAZY WITH LOVE, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crazy with love, the birds fold Last Line: Start some board-legged dance %and twirl until you tear a muscle Subject(s): Nature CREDO, by VERA WHEATLEY Poem Source First Line: I believe %in the whispering of the peacock-plumaged sea Subject(s): Nature CRIMES OF LUGALANNE, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: I can't appease ashimbabbar, the moon god an Last Line: Throw this man out of the city %and capture him! Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion CRISIS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth upon earth %between the confines of the day Last Line: The head in the hands, %the urn upon the knee Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Sky; Stars CRITICAL DISTANCE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All game animals know what it is Subject(s): Hunting; Nature; Hunters CRITICAL DISTANCE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All game animals know what it is Last Line: For you to recall, alone in your own field Subject(s): Hunting; Nature CROCUS'S SOLILOQUY, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down in my solitude under the snow Subject(s): Nature; Spring CROSSED OUT, by DEVIN JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Wright & chandler fit an ark 'without history' Last Line: These are the iron %limbs of law Subject(s): History; Nature CROSSING KA'U DESERT, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From under the harpstring shade of tree ferns Last Line: Driving a black channel %through hymnless ground Subject(s): Nature CROSSING PATHS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: A single hoof mark Last Line: Worth taking %beyond the woods Subject(s): Nature CROSSING THE HSIANG RIVER AT NIGHT, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A wandering traveler anxious to make the crossing Last Line: Which way to get to ts'en-yang?' Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature CROW COME FROM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: No one will listen Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Family Life; Nature; Psychoanalysis CROW WITH A RED BEAK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Looks over his shoulder Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Nature CRUMPLED CANDY WRAPPER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To the rain Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Rain; Refuse And Refuse Disposal CRY OF THE HILLBORN, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am homesick for the mountains Subject(s): Mountains; Nature CUCKOO SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Summer is I-cumen [or a-coming or y-comen] in Last Line: "sing cuckoo. Sing, cuckoo, now!" Variant Title(s): The Cuckoo Song Subject(s): Birds;cuckoos;nature;spring;summer CUCKOO SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Summer is a-coming in %loud sing cuckoo Subject(s): Nature CULTIVATOR, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER Poem Source First Line: Her orchids were meaty, purple organs Last Line: Of flores para los muertos grew %beautiful, feeding on our misfortunes Subject(s): Nature CUP, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cup I sing is a cup of gold Subject(s): Nature CUPS OF THE TULIPS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tip forward, spilling their snow Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Snow; Tulips CURING TIME, by CLAUDIA EMERSON ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Her muslin shift clung to her, wet and close Last Line: In hearts we leave behind is not to die Subject(s): Nature; Relationships CURIOUS EXPERIMENTS, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I don't think it's been done, but it's been said Last Line: To be and end it. As for seeing through a wimp's %design or,for that matter, god's: must we take no Subject(s): Nature CURSE ON URUK, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: What am I in the place of nourishment Last Line: When the people of the city hear my sacred song, %they are ready to die Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion CUTTING A TRACK TO CARDWELL, by TOM MURRAY Poem Source First Line: The track is cleared Last Line: Lips slapping as they talk %all talking at the same time Subject(s): Nature CYGNUS, by TOM SEXTON Poem Source First Line: Long past sunset while I split green wood Last Line: Recall what was once so wonderful and wild Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Swans CYNTHIA'S REVELS, SELECTION, by BEN JONSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Variant Title(s): Echo's Dirge For Narcissus Subject(s): Nature CYNTHIA'S REVELS, SELS., by BEN JONSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Variant Title(s): Echo's Dirge For Narcissu Subject(s): Nature CYNTHIADES: TO CYNTHIA ON HIS LOVE AFTER DEATH, by FRANCIS KYNASTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let lovers that like honey-flies Last Line: Lives, though not in thine eyes, yet in my heart. Subject(s): Death; Love - Nature Of; Dead, The DADDY'S ACTING ODD IN SPRINGTIME (MARCH 1), by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Patches of snow in hollows. Bits of green on banks Last Line: Or snow squall in from cold blue mountains, %he worris for these tender weeds Subject(s): March (month); Nature DADDY'S ACTING ODD IN SPRINGTIME (MARCH 15), by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Springs fork out through hillside stones Last Line: High overhead, canada geese are honking home %spilling mad calls into cold air Subject(s): Forests; March (month); Nature DAILY DYING, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not in a moment drops the rose Last Line: Wide they will open for you and me! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Nature; Summer; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DAIRY COWS OF MARIA CRISTINA CORTES, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although they may be Last Line: With mud, and filled with an ancient cow- %sorrow and-wonder Subject(s): Nature DAISY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The daisy is the meekest flower Subject(s): Nature; Spring DALUA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard you calling, dalua dalua! Last Line: Dalua . . . Dalua . . . Dalua Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Fairies; Mythology - Celtic; Nature; Elves DANCE OF THE MONTHS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The new year comes in with shout and laughter Subject(s): Nature; Winter DANDELION, by KATE LOUISE BROWN Poem Source First Line: He is a roguish little elf Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Nature; Spring; Weeds DARK CHAMBER, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brain forgets but the blood will remember Last Line: The music, the silence - these will remain Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of DARK PRAYER (2), by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long before dawn, anxiety has me Last Line: Those to whom I pray-- %powers invisible, hidden in wings Subject(s): Nature DARK TREES: 1. HEATSTROKE, by ROSALIE SANARA PETROUSKE Poem Source First Line: Pushing away from wisconsin, %your children in the backseat grow noisier Last Line: Their whines pitched to a soft mewling Subject(s): Love; Nature DARK TREES: 2. THE FIRST DAY OF SUMMER, by ROSALIE SANARA PETROUSKE Poem Source First Line: June sun burns hot on the beach at fuller park Last Line: Without a history, divorce papers and half-lives Subject(s): Love; Nature DARK TREES: 3. PENMANSHIP, by ROSALIE SANARA PETROUSKE Poem Source First Line: Outside wind sweeps a summer storm closer Last Line: Dance. She thought I was her real mother then Subject(s): Love; Nature DARK TREES: 4. SMALL SWIMMER, by ROSALIE SANARA PETROUSKE Poem Source First Line: Tina wants to come into the big bed with me Last Line: She wraps her arms around your neck, %a small swimmer Subject(s): Love; Nature DARK TREES: 5. THE LAST DAYS OF SUMMER, by ROSALIE SANARA PETROUSKE Poem Source First Line: Today, we take your daughters back to Last Line: We will drive past the dark patch of road %where we hit the deer Subject(s): Love; Nature DARK VIEW, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun that puts its spokes in every Subject(s): Nature DARK WOOD, DARK WATER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This wood burns a dark Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Nature DARTSIDE, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot tell what you say, green leaves Last Line: "and the whispering woodlands say." Subject(s): Nature DAUGHTERS OF JOY, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long, subtle-floating, the choir Last Line: While man knows not of love, and cannot curb his fever. Subject(s): London; Love - Nature Of; Women DAVID AND BATHSHUA: SPRING SONG, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How joyous the spring is! Last Line: The daffodil glade. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Seasons; Spring; Woods DAWN, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night was dark, though sometimes a faint star Last Line: A blade of gold flashed on the horizon's rim. Subject(s): Dawn; Nature; Sunrise DAY BREAKS', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The day breaks - the first rays of the rising sun, stretching Last Line: She shines on the blossoming coolibah tree, with its sprawling %roots. %its shady branches spreading Subject(s): Nature DAY BY DAY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a beauty of the forest and a beauty of the hill Last Line: And the path is reaching on, is reaching on. Subject(s): Nature DAY DREAMS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: What time is like the glad springtime Last Line: Of dreams for this fair world of flowers. Subject(s): Love; Nature; Spring DAY I BECAME A VEGETARIAN, by FREDERICK E. STEINWAY Poem Source First Line: I woke from a dream that all my friends were scallions Last Line: I found letters from all the fish in the seas Subject(s): Nature DAY LILIES: INSTRUCTIONS AND AN ELEGY, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Plant them with shadows in mind, under a dying Last Line: And not for you, my friend, who might have planted them Subject(s): Nature DAY OF DELIGHT, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tarry no longer, maid most sweet Last Line: The sanguine heart of holiday. Subject(s): Day; Love; Nature DAY'S PARLOR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day came slow, till five o'clock Last Line: The parlor of the day! Variant Title(s): Poem: 304;poem: 572 Subject(s): Nature DAY: EVENING, by JOHN CUNNINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the heath the heifer strays Last Line: Bid the setting sun adieu. Subject(s): Evening; Landscape; Nature; Sunset; Twilight DAY: MORNING, by JOHN CUNNINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the barn the tenant cock Last Line: Echoes to the rising day. Subject(s): Landscape; Morning; Nature DAY: NOON, by JOHN CUNNINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fervid on the glitt'ring flood Last Line: Brighten'd by the beams of noon. Subject(s): Landscape; Nature; Noon DAYBREAK, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Sun! Sun! Sun! Sun! Last Line: Sun! Sun! Sun! Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sun; Sunrise DAYBREAK, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wind came up out of the sea Last Line: "and said, ""not yet! In quiet lie." Subject(s): Dawn; Nature; Sunrise DAYBREAK, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: A goldeneye whistles across the lake Last Line: When I am done, I am still there Subject(s): Morning; Nature DAYS, by ELIOT KAYS STONE Poem Text First Line: How can I tell which days have yielded fruit? Last Line: Shall on the last day bring me blame or praise? Subject(s): Day; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature DAYS LIKE THESE, by ELLA ELIZABETH EGBERT Poem Source First Line: I like the tangled brakes and briers Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons DAYS THAT ARE TAPESTRIES, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Some days go by Last Line: A rapturous, singing mirth! Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Singing & Singers; Tapestries DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 1, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Delight of humane kind, and gods above Last Line: And quiet to the weary world restore. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Mankind; Nature; Translating & Interpreting; Human Race DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 2, SELECTION, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis pleasant, safely to behold from shore Last Line: Their beames abroad, and bring the darksome soul to day. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Nature; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Translating & Interpreting DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 5, SELECTION, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus like a sailor by the tempest hurled Last Line: And nature's lavish hand supplies their common wants. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Variant Title(s): The Infant Subject(s): Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Nature; Storms; Translating & Interpreting DEAD BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How did a great red-tailed hawk Last Line: The dead by the side of the road Subject(s): Nature DEAD LEAVES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fallen leaves were lying thick upon the Last Line: Be all wrong. Subject(s): Dirt; Gardens & Gardening; Lawns; Leaves; Nature; Public Health DEAD RACCOON, LEGS IN THE AIR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Washes his paws in the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death - Animals; Nature; Raccoons DEAD SEAL NEAR MCCLURE'S BEACH, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking north toward the point, I come on a dead seal. From a Last Line: The cliff and go home the other way Subject(s): Nature DEALATE, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Even before some power in the thorax Last Line: To resume the work of the earth Subject(s): Nature DEATH AS THE TEACHER OF LOVE-LORE, by FRANK T. MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Twas in mid autumn, and the woods Last Line: Learning from death that love can never die. Subject(s): Death; Love - Nature Of; Dead, The DEATH OF KINGS, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Giant; %sleek master of the oceans Last Line: And we shall have one more kingdom %empty of kings Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Sea Monsters DEATH OF PLINY THE ELDER: LULL, by CHRISTOPHER PATTON Poem Source First Line: Because the lion loves Last Line: Come upon me %an uncommon calm Subject(s): Animals; Lions; Nature DEATH OF PLINY THE ELDER: SHEAF, by CHRISTOPHER PATTON Poem Source First Line: The papyrus root Last Line: Seawrack on a weak and brackish wave Subject(s): Nature; Plants; Sea DECALOGUE OF THE ARTIST, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: You shall love beauty, which is the shadow of god Last Line: That most marvelous dream of god which is nature Subject(s): Art And Artists; Beauty; Creation; Nature DECEMBER, by JOEL BENTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the feud of hot and cold Last Line: Which weaves this spotless shroud of snow! Subject(s): December; Nature DECEMBER, by LUMAN R. BOWDISH Poem Text First Line: Keen is the clear deep vault of night Last Line: Boreas molds the sullen storm. Subject(s): December; Frost; Nature; Storms DECEMBER, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Sweeping the country and the leafy valley Last Line: Like the earth she tastes her sabbath Subject(s): December; Nature DECEMBER, OUTDOORS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds like fish shedding scales are stretched Subject(s): Winter; Nature DECEPTION PASS; FOR JUDY AND MARK KAWASAKI, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is very high here Last Line: Lingers upon this thigh of tide. Subject(s): Islands; Nature DECIMA: 1, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's no love like hopeless love Last Line: Carried me from earth to heaven. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of DEDICATION TO POEMS AND BALLADS, 1ST SERIES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea gives her shells to the shingle Last Line: Night sinks on the sea. Variant Title(s): Dedication: 1865 Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Sea; Seasons; Wind; World; Ocean DEEP DOWN, by JAMES STUART MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: The light qare on the harbor Subject(s): Nature DEEP ECOLOGY, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My wife stays home and stares at the amaryllis Last Line: The deep echo of that flower's bloom %for the empty sound of two hands clapping? Subject(s): Nature DEEP WATER MAN, by JAMES STUART MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: O give me the pole star overhead Subject(s): Nature DEER, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long did we watch? How long did those Last Line: Until our will to love was also our power to kill Subject(s): Nature DEER HUNG FLAPPING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Pushed by an inner wind Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death - Animals; Deer; Nature DEERFLIES DIE BY THE BILLIONS, THE COOL AIR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the moon drifts closer to the cabin door Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Air; Flies; Nature; Night DEFINITION OF THE FRONTIERS, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First there is the wind but not like the familiar wind but long and without lapses Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Nature; War; Boundaries; Borders DEGENERACY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Has nature's self been going backward Last Line: And yet are faithful now no more. Subject(s): Faith; Flowers; Nature; Belief; Creed DEGREES OF LOVE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When your eyes opened to my eyes Last Line: Hatred of love for loving me. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of DELIGHT BECOMES PICTORIAL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And that's — the skies Subject(s): Sky; Mountains; Nature DELIGHT IN NATURE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Isn't it delightful Last Line: The island is so beautiful, %when, driving steadily, %you gain on it Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nature DELIVERANCE OF AMATERASU, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: No mortal man can, without incongruity Last Line: Little round mirror of polished metal Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Light; Mythology; Nature DENIAL, by LANCASTER POLLARD Poem Source First Line: It is not down this road I walk Subject(s): Country Life; Nature DEO GRATIAS, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Thanks be to god for golden afterglory Last Line: Thanks be to god for life's bright afterglow. Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): God; Gratitude; Nature - Religious Aspects DEPTH IMAGE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: As the human %eye desires light %and movement, seeks out Last Line: Latent, this lake's %floating trellis Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) DESERT SPACE, by REG SANER Poem Source First Line: A great garden of blossoming nails Last Line: On this land, quiet as sunlight %in motion, or the 747, melting away %to a sheep bell Subject(s): Environment; Nature DESIGN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found a dimpled spider, fat and white Last Line: If design govern in a thing so small. Subject(s): Death; Fate; God; Insects; Men; Nature; Spiders; Dead, The; Destiny; Bugs DESOLATION, by DABNEY STUART Poem Source First Line: At the top of the dune Last Line: Foetus, the lustrous dark %eyes calling %his unborn names Subject(s): Nature DEW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mamma,' said little isabel Subject(s): Nature; Summer DEWDROPS ARE THE DREAMS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Into the morning Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dew; Nature DIASPORA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The forsythia bush is made of yellow fire Subject(s): Learning; Nature DIASPORA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The forsythia bush is made of yellow fire Last Line: More and more will be expected of you Subject(s): Learning; Nature DICKHEAD, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Alienation (social); Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature DID YOU NEVER KNOW?, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of DIEBACK, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: I wonder whether, Last Line: And comes back, that dies and goes %on. Or this time doesn't. Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) DIFFERENT MINDS, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some murmur when their sky is clear Last Line: Such rich provision made. Variant Title(s): Content [and Discord] Subject(s): Human Behavior; Service; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature DIFFERENT TIME, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: In what way do the cows Last Line: Over the strong warm backs %of cattle? Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace DIGGING (1), by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I think Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Nature DIGGING (1), by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I think Last Line: While the robin sings over again %sad songs of autumn mirth Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Nature DIGNITY OF LABOR, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Genius of toil! Our verse indite / and blaze along each line! Last Line: To feed, and warm, and cheer, and bless the world. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Life; Muses; Nature; Work; Workers DILAPIDATED FOUNDATION IN CLINTON COUNTY, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Just all low broken stones Last Line: That dilapidate spills from stone Subject(s): Nature; Stones DIPPER, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I saw %in a quick-falling, white-veined stream Last Line: Like a dark bird dipping in and out, tasting and singing Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Pleasure DIRECTION, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the way there are signs, nothing Subject(s): Nature; Signs & Signboards DIRECTION, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the way there are signs, nothing Last Line: The limitless ocean passing over the many bones Subject(s): Nature; Signs And Signboards DIRT, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was standing in the frozen garden Last Line: The compost layered with leaf-ghosts, %a crumb of what I was when I was alive Subject(s): Nature DIRT TIME, by ELAINE PRESTON Poem Source First Line: Your bare toes, dew-wet evenings. Bats sliding between Last Line: The air rippling with your outspread hands Subject(s): Nature DISAPPOINTED SNOWFLAKES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Four and twenty snowflakes came tumbling from the sky Subject(s): Nature; Winter DISCLOSED, by GEORGE HERBERT FULLERTON Poem Text First Line: Thrice have I seen the living soul disclosed Last Line: Each held a beauteous soul which god had given. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature; Soul DISCONNECTING, by DREW TEN EYCK Poem Source First Line: You're in one of those moods Last Line: You confuse love with what is not Subject(s): Love - Nature Of DISCONTENT, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down in a field, one day in june Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Nature; Summer DISCORDANTS: 1, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music I heard with you was more than music Last Line: They knew you once, o beautiful and wise. Variant Title(s): Bread And Music Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of DISLIKE OF NATURE, by ONO TOSABURO Poem Source First Line: I don't know many %names of trees Subject(s): Likes And Dislikes; Nature; Trees DISPARATES: 1., by GORAN SONNEVI Poem Source First Line: Saw a butterfly Last Line: A small tortoiseshell- Subject(s): Animals; Nature DISPOSSESSED, by JANICE GOULD Poem Source First Line: I remember in october Last Line: Of massive power lines, %the cabin with its spirit children - %these things ar not mine Subject(s): Nature DISSOLVE, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Durer rides into the mountains Last Line: He will have figs and dancing lessons-- %and promise the mornings to watercolor Subject(s): Nature DISTANCE, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: Sometimes you want to take distance Last Line: Touches another, or the dark circle %where two people start a fire Subject(s): Bodies; Nature DISTANCE AND DEPTH, by PATTIANN ROGERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whether looking down through Subject(s): Nature DISTANCE AND DEPTH, by PATTIANN ROGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whether looking down through Last Line: If one should only ask %for such a favor Subject(s): Nature DISTANCE COLLAPSED IN RUBBLE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Distance collapsed in rubble and time was shaken Last Line: A mighty generation of people died out %but everyone knew that the time was very near Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Nature DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 1. THE PATH TO THE MEADOW, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: We walk through the shadow Last Line: We will not come here again Subject(s): Central America; Nature DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 10. THE UNDATED DREAM, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: I am drifting down from a blue, blue sky Last Line: And nothing will rouse me %from such calm water Subject(s): Central America; Nature DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 2. CONFESSION, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Listen, doctor, I tell you Last Line: Foreign eyes that might have %held him here Subject(s): Central America; Nature DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 3. THE CHILD'S BODY DREAM, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: You said look, but I would not look Last Line: And it is flesh %you no longer have to own Subject(s): Central America; Nature DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 4. AIR, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: There were the heirlooms %to consider Last Line: A faint whisper when I stepped %from the train in vienna Subject(s): Central America; Nature DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 5. THREE DRESSES DREAM, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: In the closet, there are three Last Line: Rustles in its muslin bag Subject(s): Central America; Nature DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 6. DANCES DREAM, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: She ties the corsage to her wrist Last Line: Of the vague colors of august Subject(s): Central America; Nature DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 7. THE STORY OF MARRIAGE, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: If you marry me, though it's you Last Line: It is not a matter of choice Subject(s): Central America; Nature DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 8. MERMAID DREAM, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: We followed her %her white lace dress Last Line: Her fins a scratch %across my forehead Subject(s): Central America; Nature DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 9. MEMORY, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: If he had been good to me Last Line: And then I would be free, %free and light as air Subject(s): Central America; Nature DIVINING THE LANDSCAPE, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Chin deep Last Line: Once more Subject(s): Landscape; Nature DNA SHOWS THAT I'M THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Only politicians shitting out of their mouths Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Politics; Social Protest; Unknown Soldier DO NOT STAND ENOUGH APART, by PEGGY WILLIAMS POWERS Poem Text First Line: Think love is neither small nor great Last Line: Nor reckon the stuff of infinity. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of DO YOU FEEL YOUR AGE?' SHE ASKED, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Then set it free Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Nature DO YOU KNOW?, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you know the grapes are purpling Last Line: You would know that autumn's here. Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Fall DO YOU STILL WANT TO BE ISADORA DUNCAN, MOTHER?, by ROSALIE SANARA PETROUSKE Poem Source First Line: She wanted to be isadora duncan Last Line: Unable to stop the turning Subject(s): Love; Nature DOG DAYS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In the river's eddy Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Calm; Nature; Rivers DOG DAYS IN VERMONT, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cistern on the hill, sucked dry and sizzling Last Line: Imagination's limits, how they fade... %even the dogs are sleeping in their pens. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Mountains; Nature; Travel; Vacation; Vermont DOGS OF MONTONE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jockeyed by fleas and led, as we say Last Line: Like raddled islands, bark: the lake %of the black night is everywhere Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Nature DOLLS, by ROSALIE SANARA PETROUSKE Poem Source First Line: At three years old %I hated dolls Last Line: Hung the axe back on its hook Subject(s): Love; Nature DOMESDAY BOOK: GOTTLIEB GERALD, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew her, why of course. And you want me? Last Line: This talk of lilli alm and ludwig haibt: Subject(s): Death; Hate; Home; Nature; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs DOMUS CAEDET ARBOREM, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever since the great planes were murdered Last Line: Were simply biding their time Subject(s): Civilization; Environment; Nature; Trees DOOR, by ORRICK JOHNS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love is a proud and gentle thing, a better thing to own Last Line: For life is only a small house - and love is an open door Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of DOOR, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How the sun lights the fuses of the sky- Last Line: Where the sandhill crane calls and calls, her song %the sound of someone opening a door... Subject(s): Fields; Nature DOOR OF THE DEVIL, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: At puerto del diablo, the boys Last Line: The white streets of the city Subject(s): Central America; Nature DOOR: 1. WEALTHY HOTCHKISS BROWN, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Well, you know doors are always opening Last Line: But also not enough to know what we should do Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) DOOR: 2. VINA CONOWAY PRIESTLEY, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I felt that land was haunted, when Last Line: We can't see, and can't yet understand Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) DOUBLED MIRRORS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is the dark of the moon Subject(s): Insects; Nature; Raccoons; Spiders; Bugs DOUBLED MIRRORS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the dark of the moon Last Line: Across immeasurable distance Subject(s): Insects; Nature; Raccoons; Spiders DOVE, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shapes as a series of edges, each edge Subject(s): Nature DOVE, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shapes as a series of edges, each edge Last Line: Those lines in earth drawn with sticks that will be %straight but not in this life, love, nor money Subject(s): Nature DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 1. SUNRISE IN THE TROPICS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sol, sol, mighty lord of the tropic zone Last Line: Once more behold! The sun! Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Nature DOWN EAST AND UP ALONG THE FRINGY COAST OF MAINE, by EDWIN OSGOOD GROVER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Maine (state); Nature DOWN EAST NEWS ITEM, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a stove-in fifties cadillac Last Line: Elsewhere general motors hums Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Nature DOWN THE TRAM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hell is like this -- first stone Last Line: They must be beautiful Subject(s): Beauty; Hell; Nature DOZEN DEAD HOUSEFLIES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of summer, smashed on the sill Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Flies; Nature; Summer DRAGGING THE RIVER, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Behind the hospital where we were born, we start across the plank Last Line: They find no weapon. Later, we hear the wounded victim survives Subject(s): Memory; Nature; Rivers DREAM BELOW THE SUN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Distantly, against the red afternoon, %windows in the great tower glitter Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Sleep DREAM OF SPRING, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Easter sunday, the children Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) DREAM OF WATER, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: Glimpsed from the wrong side of a motorway Last Line: Run loose as water at the dream's beginning Subject(s): Nature DREAM ON, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Some people go their whole lives Subject(s): Dreams; Human Behavior; Nightmares; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature DREAM VARIATIONS [OR, VARIATION], by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To fling my arms wide Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): Dream Variations Subject(s): African Americans; Imagination; Nature; Negroes; American Blacks; Fancy DREAM VARIATIONS [OR, VARIATION], by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To fling my arms wide Last Line: Night coming tenderly %black like me Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): Dream Variation Subject(s): African Americans; Imagination; Nature DRIFTING IN MONTANA, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: Dry grass and heaven's breath upon the banks Last Line: Drowns the owl's dark flute Subject(s): Nature DRIFTROSE, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: What weird rewards the waves wash up Last Line: Including that wet rose you held in your hand Subject(s): Love - Marital; Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Problems DRINKING IN THE SPACE, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: I come here for faces Last Line: Under the hovering storm, into the night Subject(s): Nature DRINKING WINE(2), by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I built my house near where others live, Last Line: I wish to tell you, but lose the words Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Nature DRINKING WINE(3), by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fall chrysanthemums have fine colors. Last Line: Go ahead, embrace this life Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Life; Nature; Solitude DRIVING, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Sometimes by the wayside there's a shack Last Line: Reading stories as fleet as ghosts Subject(s): Nature DRIVING WEST TEXAS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Cotton tufts cling to withered plants Last Line: Sucking up the black death %of their ancestors Subject(s): Earth; Nature DRIZZLE, by CORNELIUS ROBERT EADY Poem Source First Line: Such a brightness Last Line: It's spring, %mr. Blues. %you can't fool me %with drizzle Subject(s): Nature DROUGHT REPORT 1988, by JANE LAVENDER Poem Source First Line: Dreamy visions recall - ppast warming Last Line: Quench %droughty earth Subject(s): Environment; Nature DRUNK, by GEORGE JAMES MICHALOPOULOS Poem Text First Line: The churl swings his caloused hands against the city's Last Line: The churl smiles and staggers. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature DRUNKEN MAN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Spills most of his importance %on his shoes Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Nature DRY RIVER, by ROSEMARY DOBSON Poem Source First Line: Scrabble of pencil marked it on the map Last Line: Mirages deceive: I wait with longing %a flood of poems, a rain of rhyme Subject(s): Nature DRY SEASON, by O. H. KWESI BREW Poem Source First Line: The year is withering; the wind Last Line: The dogs will run for the hare, %the hare for its little life Subject(s): Nature DUALITIES, by M. H. THATCHER Poem Text First Line: Two laws of motion rule our ancient earth Last Line: To live by law, the task of sighted man! Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Seasons; World DUCK PAIR, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silver water not the standard Last Line: No small part of their safe-conduct - habits %by now a fact like plumage, axiomatic Subject(s): Environment; Nature DUCKS ARE FOR OUR HAPPINESS, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ben franklin again, down by the esplanade Last Line: He says to the river. My god, their happiness, fresno Subject(s): Nature DUMB, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All men are poets if they might but tell Last Line: Fares in slow narrowing cycles to the end. Subject(s): Nature DUSK, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the gathering dark, the tree trunk bare Last Line: Being fed the sky Subject(s): Environment; Nature DUSK, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk wraps the village in its dim caress Last Line: Into the vast of god. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Dusk; God; Nature - Religious Aspects DUSK COMING ON OUTSIDE--------, NEW YORK, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A kind of mountain pond or lake Subject(s): Nature DUSK COMING ON OUTSIDE--------, NEW YORK, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A kind of mountain pond or lake Last Line: Bending into wavelengths through the glass %with the fluency of water, water's cold gray eyes Subject(s): Nature DUST, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I went to look at what had long been hidden Last Line: Before the years can make it wise. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of DUST DEVIL, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Born in the high desert Last Line: Want to dance with their dust Subject(s): Earth; Nature DUST TOO, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is drawn on wings %to light Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dust; Nature DUSTING, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you for these tiny Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Nature DUSTING, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you for these tiny Last Line: Thank you. For dust Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Nature DUTCHMAN'S BREECHES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the month when lilacs bloom Last Line: The garments of the great ten broeck. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Legends; May (month); Nature; New York City - Dutch Period DWARF AND GIANT, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As on through life's journey we go,day by day Last Line: "and dare for the right to say always, ""I can!" Subject(s): Human Behavior; Idleness; Life; Perseverance; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence EACH AND [OR, IN] ALL, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown Last Line: I yielded myself to the perfect whole. Subject(s): Beauty; God; Humanity; Nature EACH CLOCK TICK FALLS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As if it were nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Clocks; Nature; Time EACH DAY, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Late fall sun stirs these plants in my care Last Line: As I do each day, %as I do each day Subject(s): Morning; Nature EACH TIME I GO OUTSIDE THE WORLD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is different. This has happened %all my life Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Life; Nature EAGLE SPACE PROBE, by EDWARD WILLEY Poem Source First Line: Any man-made sound would Last Line: Where I am hours' deep %into a parallel creation Subject(s): Environment; Nature EAGLET, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Not quite ready Last Line: He sits on the family nest %and waits for food Subject(s): Nature EARLY, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: Light opens, wild blue flax Last Line: Between our wandering hands Subject(s): Nature EARLY AUTUMN, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Early autumn comes unnoticed; nights grow slowly longer Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature EARLY COLD ON THE RIVER: SOMETHING ON MY MIND, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Trees shed their leaves, the geese cross south Last Line: Having missed the fork, if you should ask - %level lake and vast floods in the evening Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Nature EARLY MORNING AT BARGIS, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clear air and grassy lea Subject(s): Country Life; Morning; Nature EARLY MORNING, THE COLD HOUSE, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Though the taste of nightmares Last Line: That comes whether you ask or no Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature EARLY MORNING--UCROSS, WYOMING, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: The hundred black birds lifting back Last Line: Through the wing-beats of our hearts Subject(s): Nature EARLY SNOW, by JOSEPH EDWARD POWELL Poem Source First Line: Outside, the slanting snows, like driven souls Last Line: This country's roads are filling up with snow Subject(s): Nature; Snow EARLY SPRING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harshness gone. And sudden mitigation Last Line: Unexpectedly you find it, welling %upwards in the empty tree Subject(s): Nature EARLY SPRING, by DOROTHY KINSEY SHISLER Poem Text First Line: More like autumn this day seems Last Line: Of hospitable spring. Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Spring; Sun; Fall EARLY SPRING IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter's tune is up Last Line: When the sun runs high. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Spring; Vermont EARLY WILLOWS, by JAMES WREFORD WATSON Poem Text First Line: There is no bargain basement no Last Line: At last will credit you. Alternate Author Name(s): Wreford, James Subject(s): Nature; Spring EARTH, by ANDRES RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: She scooped a handful of shiny pebbles Last Line: A dance taking ages to perform Subject(s): Earth; Nature EARTH AND MAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On her great venture, man Last Line: Or dated leaf. Subject(s): Earth; God; Mankind; Nature; World; Human Race EARTH ELEGY, by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain on the shingles, on the maples Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World EARTH POEMS: 4, by JAVIER HERAUD Poem Source First Line: Everything's wood, the condors Last Line: Hands, the sun in its turbulent %setting Subject(s): Nature; Poetry And Poets; Trees EARTH TO EARTH, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the region grows without a lord Last Line: With the red earth burning in your heart. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Earth; Nature; World EARTH TOUCHED MOON, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Blushed. Everyone saw it Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Earth; Moon; Nature EARTH WAS HER GARDEN, by MARTHA E. BOSWORTH Poem Source First Line: In marie's garden %deer with soft eyes and noses Last Line: Robe earth for snoy slumber %in marie's garden Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Nature EARTH'S CHILDREN CLEAVE TO EARTH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Nature; Earth; World EARTHQUAKES HAPPEN, by ALAN C. FOX Poem Source First Line: After the six perfect hours Last Line: And called %our home Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Nature EASE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How easily doth nature teach the soul Last Line: That everyone might reign like god alone. Subject(s): Nature EASTER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars wailed when the reed was born Last Line: Time bowed before eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Easter; Good Friday; Grief; Holidays; Holy Week; Immortality; Nature; Time; The Resurrection; Sorrow; Sadness EASTER MORNING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun arises from the sea Last Line: For ever and for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Morning; Nature; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology EASTERN LONG ISLAND, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beach grass tangled by wind--the sound rushes Last Line: Reclamation by the proximate meek, who shall inherit. Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Nature; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seashore; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore ECHO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me in the silence of the night Last Line: As long ago, my love, how long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of ECHO CANYON, NEW MEXICO, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: A raven croaks %atop an ancient juniper Last Line: A raven swoops down to %totem soda cans Subject(s): Earth; Nature ECHOES, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The might that shaped itself through storm Last Line: Within a world of dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Echoes; Love - Nature Of; Thought; Thinking ECHOES OF LOVE'S HOUSE, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love gives every gift, whereby we long to live Last Line: And is my praise nought worth for all my life undone?' Subject(s): Love - Nature Of ECHOLOCATION, by DEBORAH A. MIRANDA Poem Source First Line: All day long you flutter through artificial night Last Line: Reverberate against your blood and bone Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Nature ECSTASY, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Each perfect rose that unfolded yesterday Last Line: They think, here they stuggle, here they love Subject(s): Creation; Life; Nature; Spain ECSTASY, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Each lovely rose that budded yesterday Last Line: Here too they think, they struggle, and they love!' Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Nature; Roses ECSTASY, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a frieze on whitest marble drawn Last Line: And I sang like a carven pipe of music. Subject(s): Asia; Nature; Spring; Far East; East Asia; Orient EDEN, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Wind borne, the dust Last Line: Dust gathers %like original sin Subject(s): Earth; Nature EDUCATION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now to the dry hillside Subject(s): Education; Knowledge; Nature; Teaching & Teachers EDUCATION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now to the dry hillside Last Line: Your speaking lips and moving hand Subject(s): Education; Knowledge; Nature; Teaching And Teachers EGRET TREE, by DAVE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ghosts of our fathers flocking down at dusk Last Line: Brightness, holding a tree rooted in the mind's %hunger, the lake's ooze Subject(s): Nature EL DORADO: A SONG, by CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY Poem Text First Line: Oh, the fields aflame with poppies Last Line: All the west with bloom anew. Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States EL SALVADOR DEL MUNDO, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: It's full moon here. Saturn and jupiter Last Line: Easing its way into the stone hand of god Subject(s): Central America; Nature ELABORATE IS THE COURTLINESS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Before beauty Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Beauty; Imagination; Nature ELBOW TREE, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sapling bent and tied to point the way Last Line: In blinding freedom from the tree that was %in one thing deprived and in another made Subject(s): Nature ELEGIAC SONNET: 60. TO AN AMIABLE GIRL, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miranda! Mark where shrinking from the gale Last Line: Miranda charms -- nature's soft modest child. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Nature ELEGIAC STANZAS SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE OF PEELE CASTLE, IN A STORM, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was thy neighbour once, thou rugged pile! Last Line: Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. Variant Title(s): On A Picture Of Peele Castle In A Storm;nature And The Poet;peele Castle Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature; Paintings & Painters; Wordsworth, John ELEGY, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Through the screen door, swish and twitter Last Line: Almost heart-shaped leaves, each %lopsided in a different shape, each %rooted in the shade, trying t Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) ELEGY, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We first lay down among flowers Last Line: All-night love, all eternity in our vows Subject(s): Love - Nature Of ELEGY FOR EDWARD ABBEY, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: I'd like to say that coyotes passed the word along Last Line: With air, when silence runs it through and through Subject(s): Nature ELEGY ON ENCOUNTERING THE TROUBLE OF THE WORLD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young, in spring, I gathered Subject(s): Children; Nature; Parents; Sargent, Dudley Allen (1849-1924); Childhood; Parenthood ELEGY ON ENCOUNTERING THE TROUBLE OF THE WORLD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young, in spring, I gathered Last Line: Legs twinkle in the deep %meadow amongst flowers Subject(s): Children; Nature; Parents; Sargent, Dudley Allen (1849-1924) ELEGY; FOR JAMES WRIGHT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not only doesn't the ohio Last Line: In rags, half in radiance. Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Death; Grief; Hudson River; Nature; Ohio River; Plane Trees; Rivers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Sycamores ELEISON, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: You could go mad in these pines Last Line: How precious little heat Subject(s): Nature ELM DECLINE, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The crags crash to the tarn; slow Last Line: No human eye remains to see %a land-scape man %helped nature make Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Trees ELUSIVE NATURE, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At last, beloved nature! I have met Variant Title(s): Sonnet: At Last, Beloved Natur Subject(s): Nature EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 10. BLIND LOVE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love is that childish play call'd blind-man's bluff Last Line: When's little brains are dashed against a post. Subject(s): Games; Love - Nature Of; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 34. TRUE LOVE KNOWS BUT ONE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You live at large, abroad you range and roam Last Line: And gives you manna-taste of all in one. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 41. LOVE REQUIRES NO ENTREATIES, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When parched fields deny the welcome floods Last Line: Then love shall yield to sighs, and tears and groans. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of EMPIRE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the glorious ocean breaking Last Line: That hast earth, stars, sea, sun and all! Subject(s): Nature; Life EMPTY BOAT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Will volunteer for anything Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Boats; Nature ENCHANTED FOREST, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Sunlight looks green Last Line: Is it talking? %I don't know the words Subject(s): Nature ENCLOSURE (1), by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far spread the moory ground, a level scene Last Line: And find too truly that they did but dream Variant Title(s): The Moors; The More Subject(s): Nature ENCOUNTER, by CHRISTINE GARREN Poem Source First Line: It was dawn, and there was still blood on the earth, on the Last Line: And to a plane's heavy passage overhead Subject(s): Animals; Nature END OF THE WORLD, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young in school in switzerland, about the time of the boer Last Line: And the earth flourish long after mankind is out Subject(s): Doomsday; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature END OF WINTER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter ending in the last days of march. How many times Last Line: Moved by hunger. Subject(s): Nature; Winter ENDANGERED, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: Down on the gulf coast of texas, in the aransas wetland Last Line: And we knew, we knew we would die without seeing the species again Subject(s): Birds; Environment; Nature ENGLISH SPARROW, by MARY ISABELLA FORSYTH Poem Source First Line: So dainty in plumage and hue Subject(s): Nature; Sparrows ENTERING A WILDERNESS AREA, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let air discover who you are, deliver Last Line: No boundary can stop you. %no woman. No man Subject(s): Nature ENTRANCE TO THE EARTH, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Rather than assail the escarpments Last Line: Acidity of too strong a perfume has satiated Subject(s): Asia; Nature ENVY; A FRAGMENT, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye pleasing dreams of heavenly poesy Last Line: But transient still and vain are envy's wretched joys. Subject(s): Envy; False Accusations; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature EPHEMERIDA, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: So much is left to be thought Last Line: And our sun finally descends Subject(s): Nature EPHESOS, by DOURIS Poem Source First Line: Clouds of the heavens Last Line: Along with the rolling waves %everything ran out to sea, %with the flooding rivers Subject(s): Nature EPIGRAM: 19, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature that gave the bee so feat a grace Last Line: In change whereof I leave my heart behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 68 Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Lips; Nature EPIGRAM: 31. LOVE'S CAPRICIOUSNESS, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hunters, epicydes, go Last Line: That ready for the taking lies. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Love - Nature Of EPIRRHEMA, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always in observing nature Last Line: No thing is single, if it lives, %but multiple its being Subject(s): Nature EPISTLE TO HER FRIENDS AT GARTMORE, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My gartmore friends a blessing on ye Last Line: And just does nothing all the day!' Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature EPISTLE TO MR. FOX, FROM HAMPTON COURT: NATURE QUERIES, by JOHN HERVEY (1696-1743) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will the wise elephant desert the wood Last Line: And eat when hungry, and when am'rous love? Alternate Author Name(s): Hervey Of Ickworth, Baron Subject(s): Animals; Elephants; Hunger; Nature; Taste (sense) EPISTLE TO THE LADY LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though virtue be the same when low she stands Last Line: By which, when all consumes, your fame shall live. Subject(s): Bedford, Lucy, Countess Of (1581-1627); Fame; Nature; Virtue; Women; Russell, Lucy, Countess Of Bedford; Reputation EPOCH, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Slaves to muddy channels Last Line: Bottling light and time Subject(s): Nature EQUALITY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most favored lady in the land Last Line: "I love you,"" I have known it all!" Subject(s): Women; Equality; Love – Nature Of EQUILIBRIUM OF LILY PADS, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Our canoe slices through green cells, unseals Last Line: At the low place where the radiant veins converge Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Nature ERATO, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Dear muse, the sweetest of the potent nine Last Line: And makes us love thee and thy numbers well. Subject(s): Love; Nature ERE WITH COLD BEADS OF MIDNIGHT DEW, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A subject, not a slave! Subject(s): Love – Nature Of EROS: 7, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What need of a lamp Last Line: Love must first shatter us. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Fragment Forty-five: 5 Subject(s): Bible; Love - Nature Of ESSAY: THE SLEEPYHEAD, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Paysage: / a red strip of sky Last Line: I made those clouds Subject(s): Nature ESSENCE, by LAILE EUBANK Poem Text First Line: These sweet and heart-filled days Last Line: To keep some fragrance still unspent... Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Perfume ET POUR EUX SEULS, LES PARADIS CHANTENT ENCORE', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a mist that moves off acheron Last Line: Measure of my eternities Subject(s): Nature; Self ETCHING, by ULYSSES GOLDBERG Poem Text First Line: Far away over the river Last Line: Shivering. ... Subject(s): Etching; Nature; Trees ETERNAL BEAUTY, by GRACE EVELYN BROWN Poem Text First Line: Do not regret the passing on of spring Last Line: Against a leaden sky. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Seasons; Spring ETERNAL LOVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Piteous my rhyme is Last Line: Is all in all then. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Poetry & Poets ETHIOPIAN SAINT OF BLACK CREEK, by ROY ZARUCCHI Poem Source First Line: The old woman of sculptured ebony Last Line: Yes, I know. We'll be just fine Subject(s): Environment; Nature EUSTON, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Now, when the sportsman is flitting from market and mammon Last Line: Till the last tail-light has twinkled, and gone in the dark! Subject(s): Nature; Night; Bedtime EUTERPE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Muse of the mystic flute and purling stream Last Line: That speaks the tempest or the lisping flower. Subject(s): Birds; Euterpe (goddess); Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature EVANESCENCE, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: We zigzagged like satyrs through the pines Last Line: That knowledge of eden changing Subject(s): Nature EVANGELICAL DARK AND A MARSH, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Swamp water is slow to turn Last Line: Like the eyes of peacocks Subject(s): Nature; Night EVE'S BLOOD, by JACQUES ANATOLE FRANCOIS THIBAULT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love hides many treasures in its deeps Last Line: The blood of that eve of the early woods. Alternate Author Name(s): France, Anatole Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Brides; Nature; Nudity; Nakedness EVEN NOW, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Once we grew antlers Last Line: In tender bone %into the sky Subject(s): Earth; Nature EVENING, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, little sorrows! From the evening wood Last Line: Smiles tremulous as a bereavèd star. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness EVENING, by CLARA MCKEE BEEDE Poem Text First Line: There are some white clouds floating by Last Line: The weary souls akin. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Soul; World EVENING, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From upland slopes I see the cows file by Last Line: Shine out the stars, and the great night comes on. Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight EVENING - MOUNTAINS, by THEODORE DREISER Poem Text First Line: The shadowy hills Last Line: The poem of a star. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) EVENING COOL', by JEAN DUBOIS Poem Source Last Line: Unmarked graves %the meadowlark Subject(s): Evening; Nature EVENING ON CALAIS BEACH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a beauteous evening, calm and free Last Line: God being with thee when we know it not. Variant Title(s): Sonnet;by The Sea;sunset And Sea;holy Calm;on The Sea-shore Near Calais;composed Upon The Beach, Near Calais;the Holiness Of Childhood;composed Upon The Beach Near Calais, August, 1802 Subject(s): God; Nature; Pantheism; Travel; Journeys; Trips EVENING ORCHARD, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the beauty of the world Last Line: And eden's is the orchard thrush. Subject(s): Nature; Orchards EVENING SPENT ON A GEORGIA FARM, by DUANE LOCKE Poem Source First Line: The comets restless, their hay uneaten Last Line: Dropped from the mane of the horses who %galloped into infinity Subject(s): Nature EVENING STAR, by ESTHER REINECKE Poem Text First Line: At night Last Line: Of god. Subject(s): God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Stars; Bedtime EVENING, AFTER A STORM ON THE RISTIGOUCHE RIVER; A MOOD, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The air is cool; a mist hangs low Last Line: "as eloquent of truth to thee." Subject(s): Death; Nature; Rivers; Dead, The EVENING. ANCHORING AT HSUAN-YANG TO SEE MOUNT LU, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lofting sail a thousand miles Last Line: Through evening sun I hear a bell Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature EVENT, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Weeks of little rain have left us Last Line: And, understand, this is all he can find %to give her-%he crosses the street %to leave her way clear Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) EVERY ONE THAT IS PERFECT SHALL BE AS HIS MASTER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can one man, how can all men Last Line: Love makes great the great and small. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Worship EVERY TIME I'VE HAD A SEA CHANGE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I probably was Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Nature EVERY WHERE AND EVERY WHEN, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Catch a moth in the amazon; pin it under glass Last Line: When we spin and shine. Subject(s): Memory; Nature EVERYONE THOUGHT I'D DIE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: This can't go on forever Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Nature EVERYTHING, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: When the river rose that year, we were beside it Last Line: And that everything would never be the same Subject(s): Disasters; Floods; Nature; Rain EVERYTHING IS PLUNDERED, BETRAYED, SOLD, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Something not known to anyone at all, %but wild in our breast for centuries Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Nature EVIL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: How often in my dreams have I beheld Last Line: Have tried their best to make a cunning devil! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Evil; Nature EVISA: A SKETCH IN CORSICA, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the rose-red chasms and the gorges Last Line: Lone upon wide wings. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Corsica; Drawing; Mountains; Nature; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips EVOLUTION, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: The hubble telescope is sending back Last Line: The atoms of the first stars %will still remember Subject(s): Earth; Nature EVOLUTION, by JESSICA NELSON NORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of chaos, dust and flame Last Line: "look at how the thing turned out!" Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonald, Reed I., Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Evolution; Nature EXCEPT, RETURNING, BY THE MARLBORO, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I climb the last & drink the former still Subject(s): Walking; Nature EXERCISE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear this touch: grass parts Last Line: Fire selects new wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Activity; Change; Nature; Relationships; Exercise EXEUNT, by ANDREW ZAWACKI Poem Source First Line: Much is coming to an end, that's the overriding concern, and these Last Line: Settle the lactic accounts. Like it or not, you have a hand in all this Subject(s): Farewell; Nature EXODUS OF PEACHES, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The new peach trees are bandaged Last Line: From the only life it knew Subject(s): Nature EXPECTING BLACKBIRDS, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Except for the change Last Line: Our forts of quiet Subject(s): Nature EXPERIENCE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some men break your heart in two, Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Love - Nature Of EYE WANTS REACTION BY NATURE, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: The lodge of day fills a silence Last Line: Crushing someone else, %breaking into song Subject(s): Nature EYES OF THE FOREST, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Boats throb by Last Line: Watches with %its eagle eyes Subject(s): Nature FABBRO, by EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT Poem Source First Line: Fortunately, I remembered to unplug the espresso machine before the first Last Line: Senza sosta, a kind of immortality, una gioia fugace, an endless day Subject(s): Nature; Thunder FABLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I know not what the sly little fairy Subject(s): Nature; Summer FABLE OF FABLES, by NAZIM HIKMET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Resting by the water-side Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet Subject(s): Nature FABLE OF FABLES, by NAZIM HIKMET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Resting by the water-side Last Line: The sparkle of the water hits us %the plane tree, me, the cat, the sun, our life Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet Subject(s): Nature FABLE: THE BEAU AND THE VIPER, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All wise philosophers maintain Last Line: Be still, be humble, and adore!' Subject(s): Animals; Creation; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE GOOSE AND THE SWANS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the face, however fair Last Line: You only her defects reveal. Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Fables; Faces; Geese; Nature; Swans; Women; Allegories FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE NIGHTINGALE AND GLOW-WORM, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prudent nymph, whose cheeks disclose Last Line: And beauty wrecks whom she adorns.' Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Nature; Nightingales FACE UP, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Doing leg-lifts in the field, my gaze Last Line: Where we had passed so long beneath notice, %begins to take real interest in us Subject(s): Nature FACE YOU LOOK OUT OF, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Your lover looks into Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Faces; Identity; Love - Nature Of; Nature FAIRLIE GLEN, by ROBERT TENNANT Poem Text First Line: O, there's a glen, a bonnie glen, the bairnies lo'e it dearly Last Line: But spring will come, and then they'll sing in yon wee glen fairlie. Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FAITH, by GRACE EVELYN BROWN Poem Text First Line: I do not know when I shall go on - on Last Line: Reveals a paradise that gave it birth? Subject(s): Future Life; Nature; Retribution; Eternity; After Life FAITHFUL BLACKBIRD, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: When the blackbird, in the new greenery, comes back Last Line: Goes crazy with love in the greenery! Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Spring FALCON, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: As we drove past painterly fields of ochre and crimson, under Last Line: Ghost of a once sprawling oak Subject(s): Nature FALL OF CH'OU, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jade pendants chime before the dawn audience Last Line: Tow hearts singing like chiming jade Subject(s): China; Nature FALL SONG, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: At the swings Last Line: All our lives to hear Subject(s): Nature FALLEN, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves of the lilies are lying Last Line: At the evenfall. Subject(s): Lilies Of The Valley; Nature; Shame FALLEN OAK, by PETER BLUE CLOUD Poem Source First Line: The great, gnarled fingers of roots Last Line: That I waited %a long time Subject(s): Environment; Nature FALLING, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Life; Nature; Birds FALLING IN LOVE AT SIXTY-FIVE, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is like the first and last time I tried a coleman Last Line: To answer what was being insisted on Subject(s): Books; Insects; Maine (state); Night; Old Age; Love – Nature Of; Reading; Bugs; Bedtime FALLING LEAVES AND EARLY SNOW, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the years to come they will say Last Line: The moon has a sheen like a glacier Subject(s): Leaves; Nature; Snow FALLING LEAVES AND EARLY SNOW, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the years to come they will say Last Line: The moon has a sheen a glacier Subject(s): Leaves; Nature; Snow FALLS RIVER, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Some places intend quiet Last Line: Of the white morning glories Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature FALSE START, by MABEL DODGE LUHAN Poem Text First Line: Ask me no more of the full flower's speech Last Line: I sicken from sunlight but give me the rain, for I am but seed. Subject(s): Growth; Nature; Plants; Rain; Sun; Planting; Planters FAME AND LOVE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, dearest, thou dost speak of fame Last Line: My heart is at thy feet. Subject(s): Fame; Happiness; Love - Nature Of; Reputation; Joy; Delight FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 2, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had I the choice to tally greatest bards Last Line: And leave its odor there. Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets FANCY IN NUBIBUS; OR, THE POET IN THE CLOUDS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, it is pleasant, with a heart at ease Last Line: Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. Variant Title(s): The Poet In The Clouds Subject(s): Clouds; Nature FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, by NIXON WATERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It seems to me I'd like to go Last Line: And say, now, how does it seem to you? Alternate Author Name(s): Martin, Peter Subject(s): Country Life; Nature FAR INLAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: The earth is white far inland Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nature FAREWELL, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tell them, o sky-born, when I die Subject(s): Nature FAREWELL TO THE BLUE HOUSE, by ROBERT SCHAEFFER PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: My favorite time of year was fall Last Line: Somewhere. Somedays I felt as if %I could walk across that water Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons FARMER, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seasons waiting the miracle Subject(s): Farm Life; Nature; Agriculture; Farmers FARMER, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Seasons waiting the miracle Last Line: As much the earth's as his Subject(s): Farm Life; Nature FARMER LOST A CHILD, by SUSAN IRENE ASTOR Poem Source First Line: She milks the cow at midnight Last Line: Breaks rhythmn, %halts to a lopsided sleep Subject(s): Nature FASHIONS AT THE COURT OF QUEEN FLORA, by LYDIA HOYT FARMER Poem Source First Line: Oh, pray, do you know of those wonderful styles Subject(s): Nature; Summer FAT SNAKE'S GONE THIS YEAR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: When she emerges from the strove top Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Snakes FATHERING THE MAP, by ROBERT PACK Poem Source First Line: In may of nineteen-hundred forty-two Last Line: In hope another covenant to save the earth %may find words in the dark Subject(s): Nature FATHERLAND, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come fingered as a friend, o death! Last Line: Where southern waters creep. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Nature FAUCET DRIPPING INTO A PAN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The same sweet music Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Sound; Water FAULT LINE, by DAVID RIGSBEE Poem Source First Line: Some cows on the path and everywhere scrub Last Line: Upward, by paths divided everywhere Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Nature FAUVE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: High northern %summer, red cedar Last Line: And a somber interior %whisper, color Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) FEAR, by MAUDE PERRY FAETH Poem Text First Line: Afraid / of dark? That putting out the light Last Line: But glad for every day, when in god's keeping. Subject(s): Fear; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature FEAR, by PEDRO SALINAS Poem Source First Line: Fear. Of you. Loving you Last Line: Of being, in you, your life? Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Spring FEAR, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How often I turn round Last Line: That even in my land of birth %I trespass on the earth Subject(s): Nature FEAR IS A SWALLOW, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Seeking a window out Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fear; Nature; Swallows FEAR IS WHAT QUICKENS ME, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many animals that our fathers killed in america Last Line: O look about wildly Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Nature FEAR IS WHAT QUICKENS ME, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many animals that out fathers killed in america Last Line: I look about wildly Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Nature FEARE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man must do well out of a good intent Last Line: Not for the servile feare of punishment. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature FEBRUARY MORNING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thankful was I to be there Last Line: First buds of willow. Subject(s): February; Morning; Nature; Winter FEEDER, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: In the wind it swings Last Line: At last abided, %its time Subject(s): Birds; Nature FEELINGS EVOKED BY AN AUTUMN NIGHT: 1, by CHU SHU-CHEN Poem Source First Line: A sliver of new moon hangs in the dusk Last Line: It is time to realize that love is the root of all sorrow Subject(s): Love - Nature Of FELIX CULPA, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: When I came out of the pink morning Last Line: And eaten again Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Nature FEMALE EDUCATION; ADDRESSED TO A SOUTH AMERICAN POET, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, of the living lyre Last Line: That mocks the blight of time. Subject(s): De La Cruz, Juana Ines (1648-1695); Freedom; Nature; Wisdom; Women's Rights; Liberty; Feminism FERN HILL, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Innocence; Nature; Time; Wales; Youth; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Welshmen; Welshwomen FERN HILL, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Last Line: Time held me green and dying %though I sang in my chains like the sea Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Innocence; Nature; Time; Wales; Youth FERNS, by LANEY IGLEHART Poem Source First Line: They unwind in darkness Last Line: Behind mild, green, %impassive bows Subject(s): Ferns; Nature FERRY FOR SHADOWTOWN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sway to and fro in the twilight gray Subject(s): Nature; Winter FEURERZAUBER, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Love; Spring; Nature FICTION, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going south, we watched spring Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Southern States; Colors; Nature, Travel; South (u.s.) FIDDLEHEADS, by JORDAN SMITH Poem Source First Line: They're in the backyard, under the woody scrub Last Line: Ours, though we will forget even the chord at the root of it Subject(s): Grass; Nature FIDDLING LAD, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There'll be no roof to shelter you Subject(s): Nature FIELD, by RUTH FAINLIGHT Poem Source First Line: The field is trampled over utterly Last Line: Unprecendented as all he hopes for. %the field is fertile. He must survive Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature FIELD FLOWERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Nature; Spring FIELD GUIDE TO SOUTHERN VIRGINIA, by FORREST GANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True as the circumference Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Virginia (state) FIELD GUIDE TO SOUTHERN VIRGINIA, by FORREST GANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True as the circumference Last Line: Uncover a nest of spring salamanders Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Virginia (state) FIELD NOTE, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Nature FIELD NOTE (EVERGLADES), by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: As elevated nostrils Last Line: With the choreographed dexterity %of a survivor Subject(s): Alligators; Birds; Nature FIELD NOTES: THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Crossing the moon, the geese Last Line: Learning to say %what I see Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature FIELD PREACHING', by PHOEBE CARY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been out today in field and wood Subject(s): Worship; Nature FIELDS OF DAWN, SELS., by LLOYD MIFFLIN Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dawn; Nature FIELDSWIRL, OCTOBER, by DAVE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fog so thick the cows beyond the fence slide Last Line: A bare world woke me. Winter, naked crabapple. %a voice. Movement. Dawn's wiry walk Subject(s): Nature FIFTY-TWO DEGREES AT NOON, JULY 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: All the oldsters try to look vigorous Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Old Age FIGURE ON THE EDGE, by DABNEY STUART Poem Source First Line: He looks as if he's a silhouette Last Line: The outline of his body forming %the only space he could fall into Subject(s): Nature FINAL PRAYER, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: In the censer the coals are high Last Line: Because your husband is captive, %your rage increases, your heart is never calm Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion FINAL SPRING, by RALPH GUSTAFSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of grass, insurgent bud aware Last Line: This, and the threat of fear, and fear. Subject(s): Fear; Nature; Spring FINAL TASTE, by BARRY STERNLIEB Poem Source First Line: With bow season almost here Last Line: Of earth putting everything in its place Subject(s): Deer; Nature FIREFLIES, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lately I had looked for you everywhere Last Line: To little light. Subject(s): Fireflies; Nature; Night; Glowworms; Bedtime FIREFLY'S ONE WORD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Darkness! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fireflies; Nature FIRELIGHT, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: In it are moses' Last Line: Of a bright new day Subject(s): Nature FIRES, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: She comes in, on the whine of tires Last Line: Fire. Fire. Fire Subject(s): Nature FIRE_FLOWERS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And only where the forest fires have sped Last Line: And life revives, and blossoms once again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Fire; Forests; Nature; Survival; Woods FIRST COLD, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, the white asters Last Line: Gold, the sun, break in Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Nature FIRST DEERFLY EMERGED SOLSTICE MORNING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Among his fly friends he's a nice guy Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Bush, George; Character; Friendship; Nature FIRST DEGREE EQUATION WITH ONE VARIABLE, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: In the city's last river, by mistake Last Line: The omnipotent language of our mother, %death Subject(s): Environment; Nature FIRST DIVINITIES, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: The first divinities %rested in the earth Last Line: As they brush past us %on their way back in? Subject(s): Earth; Nature FIRST OF AUTUMN, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Unnoticed the first of autumn as nights grow longer Last Line: Beneath the steps, clustered sedge keeps the glitter of dew Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature FIRST RELATIONS, by PAMELA ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Part of the darkness lived. Furred or scaled Last Line: And we followed it everywhere, darkness in our hands Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam Subject(s): Nature FIRST RHYMES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the meadow by the mill Last Line: "when ""nature painted all things gay." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets FIRST SNOWDROP, by JULIA M. DANA Poem Source First Line: I want to get up,' the snowdrop said Subject(s): Nature; Spring FIRST SNOWFALL: INTIMATIONS, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long it has taken me to recall Subject(s): Nature FIRST SNOWFALL: INTIMATIONS, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long it has taken me to recall Last Line: And raced each other home Subject(s): Nature FISH POND, by SYDNEY LEA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not full of fish--that's imprecise--but full Last Line: Where he beheld one fierce hawk, sleek on air Subject(s): Nature FISH TEA RICE, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is on the earth that all things transpire Last Line: In mud. Eating what is here. Fish, bread, tea, rice Subject(s): Nature; Greeks FISHING, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The days that I went fishing Last Line: Of white stones and a running stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Nature; Anglers FISHING, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men will grow weary,' said the lord Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Nature FISHING FOR BROOKIES IN THE BOULDER DITCH, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: It's prettier than it sounds Last Line: A spotted beauty, free Subject(s): Nature FISHING: THE LATE WISH, by GREG GLAZNER Poem Source First Line: Thigh-deep in heavy waders Last Line: With the perfection of the january cold Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Nature FIVE A.M. IN THE PINEWOODS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd seen / their hoofprints in the deep Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation FIVE A.M. IN THE PINEWOODS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd seen %their hoofprints in the deep Last Line: So this is how you pray Subject(s): Environment; Nature FIVE WHITE BIRDS, by CATHARINE SAVAGE BROSMAN Poem Source First Line: Having seared the sky, the sun-a brazier Last Line: A gesture's meaning as the shaken air resounds Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Spring; Wings FIVE-THIRTY AM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out the eastern window at Last Line: The sleeping pills, and go to bed? Subject(s): Morning; Nature FIX, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There is no caring less Last Line: There is no caring less Subject(s): Love – Nature Of FLAX FLOWER, by MARY HOWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the little flax flower! Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Autumn; Flax; Nature; Seasons FLECKS OF FOAM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The scripture of water Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fountains; Nature; Water FLEDGLING, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: The jointed clump of dark feathers Last Line: Until it can fly away Subject(s): Earth; Nature FLEXIBLE, by WILLIAM KULIK Poem Source First Line: It's a beautiful day: sunny, crisp, cloudless. I'm walking down the boul Last Line: That's it. First thing tomorrow, cowboy boots Subject(s): Beauty; Nature FLOOD, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: We drive the car into the next morning Last Line: On its line, a place of motion, nothing more Subject(s): Central America; Nature FLOOD TIDE, by MARJORIE ALICE MILLER Poem Source First Line: She was born inland in the open country Subject(s): Nature FLORILEGIUM, by ERIC TRETHEWEY Poem Source First Line: Nodes of light on the table Last Line: By clouds, by heavy weather, %they are nothing to us now %but drying husks, their names Subject(s): Nature FLOWER BED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Baby, what do the blossoms say Subject(s): Nature; Spring FLOWER CHORUS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O such a commotion under the ground Last Line: Yes, millions beginning to grow. Subject(s): Flowers; March (month); Nature FLOWER DANCES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In may the valley lilies rise Subject(s): Nature; Spring FLOWERS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Her garden was her pleasure and her care Last Line: And by her flowers, in agony she wept. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Nature FLOWERS, by H. W. SLOAN Poem Text First Line: In my garden there are flowers Last Line: It takes god to make a flower. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature - Religious Aspects FLYING MIST, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch afar the moving mystery Subject(s): Nature FOG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What is the fog, mamma? Subject(s): Nature; Winter FOG, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though your brothers, after the long hunt and the fasting Subject(s): Hunting; Nature; Hunters FOOLISH ME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Would never turn Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Nature; Self-criticism FOR A FISHERMAN WHO DYNAMITED A CORMORANT ROOKERY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lean at your rail. Look close at the ripe water Last Line: By a sea change through which everything is forgiven, %not given up for lost, not even %you disappea Subject(s): Environment; Nature FOR A GIRL I KNOW ABOUT TO BECOME A WOMAN, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Advice; Girls; Coming Of Age; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature FOR A HIGH MOUNTAIN JUNIPER, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Sprung from a crevice in the rock Last Line: Honoring the slowly burning center %of your years Subject(s): Earth; Nature FOR A LONG TIME I HAVE WANTED TO WRITE A HAPPY POEM, by RICHARD JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is not so easy to live on the earth Last Line: Which is not the sort of poetry you read anyplace anymore Subject(s): Nature FOR A POET OF NATURE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Opinions we only deemed to hold, to hoe Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Nature FOR A WEDDING ON MOUNT TAMALPAIS, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: July / and the rich apples Subject(s): Nature FOR A WEDDING ON MOUNT TAMALPAIS, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: July %and the rich apples Last Line: Bringing home what is coming home %blessing what goes Subject(s): Nature FOR AN URN IN THORESBY PARK, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With frigid art our numbers flow Last Line: And virtue raise the vacant urn. Subject(s): Nature FOR BARBARA, WHO BRINGS A GREEN STONE IN THE SHAPE OF A TRIANGLE, by HILDA RAZ Poem Source First Line: From ocean %this porous shape Last Line: Each green vowel of the life language Subject(s): Nature FOR CARMEN QUINTANA, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: You can cut the flowers Last Line: As they set me on fire Subject(s): Nature FOR FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA, by DOROTHY LIVESAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When veins congeal Last Line: The unassailed, the token! Subject(s): Death; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Nature; Dead, The FOR INSTANCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Often, it's nowhere special: maybe Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation FOR INSTANCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often, it's nowhere special: maybe Last Line: That inward cry again - %erde, du liebe Subject(s): Environment; Nature FOR ONE RETURED INTO THE COUNTRY, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence, lying world, with all thy Subject(s): Country Life; Nature FOR SIXTY-THREE YEARS I'VE GROUND MYSELF, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It out and put it high on the pantry shelf Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Life; Nature; Self FOR SOMEONE ELSE, by MARK BIBBINS Poem Source First Line: With delicate violence, the moonlight Last Line: That the word you had meant to use was stone Subject(s): Nature FOR THE ALDERS AGAIN, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Each morning your branches Last Line: Your great spinal discs Subject(s): Friendship; Leaves; Nature; Trees FOR THE BODY, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Sea-gate to ancient waters Last Line: Be vapor in the air Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature FOR THE COAST PRICKLY PEAR, BAJA, CALIFORNIA, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Last night they grew cold Last Line: Climb to distant mountains %soft with rising mist Subject(s): Earth; Nature FOR THE LISTENER, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: The winter mind regards Last Line: Like the wind Subject(s): Nature FOR THE SAKE OF THE SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: For the sake of the song would I sing to-day Last Line: As the goldfinch warbles its notes awing! Subject(s): Goldfinches; Nature; Singing & Singers FOR YOU, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For you, I could forget the gay Last Line: "what could I not forget for you?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love - Nature Of; Dead, The FORBID ME NOT, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Depending on our singing Subject(s): Love – Nature Of FORBIDDEN LOVE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You rise, sparkling of lips and dark-ringed eyes! Last Line: Love is a sinning christ! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of FORBIDDEN SPEECH, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The passion you forbade my lips to utter Last Line: "the voice of nature saying, ""he remembers." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Memory; Nature; Passion FORCES OF GRAVITY, by ROBERT BENSE Poem Source First Line: She is sipping on air of a dream Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Nature FOREGROUND, by BARBARA CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: A voice speaks, repeating numbers in sequence Last Line: The boy's face sweet apple of light Subject(s): Boys; Light; Nature FOREIGN COUNTRY, HOME COUNTRY, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: You know better. Italian summer will end. You Last Line: Backyard, the scraggy spirea bush, burning Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature FOREST FIRE, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Day after day %smoke shrouds the mountains Last Line: Oily ashes, flutter down Subject(s): Earth; Nature FOREST TREES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Children, have you seen the budding Subject(s): Nature; Spring FORM AND THEORY: 1. IMMANENCE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: The light dust %breath %the light, crusting %on the body Last Line: The light strikes %the cliff wall, scattered %sand Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) FORM AND THEORY: 2. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Because of the lovely curve %of the pelvis Last Line: Because of the open %door in the wall Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) FORM AND THEORY: 3. FUMAROLE CONES, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: A remembered hiss %of ash caught Last Line: Wind flutes through %the darkened canyon Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) FORT ROBINSON, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I visited fort robinson Subject(s): Nature FORT ROBINSON, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I visited fort robinson Last Line: The cheyenne climbed that winter, fleeing Subject(s): Nature FORTIFICATION, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI Poem Text First Line: When first we left the cool, enshadowed mountains Last Line: Shall hearten us, this winter of disaster. Subject(s): Nature; Winter FORWARD, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Negligent of hurt, / in heroic guise Last Line: Leave the world behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Strength FOUND ON AN ENGLISH SUN DIAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Time flies / sun rise Last Line: Love is forever over all Subject(s): Love - Nature Of FOUR ELEMENTS: AIR, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: Air, in its normal state, secretes a steady cloud of pepper that makes Last Line: Moon gives the sea its salty taste Subject(s): Air; Earth; Nature FOUR ELEMENTS: EARTH, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: The world is made of water, earth, air and fire and the earth is not Last Line: The mustache Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Planets FOUR ELEMENTS: FIRE, by BENJAMIN PERET Poem Source First Line: An essentially mineral element, fire resides in stones and eggs Last Line: Collected in sour cream Subject(s): Fire; Nature FOUR GAELIC POEMS: 3. THE GUM FOREST, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the last gapped wire on a post Last Line: Why have I denied the passions of my time? To see %lightningstrike upward out of the gum forest Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Nature FOUR MATRICES: 2. COUNTING ARIZONA, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amphora in rocks. Kachina of fur and rust. The land Last Line: Mexico and peopless. And too much sun. I want to go home. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Native Americans; Nature; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America FOUR POEMS, by GARY YOUNG Poem Source First Line: I don't know where the owls go when they leave this place, or if Last Line: My disaffections and impatience with the world. I may rest Subject(s): Nature FOUR SONGS OF FOUR SEASONS: 1. WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the garden Last Line: Praise him whose hand is the strength of the sea. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Singing & Singers; Winter FOUR SONGS OF FOUR SEASONS: 2. SPRING IN TUSCANY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose-red lilies that bloom on the banner Last Line: Fare well we may not who say farewell. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Roses; Spring FOUR SONGS OF FOUR SEASONS: 3. SUMMER IN AUVERGNE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sundawn fills the land Last Line: That scars their land. Subject(s): Dawn; Nature; Summer; Sun; Sunrise FOUR SUNBEAMS, by M. K. B. Poem Source First Line: Four little sunbeams came earthward one day Subject(s): Nature; Summer FOUR TREES, by MILDRED FOCHT Poem Text First Line: At the corners of my house Last Line: I am safe with these. Subject(s): Nature; Trees FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 11, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What means this folly, now to brave it so Last Line: That made choice with discretion. Subject(s): Love – Nature Of FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 2, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Respect my faith, regard my service past Last Line: My faith reward and from me scandal take. Subject(s): Love – Nature Of FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 4, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Veil, love, mine eyes! O hide from me Last Line: To beauty's faults must still be blind. Subject(s): Love – Nature Of FOURTH DAY, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This day is different Last Line: The wren can rise no higher Subject(s): Nature FRAGMENTS (2), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open horizons round Last Line: The depths to sound. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World FRAGMENTS (3), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask, is love divine Last Line: Ah, but no, no, no! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of FRAGMENTS (4), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wilding little stubble flower Last Line: Gave likeness 'twixt the live and dead. Subject(s): Morning; Nature; Sun FRAGMENTS (7), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This love of nature, that allures to take Last Line: The ills of life descend. Subject(s): Nature FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DAY OF SURPASSING BEAUTY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is bright, her forests all are golden Last Line: A crown, or cross, for one is born to-day. Subject(s): Beauty; Birth; Earth; Nature; Secrets; Child Birth; Midwifery; World FRAGOLETTA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O love! What shall be said of thee? Last Line: The feet of love. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Nature Of; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Nightmares FRANKNESS OF NATURE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in a book I find a pleasant thought Subject(s): Nature; Transcendentalism FREE RIDE, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Circling the sun %earth travels with it Last Line: What difference does it make %where we get off? Subject(s): Earth; Nature FREEMAN'S POINT, by KATHY ANDRE-EAMES Poem Source First Line: Widening a mile %at lighthouse point Last Line: So little stands between us %and the dead Subject(s): Environment; Nature FREQUENTLY THE WOODS ARE PINK, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By but twelve performed! Subject(s): Earth; Nature FRESH SNOW STANDING DEEP, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Speak softly Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Telephones FRIEND OF THE ENEMY, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The yolk went down my leg Subject(s): Eggs; Nature FRITILLARIES, FR. THE LAND, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But once I went through the lanes, over the sharp Last Line: And the lapwings crying free above the plough. Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita Subject(s): England; Nature; English FROM A DISTANCE, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: They look Last Line: Just %like sheep Subject(s): Nature FROM A MOTOR IN MAY, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves of autumn and the buds of spring Last Line: The leaves of autumn guard the buds of spring. Subject(s): Autumn; May (month); Nature; Order; Seasons; Spring; Fall FROM EARLY DAWN UNTIL THE FLUSH OF NOON, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Surely a chill shall come & this go hence Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Nature; Joy FROM IRON, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature within her inmost self divides Last Line: To trouble men with having to take sides Subject(s): Nature FROM THE BEGINNING, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up to the eyeballs. Choked in it. Ourselves, minds compleat Last Line: To pieces in the universal blender? Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Mankind FROM THE GRASS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, for a moment, all is well Last Line: Nay, life is love; love lasts, o heart. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Grass; Life; Love; Nature FROM THE PERSIAN (2), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are like the moon except Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Love; Nature; Nudity; Women; Nakedness FROM THE PERSIAN (2), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are like the moon except Last Line: Most splendid naked, at night Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Love; Nature; Nudity; Women FROM: CHENE ET CHIEN II, by RAYMOND QUENEAU Poem Source First Line: Grass: about grass I have nothing to say Last Line: Sun: oh gorgon oh monster oh medusa %oh sun Subject(s): Nature FROST, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How small a tooth hath mined the season's heart Last Line: And sets a mimic garden, cold and bright. Subject(s): Frost; Nature FROSTED CAKES, by MIRIAM DRAKE LIVINGSTON Poem Text First Line: The hills are frosted cakes Last Line: They soon to highways gum them. Subject(s): Nature FROSTED PANE, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One night came winter noiselessly Subject(s): Frost; Nature FROSTY MORNING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of the tub Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Mosquitoes; Nature FU-CHUN ISLE, by XIE LING-YUN Poem Source First Line: By night we passed over fisherman's deeps Last Line: Now my concerns are unfurled in light, %all things beyond me pointlessly stretch and shrink back Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Nature FUCHSIA, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apprentice morning come easily now, Subject(s): Nature; Conduct Of Life; Landscape FUGUE, by MARJORIE L. WOLFE Poem Text First Line: A jagged line of trees in grayish green Last Line: In repetition of the theme,—god's will. Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects FULL MOON OFTEN RISES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Activity up there, a general unrest Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Moon; Nature FULL OCTOBER, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: Moon turns the meadow Last Line: Of moonlight on the great divide Subject(s): Nature FULL STOP IN THE DESERT, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Whatever it is we're made for forces you off the freeway Last Line: To silence. Whatever it is we are made for Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature FUNCTIONS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: To want is to rub out death Last Line: To want is to consent to death Subject(s): Nature FUR, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Reports of a lone lynx in village yards Last Line: Out of the dark mindless mowing of our lawns, %and tv. Look us. Look at me Subject(s): Nature FURTHER IN SUMMER THAN THE BIRDS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Found he had worsted god! Subject(s): Nature FURTHER PULSATIONS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One sees the leaves let go, and sees the leaves falling Last Line: One smells the leaves burning and thinks of them falling Subject(s): Nature FURTHER TOYS, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The janitor washing the blackboard Last Line: Ripples across the sky overhead / brilliant afternoon Variant Title(s): Toys Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature GAEA, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our earth, the whole of it, is alive, they say Last Line: Everyone, stop whatever you're doing %and listen Subject(s): Nature GAME REFUGE, by GENE FRUMKIN Poem Source First Line: A passage, this game refuge Last Line: That first thought edging to the shore Subject(s): Environment; Nature GARDEN, by ABD ALLAH IBN AL-SIMAK Poem Source First Line: The garden of green hillocks Last Line: The radiance of faith Subject(s): Nature GARDEN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: We draw near the garden %we are quick and tread lightly Last Line: Than all the depths and fecundity of the bright flowering glade Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature GARDEN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Far from your garden the evening burns Last Line: Never stop laughing over the white shell Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Nature GARDEN, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A thread of sun-bleached hair spun into the iron Last Line: Would you forgive the ravages of storm %and blight, our dwindling harvests, the snow's blank staves? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature GARDEN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are a garden into which a bomb once fell and did not explode, dur Last Line: They look for your reason Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature GARDEN (2), by JOHN ENGELS Poem Source First Line: Who among us can truly say Last Line: Old, male and uncertain, riding %conclusion, unwilling to last Subject(s): Nature GARDEN SNAKE, by KATHRYN WINOGRAD Poem Source First Line: Yes, I know the garden Last Line: The whole husk %of me Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Snakes GARDENER ON EVISCERATION, by V. S. M. WANG Poem Source First Line: What we have -- before us, obviously Last Line: The wild flower -- bursting the seam? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature GASTROPODA, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Make a song for this fossil Last Line: As the grasp of the sun Subject(s): Earth; Nature GATHERED AT THE RIVER; FOR BEATRICE HAWLEY AND JOHN JAGEL, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if the trees were not indifferent Last Line: No pollen. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Nagasaki, Japan; Nature; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb GATHERING HERBS ON IMMORTAL'S MOUNTAIN, by FRANK GRAZIANO Poem Source First Line: This is spring %orion is rising Last Line: While the melissa weaves roots %to your heart Subject(s): Nature GAUDEAMUS IGITUR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, no more of grief and dying! Last Line: We arise to be your masters. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Grief; Human Behavior; Sorrow; Sadness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature GAY SPRING RETURNS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Gay spring returns, her glad face glowing Last Line: Gay spring returns, her glad face glowing. Subject(s): Nature; Spring GAZING FROM A BOAT IN THE EARLY MORNING, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We set our sails and gazed southeast Last Line: I look now on morning's colored clouds %and they seem the crest of redwall mountain Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Morning; Nature GEISHA BOX, by ROSALIE SANARA PETROUSKE Poem Source First Line: Red roses wrap their %black leaves around the cover Last Line: Eyelashes shadowing her cheeks %like a silk fan Subject(s): Love; Nature GENESIS UNDONE, by BERTHA BLOKSBERG Poem Source First Line: In the beginning: %man made fire Last Line: Together with the garden pest, %in the earth %that gave us birth Subject(s): Creation; Mankind; Nature GENTIAN, by KATE LOUISE BROWN Poem Source First Line: In spring I found the violet Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons GENTLE READERS, TOMORROW I UNDERGO', by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Win some. Lose some. Mostly ties Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Reason; Surgery GEO-BESTIARY: 10, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a private mountain range with a big bowl in its center that you Last Line: Haven't quite found the words. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets GEO-BESTIARY: 16, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My favorite stump straddles a gully a dozen Last Line: The two million years I actually am. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature GEOGRAPHY 2, by SHEENAGH PUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The land wrote itself before any Last Line: And when it was all ready %they came, at last, to be masters%of it all; to take up the lives %mapped Subject(s): Nature GEOLOGIST (GRAND CANYON, MAY 1988), by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had made a life of stone Last Line: Pyrite for true gold. He was not fool enough %ever to take gneiss for granite Subject(s): Nature GEORGES BANK, by JULIA OLDER Poem Source First Line: They were fishing two centuries or more Last Line: String of pearls with whose final link %their lives, as ours, irreclaimably are fated Subject(s): Environment; Nature GETTING OLDER I'M MUCH BETTER AT WATCHING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In favor of the general feeling of rain Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Rain GETTING READY TO MOVE, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Before I go %to recognize each thing Last Line: The house sacramental in absence Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature GHAZAL 3, by JOHN FALK Poem Source First Line: The shaking scale pan comes into balance Last Line: Leaving everything snowfall white Subject(s): Nature GHAZAL OF BIRTHDAYS, by JOHN DRURY Poem Source First Line: The fruit flies celebrate constantly, getting drunk on nectar Last Line: The coronation ode of this moment, driftwood at sea Subject(s): Birthdays; Nature GHAZALS: 19, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were much saddened by bill knott's death Last Line: Behind them to feed on the disturbed insects. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Nature; Relationships; Dead, The GHOST BIRCHES, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The road crew worked all afternoon Subject(s): Nature GHOST BIRCHES, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The road crew worked all afternoon Last Line: Gone back to lie beside their stumps, %the old ones free to travel anywhere Subject(s): Nature GHOST TOWNS, by JOHN HAINES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The north is strewn with cities Last Line: One space, one frame for all Subject(s): Ghost Towns; Nature GIANTS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: All nose and toes and knobby knees Last Line: They loiter over all Subject(s): Nature GIFT, by MARIJANE OSBORN Poem Source First Line: We walk by the river and Last Line: Of elsewhere as I hold it to the sun Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Snakes GIFTS, by LILLIAN M. HAGAR Poem Text First Line: I ask not your silver, I want not your gold Last Line: "the ""why"" of things, unseen and that grow." Subject(s): Nature; Simplicity; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes GIFTS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: What does the blue atlantic bring Last Line: And a black, tiny fly, stinging Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Morning; Nature; Sea GIPSY FEET, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, gipsy hearts are many enough, but gipsy feet are Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Nature GIPSY SONG, by SARA HAMILTON BIRCHALL Poem Source First Line: Gipsy, gipsy, gipsy girl! Subject(s): Nature GIPSY WEDDING, by SARA HAMILTON BIRCHALL Poem Source First Line: Once more the gipsy aster Subject(s): Nature GIPSYING, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wish we might go gypsying one day while we're Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Nature GIRL IN A TREE, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her legs were long Last Line: Till she was god - %or very nearly Subject(s): Nature GIRL WITH BLUE SHORTS AND BROWN LEGS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Kicking her butt with her own heels Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Girls; Nature GIVE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See the rivers flowing Last Line: God will give thee more. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Nature; Rivers GIVE PLACE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Starry crowns of heaven Last Line: Waits to fill your place! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Nature; Stars; Winter GIVE THANKS FOR RAIN, by HILDEGARDE FRIED DREPS Poem Text First Line: Give thanks for rain when clouds extend Last Line: Give thanks for rain. Subject(s): Nature; Rain; Weather GIVEN THE GIFT OF SPEECH AND ONLY ONE WORD, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: To whom should I have turned when the lily spoke? Last Line: Somebody must have heard - the lily spoke %you must have heard the lily say my name Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Flowers; Lilies; Nature; Speech GLACIER, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: River of blue-cold ice Last Line: And you're not done Subject(s): Nature GLADS, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: I first admired gladioli Last Line: Until even cut, in water, every one %flew its triumphant colors Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Psychoanalysis; Relationships GLEN GILDER, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How curves the little river through glen gilder, o glen Last Line: Or whispering lovers walking in glen gilder? Subject(s): Nature; New Jersey; Towns GLIMPSE, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Where treetop winds Last Line: What? ....Sniffs is gone Subject(s): Nature GLOOM THAT WINTER CASTS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which ne'er shall set again Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of GLORIA, by BARBARA FOLKART Poem Source First Line: So there was the crabapple, in full gloria Last Line: Would have been a fall from grace Subject(s): Nature GLORY MONSTER, by SANDRA ALCOSSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tipped goblets, the blue heron Last Line: Against the damp / and shivering flesh Subject(s): Nature GLORY MONSTER, by SANDRA ALCOSSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tipped goblets, the blue heron Last Line: And shriveling flesh Subject(s): Nature GLUKUPIKRON; TO SAPPHO, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Word you created / which we translate Last Line: Your word for love. Subject(s): Language; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Pleasure; Words; Vocabulary; Suffering; Misery GNOMIC VERSES, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the road up the hill into the house Subject(s): Time; Nature GO THOU, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put off thy beauty now, as trees their leaves Last Line: Tingling amid my boughs are only life. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Nature GOD AND THE FARMER, by FRANKLIN ERASTUS PIERCE Poem Text First Line: God sat down with the farmer Last Line: A toiler more old than toil. Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Relationships; Agriculture; Farmers GOD HATH MADE ALL THINGS LOVELY, by HARRIET A. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: The beauty of god's world is ever new Last Line: God hath made all things lovely in their time. Subject(s): Nature; Spring GOD MADE THIS DAY FOR ME, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jes' the sort o' weather and jes' the sort of sky Last Line: While I'm huggin' the delusion that god made %this day fer me Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Nature GOD OF THE OPEN, by MARGUERITE AVIS WHITCOMB Poem Text First Line: Through the broad gray sweep of ocean Last Line: Flag of faith, one god, one lord. Subject(s): God; Nature GOD THE ARTIST, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God, when you thought of a pine tree Last Line: How did you think of a star? Subject(s): God; Nature GOD'S ACRE, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: From the chain of backsliders Last Line: Under a covenant of blooms Subject(s): Nature GOD'S EYES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Father, what colour are god's eyes Last Line: God's eyes change slow from shade to shade. Subject(s): Eyes; Fathers & Daughters; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Truth GOD'S FATHER CARE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There is no birdling in the nest the breeze rocks in the tree Subject(s): Nature; Spring GOD'S GRANDEUR, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The world is charged with the grandeur of god Last Line: World broods with warm breast and with ah! Bright wings. Subject(s): Christianity; Earth; Environment; Faith; God; Labor & Laborers; Men; Nature; Redemption; Religion; War; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Work; Workers; Theology GOD'S HAND IS CUPPED, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Over the crickery heart of the turtle Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): God; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Turtles GOD'S PLACES, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does the soul care about the mightiness Last Line: The soul speaks about Subject(s): God; Love – Nature Of; Soul GOING DOWN IN SHIPS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Going down to sea in ships Subject(s): Nature GOING FROM LUO-YANG TO YUE, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Restless and troubled for thirty years now Last Line: I will find brief joy in that thing in the cup, %and think no more of my name in the world Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Nature; Wanderers And Wandering GOING OF HIS FEET, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His feet went here and there Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Nature GOLD AND ROSE THE COLORS HELD IN, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Heavens, and green-blue hills Subject(s): Colors; Nature GOLD OF OPHIR, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the dawn, homing %nighthawks pass Last Line: Who sleeps grandly, %like a queen Variant Title(s): 'blue, Near-dawn Subject(s): Dawn; Nature GOLDEN CASSIA, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O brilliant blossoms that strew my way Last Line: The glimmering ghosts of a bygone dream. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Spring GOLDEN-MANTLED GROUND SQUIRREL, by SANDRA ALCOSSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Obsequious. You come begging Last Line: They smell so sweet Subject(s): Nature GOLDEN-MANTLED GROUND SQUIRREL, by SANDRA ALCOSSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Obsequious. You come begging Last Line: They smell so sweet Subject(s): Nature GOOD COUNSEL TO A YOUNG MAID, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you the sunburnt pilgrim see Last Line: When no streams shall be left but in thine eye. Subject(s): Advice; Love – Nature Of GOOD NIGHT, by SYDNEY DAYRE Poem Source First Line: Good night, pretty sun, good night! Subject(s): Nature; Winter GOODBYE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sounds of the seas grow fainter Last Line: As night shuts out the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Day; Nature; Night; Seasons; Bedtime GOOFY YOUNG BALD EAGLE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A barrel of fish heads and guts Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Eagles; Gulls; Nature; Ravens GOSPEL OF THE FIELDS, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Have you ever thought, my friend Subject(s): Nature GOSSIP OF THE NUTS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Said the shagbark to the chestnut Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons GRACE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hundreds of thousands dead this week in bangladesh Last Line: On which is written the answer to my question Subject(s): Nature GRACE, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: The kids endure him Last Line: Beyond the deed Subject(s): Nature GRAND CANYON, by STEPHEN LEFEBURE Poem Source First Line: As if there were instead some limit Last Line: Reaches filling up with indigo Subject(s): Grand Canyon, Arizona; Nature GRAND HOTEL, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: In those days everything was forbidden Last Line: Fearful only of the wild cries of ravens? Subject(s): Central America; Nature GRANDMAMMA'S WARNING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is a fire,' she said. 'love is a fire Last Line: "oh, did you learn by what your elders told?" Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Grandparents; Love - Nature Of; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANITE CALL, by JOYCE ISABEL LEE Poem Source First Line: Flat footed plains child Last Line: Cornwall to the grampians %rock to rock %I hear the call of granite Subject(s): Nature GRASS STUDIES, by ANNE CORAY Poem Source First Line: If we can't be aether Last Line: The bend of the awn in wind Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Nature; Wheat GRASSHOPPER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A grasshopper sat in an oak tree green Subject(s): Nature; Summer GRATIAS AGO', by GEOFFREY HOWARD Poem Source First Line: Since of earth, air and water Subject(s): Nature GRATITUDE, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Filled with the clarity of ancient chinese poems Last Line: To answer for my life: what is it to you? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature GRATITUDE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is on the mountain crest Last Line: Thank god, another night! Subject(s): Gratitude; Nature; Peace; Robins GRAVITY, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mildest of all the powers of earth: no lightnings Subject(s): Nature; Gravitation GRAY, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Its blush lamp %ceased to quiver Subject(s): Nature GRAY, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a friend Subject(s): Love - Nature Of GRAY, by OSCAR WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: A bleak wind is riding on the waves Subject(s): Nature GRAY, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Gray trout in the water Last Line: Dim reminder of what green %used to be Subject(s): Nature GRAY FOX IN A ROADSIDE ZOO, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around and across his pen, light-footed, the fox Last Line: He is almost weightless on the tracer of nothing Subject(s): Nature GRAY FOX IN A ROADSIDE ZOO, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around and across his pen, light-footed, the fox Last Line: He is almost weightless on the trace of nothing Subject(s): Nature GREAT BASIN MOVES THROUGH A POROUS ATTENTION, by NICKIE J. GUNSTROM Poem Source First Line: The sage greend raws the nonsense talk of blue flies, no Last Line: To hawks, it's hard to get english from me. I speak %everything Subject(s): Nature GREAT FRIEND, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk in nature still alone Last Line: Go with a bending stature. Subject(s): Nature GREAT GOURMAND ROWS IS BOAT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And warm water Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Food And Eating; Nature GREAT GRANDMOTHER'S GARDEN, by M. J. JACQUES Poem Source First Line: Come into great-grandmother's garden, my dears Subject(s): Nature; Summer GREAT LOVE: 1. GREAT LOVE IS HUMBLE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Humble is love, for he is honor's child Last Line: Love should be humble -- his reward is meet. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Nature Of GREAT LOVE: 2. GREAT LOVE IS PROUD, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For very humbleness great love is proud Last Line: Who for one royal moment entered there? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Nature Of GREAT OUTDOORS, by MAUD RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: O great outdoors, without floors Subject(s): Nature GREAT PIECE OF TURF, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dug out just before sunrise Last Line: Magnificent edifice %dying before the very eye Subject(s): Nature GREAT RAIN OF THE SOUTH, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great rain of te south is falling on isla negra Last Line: A woman, a man, and winter on the earth Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Rain; Water GREAT SEA, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Climbing one day, I reach the plateau Last Line: Makes an effort to break his bonds Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Sea GREEN, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These coastal bogs, before they settle Last Line: Of doing things, of being occupied %at all, comes hard: %thedrifting, then the lying still Subject(s): Nature GREEN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here fruit and flowers I bring to thee; green leaves and sprays I proffer Last Line: And sleep awhile, when thy fond love its haven shall have found. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Love; Nature; Soul GREEN, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Whichever angel has the task Last Line: All of which are %green Subject(s): Nature GREEN BRANCHES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wave, wave, green branches, wave me far away Last Line: Joy of my heart, my life, my prince, my lover! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Green (color); Love; Nature; Trees GREEN CLOISONNE, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: Now god be thanked for this stir from the south Last Line: So much divine expectancy. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fields; God; Nature; Pastures; Meadows; Leas GREEN LIGHT FOR THE MX MISSILE, by CHARLES ATKINSON Poem Source First Line: I've seen owls here - great horned Last Line: Turns on us at last, raining down %passion at its purest - burning, burning Subject(s): Environment; Nature GREEN POND IN APRIL, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: If I go to a green pond in april Last Line: Hurts most. Answer spring with yes Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature GREEN ROCK, WINTHROP BAY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No lame excuses can gloss over Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Nature GREEN ROCK, WINTHROP BAY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No lame excuses can gloss over Last Line: For the rock's dwarfed lump, for the drabbled scum, %for a churlish welcome Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Nature GREEN TREE IN THE FALL, by JESSIE BELL RITTENHOUSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Did you forget to bud in spring Alternate Author Name(s): Scollard, Clinton, Mrs. Subject(s): Nature GREENBRIER VALLEY, by MARY ANN WETHERBY Poem Text First Line: Such scenic beauty do I behold Last Line: Over cliff crags against the sky. Subject(s): Nature GREENHOUSES AND GARDENS, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It began as an item on a questionnaire Subject(s): Nature GREENHOUSES AND GARDENS, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It began as an item on a questionnaire Last Line: To compete with the living for sunlight and space Subject(s): Nature GREY AS ROADS, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: To leave in winter %grey Subject(s): Nature; Swamps GROUND LAUREL, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love thee, pretty nursling Subject(s): Nature; Spring GROUND SENSE, by RODNEY JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because I have loved many women Subject(s): Death; Fields; Nature; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas GROVE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enormous and solid Last Line: Little by little, the names petrify Subject(s): Leaves; Nature; Trees GROWN COLD; SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old man asked me: what is love? I turned Last Line: To rest when all its gladness goeth by! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Aging; Hearts; Love - Nature Of GUARDIAN, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heroes and the heroines of the day, in gray suits Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Nature GYPSY MAN, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ma man's a gypsy / cause he never does come home Last Line: Sho can't find no ease. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Love - Nature Of; Negroes; American Blacks GYPSY MOTHS, by SUSAN RONEY-O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: You tell me the females can't fly Last Line: And drop them into oil. %nothing is simple Subject(s): Change; Moths; Nature; Relationships HABITAT, by FRANCINE STERLE Poem Source First Line: It is the hollow where the landscape Last Line: Aims as it lifts up, squeezes both eyes shut-and leaps Subject(s): Environment; Nature HABITAT: TIME AND PLACE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is out by the stand of windbreak-trees, under Last Line: It keeps me down to size Subject(s): Birds; California; Fields; Herbs; Nature HAG, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: Waits, by the piled-stone well Last Line: O dioysus, I did not know, %I did not know Subject(s): Nature HAIDA GWAI NORTH COAST, HAIKOON BEACH, HIELLEN RIVER RAVEN CROAKS, by GARY SNYDER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve ravens squawk, squork, crork Last Line: Earth / loves to love Subject(s): Environment; Geology; Mythology; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation HAIDA GWAI NORTH COAST, HAIKOON BEACH, HIELLEN RIVER RAVEN CROAKS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve ravens squawk, squork, crork Last Line: Tangled in fall flood streams Subject(s): Environment; Geology; Mythology; Nature HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are rock garden Last Line: In exile from touch Subject(s): Love – Nature Of HAIKU POEM TO MY FAVORITE RACCOON, by MARYBELLE LEIMONAS Poem Source First Line: We feed raccoons bread Subject(s): Nature HALIEUTICA [HALIEUTICKS]: THE GREAT CHAIN OF BEING, by OPPIAN OF CILICIA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of nature's chain how regular the links! Last Line: So all is diff'rent, and yet all is one. Alternate Author Name(s): Oppian Subject(s): Nature HALLOWED EARTH, by MAUDE PERRY FAETH Poem Text First Line: A carpet of gold's on the pathway Last Line: Hearts are tuned to the father above. Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Landscape; Nature; World HAMATREYA, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Minott, lee, willard, hosmer, meriam, flint / possessed the land Last Line: Like lust in the chill of the grave. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World HANDICAPPED, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is a game of whist Last Line: Leading the mating instinct. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Games; Life; Nature; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements HANDLE OF ITS NECK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And ratchets the turkey %forward Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Turkey HANDS OF TAINO: 1. ADMIRAL, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Laid out on vellum, the past Last Line: God and the crown. Both want too much Subject(s): Central America; Nature HANDS OF THE TAINO: 2. GOVERNOR, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: At guanahani, they swam to the caravel Last Line: They have the faces of christian angels Subject(s): Central America; Nature HANGZHOU, LAKE OF THE POETS, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reading the bones, wetting a fingertip Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets HANS READING, HANS SMOKING, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother, poised around behavior, would say Subject(s): Reading; Smoking; Human Behavior; Family Life; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Relatives HAPAX, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Holy week. Once more the full moon Last Line: What does it mean. This is not a question, but an exclamation Subject(s): Nature; Space And Space Travel; Speculation; Universe HAPAX, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Holy week. Once more the full moon Last Line: This is not a question, but %an exclamation Subject(s): Nature; Space And Space Travel; Speculation; Universe HAPPINESS, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One morning in the month of may Last Line: "if virtue guides thee here!" Subject(s): Death; Friendship; God; Happiness; Love; Nature; Virtue; Dead, The; Joy; Delight HAPPINESS, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Sitting on a bench in winter morning sun Last Line: Were quite enough to tip the scale toward ten Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature HAPPINESS THROUGH THE YEAR, by J. MARGARET CRUTE ASHCRAFT Poem Text First Line: Give me a good book Last Line: And life seems just only begun. Subject(s): Books; Nature; Seasons; Reading HAPPY BIRD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, if I were a little bird Subject(s): Nature; Summer HARD WEATHER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bursts from a rending east in flaws Last Line: The station for the flight of soul. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Nature; Weather; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature HARDWARE STORE AS PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I praise the brightness of hammers pointing east Last Line: In the right hands, they can work wonders Subject(s): God; Nature HARDWOOD, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do these gnarled and twisted trees Last Line: There are stumps %to rest on everywhere Subject(s): Nature HARK TO THE SHOUTING WIND, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Nature HARP OF DUBHROS, by BIDDY JENKINSON Poem Source First Line: Harper, hot your fingers still Last Line: Knowing that the tuning's fine Subject(s): Nature; Women HARP OF THE SENSES, by DOROTHY ANN SCOFIELD Poem Text First Line: I have heard the gentle whisper of the night wind in the pines Last Line: And I think that earth and heaven met and kissed. Subject(s): Nature HARVEST ODE, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When erst, by eden's guarded gate Last Line: Our father's manly toil. Subject(s): Harvest; Nature - Religious Aspects; Odes (as Poetic Form) HARVEST SONG, by LUDWIG HENRICH CHRISTOPH HOLTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sickles sound / on the ground Last Line: Home they go, yo ho! Subject(s): Harvest; Nature HARVEST SONG, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more amidst the harvest fields Last Line: Eternal be the praise. Subject(s): Harvest; Nature; Seasons HAUTE CUISINE, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: All that heaven of cypress knees Last Line: For only wanting the very best Subject(s): Nature HAVE YOU?, by HARRY M. DEAN Poem Source First Line: Have you ever built a camp-fire at the closing of the Subject(s): Camping; Nature HAVING CLIMBED TO THE TOPMOST PEAK OF THE INCENSE-BURNER MOUNTAIN, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up and up, the incense-burner peak! Last Line: Then, with lowered head, came back to the ants' nest. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountain Climbing; Nature; Retirement HAVING REVISED OUR GODS, by VINCENT BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: Having revised our gods Last Line: There'll be lots, mainly the past, to talk about, %but no names for the new animals Subject(s): Human Rights; Nature HAWK, THE SERPENTS AND THE CLOUD, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In writing, he moved from the word I Last Line: Each is bird and sky to the other, soil and flower Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Religion; Writing And Writers HAWKBIT, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How sweetly on the autumn scene Subject(s): Nature HAY IN THE LOFT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Leaks a few stars Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Hay And Haymaking; Nature; Night; Roofing And Roofers; Stars HAYING, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are gathering hay. The truck rolls slowly Subject(s): Nature HAYING, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are gathering hay. The truck rolls slowly Last Line: Like a breath inhaled and held %so long that light turns colors Subject(s): Nature HE HAS A KNIFE, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source First Line: He watches lightning stall Last Line: Each spark is a thin & %hungry child, waiting Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Nature HE KNOWS, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: Tis not in vain if in a glade Last Line: He knows! He knows! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Kisses; Nature HE WHO KNOWS LOVE, by ELSA BARKER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love - Nature Of HEAD FULL OF TURTLE, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: Stuck in a skull shell Last Line: Stick your neck out Subject(s): Nature HEART, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: I found your letter after a long month Last Line: Runs on hunger, a solid muscle %over its four empty, fragile chambers Subject(s): Central America; Nature HEART AND MIND, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the lion to the lioness - 'when you are amber dust' Last Line: One.' Subject(s): Love - Nature Of HEART UNBROKEN AND THE COURAGE FREE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is late autumn, the end of indian summer Last Line: I look at them, they are the color of snow Subject(s): Autumn; Eyes; Nature; Seasons HEART'S TIDE, by ETHEL M. HEWITT Poem Text First Line: I thought I had forgotten you Last Line: Your memory floods them and I weep. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Nature HEARTH SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the hearth I dream of many things Last Line: Singing of summer, chanting soft of june. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fireplaces; Life; Nature; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Nightmares; Songs HEARTSEASE COUNTRY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The far green westward heavens are bland Last Line: At every turn on every way. Subject(s): Country Life; Nature HEIGH-HO!, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pretty young maiden sat on the grass Last Line: Heaven blesses true lovers so fairly. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Brides; Courtship; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HEIMWEH, by R. G. RUSTE Poem Text First Line: Just look,' said she, 'how blue the sky' Last Line: The other wept for paha sapa) Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement HEIR, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This gray board fence turns blue in the evening light Subject(s): Nature; Colors; Evening; Sunset; Twilight HEIRLOOM, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She gave me childhood's flowers Last Line: Through long indifferent years %treasuring the priceless pearl Subject(s): Mothers; Nature HELP ONE ANOTHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Nature; Winter HEMATITE LAKE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is another kind of sleep Last Line: Not even nightfall, whose gold we are, can find us Subject(s): Birds; Lakes; Nature; Swans; Pools; Ponds HER CALLED HER IN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He called her in from me and shut Last Line: "god called her in from him and shut the door!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Love; Nature; Wandering & Wanderers; Separation; Isolation HER SMILE OF CHEER AND VOICE OF SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring fails, in all its bravery of Last Line: Reclaims those gifts of hers. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Smiles; Spring HER SOVEREIGN PEOPLE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As if fallible Variant Title(s): Poem: 1139; Poem: 89 Subject(s): Nature HER VOICE HAD A DEEP RESONANCE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That must have made her pubic hair %buzz Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Voices; Women HERE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's green, here's the tree Last Line: What we are. Subject(s): Grief; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness HERE, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun that silvers all the buildings here Subject(s): Nature HERE, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun that silvers all the buildings here Last Line: Curled up before its cave in saurian repose, %and about how good it is to be survived Subject(s): Nature HERE AND NOW, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, in the heart of the world Last Line: Here, should we labor and love. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature HERE IS MUSIC: 2, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Can it, indeed, be love which stirs Last Line: Outlet for long-inhibited tenderness. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of HERMIT THRUSH, by NELLY HART WOODWORTH Poem Source First Line: Who rings new england's angelus? Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Thrushes HERNANDO POINT, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: A cool had already begun Last Line: The fiery hallelujahs of fall Subject(s): Nature HESITATION THEORY, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I drift into the sound of wind, Subject(s): Nature; Se;f HESPERIDES, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the blue rim of the world Subject(s): Hesperides (mythology); Nature HIC JACET, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So love is dead that has been quick so long! Last Line: And yet, had love been love, he had not died. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Love - Nature Of; Dead, The HICKORY RIDGE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Amid the moist profusion of ferns Last Line: Another time, my throat might have slit %for spring to come Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) HIDDEN SONGSTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hark! Hear you not that long, shrill strain? Subject(s): Nature; Summer HIGH COUNTRY, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: High country sings its own wind-song Last Line: Leave if you must. It sings, but you'll return Subject(s): Nature HIGH PROVENCE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every evening at seven o'clock Last Line: Swimming overf the mediterranian Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Romance; Provence, France; Male-female Relations HIGH PROVENCE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every evening at seven o'clock Last Line: Swimming over the mediterranean Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Romance HIGH WAVING HEATHER, 'NEATH STORMY BLASTS BENDING, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Nature HIGHLAND, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Peach blossom's red, filled with night rain Last Line: The mountain hermit is yet sleeping Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Flowers; Nature HIGHLAND SONGS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through the white sierra %very fine snow %and wind in your face Last Line: We all are to see your face Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Mountains; Nature; Spain; Travel HILL AND VALE, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not on the river plains Last Line: Of stars and clouds allied. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) HILL CIRCLE, by FRANCES HALLEY BROCKETT Poem Text First Line: I know a quiet little place Last Line: And sky-filled, sun-drenched air. Subject(s): Nature; Singing & Singers; Songs HINTS FROM THE HIGHTS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And oh, the voices I have heard Last Line: The morning stars sing on and on Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Nature; Beauty HIPPOLYTUS: HYMN TO POWER OF LOVE, by EURIPIDES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love distills desire upon the eyes Last Line: Love is like a flitting bee in the world's garden %and for its flowers, destruction is in his breat Subject(s): Love - Nature Of HISTORY AS HORSE LIGHT, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It ended at the time of hiroshima. Everything Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation HISTORY AS HORSE LIGHT, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It ended at the time of hiroshima. Everything Last Line: A skillet sputtering %brilliant greases, pure and imageless,down the dark Subject(s): Environment; Nature HISTORY OF THE SEVEN FAMILIES OF THE LAKE PIPPLE-POPPLE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In former days-that is to say, once upon a time, there lived in the land Last Line: Building; for if you do not, you certainly will not see them Subject(s): Animals; Geography; History; Museums; Nature HITHER, MEADOW GOSSIP, TELL ME!, by H. PRESCOTT BEACH Poem Source Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons HO, FOR SLUMBERLAND!', by EBEN EUGENE REXFORD Poem Source First Line: A little song for bedtime, when, robed in gowns of white Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons HOLIDAY, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My child in the smoke of the fire Last Line: Too much dust in the stratosphere %this year, they say. Unseasonal Subject(s): Nature HOLIDAY, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Love has so far on earth to seek Last Line: The thing he meant. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of HOLIDAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: About my window in a wreath Last Line: My dreams are drenched with attar of rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life; Flowers; Holidays; Nature; Roses HOLLOW OF ITS SHAPE, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: The shape of dunes Subject(s): Nature; Swamps HOLLY, by SUSAN HARTLEY Poem Source First Line: Not one pretty flower would stay Subject(s): Nature; Winter HOLLYHOCKS, by RAY LAURANCE Poem Source First Line: The hollyhocks are standing Subject(s): Hollyhocks; Nature HOLLYHOCKS, by ROSALIE SANARA PETROUSKE Poem Source First Line: Christine was the polish girl who lived next door Last Line: Love to boys in the backseats of their cars Subject(s): Love; Nature HOLLYHOCKS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the stately hollyhocks Last Line: Their words in the dusk to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Hollyhocks; Nature HOLLYHOCKS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Whether they grow by a cabin door Last Line: Hung on the sky's blue wall. Subject(s): Hollyhocks; Nature; Summer HOLOGRAM, by KATHLEEN SPIVACK Poem Source First Line: I sit alone in human-woman form Last Line: All that wild sky-life streaming %over the shapes that are world in its dances Subject(s): Environment; Nature HOMAGE TO BINSEY POPLARS, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The arctic fox of kiska now is quelled Last Line: Who, sizing up the prospects of the few %in saving one, eradicated two Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Environment; Nature HOME, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas midnight -- midnight in a southern clime Last Line: There brighter skies, but fonder hearts are here. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Home; Nature; Night; North, The; Bedtime HOME, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a tribute or betrayal when Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Beauty HOME-COMING, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I stepped homeward to my hill Last Line: The moon's slow wonder with her hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be in england, now that april's there Last Line: Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower! Variant Title(s): April In England Subject(s): April; England; Environment; Fields; Homesickness; May (month); Nature; Spring; Travel; Trees; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips HOMECOMING, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: A crust of thin ice cracks, and signposts change. Summer snow Last Line: As a celtic vase drowns in the murmuring water that might fill the dry well Subject(s): Change; Despair; Nations; Nature; Yugoslavia HOMING, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: The river whispers the way Last Line: In fire, food, all the old friends Subject(s): Nature; Story-telling HONEYSUCKLE WAS THE SADDEST ODOR OF ALL, I THINK', by THADIOUS M. DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I wanted to be a nature poet Last Line: Remnants of %my poetic eye Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Nature HOOSIER SPRING-POETRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ever'thing's a-goin' like she's got-a-goin' now Last Line: Oh, ever'thing's a-goin' like we like to see her go! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Spring; Trees HOPE'S YEARNINGS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet it is, when wearied with the jars Last Line: To realise the aspirings of the soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Heaven; Hope; Nature; Soul; World; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Optimism HORSE AND ASS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A train was rushing along one day Last Line: Will never want his oats and hay. Subject(s): Animals; Asses & Mules; Hearts; Horses; Nature; Railroads; Mules; Railways; Trains HOSPITALITY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay low yon impious trappings on the ground Last Line: And deems of other bosoms by her own. Subject(s): Hospitality; Native Americans; Nature - Religious Aspects; Pioneers; U.s. - Colonial Period; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America HOT TUB IN THE STARRY NIGHT, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Who wouldn't give an ear for such a night Last Line: Whispery grasses growing as I go Subject(s): Nature; Psychoanalysis; Relationships HOUND, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Some are sick for spring and warm winds blowing Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons HOUSE IS EMPTY NOW, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: House is empty now with my hand Last Line: Never closing. Who is there, now? %a teaspoon, yellow flower-mirror Subject(s): Nature HOUSE WILL TURN ITSELF, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On a bedpost Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Houses; Moon; Nature HOW ATTENTIVE THE BIG BEAR RESTING HIS CHIN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To see if he has permission for sunflower seeds Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Nature HOW CAN I DISAPPOINT MYSELF?, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And wrinkled skin? Just one in pieces Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Disappointment; Introspection; Nature; Self; Self-pity HOW CAN IT BE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is older than I? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Nature HOW CAN LORCA SAY HE'S ONLY THE PULSE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I'm wondering if he ever towed a boat backwards Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Nature; Poetry And Poets HOW COULD YOU NOT, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Remember the road to belvedere Last Line: The cathedral of the world? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature HOW DOES LOVE SPEAK?, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How does love speak? Last Line: Thus doth love speak. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Nature Of; Passion HOW EVIL ALL PRIESTHOODS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Soaked with extra blood Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Clergy; Nature; Religion HOW FOOLISH THE HOUSEPLANT LOOKS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Like hands to be kissed Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Plants HOW IS IT THE RICH ALWAYS KNOW, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What is best for the poor? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Poetry And Poets; Wealth HOW IT GOES ON, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Opening: the door, the box, the womb, the mouth Last Line: The mouth and eyes, the heart Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature HOW LUCKY IN ONE LIFE TO SEE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The sun lift a cloud from a pool! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Clouds; Lakes; Nature; Sun HOW MANY NIGHTS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: From a branch nothing cried from ever in my life Subject(s): Peace; Nature HOW MIRACLES ABOUND, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Nature HOW ONE OLD TIRE LEANS UP AGAINST, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Another, the breath gone out of both Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature HOW SHARP MUST BE THE FLETCHER'S KNIFE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And leave in both halves flight Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Feathers; Knives; Nature HOW TALL WOULD I BE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To measure me? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Enemies; Nature; Self HOW THE WIND BLOWS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: High and low Subject(s): Nature; Spring HOW THEY CONJUGATE 'TO HAVE', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a man of aspect wise Last Line: "that men may have me,"" answers he." Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature HOW TO KEEP FROM MURDERING YOUR MAN, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Instead of a sales training course Last Line: I got in the grass %and swatted gnats Subject(s): Nature; Relationships HOW TO KNOW LOVE FROM DECEIT, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love to faults is always blind Last Line: And forges fetters for the mind Subject(s): Bible; Duplicity; Love - Nature Of; Mythology; Deceit HOW TO LIVE. WHAT TO DO, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last evening the moon rose above this rock Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature HSIN-YI VILLAGE, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: At the tips of branches, Last Line: And fall, bloom and fall Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Nature HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Above drift classic, backlit clouds, connections Last Line: These presences, truth %so often various, %whether one watches, or not Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) HUMAN EXCREMENT, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The detail and distinguishing odor Subject(s): Nature HUMAN EXCREMENT, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The detail and distinguishing odor Last Line: After all, so animal or angry, %this answer to longing and our hunger Subject(s): Nature HUMAN KIND CANNOT BEAR VERY MUCH REALITY', by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence tricks of dimension on us soft as kisses Subject(s): Reality; Love - Nature Of HUMAN, AVIAN, VEGETABLE, BLOOD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today, three days before christmas Subject(s): Fruit; Nature; Robins HUMAN, AVIAN, VEGETABLE, BLOOD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today, three days before christmas Last Line: The barren mexican mountains Subject(s): Fruit; Nature; Robins HUMMINGBIRD, by ELAINE STOLTZFUS Poem Source First Line: Outside the midday window Last Line: Is in fact ourselves Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Nature HUMMINGBIRDS, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Almost bee, almost bird Last Line: Of all desire Subject(s): Nature HUMPBACK, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: There! Someone yells Last Line: Will you come back? %can you? Subject(s): Nature HUNGER, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: What could I say to you that day Last Line: As the plane banks the white-clouds over lake michigan Subject(s): Central America; Nature HUNT, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: We have begun to see them Last Line: To wait for us, mouths open %with wet tongues Subject(s): Earth; Nature HUNTER'S SABBATH: HIPPOCRATIC, by SYDNEY LEA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gauzy lichen here - took years Last Line: But let it do at least - no harm Subject(s): Nature HUNTING NEW CAVE ON CECIL CREEK, by AL ORTOLANI Poem Source First Line: Along the road that leads to cecil creek Last Line: Gray, solid as the quiet within Subject(s): Nature; Silence HUNTING SEASON, by SUSAN FROMBERG SCHAEFFER Poem Source First Line: The bed is the wrong bed Last Line: For the last time %like braille Subject(s): Nature HUNTING SONG, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waken, lords and ladies gay Last Line: Gentle lords and ladies gay! Subject(s): Hunting; Nature; Hunters HURRAH FOR THE FLAG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There are many flags in many lands Subject(s): Nature; Winter HUSH!, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: To music we listen Last Line: Sung there. Subject(s): Dreams; Music & Musicians; Nature; Truth; Youth; Nightmares HYMN, by PATRICK CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst I beheld the neck of the dove Last Line: I, too, have all from god. Subject(s): Nature; Pride; God HYMN, by MARIE JOSEPH BLAISE CHENIER Poem Text First Line: Source of all truth, blasphemed by every liar Last Line: The incense of pure pray'r! Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects HYMN FROM A WATERMELON PAVILION, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You dweller in the dark cabin, Subject(s): Relationships; Nature HYMN TO DARKNESS, by JOHN NORRIS Poem Text First Line: Hail thou most sacred venerable thing Last Line: Tis just we should adore, 'tis just we should thee sing. Variant Title(s): To Darkness Subject(s): Nature; Night; Bedtime HYMN TO TEXTURE, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: Deliver us into the hands of quartz Last Line: Caress the unknown future Subject(s): Nature HYMN TO THE NIGHT, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the trailing garments of the night Last Line: The best-beloved night! Subject(s): Nature; Night; Prayer; Bedtime HYPOLIMNION, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: The big fish lie down deep, feathering Last Line: On the black frontier Subject(s): Nature I AM AN ACME OF THINGS ACCOMPLISHED, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Nature I AM BUT A TRAVELER IN THIS LAND & KNOW LITTLE OF ITS WAYS, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is everything a field of energy caused Subject(s): Nature; Body, Human I AM NOT IN TIME TO SAY FAREWELL TO HSIN CHIH-O, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I came to say farewell, but did not see you Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature I AM WHEREVER I FIND MYSELF TO BE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Only a few hours ago there was a moon Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; November; Paris, France I AM, SAID HE, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: I am the ground, the tree, and the sky, said he Last Line: And last beating in the center of the sea Subject(s): Nature; Self I CANNOT ESCAPE FROM YOU, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of which nothing can be said Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of I DO NOT FEAR, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not fear to own me kin Last Line: Alone of all things have the power. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Love; Nature; Spring I FEEL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In her footprints Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Footprints; Nature I GO FROM THE WOODS INTO THE CLEARED FIELD, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thousands of years to make it what it was, %beginning now, in our few troubled days Subject(s): Nature I GROW OLDER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I like mexican food Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Man-woman Relationships; Nature I HAVE DRIFTED ALONG THIS RIVER, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nor stoop to the flower Subject(s): Nature; Farewell I HAVE GROWN OLD, AND KNOW, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Seeing a man with a lantern Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Nature I HAVE USED UP MORE THAN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What the next would bring Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Future; Hope; Nature; Time I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Do it anymore Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Mirrors; Nature; Self-doubt I HEARD THE LAKE CHEEPING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To break through the shell Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ice; Lakes; Nature I HOPE THERE'S TIME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And not just this Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Future; Nature; Time I JOIN THE SPARROWS, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me join the sparrows Subject(s): Nature I JOIN THE SPARROWS, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me join the sparrows Last Line: I'd sing awhile, a high, faint trill Subject(s): Nature I LIKE THE BROOK, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: Like ther brook, I like the tree Last Line: I like to like things all the day Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Nature I LIKE TO WANDER OFF ALONE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: If I should never stop for play – I wonder Subject(s): Thought; Nature I LOVE THE ENGLISH COUNTRY SCENE, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Especially in august, when the flowers that might have lent a %lightness, don't; being gamboge or ma Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Nature I LOVE YOU SWEETHEART, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man risked his life to write the words. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of I MADE MY BED, by ALICE LEE EDDY Poem Text First Line: Yes, I have made my bed; now I will lie Last Line: Perhaps you're wrong, -- perhaps, I like my bed. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature I MIGHT HAVE BEEN A WELDER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In my mask of stars Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Nature I MUST OUT AND PLAY AGAIN INTO THE SALT SEA AIR!, by KATHLEEN MILLAY Poem Source Subject(s): Nature I NOW, O FRIEND, WHOM NOISELESSLY THE SNOWS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Followed the car; and I … Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Life; Aging; Nature I PREFER THE SKYLINE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of a shelf of books Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Books; Nature I REMEMBER BEING A CELLULAR OYSTER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Into a world of lilacs and blood Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Oysters I SAW A BLACK BUTTERFLY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Maybe it was an owl Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature I SCHLUMP AROUND THE FARM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Checking the private lives of mice Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Farm Life; Nature I SHALL REMEMBER, by GLENNYS RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: The rain has come and washed away the trace Last Line: But I—I shall remember when I'm dead! Subject(s): Memory; Nature; Past; Relationships I STAND BENEATH THE MOUNTAIN WITH AN ILLITERATE HEART, by CHARD DENIORD Poem Source Last Line: Is wailing. 'no,' I say. 'yes. I mean no!' Subject(s): Nature I SURELY UNDERSTAND PAPER AND HOW POETS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: So lightly dismisses him with hers Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Paper; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers I THOUGHT MY FRIEND WAS DRINKING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That was drinking him Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Nature I TRACE MY NOBLE ANCESTRY BACK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That emerged reluctantly from the void Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Nature I USED TO HAVE TIME BY THE ASS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And it's going away Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Time I WANT THIS CORNER EMPTY (PERSEPHONE SPEAKING)', by JULIE CARR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And in the bent backs of my knees Subject(s): Nature; Wishes I WANT THIS CORNER EMPTY (PERSEPHONE SPEAKING)', by JULIE CARR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My lost %heat does not hesitate Subject(s): Nature; Wishes I WANT TO DESCRIBE MY LIFE IN HUSHED TONES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: His nose stalks the air for newborn coffee Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Life; Nature I WANT TO GO BACK, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Isn't that a wound? Subject(s): Boys; Children; Farm Life; Nature; Seasons; Swamps I WAS BORN A BABY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What has been %added? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Babies; Growth; Nature I WAS PARALYZED FROM THE WAIST UP, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Out of a tree I hadn't climbed Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Paralysis I WOKE UP AS NOTHING. NOW START PILING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Outdoors. Me, you. Her corpse said stop Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Nothingness; Self I'D LIKE TO BURROW A PLACE FOR MYSELF...', by JOSE-FLORE TAPPY Poem Source Last Line: Cries walled up in the brick Subject(s): Nature; Solitude I'LL GIVE NIGHT A BODY, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: She reclines on blue hills Last Line: A life, a dream Subject(s): Nature I'M GLAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I'm glad the sky is painted blue Last Line: All sandwiched in between Subject(s): Air;earth;environment;nature;sky; World;environmental Protection;ecology;conservation I'M SIXTY-TWO AND CAN DROP DEAD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I kissed the river's cold moving lips Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Life; Nature; Old Age; Self-gratification I'M SO PLEASED THAT YEATS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Though I have only one Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) I'VE BEEN MARRIED SINCE BIRTH, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Depth of my insincerity Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature I'VE NEVER LEARNED FROM EXPERIENCE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How about ninety billion galaxies Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Experience; Learning; Nature; Universe IBADAN, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poet's Biography First Line: Ibadan, / running splash of rust Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Nature IBADAN, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ibadan, %running splash of rust Last Line: China in the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Nature ICE, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When winter scourged the meadow and the hill Last Line: Wherein to sit and watch the fury pass. Subject(s): Ice; Nature; Winter ICE OUT, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As late as yesterday ice preoccupied Last Line: Sighs, sneezes, and closes his eyes Subject(s): Nature ICICLES, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This fragile witchery of frost Last Line: That leads unto the central sun. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Cold; Frost; God; Ice; Nature - Religious Aspects IDEA THAT HOLDS WATER, by PAUL J. CASELLA Poem Source First Line: The atmosphere is great here Last Line: Onto the blue face below Subject(s): Nature; Water IDEA: 38, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting alone, love bids me go and write Last Line: And love alone picks reason out of love. Variant Title(s): "sitting Alone. Love Bids Me Goe And Write""; Subject(s): Love - Nature Of IDEA: 56, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When like an eaglet I first found my love Last Line: It after thee is, like an eaglet, flown. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Love - Beginnings; Love - Nature Of IDLE HOURS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye idle hours of summer, not in vain Last Line: O'er vasty deeps of the unknown and unseen. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Summer IDYLL, by PETER BALAKIAN Poem Source First Line: I lived behind a window Last Line: To see the chickadees %settling like a rope of smoke %on the other side of the river Subject(s): Nature IDYLL 17. LOVE RESISTLESS, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright cypris! Goddess ever meek and mild Last Line: That we the cruel one can never fly? Subject(s): Love - Nature Of IDYLL 3. A PASTORAL ON THE DEATH OF BION, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye vales, and doric floods, or fount, or rill Last Line: And from dun night redeem thy sacred shade. Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Death; Flutes; Grief; Lament; Mourning; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement IF, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If you can keep your head when all about you Last Line: And -- which is more -- you'll be a man, my son! Subject(s): Fortitude; Human Behavior; Leadership; Maturity; Self-control; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IF A CAMEL CAN STRETCH IT'S MUZZLE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For three hours, then rowed my blue %so I can Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Camels; Human Behavior; Nature IF BIRD GETS NOISY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bird! Queen of the night! Last Line: Put sarong over cage) Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Loss; Nature; Parrots; Silence IF DY/DX = 4X3+X2-12/2X2-9, THEN, by AMY QUAN BARRY Poem Source First Line: You are standing at the ocean Last Line: The sieves of the lungs like two cones Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Mathematics IF I DIE, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I die, I would like to come back Last Line: And dream each night of coming back Subject(s): Nature IF IT WERE NOT FOR YOU, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Liebe, meine, liebe. I had not hoped Last Line: How gravely and sweetly the poor touch in the dark Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) IF JOY WERE NOT DIVINE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If joy were not divine, immortal Last Line: Are one, are one! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Happiness; Nature; Joy; Delight IF MY HAND, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If my hand believes Last Line: Each death affirmative Subject(s): Human Behavior; Death; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Dead, The IF NIGHT AND DAY BEHAVED LIKE DOORS, by REBECCA GIVENS Poem Source First Line: At the first sign of slowing Last Line: Desperately, blindingly flings clear Subject(s): Day; Nature; Night IF THE FOOLISH CALL THEM 'FLOWERS', by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "at that grand ""right hand""!" Subject(s): Nature; Science IF WE HAD BUT A DAY, by MARY LOWE DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: We should fill the hours with the sweetest things Last Line: If we had but a day. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Service; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IF YOU CAN AWAKEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You need never leave home Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Life; Nature IF YOU MADE GENTLER THE CHURLISH WORLD, by MAX EHRMANN Poem Text First Line: If you have spoken something beautiful Last Line: If you have made gentler the churlish world. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IKKYU WAS AWAKENED BY A CROW'S CAW, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: O master, why count flowers that re gone? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Admiration; Loss; Nature IL LATTE, by EDWARD JERNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: Ye fair, for whom the hands of hymen weave Last Line: Unblam'd inebriate at that healthful spring. Subject(s): Babies; Caregivers; Love; Nature; Parents; Infants; Parenthood ILL MANNERED, by ARTHUR FOEHRENBACH Poem Text First Line: Nature seems at times unkind Last Line: Before we chance to see them all. Subject(s): Nature ILLUMINATIONS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard of one man of atonement Last Line: Of a word no longer spoken by men: vouchsafe Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Lakes; Nature IMAGINARY DRAWINGS OF THE SONG ANIMALS, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Treefrog winks without springing Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation IMAGINARY DRAWINGS OF THE SONG ANIMALS, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Treefrog winks without springing Last Line: Forty years to unmask the soul! Subject(s): Environment; Nature IMAGINATION'S KISSES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Are a cloud of butterflies Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imagination; Nature IMAGINE A GALLERY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Opened and closed their wings! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Museums; Nature IMAGINING THE JOURNEY WEST, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Somewhere outside topeka, in sod walls Last Line: My last connection to the voice that named me Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) IMMALEE; SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gather thyme upon the sunny hills Last Line: And even the watchful hare stands not aloof. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods IMMORTAL PILOTS, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The noise throws down Last Line: Riding the young green world that way, %to a climax of spectral light Subject(s): Nature IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 1, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the landscapes of mansiche Subject(s): Nature; Nostalgia; Travel; Journeys; Trips IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 1, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the landscapes of mansiche Last Line: As if a firmament were being exhumed Subject(s): Nature; Nostalgia; Travel IMPOSSIBLE LOVES, by ANDREA ZANZOTTO Poem Source First Line: Love as impossible as Last Line: It will get in the way' Subject(s): Love - Nature Of IN 1947 A SINGLE GOLD NUGGET WAS FOUND, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In between life has passed Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Explorers; Gold; Nature; Time IN A GARDEN, by THEDA KENYON Poem Source First Line: Sky! %why are you so very gay Subject(s): Nature IN A PASTURE, WILD TURKEYS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Flip cow pies, looking for bugs Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Turkeys IN A PIERCING AND SUCKING SPECIES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He doesn't see anybody Last Line: Unchewed %newly in leaf Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Variant Title(s): In A Kpircing And Sucking Specie Subject(s): Nature; Sex IN ABSENCE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wide-stretching plains, and mountain-peaks farseen Last Line: "hills, valleys, groves, say for me, ""fare thee well." Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Nature; Singing & Singers; Separation; Isolation; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness IN AN EGG YOLK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: An artery fine as the touch %of a feather Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Eggs; Nature IN ANSWER TO AMY'S QUESTION WHAT'S A PICKEREL, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pickerel have infinite, small bones, and skins Subject(s): Nature IN ANSWER TO AMY'S QUESTION WHAT'S A PICKEREL, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pickerel have infinite, small bones, and skins Last Line: Is level with the lake, the wind calm, %the air ice-blue, blue-black, and flecked with rain Subject(s): Nature IN APRIL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mark how the listening landscape heeds Last Line: The gospel of saint leaf! Subject(s): Nature; Religion; Theology IN BERKELEY, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Afternoon light like pollen Subject(s): Nature IN BERKELEY, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Afternoon light like pollen Last Line: In my language, not the one I learned Subject(s): Nature IN BLACKWATER WOODS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, the trees Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods IN BRAZIL I LEAPT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Into it, a onetime-only trick Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Brazil; Nature; Self IN CALIFORNIA: MORNING, EVENING, LATE JANUARY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale, then enkindled Subject(s): California; Labor & Laborers; Nature; Work; Workers IN CONNEMARA, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With eyes all untroubled she laughs as she Last Line: As high as theirs her spirit, as high will be her doom. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Laughter; Nature; Pain; Suffering; Misery IN DEER SEASON, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I sing like pavarotti Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Opera; Pavarotti, Luciano (b. 1935); Singing And Singers IN EACH OF MY CELLS DAD AND MOM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And feel deep sympathy for my children Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Contrariness; Family Life; Nature; Parents; Psychology IN EMULATION OF MR. COWLEYS POEM CALL'D THE MOTTO, by MARY ASTELL Poem Text First Line: What shall I do? Not to be rich or great Last Line: I'le be at lest a martyr in desire. Subject(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667); Love; Martyrs; Nature; Soul IN EXCELSIS, 1889, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh how delectable it is to be Last Line: More to be magnified, more dread, more sweet. Subject(s): Bastille (paris); France; Love; Nature; Prisons & Prisoners; Sea; Singing & Singers; Sound; Ocean IN GATINAIS: DEDICATION TO THE LAND, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Green gatinais, 'neath whose shade the living waters shine, where Last Line: The moon that melts above thy foliage. Subject(s): Nature; Soul IN GRAPE TIME, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Simon brings bees to tickle Last Line: Carry me away even if I did %smell like the bears Subject(s): Nature IN GRAVITY NATIONAL PARK, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: Now the sacred groves are cut Last Line: To drop and watch them break Subject(s): Nature IN INTERIMS: OUTLYER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He halts. He haw. Plummets Last Line: Aloud and here and now. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Love; Memory; Nature; Reincarnation; Travel; Transmigration; Pretas; Journeys; Trips IN JUNE, by NORA PERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So sweet, so sweet the roses in Subject(s): June; Nature IN KONA, THINKING OF THE ELEMENTS, by ELIZABETH BILLER CHAPMAN Poem Source First Line: The trades: after midnight they grow strong as the surf Last Line: Afternoon slipped down, extravagant into evening Subject(s): Nature; Travel IN LAND AND SEA AND SKY AND AIR, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: On land and sea and sky and air Last Line: If we would only look and see Subject(s): Nature IN LATE OCTOBER, by EDWIN GLADDING BURROWS Poem Source First Line: My ear may have it wrong Last Line: Who sometimes sing Subject(s): Nature; October IN LATE WINTER, by THOMAS R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: The frozen lake never loses its patience Last Line: With summer. The watery twin comes nearer Subject(s): Nature; Winter IN LUPUM, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the gates, thou gav'st a field to till Last Line: Take back your farm and hand me half a gill! Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature IN MALAYSIA, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight / washes the red tiles Subject(s): Malaysia; Nature IN MAPLE VALLEY, by WALTER COOPER Poem Text First Line: Well I remember still Last Line: And in it may I make one last endeavor. Subject(s): Nature IN MARCH, by JOHN ENGELS Poem Source First Line: In march begin to think Last Line: Down to the next day, next and next %of the fiery awakenings, the helpless resurrection Subject(s): Nature IN MAY, by ROBERT KELLEY WEEKS Poem Source First Line: Now that the green hill-side has Subject(s): Nature IN MEMORY OF A GROVE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The town about my house upon the hill Last Line: Who fells a london grove? Subject(s): Change; Comfort; Forests; London; Nature; Woods IN MEXICO THE BIG, LOVELY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Becoming a normal woman %only more so Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Mexico; Nature; Women IN MICHAEL ROBINS?ÇÖS CLASS MINUS ONE, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the desk where the boy sat, he sees the chicago river. Last Line: And the river promises to never surrender the boy’s shape to the ocean Subject(s): Schools; Nature; Students IN MY GARDEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Through a rabbit's ears Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Rabbits; Sun IN MY TIME, by PATTIANN ROGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's easy to praise things present -- the belligerent Last Line: So moved, as I, to do the praising Subject(s): Nature IN NEW YORK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I heard a crow from home Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Nature; New York City IN NOVEMBER, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With loitering step and quiet eye Last Line: A pleasure secret and austere. Subject(s): Nature; November IN OUR FARTHEST FIELD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The arrival of ten billion %grasshoppers Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fields; Grasshoppers; Nature IN OUR OCTOBER WINDFALL TIME RED, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You learn to eat around the wormholes Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Nature; October IN PARENTHESIS, SELS., by DAVID JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Nature; World War I IN PRAISE OF DIVERSITY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since the ingenious earth began Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IN PRAISE OF THE HERCULES MOTH, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: If a giant moth %spinning from star to star Last Line: I would sink to my knees %on the earth Subject(s): Earth; Nature IN PRAISE OF THE PUFFBALL, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The puffball appears on the hill Last Line: For this page guest, darkening Subject(s): Nature IN PRAISE OF TREES, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: On the mountain Last Line: Into atmosphere %into us Subject(s): Earth; Nature IN RETROSPECT, by ALICE E. MODES Poem Text First Line: Nature forgets war's hatred before long Last Line: The futile slaughter, bankrupt spoils of war. Subject(s): Hate; Nature; War IN ROCK SPRINGS, THERE WILL BE A READING, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: On the equinox. I take the poems that I'll return Last Line: Land where my father died. Of thee, and not alone, I sing Subject(s): Nature IN SEPTEMBER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mornings frosty grow, and cold Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons IN SMOOTH WATER THE MOUNTAINS SUSPEND THEMSELVES, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where shallows and hillside Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation IN SMOOTH WATER THE MOUNTAINS SUSPEND THEMSELVES, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where shallows and hillside Last Line: How they rest like folded wings in the clear water %patient,waiting, having borne us this far Subject(s): Environment; Nature IN SPRING YOU SLEEP AND NEVER KNOW WHEN THE MORN COMES, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And you wonder how many flowers have fallen Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature IN STRANGE EVENTS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the moon set, and all the stars, and still no meaning came, or Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Human Behavior; Enemies; Hate; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IN THE ANSE GALET VALLEY, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds / rise by twos out of the jungle , cross Last Line: Gnawed already at its death edge? Subject(s): Nature IN THE BEGINNING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When he wakes, he turns Last Line: Who she is, or %what he lost Subject(s): Arabs; Gardens And Gardening; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Nature; Palestine; Relationships IN THE BOG BEHIND MY HOUSE, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The crows have come back for april Last Line: For being crows, to care for those %the crows won't spare, without becoming them Subject(s): Nature IN THE COUNTRY OF GILBERT WHITE (OBIIT JUNE 26, 1793), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ghosts of great men in london town Last Line: We love her servant much! Subject(s): History; London; Nature; Pride; White, Gilbert (1720-1793); Historians; Self-esteem; Self-respect IN THE DARK, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dark I lie and think Last Line: When these eyes no longer see. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Nightmares IN THE DREAM I AM: 1. MUSEUM PIECE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Fremont figurines lie in %orderly rows, limbs and torsos Last Line: Eyes locked with god's, %measuring deserts in his clemency Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) IN THE DREAM I AM: 2. AFTER THE ICE STORM, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: For days the landscape %glittered, terrible clarity Last Line: And thuds, the bodies %casting off stasis Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) IN THE DREAM I AM: 3. IN THE DREAM I AM, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: At the edge %of a river, squatting amid summer's Last Line: Someone is turning, slowly, to look Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) IN THE DROVING DAYS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a pound, said the auctioneer Last Line: He can take me back to the droving days. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Hearts; Horses; Life; Nature IN THE ELECTRIC CHAIR'S HARNESS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: One man hauls all the darkness Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Nature IN THE FADING YEAR, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The goldenrod is nodding to the asters by the road Last Line: Making lives leaf out in kindness as the fruitful days proceed. Subject(s): Nature; Time IN THE FIELDS, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, when I look at lovely things which pass Last Line: Over the fields. They come in spring. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN THE FOREST, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the forest shades to live and die, / oh, fair fate sent! Last Line: Forever sleep! Subject(s): Nature IN THE FOREST WITHOUT LEAVES, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This earth written over with words Last Line: "one tree, one leaf, Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation IN THE FOREST WITHOUT LEAVES: 3, by JOHN HAINES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This earth written over with words Last Line: And silence for the clearing %where no house stands Subject(s): Environment; Nature IN THE GARDEN, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC Poem Source First Line: The racks where tomatoes grew Last Line: With a thousand %generations of corn Subject(s): Nature IN THE GARDEN, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Goldin looked from the path at the lank coil of garden hose Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Spring IN THE HIGH HILLS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God has lent the wind to you Last Line: Winds and storms and sunny days and sparkling, dawn-wet brush. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): God; Nature - Religious Aspects IN THE HOUSE THE LIZARD'S ENEMY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Warren, the cat, finds them there Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Lizards; Nature IN THE KNOWN WORLD, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did the heron I saw swimming in the small pond by the highway Subject(s): Animals; Nature IN THE LONG RUN LIKE GOVERNMENTS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flattened, in thin snow spread out before us Last Line: No one can pick up or put back Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Nature IN THE MEADOW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The meadow is a battle-field Subject(s): Nature; Summer IN THE MEDICI CHAPEL, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: The tourist carriages stand by outside. Horses Last Line: Flowering all together, praising god? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature IN THE MIDWEST, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He saw the iron wings of daybreak struggling Last Line: He saw the gouged bodies of the unborn Subject(s): Nature; Middle West IN THE MIDWEST, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He saw the iron wings of daybreak struggling Last Line: He saw the gouged bodies of the unborn Subject(s): Nature IN THE MORNING LIGHT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The doorknob, cold with dew Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dew; Morning; Nature IN THE MORNING, BEFORE AN EMBROIDERED DRESSER & MIRROR, by FRANK GRAZIANO Poem Source First Line: Your husband is gazing Last Line: And his heart leap out %to follow it Subject(s): Nature IN THE SHADOWS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I am sailing to the leeward Last Line: Down the stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Nature; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails IN THE SWING, by EUDORA S. BUMSTEAD Poem Source First Line: Here we go to the branches high! Subject(s): Nature; Summer IN THE TELLING, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: Long buried useless in the road Subject(s): Nature; Swamps IN THE VALLEY, by YONE NOGUCHI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sierra-rock, a tavern for the clouds, refuses to let fame and gold sojourn Last Line: O lord, show unto mortals thy journal—the balance of glory and decay! Subject(s): Nature IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset: a smattering of rain Last Line: Has something important to sing about %and all the warm night to sing it in Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Escapes; Nature; Vacation IN THE WAKE OF MY MINT MOONS, by FRANCOISE MATTHEY Poem Source First Line: How Last Line: For other rites %eyes wide open Subject(s): Change; Nature; Sky IN THE WILDERNESS MOTEL, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Red star hovering Last Line: The comfort, the company of ruin. Subject(s): Abandonment; Decay; Hotels; Nature; Desertion; Rot; Decadence; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN THE WOOD, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: A brooklet flows beneath the vaulted wood Last Line: A brooklet flows beneath the vaulted wood. Subject(s): Forests; Grief; Nature; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness IN THE WOODS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hill-sides are dark Last Line: And a gift in our breath. Subject(s): Forests; Life; Nature; Woods IN THIS LOWBROW WILDERNESS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I give up my opinions Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Self; Wilderness IN TIME OF MOURNING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Return,' we dare not as we fain Last Line: May, 1885. Subject(s): Death; Love - Nature Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement IN VICTORIA, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: When the rafts of little penguins Last Line: To gawp from their raked terrace seats Subject(s): Nature; Penguins IN WINTER, DON'T EVER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To someone cold Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Tongues; Winter INANNA AND AN, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: Like a dragon hou have filled the land Last Line: You are in all our great rites. %who can understand you? Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND EBIH, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: In the mountain whree you are unworshipped Last Line: The dancing city is filled with storm, %driving young men toyou, captive Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND EBIH, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: In the mountains where you are not worshiped Last Line: Driving young men to you as your captives Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND ENLIL, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: Storms lend you wings, destroyer of the lands Last Line: And walk toward you along a path %from the house of enormous sighs Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND ENLIL, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: Storms lend you wings, destroyer of the lands Last Line: From the house of enormous sighs Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND ISHKUR, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: You strike everything down in battle Last Line: On your harp of sighs %I hear your dirge Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND THE ANUNNA, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: O my lady, the anunna, the great gods Last Line: Who has ever denied you homage, %lady, supreme over the land? Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND THE CITY OF URUK, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: You have spoken your holy command over the city Last Line: Impetuous wild cow, supreme lady commanding an, %who dares not worship you? Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND THE DIVINE ESSENCES, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: Lady of all the essences, full light Last Line: You have gathered the holy essences and worn them %tightly on your breasts Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INANNA AND THE HOLY LIGHT, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: You with your voices of light Last Line: Tightly on your breasts Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion INAUGURATION: 1985, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have elected the end Last Line: We are flying from the center %multiplying as we burn Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Environment; Nature INCIDENT ABOUT WHICH I WILL NOT BE SPEAKING, by KIMBERLY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Spark. The crows are coughing in the trees Last Line: I am reading. I am not the person telling this story Subject(s): Books; Nature INDECISION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Do I love her? Last Line: "ah, yes, I do!" Subject(s): Love - Nature Of INDEPENDENCE DAY, 1998, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: It started that night Last Line: Aches to burn Subject(s): Nature INDIAN SUMMER, by J. P. IRVINE Poem Source First Line: At last the toil encumbered days Subject(s): Indian Summer; Nature INDIAN SUMMER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stillness that doth wait on change is here Last Line: Shalt dream again—how dying nature smiled. Subject(s): Indian Summer; Nature; Seasons INDIAN SUMMER, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: When maples flaunt their colors far and near Last Line: —presbyterian advance Subject(s): God; Indian Summer; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects INDIAN SUMMER (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more the battle or the chase Last Line: Ascends to heaven again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Indian Summer; Nature INDIAN SUMMER: THIS IS THE SIGN!, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This flooding splendour, golden and hyaline Last Line: And all the fairy lakes are beautiful. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): God; Indian Summer; Nature INDOLENCE, by VERNON WATKINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Count up those books whose pages you have read Last Line: Beyond interpretation of the shade Subject(s): Nature INFERIAE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, and the light and sound of things on earth Last Line: For all the darkness of the night and sea. Subject(s): Life; Love; Nature; Spring INFIDELITIES, by JAMES MCCORKLE Poem Source First Line: Wet air, rain oncoming Last Line: Pulled from their dark hold, and cast down Subject(s): Nature; Unfaithfulness INFIDELITY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Love - Nature Of INITIATION, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind has fallen asleep; the bough that tost Last Line: Most true to earth when I seem most untrue? Subject(s): Day; Nature; Night; Bedtime INLAND SEAS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a majesty in fields of wheat Last Line: The beauty of an ocean night anew. Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Seashore; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Beach; Coast; Shore INNER, by LIZ LOCHHEAD Poem Source First Line: Make a change %if you get the weather Last Line: Is seasoned with smithereens of sand %heart urchin %something to hold in your hand Subject(s): Nature INNER, by LIZ LOCKHEAD Poem Source First Line: Make a change Last Line: Is seasoned with smithereens of sand %heart urchin %something to hold in your hand Subject(s): Nature INORDINATE LOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I shall say what inordinate love is Last Line: Or without quiet to have huge labour Subject(s): Love - Nature Of INSCRIBED ON A PAINTING, by SHEN CHOU Poem Source First Line: White clouds, like a sash, Last Line: By playing my bamboo flute Subject(s): Flutes; Nature INSCRIPTION FOR A MIRROR IN A DESERTED DWELLING, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Set silver cone to tulip flame! Last Line: The words unbreathed, the tale untold, %the past unpiteous to your need! Subject(s): Consolation; Love; Love - Nature Of INSCRIPTION IN A BEAUTIFUL RETREAT CALLED FAIRY BOWER, by HANNAH MORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Airy spirits, you who love Last Line: You each guardian fay shall bless. Subject(s): Nature INSCRIPTION: UNDER AN OAK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, traveller! Pause awhile. This ancient oak Last Line: Of all that softens or ennobles man. Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Nature; Oak Trees; Rest; Travel; Journeys; Trips INSIDE DESERT ROCKS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Inside desrt rocks %in tiny pools that seep Last Line: Will we, like the algae, go on? Subject(s): Earth; Nature INSIDE THE ANIMALS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: I have seen an animal Last Line: This one has been making a path %for us to follow Subject(s): Earth; Nature INSIDE THE HUMMINGBIRD AVIARY, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: Thumb-sized birds in gaudy greens Last Line: From blossoms that once %were his body Subject(s): Nature INSIGHT, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Heaven and hell, she thinks Last Line: Hank we call this life %or sometimes earth Subject(s): Earth; Nature INSPIRATION, by LOLA TAYLOR HEMPHILL Poem Text First Line: So many things in nature show me god Last Line: When everything in nature shows me god? Subject(s): God; Nature INSTEAD OF AN ANIMAL, by LESLIE SCALAPINO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing as I was willng to give up my seat for the person who said Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Love - Erotic; Human Behavior; Nursing (infants); Conduct Of Life; Human Nature INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FORMS, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What the birds say Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Fall INTERRUPTED MEDITATION, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little green involute fronds of fern at creekside Last Line: Someone gave the name, sometime, of pearly everlasting Subject(s): Disappointment; Nature; Life INTO THE PLACES: 2. CONTEXTS, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Washington irving's %rendition of captain bonneville's impression Last Line: We had almost nothing to say Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) INTO THE PLACES: 3. CRATERS OF THE MOON, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: A'a, pahoehoe, syllabic %archipelagoes ringed Last Line: Then shuts the door- %like stone Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) INTO THE SHANDY WESTERNESS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you understand the managing Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.); Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Southwest; Pacific States INTO THE SHANDY WESTERNESS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you understand the managing Last Line: Down under the peonies. As it gets darker they disappear Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.); Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) INTO THESE PLACES: 1. EXPLORING AN UNKNOWN REGION IN THE UNITED .., by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: One morning in may, %w.L. Cole and I, both of boise Last Line: By the wail of the coyote %and the chirp of the rock cony Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) INTOXICATION, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I taste a liquor never brewed Last Line: Leaning against the sun! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Nature; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse INTROIT: AN ECHO, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I look and see the world is fair Last Line: Seeks us again, finds us again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Future Life; God; Love; Nature; Retribution; Eternity; After Life INVERLEITH HOUSE, by ROSA ALCALA Poem Source First Line: We are strings of sun and artificial light. Longing stretches wall to wall Last Line: Lost in your house, swept up in autumn. My veined wings you delicately %examine Subject(s): Home; Nature INVERSNAID, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This darksome burn, horseback brown Last Line: Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. Subject(s): Brooks; Environment; Nature; Scotland; Wilderness; Streams; Creeks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation INVESTIGATION AND LAMENT: 1. SCHACTER'S COGNITIVE LABELING.., by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: For example, a man and a woman Last Line: To an inner life; water, stone, distance, %other, self Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) INVESTIGATION AND LAMENT: 2. QUANTAM MECHANICS, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: What we learned in school, it seems Last Line: Like us all, trying to name what can't be seen %or understood Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) INVESTIGATION AND LAMENT: 3. MY MOTHER'S STORY, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Never been loved, never been loved Last Line: She wanted to love me, %she wanted to Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) INVITATION FROM A MOLE, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: Come on down Last Line: See %what you're missing Subject(s): Nature INVITATION TO A GHOST, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask you to come back now as you were in youth Subject(s): Coulette, Henri (1927-1988); Nature INVITATION TO A GHOST, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask you to come back now as you were in youth Last Line: Whisper to me some beautiful secret that you remember from life Subject(s): Coulette, Henri (1927-1988); Nature INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now 'tis spring on wood and wold Last Line: And in the breast of man as well. Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Seasons; Spring INVOCATION TO THE MUSES, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Awake! Ye tuneful nine, and sing Last Line: Such lustre as their dewy eyne. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Spring INWARD BRUISE, by MARY MAKOFSKE Poem Source First Line: 1. Photograph: faeroe islands %whale skulls and vertebrae Last Line: To move mountains, but only %to be them? Subject(s): Nature; Water IRIS, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The iris shoot unsheathes Last Line: With our skin %we know Subject(s): Nature IRONY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Irony; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IS LOVE A FANCY, OR A FEELING?, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is love a fancy, or a feeling? No Last Line: And hope a spectre in a ruin bare. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Love - Nature Of IS THIS POEM A PEBBLE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or a raindrop coated with dust? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Poetry And Poets ISLAND OF LOST LUGGAGE, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: What breeze whispers when you step onto Last Line: Pick up your suitcase and go Subject(s): Central America; Nature IT DON'T TAKE MUCH, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It don't take much to make men glad Last Line: That's all they need -- it don't take much. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IT KINDLES ALL MY SOUL, by CASIMIR III Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It kindles my soul / my country's loveliness! Alternate Author Name(s): Casimir The Great Subject(s): Nature; Religion IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE ABROAD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To him — sums misery Subject(s): Travel; Nature IT RAINED SO HARD THE SKY BECAME WATER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And my face ached to grow gills Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Rain IT REMAINS TO TELL ME OF THE FIRST, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: We may not share those others came Subject(s): Nature; Swamps IT SNOWS! IT SNOWS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It snows! Yes, it snows! And the children are wild Subject(s): Nature; Winter IT TAKES ALL SORTS OF IN AND OUTDOOR SCHOOLING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To get adapted to my kind of fooling Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IT WASN'T ME, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I recall a miser's Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH, by ROBERT PACK Poem Source First Line: If only daffodils had caught the light Last Line: And maybe one wide row of cedars, %winding up the alley to the misted hill Subject(s): Nature IT'S ALL I HAVE TO BRING TO-DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which in the clover dwell Subject(s): Nature IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THERE'S A SKELETON, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Girl getting out of her red car Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Nature; Skeletons IT'S INDELICATE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know to bore you with tales Last Line: A moment of obscure propinquity Subject(s): Love - Nature Of IT'S NICE TO THINK THAT WHEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thin layer of rock Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Fossils; Nature IT'S THE DEVIL'S, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That flies sleep %at night Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Devil; Flies; Nature; Night ITALIAN SUMMER, THINKING OF BLUEBERRIES, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Ripening in august beside the front porch Last Line: Their wrinkles and tongues %turning blue Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature ITINERARY, by JAMES MCMICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The farmhouses north of driggs Subject(s): Landscape; Travel; Nature; Journeys; Trips ITS TIME, by JAMES MCMICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Conserved in dews Subject(s): Nature JACK FROST (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Some one has been in the garden Subject(s): Nature; Winter JASMINE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me be quiet now and nothing say Last Line: Let be, let be. Subject(s): Flowers; Jasmine; Nature JEALOUSIES, by ROSALIE SANARA PETROUSKE Poem Source First Line: My father wore a homburg hat Last Line: Carry them with me, take them out fondly %and stroke their heads until they purr Subject(s): Love; Nature JENKINS. THE JENKINS PIECE OR JENKINS BOG, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: Than an undistinguished cranberry bog Subject(s): Nature; Swamps JENNER STONES, by DAVID WATTS Poem Source First Line: At jenner-by-the-sea we scurry Last Line: But the downward heft of sediment - and then %this blossoming! Subject(s): Life; Nature; Seashore JENNY LIND, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whence com'st thou, jenny lind Last Line: Is on record in the sky! Subject(s): Nature; Singing & Singers JEREMIAH 4, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste Last Line: Spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not %repented, neither will I turn back from it Subject(s): Nature JEREMIAH 4, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste Last Line: Spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not %repented, neither will I turn back from it Subject(s): Nature JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 74. THE ENGLISH IN VIRGINIA, APRIL 1607, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They landed and could Subject(s): United States - Colonial Periodl Nature JEWEL-WEED, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: Thou lonely, dew-wet mountain road Last Line: "and blur the dream!" Subject(s): Aging; Nature - Religious Aspects; Roads; Travel; Weeds; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips JEWELED HOURS, by CAROL RULOFSON Poem Text First Line: Beneath the stars, beside a copper lake Last Line: Companionship in deepest, utter love. Subject(s): Faith; Nature; Belief; Creed JIM BACHAE'S NEW HIP, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: We meet him paused past fields Last Line: Cloud and sudden changing light Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) JOHN DOE AND DIANE ARBUS AT THE OUTDOOR, by JAMES WAGNER Poem Source First Line: Now the clouds come with the better everything night Last Line: Jewish giant. It has no hood Subject(s): Nature JOHN SEVERIN WALGREN, 1874-1962, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trees die of thirst or cold Last Line: She moves us to terror. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Death; Epitaphs; Loss; Nature; Dead, The JOSH BILLINGS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jolly-hearted old josh billings Last Line: That he answers not again? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; Nature; Wisdom; Childhood; Dead, The JOURNAL, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: Of primitive creatures I observed a few Last Line: And I muse on origins and extirpations Subject(s): Nature JOURNEY FROM PATAPSCO IN MARYLAND TO ANNAPOLIS, by RICHARD+(2) LEWIS Poem Source First Line: At length the wintry horrors disappear Last Line: And learn to know myself, and honour %thee Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Memory; Nature; Travel JOURNEY TO A KNOWN PLACE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tundra, the distant marches. And wind veering, clatter of steely grasses Subject(s): Nature; Snow JOY-MONTH, by DAVID ATWOOD WASSON Poem Source First Line: Oh, hark to the brown thrush! Subject(s): Nature JUDGE NOTHING BEFORE THE TIME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love understands the mystery Last Line: Love understands the mystery. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Nature Of JUKE, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Saturday night. The gravel stretch Last Line: Blessing the last of the dark Subject(s): Nature JULY IN GEORGY, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm back down in ole georgy w'ere de sun is / shinin' hot Last Line: Shade. Subject(s): Georgia (state); Nature; Southern States; South (u.s.) JULY SIXTH, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The window looks over an arbor. The grape leaves, bluish-green on one Subject(s): Nature JULY, AND FAT BLACK FLIES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Right out of the air Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Flies; July; Nature JUNE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is rich Subject(s): June; Nature JUNE, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: On nights like these Last Line: For all the junes that follow Subject(s): Nature JUNE (1), by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gazed upon the glorious sky Last Line: To hear again his living voice. Subject(s): June; Nature JUNE AT WOODRUFF, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out at woodruff place - afar Last Line: Storied realm, or woodruff place. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Life; Muses; Nature JUNE, 1864, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why darkly veiled, like mourning bride Last Line: In nature I have found. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): June; Nature JUNIPER FIRES, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Juniper / fires burn in the crisp night Last Line: Creek. Subject(s): Nature JURE DIVINO, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Love is a draught from the lily's cup Last Line: Sings ever the love of my love to me! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Nature JUST BEFORE FALL, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: If I were a painter %I'd brush in a prairie Last Line: And you, eating an apple beside me, stretched %out on the sinuous grass Subject(s): Nature; Paintings And Painters JUST BEFORE I FLY OUT OF MYSELF, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Meant to be faithful to us Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Nature; Unfaithfulness JUST CALIFORNIA, by JOHN STEVEN MCGROARTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt the seas and the deserts Last Line: The middle of the world. Subject(s): California; Creation; God; Nature - Religious Aspects JUXTAPOSITIONS, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: The shadow of my head Last Line: To view the full and rising moon Subject(s): Nature; Oregon; Solitude K.K. - CAN'T CALCULATE, by FRANCES MIRIAM WHITCHER Poem Text First Line: What poor short-sighted worms we be Last Line: That 't ain't worth while to try. Subject(s): Cynicism; Fate; Nature; Destiny KANSAS (2), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the land where miles of wheat Last Line: Let me live and let me die. Variant Title(s): Kansas Subject(s): Creative Ability; Kansas; Nature; Wheat; Inspiration; Creativity KEF 12, by HENRY DUMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take up the blood from the grass, sun. Subject(s): Nature KENTUCKY RIVER JUNCTION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clumsy at first, fitting together Subject(s): Nature KESTRELS, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I would think of you, my mind hold only Last Line: Those cries and wings surprise our surest act Subject(s): Love - Nature Of KESWICK, by ELIZABETH COBBOLD Poem Text First Line: Lo! How the orient morning sweetly lights Last Line: My pen's unequal to the task—I stop. Alternate Author Name(s): Knipe, Eliza Subject(s): Keswick, England; Nature KICKING AND BREATHING, by GARY FRANCIS MARGOLIS Poem Source First Line: I need the walls on either end Last Line: Of their atlantic lane, to count a lap's %exhaled, unbroken breaths Subject(s): Nature KIN, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: When my hands turn harsh and dry Last Line: While we are waiting %under the sky Subject(s): Earth; Nature KIND, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: The close green hedge, as table set Last Line: "but I was oak"" and ""I was beech." Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World KING AND HERMIT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "now, marvan, hermit of the grot" Last Line: So I might live my life with thee Subject(s): Hermits;nature KINGFISHER, by BEATRICE RUTH GIBBS Poem Text First Line: Here quietly the lazy ripples run Last Line: For grief that beauty passed so swiftly by. Subject(s): Kingfishers; Nature KINGSNAKE, by K. W. JAYNES Poem Source First Line: On a path the deer made coming to drink Last Line: As waves that reach a thicker medium Subject(s): Environment; Nature KINZUA, by ANDREW ZAWACKI Poem Source First Line: To walk out here is to assume a cartographer's twitch: charting the Last Line: Bone and marrow together; it's that you will not allow the sinews %to be torn apart Subject(s): Nature KNEE-DEEP IN JUNE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell you what I like the best Last Line: And obleeged to you at that! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): June; Nature KNELL, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: When we thought Last Line: Already turning to stone Subject(s): Nature KNOWING HOW EASILY, by MARJORIE HAWKSWORTH Poem Source First Line: The old rajah on his elephant Last Line: Water has disciplined itself %to walk on the land Subject(s): Nature KNOWING LOVE IN HERSELF, by HADEWIJCH Poem Source First Line: I do not complain of suffering for love Last Line: And makes me stray in a wild desert Subject(s): Love - Nature Of KOLOB CANYON, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm is coming because Last Line: That is why evening steals %past the angel and surrounds you. %that is why the storm comes Subject(s): Nature KOPIS'TAYA (A GATHERING OF SPIRITS), by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because we live in the browning season Last Line: The dance of feathers, the dance of birds. Subject(s): Nature; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion KOSMOS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who includes diversity and is nature Last Line: Inseparable together. Subject(s): Nature KYRIELLE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Whom do I love? And must I tell Last Line: Shall reign, for I love you! Subject(s): Confessions; Love; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations L'INNOMBRABLE (EXTRACT 2), by PHILIPPE LEIGNEL Poem Source First Line: Then Last Line: Much loved place. Where I should never have been... %I recover my name Subject(s): Change; Nature; Self LA BELLE ETOILE, by SARA HAMILTON BIRCHALL Poem Source First Line: Oh, who will lodge at my inn tonight Subject(s): Country Life; Nature LABRADOR DUCK: 1. BEACON, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Out of sight, just past %the trail's bend Last Line: Each wave's lift and hurl and drop Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) LABRADOR DUCK: 2. DIORAMA, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: In the blue light of depicted winter, long island sound Last Line: Against me; an arm before the face Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) LABRADOR DUCK: 3. MEMENTO, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: I linger at the water's edge Last Line: Into the historic, the fingers' %living curl and crest Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) LACHESIS LAPPONICA, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER Poem Source First Line: Here it is bright, by the rusty water, nowhere. Here Last Line: In my head says to itself: he's asleep, that means %he agrees.) %but I am not asleep Subject(s): Nature LADY MUDFLAP, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: A gash, a slit, %shut close and sleeping Last Line: She is a nest of weeds %replete with seeds Subject(s): Dirt; Nature LADYBUG, LADYBUG, HASTE AWAY HOME!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Nature; Summer LAERTIDEAN, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: Drove to the holy island over the Last Line: Then I regained mine own penelope Subject(s): Mythology; Nature LAKE FLORISSANT, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Like words in a language %I almost remember Last Line: What could the herds remember, %or imagine? Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) LAKE MCCROSSEN, by FREDERIC FADNER Poem Text First Line: The lights that across the dark water Last Line: Must die with the day in its fears? Subject(s): Beauty; Nature LAKE NIPIGON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High-shouldered and ruddy and sturdy Last Line: In silence watch sadly the white man. Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Pools; Ponds LAMENT, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me pick Last Line: Let me die in a war. Subject(s): Nature; War LANCELOT WITH BICYCLE, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her window looks upon the lane Last Line: Three grief, april, and his name Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Infatuation; Love – Age Differences; Fickleness LAND OF STEADY HABITS, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goats with baby goats chewed on shirts Subject(s): Time; Nature; Chicago LAND'S END, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A day all blue and white, and we Last Line: Two gulls are circling where the woods begin Subject(s): Sea; Time; Nature; Ocean LAND-SCHAP BETWEEN TWO HILLS, by ELDRED REVETT Poem Source First Line: Plac'd on yon' fair though beetle brow Subject(s): Nature LANDED, by CARYN MIRRIAM-GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: Here everything is a list of its details Last Line: Out of the stories we have for love Subject(s): Nature; Relationships LANDLORDS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Flies own the shady places Last Line: In the cheap, sweltering sun Subject(s): Nature LANDMARKS, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Talk about cringing Last Line: Hurling toward the cold snowy ground Subject(s): Nature LANDSCAPE, by MICHAEL COLLIER Poem Source First Line: Stupid. But each of us took turns Last Line: Down hill skidding and tumbling, sparking %the mica hidden in the granite talc Subject(s): Nature LANDSCAPE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isn't it plain the sheets of moss, except that Subject(s): Nature; Crows LANDSCAPE IS LANGUAGE, by DAVID SMITH-FERRI Poem Source First Line: At the hour of owl flight Last Line: At breakfast %still dripping Subject(s): Birds; Language; Nature; Owls LANDSCAPE OF LOVE, by PATRICIA KATHLEEN PAGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the bog ends, there, where the ground lips, lovely is love, not lonely Last Line: The field glasses. Alternate Author Name(s): Page, P. K. Subject(s): Love; Nature LANDSCAPE WITH DOG, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often up the back steps he came Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Nature LANDSCAPE WITH DOG, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often up the back steps he came Last Line: Somewhere in the woods to die Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Nature LANDSCAPES (FOR CLEMENT R. WOOD), by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain was over, and the brilliant air Last Line: Good god, and what is all this beauty for? Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Variant Title(s): Landscapes Subject(s): Beauty; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Vision; Willow Trees LANDSLIDE, by JOHN ENGELS Poem Source First Line: By first light the pines struck down into the meadow Last Line: Or was already dead, or must describe %which it was to be Subject(s): Nature LANGUAGE OF TREES, by ERAN WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: When we learn the language of trees Last Line: And find the heart's beat is but an echo Subject(s): Nature; Trees LARGE BLUE, by CAROLYN KOO Poem Source First Line: There is a saying that sheep Last Line: That took peasants and let land %slip into weedy anarchy Subject(s): Love; Nature LAS CALANDRIAS, by CARLOS CORTEZ KOYOKUIKATL Poem Source First Line: In the plazuela in el paso Last Line: To load down yet another tree Subject(s): Fruit; Nature; Parks; Trees LAST DAY OF THE YEAR: NEW YEAR'S EVE, by ANNETTE ELISABETH VON DROSTE-HULSHOFF Poem Source First Line: The year at its turn, %the whirring thread unrolls Last Line: My arms, and from my drouth %beg mercy. Dead is the year! Alternate Author Name(s): Droste-hulshoff, Annette Von Subject(s): Nature LAST DAYS OF FALL, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Like helicopters Last Line: Days of easy meals %will soon be gone Subject(s): Nature LAST HOUR, by ETHEL CLIFFORD Poem Source First Line: O joys of love and joys of fame Subject(s): Nature LAST OF THE VIRGIN SOD, by R. G. RUSTE Poem Text First Line: We broke today on the homestead Last Line: To have marred that work of god? Subject(s): God; Landscape; Nature - Religious Aspects LAST SUPPER, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the shutter of the dusk Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature LAST WARM DAY, by KATHERINE SONIAT Poem Source First Line: Shucks flit the horizon Last Line: Flies buzz on the screendoor, %crickets joining this frail abundance Variant Title(s): October Bestiar Subject(s): Nature LAST YEAR THE SNAKE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But not her flesh Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Bodies; Girls; Nature; Snakes LAST-MINUTE MESSAGE FOR A TIME CAPSULE, by PHILIP APPLEMAN Poem Source First Line: I have to tell you this, whoever you are Last Line: From this deaad and barren place is %to beware the righteous ones Subject(s): Environment; Loss; Nature LATE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old walls half fallen sink away under brambles Last Line: I know but no longer believe and that is my place in it Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Nature LATE AUTUMN, by ANTHONY PICCIONE Poem Source First Line: Kneeling mindless in a field Last Line: Like any man, %falling from sleep Subject(s): Nature LATE DECEMBER AT THE BROOK I BREATHE A MOLECULE OF JAMES WRIGHT'S LAST, by DAN HANKE Poem Source First Line: The brook lay Last Line: Or %a map Subject(s): Nature; Solitude LATE FRIDAY, IN DECEMBER, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: Sometimes, this is all we have Last Line: And scatters, driven someplace on the wind Subject(s): Nature LATE IN THE DAY, by ROBERT P. COOKE Poem Source First Line: Only the zinnias have lasted Last Line: The orb spider eating its own web and creating a new one, %a few more days Subject(s): Nature LATE NIGHT ODE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's over, love. Look at me pushing fifty now Last Line: Or at least of diving after you, my long-gone, %through the bruised unbalanced waves Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Nature LATE SPRING, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In april the lake water is clear Last Line: We hear the voices of sing-song girls %ringing Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature LAUS VENERIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asleep or waking is it? For her neck Last Line: Explicit laus veneris. Subject(s): Death; God; Kisses; Love - Nature Of; Dead, The LAZED ON THE FLOOR LIKE AN OLD BABY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And brown boat Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Idleness; Nature; Rowing LEAF, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A leaf is spiralling directly at the tall grass Last Line: To find itself a place on earth Variant Title(s): Leaving The Door Open: 4 Subject(s): Aging; Environment; Nature LEAFLETS, by KATE LOUISE BROWN Poem Source First Line: Dance, little leaflets, dance Subject(s): Nature; Spring LEAN YEAR, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: In the west room of an old house Last Line: I think your life will always matter Subject(s): Central America; Nature LEAVES IN THE YARD, by JOHN DANIEL PARSON Poem Text First Line: Go gather leaves and heap them into / pyres! Last Line: Buried, like leaves, in leaves of wilderness. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The LEAVING L'ATELIER - AIX-EN-PROVENCE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bare trees %smoky lavender twigs Last Line: Under the morning moon Subject(s): Nature LEAVING THE OLD GODS, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: The people who watch me hang my coat Last Line: I can't understand your words Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Central America; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Nature LENS, by RICHARD KENNEY Poem Source First Line: Even as green summer bends Last Line: Also, chromatic, slight, sweet %heat-shimmer, hummingbird's wings Subject(s): Nature LESSON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A corn-stalk glanced down at some grasses Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons LESSON 10, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is a map? Last Line: Southeast? In the northeast? In the southwest? Variant Title(s): Simplicity [and Sweet Neglect] Subject(s): Maps; Nature LESSON 10, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is a map? Last Line: In the southeast? In the northeast? %in the southwest? Variant Title(s): Simplicity [and Sweet Neglect Subject(s): Nature LESSON 6, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is geography? Last Line: Of what is the earth's surface composed? %land and water Subject(s): Nature LESSON VI, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is geography? %a description of the earth's surface Last Line: Of what is the earth's surface composed? %land and water Subject(s): Nature LET ALL THE EARTH KEEP SILENCE, by LUCY A. K. ADEE Poem Text First Line: How lovely is the silence of green, growing things Last Line: All praise him in their beauty—keeping still. Subject(s): Nature; Silence; Worship LET GO OF THE MIND, THE THOUSAND BLUE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Each day to keep the world underfoot Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Reason; Self-reliance; Thought LET LOVE GO, IF GO SHE WILL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The unhappy lover still preserves his love Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Love – Nature Of LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY MARVELOUS GOD, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): God; Nature LET US GATHER IN A FLOURISHING WAY, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: En las manos de nuestro amor Subject(s): Nature LETTER FROM A HOMESICK TRAVELER TO A FELLOW NEW YORKER, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you could only hear the chatter Last Line: The wild cockatoos continue their wordless %conversation. And I envy them Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; New York City; Travel LETTER FROM BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What do they tell me? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Beauty; Letters; Nature; Women LETTER TO A YOUNG POET, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the biographies of rilke, you get the feeling Subject(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Poetry & Poets; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature LETTER TO B.W. PROCTOR, ESQ., FROM OXFORD; MAY, 1825, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In every tower, that oxford has, is swung Last Line: And unpersuaded drop the paper down. Subject(s): Education; Letters; Nature; Oxford University; Poetry & Poets; Procter, Bryan Waller (1787-1874); Spring; Writing & Writers; Cornwall, Barry [pseud.] LETTING THE OLD CAT DIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Not long ago I wandered near Subject(s): Nature; Summer LEVEL CAMBRIDGESHIRE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its islands of england Last Line: God pleased to make %the city safe again for commerce %and superior minds Variant Title(s): A Tourists' Guide To The Fen Subject(s): Nature LIFE, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As quick as a hawk's wing tipped Last Line: Still lift and touch me as %she sails all the way through Subject(s): Environment; Nature LIFE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are who think this scene of life Last Line: Unaided by abuses. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Charm; Life; Nature LIFE AT THE LAKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green below and the blue Last Line: The blue above and the green below. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Summer; Pools; Ponds LIFE HAS ALWAYS YELLED AT ME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That's what I think she says Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Idleness; Labor And Laborers; Life; Nature LIFE IN THE AUTUMN WOODS, by PHILIP PENDLETON COOKE Poem Text First Line: Summer has gone Last Line: Than pine where life is splendid. Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Virginia (state); Fall LIFE WORK, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: The softening underfoot, a perceptible shift Last Line: Opens through dirt and duff, last year's leaves Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature LIFE'S AUTUMN, by MRS. S. W. RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: In spring the trees were fresh-a dainty green Last Line: To seek the infinite the while we live. Subject(s): Autumn; Life; Life Change Events; Longing; Nature; Seasons; Fall LIFE'S MIRROR, by MARY AINGE DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave Last Line: And the best will come back to you. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Madeline Subject(s): Human Behavior; Virtue; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature LIGHT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art the joy of age Last Line: Are dead till touched by thee. Subject(s): Light; Nature LIGHT SNOW SHOWS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That even the old wagon track %is new Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Snow LIGHTNING SPREADS OUT ACROSS THE WATER, by PATRICIA FARGNOLI Poem Source First Line: It was already too late %when the swimmers began Last Line: The vacant imponderable sky Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Lightning; Nature; Sea; Swimming LIKE A FIST, THE TOAD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Knocks on the dirt road %wanting in Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Toads LIKE AN OLD DOG, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In a heap of sighs Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Old Age LIKE FLOWERS THAT HEARD THE TALE OF DEWS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A too presumptuous psalm Subject(s): Nature LIKE THE PEONIES (TO 'TEACHER'), by E. P. Poem Text First Line: You are like the peonies Last Line: To give yourself away! Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Nature; Peonies LIKE VINCENT'S EAR, LIKE THE SUN IN A CHILD'S PICTURE, by TIM SHEA Poem Source First Line: The call to go, the Last Line: A pretty wingbeat nailed to wood Subject(s): Nature LILY'S BALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lily gave a party Subject(s): Nature; Summer LIMEN, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day I've listened to the industry Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping; Nature; Trees LIMEN, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day I've listened to the industry Last Line: Tireless, making the green hearts flutter Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping; Nature; Trees LINES COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five years have passed; five summers, with the length Last Line: More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake! Variant Title(s): Tintern Abbey;on Revisiting The Banks Of The Wye Subject(s): England; Holidays; Immortality; Nature; Religion; Trees; English; Theology LINES COMPOSED IN A WOOD ON A WINDY DAY, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring Last Line: And hear the wild roar of their thunder today! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Nature; Wind LINES ON A GRASSHOPPER (BY A GRANGER NATURALIST), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I've got him, at last, in the focus" Last Line: Whenever he lit at their gate Subject(s): Grasshoppers;insects;nature; Bugs LINES ON THE SUMMER OF THE CATTLE PLAGUE: 1865, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer long, and bright, and glowing Last Line: Lord, remove thy chast'ning hand! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cattle; Death - Animals; Nature; Plague; Summer LINES ON THE WINTER SOLSTICE, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A day of creaks and croaking! Ice in the skylight, Last Line: The branches shake, and a half-eaten apple plops %into the kindling pile: if only you were here. Subject(s): Nature; Weather; Winter LINES PRINTED UNDER THE ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF MILTON, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three poets, in three distant ages born Last Line: To make a third she join'd the former two. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Nature; Poetry & Poets LINES WRITTEN IN THE DAYS OF GROWING DARKNESS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every year we have been Subject(s): Nature LION OF GOD IN VERMONT IN MAY, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: The black flies have not yet arrived, and our dog Last Line: The charged geometry of may, is dazed with meaning %moreover, boning up on the being of immortal dog Subject(s): Nature LISTENING TO THE SOUNDS OF SPRING UNDER BAMBOO, by FRANK GRAZIANO Poem Source First Line: From the rock %a wind rises to its feet Last Line: The sound %of cocoons unraveling Subject(s): Nature LITTLE ARTIST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, there is a little artist Subject(s): Nature; Winter LITTLE BLACK TANGRAMS, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one felt in the dark for his hat. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Nature; Relationships LITTLE BLESSING, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After an hour's climb, I am no closer Last Line: Lie down and thank the great eye of the night %and peter wing for keeping us in sight Subject(s): Nature LITTLE BY LITTLE (4), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: While the new years come, and the old years go Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons LITTLE DOVES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: High on the top of an old pine-tree Subject(s): Nature; Spring LITTLE HEART TO HEART WITH THE HORIZON, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Go figure--it's a knitting performance every day Last Line: How it is made Subject(s): Nature LITTLE LAZY CLOUD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A pretty little cloud away up in the sky Subject(s): Nature; Spring LITTLE LEAVES, by GEORGE COOPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We must go,' sighed little ruby Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons LITTLE NANNIE, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fawn-footed nannie Subject(s): Nature; Summer LITTLE NUT PEOPLE, by E. J. NICHOLSON Poem Source First Line: Old mistress chestnut once lived in a burr Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons LITTLE PINE-TREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Once a little pine-tree Subject(s): Nature; Winter LITTLE SHIPS IN THE AIR, by EDWARD AUGUSTIUS RAND Poem Source First Line: Flakes of snow, with sails so white Subject(s): Nature; Snow; Winter LITTLE SNOWFLAKES, by M. M. Poem Source First Line: The snowflakes fall so gently Subject(s): Nature; Winter LITTLE SNOWFLAKES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Still and gentle all around Subject(s): Nature; Winter LITTLE SONNET FOR SPRING, by MALCOLM GLASS Poem Source First Line: Cold in clouds, the sun sent scant Last Line: And soil in whispers for the eye Subject(s): Nature LITTLE SUNBEAM, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Little yellow sunbeam Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E. Subject(s): Nature; Summer LITTLE TESTAMENT, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To wake on my fortieth birthday Last Line: Less than I mean, all I can say Subject(s): Books; Family Life; Love; Nature; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers LIVE BLINDLY; SONNET, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Live blindly and upon the hour. The lord Last Line: And all his island shivered into flowers. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature LIVELY ORACLES, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: What is it then if stones speak Last Line: As white as the bones of a child Subject(s): Nature LIVING IN AT LEAST TWO WORLDS, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: Back from the spring in the green draw Last Line: Glad the oat-man's home Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Nature LIZARD LIGHT, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: The lizard on our sidewalk Last Line: The light already shining %from its wound Subject(s): Earth; Nature LJUS AV LJUS, LIGHT FROM LIGHT, by PETER HUGGINS Poem Source First Line: See the face! See how everything is transformed! Last Line: Before this gaze I exist Subject(s): Light; Nature LOBELIA, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes all you need is an opening: lobelia, for instance Last Line: The right sort of shade Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature LOCH FIODIAG, by ANGELA GORDON Poem Text First Line: Ageless shadowy hills enfold it Last Line: Time forgets to awake from sleep. Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Sleep; Pools; Ponds LOCH THOM, by WILLIAM SYDNEY GRAHAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just for the sake of recovering Last Line: The grouse flurry and settle. Goback %goback goback farewell loch thom Alternate Author Name(s): Graham, W. S. Subject(s): Nature LOCUST BLOOM, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now, my dear, the locust trees are in bloom Last Line: And what I desire is all too far beyond me... Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Locust Trees; Love - Nature Of LOESS HILLS, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: This hill I stand on is an egg of land Last Line: When the eye is always a stranger, longing for a lost land Subject(s): Dreams; Mountains; Nature LOGICIANS, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: If light ripples the soft edges of air Last Line: Our weight, uneasy on the stone Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature LOGOGRIPH, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For man's support I came at first from earth Last Line: All these are in my single name exprest. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Beauty; Nature LONELY, WHITE FIELDS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every night / the owl / with his wild monkey-face Subject(s): Nature LONELY, WHITE FIELDS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every night %the owl %with his wild monkey-face Last Line: The snow goes on falling %flake after perfect flake Subject(s): Nature LONG DIVISION: A TRIBAL HISTORY, by WENDY ROSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our skin loosely lays Last Line: I suckle coyotes and grieve Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Nature LONG HAIR, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hunting season: %once every year, the deer catch human beings Last Line: This is called 'takeover from inside' Subject(s): Nature LONG PAST MIDNIGHT, I WALK OUT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: An owl marking time for the silence Subject(s): Nature; Night LONG-GONE SUN: 3, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source First Line: My siter bursts into tears over arithmetic problems Last Line: Where the serpent of life bites its own tail %through its seasonal moultings Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): Nature; Parents; Schools LONGFELLOW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winds have talked with him confidingly Last Line: Of nature's voice he sings -- and will alway. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Nature; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Wind; Songs LOOK AGAIN: THAT'S NOT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But the breastplate from a turtle Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Turtles LOOK ON THE PICTURE AND ON THIS', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish we once were wedded, - then I must be true Last Line: Will she sound our accusation in intolerable light Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love – Nature Of; Portraits; Memory; Death LOOKING AROUND III, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: August cloud-forest chinese ming screen Last Line: Tonight after 10 pm the moon will varnish everything %with a brilliance worthy wherever that is of p Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Nature; Water LOOKING AT A DRY TUMBLEWEED BROUGHT IN FROM THE SNOW, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is this wonderful thing? Brown and everywhere! Last Line: No it is a love, some love we forget every day, it is my mother Subject(s): Nature LOOKING OUTSIDE THE CABIN WINDOW, I REMEMBER A LINE BY LI PO, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river winds through the wilderness Last Line: We who would see beyond seeing %see only language, that burning field Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Nature LOOKING UP AT YOU, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: The lake's cool fingers Last Line: Love, siren of the broken shore Subject(s): Nature LOOKING WAY OFF, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winter day after days Last Line: So I cleave to my holding Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Nature LORD IVON AND HIS DAUGHTER, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful it is! Come here, my daughter! Last Line: Thank god! Thank god! Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Love - Nature Of LOST AND FOUND, by CHARLES SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the mildest, greenest grove Last Line: In calm supernal gleams. Subject(s): Canada; Love; Nature; Youth; Canadians LOST BRIDGE, by JARED CARTER Poem Source First Line: They said there was nothing left at all, after the rising and falling Last Line: I left that world behind, and rowed across the shining lake Subject(s): Environment; Nature LOST FOR A WHILE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: When I scratched through %my hair Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Loss; Memory; Names; Nature LOST IN SULPHUR CANYONS, by JIM BARNES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the stones Subject(s): Canyons; Nature LOST IN SULPHUR CANYONS, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All the stones Last Line: As a stray dog %among the stones Subject(s): Canyons; Nature LOST ROADS ARE THOSE, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: Chance for telling %foretelling Subject(s): Nature; Swamps LOST THINGS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I could let the world go by Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Nature LOST: AMBITION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: An old %loose shoes Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ambition; Idleness; Nature LOST: THE SUMMER, by RAYMOND MACDONALD ALDEN Poem Source First Line: Where has the summer gone? Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons LOUISIANA MAN: MIDWINTER REFLECTIONS, by KATHY ANDRE-EAMES Poem Source First Line: When winter come down real hard Last Line: Sharp, %in the cold mud Subject(s): Environment; Nature LOUNGE IN THE SHADE OF THE LUXURIANT LAUREL'S, by ANYTE Poem Source Last Line: From the cold spring so that your limbs weary %with summer toil will find rest in the west wind Alternate Author Name(s): Anytes Subject(s): Nature LOVE, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Go forth in life, o friend! Not seeking love Subject(s): Love; Nature LOVE, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Foolish love is only folly Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O love! What art thou, love? The ace of hearts Last Line: I'm not the first that love hath led astray. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The daily tribute of the sun Last Line: Shall love its purposes fulfil. Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects; Sun LOVE, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What thing is love? -- for sure love is a thing Last Line: That mars with venus play'd even and odd. Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of LOVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is all happiness, love is all beauty Last Line: And kindles endless glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE, by JEAN BAPTISTE ROUSSEAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love comes not by trying Last Line: Turns not home from wandering. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE, by SAMAR SEN Poem Source First Line: Like a poisonous snake in my blood Last Line: My desire for you %unwinds like a poisonous snake Subject(s): Animals; Love - Nature Of; Snakes LOVE (1), by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love on his errand bound to go Last Line: And eat through alps its home to find. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE (2), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is a thing of frail and delicate growth Last Line: For which there is no healing. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE A MYSTERY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It matters not its history - love has wings Last Line: His life thy empire, and his heart thy throne? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE AND GOLD, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot talk of love to thee Last Line: I dare not talk of love to thee Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love – Nature Of LOVE AND HOPE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love for ever dwells in heaven Last Line: For perfect love, and perfect bliss, shall be our lot on high. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hope; Love - Nature Of; Optimism LOVE AND HOW IT BECOMES IMPORTANT IN OUR DAY TO DAY LIFE, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man who tells you which is the whiter wash Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature LOVE AND LAW, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True love is founded in rocks of remembrance Last Line: With patience its watchword, and law for its throne. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Religion; Theology LOVE AND LIFE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love only sings when love is young Last Line: Shall come to make him young again! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE AND NATURE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, that wert wont at nature's shrine Last Line: Are now the dearest sights I know. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Love; Nature LOVE AND WINE, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Come, bacchus, bid thy nectar flow Last Line: Fling down his scythe and join us. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of LOVE BEING ALL ONE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could I forget thee, I should forget Last Line: I should forget to forget defeat. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE BEYOND KEEPING, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had a box Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE CONSTANT BEYOND DEATH, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Last of the shadows may close my eyes Last Line: But being ash will feel %dust be dust in love Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De Subject(s): Future Life; Love - Nature Of LOVE ETERNAL, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The human heart will never change Last Line: The golden earth, the blue-robed sea. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE HAS SEVEN NAMES, by HADEWIJCH Poem Source Last Line: Though love appears far off, %you will move into depth Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE IN AUTUMN, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the curtains of the rain Last Line: Or the murmur of the leaves. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Love; Nature; Seasons; Fall LOVE IN DISGUISE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I mourned beneath the willow tree Last Line: My phyllis smiled on me! Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE IN EXILE I: 10, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The woods shake in an ague fit Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Farewell; Nature; Parting LOVE IN JUNE, by MARY GENEVIEVE MANAHAN Poem Text First Line: Love is a rose that blooms Last Line: Ere we too pass away. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Nature Of; Metaphor; Roses; Similes LOVE IN THE CITY OF LIGHT BENT BACK, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being deceives, they believe: their existence Subject(s): City & Town Life; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature LOVE IN THE VALLEY (VERSION A), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward Last Line: Bring her to my arms on the first may night. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Love - Marital; Nature; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LOVE IN THE VALLEY (VERSION B), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward Last Line: All seem to know what is for heaven alone. Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Love - Nature Of LOVE IS A BOG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "love is a bog, a deep bog, and a wide bog" Last Line: And dwells in the house of melancholy Subject(s): Love - Nature Of;melancholy; Dejection LOVE IS A FLAME, by GEORGE MARION MCCLELLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love is a flame that burns with sacred fire Last Line: But knows the heart, 'tis but a word for pain. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE IS A LOT LIKE QUICKSAND, by ROBIN REBECCA MACK Poem Source First Line: She snatched the letter %out of my hand Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE IS ANTERIOR TO LIFE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The exponent of breath Subject(s): Love – Nature Of LOVE IS LIFE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our days are few and full of strife Last Line: And surely we are more than they. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE IS NOT WINGED, by EUBULUS Poem Text First Line: Who gave love wings? Whose pencil drew the line Last Line: The man's a fool who ever mentioned wings. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE IS THE VERY HEART OF SPRING, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Love is almighty, love's a king Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Love – Nature Of LOVE LIKE A CAPITOL HILL, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: Love like a capitol hill, where the dome dares mold the sky Last Line: Where the legislature makes laws of nature, and you wish you %hadn't come Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE LIKE SALT, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It lies in our hands in crystals Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Salt LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 10, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frost covers the reeds of the marsh Last Line: My full heart throbs with bliss Subject(s): Happiness; Nature LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 13, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying in the meadow, open to you Last Line: Hazy smoke half hides %my rose petals Subject(s): Nature; Relationships LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 16, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scorched with love, the cicada Last Line: My flesh is consumed with love Subject(s): Love; Nature LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 26, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the time when Last Line: Brant write the character of 'heart' Subject(s): Hearts; Language; Nature LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 28, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring is early this year Last Line: Moon, night smells like your body Subject(s): Bodies; Nature; Spring LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 43, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two flowers in a letter Last Line: Wild geese cry overhead. %nothing else Subject(s): Nature; Night LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 47, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long, long ago Last Line: We swept through clouds of fireflies Subject(s): Nature; Sailors And Sailing LOVE RECKONS BY ITSELF ALONE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Itself is all the like it has Subject(s): Love – Nature Of LOVE SOLE, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know the shibboleth that slips Last Line: And blossoms unto brotherhood. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Love - Nature Of LOVE SONG, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Hear that? %like a rifle shot Last Line: And rams make noisy neighbors %when they want wives Subject(s): Nature LOVE SONG, by ROSSITER WORTHINGTON RAYMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I love you like the wind, love Last Line: The nearer to the stars! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE TEN YEARS OLD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Our love this day is ten years old Last Line: And knows the man is old and blind! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Old Age LOVE UNCHANGED, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love, my love, if I were old Last Line: In years of grief and sadness, love shall be love! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE'S ARITHMETIC, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You often ask me, love, how much I love you Last Line: "'twill last our lives,"" you said." Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE'S ARTIFICE, by JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said it was a wilful, wayward thing Last Line: That it is love, true love -- nothing but love! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE'S BIRD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thrushes rest the weary head Last Line: Through the sweet night with rustling wings? Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE'S BLINDNESS, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They call her fair. I do not know Last Line: Her beauty was of kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Nature Of LOVE'S DIET, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To what a combersome unwieldinesse Last Line: And the game kill'd, or lost, goe talke, and sleepe. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE'S FORCE, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the first ruder age, when love was wild Last Line: Itself for its own proper object melt. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE'S FRUIT, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a little life that beat from mine Last Line: But bears immortal fruit within her womb. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE'S GOLDEN PILGRIMAGE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: To one who loves, all things are beautiful Last Line: Perceives in nature things unseen before. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Spring LOVE'S GRAMMARIANS, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Periwinkle - bluet - quaker lady Last Line: These shall be time and place Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Love – Nature Of LOVE'S HEALING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My chosen one - you to whom I have said Last Line: And wander there beside him in love's wood. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Suffering; Misery LOVE'S HOUSE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not how these men or those may take Last Line: Leans down to me and tells me everything. Subject(s): Houses; Love - Nature Of LOVE'S HUMBLENESS, by ELSA BARKER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know the pride of love, the happiness Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE'S INNOCENCE, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how this ivy strives to twine Last Line: What above reason is, or beneath sense. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE'S LANGUAGE, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their little language the children Last Line: Which is hidden with love and thee. Subject(s): Language; Love - Nature Of; Words; Vocabulary LOVE'S MATURITY, by HADEWIJCH Poem Source First Line: In the beginning love satisfies us Last Line: And bear fruit slowly Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE'S MUSIC, by EDWIN J. REBMAN Poem Text First Line: Some musics break against the heart more still Last Line: And, kissing me, burn, burn and burn and burn. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE'S MYSTERIES, by RICHARD JOSEPH SCHOECK Poem Text First Line: When I behold the peace and beauty of Last Line: Into the unknown ocean whence it came. Alternate Author Name(s): Schoeck, R. J. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE'S PERFECT POWER, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun of my earthly worship, I declare Last Line: And love beats, burns, and freezes in its place. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Fate; Heaven; Love; Nature; World; Destiny; Paradise LOVE'S POTENCIE, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If men were fashioned of the stone Last Line: My heart must feel, its love must live! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE'S SIMILITUDES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: In vernal grove a poplar slim Last Line: Perfection's perfected in thee! Subject(s): Creative Ability; Love; Metaphor; Nature; Trees; Inspiration; Creativity; Similes LOVE'S SUBTILTY; AN IDYLLIUM, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By pisa's walls does old alpheus flow Last Line: That taught the am'rous river thus to run. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE'S TENDERNESS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deem not my love is only for the bloom Last Line: With what a tenderness it dreams and sings! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE'S TOKENS, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love's herald is not speech Last Line: Their lord will never be! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE'S WAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love gives us copious potions of delight Last Line: For love's whole life is one great paradox. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE'S YOUTH, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Not only is my love a flower Last Line: That laugh and call thee mother? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE, HOPE, AND BEAUTY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love may be increased by fears Last Line: For without hope it dies. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Beauty; Hope; Love - Nature Of; Optimism LOVE, WHOSE MONTH WAS EVER MAY, by ULRICH VON LICHTENSTEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When with may the air is sweet Last Line: Love inconstant I forbear. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LOVELIEST COUNTRY OF OUR LIVES, by CAROLYNE WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: The trains crawl from the stations Last Line: We are passing %through the loveliest country of our lives Subject(s): Environment; Nature LOVELIGHT, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange atoms we unto ourselves Last Line: And love the light between. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVERS AND SWEETHEARTS, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair youth, too timid to lift your eyes Last Line: Nor age to the loving heart! Subject(s): Love – Beginnings; Love – Nature Of LOVING AND BELOVED, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There never yet was honest man Last Line: Loves triumph, must be honours funeral. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOW CEILING GRAZES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Even the air feels crushed Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Nature LOW TIDE, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: At low tide %the wet sand lies cluttered Last Line: Left as tips for good service Subject(s): Nature LOWLAND GROVE, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now the lowland grove is down, the trees Last Line: This ground to pray again its finest prayer Subject(s): Nature; Trees LUCIETTA. A FRAGMENT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucietta, my deary Last Line: Coetera desunt. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love – Nature Of LUCKY THING, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: High %up in a hawthorn tree Last Line: And latched %the door Subject(s): Nature LUCY, by LINDA LEE HARPER Poem Source First Line: It is lucy who imprints Last Line: To the voiceless stones %listening, listening Subject(s): Nature LUCY (5), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three years she grew in sun and shower Last Line: And never more will be. Variant Title(s): The Education Of Nature;four Natural Women Subject(s): Death - Children; Nature; Death - Babies LUGGIE, PAST AND PRESENT, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen thy crystal waters Last Line: Night and day is running ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Streams; Creeks LULLABY, by ELIZABETH CAVAZZA Poem Source First Line: Through sleepy-land doth a river flow Subject(s): Nature; Spring LULLABY, by LESLIE MARMON SILKO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is your mother, Subject(s): Nature LUNAR ECLIPSE, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: We have hiked on the mountain Last Line: Travelled among stars? Subject(s): Earth; Nature LUSH PETALS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Full of experts Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Flowers; Nature LYELL'S HYPOTHESIS AGAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain road ends here Subject(s): Geology; Love; Nature LYELL'S HYPOTHESIS AGAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain road ends here Last Line: Printed on the immortal %hydrocarbons of flesh and stone Subject(s): Geology; Love; Nature LYING IN A HAMMOCK AT WILLIAM DUFFY'S FARM IN PINE ISLAND, MINNESOTA, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Landscape; Nature LYNMOUTH, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have brought her I love to this sweet place Last Line: My love, and keep her till I tell her all. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Calm; Love; Lynmouth, England; Nature; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility LYRIC, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou givest, lord, to nature law Last Line: Forbid it by thy love. Subject(s): Nature LYRIC, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How the arrogant iris would wither and fade Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Nature LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 41, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blockheads, their holidays keeping Last Line: And softens my bosom to tears. Subject(s): Love; Nature; Sparrows; Tears LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 55, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sat round the tea-table drinking Last Line: The tale of thy love, sweet, to say. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Tea MAD WITH SWEET JOHN CLARE, by EMANUEL DI PASQUALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, john clare, awake Last Line: Look for the lizard-tongued grass, %the hawk in open flight Alternate Author Name(s): Pasquale, Emanuel Di Subject(s): Nature MADONNA NATURA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love and worship thee in that thy ways Last Line: And guide me onward to thy promised land! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Nature; Religion; Theology MAGIC, by MARIE TODD Poem Text First Line: A candle blooms upon the sill Last Line: There's may upon my window ledge. Subject(s): May (month); Nature; Seasons; Winter MAGNIFICAT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise god, who wrought for you and me Last Line: Then put your hand into my hand. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of MAGNOLIA, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Deep in the forest, full of song and fragrance Last Line: Or like a dove upon the branch asleep Subject(s): Forests; Magnolias; Nature MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO HER HUSBAND FROM ST KILDA (3), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Alec-I hadn't thought to tell you this Last Line: To us next year. I shall invite her! Love Subject(s): Letters; Love - Marital; Nature; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MAKING THE WOOD, by LOIS CANFIL Poem Text First Line: The blade of grass lifts clod beyond its weight Last Line: To make the fibered wood which builders use. Subject(s): Forests; Grass; Mankind; Nature; Woods; Human Race MALIGNANCY IN LATE MAY, by SUSAN HAHN Poem Source First Line: The ground is too lush, too tumorous Last Line: Heat in the metastasized grass Subject(s): Nature; Spring MAMA BEAR, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Down the valley %where the willows grow Last Line: Have another berry Subject(s): Nature MAN AND A WOMAN AND A BLACKBIRD (1), by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the two rivers Subject(s): Nature MAN AND A WOMAN AND A BLACKBIRD (2), by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man and a woman are one Last Line: And the man and the woman and the blackbird are one Subject(s): Nature MAN LIVING ON THE ROCK, by HERSHMAN R. JOHN Poem Source First Line: Alone. Non-existent. Ephemeral Last Line: Here I am, I am next to you: %a petroglyph on a rock Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Nature MAN PAYS COURT WITH HIS POEMS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A woman dismissed him with hers Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Poetry And Poets MAN'S MISSION, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Human lives are silent teaching Last Line: So to love, and work, and die! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature MAN, THAT IS BORN OF WOMAN, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is in slow choking Last Line: Let it go Subject(s): Nature; Leaves MAN, THAT IS BORN OF WOMAN, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is in slow choking Last Line: Shelf, could clench as surely %an altocirrus wisp, %as freely %let it go Subject(s): Nature MANGROVES DANCE IN THE LIGHT OF THE MOON, by ROSE STRONG HUBBELL Poem Source Subject(s): Mangroves; Nature MANIFEST, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir star, herr lenz, white season body Subject(s): Nature; Body, Human MANY THINGS ARE LEFT, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: A whisper of this grass impoverished Subject(s): Nature; Swamps MANZANAR: 1. THE PHOTOGRAPH: FROM MANZANAR LOOKING TO MT. WILLIAMSON, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: A hard landscape for the heart, manzanar Last Line: Rocks that take such light years to wear down Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature MANZANAR: 2. GRANDFATHER KATAOKA: HIS STORY, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Mariko is making a garden for us at manzanar Last Line: In owens valley the heat is heavy. The light burns Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature MAP FOR LEAVING, by JILL OSIER Poem Source First Line: I was over you yesterday Last Line: I couldn't tell you Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Geography; Maps; Mississippi River; Mount Rainier; Nature; Rivers; Travel MAP OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 1. FATHER, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Tommorrow's the twentieth century. Your brothers Last Line: What tom martin, with his forceful x, %never learned Subject(s): Central America; Nature MAP OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 2. GRANDFATHER, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Your sister leaves the room whispering not true Last Line: The laws by which they could not live Subject(s): Central America; Nature MAP OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 3. NURSE, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: This room is cold as death. This room is death Last Line: For the chance to live again Subject(s): Central America; Nature MAP OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 4. BATTLEFIELD, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: No, it's impossible to imagine, the distance between france and cleburne Last Line: Everyone is dead, maybe everyone is dead Subject(s): Central America; Nature MAP OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 5. DESCENDENTS, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: The last time we checked, one thanksgiving Last Line: The past we own exists on stone and white paper Subject(s): Central America; Nature MARCH, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Gruff messenger of spring! Last Line: Beautifying hill and plain. Subject(s): March (month); Nature; Spring MARCH 9TH, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Yellow %dawn on the river Last Line: When it reaches the red bridge Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; March (month); Nature; Spring MARCH AGAIN, by PHILIP BOOTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday the tulip shoots, considering Subject(s): Nature MARCH AGAIN, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday the tulip shoots, considering Last Line: I'm jigging a bright hook for perch, maybe walleye %or hornpout. For whatever I thought might come Subject(s): Nature MARCH DAY, 1941, by JOYCE GRENFELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Taut as a tent the heavenly dome is blue Last Line: It will go on as it has done before. Subject(s): March (month); Nature MARCH: AN ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere frost-flower and snow-blossom faded and fell, and the splendor of winter ha Last Line: Of the winds of march. Subject(s): March (month); Nature; Seasons; Time MARICHI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An hour before sunrise Last Line: Risen sun - star and crescent gone into light Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Nudity MARIGOLDS, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The marigolds are nodding Subject(s): Flowers; Marigolds; Nature MARIGOLDS, by SUSAN HARTLEY Poem Source First Line: Dame nature years and years ago Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons MARIGOLDS, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: I forget which prize my sister Last Line: And bloom them back to life Subject(s): Nature MARILINE, SELECTION, by CHARLES SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the wheel plied mariline Last Line: To the brow of mariline. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Nature; Women; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARJORIE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up in the hills of tennessee Last Line: That girl is mine—my marjorie! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of MARJORIE'S ALMANAC, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Robins in the tree-top Last Line: Pleasanter than all? Subject(s): Nature; Spring MARK THE CONCENTRED HAZELS THAT ENCLOSE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To mimic time's forlorn humanities. Subject(s): Nature; Stones MARL PITS, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a language of water, light and air Last Line: As if kindling eden rescinded its own loss %and words and water came of the same source Subject(s): Nature MAROON BELLS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I love you more than Last Line: The light love you and love you Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Metaphor; Similes MAROON BELLS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I love you more than Last Line: The light love you and love you Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Metaphor MARRIAGE OF THE DEAF AND DUMB, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No word! No sound! But yet a solemn rite Last Line: Is the free breath of every happy soul. Subject(s): Deafness; Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARTHA, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: I would loiter, could I have my way Last Line: —catholic daily tribune Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): Beauty; Idleness; Nature; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence MARTIN AND KATHERINE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone today I mounted that steep hill Last Line: Work sleeps; love wakes; sing and the glad air thrill! Subject(s): Nature; Happiness MARVELOUS THINGS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hairy caterpillar, silvery- Subject(s): Nature MASQUE OF THE VIRTUES AGAINST LOVE, by GIOVANNI BATTISTA GUARINI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We the white witches are, that free / enchanted hearts from slavery Last Line: Claim naught but th' honour of the victory. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of MASTER OF SMALL ENGINES, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: The heart's a cylinder and piston Last Line: Should either of us live to see the spring Subject(s): Nature MATERIALISM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If things aren't things Last Line: Hold me still Subject(s): Materialism; Nature; Property; Possessions MATURITY, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI Poem Text First Line: Seeing the fury of the rushing rain Last Line: Pools whose quiet flow sustains an ocean. Subject(s): Maturity; Nature; Youth MAUDE AND THE CRICKET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Good night, dear maudie,' I softly said Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons MAURINE: PART 4, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maurine, maurine! 'tis ten o'clock! Arise Last Line: Ere I could speak, or change my attitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Life; Love; Nature; Picnics; Women; Barbecues MAY, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come out o' door, 'tis spring! 'tis may! Last Line: Behine' for thee, o flow'ry maÿ! Subject(s): May (month); Nature; Spring MAY, by HELEN B. CURTIS Poem Source First Line: Starting, starting from the earth Subject(s): Nature; Spring MAY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blooming, brooding, balmy may Last Line: The god of nature, light, and love? Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): May (month); Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects MAY BREEZES, by MARY COLES CARRINGTON Poem Text First Line: Whither wouldst thou lead my feet Last Line: Back to yesterday! Subject(s): May (month); Nature MAY MORNING, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Warm, wild, rainy wind, blowing fitfully Last Line: That I may be a child again this blissful morn of may. Subject(s): May (month); Nature MAY, 1864, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now o'er the laughing meadows Last Line: "through her, to nature's god." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): May (month); Nature MAY-LURE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How the heart pulls at its tether Subject(s): Nature MAYFLIES, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In sombre forest, when the sun was low Subject(s): Flies; Nature MAYFLIES, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In sombre forest, when the sun was low Last Line: How fair the fiats of the caller are Subject(s): Flies; Nature MCGONAGALL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thou demon drink, thou fell destroyer Last Line: That the abolition of strong drink is the only home rule. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Human Behavior; Sickness; Social Problems; Violence; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Illness MEADOW, by JOHN ENGELS Poem Source First Line: Once in late summer I walked into Last Line: Arose the warm reek %of cedars, and the willows %flickered with green light Subject(s): Nature MEADOW IN SPRING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the warm wind's Last Line: The soggy tombstone %of a mattress %lovers dragged here %summers ago Subject(s): Nature MEDITATION, by MRS. GALE SPINK Poem Text First Line: I love solitude and god Last Line: And lead to god. Subject(s): God; Introspection; Nature; Solitude; Thought; Loneliness; Thinking MEDITATION CABIN: THE POET STUDIES THE WALLS, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: I want to be ordinary, my words Last Line: Cross-grained, rough-cut Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature MEDITATION ON POLITICS AT THE QUABBIN RESERVOIR (FOR JOSEPH, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day there has been no peace Last Line: Where we meet to become this: possessors %of a merely partial purity, a purely human one Subject(s): Nature MEDITATION UNDER STARS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What links are ours with orbs that are Last Line: Half strange seems earth, and sweeter than her flowers. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Meditation; Night; Stars; Bedtime MELAMPUS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With love exceeding a simple love of the Last Line: That glide in grasses and rubble of woody wreck. Subject(s): Legends, Greek; Muses; Mythology; Nature MEMORIES WRITTEN IN THE STORMY MONTHS OF THE OPENING OF THE YEAR, 1868, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely musing, sadly thinking Last Line: "just to god and man." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; Life; Memory; Nature; New Year; Past; Sorrow; Sadness MEMORY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young my heart and head were light Last Line: And silence; and the faces of my friends. Subject(s): Nature; World War I; First World War MEMORY TRAIN, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: To reach the past is not easy, you go Last Line: Destination: here and now, the present Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature MEN IN THE CITY, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: The forests of the Last Line: Moving from one side toward the other, %the men Subject(s): Nature MEN'S CLUB HUNT, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: They came down from memphis, friends Last Line: In the frozen gaze of a quail's eye Subject(s): Nature MENAPHON'S SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some say love / foolish love Last Line: Labour for me, love rest in prince's bower. Variant Title(s): Dispraise Of Love Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of MENAPHON: MELICERTUS' ECOLOGUE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What need compare where sweet exceeds com- / pare? Last Line: My pain too old, although my years be young. Subject(s): Love; Mythology; Nature; Pain; Suffering; Misery MENAPHON: SONNETTO, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What thing is love? It is a power divine Last Line: Which one may better feel than write upon. Variant Title(s): Love - What? Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of MERRY CHRISTMAS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the rush of early morning Subject(s): Nature; Winter MERRY RAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sprinkle, sprinkle, comes the rain Subject(s): Nature; Spring MERRY SUNSHINE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Good morning, merry sunshine Subject(s): Nature; Summer MESSENGER, by RON BLOCK Poem Source First Line: We dance barefoot on fresh-cut straw Last Line: As if hacking were my solitary sound Subject(s): Nature; Prairies METAMORPHOSIS OF GRASS, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The grass on a grave grows faster than memory. A green down blanket Last Line: And in the house the carpet turns to hair, like a meadow Subject(s): Introspection; Nature METAPHORIC, by EDWARD WILLEY Poem Source First Line: A waterfall is among nature's %finest visual proofs Last Line: This aboriginal liquid purpose %rushing in place Subject(s): Environment; Nature METEMPSYCHOSIS OF THE PINE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when the haze of some wan moonlight makes Last Line: The spirit of the pine. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Memory; Moon; Nature; Nightmares MEXICO IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY; FOUR STUDIES IN NATURALISM, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Butterflies, over the map Subject(s): Mexico; Butterflies; Mangoes; Soldiers; Nature; Old Age MICHIGAN SUMMER, by THOMAS DEL VECCHIO Poem Text First Line: By sweat and hunger, stealth and guile Last Line: Will find it easy now to die. Subject(s): Lakes; Michigan; Nature; Parks; Summer; Pools; Ponds MIDDAY SILENCE IS DIFFERENT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I can't tell you how Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Day; Nature; Night; Silence MIDSUMMER, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: Two yearling deer %stood in heavy falling mist Last Line: I cannot touch or name Subject(s): Love - Nature Of MIDSUMMER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here! Sweep these foolish leaves away Last Line: In sweeter music dies away. Subject(s): Nature; Summer MIDSUMMER, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: The rain stops. It's dusk Last Line: Sends her charms for me Subject(s): Nature MIDSUMMER DAY, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot write, I cannot think Last Line: Such dewy memories as these. Subject(s): Nature; Rites & Ceremonies; Summer MIDSUMMER DAYS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When roses bloom in wayside nooks Last Line: Of restful, ripe midsummer days. Subject(s): Nature; Summer MIDSUMMER EAST AND WEST, by VIRNA WOODS Poem Text First Line: The meadows are green and sweet with clover Last Line: And the world is wrapped in dream. Subject(s): Nature MIDSUMMER INVITATION, by MYRON B. BENTON Poem Source First Line: O pallid student! Leave thy dim alcove Subject(s): Nature MIDSUMMER NOCTURNE, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Among pine tips the hawks have sailed over Last Line: Cranks herself up and lets go Subject(s): Nature; Summer MIDWAY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So blithe the birds sang in the trees Last Line: Or care will catch me soon. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Free Will & Determinism; Nature MIDWINTER WALK IN CENTRAL PARK, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What heather is parading along the park in a Last Line: Underbrush. Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Death; Nature; Seasons; Winter; Dead, The MIGRATING EELS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: After years of feeding Last Line: More than we do on our way Subject(s): Earth; Nature MIGRATION, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: We have always known Last Line: Is a blessing, and they %are the sun Subject(s): Earth; Nature MIKHAEL AT VIKSJON, by MARTYN CRUCEFIX Poem Source First Line: They stopped bombing the lake with lime Last Line: But which comes clattering back at me off %the blackened water, louder and clearer, %louder and clea Subject(s): Nature MILADY'S CLOCK, by RUTH TURNER WEAVER Poem Text First Line: Nature's clock is all awry Last Line: It's half-past springtime -- by my hat! Subject(s): Nature; Time MILKWEED, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I stood here, in the open, lost in myself Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Men; Nature MILKWEED, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I stood here, in the open, lost in myself Last Line: The air fills with delicate creatures %from the other world Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Men; Nature MILKY WAY, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Imagine the hair of a woman Last Line: How they will die Subject(s): Earth; Nature MILLENARY, by RICHARD KENNEY Poem Source First Line: I wish for no cars, coalfires, clang Last Line: O, wouldn't it be grand if there weren't too many %people in the world, and I was one of them? Subject(s): Nature MIMI, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For all the grackles are despised Subject(s): Grackles; Nature; Animals MINDFUL LOITERING, by MICHAEL ATTIE Poem Source First Line: Park benches make the best zendo Last Line: Either way, %the pain seems inescapable Subject(s): Idleness; Nature; Parks; Poetry And Poets MINK, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: In winter, like a flame Last Line: At the first star swims up into view Subject(s): Mink; Nature MIRACLE, by LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY Poem Text First Line: Yesterday the twig was brown and bare Last Line: I wonder what will next be there! Subject(s): Nature MIRACLE-WORKERS, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who had seen them, the mystic Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Nature MIRACLES, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sick of myself and all that keeps the light Last Line: And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas. Variant Title(s): Sunset Subject(s): Miracles; Nature MIRROR, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The afternoon ends with red Last Line: With white feet, and swaying hips, %and fragrant sex Subject(s): Canyons; Nature; Nudity MIRROR, BACKED IN BLACK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And grief behind each face Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Grief; Mirrors; Nature MIRRORS HAVE ALWAYS GIVE THE WRONG, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: So do I. Let's stop this right now Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Facades; Introspection; Mirrors; Nature; Self MISS LILLIE LOVE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Miss lillie knew the difference Last Line: No bigger than a hat pin %for a doll's hat Subject(s): Nature; Women MISS WILLOW, by SUSIE E. KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: A lady so fine came out of the woods Subject(s): Nature; Spring MISSING, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Your house keys really are somewhere, your papers Last Line: Over there. At the edge of the world Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature MISSISSIPPI SNAPPERS, by BENJAMIN W. HOWARD Poem Source First Line: They were better left uncaught. They came Last Line: Hung up like shields on the market's walls Subject(s): Environment; Nature MIST, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low-anchored cloud, / newfoundland air Last Line: Of healing herbs to just men's fields. Subject(s): Mist; Nature MIZZLE, by JAY PARINI Poem Source First Line: The sodden weather of an early spring Last Line: Relinquishing the lovely stand of life %to meld, the slow atomic mince and slaughter Subject(s): Nature MOCKING-BIRD'S SONG, by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early on a pleasant day Last Line: Thus, he dug the soldier's grave, %iser! By thy purpled wave Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Variant Title(s): The Mocking-bir Subject(s): Nature; Summer MODERN ART, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Matisse, in a letter Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature MOJAVE COONTAIL, by JOHN QUINN Poem Source First Line: A muscular buzz in the creosote brush Last Line: Go home to your own troubled lives Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Snakes MOLES, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: There're days when we too Last Line: Through pebbles and bulbs Subject(s): Nature MOLES IN SPRING, by DAVE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Home from school my daughter's curled Last Line: I wish more the mole would gag and die Subject(s): Nature MOMA POEMS IN TIME OF THE PLAGUE: 5. RENDEZVOUS OF FRIENDS, by THOMAS AVENA Poem Source First Line: Flowers? Dogs! %dogs growling Last Line: How long %until I join you %--lover-- %zum erde Subject(s): Change; Friendship; Nature MOMENT PASSING, by HENRY GILFOND Poem Source First Line: Suddenly spring, and the snows and the cold winds gone Last Line: Wish, fancy, dream - %it was good Subject(s): Change; Love; Nature MONARCHS: 18, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: In mexico where the eastern monarchs Last Line: So clear in their direction Variant Title(s): Sanctuar Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature MONDO HENBANE, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The journey ends between the black spiders and the white spiders Last Line: Or hearing the spiders fly, %on their fiery tracks, through the smoke-choked sky Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Nature MONKEY, by MARY HOWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Monkey, little merry fellow Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Nature; Spring MONKEYS SEARCH EACH OTHER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of our advancement Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Human Behavior; Monkeys; Nature MONSTER OF CHILDHOOD, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: In the house of your childhood, the blue monster Last Line: In it, the trees of childhood make a terrible sound Subject(s): Central America; Nature MONTHS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contorted by wind Last Line: Turns towards %the solstice Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Time MOON AFTERGLOW, by GRACE DICKINSON SPERLING Poem Text First Line: Far down the west I came on night Last Line: Who loved and would not let her go. Subject(s): Moon; Nature MOON GODDESS INANNA AND AN, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: Like a dragon you fill the land with venom Last Line: Who can understand you? Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion MOON PUT HER HAND, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To shut up and watch Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Moon; Nature MOON PUT HER WHITE HANDS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sent me on into the night Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Moon; Nature; Night MOON, ALL LORDLY WHITE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of red clouds Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dawn; Moon; Nature; Sky MOONRISE AS ABSTRACTION, by PAUL MARIANI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, driving west along the parkway Subject(s): Nature MOONRISE AS ABSTRACTION, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, driving west along the parkway Last Line: Now at last my friend might ease me on my way Subject(s): Nature MOOSE AT DUSK, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: At shadowy dusk Last Line: I double my steps %and jog for home Subject(s): Nature MORAL ALCHEMY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The toils of alchemists, whose vain pursuit Last Line: And man's most welcome hymn is grateful cheerfulness. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Grief; Morality; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Ethics MORAL ESSAYS: EPISTLE 2. TO A LADY: OF THE CHARACTERS OF WOMEN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing so true as what you once let fall Last Line: To you gave sense, good humour, and a poet. Variant Title(s): An Epistle To A Lady: Of The Characters Of Women;epistle To A Lady Subject(s): Beauty; Blount, Martha (patty) (1690-1763); Character; Human Behavior; Inconsistency; Poetry & Poets; Women; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature MORNING, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the fairest sight in nature's realms Last Line: He sinks into his nest, those clover tufts among. Subject(s): Morning; Nature MORNING, by BILL WOOD Poem Source First Line: Grey sky, grey sky, where's the deep edge? Last Line: Bellowing for grain in hollis black's fields Subject(s): Environment; Nature MORNING EXERCISE, by SUSAN KELLY-DEWITT Poem Source First Line: Clouds drifted like floats Last Line: Big drifts of courage...In that sky...Afloat Subject(s): Nature; Sky MORNING HYMN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Father, thou art near - so near Subject(s): Nature; Winter MORNING SEA, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let me stop here. Let me, too, look at nature awhile Last Line: And not my usual day-dreams here too, %my memories, those sensual images Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P. Subject(s): Nature MORNING SONG, by DON COLBURN Poem Source First Line: Day breaks open artlessly Last Line: Like birds and the earth all over Subject(s): Morning; Nature MORNING SONG, by LANCASTER POLLARD Poem Source First Line: The grass is taller, greener Subject(s): Morning; Nature MOSS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O rain-bred moss that now dost hide Last Line: And warn me of the time that's gone. Subject(s): Memory; Moss; Nature; Winter MOSS, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A green sky underfoot Last Line: Under the snow Subject(s): Moss; Nature MOSS, RUST, AND MOTHS, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Moss rises from the ground Last Line: And stare %and stare at the city lights Subject(s): Insects; Moths; Nature; Wings MOST ANY BIT OF LANDSCAPE, by JEAN CAMERON AGNEW Poem Text First Line: Most any bit of landscape Last Line: Appeals to me. Subject(s): Landscape; Nature; Pleasure MOST BEAUTIFUL OF THINGS, by PRAXILLA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Most beautiful of things I leave is sunlight Last Line: Then come glazing stars and the moon's face; %then ripe cucumbers and apples and pears Alternate Author Name(s): Praxilla Of Sicyo Variant Title(s): Light And Eart Subject(s): Nature MOTH, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Sometime while we slept Last Line: Fearing the blameless %dark Subject(s): Earth; Nature MOTHER AND CHILD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O come, little mary, the woods are in tune Last Line: The kingdom of heaven, and the light of his face. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): God; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MOTHER NATURE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature, the gentlest mother / impatient of no child Last Line: Wills silence everywhere. Subject(s): Nature; Religion; Theology MOTHER NATURE SPEAKS, by GERTRUDE HANSON Poem Text First Line: I am your mother: the maimed one, forgotten, neglected Last Line: Till you, in repentance, shall bow to your mother earth. Subject(s): Nature MOTHER'S GARDEN, by ALICE G. WARDEN Poem Text First Line: Mother's garden, seems to me Last Line: God reached down an' cared for it, too. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature - Religious Aspects MOTTO TO 'NATURE', by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rounded world is fair to see, / nine times folded in mystery Last Line: And hints the future which it owes. Subject(s): Nature MOUNT KEARSARGE SHINES..., by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mount kearsarge shines with ice; from hemlock branches Last Line: For peepers as spring comes on, never to miss %the day's offering of pleasure %for the government of Subject(s): Kearsarge (mountain), New Hampshire; Nature MOUNT SAING HELEN'S/LOOWIT: AN INDIAN WOMAN'S SONG, by WENDY ROSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Having unbuckled themselves %from their airline seats Last Line: As one slowly waking. %southeast %mazama nods %and waits Subject(s): Nature MOUNTAIN, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Approach if you dare Last Line: You can tell your friends back home you dared! Subject(s): Nature MOUNTAIN ASH WITHOUT CEDAR WAXWINGS, by ROBERT PACK Poem Source First Line: The likely last nostalgic warmth of autumn Last Line: I feel the loss, wide as our universe, %of everything that I hold dear? Subject(s): Nature MOUNTAIN FLOWER, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Blue flower Last Line: Crouching among the gray rocks? Subject(s): Nature MOUNTAIN MOMENT, by ALEXANDER KINMAN LAING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out across the morning Last Line: Birches in the dawn! Subject(s): Birch Trees; Eyes; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MOUNTAIN STREAM, by JOHN CEIRIOG HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mountain stream, clear and limpid, wandering down towards the Last Line: Heart is in the mountain, with the heather and small birds Alternate Author Name(s): Ceiriog Subject(s): Nature MOUNTAIN VIEW WITH FIGURES, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if cezanne had rendered it: a palimpsest Subject(s): Nature MOUNTAIN VIEW WITH FIGURES, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if cezanne had rendered it: a palimpsest Last Line: Climbed it now, he would find himself transfigured Subject(s): Nature MOURNING DOVE, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: The dove roosts on the highway Last Line: Nothing we've learned will make %the dove rise Subject(s): Nature MOURNING PABLO NERUDA, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water is practical / especially in august Last Line: Gone. Subject(s): Death; Legacies; Mourning; Nature; Neruda, Pablo (1904-1973); Usefullness; Water; Dead, The; Bereavement MOUSE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This mouse that in my absence haunts the room Last Line: Intrude here in the four walls of dimension, %and probably vex the oeconomies of heaven Subject(s): Nature MOUSE NEST IN THE TOE OF MY BOOT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Have I been gone that long? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Mice; Nature MOVED, by UVAVNUK Poem Source First Line: The great sea stirs me Last Line: It carries me with it, %so I shake with joy Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nature MOWING THE LAWN, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Funny how %the littlest things Last Line: Had bound the setting sun Subject(s): Nature MRS. BRINDLE'S COWSLIP FEAST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A cow lived in a pleasant field Subject(s): Nature; Summer MRS. PUSSY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mrs. Pussy, sleek and fat Subject(s): Nature; Summer MRS. THELMA EKSTROM HOMESTEADER, WISCONSIN, 1877, by ROBERT COOPERMAN Poem Source First Line: When lars cleared the land Last Line: Beneath its angel wings of branches Subject(s): Nature; Wisconsin MUCH CHANGE IN A LITTLE TIME, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And she too - that beloved child, was gone Last Line: We know not love till those we love depart. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Nature Of MURMURS FROM THE EARTH OF THIS LAND, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aging; Nature MUSA MARINA, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Dancing waves! Still the moan Last Line: Tossing this side of eternity's shore? Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Grief; Love; Nature; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness MUSIC, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an organ in my elm Last Line: These airs of out-of-doors! Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Nature MUSIC AT THE VILLA MARINA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From some abiding central source of power Last Line: O even wings of music, bear my soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Grief; Nature; Past; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness MUSIC OF NATURE, by E. JUSTINE BAYARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am here lonely! There was once a time Last Line: Thine is perennial strength, mute weakness mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Cutting, E. Justine Subject(s): Nature MUSIC OF NATURE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Have you heard the waters singing Subject(s): Nature; Summer MUSIC, FR. TWELFTH NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If music be the food of love, play on Last Line: That it alone, is high fantastical. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Music & Musicians MUSK-OXEN, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Shaggy beasts Last Line: Who wants to taste your babies that much? Subject(s): Nature MY AVIARY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through my north window, in the wintry weather Last Line: In fact with nothing bird-like but my quill. Subject(s): Birds; Nature MY BORES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I take their hands with placid smile Last Line: With but the few I love and me. Subject(s): Faces; Life; Love; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness MY CHILDREN ARE, by MARJORIE RUSSO Poem Source Last Line: I look at them and see... %bits of immortality Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Immortality; Nature MY DEAR AFFLUENT READER, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome to the pecanland mall. Sadly, the pecan grove had to be dozed to Last Line: Ready or not. 0 exceptions. %don't ask Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Change; Nature; Progress; Retail Trade MY DEAREST RIVAL, LEST OUR LOVE, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: To love so much as she'll deserve Subject(s): Love - Nature Of MY DOG GIRLFRIEND ROSE WAS LOST, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: During which I uncontrollably sobbed Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Loss; Nature MY ELMS, by ROSE SOUTHMAYD Poem Text First Line: My elms, my lovely elms Last Line: My elms, my lovely elms. Subject(s): Elm Trees; Love; Nature; Spring MY FARM: A FABLE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a green and pleasant land Last Line: Do thou the same, my wiser brother! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fables; Farm Life; Nature; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers MY FATHER'S BROTHERS, by ROSALIE SANARA PETROUSKE Poem Source First Line: Alex, stanley, john, james Last Line: On sugar island, a sweet place %floating into nowhere Subject(s): Love; Nature MY FATHER'S FINGERNAILS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hardware store a young clerk Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature MY GRANDMOTHER'S WORDS (& MINE) ON THE LAST SPRING BLIZZARD, by RAY A. YOUNG BEAR Poem Source First Line: The snow has fallen in variations Last Line: With his brilliant white blanket %covering the green grass-shoots %of another year.) Subject(s): Environment; Nature MY HEAVEN, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the fresh, sweet charm of vernal skies in may Last Line: -- more frightful unto me than the midnight of the tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Death; Heaven; May (month); Nature; Seasons; Time; Dead, The; Paradise MY HEAVEN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I had a dream, sweetheart, last night Last Line: The heaven in your love. Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Heaven; Love; Love - Nature Of; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise MY LADY NATURE AND HER DAUGHTERS, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies, well I deem, delight Last Line: Ladies rule where hearts obey. Subject(s): Nature; Women MY LIGHT WITH YOURS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the sea has devoured the ships Last Line: In the light of lights forever! Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of MY LOVE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love is like a lily bud Last Line: To love and ne'er to part! Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MY LOVE WAS WARM; FOR THAT I CROSSED, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The bond that holds me now? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Love – Nature Of MY MARY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mary, o my mary! Last Line: An' I dinna find ye there? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Nature; Spring; Summer MY MEADOW, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, it's still the loveliest meadow in all vermont Last Line: Maybe I have lived too long with the world Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature; Plants; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Planting; Planters MY MISSISSIPPI SPRING, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart warms under snow Last Line: Easter morning of our living %every mississippi spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Nature MY NEW TRIFOCALS HURT MY NOSE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Just to find my way Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Eyeglasses; Nature; Self; Self-reliance MY PILOTS, by EDWARD F. MORRILL Poem Text First Line: The giant vane upon the tallest pine Last Line: Have I an ache within I cannot still? Subject(s): Kennebec (river), Maine; Nature MY STOPPED CLOCK IS ALWAYS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With every day as long as I wish it to be Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Clocks; Nature; Time MY THEME: 2, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true the wisdom that my mind exacts Last Line: For light than swinish grunters, blest or curst. Subject(s): Nature; Philistines MY WIFE'S LOVELY DOG, MARY, KILLS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I wonder if buddha had dog nature Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Nature MYSELF, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have to live with myself, and so Last Line: Self-respecting and conscience free. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Self; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology MYSTERIES IN SPOLETO, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: When swallows fly in the courtyard, who knows the answer? Last Line: Ask the swallows circling the courtyard. Ask the swallows Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature MYSTERIOUS NATURE, by HSIAO YET Poem Text First Line: Trees grow, not alike Last Line: We never can know. Subject(s): Nature MYSTERY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sow the glebe, we reap the corn Last Line: Soon large enough for death. Variant Title(s): Human Life's Mystery Subject(s): God; Life; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature MYSTERY, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mine ears have caught some melody of winds Last Line: And sense a hidden music in the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Dawn; Music & Musicians; Nature; Wind; Sunrise MYSTERY, by NELLIE H. MOORE Poem Text First Line: I walked among the purple hills Last Line: Into a darkness we call night. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Bedtime MYSTERY, by C. W. Poem Text First Line: Where does the tall sun walk at night? Last Line: A dollar a line for this? Subject(s): Mystery; Nature N IS FOR NATURE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Day after day I find some new delight Last Line: And end my day with that last new delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Variant Title(s): New Delights Subject(s): Nature NAHANT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bowed as an elm under the weight of its beauty, Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Nature; War NAKED IS THE EARTH, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Poet, in the sunset? Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Nature; Poetry And Poets NAMES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ten kinds of wolf are gone and twelve of rat Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Nature NAMES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ten kinds of wolf are gone and twelve of rat Last Line: In fact adam and eve are not their names Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Nature NANTASKET, by MARY CLEMMER AMES HUDSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is thy face, nantasket Last Line: With its spell of space and air. Alternate Author Name(s): Clemmer, Mary; Ames, Mary Clemmer Subject(s): Nantasket, Massachusetts; Nature NARCISSUS, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mind is a city like london, Subject(s): Mind, The; Narcissus (mythology); Nature NATCHEZ TRACE, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: It seems more of a ballad Last Line: Incomprehensible singing Subject(s): Nature NATIONAL FLOWER, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They ask me to vote for a national flower Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons NATURAL HISTORY OF TEARS, by KAY ANN MURPHY Poem Source First Line: In the afternoonwalk through an arboretum Last Line: Into a monument perfectly fitting its living Subject(s): Nature; Tears NATURAL HISTORY [OR, THE SOLAR SYSTEM], by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: High up in a corner hung two sand-colored spider eggs Last Line: How things work toward order, even happiness Variant Title(s): Natural Histor Subject(s): History; Museums; Nature NATURAL PERVERSITIES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not prone to moralize Last Line: Know anything about it. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Philosophy & Philosophers; Wisdom NATURAL RELIGION, by EVELYN MABEL WATSON Poem Text First Line: A lighter dancing step at times exalts Last Line: Thus dance as moses honoring the ark. Subject(s): Nature NATURAL RESOURCES, by CHRIS ARTHUR Poem Source First Line: Our world, or so it sometimes seems Last Line: We have only scraped the surface of this treasure-trove of wordy wealth Subject(s): Earth; Nature NATURAL VIRTUES, by JUDITH TATE O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: Consider the rock Last Line: Like the man who goes into his closet closes %the door and prays in secret Subject(s): Nature NATURALIST, by LEONARD EDWARD NATHAN Poem Source First Line: Nature led him blindly Last Line: To call it, singing home Subject(s): Aging; Nature NATURE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hand that tries to shake a hand Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World NATURE, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: The earth has started her Last Line: With this butcher block of a world? Subject(s): Earth; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Nature NATURE, by MINNA D. HAINES Poem Text First Line: A tiny bud I hold in my hand Last Line: In the unseen hand of god. Subject(s): Nature NATURE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The paradise of man has varied in its claims Last Line: Still lingers far beyond the shadows of the grave. Subject(s): Grief; Heaven; Nature; Peace; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise NATURE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: She whom I loved, not human in degree Last Line: Blind, deaf, and dumb, beside a moaning child. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Nature NATURE, by JAMES MARRIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ask not fortune's glittering charms Last Line: And haste, like human life, away. Alternate Author Name(s): Marriott, Sir Jame Subject(s): Nature NATURE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seas, mountains, rivers, hills, forests and plains Last Line: Rock us eternally under the infinite sky. Subject(s): Nature NATURE, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old days there were characters Last Line: They are soon after you clip them Subject(s): Nature NATURE, by LOUISE KIDDER SPARROW Poem Text First Line: At peace the poppies and the hyacinth bloom Last Line: Till man shall walk with sunlight on his face! Subject(s): Nature NATURE, by WALTER STONE Poem Source First Line: A cycle sings Last Line: But found themselves beguiled, beguiled %by her indifferent breast Subject(s): Nature NATURE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That custom is a second nature, we Last Line: While how the same is so I comprehend. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Nature; Childhood NATURE, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bubbling brook doth leap when I come by Last Line: Hear from his father's lips that all is good. Subject(s): Nature NATURE (1), by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A subtle chain of countless rings Last Line: Mounts through all the spires of form. Variant Title(s): Motto To 'nature' Subject(s): Nature NATURE (2), by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The patient pan Last Line: High as fly falcons, fancy builds Subject(s): Nature NATURE (3), by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day by day for her darlings to her much she added more Last Line: A door to something grander, -- loftier walls, & vaster floor. Variant Title(s): Science Subject(s): Nature NATURE - SOMETIMES SEARS A SAPLING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Die oftener - not so vitally Variant Title(s): Poem: 314; Poem: 45 Subject(s): Nature NATURE A CORNER FOR ME, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature a corner for me Subject(s): Nature NATURE A CORNER FOR ME, by DONALD REVELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nature a corner for me Last Line: The most beautiful star %is crossing me Subject(s): Nature NATURE AND ART, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I once loved nature so that man was nought Last Line: Who moulds the wills of men, and grasps the bars of fate Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature; Religion; Theology NATURE AND ART, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature and art asunder seem to fly Last Line: And under law thy perfect freedom gain. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature NATURE AND ART, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Genius, technique - you'd swear the pair unsuited Last Line: Rules! They're a springboard only, and we're free! Subject(s): Art And Artists; Nature NATURE AND ART, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though art and nature seem sore disunited Last Line: And only law is freedom's sure foundation Subject(s): Art And Artists; Nature NATURE AND ART; FOR AN ALBUM, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man goeth forth' with reckless trust Last Line: Shall plan my ways and rule my heart. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature NATURE AND ART; TO MY FRIEND CHARLES BOOTH NETTLETON, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The young queen nature, ever sweet and fair Last Line: And at the morrow's dawning they were wed. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature NATURE AND LANGUAGE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft, when some happy thought for song is found Last Line: While all our sweetest thoughts go safe to heaven. Subject(s): Language; Nature; Words; Vocabulary NATURE AND LIFE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave the uproar: at a leap Last Line: Give we it, and good the kiss. Subject(s): Forests; Life; Nature; Soul; Woods NATURE AND LOVE, by STOPFORD AUGUSTUS BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first I gave him all my love Last Line: "thou hast not forgotten!--no, nor I." Subject(s): Nature; Worship NATURE AND NECESSITY, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall we sleep tonight?' the woods hang heavier Last Line: Straight through the storms of fate to reach our goal! Subject(s): Forests; Nature NATURE AND THE POET, by SHIMEON FRUG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My rabbi was nature-she set me to learn Last Line: A poet, my brothers, a poor jewish poet. Alternate Author Name(s): Frug, Simeon Grigoryevich Subject(s): Jews; Nature - Religious Aspects; Poetry & Poets; Judaism NATURE CAN DO NO MORE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nature's imposing negative %nulls opportunity Variant Title(s): Poem: 1673; Poem: 172 Subject(s): Nature NATURE DISPLAYED, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved her in my innocent contemplation Last Line: I hailed, and listening loved and loved again. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770); Collins, William (1721-1759); Country Life; Green, Matthew (1696-1737); Nature; Poetry & Poets NATURE FAKIRS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think I've read about enough Last Line: In ethan allen's honest land. Subject(s): Nature; Vermont NATURE IN LEASTS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As sings the pine-tree in the wind Last Line: Shed in each drop of wine. Subject(s): Nature NATURE IS WHAT WE SEE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To her simplicity Subject(s): Nature NATURE KNOWS BEST, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know exactly how long ago hector was a pup Last Line: Why they would get up naturally and wouldn't have to be compelled to Subject(s): Nature NATURE LOVER'S LAMENT, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They want only to look at it Last Line: But when the moment comes, they refuse to touch it Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Nature NATURE LOVER'S LAMENT, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They want only to look at it Last Line: But when the moment comes, they refuse to touch it Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Nature NATURE MORE THAN SCIENCE, by FRIEDRICH RUCKERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a thousand thousand lays Last Line: And sleepily wore on the stilly summer day. Alternate Author Name(s): Raimar, Freidmund Subject(s): Nature; Science; Scientists NATURE OF BEAUTY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As sometimes whiteness forms in a clear sky Last Line: Tell where we've really been, much less remain Subject(s): Beauty; Nature NATURE POEM, by CORNELIUS ROBERT EADY Poem Source First Line: Once Last Line: It was senseless, %and when she missed %the reading, %didn'ti pluck %a stingy blossom? Subject(s): Nature NATURE POEM, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: There was too much swamp, too much blue in the sky Last Line: Into the chilly lake, and nearer you Subject(s): Nature NATURE RARER USES YELLOW, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Like a lover's words Subject(s): Nature; Colors NATURE RHYMES: 4, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Beyond the hill's gray Last Line: The moon begins to lift and shine Subject(s): Nature NATURE STUDY, AFTER DUFY, by HELEN SMITH BEVINGTON Poem Source First Line: I must remember to dismiss Last Line: The look of april, after this, %when it, too, is hypothesis Subject(s): Dufy, Raoul (1877-1953); Nature; Paintings And Painters NATURE THE ARTIST, by EMPEDOCLES Poem Text First Line: As painters, men of knowledge in their art Last Line: So be assured: the muse declared my tale. Subject(s): Nature NATURE THE CONSOLER, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gladly I hail these solitudes, and breathe Last Line: The dusky gloaming falls before her shafts of light. Subject(s): Nature NATURE THE HEALER, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all the world has gone awry Last Line: Knows and yet knows not, and is blest. Subject(s): Nature NATURE ['S CHARMS], by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O how canst thou renounce the boundless store Variant Title(s): The Charms Of Natur Subject(s): Nature NATURE'S BALM, by BLANCHE H. GRIFFIN Poem Source First Line: If deep within your heart there's a care Subject(s): Nature NATURE'S DRINKING-SONG, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth drinks rain through every pore Last Line: Come let us drink, drink, drink! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Earth; Moon; Nature; Singing & Singers; Wine; World NATURE'S FRIEND, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Say what you like Last Line: Bird, moth and bee. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Nature NATURE'S GENTLEMAN, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whom do we dub as gentlemen? The knave, the fool, the brute Last Line: Nature puts forth her gentleman, and monarchs must give place. Subject(s): Nature NATURE'S INSURGENTS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Ye mighty powers that haunt us Last Line: Shall find us restful still. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Love; Nature; Tears; Destiny NATURE'S LAW, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let other heroes boast their scars Last Line: To endless generations! Subject(s): Nature; Future; Fathers NATURE'S LINEAMENTS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When mountain rocks and leafy trees Last Line: Whose birds, raffish, %whose fish, fish Subject(s): Nature NATURE'S QUESTIONING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I look forth at dawning, pool Last Line: Are still the same, and gladdest life death neighbors nigh. Subject(s): Nature NATURE'S RETICENCE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Silence golden is, I say Last Line: Will heaven tell all past divining? Subject(s): Heaven; Life; Nature; Silence; Time; Paradise NATURE'S TEMPLE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun moved down the western sky Last Line: For the immortal name of god. Subject(s): God; Life; Love; Nature; Temples; Mosques NATURE'S THOUGHFULNESS, by MARY FRANCES MARSHALL BUTTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So busy is the dear old earth Subject(s): Nature; Spring NATURE'S WAY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou didst slip 'neath the encircling wave Last Line: In grief for thee—who hadst a whole world lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Nature NATURE'S WAY, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faultily faultless may be ill Last Line: Isaiah's and ezekiel's. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Nature NATURE'S WORD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In holy moments, when great nature seems Last Line: Or where we know not, but we trust the word. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Hearts; Nature; Nightmares; World NATURE, BETROTHED AND WEDDED, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you not noted how in early spring Last Line: Smitten and blind, at her imperial feet! Subject(s): Nature NATURE, FOR NATURE'S SAKE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White as white butterflies that each one dons Last Line: Without your father falleth to the ground.' Subject(s): Butterflies; God; Insects; Life; Nature; Bugs NATURE: 1, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winters know / easily to shed the snow Last Line: And feats achieve before they're named. Subject(s): Nature NATURE: 2, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is gamesome and good, / but of mutuable mood Last Line: The master-stroke is still her part. Subject(s): Nature NATURE: THE ARTIST, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Such hints as untaught nature yields! Last Line: The careless carpentry of snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Nature NATURE; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a fond mother, when the day is o'er Last Line: How far the unknown transcends the what we know. Subject(s): Nature; Religion; Theology NAUGHTY LITTLE COMET, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a little comet who lived near the milky way Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons NAVIGATION, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far inland, he Last Line: To naviagte by Subject(s): Nature NAVIGATION, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far inland, he Last Line: Star, if he ever %sails offshore, he %nightly figures %to navigate by Subject(s): Nature NAVIGATION, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evergreens have reasons Subject(s): Language; Mountains; Mouths; Nature; Navigation; Sky; Trees; Words; Vocabulary; Hills; Downs (great Britain) NAZCA POTTERY, by JAVIER SOLOGUREN Poem Source First Line: I recall that time when once I lived Last Line: Soft forms faithful to the hand's caress Subject(s): Country Life; Memory; Nature; Peru NEAR, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Two swans drift, arrogant and light Last Line: Near where the bouncer drowned last night Subject(s): Birds; Death; Drowning; Nature; Swans NEAR A MOUNTAIN, by BILL WOOD Poem Source First Line: I cannot read these blind stone Last Line: Is a red oak, with three deep crotches %and corrugated bark Subject(s): Environment; Nature NEAR DAWN, by ERIC TRETHEWEY Poem Source First Line: Tugged out of bed by a dream Last Line: Out in the cold. They turn to what %beckons higher up on the ridge Subject(s): Nature NEAR THE TERRACE, by MARTHA RONK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Allegory is the only way is conclusion Last Line: When you became what I couldn't stop thinking Subject(s): Nature NECESSARY OBSERVATIONS: 27TH PRECEPT, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take thou no care how to defer thy death Last Line: I say he only was, he did not live. Subject(s): Health; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature NEGATIVE CAPABILITY, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The honeysuckle vines are certain Last Line: Clueless snout probing the dark Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Nature NEIGHBOURS, by GILLIAN CLARKE Poem Source First Line: That spring was late. We watched the sky Last Line: One bird returning with green in its voice, %glasnost, %golau glas, %a first break of blue Subject(s): Nature NEO-PLATONISM, by TONY WHEDON Poem Source First Line: Of the phoebe-bird Last Line: So little time till dusk, so many mouths! Subject(s): Nature; Phoebe (bird) NEPHEW RUBS THE SORE FEET, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Creaks in the pulley Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aunts; Grace; Nature NERVES GRIND QUIETLY IN THE TWILIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The eyes gaze quiet at the fading embers Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; October; Seasons NEVER FORGET / WE WALK ON HELL, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Gazing at flowers Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Variant Title(s): In This Worl Subject(s): Nature NEVER TOO LATE: CANZONE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As then the sun sat lordly in his pride Last Line: Her beauty far more brighter than the sun. Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature NEW ECOLOGY, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: In september more coyotes were seen Last Line: All ecology groaned. The revolution %is also for animals, rivers, lakes and trees Subject(s): Nature NEW JERSEY, by MILDRED W. CLARK Poem Text First Line: State of my birth Last Line: "god, I thank thee!" Subject(s): Nature; New Jersey; Praise NEW SPRING AND IT'S STILL 5:30, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or time for dinner. My favorites Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Spring NEW SPRING: 6, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Bees %visit flowers Last Line: At the wonder of all living things Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Nature; Spring NEW VERMONT NAMES, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I used to like the lowery days Last Line: And every horsepond crystal lake. Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Vermont NEW WORLD, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First man, %behold Last Line: Of the %full moon Alternate Author Name(s): Momaday, N. Scott Subject(s): Nature NEW YEAR, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk on the cold mountain above the city Last Line: In the branches of the chestnuts that are gone Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; New Year NEWS FROM THE IMAGINARY FRONT, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Nothing is the latest news of your death Last Line: The sweet milk of death, the salt blood %of someone else's war Subject(s): Central America; Nature NEXT TIME, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Nature NEXT TO A GRAVESTONE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Must we drink? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cemeteries; Nature NIAGARA, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: When lakes of western waters, prison bound Last Line: And thundered to the sea with joyful flow. Subject(s): Nature; Niagara Falls; Niagara River; Travel; Water; Waterfalls; Journeys; Trips NIAGARA, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driving westward near niagara, that transfiguring of the waters, Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Nature; Earth; Social Commentaries; World NIGHT, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Celia, when you bade me Last Line: Anything so intimate %as you are saying, dead? Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of NIGHT, by ADA JORDAN PRAY Poem Text First Line: Night has dropped her rosy curtain Last Line: With peace our hearts to fill. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Peace; Sleep; Bedtime NIGHT AND DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the sunlit hours are o'er Last Line: Death is life, and death alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Nature; Night; Tears; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHT AND MORNING, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One night of tempest I arose and went Last Line: The wind was gentle and the sea a flower, %and the sun slumbered on caernafon tower Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Nature NIGHT FARMYARD, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horse lay on his knees sleeping Last Line: Yet we know their soul is gone, risen %far into the upper air about the moon Subject(s): Nature NIGHT IN ISLA NEGRA, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ancient night and the unruly salt Last Line: Swept up by the weight of night, %bloodstained in its marine crater Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Nature NIGHT IN LATE DECEMBER, by DUANE LOCKE Poem Source First Line: This starfish dry and brittle. It is strange Last Line: The fungus arched its soft back %and rubbed against my night Subject(s): Nature NIGHT ON THE GREAT RIVER, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We anchor the boat alongside a hazy island Last Line: The moon comes down amongst men Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature; Nostalgia NIGHT SKY, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: When something taps your window Last Line: To a shining that sings Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace NIGHT SONG OF THE LOS ANGELES BASIN, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Owl / calls, Subject(s): Geology; Mythology; Nature NIGHT SONG OF THE LOS ANGELES BASIN, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Owl %calls, Last Line: Owl %calls; %late-rising moon. Subject(s): Geology; Mythology; Nature NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 2. TIME, DEATH AND FRIENDSHIP, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the cock crew he wept, -- smote by that eye Last Line: With incommunicable lustre bright. Subject(s): Conscience; Death; Friendship; Life; Nature; Night; Time; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHT VOYAGE, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: I have forgotten why I undertook this voyage Last Line: Our eyes on yonder solitary star Subject(s): Nature; Night; Travel NIGHT, AND THE HOUSE HAS A VOICE, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Before falling asleep, and pretending Last Line: The neglected phone call, dishes in the sink Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature NIGHT-MUSIC, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When those who can never again forgive themselves Subject(s): Night; Music & Musicians; Human Behavior; Bedtime; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature NIGHT-TIME IN MID-FALL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a storm-strid night, winds footing swift Last Line: Church-timbers crack, and witches ride abroad. Subject(s): Nature NIGHTMARE WE WAKEN FROM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Grateful, is somebody else's life Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Life; Nature NINE DESIRES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The desire of the fairy women, dew Last Line: The desire of the soul, wisdom. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Fairies; Men; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Women; Elves NINTH TIME I SCREWED OPHELIA, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But then I woke up in nebraska Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Sex NIPPLED TREES OUTLAST AN AGE OF STEEL, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Lawn mowers and can openers hammered into arks Last Line: In the midst of wild grasses Subject(s): Bridges; Nature; Niagara River; Progress NO CONTINUING CITY, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Between two whens between %two whens man made a godflashthing Last Line: Flash down over the land? Subject(s): Nature NO MAN CAN ESCAPE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: No man can escape from a woman's love Last Line: No man can escape if he tries. Subject(s): Fathers; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations NO MORE THAN THE SLOW STREAM, by FLORIS CLARK MCLAREN Poem Text First Line: No more the slow stream spreading clear in sunlight Last Line: Spun in the current, swept toward no visible ocean. Subject(s): Change; Nature NO SOLITUDE IN NATURE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature has no solitude Last Line: It moves us thee to love. Subject(s): Love; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness NO WORDS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: No words %are as big as a mountain Last Line: The heart must supply the rest Subject(s): Nature NOAH'S/DOVE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is black Last Line: For the first time... Subject(s): Nature NOCTILUCA, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: In northern latitudes on clear nights Last Line: By the constellations %of that light Subject(s): Earth; Nature NOCTURNE, by PATRICIA BURNS FLINN Poem Text First Line: Night is so beautiful, I watch it on my knees Last Line: Make life so marvelous, I live it on my knees. Subject(s): Life; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Bedtime NOCTURNE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night of mid-june, in heavy vapours dying Last Line: Except its cross of gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Crosses; Nature; Religion; Vision; Theology NOCTURNE, by EDITH SODERGRAN Poem Source First Line: Moonlit evening, silver clear Last Line: The moon glides out across the sea %white tender gleam Subject(s): Nature NOISE OF THE CITY, by ANDRE SPIRE Poem Text Last Line: And the beating of my heart. Subject(s): Cities; Human Behavior; Laughter; Men; Noises; Urban Life; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature NOMADS, by LAURY WELLS Poem Source First Line: The night draws in with the setting sun Last Line: By the fire's and moonbeams' rays %the nomads settle down Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Nature NONSENSE BOTANY: 2, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Barkia howlaloudia enkoopia chickabiddia Last Line: Washtubbia circularis tigerlillia terribilis Subject(s): Botany And Botanists; Nature; Plants NONSENSE BOTANY: 3, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Armchairia comfortabillis bassia palealensis Last Line: Puffia leatherbellowsa queeriflora babyoides Subject(s): Botany And Botanists; Nature; Plants; Vegetables NOON, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full summer and at noon; from a waste bed Last Line: Presses the sorrow: fern and flower are blind Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Nature NOON, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bend to the ground Subject(s): Nature NOON; FROM AN UNFINISHED POEM, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis noon. At noon the hebrew bowed the knee Last Line: Whose borders we but hover for a space. Subject(s): Nature NOONTIDE, by JOHN LEYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath a shivering canopy reclined Last Line: To join thy music, save the listless bee. Subject(s): Nature; Noon NORTH, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: In mid-november, 18 degrees, cold air %astounds, astringent in the lungs Last Line: Inside with ice, %the material %attendance of our breaths Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) NORTH, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rising sun not beet Last Line: To this downward dance. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Prayer NORTH AMERICAN SEQUENCE: THE ROSE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are those to whom place is unimportant Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Roses NORTH AMERICAN SEQUENCE: THE ROSE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are those to whom place is unimportant Last Line: Gathering to itself sound and silence - %mine and the sea-wind's Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Roses NORTH FORK, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The humped, half-subterranean Last Line: With their sometime chattels, %and whose memory too is now %worn down to stone Variant Title(s): Paumono Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Nature NORTH TO TAOS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The aspen twig Last Line: The boat is moored to sky. Subject(s): Boats; Nature; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States NORTHAMPTON STYLE, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Desire; Love; Nature; Music & Musicians NORTHERN MICHIGAN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this back road the land Last Line: Through the woods. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Landscape; Michigan; Nature; Rot; Decadence NORTHERN MOUNTAIN, by XU GANG Poem Source First Line: Now there's a mountain to remember! Last Line: A dream so long and simple Subject(s): Environment; Nature NORTHWEST PASSAGE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: We walk across cottongrass flox Last Line: The milky way showed one of the many %visible directions Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) NORTHWEST WINTER, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Light-dazed moments %send me to my knees Last Line: Slantwise %through the rain Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature NOS IMMORTALES, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps we go with the wind and cloud and sun Last Line: Spilling its star-dust back to dust again. Subject(s): Nature NOT BLIND, by H. M. H. Poem Text First Line: If love is blind, how can it be Last Line: If love is blind? Subject(s): Love - Nature Of NOT EVER, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So hot so early. Gold light thrown onto the water to feed Last Line: Those that can get to their feet. Subject(s): Autumn; Childlessness; Nature; Seasons; Fall NOT FINDING YUAN, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Went to lo yang to find a talented Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature NOT HEAT FLAMES UP AND CONSUMES, by WALT WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Wafted in all directions o love, for friendship, for you Subject(s): Nature; Love; Seeking NOT LOST, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: The bells sounding the hours know Last Line: Who knows no place and has no name Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature NOT SO MUCH ON THE LAND AS IN THE WIND, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I walk toward the tree to make it green Subject(s): Nature NOTHING TO DO, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: This is heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Boredom; Nature NOVEMBER, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: The sun sets on a day of peace and labor Last Line: I see a human fire burning Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Nature; November NOVEMBER, by C. L. CLEAVELAND Poem Source First Line: When thistle-blows do lightly Subject(s): Nature NOVEMBER, by SAMUEL LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dead leaves their rich mosaics Variant Title(s): From Mire To Blosso Subject(s): Nature NOVEMBER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the day Last Line: Climbing the heights of heaven, to stand supreme at his solstice! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fate; Life; Nature; November; Destiny NOVEMBER 23, 1989; AFTER BLAKE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two rising flukes of green water Last Line: Must bear away the most meat. Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Nature - Religious Aspects; Order; Sea; Ocean NOVEMBER COLD. HEY, GRASSHOPPER!, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Weighed nothing! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cold; Grasshoppers; Nature; November NOVEMBER DAWN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bird called-called Last Line: Dead endymion. Subject(s): Dawn; Nature; November; Sunrise NOVEMBER IN ENGLAND [OR LONDON], by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sun - no moon! / no morn - no noon Last Line: November! Variant Title(s): No!;november Subject(s): Nature; Nothingness; November; Nihilism; Voids NOVEMBER RAIN, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC Poem Source First Line: Falls toward the door Last Line: With a vision of voyaging %and a distant morning Subject(s): Nature NOVEMBER TREES, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: O sad november trees Last Line: Through death of last year's leaf? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Leaves; Nature; Trees; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness NOVICE, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby maples hold out their hands Last Line: This I could see Subject(s): Nature NOVUM ORGANUM, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of disturbance Last Line: You of what you do Subject(s): Nature NOW, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Open the window now Last Line: A wideawake mind Subject(s): Nature; Windows NOW AN OUTLANDER, ONCE A POET IN N.Y., by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The souls of lorca and crane a daily solstice Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; New York City; New York State; Poetry And Poets NOW AND THEN, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the valley Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic; Social Commentaries; Human Behavior; Social Classes; Cosmetic Sugery; Face Lifts; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Caste NOW IS WINTER GONE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long had I known you yet in truth I knew / you not Last Line: Flushes and flowers as gilded fields in april shine. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Nature; Nostalgia; Relationships; Winter; Parting NOW IT'S THE BODY'S DOG, PAIN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With an empty sack Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Pain NOW THAT I'M OLDER I PERFECTLY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the whale's eye that blinked Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Eyes; Nature NOW THE SUN IS SINKING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Nature; Spring NUANCE IN LOVE, by MABEL MUNNS CHARLES Poem Text First Line: That shadowy withdrawal in your smile Last Line: The slow but certain coming of the snow. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of NUNC SCIO, QUID SIT AMOR, by LOUIS ALEXANDER MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know him now, not now to know demanding Last Line: Are rocky veins, ablaze with gold and fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Smalacombe, John; Mackay, L. A. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of NUPTIALS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: In the phosphorescence %of the forest Last Line: Promised to be a single branch of water, %one single stream Subject(s): Love; Nature NURSERY SNAIL, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: The garden snail, %moist in its bed Last Line: Capture-soft %hand of you Subject(s): Animals; Insects; Nature; Snails NUTHATCH IS IN BUSINESS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Fortunes up and down Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Trees NUTTING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come, robert and harry, come, lily and may! Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons O EARTH, WAIT FOR ME, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Return me, oh sun Last Line: To be one stone more, the dark stone, %the pure stone which the river bears away Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Variant Title(s): Oh Earth, Wait For M Subject(s): Nature O LARK OF THE SUMMER MORNING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I love to lie in the clover Subject(s): Nature; Summer O SAY NOT PURE AFFECTIONS CHANGE!, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With tenfold force return! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Time O SERVER OF VAIN POMP WHOSE EVERY DAY, by VINCENZO MONTI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Winter and the north wind! Subject(s): Nature O WRETCHED MIND OF MAN, O BLINDED HEART, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mind, The; Nature O, BREATHE NOT HIS NAME!, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, breathe not his name! Let it sleep in the shade Last Line: Shall long keep his memory green in our souls. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Oh! Breathe Not His Name Subject(s): Emmet, Robert (1778-1803); Ireland - Rebellions; Nature OAK IN SPRING, by KATHLEEN HUNKELE SCHARDIN Poem Source First Line: Crisp brown oak leaves %hung on all winter Last Line: But %first catching a glimpse of spring Subject(s): Nature; Rebirth; Spring OCCURRENCES ACROSS THE CHROMATIC SCALE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way air is at the same time Subject(s): Nature OCEAN, by PETER BALAKIAN Poem Source First Line: Out of her salt hips Last Line: An amaryllis of pain %opened in my throat, %and my silence issued %toward the archipelago Subject(s): Nature OCEAN CITY, by CATE MARVIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The things unfurls itself. All day I cannot reach it Last Line: Watch the ocean wring its edge as I twist my hands. %it's unfurling itself again, tireless as an arg Subject(s): Nature; Sea OCEAN PARKWAY GAZING, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ocean up %against cliff Last Line: The sea closes in %up to the edge %of mythology Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Grief; Loss; Nature; Sea; Trees OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 10, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Primrose, and phlox, and clytie (as I call Last Line: And discord dreamwise vanish from it all. Subject(s): Nature; Oxford, England; Sunflowers OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 11, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soon will sweet primrose be a faded crone Last Line: To live in silence and to pass unknown. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Primroses OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 20, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even so our fancies' colours, keen of yore Last Line: Nor shining nimbus of transfigured saint Subject(s): Colors; Nature; Paintings And Painters OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 28. THE ONE FLOWER, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before an inn hearth's tale-begetting flame Last Line: With purest bud that e'er to blossom came. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Trees OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 29, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As those great petals burst asunder there Last Line: "and never another bloom that tree may bear." Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nature OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 9. NATURE'S CALMNESS, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things seem ordered sweetly in the calm Last Line: A nostril to the breeze-bestowèd balm. Subject(s): Nature; Oxford, England OCTOBER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the world a-muse, and earth and sky Last Line: Down unillumined aisles the requiem wind. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Mythology - Classical; Nature; October; Pan (mythology); Sky; World OCTOBER, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: In vain I see the trees still green Last Line: It is finished Subject(s): Nature; October; Seasons OCTOBER, by MAY SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A smudge for the horizon Subject(s): Family Life; Autumn; Childhood Memories; Nature; Relatives; Fall OCTOBER DAYS, by RUBY ALORA PEAPLON Poem Text First Line: Summer days and birds are gone Last Line: With moonbeams over all lands. Subject(s): Nature; October OCTOBER JOURNEY, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Traveller take heed for journeys undertaken in the dark of the year Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Nature OCTOBER JOURNEY, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Traveller take heed for journeys undertaken in the dark of the year Last Line: Hating, resentful, and afraid, %stagnant, and green, and full of slimy things Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Nature OCTOBER MOON, NEW ENGLAND CHURCH, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: The full moon's reflected light Last Line: You take with you, into the sun Subject(s): Nature; October OCTOBER THOUGHTS: 1862, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A solemn, tender melancholy Last Line: Shall call him yet to guard her shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Nature; October; War; Dead, The; Liberty OCTOBER'S PARTY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: October gave a party Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons OCTOBER, 1863, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Month of storm, beat shocks and sheaves Last Line: Finds you more wise, more chaste, more sober. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Nature; October OCTOBER, 1865, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As by the deathbed of an aged saint Last Line: Her sleepers in the dust—to die no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Nature; October; Serenity OCTOBER, YELLOWSTONE PARK, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy the animals seem just now Last Line: All of you hammered golden against the anvil Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Nature OCTOBER-NOVEMBER, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indian-summer-sun Last Line: Floods the grape-hung night. Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Indian Summer; Nature; Trees OCTOBER: 1861, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not changeful april, with her suns and showers Last Line: My life's decline—my solemn—last october. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Nature; October; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The ODE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To tinkling brooks, to twilight shades Last Line: "virtue alone is bliss compleat." Subject(s): Nature; Pleasure; Solitude; Virtue; Loneliness ODE ON SOLITUDE (FINAL PRINTED VERSION), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man, whose wish and care Last Line: Tell where I lie. Variant Title(s): The Contented Man;the Quiet Life;ode To Solitude Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness ODE ON SOLITUDE (FIRST PRINTED VERSION), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy he, who free from care Last Line: Steal from the world, and not a stone %tell where I lie Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Nature; Solitude ODE ON SOLITUDE (MANUSCRIPT VERSION), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man, who free from care Last Line: Steal from the world, and not a stone %tell where I lie Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Nature; Solitude ODE ON THE PLEASURE ARISING FROM VICISSITUDE, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the golden morn aloft Last Line: To him are opening paradise. Variant Title(s): Spring Subject(s): Nature ODE ON THE SPRING, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Where the rosy-bosomed hours Last Line: We frolic while 't is may. Variant Title(s): On The Spring;spring Subject(s): Nature; Spring ODE TO A 'STRAD' VIOLIN, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Conceived in heaven, formed on earth Last Line: Of its brief radiance pale! Subject(s): Heaven; Nature; Silence; Violins; Paradise ODE TO A PAIR OF SANDPIPERS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: No studious haunt this mossy nook! Last Line: For brighter pleasure! Subject(s): Autumn; Hearts; Nature; Sandpipers; Seasons; Fall ODE TO A PIG WHILE HIS NOSE WAS BEING ROASTED, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Hark! That pig - that pig! The hideous note Last Line: To think that for your master's good you die? Variant Title(s): Ode To A Pig, Who Nose Was Being Bored Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mankind; Nature; Pain; Pigs; Sacrifices; Selflessness; Dead, The; Paradise; Human Race; Suffering; Misery; Boars; Hogs ODE TO A REDBREAST, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: The darling thou of many a heart Last Line: "thy glancing heaven may show!" Subject(s): Death; Faith; Hope; Nature; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Optimism ODE TO NATURE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mother gravely mild Last Line: O earth, and night, and nought, enfold her once again! Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Nature ODE TO THE HUMAN TORCH, by TODD ROBERT PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: It's another slow-rising dawn, and nothing Last Line: You to the rail, watching %as if you were the hindenburg Subject(s): Mankind; Nature ODE TO THE SPECTRAL THIEF, ALPHA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The way grapes will cast a green rail Last Line: And there was a greater acceptance of mirrors, and rhyme. Subject(s): Nature; Story-telling; Time ODE TO THE SPIRIT OF EARTH IN AUTUMN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair mother earth lay on her back last night Last Line: Is welcomed by his fathers up on high. Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Nymphs; Seasons; Fall ODE TO THE WEST WIND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O wild west wind, thou breath of autumn's being Last Line: If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Variant Title(s): Ode To The West Wind: I;the West Wind Subject(s): Autumn; Florence, Italy; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Theology; Ocean ODE: GOD OF THE OPEN AIR, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who hast made thy dwelling fair Last Line: My spirit out to thee, god of the open air. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): God; Nature ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a time when meadow, grove and stream Last Line: Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Variant Title(s): Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood;immortality;intimations Of Immortality Subject(s): Death; God; Immortality; Nature; Dead, The ODOR OF EARTH, by SHANNON BORG Poem Source First Line: As a child war was august's game: I typed a black code Last Line: Until the curved tooth %of zero turned o opened me deep in its pollen-mouth Subject(s): Children; Games; Nature; Summer OF A FOUNTAYNE, by PHILIPPE DESPORTES Poem Text First Line: Chill is the fount whose gentle streame doth carrye Last Line: Where the chill fountayne for thy thirst hath slakynge. Subject(s): Love; Nature OF BEAUTY, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: There is a love so passionate it tears Last Line: To loveliness that we should be denied? Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Passion; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery OF ENGLAND, AND OF ITS MARVELS, by FAZIO DEGLI UBERTI Poem Text First Line: Now to great britain we must make our way Last Line: Which might be fair to tell but which I hide. Alternate Author Name(s): Bonifazio Degli Uberti Subject(s): Great Britain; Nature; Salisbury, England; Travel; Journeys; Trips OF HALOES & SAINTLY ASPECTS, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of a ripple in the sea grass Variant Title(s): Of His Cynthia Subject(s): Nature OF HALOES & SAINTLY ASPECTS, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of a ripple in the sea grass Last Line: Destiny undisturbed by acts %of forgiveness or contrition Variant Title(s): Of His Cynthi Subject(s): Nature OF LIGHT, WATER AND GATHERED DUST, by ROBERTA HILL WHITEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Above chequamegon bay Last Line: For that moment, %even crickets pause Alternate Author Name(s): Hill, Roberta Subject(s): Environment; Nature OF TIME AND LIGHT, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: We swim in waters deeper than we know Last Line: Who swim in waters deeper than we know Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature OF WILLIAM STILLMAN (1828-1901), by ROGER MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: His life lived in the semi-pathetic way Last Line: Sent there from albany, a thing that was now only inside him Subject(s): Environment; Nature OFF SHORE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the might of the summer is most on the sea Last Line: But thou art the god, and thy kingdom is heaven, and thy shrine is the sea. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Sea; Summer; Bedtime; Ocean OFFSET, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some miles beyond the last reef's barricade Last Line: To get things right, though seeming to know, %really off course a bit, but more promising so Subject(s): Nature OFTEN I TRAVEL AT NIGHT AND AM SURPRISED, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Are hoaxes, don't forget the earth is round Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Travel OH LOVELY ROCK, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We stayed the night in the pathless gorge of ventana creek, up the east fork. Last Line: Felt its intense reality with love and wonder, this lonely rock Subject(s): Camping; Nature; Camps; Summer Camps OH NEVER KISS ME; STAND APART, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And never over-dear Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Love - Nature Of OH THE DARK, RANK, BRACKISH RUT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is fine. Outside, a sucking cold vacuum Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Money; Nature OH WHAT DEW, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: One long breath Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Day; Dew; Nature OH WOULD THAT I COULD FLY TO YOU, by HARRIET E. CARSKADEN Poem Text First Line: Oh, would that I could fly to you Last Line: You'll get it christmas day. Subject(s): Christmas; Love - Nature Of; Nativity, The OH! DROOP THOU NOT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Droop thou not, my gentle earthly love! Last Line: They are of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Love - Nature Of OH, TO BE IN LOVE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of the senses %overflowing! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Nature OH, TO WRITE JUST ONE POEM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tattooed on he butt! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Poetry And Poets; Tattoos OHIO RIVER WINTER, by SALLIE BINGHAM Poem Source First Line: The duck hunters are out these winter mornings Last Line: Their bodies, on china plates, do not cover %the painted pink cabbage rose Subject(s): Environment; Nature OLD AMAZE, by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER Poem Text First Line: Mine eyes are filled today with old amaze Last Line: The sun can find a lovely place to die. Subject(s): Nature OLD AUSTRALIAN WAYS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The london lights are far abeam Last Line: And know what clancy knew. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Youth OLD CARS AND TRUCKS, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: Near the end of a washed-out road Last Line: Of a mouse's foot Subject(s): Nature OLD CENTIPEDE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Can't keep himself %from leaving Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Centipedes; Nature OLD FINN (85) WALKS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Why? Y don't have no car Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Old Age; Walking OLD FRIEND, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: At being remembered Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory; Nature OLD HEN SCRATCHES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Then looks, scratched then looks. %my life Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Hens; Life; Nature; Old Age; Self OLD LOVE, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You must be very old , sir giles' Last Line: True love is not so hard to smutch. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Old Age OLD MILL, by GRAHAM DUNCAN Poem Source First Line: Another spring prodigy, the stream rackets Last Line: The water, used, flumes away, %reckless, impatient to roar again Subject(s): Environment; Nature OLD SONG FROM MY YOUTH, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Until I die.' well, perhaps not Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Life; Nature; Youth OLD SONGS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the hour of the dew Last Line: It is the virgin of the peaks Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Roads; Spain; Travel OLD WHITE SOUP BOWL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: One of us is always empty Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Emptiness; Nature OLD WILLOW, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With his cane Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Rivers; Willow Trees OLD WOUNDS / OLD ROADS, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: A journey to no end Subject(s): Nature; Swamps OLD-FASHIONED ROSES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They aint' no style about 'em Last Line: In the roses of the rich. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Roses ON A BEAUTIFUL DAY, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O unseen spirit! Now a calm divine Last Line: Unhaunted by a dream of storm or strife. Subject(s): Nature ON A COUNTRY ROAD BY SOME GRAZING LAND, by GERALD WALLERSTEIN Poem Source Last Line: And I was thinking of bulls and lawyers, %lawyers and bulls Subject(s): Country Life; Law And Lawyers; Nature ON A FRIENDS DEATH, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: We thought that death was hard and harsh, a doomer of dread power Last Line: Ah no! His wings wave gently as the petals of a flower. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Immortality; Love; Nature; Dead, The ON A HILL, by IRENE RUTHERFORD MCLEOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spring on a windswept hill! Alternate Author Name(s): De Selincourt, Aubrey, Mrs. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature ON A HILL ABOVE YOUR HOUSE, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down hill, I see a tangle of lights Last Line: But the thought of you below %your long lean body limp with sleep Subject(s): Nature ON A MARSH ROAD (WINTER, NIGHTFALL), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bluff of cliff, purple against the south Last Line: Nor none look back upon this world folding to-night, to rain and to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Nature; Night; Winter; Bedtime ON A TRAILWAYS BUS A MAN WHO HOLDS HIS HEAD STRAGELY SPEAKS TO THE SEAT NEXT TO HIM, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I brought a book to make the time pass Subject(s): Buses; Human Behavior; Books; Social Commentaries; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Reading ON BEING MADE A PRESENT OF AN ANCIENT CHINESE STIRRUP, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mandarin who set his foot in this Last Line: A mountain view, a breath of mountain air? Subject(s): Beauty; China; Nature ON BRUNY ISLAND, OFF TAS, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: We were driving along a dirt road Last Line: And all elegant biodiversity Subject(s): Nature ON CATOCTIN, by MARIA BRISCOE CROKER Poem Text First Line: Lovely are the distances where peaceful valleys lie Last Line: Speaks a message in his beauty that my soul may understand. Subject(s): Nature ON CHICATAWBUT HILL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: On chicatawbut hill I climbed Last Line: On chicatawbut hill. Subject(s): Memory; Milton, Massachusetts; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ON COMO, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rainless darkness drew o'er the lake Last Line: Where on to the alps the muteness passed. Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Nature; Pools; Ponds ON EVEREST THERE ARE PINK CONCEALED, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Learn decisively that they can't fly Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Everest, Mount; Gnats; Nature ON EVERY TOPOGRAPHIC MAP, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The fingerprints of god Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): God; Maps; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects ON FLOWER WREATH HILL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An aging pilgrim on a Last Line: Circle of dancing gopis Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 1, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An aging pilgrim on a Last Line: In the streets of thhazy city Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought; Woods; Thinking ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 4, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No leaf stirs. I am alone Last Line: Rustles softly like fine silk Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 5, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This world of ours, before we Last Line: Sands of the shores of all the world Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought ON ITS STAND ON THE EMPTY STAGE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Enjoys the silence Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Nature; Silence ON KNIFE POINT GLACIER, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: In your heart I burned, faulty bearing Last Line: O lady of my heart Subject(s): Nature ON LUXURY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, ye profuse, has nature work'd in vain Last Line: Too deeply bosom'd in the branching wood. Subject(s): Great Britain; Nature; Pleasure; Vanity ON MAY MORNING, TO A LADY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter no more the weeping fields deforms Last Line: And in their bosoms feel another spring. Subject(s): Forests; May (month); Morning; Nature; Nymphs; Praise; Solitude; Spring; Woods; Loneliness ON MY DESK TWO, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Duct tape and saltine crackers Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Office Employees ON MY SISTER'S WEDDING, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Barely six years of blood Last Line: To be the flesh of another Subject(s): Nature ON NATURE, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To proceed: whether results are evident Last Line: Her husband drowsing in a chair? Subject(s): Nature; Social Commentary ON PASTORAL POETRY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, poesie! Thou nymph reserv'd Last Line: The sternest move. Subject(s): Nature; Beauty; Poetry & Poets ON PROTECTING YOURSELF FROM THE ELEMENTS, by CHARLES L. GROVE Poem Source First Line: Protecting yourself from the elements %is fairly elementary Last Line: Don't go out in yellow rain, %and don't eat yellow snow Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Weather ON REACHING YING ON MY RETURN TRIP, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On distant travels passing seas and crags Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature ON RECEIVING A DEER-SKIN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With my bare feet on my deer-skin Last Line: To the western wilds to-night. Subject(s): Nature; Rivers ON RECEIVING A GIFT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look how the golden ocean shines above Last Line: And more than gold to doting avarice. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Love - Nature Of ON SAFARI, by JENNIFER FRANKLIN Poem Source First Line: What you have come for you will not Last Line: For a moment you are witness to this life and then %leave it forever have you hurt yourself enough Subject(s): Knowledge; Nature; Wilderness ON SIGHT, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am so thankful I have seen Subject(s): Nature ON SIGHT, by ALICE WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am so thankful I have seen Last Line: If there were flags, I doubt %the trees would point. %would you? Subject(s): Nature ON THE BANKS OF THE DUERO, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was mid july. A handsome day Last Line: Facing the darkened field and desert stone Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Nature; Spain; Travel ON THE BEACH, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uncountable tiny pebbles Subject(s): Nature; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore ON THE BEACH, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uncountable tiny pebbles Last Line: All you are going to lose, though any of it would do Subject(s): Nature; Seashore ON THE BEACH, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot help you' was the message Last Line: Away as a wing sewn by hand Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Love - Nature Of; Seashore; Summer ON THE CABIN FLOOR A TRAPPED MOUSE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Allow me to squeak Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Disdain; Mice; Nature ON THE CIVILIZATION OF THE WESTERN ABORIGINAL COUNTRY, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange to behold, unmingled with surprize Last Line: Take all, through all, through nation, tribe, or clan, %the child of nature is the better man Subject(s): Nature ON THE CLIFFS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the moondawn and the sundown here Last Line: Fire everlasting of eternal life. Subject(s): Life; Nature; Sea; Singing & Singers; Soul; Ocean ON THE DOWNS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A faint sea without wind or sun Last Line: Time's deep dawn rise. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Sea; Soul; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean ON THE FALL OF MAN, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of man's obedience, while in eden blest Last Line: Right reason, scripture, and the love divine. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Mankind; Obedience; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Human Race ON THE FARTHER SIDE, by W. F. BOLTON Poem Source First Line: There is a place of innocence Last Line: Garment as you strode before it, %trailing something torn Subject(s): Change; Innocence; Nature ON THE GORGEOUS HILLS OF MORNING, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Mock with silent steps these empty places Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Nature; Homesickness; Scotland ON THE GRASS, by LUCIE MCKEE Poem Source First Line: Things happen so suddenly, so unexpectedly Last Line: For death's beautiful arithmetic Subject(s): Children; Learning; Nature ON THE GREAT PLATEAU, by EDITH FRANKLIN WYATT Poem Text First Line: In the santa clara valley, far away and far away Last Line: Far and far away—far away. Subject(s): Inland Waters; Nature; Valleys ON THE HILLS, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Keep your brooding sorrows for dewy-misty hollows Last Line: In the brooding hollows where no breezes are. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ON THE JOB, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I support the animals' urge to survive Last Line: Of antlers, all are real enough. I keep the hunters out Subject(s): Nature ON THE LAKE, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: The waters with their phosphorescence blue Last Line: With petals of pure light from burning flowers Subject(s): Flowers; Lakes; Nature; Roses ON THE LAKE OF WINDEMERE, by ELIZABETH COBBOLD Poem Text First Line: Haste, airy fancy! And assist my song Last Line: And overlook the errors of eighteen. Alternate Author Name(s): Knipe, Eliza Subject(s): Nature; Windermere, Lake (england) ON THE MOUNTAIN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The top of the world and an empty Last Line: We are so little and oh, so wise! Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips ON THE NATURE OF DESIRE, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are, said my old philosophy professor, two kinds Subject(s): Nature ON THE NATURE OF DESIRE, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are, said my old philosophy professor, two kinds Last Line: Tired, unashamed, nude and asleep for their hour together Subject(s): Nature ON THE NIGHTSTAND, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the night coming on Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Magazines; Nature; Night ON THE PORCH, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: The wolf of evening comes to my door Last Line: That finds my house, 'it's time to come in' Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature ON THE QUOTATION, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And 'thy true faith can altar never?' - Last Line: Than thy young heart has been to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love – Nature Of ON THE RELIGION OF NATURE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The power, that gives with liberal hand Subject(s): Nature ON THE RELIGION OF NATURE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The power, that gives with liberal hand Last Line: Then persecution will retreat %and man's religion be complete Subject(s): Nature ON THE RIVER TEPL, WRITTEN AT THE FREUNDSCHAFT SAAL, CARLSBAD, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friendless I came, but friendless now no more Last Line: Still hastening onward to eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Nature; Rivers; Tepl (river), Europe ON THE SHOULDER, THE TURTLE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On the end of a stick Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Turtles ON THE SOUTH COAST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hills and valleys where april rallies his Last Line: Free by birth of a sacred earth, and regent ever of all the sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Sea; Spring; Time; Nightmares; Ocean ON THE STREET OF LO-YANG, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pearl pellets, resplendent young dandies Last Line: Ambling on horeback, enter the red dust Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature ON THE WAY TO SUMMER, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: May-day, the day of might, day of possibility Last Line: Scarlet petalsfor all the new worlds in earth Subject(s): Nature; Summer ON THE WAY TO THE SITTER'S, by GARY FRANCIS MARGOLIS Poem Source First Line: I could take you by the orchards Last Line: We can see our faces curving on %their skin, before we disappear by biting in Subject(s): Nature ONE, by KILLARNEY CLARY Poem Source First Line: One, gentled against his nature, stills for the flaming hoop. Another Last Line: So flat I see the curve in the horizon, a prairie fire on the rim. We'd better %tie down, or run Subject(s): Nature ONE, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: From one gray cloud Last Line: Was one drop %deeper Subject(s): Nature ONE AFTERNOON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Below, cool grasses: over us Last Line: Who look on us from heaven to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Afternoon; Hearts; Nature ONE BARRED OWL HARRIED BY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A thief besieged by thieves Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Human Behavior; Nature ONE DARK HEART BEAT, by JR. HERMES ALMEIDA Poem Source First Line: And then in the wet field a chorus of birds Last Line: Like windblown leaves %and are still Subject(s): Birds; Nature ONE GROWS TIRED OF THE HOAX OF UP, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of neither perfect lines, squares, nor circles Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Nature; Perfection ONE KIND OF HUMILITY, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall we sat heaven is not heaven Subject(s): Nature ONE OF THESE DAYS, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The very sea will turn against you Last Line: Like a little methylated spirits %set alight in a bowl Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Nature ONE ONLY AIM AND THOUGHT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When nature formed cassandra, who should move Last Line: No aim or knowledge but the thought of her. Subject(s): Beauty; Charm; Hearts; Love; Nature; Pain; Suffering; Misery ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: That stranger's smoke, then memory, accessible Last Line: Will have me after all Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature ONE WHO LOVED, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard of a great love Last Line: How many of you really love each other? Subject(s): Love - Nature Of ONE-EYED MAN MUST BE FEARFUL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of being taken for a birdhouse Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Eyes; Nature ONLY THE SEA MIST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Full moon %void only Subject(s): Moon; Nature; Nothingness; Sea ONLY TODAY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Withing the river Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Rivers ONLY WATER, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every great civilization %we know by heart dries up Last Line: Draining away from the tips %of skyscrapers and bridges Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Nature; Romance; Waterfalls OPEN SECRET, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps one day I shall let myself Subject(s): Nature OPEN SECRET, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps one day I shall let myself Last Line: Always loftier, lonelier, than I ever remember Subject(s): Nature OPEN SPACES, by ANTONI MALCZEWSKI Poem Source First Line: The warriors gone, these fields are void and still Last Line: Without an aim or limit, like despair, %strays over fields, unsheltered by the air Subject(s): Nature OPEN THE SHOE-STORE DOOR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Two shoehorns on a shoelace Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Retail Trade; Shoes OPOSSUM, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty of fox, lemur, panther Subject(s): Nature OPOSSUM, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dogs descend Last Line: The mossy banks of the past Subject(s): Nature OPPOSITE OF ORNATE AND RHETORICAL POETRY, by JOSE MARTI Poem Source Poem Explanation Last Line: Birds singing in the moonlight Subject(s): Nature; Poetry And Poets ORANGE, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I want to take a bite Last Line: Spitting out the pulp %onto the rocks below Subject(s): Nature ORCHIDACEAE, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: It lifts itself from the dark crimble of bark Last Line: Whispering how one can make much out of thin air Subject(s): Nature; Poetry And Poets ORDER, by SUSAN FROMBERG SCHAEFFER Poem Source First Line: The black dot is missing Last Line: One at a time Subject(s): Nature ORGAN SONGS: BLESSED ARE THE MEEK, FOR THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A quiet heart, submissive, meek Last Line: Than if broad lands were mine. Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Humility; Nature; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ORGAN SONGS: GOD; NOT GIFT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gray clouds my heaven have covered o'er Last Line: And all the world may sleep for me! Subject(s): Faith; God; Hope; Nature; Belief; Creed; Optimism ORGAN SONGS: LIGHT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First-born of the creating voice! Last Line: For god is light. Subject(s): Christianity; God; Light; Nature; Truth ORGAN SONGS: NOONTIDE HYMN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love thy skies, thy sunny mists Last Line: I love, then, ten times more! Subject(s): God; Love; Nature; Noon; Prayer ORIENTALE: 1, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I spoke to thee Last Line: O thou, is love not death? Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Life; Love - Nature Of OSTRA, by ELLEN FRANCES BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: Ostara! Ostara! Strange voices crept Last Line: The noble frankincense of springtime again. Subject(s): Animals; Nature OTHER AFTERNOONS, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: I bend to listen to the song. From where might it come, if Last Line: Some shepherd was following in their tracks. And as he went, he sang Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons OTHER BANK, by JEAN PIERRE VALLOTTON Poem Source First Line: The dead have other secret paths in the slow drift of lost days we release Last Line: Heavens and the last twitches of their common fear Subject(s): Death; Nature OTHER DAY, by RICHARD JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I just want to say a few words about the other Last Line: The deaths so small we must imagine ourselves alive all day Subject(s): Nature OTHER DAYS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thrush, your song is passing sweet Last Line: And with the growing years grows strong. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of OTHERWISE ELSEWHERE, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere over there the lawyer with a yellowish leaf in his hair; Subject(s): Human Behavior; Relationships; Social Commentaries; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature OUR BIG HOME, by LINDA GLASER Poem Source First Line: We all live here Last Line: One precious living home Subject(s): Earth; Nature OUR COTTAGE IN YVELINE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Cottage, your trinkets are the rose, the marquerite Last Line: Cottage, this will endure as long as happiness. Subject(s): Hearts; Nature OUR FLAG (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Flag of our country brave Subject(s): Nature; Winter OUR GARDEN, by JULIANA HORATIA GATTY EWING Poem Source First Line: The winter is gone, and at first jack and I were sad Subject(s): Nature; Spring OUR HIDDEN LEAVES, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the hidden leaves of life Last Line: God's light falling on the leaves. Subject(s): Faith; God; Leaves; Love; Nature; Belief; Creed OUR HOME IN THE WOODS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Where the birds in the spring of the year sweetly sing Last Line: For all nature's great world is our own. Subject(s): Forests; Home; Nature - Religious Aspects; Woods OUR LIVES AS HIGHLIGHTS ON TV, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Fancy down the stairs Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Life; Nature OUR MORNING GLORY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come listen to a pretty story Last Line: Of our sweet morning glory. Subject(s): Kisses; Morning; Nature OUR SIR ROBIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When icicles shine so bright Subject(s): Nature; Winter OUR SKATER BELLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Along the frozen lake she comes Last Line: "from grace to grace successive led, / a noble maiden, nobler wife!" Subject(s): Nature;skating & Skaters;sports OUT IN A FIELD, AN IMMENSE EMPTY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: From no visible trees. I was scared Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fear; Fields; Nature OUT IN THE OPEN, by MARTIN HANS HERLICK Poem Text First Line: Did you ever live in the mountains high Last Line: Come! Let's hike, if it's just for a day. Subject(s): Nature OUT OF EARTH, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY Poem Text First Line: Pattern the clouds for a moment Last Line: A thorn in the heel of death. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Heaven; Hell; Nature; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Paradise OUT OF THE DEEP, by CHARLES GUERIN Poem Text First Line: At the hour when the stars from the eastern spaces are peering Last Line: The soul from self that again unto god goes back. Subject(s): Nature; Sea; Ocean OUT OF TIME, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a formal and deserted garden Last Line: I have spent here the time of three men's lives %and am not dead Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Nature OUT OF WHICH WINDOW, by JAN WEISSMILLER Poem Source First Line: Out of which window %did I see Last Line: The snail on its leaf %in the wind Subject(s): Nature OUT WHISTLING, by DAVE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Driving home I see the white heron on one leg Last Line: Instant, your cigarette, a street %you crossed to find me when I was out whistling Subject(s): Nature OUT-OF-DOOR ARITHMETIC, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Add bright buds, and sun and flowers Subject(s): Nature; Summer OUT-OF-DOORS, by ETHEL E. MANNIN Poem Source First Line: What came ye out for to seek, o maker of words? Subject(s): Nature OUTDOOR MOVIES AT THE STATE PARK, by DAVID WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: It's not that the people watching the movie Last Line: Failure and compromise %don't matter until they reach shore Subject(s): Environment; Nature OUTER AND INNER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From twig to twig the spider weaves Last Line: The soul through blood and tears. Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods OUTWARD, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Always the thrust is outward Last Line: Fertilized by its own %unfolding light Subject(s): Earth; Nature OUTWARD BOUND, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Sailing, sailing, / over the waters and over the world Last Line: Our eeriest fancies, strangest fears. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips OVEN-BIRD, by FRANK BOLLES Poem Source First Line: In the hollows of the mountains Subject(s): Nature OVER AND OVER TUNE, by IOANNA CARLSEN Poem Text First Line: You could grow into it, / that sense of living like a dog Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature OVERHEARD OVER S.E. ASIA, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White phosphorous, white phosphorous Subject(s): Nature OVERHEARD OVER S.E. ASIA, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White phosphorous, white phosphorous Last Line: I decorate it in black, and seek %the bone Subject(s): Nature OVERTONES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a bird at break of day Last Line: Alone, among dead trees. Subject(s): Birds; Nature OWL IS A BRONZE URN OF ASHES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Till one of the round seals blinks Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Owls OXBOW, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Go to one of those little islands on the prairie Last Line: Cracked their voices for good Subject(s): Islands; Nature OXEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The oxen are such clever beasts Subject(s): Nature; Summer PADDING IT, SELS., by PATRICK MAGILL Poem Source First Line: You speak of the road in your verses, you picture the joy of it still Last Line: The nearer you go to nature the further you go from god Subject(s): Nature PAESTUM, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around a lemon tree throwing Last Line: Steps down, is whole there, and stands Subject(s): Greece; Nature; Greeks PAINTING AFTER LUNCH, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't working. Didn't look back. Needed something else. So Last Line: Like a deranged bird in wild cherries, having the time of its life Subject(s): Nature; Paintings And Painters PAINTING IT IN, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wake up at six o'clock. We're out to sea Subject(s): Nature PAINTING IT IN, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wake up at six o'clock. We're out to sea Last Line: And when things are unmade, being also feels less alone Subject(s): Nature PALM READER, by DABNEY STUART Poem Source First Line: The end of my life Last Line: As it is, and it would live in my hand Subject(s): Nature PANSY SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Open your eyes, my pansies sweet Subject(s): Nature; Summer PAPER FISHES, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The paper carp Subject(s): Fish; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PAPILIO, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Collecting is a basic human trait. The great collectors Last Line: Speed of autumn Subject(s): Nature PAPILIO, by CAROL FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Collecting is a basic human trait. The great collectors Last Line: From sex. They are also territorial. Think of the rate of speed of %autumn Subject(s): Nature PARADISE, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Everything is ours. Everything Last Line: Stretches, flat and without motion Subject(s): Central America; Nature PARADISE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is random as a rolled pair of dice Last Line: Love life's randomness: the rolled pair of dice. Subject(s): Chance; Heaven; Human Behavior; Life; Paradise; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PARADOX: THAT FRUITION DESTROYS LOVE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is our reason's paradox, which still Last Line: As warm our hands by putting out the fire. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Pygmalion; Troy PARIETAL, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Two elk cross the immediate %field of sight, disappearing Last Line: Showing where the elk had bedded down %to save a tiny, furless child Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) PARLIAMENT OF FOWLS ON DOG RIVER, by ARTHUR MCLEAN Poem Source First Line: I had not thought so many birds around Last Line: To fly up-river and rob some other nest Subject(s): Birds; Nature PART OF A LETTER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Easy as cove-water rustles its pebbles and shells Subject(s): Nature PART OF ME, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Part of me believes in this white candle I take to the altar Last Line: The great incoming breakers heavy with salt Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature PARTING FROM MR. XUE AT GUANG-LING, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are some men, their aims unfulfilled Last Line: Where again shall I share your company? Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell; Nature PARTING FROM WANG WEI, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Forlorn and lonely, my time will never come Last Line: And just close the gate of my old garden Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature PASS IT ON, III, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lilacs look neon in fading light. Subject(s): Nature; Time PASSAGE, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Words/after all Subject(s): Language; Nature; Words; Vocabulary PASSING AN OLD FRIEND'S, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An old friend fixing chicken and rice Last Line: Then come to watch chrysanthemums bloom Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature PASSING OF MARCH, by ROBERT BURNS WILSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The braggart march stood in the season's Subject(s): March (month); Nature PASSING THE NIGHT ON A RIVER IN CHEIN-TE, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I guide my boat to mooring by a misty islet Last Line: Beneath the steps, clustered sedge keeps the glitter of dew Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature PASSING THROUGH, by GLENN MCKEE Poem Source First Line: Land is passing through me Last Line: Ways we abuse our mother Subject(s): Environment; Nature PASSION THAT SPRINGETH FROM GREAT LOVELINESS, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: This last doth aim at what is base and low Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Love – Nature Of PAST LIVES, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: We were in the world before, do you remember that common life Last Line: Deceived by time, memory that escapes us, stays Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature PASTICHE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, oh, love's a dainty sweeting Last Line: Lost when most securely won! Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Love - Nature Of PASTORAL: 1, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet on sunny afternoons Last Line: That taught us to endure. Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods PASTORAL: 3, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now standing on this hedgeside path Last Line: And sings with wood and field. Subject(s): Fields; Forests; Nature; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Woods PASTORALLS, THE FOURTH EGLOGUE, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first religion with a golden chayne Last Line: And from this fount did all those mischiefs flow, %whose inundation drowneth all the world Subject(s): Nature PASTURES GROW UP, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Once the horses are gone Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fields; Nature PATERNITY, by SYDNEY LEA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He waves his breakfast knife and screams he'll kill me Last Line: Dark dagger, but still a dove. %peace, or its winged partner, love Subject(s): Nature PATH, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The path led just a shade to steeply Last Line: And with their empty glasses began climbing %resignedly back uphill Subject(s): Nature; Roads PATH DISAPPEARED. THERE WAS A FIELD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Through the sky which blanketed the ground Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fields; Nature PATHS CROSSING, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: Seven geese, southwest Last Line: And learned to fly Subject(s): Nature PATIENCE OF THE SPIDER'S WEB, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is not distubed by dew Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Insects; Nature; Patience; Spiders PATIENCE TAUGHT BY NATURE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O dreary life,' we cry, 'o dreary life!' Last Line: Grows by, contented through the heat and cold. Subject(s): Nature; Patience; Religion; Theology PAUSE, by MARY URSULA BETHELL Poem Source First Line: When I am very earnestly digging Last Line: And soon wipe away with her elements %our small fond human enclosures Subject(s): Nature PAYING A VISIT TO MONK YUNG'S CLOISTER, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A monk's robe hangs in a cloister in the hills Last Line: Then I hear the sound of the spring cling to the green-tinted %slope Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature PEACE, by ARMENA BOWMAN Poem Text First Line: No sound - but the rush of dark waters Last Line: Eternal symbol of an invisible god. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Peace; Roses PEACE, by CHARLES DE KAY Poem Source First Line: Keen gleams the wind, and all the Subject(s): Nature PEACE, by ROSE MARGARET STEIN Poem Text First Line: The moon hung low on the mountains Last Line: Will be dawning, alas, too soon! Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; Thanksgiving PEACE OF WILD THINGS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When despair for the world grows in me Last Line: I rest in the grace of the world, and am free Subject(s): Animals; Anxiety; Despair; Nature; Peace; Wilderness PEACH SKY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The big october moon Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Evening; Nature; October PEACOCK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come, come, mister peacock, you must not be proud Subject(s): Nature; Summer PEAR, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Believing each simple thing passes from a perception that is less clear Subject(s): Nature; Simplicity PEAR, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Believing each simple thing passes from a perception that is less clear Last Line: And burn back to the ground Subject(s): Nature; Simplicity PELICANS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four pelicans went over the house Last Line: Pelicans. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Pelicans PENNSYLVANIA AUTUMN, by ELEANOR GARTLEY MAXWELL Poem Text First Line: Gladly the sunshine rests its golden light Last Line: What glorious wealth the yellow sun imparts! Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Sun; Fall PENSEROSO, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soulless is all humanity to me Last Line: For god's grey earth has no cheap counterfeit. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Nature; Solitude; Loneliness PENULTIMATE PURITAN, by HELEN L. BARNES Poem Text First Line: Look on beauty through a darkened glass Last Line: Azure spears, blinded by a rose. Subject(s): Nature PEOPLE ARE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We forget some things are only Last Line: Degradable. Subject(s): Mortality; Nature PEOPLE WHO EAT IN COFFEE SHOPS, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Human Behavior; Food Habits; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PERILOUS LIGHT, by EVA GORE-BOOTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The eternal beauty smiled on me Alternate Author Name(s): Selina Subject(s): Nature PERIOD, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: I stop. There is a period to my walk Last Line: Red period upon the crowded sky Subject(s): Death; Life; Nature PERISHABLES, by R. WATSON Poem Source First Line: They shall be thanked for their softness Last Line: And which have been cleaned and returned to brightness Subject(s): Family Life; Life; Nature PERMAFROST, by HELEN DUNMORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For all frozen things Last Line: Watching the earth's green flush %tremble and perish Subject(s): Nature PERSISTENCE OF NATURE IN OUR LIVES, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You find them in the darker woods Last Line: In june, beneath the yearning trees Subject(s): Nature PERSPECTIVE, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: This morning finches come Last Line: But winging off with every %feather still intact Subject(s): Nature PETER-BIRD, by HENRY THOMPSON STANTON Poem Source First Line: When summer's birds are bringing Subject(s): Nature; Summer PETROGLYPHS, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Greasewood, four-wing saltbush Last Line: Something in the world has changed. %what will it mean? Subject(s): Change; Nature; West (u.s.) PETROGLYPHS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: It begins in sandstone Last Line: Of tufted grass, waiting %for us to enter Subject(s): Earth; Nature PEWEE, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The listening dryads rushed the Subject(s): Nature PHILLY AND WILLY - A DUET, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O philly, happy be that day Last Line: Both. For a' the joys, &c. Subject(s): Love; Nature PHILOMELA: PHILOMELA'S SECOND ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was frosty winter-season Last Line: Sigh'd, and rose, and went away. Subject(s): Country Life; Deception; Love - Complaints; Nature PHILOSOPHIES, by MADELEINE AARON Poem Text First Line: The cedar seeks escape from the blue shade Last Line: And, fading, dies a regal fatalist. Subject(s): Cedar Trees; Flowers; Nature; Roses PHONESIS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now old mammal, gall Last Line: No we didn't find it Subject(s): Nature PHOTO (OP/TATIVE) SYNTHESIS, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The general increase in green Subject(s): Nature PHOTOGRAPH, by PATRICK WORTH GRAY Poem Source First Line: Arnett, oklahoma, from wesley bishop's back porch Last Line: Remind them of the reason they must go home? Subject(s): Environment; Nature PICTURE, by FREDERICK OAKES SYLVESTER Poem Source First Line: There's a pool in the ancient forest' Subject(s): Nature PICTURES OF THE RHINE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit of romance dies not to those Last Line: And bridal vines drink in his juices on each side. Subject(s): Nature; Rhine (river), Europe; Travel; Journeys; Trips PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: MONOLOGUE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In olden legends, golden castles stood Last Line: And ridicule the pond'rous golden sceptre. Subject(s): Legends; Nature PIEBALD ROBIN, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Suddenly, white %tailfeathers, beige-and-white Last Line: Whether one watches, or not Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) PIECES OF UNPROFITABLE LAND, by MOLLY HOLDEN Poem Source First Line: The pieces of unprofitable land Last Line: Their failure's proof of reclamation, %their vigour justifies all wastes and weeds Subject(s): Nature PIED BEAUTY, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glory be to god for dappled things Last Line: Praise him. Subject(s): Beauty; Christianity; Environment; Fields; God; Language; Men; Nature; Religion; Worship; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Words; Vocabulary; Theology PIGEON, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Has swallowed a fountain! %listen! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Pigeons PIGEON HOUSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Look! Here's a pretty pigeon house! Subject(s): Nature; Spring PILEATED, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's much too big for words Last Line: Our blue eyes with it Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Birds; Nature PILGRIMAGE, by LAURA CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: I will tread on the golden grass of my bright field Last Line: In the glow of the early day; and the east is red. Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Immortality; Nature - Religious Aspects; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Walking; Belief; Creed; Journeys; Trips PILOT RAZOR-POINT PEN IS MY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thousands of miles of black squiggles Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Pens And Pencils; Self PINE, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first night at the monastery, Subject(s): Zen Buddhism; Nature PINK: A HAIKU, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: A surge of sunlight Last Line: A punk pink hairdo Subject(s): Nature PIPEFISH, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the green / and purple weeds Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation PIPEFISH, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the green %and purple weeds Last Line: Gathering and closing %so dry and slow Subject(s): Environment; Nature PITTOSPORUM, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: In the schoolyard garden the scarecrow's beet-shaped head Last Line: From pittosporum scent in the air, an absurd %scarecrow in a school garden Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature PIUTE CREEK, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One granite ridge Subject(s): Nature; Landscape PLAINT, by LUCIEN PATE Poem Text First Line: I have told my pain to the wood Last Line: My heart so a-fevered with woe? Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Grief; Nature; Pain; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery PLANT SONG, by NELLIE M. BROWN Poem Source First Line: O where do you come from, berries red Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons PLANTAIN, by JARED CARTER Poem Source First Line: Now they are calling - these ambient grasses Last Line: Times when we lay down in windless places Subject(s): Grass; Nature PLANTED HIMSELF TO GROW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Dear, little, bright-eyed willie Subject(s): Nature; Spring PLANTING BAMBOOS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am not suited for service in a country town Last Line: To hear in their branches the sound of the autumn wind Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Bamboo; Nature PLANTS AND PLANETS, by ROBERT MARTEAU Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Without any intelligence Subject(s): Nature PLASH MILL, UNDER THE MOOR, by FRANCES BELLERBY Poem Source First Line: The wind leapt, mad-wolf, over the rim of the moor Last Line: Hope realised: light's delicate miracle %of grace %still wrought on the forsaken place Subject(s): Nature PLATEAU: TOP AND BOTTOM, by GRAHAM DUNCAN Poem Source First Line: Down in the creek beds and gullies Last Line: And what's below will surely rise Subject(s): Environment; Nature PLATONIC LOVE, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, dearest julia! Thou and I Last Line: Doth gently warm, consumes when near. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Love - Nature Of PLATONIC [OR, PLATONICK] LOVE (1), by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Disconsolate and sad Last Line: My chief contentment I will entertain. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Love - Nature Of PLATONIC [OR, PLATONICK] LOVE (2), by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, believe't, love is not such a toy Last Line: Have their contents they in each other find. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Love - Nature Of PLATONIC [OR, PLATONICK] LOVE (3), by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, your beauty and your lovely parts Last Line: Will turn, and circle, with their rays, your face. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Love - Nature Of PLEASANT SOUNDS, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rustling of leaves under the feet in woods and under hedges Last Line: Sweet such pictures on dewy mornings, when the dew %flashes from its brown feathers! Subject(s): Nature; Sound PLEASURE-BOAT, by RICHARD HENRY DANA (1787-1879) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come, hoist the sail, the fast let go! Last Line: My head is growing gray Subject(s): Aging; Boats; Nature PLENITUDE, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: It always pains me - this abundance Last Line: Promise - there for the taking Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Orchards PLOUGHING THE ROUGHLANDS, by HELEN DUNMORE Poet's Biography First Line: It's not the four-wheeled drive crawler Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature; Plowing & Plowmen; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PLOUGHING THE ROUGHLANDS, by HELEN DUNMORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's not the four-wheeled drive crawler Last Line: Fenced by the primary %colours of crawler and silo Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature; Plowing And Plowmen PLUM, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Though it is early to talk of autumn Last Line: The unforgotten taste of desire Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature PLUSH, by HOWARD BUCK Poem Text First Line: How placidly the window goddesses Last Line: Of silks and furs and rugs and plush. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PLUVIA, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the nation of rainy days Last Line: Over the nation of rainy days Subject(s): Nature; Rain PLUVIA, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the nation of rainy days Last Line: Like a lost airplane still circling %over the nation of rainy days Subject(s): Nature POEM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Form is the woods: the beast Last Line: And slight, pink bones. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Hunting; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Hunters POEM, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Song birds take a bath in our elephant pool Subject(s): Nature POEM ABOUT RABBIT, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: I am writing a poem Last Line: About rabbit Subject(s): Nature POEM IN ORANGE TONES, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curtains hung closed, sealing off the window Last Line: To come out on top. Subject(s): Dawn; Nature; Waking; Sunrise POEM OF THE ONE WORLD, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning / the beautiful white heron Subject(s): Herons; Nature; Beauty POEM OF THE TOWHEE, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Peripheral leaf-shufflers Last Line: Grave and acute, in characters %beyond any translation Subject(s): Environment; Nature POEM OUT OF CHILDHOOD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry : Subject(s): Children; Youth; Comng Of Age; Human Behavior; Childhood; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature POEM TOUCHING THE FEET, by ANTHONY PICCIONE Poem Source First Line: Walking alone, sometimes Last Line: Where the mother waits Subject(s): Nature POEM WATCHING IN WINTER, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Set yr clock at 3 am Last Line: The great horned owl %will come Subject(s): Nature POEM: 22, by YUNUS EMRE Poem Source First Line: Good health to the soul of that lover who has union with the beloved. His Last Line: Time will not touch love; love has no months and years Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Time POEMS FROM LEFT, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's something wrong that can't be salved Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Language; Human Behavior; Words; Vocabulary; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature POEMS FROM RIGHT, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right as rain yoju are, rain that shrivels Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature POEMS SPOKEN BY A PLAQUE AT SCENIC VIEW, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This one, here, that looks like a melted accordion Last Line: At the shock. You didn't know %you had it in you Subject(s): Nature POET HOLDS THE PODIUM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Like a garbage bag of words Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Lectures; Nature; Poetry And Poets POET'S LAMENT, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: What can he do with silence? Last Line: No trees to drip their gum. Subject(s): Nature; Writing And Writers POETS IN LATE WINTER, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poets of missouri stare at astonishing winter Last Line: And ends that tiny, unearthly song Subject(s): Nature; Birds; Winter POETS IN LATE WINTER, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poets of missouri stare at astonishing winter Last Line: He tries to hum again, but chokes up %and ends that tiny, unearthly song Subject(s): Nature POINCIANA, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: Eternity temporarily %partitioned into days of revelatory blue Last Line: Rather than the shade %of a red flowering tree Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Poincianas POINT OF VIEW, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: In a night tree Last Line: Who can see us %as we are? Subject(s): Earth; Nature POINTS OF THE COMPASS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Said wind to the bright little weather vane Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons POLLEN, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You see it as summer begins Last Line: The plush, allusive %tremble of pollen Subject(s): Allergies; Environment; Lawns; Nature; Trees POLLIWOG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A tiny little polliwog Subject(s): Nature; Spring POLLY STEWART, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lovely polly stewart Last Line: O lovely polly stewart, &c. Subject(s): Love; Nature POLLYWOGS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Down in maine at camp wohelo Last Line: "they'll make monkeys out of man." Subject(s): Animals; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Nature; Science; Wilderness; Scientists POLY-OLBION, THE FIRST SONG, SELS., by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of albions glorious ile the wonders whilst I write Last Line: Bound in those gloomie caves with adamantine %chaines Subject(s): Nature POMONA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the golden afternoon! Last Line: Smiling o'er the orchard wall. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Afternoon; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature; Orchards POMPEY HEIGHTS, by ALBERT VANN FOWLER Poem Text First Line: When autumn fills the valleys Last Line: Its icy freshets yet. Subject(s): Nature; Rain; Seasons POND, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Deep in the woods Last Line: Where would %the animals drink? Subject(s): Nature POND, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: Their delicate mouths dripping Last Line: Among water lilies Subject(s): Nature POOR IN ANSWERS AS THE GRASS, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: As the only voice in hearing's mine Subject(s): Nature; Swamps POOR [OR, COCK] ROBIN, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The north wind doth blow / and we shall have snow Last Line: Poor thing. Variant Title(s): What Will Robin Do;the First Snow Subject(s): Nature; Robins; Wind POPLARS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The poplar is a lonely tree Last Line: Close to each other in a row. Subject(s): Friendship; Love; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness PORT FAIRY, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: Victoria, %the only mainland colony Last Line: Notch it up, therefore, deborah, while you may Subject(s): Nature PORT NAVALO, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rock bloomed lichen, orange-tawny Last Line: The headland by no passion haunted. Subject(s): Nature; Paris (mythology); Trojan War PORTENTS, by WILLIAM SHELDON Poem Source First Line: Newly moved to the edge of town Last Line: Slow to learn that all these %mean the same way Subject(s): Change; Nature; Towns PORTRAITES OF THE INDITCHENOUS BEESTES OF NEW OLLAND, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Ye greate blacke deville Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Wilderness; Zoos POSSESSION, by JOAN+(1) MURRAY Poem Source First Line: A deer! - nibbling on the few green things Last Line: Created itself - with vanity and humility Subject(s): Deer; Nature; Property POSSESSION, by ELKANAH EAST TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To me are given many things Last Line: "the calm and peace of eventide." Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Nature; Trees; Hills; Downs (great Britain) POUR QUI SAIT ATTENDRE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things, they say, come home to those that wait Last Line: In thanks to heaven, who did not wait to kiss? Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Patience POUT AN DRIFT. THE POET SELF-SUNK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Heavens, puzzled by moon and stars Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Poetry And Poets POWER OF THE NAME, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source First Line: Forget the western sky's steep steps Last Line: Between stones & drink from anywhere Subject(s): Names; Nature; Self POWER SOURCE, by RUTH FAINLIGHT Poem Source First Line: In this part of the country Last Line: Knowing I'll be uneasy %in the interval %between now and the august %combine-harvesters Subject(s): Nature PRAGMATICS, by PAULANN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: In your story of bees Last Line: A fine, even tremble Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Nature PRAIRIE HILLS IN SNOW: 1. PSYCHE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: In wind, the hills ripple %into disappearing Last Line: Everything has gone under %the surface Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) PRAIRIE HILLS IN SNOW: 2. SCAR, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: When the dog broke through %and floundered in near-freezing Last Line: Growing an imperfect %but serviceable skin Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) PRAIRIE HILLS IN SNOW: 3. BURIAL, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Along the river trail %a few more trees are down Last Line: Loose snow skitters %in the raw air Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) PRAIRIE VOICES, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: Be these the burden of our runes Last Line: When we essay our winged steeds. Subject(s): Nature; Prairies; Plains PRAISE WHAT COMES, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Surprising as unplanned kisses, all you haven't deserved Last Line: Did I catch the smallest glimpse of the holy? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature PRAY TO WHAT EARTH DOES THIS SWEET COLD THING BELONG, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Increase his rule by gentlest summer means Subject(s): Nature PRAYER OF A MOTHER-TO-BE, by EDNA BUTLER TRICKEY Poem Text First Line: Dear god of life and every new born thing Last Line: "of such the kingdom is; let us be led." Subject(s): Birth; Catholics; God; Mothers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Child Birth; Midwifery; Roman Catholics; Catholicism PREFERENCE, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: I love a lead-blue sky Last Line: To touch its watered silk. Subject(s): Nature PRELUDE, by EDMOND MCKENNA Poem Text First Line: Embracing the woman I love, I stood by the stream Last Line: Long grass. Subject(s): Christianity; Grief; Jesus Christ; Love; Morning; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Pain; War; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery PRELUDE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: My song is born of rivalry. Cross time Last Line: Save where I lift, and purify, and bless! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Nature; Singing & Singers; Time PREMONITION, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muffled syllables that nature speaks Last Line: And swelling into rapture from this sigh. Subject(s): Nature; Worry PREPARATION, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have no time for those things now,' we say Last Line: The life we spent preparing well to live. Subject(s): Life; Nature; Soul PRESENCE, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: If massive peaks appear sometimes as cloud Last Line: The flame of god can set a soul on fire. Subject(s): God; Nature - Religious Aspects PRESIDIO HILL, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sabre and cross on this historic crown Last Line: On old presidio hill. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature - Religious Aspects; San Francisco; Hills; Downs (great Britain) PREY, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're walking through stubble and rain Last Line: His meat, as the sun that rises is his fire Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Nature; Hunters PRIMROSE, by ADAM MICKIEWICZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scarce had the happy lark begun Last Line: I'll get a tear -- if nothing more! Subject(s): Nature; Transience; Impermanence PRIVACY, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The animals are leaving Last Line: A small boat awaits elucidation Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Nature; Relationships PRIVATE FALL, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mots of haydust rise and fall Last Line: And we tell no one Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons PROGRESS, by FRANCESCA ABBATE Poem Source First Line: I was there once. It was nightfall Last Line: It is difficult to imagine %another world Subject(s): Evolution; Nature PROGRESS, by MILDRED M. JEFFREY Poem Source First Line: Past the ginkgo trees and tulip beds Last Line: Floods, vast droughts, %predatory ultra-violet rays Subject(s): Nature PROLOGUE, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In winter’s spider-eyed light strung through steam grates, the Last Line: Lover boy & philly boy. Wanna-be’s and gonna-be’s Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Human Behavior; City & Town Life; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PROMENADE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, mind, here we have / our little son beside us Last Line: And have breakfast! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Nature PROMISCUOUS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mixes easily, dictionaries Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Language; Human Behavior; Words; Vocabulary; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature PROMISE, by TERESA CADER Poem Source First Line: Plant kernels quickly, three or four together Last Line: A promise to feed is a promise to make hungry Subject(s): Nature PROPERTIES OF LIGHT, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: A field of light, and my need to say Last Line: Pointing out the properties of light Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature PROSPECT, by SYDNEY LEA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As we raised our tent--in the winter firmament, it seemed Last Line: But love, earthbound, is firmer. And surer the prospect, and keener Subject(s): Nature PROTECTING THE CHILDREN FROM HURRICANES, by JEAN NORDHAUS Poem Source First Line: Nail the shutters closed Last Line: Antic tables asleep in the sun, waving %thin legs at the sky Subject(s): Nature PROUD WERE YE, MOUNTAINS, WHEN, IN TIMES OF OLD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To share the passion of a just disdain Subject(s): Greed; Nature; Railroads PRUDHOE BAY, by JOAN CUSACK HANDLER Poem Source First Line: A few springs of arctic cotton, the flat grey back of tundra, two ... Last Line: L -- I -- n -- g %we have no right to be here Subject(s): Arctic; Cold; Nature PUFFIN, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: You pop from your burrow Last Line: Touchdown! Subject(s): Nature PULLING A PIG'S TAIL, by DAVE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The feel of it was hairy and coarse Last Line: Of beauty. I loved my school %until that wet day when it let me go Subject(s): Nature PULP FICTION, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You want more? You want some more of this shit? Last Line: The knife, you understand, is real. The knife is mine Subject(s): Flowers; Nature PULP FICTION, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You want more? You want some more of this shit? Last Line: The knife, you understand, is real. The knife is mine Subject(s): Flowers; Nature PULSATIONS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One sees the trees ahead and the shadows underneath them Last Line: Thought how birds are so little bother considering their numbers Subject(s): Nature PURPLE, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I have no rhyme for purple Last Line: But each purple flower in the forest %is a poem Subject(s): Nature PURPLE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late afternoon; see what I can see Last Line: These boundaries were always Subject(s): California; Mountains; Nature; Tourists; Travel PUSSY WILLOW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Dainty pussy willows Subject(s): Nature; Spring PUSSY-WILLOWS, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: Damp dead trees, / damp dead leaves Last Line: Is in the willows! Subject(s): Leaves; Nature; Spring; Willow Trees QUATRAIN: 3, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above all cities arch the skies Last Line: If they will look around. Subject(s): Nature QUATRAIN: NATURE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boon nature yields each day a brag which we now first behold Last Line: Too busied with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. Subject(s): Nature QUATRAINS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: The message / the north wind came and to the maples said Last Line: "but risen!"" and let the rose-mouths lisp of spring!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Literary Form; Nature QUEEN CREEK CANYON, by VIRGINIA WEIGEL PAGE Poem Text First Line: About me rose chaos of peak on peak Last Line: "marks the sparrows fall." Subject(s): Nature QUESTION AND ANSWER, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river is flowing Last Line: Not me why I laugh! Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Laughter; Nature QUESTIONS BEFORE DARK, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Day ends, and before sleep Last Line: Carry you downstream? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature QUIET, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come not the earliest petal here, but only Last Line: With their bloom, passes. Subject(s): Nature; Quiet Life; Solitude; Time; Loneliness QUINQUAGESIMA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is alone the worthly law of love Last Line: For one to know who is fain to love and learn. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Nature Of R.W.E., by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doors hast thou opened for us, thinker, seer! Last Line: A sense of widening worlds and ampler air. Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Freedom; Life; Nature; Soul; Liberty RABBIT IS BORN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The poet just for talk Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Poetry And Poets; Rabbits RACCOON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come, child, and see our pet raccoon Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons RADIOACTIVE BALL, by CAROLE SIMMONS OLES Poem Source First Line: I caught it %and screamed for water Last Line: No pockets will have %them Subject(s): Nature RAGGED REGIMENT, by ALICE WILLIAMS BROTHERTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love the ragged veterans of june Subject(s): Nature RAGGED ROBIN, by L. A. TAWMLEY Poem Source First Line: A man of taste is robinet Subject(s): Nature; Spring RAIN, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Oh, the dancing leaves are merry Subject(s): Nature; Spring RAIN, by EBENEZER JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More than the wind, more than the snow Last Line: Through the soft sunny lines of the shower. Subject(s): Nature; Rain RAIN, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is it raining, little flower? Subject(s): Nature RAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What makes the rain, mamma? Subject(s): Nature; Winter RAIN CLOUDS GONE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On the moon Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Moon; Nature; Sky RAIN IN JULY, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC Poem Source First Line: Clouds, someone said Last Line: Will not take root %with the grass Subject(s): Nature RAIN IN SUMMER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful is the rain! Last Line: In the rapid and rushing river of time. Subject(s): Nature; Rain; Summer RAIN/LIGHT, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: Dimensionless %blotter, daylight Last Line: With the abandoned %thought of home Subject(s): Nature RAINBARREL, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: My friend's family kept a rainbarrel Last Line: Lifting our little acorn cups %to taste old rain Subject(s): Earth; Nature RAINDROPS ON YOUR GLASSES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Reading the clouds Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Clouds; Nature; Rain RAINFOREST SLASH AND BURN, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Fallen across one another Last Line: We will never meet Subject(s): Earth; Nature RAINY SEASON, by KRISTIN BOCK Poem Source First Line: Lightning is night's first cursive Last Line: Diamond sand, a mad red sea Subject(s): Nature RAKING LEAVES, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: At some point the ritual Last Line: Out of sight and mind Subject(s): Nature RAMATUELLE, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look up: a dusty-footed, noon-slow track Last Line: This was ramatuelle. Subject(s): Nature; Travel; Villages; Journeys; Trips RATE THE HOURS. ONE AND 5 A.M., by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The fool always feels safe at noon Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Time RATTLESNAKE-CONTEMPLATIONS ON A BRONZE, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Over the rope Last Line: Now firmly at his heels Subject(s): Nature RAVEN, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: At the top of the dead tree Last Line: And your ugly old %sad song Subject(s): Nature RAVEN, by REG SANER Poem Source First Line: Where summer's best effort is tufts Last Line: Into which they had gone Subject(s): Nature; Ravens RAVEN'S BEAK RIVER AT THE END, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doab of the tatshenshini river and the alsek lake, a long spit of Last Line: Flying off alone %flying off alone %flying off alone %off alone Subject(s): Geology; Mythology; Nature RAVEN'S LEGS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: When the raven approaches the cottonwood Last Line: That have just begun to yellow Subject(s): Earth; Nature READING LAO TZU AGAIN IN THE NEW YEAR, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snub end of a dismal year Last Line: Large rock balanced upon a small rock Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Nature READING POETRY LATE AT NIGHT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Almost but nor quite Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Life; Nature; Poetry And Poets READING SUNDAY, by TERRENCE MAURICE SAVOIE Poem Source First Line: Clouds is 19th century Last Line: On the edge of the pot of sky like %mongrels exhausted with the rain Subject(s): Environment; Nature READING THE EARTH, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Through ribbons of berlline leaves Last Line: And only praising such a small part Subject(s): Nature READING THE PINE, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: There are galaxies in the grain Last Line: They leave you behind Subject(s): Earth; Nature READING THE SIGNS, by ERIC TRETHEWEY Poem Source First Line: Intent upon meaning, we mean Last Line: Life speaks to us--all these little %things we are never done with Subject(s): Nature READING TO ROCKS, by RUTH MORRIS MOOSE Poem Source First Line: Some listen, moss ears Last Line: I hear their dreams Subject(s): Environment; Nature REAL ESTATE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My real estate is birds and flowers Last Line: Unreal estate of dirt! Subject(s): Nature REAL LIFE, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Here we talk without wallets Last Line: Translucency in my hand Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Snakes REASON WHY I AM AFRAID EVEN THOUGH I AM A FISHERMAN, by RAY A. YOUNG BEAR Poem Source First Line: Who is there Last Line: I wake to see the sun shine %through the ice-hole; %only the ice along %with my foolishness %decides Subject(s): Nature REASONABLE MELANCHOLY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Tell me no more of sweets & joyes Last Line: Arabia, & can sooner reach the skie. Subject(s): Fertility; Marriage; Melancholy; Nature; Rites & Ceremonies; Spring; Youth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dejection REASONS FOR LIVING, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was walking with the backward Last Line: Epidermis, leaf blade and sheath Subject(s): Life; Nature REASSURER, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A people in the throes of national prosperity, who Last Line: Has been wakened in the night by a dream of the calamity of peace Subject(s): Environment; Nature REBELLION, by STEPHEN CHALMERS Poem Source First Line: To wake at morn, and hear a little laugh Subject(s): Country Life; Nature REBOUND, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: Dirt road into trail Last Line: This shadow right here Subject(s): Nature RECESSIONAL (1), by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider me a memory, a dream that passed away! Last Line: Within, without, the vassal heart -- its reasoning who knows? Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love - Nature Of RECIPE FOR LIVING, by ALFRED GRANT WALTON Poem Text First Line: Some things a man must surely know Last Line: A faith in man, a trust in god. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature RECIPROCAL KINDNESS THE PRIMARY LAW OF NATURE, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Androcles from his injured lord, in dread Last Line: An enemy; she bids him spare a friend. Subject(s): Nature; Kindness RECITAL OF LOST CITIES, by LAVINIA GREENLAW Poem Source First Line: It started with the polar ice caps Last Line: Amsterdam, baku, alexandria, %venice, norwich, santo domingo Subject(s): Nature RECORDING AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE FOR THE SAN JUAN COUNTY, by JONATHAN TILL Poem Source First Line: Between two arms Last Line: Amongst black rocks Subject(s): Archeology; Nature RECREATION, by HELEN PRICKETT OITTO Poem Text First Line: The sunshine's reflection / on tiny, bright billows Last Line: In god and in man. Subject(s): Faith; Nature; Belief; Creed RECUPERATION, by SUSAN FROMBERG SCHAEFFER Poem Source First Line: My room has become my hospital room Last Line: It shows me what has to be done Subject(s): Nature RED BRICKS AND CAMPHOR TREES, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mandolin from the madhouse Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature RED BUTTERFLY CLINGS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source Last Line: My heart's heart on wings Subject(s): Nature RED EFTS, by K. W. JAYNES Poem Source First Line: A pair of red efts, one atop the other Last Line: Disturbed the stream and bent me back to life Subject(s): Environment; Nature RED TAIL SONNET, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more soaring,' said the hawk with a gunshot wound Last Line: We project misery best. The hawk, with flies %all around it,the pearl of his beak pursed to speak Subject(s): Nature RED-NAPED SAPSUCKER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh you white guys, again Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Names; Nature REEDBEDS OF THE HACKENSACK, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Scummed maunderings that nothing loves but reeds Last Line: Invoke the scrannel ruth of a forsooth civility, %the rathe,the deathbed generations of these reeds? Subject(s): Nature REEDS POLISH, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Of beauty, %of water Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Nature REFLECTIONS AFTER A DRY SPELL, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the one that took this literally Last Line: The unzapped verse or two he left behind %on the confusion between world and mind Subject(s): Nature REFUGE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight, a timid fawn, went glimmering by Last Line: Knew on the hunter's breast her refuge lay. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Deer; Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight REFUSAL, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the acres were not smoothed with topsoil, she wrenches Last Line: Refusal to be much moved? Subject(s): Nature REFUSAL, by CAROL FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the acres were not smoothed with topsoil, she wrenches Last Line: Refusal to be much moved Subject(s): Nature REGRETS, by ANNA ELISABETH MATHIEU DE NOAILLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Go, for I wish to be alone among the tombs Last Line: Finding my ashes' heat more fervent than their lives. Alternate Author Name(s): Brancovan, Princess Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Nature; Regret; Dead, The REITERATIVE, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: Now, beyond hope, I still owe the gods great gratitude Last Line: And earth, wearied, wears on, each year turning under the plough Subject(s): Nature REJECTED ADDRESSES: THE LIVING LUSTRES, BY T. M., by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O why should our dull retrospective addresses Last Line: Till set to the music of erin-go-bragh! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Nature; Theater & Theaters RELATIVITY, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: As you sleep, the moon Last Line: Neither your slow breaths %nor its own Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace RELIC, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: We keep the finger-bones of saints Last Line: Courses through our bones Subject(s): Earth; Nature REMARKABLE EXHIBITION, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was remarkable, that day on the river Last Line: Magic enough to avoid eight rifles flashing %as long as all that and still, as they finally were, %b Subject(s): Environment; Nature REMARKS MITCHELL AT THE DINNER IN HONOR OF WILLIAM H. WELCH, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: T is said that hovering near your infant couch Last Line: "tuus ex anima." Subject(s): Nature; Physicians; Welch, William Henry (1850-1934); Doctors REMEMBERED THINGS, by A. W. RANSOM Poem Text First Line: A rose-hued dawn Last Line: The comradeship of one I held most dear. Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Nature; Nostalgia REMEMBERING THE OAK, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have taught my son to hammer nails Last Line: Rooted like memory %in the earth Subject(s): Nature RENTED HOUSE IN MAINE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn, the liquid clatter of rain Last Line: The fire is down, the coffee cold, the sun is up Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Nature REPRISAL, by PAULINE JONES BURNS Poem Text First Line: Your transient love was only a spindling Last Line: And then I'll strike another match. Subject(s): Love – Nature Of REPRISE, by JARED CARTER Poem Source First Line: Only an evening wind that comes at last Last Line: So long forgotten, out of dark rains past Subject(s): Nature; Rain REPRODUCTION OF A PALM, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: As if my ribcage had been, he said, with a hard, hefty beak Last Line: The feeling, he said, that I couldn't ever put out this fire Subject(s): Nature; Palm Trees; Reproduction REPUBLICANS THINK THAT ALL OVER THE WORLD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Than they are. It's largely true Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Nature; Politics REQUIEM, by CHRISTINE L. HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: I must say good-bye to the leaves Last Line: I must say good-bye to the leaves. Subject(s): Death; Nature; Dead, The REQUIEM FOR A FOREST, by SANDOR KANYADI Poem Source First Line: The gaze is still trained Last Line: To refuse to kiss %the ax Subject(s): Forests; Nature RESCUE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wrote some words today taht will see print Last Line: To all that lovely perishing outdoors Subject(s): Nature RESCUE THE DEAD, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finally, to forgo love is to kiss a leaf Last Line: You who are free / rescue the dead Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Love RESIDUE, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI Poem Text First Line: The fragrance of the rain today Last Line: That friend alone has stirred. Subject(s): Friendship; Longing; Nature; Nostalgia RESIGNATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, in summer's parching thirst Last Line: The will of heaven abide. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Nature RESPITE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A quick wind weeding the sky Subject(s): Nature; Relationships RESTING HUNTER, by PAUL SNOEK Poem Source First Line: You who knew me younger Last Line: Even at night, smells like water Subject(s): Hunting; Nature RESTLESS, by MARY CROW Poem Source First Line: So this is eden - Last Line: On the wall of my cave, %and the bison charging Subject(s): Eden; Gardens And Gardening; Nature RESTORATION OF ENHEDUANNA TO HER FORMER STATION, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: The first lady of the throne room Last Line: From the doorsill of heaven comes the word: %'welcome!' Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion RESTORATION OF ENHEDUANNA TO HER FORMER STATION, by ENHEDUANNA Poem Source First Line: The first lady of the throne room Last Line: From the doorwill of heaven came the word: %'welcome!' -- heart is never calm Subject(s): Babylon; Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Nature; Religion RESTORATIVES, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Whisper with bated breath Last Line: Joy lives anew. Subject(s): Death; Love; Nature; Time; Dead, The RESURRECTION, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: When songsters were carolling matins betimes Last Line: Of the spring. Subject(s): Miracles; Nature; Seasons; Spring; Winter RESURRECTIOON AT WEST LAKE, by ERIC TRETHEWEY Poem Source First Line: Ringed by dark palisades Last Line: Beneath one flapping black rag %of crow, spring's surge begins again Subject(s): Nature RETIREMENT, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of solitude, silence, and rest Last Line: Freedom for solitude, silence, and rest. Subject(s): Life; Nature; Rest; Retirement; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness RETIREMENT: AN ODE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On beds of daisies idly laid Last Line: Meet to adore some calf of gold. Subject(s): Greed; Happiness; Labor & Laborers; Nature; Pleasure; Retirement; Avarice; Cupidity; Joy; Delight; Work; Workers RETIREMENT; INSCRIPTION IN A HERMITAGE, by THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath this stony roof reclined Last Line: Prefer the blameless hermitage? Subject(s): Nature RETROSPECTION, by GARNET B. FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: I note this morning how the sunshine falleth Last Line: In that blest land to which our feet are tending? Subject(s): Fairies; Nature; Past; Elves RETURN, by JOHN DANIEL Poem Source First Line: When at one in the morning a raccoon Last Line: In the black light of darkness %sees its slow-stepping way Subject(s): Environment; Nature RETURN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun's warm against the slats of the granary Last Line: And want something better. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cold; Longing; Nature; Spring RETURN, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Walking through the quiet house, we Last Line: The very words we wanted Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature RETURN OF SPRING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God shield ye, heralds of the spring Last Line: Forbade my steps to rove. Subject(s): Nature; Spring RETURN TO NATURE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My song is of that city which Last Line: As fresh as when my life was young. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Nature RETURNING, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: We migrate toward the spine Last Line: Returning to the sea Subject(s): Earth; Nature RETURNING BY NIGHT TO LU-MEN, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear the evening bell Last Line: And only a solitary %man comes and goes by himself Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature RETURNING TO FIELDS AND GARDENS (1), by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young, I did not fit in Last Line: Cage, but now, at last, can return to nature Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): Fields; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Past RETURNINGS OF LOVE IN VIVID LANDSCAPES, by RAFAEL ALBERTI Poem Source First Line: We believe, my love, that those landscapes Last Line: And the wakeful mountains singing to us afar Subject(s): Landscape; Memory; Nature REVE DU MIDI, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When o'er the mountain steeps Last Line: Enraptured o'er the vision-freighted hours. Subject(s): Nature REVERIE IN OPEN AIR, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I acknowledge my status as a stranger Last Line: But news of a breeze Subject(s): Air; Calm; Human Behavior; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature REVISITATION, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is here-the lime tree in the garden path Last Line: The harsh gate jars upon its hinges still. Subject(s): Forests; Gardens & Gardening; Lime Trees; Nature; Woods RHYTHM, by EMMA BRADFIELD Poem Text First Line: Against the winter's cold, the grass will bide Last Line: And then returns. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons RHYTHM, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A nature that takes and never gives Last Line: The sooner to become a grove. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Nature RICHMOND PARK, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Oh, have you been to richmond of a windy april morning Last Line: I shouldn't be astonished if she asked you in to tea! Subject(s): Nature; Richmond Park, England RIDDLES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We call the dead - they answer Last Line: A pile of shit on a leaf, and covered with a leaf. %[humanity between heaven and earth] Subject(s): Nature; Riddles RIGHT HERE, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source Last Line: Write %here Subject(s): Nature RILKE SAYS THE NEW YEAR BRINGS THINGS THAT HAVE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Even a dog is never lost in the same place Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; New Year; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926) RISE AND FALL, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source Last Line: Read me their story Subject(s): Nature RISING DAMP, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At our feet they lie low Last Line: That never surface. We feel their tug %as a dowser's rod bends to the source below Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A. Subject(s): Nature; Rivers RISING EARLY IN WINTER, by ANTHONY PICCIONE Poem Source First Line: Wild lake snow has heaved down Last Line: It is dark friend, %cold has the strongest arms Subject(s): Nature RISING FROM A CRAMPED POSITION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That here's blood in my legs Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Legs; Nature; Self; Self-consciousness RISING LATE, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spring sleep, well past dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature RITUAL, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We sat on metal card chairs. Green plastic rugs hid dirt workers had Last Line: In the grilled moist meat and fine bones %wisps of her face Subject(s): Nature RITUALS AT THE FARM, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Climbing between ruts in the road to the upper field Last Line: The tough warty pods of milkweed, %empty of seeds Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature RIVER, by PETER BORRELLI Poem Source First Line: The river, cold and dark as gun metal Last Line: We are not one %but captured in the same moment Subject(s): Environment; Nature RIVER, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I waded, deepening, into the dark water Last Line: I drew breath and cast anyway. %prayed nothing would strike Subject(s): Nature RIVER, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: From the vast and yellow river my eyes Last Line: Harsh cry in the echoless wastes Subject(s): Nature; Rivers RIVER, by SAMUEL GRISWOLD GOODRICH Poem Source First Line: O tell me, pretty river! Alternate Author Name(s): Parley, Peter Subject(s): Nature; Summer RIVER, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Slowly grinding sandstone Last Line: That all of life is simply %letting go Subject(s): Earth; Nature RIVER, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: Maybe what I'll do Last Line: Maybe this is how it is Subject(s): Nature; Rivers RIVER GOD, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I may be smelly and I may be old Last Line: If she wishes to go I will not forgive her Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Nature; Rivers RIVER RUN, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Like cold thread you fly Last Line: High on the wall a dall sheep goes on grazing Subject(s): Nature RIVER SONG, by JEAN PEARSON Poem Source First Line: River changes after rain Last Line: To turn those dark stones silver Subject(s): Environment; Nature RIVERS, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC Poem Source First Line: Countless strands of thread together Last Line: All around you %is the sea Subject(s): Nature RIVERTALK, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Is whatever comes along Last Line: And nothing asks to be fixed Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature ROAD FOR MEETING, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: Where the road once was %it does not heal Subject(s): Nature; Swamps ROAD IS NOT A METAPHOR, by CAROL SNYDER HALBERSTADT Poem Source First Line: There are no symbols. Only Last Line: At the very edge Subject(s): Nature; Roads ROAD SONG, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's home for me and a snug roof-tree Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Nature ROAD SONG, by W. G. TINCKOM-FERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: Give me the lear blue sky overhead, and the long road Subject(s): Nature ROAD THAT LEADS TO A HOME, by ETHEL E. MANNIN Poem Source First Line: My road is a by-road, with big trees reaching high Subject(s): Nature ROADS IN SEEMING, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: And are the same the dunes Subject(s): Nature; Swamps ROADSIDE POEMS: A MANCHESTER POEM, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a poor drizzly morning, dark and sad Last Line: Dearer than eden-groves with rivers four. Subject(s): Christianity; Cities; Decay; Flowers; God; Home; Labor & Laborers; Manchester, England; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Urban Life; Rot; Decadence; Work; Workers ROADSIDE POEMS: HE HEEDED NOT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of whispering trees the tongues to hear Last Line: An earnest, fearless, hopeless face. Subject(s): Anger; Calm; Children; Grace; Humility; Nature; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Childhood ROBIN, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the tall elm-tree sat the robin bright Subject(s): Nature; Spring ROBINS ARE BACK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Wherever they go Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Flight; Nature; Robins ROBINSON ROAD, by ROGER FIELD Poem Source First Line: They come & they go Last Line: The sweet white clover in the ditch %& the grasshopper Subject(s): Grasshoppers; Nature; Roads ROBLES, M'HIJA, ROBLES!, by ROSARIO MORALES Poem Source First Line: What is the name of the tree that blossoms in the Last Line: What is the name of the tree? Subject(s): Nature ROMANCE, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were made of dew and light Last Line: O life! O woman! It is I! Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Male-female Relations ROMANCE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Romance, who loves to nod and sing Last Line: Unless it trembled with the strings. Subject(s): Nature ROMANCIN', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'b'en a-kindo' musin', as the feller says Last Line: "I kin wake and say ""dog-gone-it!"" jest as soft as any prayer!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Music & Musicians; Nature; Time RONDEL, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Scarlet and gold the leaves are turning Last Line: And gray are the days, for the year is old. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Wandering & Wanderers ROOK, by DAVID SPICER Poem Source First Line: Under the moon a round cracker Last Line: As the sun begins to flow forever Subject(s): Nature ROOTS AND LEAVES THEMSELVES ALONE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roots and leaves themselves alone are these, Last Line: Flowers, fruits, tall branches and trees. Subject(s): Nature ROSA MUNDI, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An angel of pale desire Last Line: To the angel of pale desire. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of ROSE IN OCTOBER, by MARY TOWNLEY Poem Source First Line: Late and sweet, too sweet Subject(s): Nature ROSEHIPS, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This false fruit, tear-shaped and smooth as a glass eye, cracks like pottery Last Line: Of a myopic child-the boy who rolls these pods, like marbles, across the %ground, and watches the sq Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Roses; Thorns ROUGH COUNTRY, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Give me a landscape made of obstacles Last Line: And nesting jays, a sign that there is still %one piece of property that won't be owned Subject(s): Environment; Nature ROUGH LIGHT, by MARTIE MCCLEERY PALAR Poem Source First Line: At the farmstand, the pumpkins turned their blank faces Last Line: Everything I desire requires aloneness Subject(s): Light; Nature ROUND, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody's alone in his head, somebody's a kid, Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature ROUTE: 1. PIONEER MOUNTAINS, MID-JULY, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: I rest against dull stone %and lichen, count drifting cirrus wisps Last Line: Each evening fire, each %day's book and map and boot Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) ROUTE: 2. DAYBOOK-SCATTERED NOTES, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: In winter, a handiful of dried stinging nettles added to boiling Last Line: Stonecrop %shooting star Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) ROUTE: 3. WHEN SERGEANT FLOYD TOOK SICK, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: ('cramp cholic'/ burst appendix') Last Line: When the fires in the prairie have distroyed it Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) ROUTE: 4. CAMAS, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Mid-november, 1805, clark notes the vote %on where to situate Last Line: I could have swourn it was water Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) ROUTE: 5. GLACIAL MILL, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: In philadelphia and elsewhere, lewis Last Line: We lift our paddles, %point toward shore Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) ROUTE: 6. THIRD WEEK OF SEPTEMBER, WIND, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Out of the southwest, the wash %all dries by mid-day Last Line: New walnut hulls begin %to blacken on the blacktop Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) ROVER IN CHURCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twas a sunday morning in early may Subject(s): Nature; Spring ROWING ACROSS THE LAKE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Stop it. It's sunday Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dragonflies; Nature; Sex RUINED COTTAGE (MS. D VERSION), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas summer and the sun was mounted high Last Line: A rustic inn, our evening resting place Variant Title(s): The Ruined Cottag Subject(s): Nature; Peddlers And Peddling RUINS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: We are always trying to enter the earth Last Line: In its frozen fire Subject(s): Earth; Nature RUMINATION, by DABNEY STUART Poem Source First Line: The cowbell sounds Last Line: Catching, %letting %its unlikely music flare %into the open Subject(s): Nature RUN WILD, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here was the gate. The broken paling Last Line: And god gives sun and rain! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): God; Nature RUNE OF RICHES, by FLORENCE CONVERSE Poem Source First Line: I have a golden ball Subject(s): Nature RUNNING HORSE, by STEVEN OSTERLUND Poem Source First Line: A black horse %whose forward motion Last Line: Our bellies %over the frozen land Subject(s): Nature RUNNING SOIL, by RAYMOND QUENEAU Poem Source First Line: All I ask is to put a bit of earth in the hollow of my hand Last Line: I expect nothing from my friends but a bit of earth in my hands - %and from others death Subject(s): Earth; Nature RURAL REFLECTIONS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the grass your feet are planted on Subject(s): Nature RURAL REFLECTIONS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the grass your feet are planted on Last Line: It is the cloud that swallows up the sky Subject(s): Nature RUS IN URBE, by CLEMENT WILLIAM SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poets are singing the whole world over Last Line: And build my nest on the nearest tree! Subject(s): Nature RUSKS, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is how it happened Last Line: Her purse. That courtesy Subject(s): Nature RUSKS, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is how it happened Last Line: As my mama always said: %than none at goddam all Subject(s): Nature SABBATH, 1985, VI, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have walked so many times, my boy Last Line: Nothing of the season but to be Subject(s): Forests; Fields; Nature; Conservation SABBATHS, 1985, VII, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the great trees were felled Last Line: The woods' floor starred with bloom Subject(s): Nature; Deforestation SABBATHS, SELS., by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the great trees were felled Last Line: They have no fear. Their fate %is faith. Birdsong %is all they've wanted, all along Subject(s): Nature SACRAMENT, by ALDEN A. NOWLAN Poem Source First Line: God, I have sought you as a fox seeks chickens Last Line: There was no bread and wine between us, %only night and the wind beating the grass Subject(s): Nature SACRAMENT WITH PITCHER PUMP, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: The water table's close Last Line: Wine in water jugs Subject(s): Nature SACRAMENTO O NO, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Time; Nature SAID TULIP, 'THAT IS SO', by MADGE ELLIOTT Poem Source First Line: One christmas time some roots and bulbs Subject(s): Nature; Winter SAILING ON ICE, by ROSALIE SANARA PETROUSKE Poem Source First Line: As a child I dreamed %of building an iceboat Last Line: Light off snow blinds me %as I sail over cracking ice Subject(s): Love; Nature SAINT FRANCIS, by RUTH GENEVIEVE WORK IODICE Poem Source First Line: I know one who likes you feeds Last Line: Off wondering who will do his work when he goes Subject(s): Nature; Saints SALMON, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: The final journey begins Last Line: Assuring that other journeys will begin Subject(s): Nature SALT WATER, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Small as a snail in the shell of my hand Last Line: Pulled under and under, away Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature SALTER'S GATE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, in that lost Subject(s): Nature SALTER'S GATE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, in that lost Last Line: A reservoir, ruins of the lead mines, new %forestry pushing from the right, the curlew Subject(s): Nature SALUTATION, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: And again I am permitted to salute Last Line: The beat of the music, his eye on his score Subject(s): Grief; Nature SALVAGE, by ABBIE HUSTON EVANS Poem Text First Line: I heard the crickets all about Last Line: Against the winter and the dark. Subject(s): Crickets; Nature SAME AS YOUJ, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I put my pants on one day at a time. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature SAME OLD STORY, by HARRY BACHE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: History, and nature, too, repeat themselves, they say Last Line: Same old baby -- nothing new! Subject(s): Boredom; Cynicism; History; Life; Nature; Ennui; Historians SAN FRANCISCO: 1 (APRIL, 1906), by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who more shall trust thee, nature; who so dare Last Line: Thine own, yet ours — mother, what hast thou done? Subject(s): Disasters; Nature; San Francisco Earthquake & Fire (1906) SAN RAFAEL MOUNTAIN, by PAUL WILLIS Poem Source First Line: It takes a while for the country to settle Last Line: As we are known Subject(s): Mountains; Nature SAND FLESH AND SKY, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our ropes are the roots Subject(s): Nature; Conduct Of Life SANDPIPERS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Light-footed sandpipers Last Line: Like tourists wearing %their sunday shoes Subject(s): Nature SANG TO FANNY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature! Thy fair and smiling face Last Line: And all the world to me is fanny. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Faces; Nature; Singing & Singers SAPILLO CREEK, by SUZANNE FREEMAN Poem Source First Line: Stram-scoured & flood-tumbled Last Line: And the journey was the learning of it Subject(s): Brooks; Nature SASSAFRAS, by JR. JOHN NIXON Poem Source First Line: Here, straight %from inarticulate Last Line: The taster. It recites Subject(s): Nature SATISFACTORY, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember, darling Last Line: "his lion with the lyre." Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SATURNINE AUTUMN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Harsh autumn hides in the eden hues of / spring Last Line: Far-off, saturnine autumn stumbling on. Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Fall SAVANNA, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Right before spring, when time came Last Line: As anything but stems of fire Subject(s): Nature SAWDUST, by JANE SHORE Poem Source First Line: They've cut down the old sugar maple Last Line: Split logs that would last him the winter; %his ax, a heartbeat shaking our house Subject(s): Lumber And Lumbering; Maple Trees; Nature SAY WATER, by RAD SMITH Poem Source First Line: Say birds instead of water Last Line: When I, wild-tongued, was burning up %and you were beautiful Subject(s): Nature; Water SCARCE TOLERABLE LIFE, WHICH ALL LIFE LONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Song where the choirs of sunny heaven stand choired Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Nature; Walking; Desire SCARECROW, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: Last night, alone, he saw the rising moon Last Line: And heard him sigh upon his wooden pole Subject(s): Nature SCHOOL AND NATURE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: Drawn on the blackboard Last Line: The dark drops of its blood Subject(s): Books; Classmates; Nature; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SCIENCE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Harp of a thousand strings, awake Last Line: And live beyond the grave! Subject(s): Death; Nature; Railroads; Science; Dead, The; Railways; Trains; Scientists SCIENCE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Her temple crowns the common haunts Last Line: And glorifies our mortal dream. Subject(s): Nature; Science; Truth; Youth; Scientists SCIENTISTS SAY THE MOON GROWS 1 HALF INCHES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: This cosmic terrorism hand to hand Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Moon; Nature SCOTTISH SCENE, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He heard the corn-buntin' cry 'guid-night Last Line: The dens o' aberdour, auchmeddie, and troup %--shairly a land nae man can be dull in! Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Nature SCOUTING HIGH SIERRA, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Slowly walking migration Last Line: Boy for over 30 years %don't come close Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Nature; Walking SCROLL-SECTION, by ROBERT FINCH Poem Text First Line: You who practise the four elegant occupations Last Line: The seal of your mind borrowed and not returned. Subject(s): Games; Nature; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements SEA, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Interminable, not to be divined Subject(s): Nature SEA CALL, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My old love for the water has come back again Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Nature SEA CHANGE, by DOROTHY PEACE Poem Source First Line: Heavy with unshed tears - weary with pain Subject(s): Nature SEA EATS THE LAND AT HOME, by KOFI AWOONOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At home the sea is in the town Last Line: In the sea that eats the land at home, %eats the whole land at home Alternate Author Name(s): Awoonor-williams, George Subject(s): Nature SEA LONGINGS, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first world-sound that fell Subject(s): Nature SEA OTTER, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Rain is weeping Last Line: And chuckle %at your nonchalance Subject(s): Nature SEA PEOPLE, by SUSAN IRENE ASTOR Poem Source First Line: Above and under, over and below Last Line: Just swim %and arch their bodies into smiles Subject(s): Nature SEA-CHILL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I must go down to the seas again, where the billows romp and reel Last Line: And a soft berth and a smooth course till the long trip's ended. Subject(s): Masefield, John (1878-1967); Nature; Sea; Ocean SEA-SONG, by MARTHA HASKELL CLARK Poem Source First Line: Today was a sea-gull day, dear heart, today was a seagull Subject(s): Nature SEA-WIND, by ARTHUR KETCHUM Poem Source First Line: Winnow me through with thy keen clear breath Subject(s): Nature SEAGULLS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Mewing like cats Last Line: For lost balls of yarn Subject(s): Nature SEAL, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Little seal Last Line: Keep your distance %slip away! Subject(s): Nature SEARCH, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She writes that she cannot Last Line: Know, the words of 'love' Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Nature Of SEASON FOR HUNTING, by TERESA CADER Poem Source First Line: The hunters are sympathetic Last Line: It's nature we should be afraid of, %that marksman whose shot reaches anywhere Subject(s): Nature SEASONAL, by ERIC TRETHEWEY Poem Source First Line: The man who burst into leaf Last Line: His heartbeat slowed. He began %to listen to the weather Subject(s): Nature SEASONS, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bear: beware, from the last days Last Line: On you, on your kind, who have no reason to know, %the law still says there is no closed season Subject(s): Nature SEASONS (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crocuses and snow drops wither Last Line: Till spring and sunlight dawn again. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Seasons SEASONS (3), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the cheerful budding-time Last Line: And all hope of life seems lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Seasons; World SEASONS, SELS., by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Nature SECLUDED PLACE, by ELSIE ROSE GIVENS Poem Text First Line: The remnant of an old fence Last Line: Bordered by stone and cedar lace. Subject(s): Fences; Nature SECOND BEFORE IT BURSTS, by UNKNOWN+12 Poem Source First Line: Seeing my reflection on a river Last Line: It will burst any second %just before it %bursts Subject(s): Nature SECOND DEATH OF CHACO CANYON, by GENE FRUMKIN Poem Source First Line: One sickly civilization Last Line: That chaco was a myth %that only the ore sustained us Subject(s): Environment; Nature SECRET VOICES, by ETHEL E. MANNIN Poem Source First Line: Have you heard the secret voices go whispering in Subject(s): Nature SEDGE SONGS: 2, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft at eve I love to saunter Last Line: Sinks into the silent mere. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Storms; Sunset; Twilight SEDGE SONGS: 3, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Angry sunset sky Last Line: Thy long tresses fly. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Grief; Lakes; Longing; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Pools; Ponds SEE HOW THE RICH AND FAMOUS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What have they been touching? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Wealth SEED, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The way it came spinning onto the lawn Last Line: Above the lake, while fireflies signaled %the unending seedfall, the glinting %feculence of summer Subject(s): Nature SEED (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As wonderful things are hidden away Subject(s): Nature; Spring SEEKING HSIN E IN THE WESTERN HILLS, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a swaying boat drifting along with the stream Last Line: Such a sage, constantly in a state of peace Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature SEEKING LOVE, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: He said he knew nothing of love Last Line: I did not understand. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SEEN IN A GLASS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the tree, behind the house, behind the stars Last Line: Assume in nature's glass, in nature's eyes. Subject(s): Nature; Stars; Trees SELF-DEFENSE OF PEACHES, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The new peach trees are bandaged Last Line: From the only life it knew %and the whole tribe rolled %overme Subject(s): Nature SEND NEW BEASTS, by JOE WENDEROTH Poem Source First Line: These beasts will not do Last Line: Numbly into tolerance of a spectacle which fails to clarify what it %is that distinguishes us from b Subject(s): Mankind; Nature SENECA STREET, by MICHAEL COLLIER Poem Source First Line: No more the black walnut's delineated Last Line: Larger by rooms, closer to our needs, %which will emerge now as names for a new world Subject(s): Nature SENTENCE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bloated and mesmerized by raspberries Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Nature SENTENCE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bloated and mesmerized by raspberries Last Line: Death, one fiesta, sweet stench like a flag, %one posum at a time and the vast fields Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Nature SEPTEMBER, by GEORGE ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the voice that calls Last Line: Passing the fairest glories of the present! Subject(s): Nature; September SEPTEMBER, by SARA HAMILTON BIRCHALL Poem Source First Line: The wind comes up across the hill, the wind goes laughter Subject(s): Nature SEPTEMBER, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Today on chazy lake, a steely gray effluvium spreads Last Line: I slap the two flies between my note pages to show a %fisherman I know Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Rivers; Travel SEPTEMBER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Matron fair, ripe, rich, and glowing Last Line: Of joyous, grateful praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Nature; September SEPTEMBER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir goldenrod stands by and grieves Last Line: And tranquil goes the queen to die. Subject(s): Nature; September; Summer SEPTEMBER, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Crickets are making / the merriest din Last Line: September is here. Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Nature; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SEPTEMBER DAY I TELL TO NO ONE, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: For months after he died, so ardent I was Last Line: All day listening to music nobody hears Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature SEPTEMBER: NEDERLAND, COLORADO, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not far west of here Last Line: So light that as it settles %on the roof it doesn't %make a sound Subject(s): Nature SEQUENCES, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Break of day; clouds of gray Last Line: Sunburst—morning! Subject(s): Day; Nature SEQUOIA, by LEONARD EDWARD NATHAN Poem Source First Line: In the middle of the ancient woods Last Line: Debating silence, and losing again Subject(s): Nature; Sequoia Trees SERENGETI PLAINS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Death does not feed these plains Last Line: On its journey through the dark Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace SERVITUDE, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: I had a tryst, long years ago Last Line: Something was lost beyond recall. Subject(s): Nature; Past SETTING SUN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Dear john, the sun is setting now Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons SEVEN AGES OF MAN, FR. AS YOU LIKE IT, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the world's a stage Last Line: Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. Variant Title(s): Life's Theatre Subject(s): Mankind; Nature; Human Race SEVEN WAYS OF DIVINATION: 1. SYCHOMANCY-DIVINATION WITH LEAVES OF....., by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: I am particularly fond of figs Last Line: Epithelium, is saying: yes Subject(s): Fig Trees; Magic; Nature; Paintings And Painters; Predestination; Prophets And Prophecy; Superstition SEVEN: 1. COMMUNION, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Take this bowl of memory between your hands Last Line: Keeps death away, %outside the circle of our circle Subject(s): Central America; Nature SEVEN: 2. PLAGUE, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Death sweeps the country clean of untainted life Last Line: They marry false angels Subject(s): Central America; Nature SEVEN: 3. CRUSADE, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: She writes: come home to the dying. Come home Last Line: A world made sick with evil Subject(s): Central America; Nature SEVEN: 4. FEAST, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: How cold it is in the world beyond memory Last Line: Lick our fingers over the greasy carcass Subject(s): Central America; Nature SEVEN: 5. A GAME OF CHESS, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Death will not answer your questions, sweet traveler Last Line: The board will buckle, the pieces scatter %black and white Subject(s): Central America; Nature SEVEN: 6. WITCH-BURNING, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Advice to travelers: %avoid the south for there is pestilence Last Line: But if they are innocent, god is guilty Subject(s): Central America; Nature SEVEN: 7. SEVEN, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: An hourglass, a sundial, a scythe, a silver bracelet. Milk, strawberries Last Line: Where there is no sky, only horizon Subject(s): Central America; Nature SEXUAL JEALOUSY, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think of the queen mole who is unequivocal Last Line: They hope this and are ruthless in their waiting Subject(s): Nature; Sex SEXUAL JEALOUSY, by CAROL FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think of the queen mole who is unequivocal Last Line: Together, their snouts full of soil, they hope this and are ruthless in %their waiting Subject(s): Nature SHAD-TIME, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though between sullen hills Subject(s): Nature SHADOW OF MY HAND, by MARY GRAY Poem Source First Line: When the sun rolls up, orange Last Line: The twining sinews of bark my hand so loves Subject(s): Nature; Shadows SHADOW PORTRAIT, by PAUL MARIANI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the lost portrait by siqueiros Subject(s): Nature SHADOW PORTRAIT, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the lost portrait by siqueiros Last Line: Sheets of paper. He knows now that, wherever %he is going, there is no way he can make it Subject(s): Nature SHADOWS, by WILLIAM SLOANE KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: The moon a light-hung world Subject(s): Nature SHADY HILLS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shady hills, long shady hills there be Last Line: Fingers the valley with unshadowed light. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SHAKESPEARE'S CLIFF, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, all along the high sea-cliff Last Line: "the tempest ""rose, at his command!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Climbing; Dramatists; Nature; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Ocean SHALL EARTH NO MORE INSPIRE THEE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Relationships; Nature SHAME, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If only I'd known then what I was reaching for Subject(s): Nature SHAME, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If only I'd known then what I was reaching for Last Line: Each reminding the other, if they ever think of it at all, %the american, remember, who was the thie Subject(s): Nature SHARED, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I said it in the meadow-path Subject(s): Nature SHARED LIFE, by KATHERINE SONIAT Poem Source First Line: The brown and the white horses nuzzle Last Line: Tail to mouth %tumbling into a rosy %beastly oblivion Subject(s): Nature SHE CLIMBED THE GREEN-LEAFED APPLE TREE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Were white as the moon above brown legs Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Girls; Nature SHE DOES NOT HEAR, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sh-sh-sh-sh-she does not hear the r-r-r-r-robin sing Last Line: Her b-b-b-b-by g-g-gosh! She's p-p-plaster paris! Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Nature; Speech Disorders; Turkey; Stuttering; Muteness SHE LIVED, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After he died Last Line: Deciding to live. And she lived. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Strength; Survival SHE OWNS A PERFECT BUTT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It his 'reserved seat' Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Buttock; Nature SHE SAID IN APOLOGY, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They aren't very big are Last Line: The inner light I cherish Variant Title(s): An Apolog Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SHE WHO COULD BIND YOU, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With a low moon glowing Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love – Nature Of SHELLED, by JENN HABEL Poem Source First Line: The sky is finally blue - too blue Last Line: The cracking of his joints the salt on his skin the air he exhales %I bring them to me and I'm not l Subject(s): Children; Nature; Sky SHELLS, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Her whole living room Last Line: The pleasure of the sea Subject(s): Nature SHELTERED GARDEN, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have had enough Last Line: Wind-tortured place. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Gardens & Gardening; Nature SHINING WEB, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A hungry spider made a web Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons SHIP-LOVE, by ETHEL E. MANNIN Poem Source First Line: When god gave to all men Subject(s): Nature SHORE ROCK, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Dragged here by some glacier Last Line: As I kneel to greet it Subject(s): Earth; Nature SHORELINE AT CAMBRIA, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early morning shoreline: a scattering of birds blackens the sky Last Line: And I'm out standing on the deck trying to capture this but it's %not possible Subject(s): Birds; Cambria, Wales; Gulls; Nature; Seashore SHORT BEACH, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the salt wind in my nostrils! Subject(s): Nature SHOWING ON THE MOUTH, by GWYN MCVAY Poem Source First Line: In the book are color plates of glyps in jade, head-dressed women Last Line: Must solve: the first comprehension is arrow from a rose Subject(s): Nature SHOWING THE WIND, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: On top of the barn Last Line: Which way is best %to blow Subject(s): Nature SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My head and shoulders, and my book Last Line: Of pale cold light that was alive Subject(s): Nature; Self SIGNS AND SIGNALS, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The loch of the wolf's pass Last Line: Where space tumbles before %the altar of everywhere Subject(s): Nature SIGNS OF LEAVING: 1. COUNTING ARMADILLOS, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Beside the highway, vultures pick them down Last Line: As the semis fly by Subject(s): Central America; Nature SIGNS OF LEAVING: 2. MOVES, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: The mover wants to sleep with me Last Line: Past medians choked with oxalis Subject(s): Central America; Nature SIGNS OF LEAVING: 3. THE CHANGE STONE, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Weren't there two cities? Last Line: And sold stale chocolate door to door Subject(s): Central America; Nature SIGNS OF LEAVING: 4. THE BLACK SILK JACKET, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: In the stiff photograph, six bone buttons Last Line: And take it all : there is nothing for us here Subject(s): Central America; Nature SIGNS OF LEAVING: 5. LEAVING, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: I leave the photograph in the left-hand pocket Last Line: I let them go. I let them all go Subject(s): Central America; Nature SIGNS OF RAIN [OR, FOUL WEATHER], by EDWARD JENNER Poem Text First Line: The hollow winds begin to blow Last Line: 40 our jaunt must be put off to-morrow. Subject(s): Mnemonics; Nature; Rain; Weather SILENCE, by BIDDY JENKINSON Poem Source First Line: How I welcome you, little salmon Last Line: I hear the music of the heavens, %and it guides my way Subject(s): Nature; Women SILENT LOVE, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Let our love be still a folded flower Last Line: Th' awaken'd god from psyche's daring eye! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SILENT SPRING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, the great sky! Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SILENT SPRING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, the great sky! Last Line: Hear your own steps %in violent silence Subject(s): Environment; Nature SILENT TORRENTS, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How is it that I am now so softly awakened Last Line: Give me your hands, darling! We float downward Subject(s): Lover - Nature Of SILVER SPRING, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the lord of light revealed Last Line: Undine! Undine! Thou are princess of the parables of old! Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Springs (water) SILVER SWANS: 19, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The drowned moon plunges Last Line: Their winter nests, in the moments of dark Subject(s): Nature; Winter SILVERFISH, by ROBERT HAROLD SIEGEL Poem Source First Line: It lives in the damps of rejection Last Line: Trying not to think of it--the dark %from which it will rise again Subject(s): Nature SIMPLE MYSTERIES, by CAROLYN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Lupine, for example: its dry Last Line: Without our even asking Subject(s): Mystery; Nature SIMPLER OPTIMISM, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Sometimes there's a moral Last Line: Always sees some light Subject(s): Nature SINCE JUDGMENT IS ALSO A STORM, by CHRISTIAN HAWKEY Poem Source First Line: Everywhere there's water: light rain spun into wind-sheets Last Line: What's left? Wet bark, a dark architecture against %the moving prop of clouds Subject(s): Judgment Day; Nature SINCE MAY ALL AFLOWER, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since may all aflower calls us forth tothe fields Last Line: Thy brow in its beauty, thy heart in its love. Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Nature; Joy; Delight SINGER'S QUEST, by ODELL SHEPARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've been wandering, listening for a song Subject(s): Nature SINGLE FIRE, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Our lungs breathe for the earth Last Line: Feed a single fire Subject(s): Earth; Nature SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES THE SCIENCE CLASS: FOSSILS, PHYSICS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fossil bones, splintered bits of pelvis Last Line: By rubbing it across the heart. Subject(s): Christianity; Fossils; Human Behavior; Schools; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Students SISTER WATER: THE WATER THAT FLOWS ABOVE GROUND, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: I praise heaven because it offers me, in love, gems for my Last Line: Sister water, let us praise god! Subject(s): God; Nature; Praise; Religion; Rivers; Water SIX PERSIMMONS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carbon, rings in his ears as he walks down Last Line: Their fingertips glow in the skin of their days. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Nature; Dead, The SIZE IS NOT THE SOUL., by PAUL ROCHE Poem Source Last Line: Within beyond it %what tremulous drive is thinking? Subject(s): Environment; Nature SKY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The sky at night us like a big city Last Line: Everything knows its way Subject(s): Nature SKY AND TREE AND HILL AND ALL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: Sky and tree and hill and all Subject(s): Growth; Nature SLANT MESSAGE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell them how tame geese lure wild ones Last Line: Their ways, like this, into my talk, my telling Subject(s): Geese; Nature SLEEPING CAT; FOR LINDA ULRICH, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My cat is asleep on his haunches Last Line: The cat will come scampering back %into the blinding, bright rooms in his eyes Subject(s): Nature SLEEPING IN THE FOREST, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought the earth remembered me, Subject(s): Sleep; Nature SLEEPING ON MY RIGHT SIDE I THINK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On my back I snore with my dog Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Sleep; Thought SLEIGH SONG, by G. W. PETTEE Poem Text First Line: Jingle, jingle, clear the way Last Line: T is the merry, merry sleigh. Subject(s): Nature; Winter SLENDER CAUSE, by FRANK HARTMAN Poem Text First Line: A raindrop on a trembling leaf Last Line: And wreck the universe. Subject(s): Nature SLIDING AWAY, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your hand rigid, curled into its final shape Last Line: Sliding away. Subject(s): Death; Nature; Dead, The SLIPPERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When youth is gone, and beauty too Last Line: Will not the other heed? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Youth SLOW AIR: 1. ALLEGHENY FRONT, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Geosyncline %sunlight and sediment Last Line: The bog exhales its stagnant bloom Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) SLOW AIR: 2. CONVERSATION, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: ...We start from the old phrase 'he was on hunting,' which Last Line: I was, you was, they was- %-but it was years ago Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) SLOW AIR: 3. FIDDLE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Head ferns, from a forest %of ferns, knee-high, thigh Last Line: With a woman's voice, continuing %when she falls silent Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) SLUG, by ROBERT HAROLD SIEGEL Poem Source First Line: White, moist, orange Last Line: Nothing is a light that surrounds us %like the breath of god Subject(s): Nature; Slugs SLUG, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: How is it that even through the pitch-black lawn Last Line: At how you dwindled like lightning from both ends %at once Subject(s): Nature SLUG LEAVES, by BILL WOOD Poem Source Last Line: On a sundial Subject(s): Environment; Nature SMALL BEAUTIES, by EVELYN LUNDBERG Poem Text First Line: A song for my heart I need not seek Last Line: Is always beauty enough for me! Subject(s): Nature SMALL DEFEATS: WALKING THROUGH SEASONS, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Lady, take a thoughtful, loving walk with me Last Line: Lady, I ask you, what else earns its certain end so well as a too-short %loving walk? Subject(s): Aging; Nature; Seasons; Walking; Women SMALL IS THE TRUST WHEN LOVE IS GREEN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Your kisses and your tears Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Love – Nature Of SMOKE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light-winged smoke! Icarian bird Last Line: And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. Variant Title(s): "light-winged Smoke, Icarian Bird""; Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Smoke SMYRNA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The 'ornament of asia' and the 'crown' Last Line: Her rise, make asia's fall magnificent. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Asia; Beauty; Death; Nature; Sea; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Dead, The; Ocean SNAIL, by GIUSEPPE GIUSTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a toast to the snail Last Line: An example to all of us Subject(s): Nature; Snails SNAKE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the center of brockport Last Line: Tighter again, and tighter, %against its grapeleaf Subject(s): Nature SNAKES, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Guardians of the sacred Last Line: Because it is the only music %I have Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace SNOW, by A. E. C. Poem Source First Line: Snow so fair Subject(s): Nature; Winter SNOW IN CONDOLAND, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I enter the orchard at nightfall Subject(s): Nature SNOW IN CONDOLAND, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I enter the orchard at nightfall Last Line: In the dark, still infant part, %where a faint pink fever %was once supressed Subject(s): Nature SNOW MONKEY ARGUES WITH GOD, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: Four days the mother Last Line: What has been loved, what %stinks to high heaven Subject(s): Nature SNOW ON THE COAL, by SALLIE BINGHAM Poem Source First Line: February: the barges from upstream are white-tipped Last Line: Where history begins, with its iron repititions Subject(s): Environment; Nature SNOW-FILLED NEST, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It swings upon the leafless tree Subject(s): Nature SNOW-FLAKES, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever a snow-flake leaves the sky Last Line: "t is summer!"" -- and it melts away." Subject(s): Nature; Snow; Summer SNOW-SHOWER, by MARY LUNDIE DUNCAN Poem Source First Line: See, mamma, the crumbs are flying Subject(s): Nature; Winter SNOWBIRD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the morning light trills the gay swallow Subject(s): Nature; Winter SNOWBIRD'S SONG, by F. C. WOODWARD Poem Source First Line: The ground was all covered with snow one day Subject(s): Nature; Winter SNOWDROP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now the spring is coming on Subject(s): Nature; Spring SNOWSTORM (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We are free! We are free! The snowflakes cried Subject(s): Nature; Winter SNOWY OWL, by SHARON FAIN Poem Source First Line: Ten yars old, I climbed stone fences Last Line: I bring only the luminous surface %of things. That, and the hunger Subject(s): Children; Nature; Snow SO CERTAIN, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: So much so little grass Subject(s): Nature; Swamps SO HAPPY WITH MY FAT OLD BODY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Still quick enough to slap a fly Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Old Age SO MUCH TO LEARN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So much to learn! Old nature's ways Last Line: So brief the time, so much to learn! Subject(s): Learning; Life; Nature; Soul; Wisdom SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A different bell Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Life; Nature; Opportunity SO THE GREEKS HAD AMPHORAE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For farm equipment! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Nature SO WHAT IF WOMEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I smile to see them! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Smiles SO WHICH IS THE TRUTH?, by MOLLY HOLDEN Poem Source First Line: Green and differences of green Last Line: So which is the truth? %which is the real garden? %the confusion of sunlight %or the grey moment's a Subject(s): Nature SOAKING, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain has come, and the earth must be very glad Last Line: Duller because of the all soddernness of things, %till the skylark breaks his reluctance, hangs shak Subject(s): Nature; Rivers SOCIETY OF POETS (TO WANG WEI), by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Quietly, quietly, why have I been waiting Last Line: And fasten the latch on the gate of my garden Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature SOLACE, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: Through silver rifts the moon's calm radiance slips Last Line: God wills it so, my love, god wills it so! Subject(s): God; Moon; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sky SOLITARY, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Have I ever lived elsewhere Last Line: Descending toward the earth Subject(s): Nature; Solitude SOLITUDE, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How still it is here in the woods. The trees Last Line: His five pure notes succeeding pensively. Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Quiet Life; Solitude; Woods; Loneliness SOLO, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source First Line: At dawn, the heron revives the lake Last Line: His reflection, and no repercussions %spread across the lake Subject(s): Environment; Nature SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD: BOOK 1. KNOWLEDGE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of men, with just regard attend Last Line: Which flaming swords and angry cherubs guard. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Happiness; Knowledge; Nature; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Joy; Delight SOLOMON TO SHEBA, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sang solomon to sheba Last Line: "the world a narrow pound." Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Solomon (10th Century B.c.) SOLSTICE, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT Poem Source First Line: Now in our maple a dove is whooing Last Line: And the leaves are turning Subject(s): Nature; Seasons SOLSTICE, by KATHY FAGAN Poem Source First Line: There was a sound of grouse from the field Last Line: Sure as it was of some enormity of its own %elsewhere and not far from here Subject(s): Children; Language; Nature SOLVAY TRONA MINE, JUNE 30, 1994, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: The cage drops fast,through zones of deposition Last Line: We rise from the old sea's mouth. A cloud floats free %above the mine Subject(s): Nature SOME CITIES, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: The dogs know %each night they lift dark noses Last Line: Observe their populace %alive with sacrifice Subject(s): Earth; Nature SOME COMPENSATION, by JAY PARINI Poem Source First Line: Trees in the forest fall and, falling, find Last Line: Where breath begins, where eyes fall open, %where the world invents itself again Subject(s): Nature SOME DAYS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: From possibility Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Chance; Nature SOME DEMETER, by RENEE A. ASHLEY Poem Source First Line: Today the old Last Line: And into which our precarious sky falls like a steady rain Subject(s): Demeter; Nature SOME NIGHTS ARE THREE NIGHTS LONG, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Back to work, the heart dredging sludge Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Time SOME OF THE THINGS I SEE FOR YOU, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: You will be famous, your mouth Last Line: You will eat the world Subject(s): Memory; Mothers And Daughters; Nature SOME RAINBOW COMING FROM THE FAIR!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or what circassian land? Subject(s): Spring; Nature SOME ROADS REMAIN, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: Old wounds that fester %do not heal Variant Title(s): As Roads Remai Subject(s): Nature; Swamps SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from you, sweet, I am away Last Line: But never in flesh may I return. Subject(s): Nature; Self SOMEP'N COMMON-LIKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somep'n 'at's common-like, and Last Line: As ef the lord wuz listenun. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Rhyme; Sympathy; Empathy SOMERS POINT, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are you doing out here Last Line: To count how many, many %particulars ease could come into Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Nature SOMETIMES ALL IT TAKES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is a dime on the sidewalk Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Happiness; Nature; Simplicity SOMETIMES FATE WILL STEAL A BABY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Soft as a bundle of rags Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death - Children; Fate; Nature; Old Age SOMETIMES MY BIG FRONT TEETH BITE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What is this argument all about? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Teeth; Thought SOMETIMES THE TEAKETTLE RATTLES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To pour out all at once Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Noises; Story-telling; Teapots SOMEWHERE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere a place is waiting Last Line: Close to her heart for me. Subject(s): Nature SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He or she that hopes to gain Last Line: Both or neither Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONG, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We know where deepest lies the snow Last Line: Than be the hunter's hound. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Hunting; Nature; Hunters SONG, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The purple iris hangs his head Last Line: Reels all away. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Nature SONG, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You're as lovely as a dawn of winds Last Line: In the passionate, silent forest way. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Beauty; Forests; Nature; Woods SONG, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, how hard it is to find Last Line: "that's sweet -- even when we sigh ""wo's me!" Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Fall SONG, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The birds of the air, they sing it Subject(s): Nature SONG, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love lies beyond Last Line: The faithful, young, and true. Variant Title(s): Love Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of SONG, by GEORGE DIGBY Poem Text First Line: See, o see! / how every tree Last Line: When the mind has lost all measures? Alternate Author Name(s): Bristol, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Nature SONG, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Purer than the day new-born Last Line: Come soon! Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Day; Nature; Night; Bedtime SONG, by DAVID GARRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would you taste the sweets of love Last Line: "nectar if you stay." Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONG, by EMELYN BATTERSBY HARTRIDGE Poem Text First Line: There are days when the sun shines warm Last Line: Love is all our own. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONG, by M. W. M. Poem Text First Line: Wert thou yet fairer than thou art Last Line: Tis I love you, 'cause you love me. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONG, by THOMAS MACDONAGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love is cruel, love is sweet Last Line: Sweet is boldness, shyness pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonough, Thomas Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONG, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A yellow coverlet / in the greenwood Last Line: I turn away Subject(s): Nature SONG, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A yellow coverlet %in the greenwood Last Line: Preserves its blue heat %down my throat Subject(s): Nature SONG (2), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, no, the falling blossom is no sign Last Line: The purer passion and the firmer faith. Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of SONG (5), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under boughs of breathing may Last Line: Jubileed for joy. Subject(s): Nature; Singing & Singers; Spring SONG (7), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love within the lover's breast Last Line: Ever shall I sing of thee. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONG (9), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The daisy now is out upon the green Last Line: Will never speak to me in vain, tho' soundly rapt in peace. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Spring SONG (IN THE LUCKY CHANCE), by APHRA BEHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O love! That stronger art than wine Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONG AT THE WINEPRESSES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the end of the grape Last Line: The archangel, and tobit %and the faithful dog Subject(s): Nature; Santa Barbara, California SONG COMPOSED IN AUGUST, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now westling winds and slaughtering guns Last Line: My fair, my lovely charmer! Subject(s): Nature; Love SONG FOR DANCING, by JOANIE MACKOWSKI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lilies are tigers. They wave and roar Last Line: You dance in the valley, and I'll dance on the hills Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Nature; Singing And Singers SONG FOR THE WEAVER, by KERRY SHAWN KEYS Poem Source First Line: Weaver, red-haired lover, silver-scaled daughter Last Line: Fastened to the wind and moon in the forest below Subject(s): Nature; Weavers And Weaving SONG FROM THE MOUNTAIN CHANT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The voice that beautifies the land Last Line: The voice that beautifies the land Subject(s): Beauty;flowers;nature SONG IN MARCH, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the first green leaf upon the bough Subject(s): March (month); Nature SONG IN SEASON, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: Ho, time to fish again! And I shall go Last Line: My soul has caught a rapturous glimpse of god. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Nature - Religious Aspects SONG IN THE NIGHT, by JAMES BUCKHAM Poem Source First Line: A little bird sang in the dead of the night Alternate Author Name(s): Pastnor, Paul Subject(s): Nature; Summer SONG IN THE STORM, by JAMES BUCKHAM Poem Source First Line: It rains, but on a dripping bough Alternate Author Name(s): Pastnor, Paul Subject(s): Nature; Spring SONG OF CORIDON AND MELAMPUS, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Melampus, when will love be void of fears? Last Line: Mel. When deeds win meed and words love-works do prove. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONG OF DESIRE, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou dreamer with the million moods Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Nature SONG OF EARLY AUTUMN, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When late in summer the streams run yellow Subject(s): Nature SONG OF GLASGOW TOWN, by MARION BERNSTEIN Poem Source First Line: I'll sing a song of glasgow town Last Line: And boast her clear unclouded skies, %and crystal-flowing clyde? Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Nature SONG OF MYSELF, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I celebrate myself, and sing myself Last Line: I stop somewhere waiting for you. Variant Title(s): Walt Whitman Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Valor; Bravery; Theology; Ocean SONG OF NATURE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine are the night and morning Last Line: Gives back the bending heavens in dew. Subject(s): Nature SONG OF SUMMER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A cuckoo sat on a tree and sang Subject(s): Nature; Summer SONG OF THE EVENING CLOUD, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Mother, o mother, moon my mother Last Line: Brighten us, lighten us, brother and brother! Subject(s): Comfort; Evening; Moon; Mothers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sunset; Twilight SONG OF THE FLOOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The first man - you are his child, he is your child Last Line: Bekayhozhon - you are his child, he is your child Subject(s): Corn; Nature SONG OF THE OPEN, by SARA HAMILTON BIRCHALL Poem Source First Line: There's a whisper in the orchard, there's a laughter Subject(s): Country Life; Nature SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD, by LOUIS J. MCQUILLAND Poem Source First Line: The old earth-mother calls us Subject(s): Nature SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that I shall never see / a billboard lovely as a tree Subject(s): Billboards; Environment; Kilmer, Joyce (1886-1918); Nature; Travel; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Journeys; Trips SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that I shall never see %a billboard lovely as a tree Last Line: I'll never see a tree at all Subject(s): Billboards; Environment; Kilmer, Joyce (1886-1918); Nature; Travel; Trees SONG OF THE SEA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the sea was an ancient song Last Line: Such is the song of the sea. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Ocean; Songs SONG OF THE THISTLEDRIFT, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Gay is my heart as Last Line: Beautiful mold me. Subject(s): Happiness; Nature; Thistles; Joy; Delight SONG OF THE TREE FROGS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: At the edge of night Last Line: To sing the evening's solo %so others will get it right Subject(s): Nature SONG OF THE WILD DOVE, by CASSIANO RICARDO Poem Source First Line: Deep within the backlands I walked along the road Last Line: The weeping of all that weeps because it is far away... %very far away Subject(s): Doves; Nature SONG THE ORIOLE SINGS, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a bird that comes and sings Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Nature SONG TO NATURE, by ELISE WOODWARD Poem Text First Line: I've seen the moon a blatant globe of gold Last Line: Of pulsing nature with a pagan heart. Subject(s): Nature SONG, FR. URANIA, by MARY SIDNEY WROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love what art thou? A vain thought Last Line: But thy law I once obeyed %therefore say no more at first Alternate Author Name(s): Wroth, Mary, Lady; Montgomery, Countess Of Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONG-SPARROW, by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Glimmers gray the leafless Subject(s): Nature SONG: 1, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love shall be a cloud, to float Last Line: From one sweet flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONG: 110, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must go walk the woods so wild Last Line: And all for your love, my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Forests; Life; Love; Nature; Trust; Woods SONG: 24, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not love you very much Last Line: To steal so large a part. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONG: AUTUMN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When nuts behind the hazel-leaf Last Line: And flower of every harvest home. Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Fall SONG: CONQUEST BY FLIGHT, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies, fly from love's smooth tale Last Line: Conquer love that run away. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONG: GOOD COUNSEL TO A YOUNG MAID, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gaze not on thy beauty's pride Last Line: A perpetual blush to thine. Subject(s): Pride; Beauty; Love – Nature Of SONG: SPRING, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When buds of palm do burst and spread Last Line: Like dewy violets under the green. Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Spring; Fall SONG: THE DEATH OF THE ROSE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Life, dear life, thy summer days have flown Last Line: And death had made undying with a kiss. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Nature; Roses; Dead, The SONG: THE LOVER'S FATE, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard is the fate of him who loves Last Line: True love and friendship are the same. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONGS ASCENDING, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love has been sung a thousand ways Last Line: I am not I %but you Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of SONGS FOR MARIE'S LUTEBOOK, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blue-eyed grass is opening now Subject(s): Nature; Time SONGS FOR MARIE'S LUTEBOOK, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blue-eyed grass is opening now Last Line: And when it is too late for haste, %remember this Subject(s): Nature; Time SONGS OF CREATION: 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the sixth day spake the lord thus Last Line: Man will praise and worship me. Subject(s): Creation; Nature; Praise SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SPRING DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gentle wind, of western birth Last Line: That we desire no more? Subject(s): Day; God; Happiness; Heaven; Hope; Nature; Spring; Waking; Joy; Delight; Paradise; Optimism SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SPRING NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flush of green that dyed the day Last Line: I pass into thy spring. Subject(s): Aging; Change; God; Nature; Night; Spring; Stars; Youth; Bedtime SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SUMMER DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A glory on the chamber wall! Last Line: Leads back to golden morn. Subject(s): Calm; Day; Dreams; Life; Nature; Summer; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nightmares SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 113, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sails of the ship are white, love Last Line: You smile and will not say. Subject(s): Love – Nature Of SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 30, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The skiey shreds of rain Last Line: She sent your song and fire. Subject(s): Nature SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 37, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In god's blue garden the flowers are cold Last Line: To the last carnation dusk and shy. Subject(s): Flowers; Love – Nature Of SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 49, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was a reed in the stilly stream Last Line: Heigh-lo. Subject(s): Nature SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 67, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She had the fluttering eyelids Last Line: God gives his foolish ones. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 68, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The land lies full, from brim to brim Last Line: Wash like the dirging sea. Subject(s): Life; Love – Nature Of SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 71, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of the whole year, I think, I love Last Line: In the red autumn by the sea. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 75, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is swimming in the light Last Line: Deep as the cold heart of the norns. Subject(s): Nature; Time SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 81, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remnants of this soul of mine Last Line: More compelling than the sea. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONGS OF TRAVEL: 22, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He hears with gladdened heart the thunder Last Line: Expectant of the certain end. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Nature; Thunder SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 11, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since my words, though ne'er so tender Last Line: Still to disbelieve the cause. Subject(s): Hearts; Nature; Truth SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 6, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis, since we have both been kind Last Line: And pretty chloris stays for me. Subject(s): Fire; Love; Nature; Pain; Pleasure; Soul; Suffering; Misery SONKU (FOR NNEKA AND QUINCY), by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love comes with Last Line: The edge of / my fingers Subject(s): Love – Nature Of SONNET, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took the dappled partridge flecked with blood Last Line: To make my love an immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Love - Nature Of; Partridge; Rabbits; Hares SONNET IN ASSONANCE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand bluebells blossom in the wood Subject(s): Nature; Beauty; Solitude; Loneliness SONNET SEQUENCE: 2, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love never jests, though in his words at times Last Line: For love allegiance owes and pays alone to thee. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONNET SEQUENCE: 3, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is to love? Let love the answer give Last Line: The lesser yielding that the greater learn to live. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONNET TO MANON: HIS FORTUNE IN LOVING HER, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not choose thee, dearest. It was love Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONNET-SEQUENCE: 6, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And dost thou love me not a whit the less Last Line: He who speaks thus; of real love knoweth not. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONNET. PHILOSOPHY, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Throughout the world in vain, in vain they sought Last Line: Nor mind, nor nature breathed heaven's holiest whisper, rest. Subject(s): Nature; Rest; Thought; Thinking SONNET: 2, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of thee (kind boy) I ask no red and white Last Line: No matter by what hand or trick. Variant Title(s): Truth In Love Subject(s): Human Behavior; Love; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature SONNET: 205, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He who proclaims that love is light and vain Last Line: I would not change their pangs for aught of other joy. Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Love – Nature Of SONNET: 26, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is not blind. I see with single eye Last Line: I wonder only why they prize it so. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Nature Of SONNET: 271, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This mountain-scene with sylvan grandeur Last Line: A secret grief is mine, that will not rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Nature SONNET: 37, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such is the course that nature's kind hath wrought Last Line: For that they hate, are made most miserable. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hate; Nature; Singing & Singers SONNET: 6. TO A BROOK NEAR THE VILLAGE OF CORSTON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As thus I bend me o'er thy babbling stream Last Line: As thy soft sounds half heard, borne on the inconstant breeze. Subject(s): Aging; Brooks; Memory; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Time; Streams; Creeks SONNET: AMOUR OBLIGE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could forgive you, dearest, all the folly Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Aging SONNET: ANDREW MARVELL'S 'DEFINITION OF LOVE', by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My love is of a birth as rare Last Line: "yet I rejoice, and take thee for my king." Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets SONNET: LOVE'S DEPTH, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love's height is easy scaling; skies allure Last Line: To hell it reacheth so 'tis love at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONNET: LOVE'S HEIGHT, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love's name is easy saying, yet who knows Last Line: But love upraised to love, that love doth lift. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONNET: NATURE AT EASE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the kisses of this lingering breeze Last Line: To earth and heaven, while both grew dumb to hear! Subject(s): Nature SONNET: THE PLEASURES OF LOVE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not care for kisses. 'tis a debt Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONNET: THE POET TO NATURE, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no secrets from thee, lyre sublime Last Line: Thee, my one lyre, to other songs than mine.' Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Nature SONNET: THE RELIGION OF LOVE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So thou but love me, dear, with thy whole heart Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 10, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed Last Line: How that great work of love enhances nature's. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 11, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And therefore if to love can be desert Last Line: To bless thee, yet renounce thee to thy face. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 14, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou must love me, let it be for nought Last Line: Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity. Variant Title(s): Love For Love's Sake;for Love's Sake Only Subject(s): Love - Marital; Love - Nature Of; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 16, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And yet, because thou overcomest so Last Line: Make thy love larger to enlarge my worth. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 29, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of thee! - my thoughts do twine and bud Last Line: I do not think of thee -- I am too near thee. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 36, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we met first and loved, I did not build Last Line: Must lose one joy, by his life's star foretold. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 37, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make Last Line: And vibrant tail, within the temple-gate. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 6, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Last Line: And sees within my eyes the tears of two. Variant Title(s): Far And Yet Near Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Love - Nature Of; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit among green shady valleys oft Last Line: What time the trees weep o'er me honeydew. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Nature; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS: 3. MAN AND THE ELECTRIC THEORY, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are then the souls of men as moonbeams lashed Last Line: Death doffs our robes; we sleep; we may not die! Subject(s): Death; Fate; Nature; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny; Ocean SONNETS: 9. GEORGE MEREDITH, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woven of sunlight was his deep romance Last Line: Triumphant fugues athwart life's tragic bass. Subject(s): Fate; Hearts; Nature; Soul; Destiny SONNETS; MORNING, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful earth! O how can I refrain Last Line: And praise, through thee, the god that gave thee birth. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Earth; Morning; Nature; Sun; World SORRENTO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gods are gone, the temples over-thrown Last Line: And bind the myrtle buds to crown a purer venus. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature; Past; Roman Empire; Sorrento, Italy SORROW HOME, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My roots are deep in southern life; deeper than john brown Last Line: Blood! How long will the klan of hate, the hounds and %the chain gangs keep me from my own? Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Nature SOUL BEAUTY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Grace incarnate, glory's heir Last Line: Ripened for supernal glory. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Soul; Time; Youth SOUND OF THE WIND THAT IS BLOWING, SELS., by J. KITCHENER DAVIES Poem Source First Line: The land of y llain was on the high marsh Last Line: Planning their hedges prudently to shelter me in my day, - %nothing - despite my wishing and wishing Variant Title(s): Love's Chariot; Her Triumph; Charis' Triump Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Trees SOUTH COUNTRY, by KENNETH SLESSOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the whey-faced anonymity Subject(s): Landscape; Nature SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not thirty miles away from here Last Line: Delightedly, south warwickshire! Subject(s): Happiness; Nature; Warwickshire, England; Joy; Delight SOUTH-WEST WIND IN THE WOODLAND, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silence of preluded song Last Line: The union is eternal. Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Wind; Woods SOUTHERLY, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Wind-driven, loose grass and dried bracken Last Line: And open sky, a pause %in the sentence %turn in the line Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) SOUTHWIND CAMP, by JANE M. MCCLELLAN Poem Source First Line: February. The camp stands clean Last Line: Of a change in weather Subject(s): Camping; Children; Nature SOUVENIR, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I weep, but with no bitterness I weep Last Line: My soul to god shall bear. Subject(s): Death; Gethsemane; Grief; Nature; Souvenirs; Tears; Time; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 144, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Your love, it is like a bull Last Line: Where it is placed, there it stays Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 72, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Little tree, you withered Last Line: And in your little branch, love Subject(s): Love; Nature; Spring SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 87, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Though I am a bit dark Last Line: As snow can be Subject(s): Love - Cultural Differences; Love - Nature Of SPARROW IS NOT BUSY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But hungry Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Hunger; Nature; Sparrows SPEAK OF THE NORTH, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speak of the north! A lonely moor Last Line: Silently lights the unclouded skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Nature SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN, LITTLE BOOK, by MARY I. LOVEJOY Poem Source Subject(s): Nature SPECIMEN DAYS: A JULY AFTERNOON BY THE POND, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fervent heat, but so much more endurable in this pure air - the Last Line: Yet may - be the most real reality and formulator of everything - who %knows? Subject(s): July; Nature; Summer SPECIMEN DAYS: LOAFING IN THE WOODS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: March 8. - I write this down in the country again, but in a new spot Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Nature SPELL FOR ENCANTO CREEK, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tall blades of tufted grasses, keep on flowing. Last Line: Keep them returning, keep them coming back Subject(s): Nature SPELL OF THE POOL, by JR. LOUIS BURTON CRANE Poem Source First Line: There's a cyrstal-arrowed riffle at the turning of the Subject(s): Lakes; Nature SPELL/ OR TELL ME OF A TIME, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: What ventures here so poor in telling Subject(s): Nature; Swamps SPENDING THE NIGHT AT THE HILLSIDE LODGE OF MASTER YEH ..., by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The evening sun sets beyond the western ranges Last Line: And I wait alone with my lute in the vine-grown lane Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature SPENDING THE NIGHT IN REVEREND YE'S MOUNTAIN CHAMBER, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When evening sun passed over western peaks Last Line: My harp waits alone on the vine-hung path Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Guests; Nature SPENDRIFT, by BLOSSOM BENNETT Poem Text First Line: The golden hours that april brought are spent Last Line: Should learn to choose more wisely when I buy. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature SPIDER, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The spider hovers always Last Line: Listen. The spider is poised %in the air above you Subject(s): Nature SPIRIT OF PLACE: GREAT BLUE HERON, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of their loneliness for each other Last Line: The sunlight and the rain: heads in the light, %feet that go down in the mud where the truth is Subject(s): Nature SPIRIT OF THE SUNSET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When the aster wakes in the morning Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons SPONG (3), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love me with your whole heart Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: WILLIAM JONES, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in a while a curious weed unknown to me Last Line: I have passed on the march eternal of endless life. Subject(s): Nature SPRAY, by BIDDY JENKINSON Poem Source First Line: If I were the spreading tide sheets I would overwhelm your insteps Last Line: The sea staff through the sea membranes %is delicately stirring Subject(s): Nature; Women SPRING, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Rain swells Last Line: The sun %a white spider in the morning sky Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Unfaithfulness SPRING, by CARL DENNIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All the truth you'll ever be able to cull Last Line: Whose passing they'll never be able to prove %as surely as you can if you do it now Subject(s): Nature SPRING, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again the violet of our early days Last Line: O'er every hill that under heaven expands. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the lanes are lyric Last Line: Spring! Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What did spring-time whisper? Last Line: Spring has come! Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fairy spring, in kirtle green Last Line: And gentle peace thy reign approve! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Calm; Nature; Spring; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility SPRING, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wintry storms are over Last Line: That hail the budding spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Calm; Nature; Spring; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility SPRING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters glisten and merrily glide Last Line: How lovely is love midst spring's splendour! Subject(s): Love; Nature; Spring SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young leaves grow green on the banyan twigs Last Line: An idyl of love and spring. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Poppies; Seasons; Spring SPRING, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somehwere %a black bear Last Line: All day I think of her-- %her white teeth, %her wordlessness, %her perfect love Subject(s): Environment; Nature SPRING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no images here Last Line: Beginning of another spring Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning all the almond trees Last Line: The movement of leaves and stones Subject(s): Nature; Provence, France; Spring SPRING, by C. WENTWORTH Poem Text First Line: Young morning tapped sharply on my window Last Line: All day two dusty, bloated flies have been crawling over the sky-light. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Nature; Spring; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SPRING BUG, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Maybe the bug was young Last Line: Like nothing had happened %and babbled on Subject(s): Nature SPRING BURNING, by JOHN DANIEL Poem Source First Line: One april morning in the rain I pile green boughs Last Line: To the far, invisible stars it has not forgotten Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING CAROL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When loud by landside streamlets gush Last Line: Singing the songs of the meadows. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Spring SPRING COMES A-CALLING, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Spring knocks at the door of the year and cries Last Line: "I want to come in! I 've a song for you!" Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING COMES TO LINE FORK CREEK, by PATRICIA SHIRLEY Poem Source First Line: Snows have watered steep ridges Last Line: And floats easily on line fork Subject(s): Environment; Nature SPRING FANTASIES: 2. THE SPRING RETURNS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring returns! Not as a strange newcomer Last Line: May rest, but gypsy-like fleets on for ever. Subject(s): Beauty; Memory; Nature; Spring SPRING FANTASIES: 3. THE SYMBOL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the symbol underneath it all Last Line: Is certified by joy and love and peace. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Memory; Nature; Peace; Nightmares SPRING HARBINGERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our mother earth is in her loom Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING HERALDS, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: Some days ago / I heard a lilting meadow-lark Last Line: Re-echo nature's accolade to spring. Subject(s): Nature; Robins; Spring SPRING IN THE LOWLANDS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shout into leaping wind Subject(s): Nature SPRING IN THE LOWLANDS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shout into leaping wind Last Line: Lean into solitude %you whose joy is a kite %now dragged in dirt, now %breaking the ritual of sky Subject(s): Nature SPRING KISSES, by SALLIE GAFFNEY Poem Text First Line: A raindrop spattered on my upturned face Last Line: So god leaned down, and kissed me once again. Subject(s): God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Rain SPRING LANDSCAPE, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Here sways the willow Last Line: Here where the sun has taken fecund earth to wife! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Marriage; Spring; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SPRING MARKET, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: It's foolish to bring money Last Line: Wild flower grace. Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING MEETING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hullo, bob wren! Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING MELT, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Crackle of breaking snowcrust Last Line: Uneasy with questions, holding on Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature SPRING PLOWING, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: West of omaha, the freshly-plowed fields Subject(s): Nature SPRING PLOWING, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: West of omaha, the freshly-plowed fields Last Line: They keep tgheir lanterns covered Subject(s): Nature SPRING PUDDLES GIVE WAY', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Change to singing birds Subject(s): Change; Nature; Rain; Spring SPRING PUDDLES GIVE WAY', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Change to singing birds Subject(s): Change; Nature; Rain; Spring SPRING SONG, by HOLLEY PERRY Poem Text First Line: I shall go back to the hills again Last Line: On the morrow is work anew. Subject(s): Nature SPRING SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Old mother earth woke up from her sleep Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Awake,' said the sunshine, ''tis time to get up' Subject(s): Nature; Spring SPRING WAKING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A snowdrop lay in the sweet, dark ground Last Line: " 'tis spring!"" laughed the sun, "" 'tis spring!" Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Robins; Spring SPRING WILL COME, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The sun called down to the northwind 'back!' Last Line: And spring has come! Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Seasons; Spring SPRING [IN WAR-TIME], by HENRY TIMROD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, with that nameless pathos in the air Last Line: "behold me! I am may!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Nature; South Carolina; Spring; United States - History SPRING'S ANSWER, by EDWIN OSGOOD GROVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I heard god calling Subject(s): Nature SPRING-TIME, by ESTEBAN MANUEL DE VILLEGAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet in the green spring Last Line: Of leaves and flowers and zephyrs go again Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Spring SPRINGLET, by JOSE ZORILLA Poem Source First Line: Hasting on, the springlet flows Last Line: Engulfed forevermore? Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Waterfalls SQUARINGS: CROSSINGS. 31, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not an avenue and not a bower Last Line: Sensitive to the millionth of a flicker Variant Title(s): The Road At Frosse Subject(s): Nature SQUIRREL'S ARITHMETIC, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: High on the branch of a walnut-tree Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons ST JOHN RIVER, by ALDEN A. NOWLAN Poem Source First Line: The colour of a bayonet this river Last Line: Is that the pictures haven't lied, the real %river is beautiful, as blue as steel Subject(s): Nature ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S ON THE HILL, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bartholomew, my brother Subject(s): Nature ST. COLUMBA IN IONA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Delightful would it be to me Last Line: No evil shall undo me Subject(s): "iona, Scotland;nature; ST. JAMES PARK, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas june, and many a gossip wench Last Line: "may be a little altered too." Subject(s): London; Nature; Parks; Pride; Time; Self-esteem; Self-respect ST. LUKE'S SUMMER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is st. Luke, his summer: you shall see Last Line: A little while before the nipping frost. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Summer STAND BY A TREE, by STEVEN R. COPE Poem Source First Line: No matter how I shall go Last Line: Are but four ways of being the same thing Subject(s): Nature; Trees STANDING LIGHT UP, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thunder grumbles, drops, thuds, breaking Last Line: Brightens the eye brighter than any lightening Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Nature STANZAS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For thee is laughing nature gay Last Line: While joy's a stranger to my breast. Subject(s): Nature; Love STANZAS, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In youth have I known one with whom the earth Last Line: Wearing its own deep feeling as a crown. Subject(s): Nature; Youth STANZAS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature doth have her dawn each day, / but mine are far between Last Line: With fairest summer weather. Subject(s): Nature; Sun; Transcendentalism STANZAS IN MEMORY OF THE AUTHOR OF OBERMANN, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In front the awful alpine track Last Line: A last, a last farewell! Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets; Senancour, Etienne Pivert De (1770-1846); Soul STAR FACTORIES, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Great monoliths of hydrogen and dust Last Line: Who will inherit the dust? Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Peace STAR TEACHERS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Even as a bird sprays many-coloured fires Last Line: Are stars and deeps within. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Light; Stars; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature STAR TRACKS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Alone in bed at night I lie Last Line: Shine out like stars upon the grass. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Stars STAR WATCH, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Cocoon-like I drowse Last Line: Sleeping in the company of stars Subject(s): Nature STARFISH, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Muscle-bound with arms that pry Last Line: Like dirty dishes Subject(s): Nature STARS ARE COMING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: See, the stars are coming Subject(s): Nature; Spring STARS FALLING, by JAY PARINI Poem Source First Line: Fire-flakes, flints: the same old stars Last Line: Of anything a witness might recall, %the ease of their becoming homelessness Subject(s): Nature STARS FROM HORIZON TO HORIZON, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Just to light the path Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Light; Nature; Stars STARS' BALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh! The stars, one and all Subject(s): Nature; Winter STARTING EARLY FROM YU-P'U DEEP, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eastward, the faint glimmer of the early dawn Last Line: The more so with the unfolding of this clear view Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature STAY IN ZORN, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: Broad-chested across gaping chaos, he said, we blazed the Last Line: The bora was blowing fiercely, he said, and we had trouble %finding our way Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Paintings And Painters STAY THOU, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay thou thy beauty, lovely shape and / shadow Last Line: And hold thy hand still bare against the east. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Trees STEALING LILACS, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Long before the arboretum opens Last Line: You have to lock me up %but bring me lilacs Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Lilacs; Love; Nature STEERING MY LITTLE BOAT TOWARDS A MISTY ISLET,, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But in the blue lake the moon is coming close Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature STEPPE, by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How good it was then to go out into quietness! Last Line: All lapped in peace, all like a parachute, %a rearing vision, all Subject(s): Nature STEPS ANIMALS TAKE, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source Last Line: Into a precise %dance Subject(s): Nature STILL AT TIME I'M A DUMB LITTLE BOY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Wanting to give the family a fish dinner Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Boys; Ignorance; Innocence; Maturity; Nature STILL LEFT TO TELL, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: What there is a place in telling Subject(s): Nature; Swamps STILL LIFE OUT OF DOORS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source Last Line: What does death matter? Subject(s): Nature STILL LIFE WITH MINNOWS, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river, while it Subject(s): Nature STILL LIFE WITH MINNOWS, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river, while it Last Line: And sees it just that way, the min- %nows still blindly bump- %ing at the glass Subject(s): Nature STILL LIFE WITH WASP NEST AND BIRCHES, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In locust branches beyond your window Last Line: And all the border bittersweets of hallucination Subject(s): Nature STILL ON WATER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Solitude closes down around us Subject(s): Calm; Love; Nature; Nudity; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nakedness; Swimmers STILL ON WATER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Solitude closes down around us Last Line: Of your nude jubilation Subject(s): Calm; Love; Nature; Nudity; Swimming; Water STOMPING WITH PETTIT ON THE BATTENKILL, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I need to whoop it up some Last Line: And the hogcalls and hoots of pleasure you make %as if you were just born Subject(s): Nature STONE, by INGRID DARLENE WENDT Poem Source First Line: Small as a molar, wisdom tooth Last Line: The end %of some other solitude, once more traveling on Subject(s): Environment; Nature STONE APPLES, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mid the shimmer of lamps and the redowa's dash Last Line: "mid the masquerade of flutes!" Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Nature STONE DUST, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gods have not yet learned to fear the lover Last Line: From a crumbling wall. Subject(s): Dust; Love - Nature Of; Stones; Supernatural; Granite; Rocks STONE FISH LAKE, by YUAN CHIEH Poem Text First Line: I loved you dearly, stone fish lake Last Line: For ever and ever staring at the stone fish. Alternate Author Name(s): Tz'u-shan Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Nature STONES TURN THEIR BACKS TO US, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Our lives are light as flyspecks Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Life; Nature; Stones STOP ME!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stop me, good people! Don't you see Last Line: Help, shame, caution, love, wisdom, and all! Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature STOPPING AT A FRIENDS' FARM, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My old friend prepares chicken and millet Last Line: I will return in time for the blooming of chrysanthemums Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature STOPPING BY THE MANOR OF AN OLD FRIEND, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My old friend cooked chicken and millet Last Line: And I'll come back for chysanthemums Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Farm Life; Friendship; Nature STORM, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Clouds on the mountain Last Line: Are head-over-heeling %somersaulting today Subject(s): Nature STORM'S PAST, by ALICE FERRIN HENSEY Poem Text First Line: Whirl of wet rose leaves on the gravelled path Last Line: "these sing to summer dusk, ""storm's past! Storm's past!" Subject(s): Nature; Rain; Storms STORNELLI AND STRAMBOTTI, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flower of the vine Last Line: She who remembers sits at home and grieves. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of STRAIN OF THE EARTH'S SWEET BEING, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: We tread blue waters just offshore Last Line: Does death, as well, begin Subject(s): Heaven; Nature; Trees STRAINING ON THE TOILET, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The lightning bug feels Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fireflies; Lavatories; Nature STRANGE MEETINGS: 1, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If suddenly a clod of earth should rise Last Line: How strange they are to me. Subject(s): Nature STRANGE MULTITUDE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because the way was long Last Line: Out of a dark sea unsubdued. Subject(s): Nature STRANGE THAT SO MANY FICKLE GODS, AS FICKLE AS THE WEATHER, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Throughout dame natures provinces should always pull together Subject(s): Nature; Weather STRANGE WORLD INDEED, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To write about insomnia Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Insomnia; Nature; Poetry And Poets; Writing And Writers STRATEGIES OF THE FEMININE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Running hunched to the ground darkbodied by the shrubs Last Line: Its hard pit-a tactic within the wild purple fruit Subject(s): Art And Artists; Nature; Trees STRAWBERRIES IN WOODEN BOWLS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You carry flowers in a jug of green wine Last Line: Are half-covered with curdled milk. Subject(s): Change; Nature STREAMS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I so love water-laughter Subject(s): Country Life; Nature STROLLER'S SONG, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds all round the sky are black Last Line: Have rights as well as I. Subject(s): Nature STUDY NATURE, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do. / victim. Subject(s): Nature; Language; Words; Vocabulary STUDY OF HISTORY, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out there. The mind of the river Last Line: What rockface leaned to stare %in your upturned %defenseless%face Subject(s): Nature SUBDIVISION, by SALLIE BINGHAM Poem Source First Line: The man who does not care for trees Last Line: Looks on a woman and sees wristbone, wishbone %the pulmonary cavity Subject(s): Environment; Nature SUCCESSION OF THE OAK, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: A naked oak in a northern sky Last Line: All trees touch Subject(s): Nature; Oak Trees; Prairies SUDDENLY MY CLOCKS AGREE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They have this tender moment Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Clocks; Nature; Time SUGAR BIRD, by WILLIAM J. VERNON Poem Source First Line: He's forty before he can hear it Last Line: Explaining how the bird would say %when to tap, singing, 'sugar!' Subject(s): Environment; Nature SUMMER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By sea and by land Subject(s): Nature SUMMER, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What was summer chanting? Last Line: Summer's come! Subject(s): Nature; Summer SUMMER - THE LAND, by VIRGINIA STAIT Poem Text First Line: The land has tributes for you now Last Line: With any drop of blotted night. Subject(s): Nature SUMMER DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This is the way the morning dawns Subject(s): Nature; Summer SUMMER DROUGHT, by J. P. IRVINE Poem Source First Line: When winter came the land was Subject(s): Nature SUMMER EVENING, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A spear of zinc light wounds stone and water, Subject(s): Nature SUMMER FADES, by AMY LYNN SIPPLE Poem Source First Line: Too tired to sleep Last Line: Across the heart and the %soul of the land Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Summer SUMMER FRUITS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When scarlet strawberries first were seen Last Line: "chant ""praise the lord, for he is good." Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Forests; Fruit; Nature; Strawberries; Woods SUMMER JOYS, by MATTHIAS BARR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful streamlet Subject(s): Summer; Nature SUMMER LIGHTNING, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would rather ruffle leaves Last Line: No girl had loved unless she chose! Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SUMMER LONGINGS, by DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! My heart is weary waiting Last Line: Waiting for the may! Alternate Author Name(s): Maccarthy, Denis Florence Variant Title(s): Waiting For The May Subject(s): Nature; Summer SUMMER LULLABY, by EUDORA S. BUMSTEAD Poem Source First Line: The sun has gone from the shining skies Subject(s): Nature; Summer SUMMER MOODS, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love at eventide to walk alone Last Line: And see the light fade into gloom around. Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Summer; Sunset; Twilight SUMMER RAIN, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thick lay the dust, uncomfortably white Last Line: Joy filled the brook, and comfort cheered the field. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Nature; Rain SUMMER STORM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Untremulous in the river clear Last Line: Silent and few, are drifting over me. Subject(s): Nature; Storms; Summer SUMMER SURPRISED US, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These first days of summer are like the pail Subject(s): Nature SUMMER SURPRISED US, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These first days of summer are like the pail Last Line: Poured out like a bucket of wild berries Subject(s): Nature SUMMER TIME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I love the cheerful summer time Subject(s): Nature; Summer SUMMER VACATION, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Snowless in august Last Line: Listen to squirrels and rests Subject(s): Nature SUMMER VOICES, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the shining trembling leaves that drape the bowers of june Last Line: This mounts the wings of summer morn, and singing, flies to heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Nature; Sound; Summer SUMMER'S JOE, by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: He unlocked an apple first, then lifted the latch Last Line: With no again, a feast of no. Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations SUMMER'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT: SPRING, by THOMAS NASHE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king Last Line: Spring! The sweet spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Nash, Thomas+(1) Variant Title(s): Spring Song;the Birds In Spring;song Of Ver And His Train;spring Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Nature; Spring; Dead, The SUMMER'S WISH, by MARY LEAPOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My guardian, bear me on thy downy wing Last Line: Peace to my foes, if any such there be, %and gracious heav'n give repose to me Subject(s): Nature SUMMONS, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Wasting time as I do Last Line: Making music while we can Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature SUMMONS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eager night and the impetuous winds Last Line: Seeking the lost cause and the brave defeat. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Aging; Messengers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Voices SUN, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: This is my most famous charade Last Line: Like a ruined beast with a lens Subject(s): Nature; Sea Voyages; Travel SUN ABOVE ROCK -- A DROP, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Was waste the horse Last Line: Between man and mass Subject(s): Desire; Nature SUN IS A GLOBE OF FIRE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Water tinkles on the marble fountain Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Spring SUNART, by GILLIAN ALLNUTT Poem Source First Line: I remember the little disturbances of stone Last Line: A difficult hour. I remember the light %rain came out of nowhere, silently %the salt on my lips %was Subject(s): Nature SUNBEAMS, by ANNE EMILIE POULSSON Poem Source First Line: Now, what shall I send to the eartrh today? Alternate Author Name(s): Poulsson, Emilie Subject(s): Nature; Spring SUNBEAMS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Merry little sunbeams Subject(s): Nature; Spring SUNDAY AT HOME AT THE BEGINNING OF APRIL, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring like smoke in the fruit trees Last Line: When we live, we live for the last time, %as akhmatova says.%one 'the' in a world of 'a' Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Environment; Nature SUNDAY MORNING, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Complacencies of the peignoir, and late / coffee and oranges in a sunny chair Last Line: Downward to darkness, on extended wings. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; God; Life; Nature; Religion; Dead, The; Theology SUNDAY REVERY, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond my dingy window pane Last Line: Thy blessing on my head! Subject(s): Nature; Sabbath; Spring; Sunday SUNDOWN, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: As the rose of the day lies dying Last Line: On the stream of the vanished years. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Nature; Past; Time SUNRISE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day I saw the sun come up, like neptune from Last Line: But I have seen god's pageantry - I've watched %a day begin Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Nature SUNRISE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds are withdrawn Last Line: From his flooding, flaming crimson crest! Subject(s): Dawn; Nature; Sun; Sunrise SUNRISE, SUNSET, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Lie down in a field of tall grass Last Line: A green flash arcs from your spine Subject(s): Earth; Nature SUNSET ON THE TENNESSEE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The valley rolls to the river Last Line: They guard the valley below. Subject(s): Nature; Tennessee; Valleys SUNSET, THE SIERRA, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: A bruised expanse of sky, evergreens Last Line: From another until the moon comes up, and the stars Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature SUNSHINE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I wish the beautiful sun would shine Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons SUNSHINE AND SHOWER, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Blow soft, ye winds, from out the south Last Line: Her peaceful radiance! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Heaven; Love - Nature Of; Peace; Youth; Paradise SUNSHINE'S CARESS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To the little brown cradles Subject(s): Nature; Spring SUPREME, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fairest lips are those we kiss Last Line: When life is just an afterglow. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love - Nature Of SURELY SOMEONE WILL HELP, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But who, but who? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Doves; Mourning; Nature SURFACE, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The surveyor climbs a stonewall into woods Last Line: Sun and study slogans of dirt: 'never consider %a surface except as the extension of a volume.' Subject(s): Environment; Nature SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Naught but the fittest lives,' I hear Last Line: May weave into its nest of song. Subject(s): Life; Nature; Survival; Time SWALLOWS, by AFANASY FET SHENSHIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calm nature's idle spy, I follow Last Line: Of alien streams I may not sip. Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets SWANS, by DAVID SPICER Poem Source First Line: As a stranger wails his first cry Last Line: Opening the gates of the womb %for their white children Subject(s): Nature SWATHED ROUND IN MIST, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swathed round in mist and crown'd with cloud Last Line: Is palpable to sense and sight. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SWEET LOW SPEECH OF THE RAIN, by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is pleasant to lie in the gloaming Subject(s): Nature SWEET MAY MORN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet may morn; wake, drowsy girls! Last Line: A happy home—a husband kind! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courtship; Girls; Marriage; May (month); Morning; Nature; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SWEET MOUTH, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet mouth that is inviting to taste Last Line: And all that remains of love is venom Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Love - Nature Of; Roses SYCAMORE CANYON NOCTURNE, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: Home again in dreams, I'm walking that foothill road Last Line: Sometimes, all I want to be is the dreaming world Subject(s): Nature SYCAMORE ON MAIN STREET, by NORBERT KRAPF Poem Source First Line: It stands like a resolute Last Line: At the waters of the ancient %swamp beneath the park Subject(s): Nature SYMBIOSIS, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: The hawaiian bobtail squid Last Line: To do for the earth %that means so much? Subject(s): Earth; Nature SYMPATHY, by THOMAS ASHE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is nature all so beautiful? Subject(s): Nature; Mankind; Human Race SYMPHONY NO. 3, IN D MINOR, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Nature; Writering & Writers; Animals; Words; Vocabulary SYNONYMS, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where eons back earth slipped and cracked Subject(s): Beauty; Reality; Nature SYRINX, by CARRIE ETTER Poem Source First Line: I didn't think of myself as sexy Last Line: The reed, which is to say %I am nothing but desire Subject(s): Desire; Nature T(W)O/O, by JULIE KIZERSHOT Poem Source First Line: Boulder spoke to tree, I have never been Last Line: Stars chatter -- light-hearted -- myriad sparks Subject(s): Nature; Sky; Stars TABLE TALK, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To weave a culinary clue Last Line: Of these narcotic numbers. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; London; Marriage; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TABLEAU, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: The landcruiser, ugly yellow, bashed Last Line: Diamonds in a hard, new light Subject(s): Nature TAKE WHOM YOU WILL, by EDA LOU WALTON Poem Text First Line: Take whom you will for mistress; let me be Last Line: Make me companion of the hopeless quest. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of TAKING TO THE HILLS, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If walking, like wine, only abets a sad mood Subject(s): Walking; Nature; Mountains; Love; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TAMAR, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A night the half-moon was like a dancing-girl Subject(s): Nature TAMAR, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A night the half-moon was like a dancing-girl Last Line: The old trees, some of them scarred with fire, endure the sea wind Subject(s): Nature TAPHONOMY, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Before us lies the body what's left Last Line: Death this moment this Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) TARA-BINDU, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the breeze falls asleep Last Line: Behind the emerald screen of the sea. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Rest; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean TARDY SPRING, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the north wind ceases Last Line: And earth's green banner shakes. Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Wind TASHKENT BREAKS INTO BLOSSOM, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if somebody ordered it Last Line: And the little kids %in the young arms %of dark-haired mothers Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Nature TASTE OF SWEET, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: I call him simon after simon legree Last Line: Simon smells like a christmas tree Subject(s): Nature; Relationships TASTING THE LAND, by JAROLD RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: Wherever water gathers, or pours over stone Last Line: On the far waters of home Subject(s): Environment; Nature TEACHER, by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: Stillness and silence deepen in the last light Last Line: The loons seem to break their laughter with a cry Subject(s): Nature; Teaching And Teachers TEACHING, HURT, by HILDA RAZ Poem Source First Line: Bradshaw, nebraska near york, forty-eight miles Last Line: And she hunches over them, hungry to see %what they see, to see them Subject(s): Nature TEISA: A DESCRIPTIVE POEM OF THE RIVER TEES,.., by ANNE+(2) WILSON Poem Source First Line: Yonder behold a little purling rill Last Line: When this is done, it only now remains %with their own earth to cover up the drains Subject(s): Nature TELL ALL THE WORLD THAT SUMMER'S HERE AGAIN, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Nature TELL ME, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell, me mother nature, tell Last Line: Live to love, my creature. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Nature TELL ME, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: Tell their stories of the roads their myth Subject(s): Nature; Swamps TELL ME OF A ROAD STILL USED, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: That lies in grass no longer road Subject(s): Nature; Swamps TELL ME OF OTHER TIMES, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: Formed in rain and wind a similar Subject(s): Nature; Swamps TELL ME OF THE CHANCE AGAIN, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: Of the grass that whispers there Subject(s): Nature; Swamps TELL ME THERE ARE MANY THINGS LEFT, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: What are things still left to tell? Subject(s): Nature; Swamps TELL ME, WORLD, AND TELL ME, NATURE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: No spoilt, no pampered child am I Last Line: Am I a spoilt and pampered creature? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Nature TELL ME/ THE MANY THINGS HAVE FADED, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: The roads that lie beyond their telling Subject(s): Nature; Swamps TELLING WHAT HAPPENED, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kwakiutl said one word Last Line: Nearby in the night would know %it was safe to sleep now Subject(s): History; Nature TEMPS PERDU, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never may turn the loop of a road Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Nature TEMPS PERDU, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never may turn the loop of a road Last Line: What is it, what is it, I almost remember? Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Nature TEN THOUSAND TO ONE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The phoenicians guarded a recipe that required Last Line: Hanging, at the tip. Subject(s): Nature; Science; Scientists TENDER AND TRUE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True love is but a humble, low-born thing Last Line: Yearning to be but understood and loved. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of TERPSICHORE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The dancing muse! I saw her moving through Last Line: Burst forth in songs of reawakened spring. Subject(s): Muses; Nature THANATOPSIS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To him who in the love of nature holds Last Line: About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Nature; Religion; Trees; Dead, The; Theology THANKS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you very much indeed Last Line: "thank you very much indeed." Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; Thanksgiving THAT LAKE IN THE MOUNTAINS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never quite quiet, it accepted what came Last Line: And begin to feel my invisible hands Subject(s): Environment; Nature THAT LITTLE RED EYE BEHIND THE TOILET?, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Have a baleful look Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Poetry And Poets THAT NATURE IS A HERACLITEAN FIRE & OF THE COMFORT OF THE RESURRECTION, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows Last Line: Is immortal diamond. Variant Title(s): That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire And Of The Comfort Of The Resurrecti Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Nature; Religion; Resurrection, The; Theology THAT NATURE IS NOT SUBJECT TO OLD AGE, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, how man's roving mind is driven and wearied by perpetual error Last Line: And as on a huge pyre blazes the frame of the world Subject(s): Nature THAT NINE-BANDED ARMADILLO, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: (dasypus novemcinctus) Last Line: Or intellectual envoi Subject(s): Animals; Armadillos; Nature THAT SPRING, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river was fast Last Line: The solo of a solo of a solo Subject(s): Nature; Spring THAT WINTER THE NIGHT FELL SEVEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To run under the ground Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Night; Winter THE 'OTHER MAN', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If every man would do the things the 'other man' should do Last Line: "if every man would think himself to be the ""other man." Subject(s): Brotherhood; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE ADMONITION BY THE AUCTOR TO ALL YONG GENTILWOMEN, by ISABELLA WHITNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye virgins that from cupid's tents Last Line: I live this hundred yeares. Subject(s): Language; Love - Nature Of; Words; Vocabulary THE ALBANY CHAUTAUQUA, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Come among the birds and flowers Last Line: At chautauqua. Subject(s): Albany, New York; Nature; West (u.s.) - Exploration THE ALL-KIND MOTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, whatever is at hand Last Line: "at her merciful ""arise!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Mothers; Nature THE ALMOND TREE, by READ BAIN Poem Text First Line: In the dusk before the dawning Last Line: Be all later life shall save? Subject(s): Almond Trees; Nature; Spring; Trees THE AMAZON, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the brake the burning footprints / stare Last Line: In one white shroud? Subject(s): Amazons; Nature THE ANACREONTICS: 2, by JACOPO VITTORELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold! The silver moon how bright! Last Line: Could win from thee a like reply. Alternate Author Name(s): Vittorelli, Iacop Subject(s): Love; Nature THE ANACREONTICS: 3, by JACOPO VITTORELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Should'st thou, amid the thorny spray Last Line: That suppliant herb, sweet nymph—'tis I. Alternate Author Name(s): Vittorelli, Iacop Subject(s): Love; Nature THE ANACREONTICS: 5, by JACOPO VITTORELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew when dawn of opening day Last Line: Claims all to see, and all to know. Alternate Author Name(s): Vittorelli, Iacop Subject(s): Love; Nature THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 1. CANTO 1. PRELUDE. LOVE'S REALITY, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk, I trust, with open eyes Last Line: Its odour quickens all my brain. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 1. CANTO 5. PRELUDE. LOVE IN TEARS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If fate love's dear ambition mar Last Line: More generous, dignified, and pure. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 1. CANTO 7. PRELUDE. LOVE'S IMMORTALITY, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How vilely 'twere to misdeserve Last Line: And has the dignity of fate. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 6. PRELUDE. LOVE'S PERVERSITY, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How strange a thing a lover seems Last Line: Against the bars of time and fate. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 6. PRELUDE. THE POWER OF LOVE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Samson the mighty, solomon Last Line: When look'd at in the light of love. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE ANGLER, by JOHN CHALKHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the brave [or, gallant] fisher's life Last Line: And to be lamented. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Nature; Anglers THE ANGLER'S WISH, by IZAAK WALTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I in these flowery meads would be Last Line: A quiet passage to a welcome grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Walton, Isaac Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Nature; Anglers THE ANSWER, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then what is the answer?- not to be deluded by dreams. Last Line: Or drown in despair when his days darken Subject(s): Integrity; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE ANSWER: SIR TOBY MATTHEWS, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, but did you love so long Last Line: A dozen dozen to disgrace. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Matthews, Sir Toby (1577-1655) THE ANT ON THE BOARD, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not only the ant that walks on the carpenter's board Last Line: Nor the meeting by the altar, nor the rising sun only Subject(s): Nature THE APOTHECARY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sick earth, sick with winter Last Line: And the tongue to tell. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Pharmacy & Pharmacists; Sun; Drug Store; Apothecary THE ARIZONIAN, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to my sunland! Come with me Last Line: "but a vexing of soul and a vain desire?" Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Nature THE ATHABASCA TRAIL, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life is gliding downwards; it speeds swifter to the day Last Line: I'll be out with pack and packer on the athabasca trail. Subject(s): Canada; Nature; Roads; Canadians; Paths; Trails THE AUDIENCE (AN OLD FABLE), by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll let not my children, like pharaoh, be drown'd Last Line: No more of his children's intrusion. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Drowning; Herwegh, Georg (1817-1875); Nature; Childhood; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE AULD FARMER'S NEW YEAR MORNING SALUTATION ... AULD MARE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A guid new year I wish thee, maggie Last Line: Wi' sma' fatigue. Subject(s): Animals; Holidays; Horses; New Year; Nature; Friendship THE AUTHOR'S MANNER OF LIVING, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On rainy days I dine alone Last Line: I pay my club, and so god b' y' -- Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE BALLAD OF BLOSSOM, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lake is known as west branch pond Subject(s): Owls; Cows; Nature; Dogs THE BANDRUIDH, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My robe is of green Last Line: The sweet sound of the south! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Metaphor; Nature; Spring; Similes THE BANKS OF AVONLEE, by ROBERT GEMMELL Poem Text First Line: The trees are cloth'd in richest green Last Line: And by the banks of avonlee! Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Streams; Creeks THE BEAR AT THE DUMP, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst the too much that we buy and throw Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Nature THE BEAUTIFUL CHANGES, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One wading a fall meadow finds on all sides Subject(s): Nature; Change THE BEAUTY OF THINGS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To feel and speak the astonishing beauty of things – earth, stone and water Last Line: The love, lust, longing: reasons, but not the reason Subject(s): Nature; Landscape; Beauty THE BECKONING HILLS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: On a motto that hangs by my desk I can read Last Line: The peace that my nature would find. Subject(s): Contentment; Mountains; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE BEE IS NOT AFRAID OF ME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Wherefore, o summer's day? Subject(s): Nature THE BEST REWARD, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The best reward in going to the woods Last Line: Or answered by a certain one, or two Subject(s): Nature; Solitude; Loneliness THE BEST ROAD OF ALL, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like a road that leads away to prospects white and fair Last Line: But, best of all, I love a road that leads to god knows where. Subject(s): Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails THE BIG BLACK BOOK IS NOT IN HEAVEN, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, late at night my lover and I drove into the desert. Last Line: Like neighbors, like light-oblivion shadows Subject(s): Erotic Love; Nature THE BIGHT, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At low tide like this how sheer the water is Subject(s): Nature; Wharves; Piers THE BIRD OF TIME, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O bird of time on your fruitful bough Last Line: And the pride of a soul that has conquered fate. Subject(s): Birds; Nature THE BIRDS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are heading south, pulled Subject(s): Nature THE BIRTH OF SPRING, by HILDEGARDE FRIED DREPS Poem Text First Line: The birth of spring, with ambient sunshine, revives Last Line: And sunshine, birds and rain. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Spring THE BIRTHDAY OF SPRING, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cry holiday! Holiday! Let us be gay Last Line: If my joy be suppressed, I shall burst into tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birthdays; Earth; Echo (mythology); Nature; Spring; Tears; World THE BLACK FINGER, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have just seen a most beautiful thing Last Line: And why are you pointing upwards? Subject(s): African Americans; Fingers; Nature; Negroes; American Blacks THE BLAME, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You blame yourself Last Line: Is it the sun's fault that we cannot bear his rays? Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE BLIND GIRL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kind christians, pray list to me Last Line: From drinking either whisky, rum, or gin. Subject(s): Blindness; Child Molesting; Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Human Behavior; Visually Handicapped; Child Abuse; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE BLIND MAN, by FLOY BOYER Poem Text First Line: A youth, with nature's candles long burnt out Last Line: Who hurry on, unheedful of the blind. Subject(s): Blindness; Nature; Youth; Visually Handicapped THE BLOSSOMS ON THE TREES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blossoms crimson, white, or Last Line: "the eyes may listen to!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Trees THE BLUE-GREEN STREAM, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Text First Line: Every time I have started for the yellow flower river Last Line: Dropping my fish-line forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Calm; China; Inland Waters; Nature; Peace; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility THE BOHEMIA OF THE HEART AND PENNY ROMANCES: MEUDON, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The blue eyes of a clementine, her white arms raised, in brilliant light Last Line: That our dreams alone retain and that already are forgot! Subject(s): Love; Nature; Spring THE BOOK OF NATURE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We scarce could doubt our father's power Last Line: By our father's loving hand! Subject(s): Nature THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#21): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S HAPPINESS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the dead man hears the thunderous steps of an ant, he feels eager Last Line: The dead man has it all, even the worms and the dogs. Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Nature; Dead, The; Joy; Delight THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#6), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will the dead man speak? Speak, says the lion, and the dead man Last Line: Anvils. Subject(s): Death; Nature; Speech; Dead, The; Oratory; Orators THE BOOKWORM, by CHARLES WILLIAM PEARSON Poem Text First Line: To heroes who on battlefields win fame Last Line: To be that busy idler — a book-worm. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Lions; Nature THE BOWL, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Level with the late rays Last Line: Away and unperceived. Subject(s): Nature THE BRAES O' BALLOCHMYLE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The catrine woods were yellow seen Last Line: Farewell, farewell! Sweet ballochmyle! Subject(s): Nature; Regret THE BREATH, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A trembling crest Last Line: It signifies a flame. Subject(s): Nature; Winter THE BREEZE FROM SHORE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy is upon the lonely seas Last Line: That make us truth's and heaven's again! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Nature; Pleasure; Wind THE BROKEN APPOINTMENT, by JOHN KENYON Poem Text First Line: I sought at morn the beechen bower Last Line: Born but to die! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE BROKEN BALANCE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The people buying and selling, consuming pleasures, talking in the archways, Last Line: The arteries and walk in triumph on the faces Subject(s): Earth; Human Behavior; Progress; World; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE BROOK, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Murmuring of the brook in late Last Line: And I meant nothing, and I liked that too. Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Rivers; Streams; Creeks THE BROOK, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Bright mountain brook that flowest at my feet Last Line: To do each day the work appointed me. Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Solitude; Streams; Creeks; Loneliness THE BUGLER FROM THE PEAKS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is this cry that sudden seems to shake Last Line: The bull-elk bugles midst the topmost peaks! Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Night; Snow; Stars; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Bedtime THE BUTTERFLY, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: He loitered on from flower to flower Last Line: The monarch of a peaceful breast. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature; Wings; Bugs THE CALL, by G. R. S. BLACKABY Poem Text First Line: The roaring torrent, on its urgent way Last Line: For evermore. Subject(s): Nature; Sea; Ocean THE CALL, by THOMAS OSBERT MORDAUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Last Line: Is worth an age without a name. Variant Title(s): The Reply Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE CALL OF LOVE, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: O immortal love! The centuries Last Line: O sequestered face—love's deathless countenance! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of THE CALL OF SCIENCE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: He speaks: / 'my girl,' quoth he, 'I feel each cell Last Line: Currents reversed for their divorce. Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Kisses; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Eros THE CALL OF SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Children, my children, the spring wakes anew Last Line: Like glad-hearted children together. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Spring THE CALL OF THE SIDHE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tarry thou yet, late lingerer in the twilight's Last Line: Unto the light of lights in burning adoration Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World THE CAMPER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night 'neath the northern skies, lone, black, and grim Last Line: Watch o'er his hemlock bed—his sinless sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Camping; Nature; Night; Solitude; Camps; Summer Camps; Bedtime; Loneliness THE CARRY; NIPIGON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blue is the sky overhead Last Line: Brown to the distant horizon. Subject(s): Abandonment; Nature; Desertion THE CASTAWAYS, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vivid grass with visible delight Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Nature; Homeless THE CHAIN OF EVENTS, by CLYDE G. SPEAR Poem Text First Line: Down, down into that pit they slip Last Line: Prevent our reaching for the moon! Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE CHANGES, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: People don't act Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE CHANGING SEASON, by ALINE NEFF Poem Text First Line: Golden sunlight floods the earth Last Line: Interpreting god's moods. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Seasons; Weather; World THE CHARACTER OF LOVE SEEN AS SEARCH FOR THE LOST, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, the woman; I, the man; this, the world Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE CHILD HEART, by CHARLES AUGUSTUS KEELER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shy flowers smile in the face of their father the bountiful bright one Last Line: And serve them ever with gladness, and learn to be pure and good. Subject(s): Good; Love; Nature - Religious Aspects THE CHILDREN, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children are hiding among the raspberry canes. Last Line: Veiled and humming, soon enough Subject(s): Childreb; Nature THE CHIMNEY NEST, by MARY BARKER (CARTER) DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dainty, delicate swallow-feather Last Line: Or not the whole I may understand. Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Nature; Spring THE CHOICE, by JOHN POMFRET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If heaven the grateful liberty would give Last Line: All men would wish to live and die like me Subject(s): Contentment; Human Behavior; Love; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE CHRIST-SWORD, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The while my mad brain whirled around Last Line: With terrible yet tender breath. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Nature Of; Sorrow; Sadness THE CITY DARK, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the early winter dusk the broken city dark Subject(s): Nature THE CLEARING, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where the river wheels Last Line: Replace it with the creature. Subject(s): Nature THE CLOUD, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers Last Line: I rise and upbuild it again. Subject(s): Clouds; Nature; Spring THE CLOUD ON THE WAY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, before us, in our journey, broods a mist upon the ground Last Line: Peace and light. Subject(s): Nature; Conduct Of Life THE CLOUDS THEIR BACKS TOGETHER LAID, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nor vengance ever comes Subject(s): Nature THE COASTERS, by THOMAS FLEMING DAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Overloaded, undermanned / trusting to a lee Last Line: From cruz to quoddy head. Subject(s): Boats; Nature THE COMFORT OF THE HILLS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here have I wandered oft these many years Last Line: God's angelus, is sighing in the trees. Subject(s): Comfort; God; Mountains; Nature - Religious Aspects; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE COMING OF SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O spring! I cannot run to greet Last Line: Forgive me, o my comrade spring! Subject(s): Birth; Leaves; Life; Nature; Spring; Child Birth; Midwifery THE COMMONWEAL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eight hundred years and twenty-one Last Line: Acclaims this jubilee. Subject(s): Freedom; Nature; Spring; Liberty THE COMMUNION, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pondering frog looks Subject(s): Nature; Frogs THE COMPLAINT OF NATURE, by MICHAEL BRUCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Few are thy days and full of woe Last Line: Immortal in the skies. Subject(s): Nature THE COMPLEMENT, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my dearest, I shall grieve thee Last Line: But, wouldst thou know, dear sweet, for all. Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Beauty THE CONCERT, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was held in god's great temple Last Line: Which was such a grand success. Subject(s): Nature THE CONFESSION, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I haven't always acted good Last Line: "and I'm your god, and you're my man." Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE CORNUCOPIA, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grapes grow up a difficult and Last Line: Drifting at night in the sea. Subject(s): Italy; Nature; Italians THE COTTAR'S SONG, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Here the birds still chirp and twitter Last Line: Of a world supine. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Birds; Cities; Nature; Urban Life THE COUNTESS DOWAGER OF DEVONSHIRE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Wiessen and nature held a long contest Last Line: And cavendish's name and cecil's honour die. Subject(s): God; Heaven; Nature; Paradise THE COUNTRY FAITH, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the country's heart Last Line: And the best of all! Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Religion; Theology THE COUPLE, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day after day their deep love sofens Last Line: Weeping. Song. They are so much alike, after all Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Togetherness THE COURAGE TO BE NEW, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the world reciting Last Line: And their courage to be new Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE CRAB CACTUS BLOOMS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Today a miracle was swiftly wrought Last Line: "a ""christmas carol,"" bursting into bloom!" Subject(s): Cactus; Christmas Carols; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Leaves; Nature THE CREATION, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things bright and beautiful Last Line: Who has made all things well. Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Variant Title(s): Maker Of Heaven And Earth Subject(s): Creation; Nature THE CRISIS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth upon earth / between the confines of the day Last Line: Felt that he wished to sit and sharpen an arrow Subject(s): Earth; Nature; Sky; Stars; World THE CROCUS, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the frozen earth below Last Line: Till a sunbeam dissolve it into the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Crocuses; Nature; Plants; Planting; Planters THE CRY GOING OUT OVER PASTURES, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love you so much with this curiously alive and lonely Last Line: For we cannot remain in love with what we cannot name Subject(s): Love – Nature Of THE CYCLE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clapping blackness of the wings of pointed cormorants Last Line: One temper with the granite, bulking about here? Subject(s): Progress; Nature THE CYCLONE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So lone I stood, the very trees Last Line: The birds sang in the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Cyclones; Nature; Summer; Trees THE DANCE, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, reason, hate, did once bespeak Last Line: So love and folly were in hell. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE DANCING OF THE AIR, by JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626) Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: And now behold your tender nurse, the air Last Line: As two at once encumber not the place. Subject(s): Air; Nature THE DARK CHAMBER, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brain forgets but the blood will remember Last Line: The music, the silence. . . . These will remain Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of THE DARK ROSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though all my loves of old have passed away Last Line: The wind from over your mountains troubles me. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ireland; Love; Nature; Irish THE DEAD BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How did a great red-tailed hawk Subject(s): Nature THE DEAD SEAL NEAR MCCLURE'S BEACH, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking north toward the point, I come on a dead seal. From a Subject(s): Nature THE DEATH OF WINTER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When april with her wild blue eye Last Line: On the dawning brows of maiden may. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Spring THE DEER, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long did we watch? How long did those Last Line: Until our will to love was also our power to kill Subject(s): Nature THE DESERTED GARDEN, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where robins walked with mincing steps Last Line: To robins in my face. Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Robin Hood; Spring THE DESERTED PASTURE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the stony pasture Last Line: To pitch their tents therein. Subject(s): Fields; Nature - Religious Aspects; Perseverance; War; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE DIALOGUE, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why dost thou tell me that the fields are mine Last Line: Mean thee alone (my friend) in every deed. Subject(s): Mankind; Nature; Sun; Human Race THE DIORAMA PAINTER AT THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His enormous hands / with fingers long and white Last Line: As violently foreshortened as a life. Subject(s): Museums; Nature; Paintings And Painters; Art Gallerys THE DIPPER, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I saw / in a quick-falling, white-veined stream Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Pleasure THE DOOR, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is hard going to the door Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE DREAMS OF LONG AGO, by IMBERT GALLOIX Poem Text First Line: Mine was a vernal world, delectable with flowers Last Line: -- forget, my soul, the dreams of long ago! Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nature; Past; Nightmares THE DUNES, by LAURA B. ANNETT Poem Text First Line: Out where the sand is mountain high Last Line: This rare place of beauty I love best. Subject(s): Dunes; Nature THE DURATION OF LOVE, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, love as long as you can love Last Line: By graves lamenting you will stay! Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE DURATION OF LOVE, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Love while love is left to thee Last Line: Thou'lt mourn by silent graves—alone! Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me that the earth is still the same Last Line: Careless if on his face were smile or frown? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; World THE ELBOW TREE, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sapling bent and tied to point the way Subject(s): Nature THE ELFIN VALLEY, by MARY WEBB Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: By this low rock pool, dark and sweet Last Line: Has laid a spell of gold. Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Summer; Pools; Ponds THE ENCREASE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought, I'le swear, I could have lov'd no more Last Line: That loves's a motion naturall to me. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE END OF THE DAY, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the bells at eventide Last Line: Good night.' Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight THE ENTHUSIAST, OR, THE LOVER OF NATURE, by JOSEPH WARTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye green-robed dryads, oft at dusky eve Last Line: Grace the soft warbles of her honied voice. Subject(s): Nature; Simplicity THE EVENING CLOUD, by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud lay cradled near the setting sun Last Line: And tells to man his glorious destinies. Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher Subject(s): Clouds; Nature THE EVENING STAR, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Star that bringest home the bee Last Line: By absence from the heart. Variant Title(s): Song To The Evening Star;to The Evening Star (2) Subject(s): Evening Star; Nature THE EVENING WIND, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit that breathest through my lattice, thou Last Line: He hears the rustling leaf and running stream. Variant Title(s): To The Evening Wind Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Wind; Sunset; Twilight THE FALL OF CH'OU, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jade pendants chime before the dawn audience Last Line: Two hearts singing like chiming jade Subject(s): China; Nature; Jade THE FAREWELL, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since fate commands me hence, and I Last Line: Love hath more power than destiny. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Nature Of; Parting THE FATALIST: HOME, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home whose names are produced by motion Last Line: But motion to the composition Subject(s): Disappointment; Time; Nature THE FAUN, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will go out to grass with that old king Last Line: Is it far, is it far to seek? Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; Trees THE FIRST HOUR OF MORNING, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet to wind the forest's tangled shade Last Line: Here spread her blush, and bid the parent live! Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Dawn; Morning; Nature; Sunrise THE FIRST SNOW, by J. B. BENTON Poem Text First Line: It silently fell in the gloom and the night Last Line: In june or november, mid flowers or snow. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE FLOWER AND THE LEAF, OR THE LADY IN THE ARBOUR; A VISION, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now turning from the wintry signs, the sun Last Line: Thy simple style to suit thy lowly kind. Subject(s): Fables; Flowers; Nature; Vision; Women; Allegories THE FLOWERS OF ETERNITY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The good deeds we have sown Last Line: In that fair realm beyond the sun. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Roses THE FLYING MIST, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch afar the moving mystery Subject(s): Nature THE FOG, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It lies dim and cold on the face of the mould Last Line: And the words die away in my song. Subject(s): Death; Fog; Funerals; Nature; Weather; Dead, The; Haze; Burials THE FOOLISH ELM, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bold young autumn came riding along Last Line: With a woman who trades with sin. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Elm Trees; Nature; Seasons; Fall THE FOUNTS OF SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the song I am singing?' Last Line: "in these dumb solitudes." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects; Poetry & Poets; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Singing & Singers; Theology THE FRESHET, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stir is on the worc'ter hills Last Line: Her young disciples leaves behind. Subject(s): Nature; Summer THE FRIEND, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat across the table. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE FUTURE VERDICT, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How will our unborn children scoff at us Last Line: "cry ""o what fools were we!" Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE GALLOWS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a weasel lived in the sun Last Line: On the dead oak tree bough. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Variant Title(s): Gallows 1916 Subject(s): Animals; Nature; World War I; First World War THE GARDEN OF CYMODOCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea, and bright wind, and heaven of ardent air Last Line: Breathe back the benediction of thy sea. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE GARDEN OF THE GODS, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the rocky peak that hides Last Line: His voice, nor be afraid. Subject(s): Egypt; Gardens & Gardening; Nature THE GARTH, by CAMILLE MAUCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The weary leafage wanes Last Line: A child indeed, and with a child's wide eyes. ... Subject(s): Calm; Nature; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility THE GENTIAN WEAVES HER FRINGES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And of the breeze — amen! Subject(s): Sickness; Nature THE GENTLE SAVAGE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go down, my soul, unto the river Last Line: Love's planet thrilling. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Bedtime THE GEOLOGIST (GRAND CANYON, MAY 1988), by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had made a life of stone Last Line: Ever to take gneiss for granite Subject(s): Nature THE GHOST TOWNS, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The north is strewn with cities Subject(s): Ghost Towns; Nature THE GINOINE AR-TICKLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Talkin' o' poetry, - there're few Last Line: Sich poetry as that from end to end. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets THE GIVEN HEART, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder what those lovers mean, who say Last Line: No drosse was there, to perish in the fire. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE GLAD DAY, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such cloudy mornings full of mist Last Line: Else, the greying heaven strokes the earth Subject(s): Contentment; Nature THE GLADNESS OF NATURE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this a time to be cloudy and sad Last Line: Ay, look, and he'll smile thy gloom away. Subject(s): Nature THE GLASS ESSAY, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear little chicks inside my dream Last Line: It walked out of the light Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Psychiatry; Mothers & Daughters; Fathers; Home Life; Women's Rights; Solitude; Alzheimer's Disease; Dreams; Anger; Love – Nature Of; Love – Loss Of; Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Man-woman Relationships THE GLEN, by JOHN BROWN (1810-1882) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never tread on the heels o' anither Last Line: Be the cause o' a pang on the morrow. Subject(s): Nature THE GOD OF THE GULLS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: O the god of the gulls goes straight and swift Last Line: Over the secret sea. Subject(s): Birds; God; Gulls; Nature - Religious Aspects; Travel; Seagulls; Journeys; Trips THE GOD OF THE SEASONS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god of the seasons! We bring Last Line: To dwell in the light of thy face. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Seasons THE GOOD MAN, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is almost unbearably harmonious Subject(s): Nature; Animals THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poetry of earth is never dead Last Line: The grasshopper's among some grassy hills. Variant Title(s): On The Grasshopper And Cricket Subject(s): Crickets; Environment; Fields; Grasshoppers; Insects; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs THE GRAY FOX, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone I know is dying, at seventeen Last Line: Watch him, ten yards away, unafraid. Subject(s): Death; Foxes; Nature; Youth; Dead, The THE GREAT OPEN SPACES, by ROBERT EMMET SHERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spin me a yarn of the bounding sea Last Line: And so does his bank account. Subject(s): Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE GREAT PIECE OF TURF, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dug out just before sunrise Last Line: Dying before the very eye Subject(s): Nature THE GREAT VIEW, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up here, where the air's very clear Last Line: There is france. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Beauty; France; Nature THE GREAT WAGER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If need be, god of the living universe Last Line: Unless it is one you open and tread with us. Subject(s): Beauty; Evil; God; Nature; Universe THE GREEN ROADS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green roads that end in the forest Last Line: And hear all day long the thrush repeating his song. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails THE GUIDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We rode across the level plain Last Line: "will I be drunken!' is it so?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Leadership; Memory; Native Americans; Nature; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE HALF-ACRE OF MILLET, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So green the leaves in late september sun Last Line: Now I'm told they don't plant millet around here. Subject(s): Nature; Old Age THE HALF-WAY HOUSE, by NAN TERRELL REED Poem Text First Line: Just around the bend of winter Last Line: In the half-way house of spring. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Spring THE HAPPY HUNTING GROUNDS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the rose gold westland, its yellow prairies roll Last Line: Would fain sail westward unto you. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Hunting; Native Americans; Nature; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE HAPPY LIFE, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Martial [or, my friend], the things that do attain Last Line: Ne wish for death, ne fear his might. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Variant Title(s): The Means To Attain Happy Life;the Things That Cause A Quiet Life;martial's Quiet Life Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Nature THE HAPPY WARRIOR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is the happy warrior? Who is he Last Line: That every man in arms should wish to be. Variant Title(s): Character Of The Happy Warrior Subject(s): Human Behavior; Soldiers; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE HEART UNBROKEN AND THE COURAGE FREE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is late autumn, the end of indian summer Last Line: I look at them, they are the color of snow Subject(s): Autumn; Eyes; Nature; Seasons; Fall THE HEART UPON THE SLEEVE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear heart, behold you bound Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE HEAVENS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What alps of clouds! The distant, airy deep Last Line: Forever done with death and pain and tears! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sky THE HERMIT, by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still Last Line: "and beauty immortal awakes from the tomb." Subject(s): Nature THE HILL-BORN, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who are born of the hills Last Line: In the hills you will find your god again. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Religion; Theology THE HILL-VALLEYS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the hill-valleys, the cool valleys, valleys that I / know Last Line: To your dear love waiting and your own home light. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Love; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE HILLS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O my soul, let us go unto our hills Last Line: O my soul, let us go unto our hills. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE HILLS, by A. J. PATCH Poem Text First Line: Born of the ice, the children of the ancient Last Line: Till the shadows of the twilight steal along the old hill-trail. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE HILLS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is not destitute of lore Last Line: Here may I live and die! Variant Title(s): Beauties Of The Cumberland Subject(s): Country Life; Nature THE HILLS ARE HOME; 'OLD HOME WEEK,' 1899, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forget new hampshire? By her cliffs, her meads, her brooks afoam Last Line: Whatever skies above us rise, the hills, the hills are home! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Geography; Homecoming; Nature; New Hampshire THE HILLS ARE TIPPED WITH SUNSHINE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Song where the choirs of sunny heaven stand choired Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mountains; Walking; Nature; Weariness THE HILLS ERECT THEIR PURPLE HEADS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A curiosity Subject(s): Mankind; Nature THE HISTORY OF PAINTING, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: A shadow and reflection quarreled once upon a time Last Line: That beauty might be glorified by love forever more. Subject(s): Nature; Paintings & Painters THE HIVE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: To do something with it: to make something of it Subject(s): Family Life; Human Behavior; Relatives; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE HOLLOW LAND, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ keep the hollow land Last Line: Where the hills are blue. Subject(s): Nature THE HOMING BEE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are belted with gold, little brotherb of mine Last Line: For others, your gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Metaphor; Nature; Beekeeping; Bugs; Similes THE HORSE-LEECH'S DAUGHTER, by MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT Poem Text First Line: The veterinary surgeon had a daughter Last Line: And love is worth what it cost you, nothing more. Alternate Author Name(s): Cypher, Angela; Hay, Elijah Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 12. THE LOVERS' WALK, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet twining hedgeflowers wind-stirred in no wise Last Line: Rests on the blue line of a foamless sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Love; Nature THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 20. GRACIOUS MOONLIGHT, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even as the moon grows queenlier in mid-space Last Line: And chase night's gloom, as thou and spirit's grief. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Nature THE HUMAN LINCOLN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: God sometimes sends Last Line: Beneath the sod. Subject(s): God; Human Behavior; Humanity; Man-woman Relationships; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Male-female Relations THE HUMMINGBIRD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A flash of harmless lightning Last Line: And drained her nectary. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Nature THE HUNTER'S SONG, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rise! Sleep no more! 't is a noble morn. Last Line: Oh, the sound of all sounds is the hunter's horn! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Variant Title(s): Hunter's Song Subject(s): Hunting; Nature; Hunters THE HURRICANE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of the winds! I feel thee nigh Last Line: Alone with the terrible hurricane. Subject(s): Hurricanes; Nature THE HUSBANDMAN, by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, of man the bounteous mother Last Line: Slow the plant to ripeness lead. Subject(s): Nature THE IDEA OF BALANCE IS TO BE FOUND IN HERONS AND LOONS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I just heard a loon call on a t.V. Ad Last Line: Within their breasts. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Solitude; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Loneliness THE IDEAL, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sad, sweet dream! It fell upon my soul Last Line: To welcome my approach to thine own spirit-land. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Longing; Nature; Nightmares THE IDLER, by H. E. WARNER Poem Text First Line: When days are long and skies are bright Last Line: Or wiser than the money-getters? Subject(s): Nature THE IMMORTAL PILOTS, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The noise throws down Subject(s): Nature THE IMPERFECT PARADISE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Which season is the loveliest of all? Subject(s): Seasons; Gardens & Gardening; Squirrels; Nature THE IMPROVISATORE: ALBERT AND EMILY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the evening of a summer day Last Line: A downy perfume whispers in the air. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Insanity; Lightning; Love; Nature; Rain; Sleep; Storms; Summer; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Lightning Rods THE IMPROVISATRICE; ILLUSTRATIVE OF PICTURE BY BONE ENGRAVED BY ROMNEY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside her cottage door she sate and sang Last Line: Which bone to beauty drew, and romney lined. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bone, Henry (1755-1834); Hallucinations And Illusions; Love; Nature; Paintings And Painters; Romney, George (1734-1802) THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The island dreams under the dawn Last Line: With vapoury footsole among the water's drowsy blaze. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Nature; Passion THE INNOCENTS, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The watcher guarded the innocent one Subject(s): Self; Human Behavior; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE INTRUDERS, by JAMES RORTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on the sierra, while the snow-wind blew Last Line: But what it said we neither of us knew. Subject(s): Nature THE INVITATION, by JAMES BARCLAY Poem Text First Line: Awake, my fair, the morning springs Last Line: "and youth as transient too." Subject(s): Nature THE IVORY GATE; AN UNFINISHED DRAFT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand buds are breaking / their prisons silently Last Line: The snow falls by thousands into the sea. Subject(s): Nature; Spring THE JOY OF EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the sudden wings arising from the Last Line: Though our hearts and footsteps wander far from home. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Nature; World THE KING'S HIGHWAY; EL CAMINO REAL, by JOHN STEVEN MCGROARTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All in the golden weather, forth let us ride today Last Line: With the breath of god about us on the king's highway. Subject(s): California; Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails THE LADY TO THE LOVER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since thou wouldst have me show Last Line: Therefore similitudes thou must forego. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I will arise and go now, and go to innisfree Last Line: I hear it in the deep heart's core. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life; Imagination; Inland Waters; Innisfree, Ireland; Islands; Lakes; Life Change Events; Nature; Sligo, County (ireland); Solitude; Vision; Fancy; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness THE LAND, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think it is not hard to love with ease Last Line: And a great campus shaken with flags and tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Nature THE LAST LULLABY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The shepherd moon mothers her shining sheep Last Line: Wait what it saith! Subject(s): Comfort; Moon; Nature - Religious Aspects; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Silence; Sleep THE LATTER RAIN, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The latter rain, it falls in anxious haste Last Line: Declare to man it was not sent in vain. Subject(s): Nature; Rain THE LEA RIG, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When o'er the hill the eastern star Last Line: My ain kind dearie o. Variant Title(s): My Ain Kind Dearie, O! Subject(s): Nature; Love; Supernatural THE LILY AND THE LINDEN, by FRED CROSBY Poem Text First Line: Far away under skies of blue Last Line: And gilded the grave of the lily fair. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Nature THE LILY OF THE VALLEY, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had found out a sweet green spot Last Line: Who will soon as dimly die. Subject(s): Lilies Of The Valley; Nature; Summer THE LINDENS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bees in the lindens booming Last Line: In three days told. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Nature; Beekeeping; Bugs THE LION AND THE DOG, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let who think of what they will Subject(s): Lions; Dogs; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE LITTLE LEAF, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And so, the little leaf flew far – o far Last Line: And find where the little brook found the sea. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; October; Seasons; Wind; Fall THE LITTLE MAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A little man dwelt in a little town Last Line: A little worm is working on him now Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life;human Nature THE LONELY BIRD, by HARRISON SMITH MORRIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dappled throat of white! Shy, hidden bird! Last Line: And I, in thee, have uttered what I am! Subject(s): Birds; Nature THE LONELY MOUNTAIN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One bird, that ever with the wakening spring Last Line: A mountain stirred. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Nature THE LONG DAY, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning I ate a banana Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE LONG SEASON, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Now when all slopes and fields not crushed by storm Last Line: The mortal increase. Subject(s): Botany And Botanists; Flowers; Nature; Seasons THE LONGEST DAY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On yonder hills soft twilight dwells Last Line: Ye summer souls, rejoice! Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Summer THE LOST BUTTERFLY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Like some rare flower endowed Last Line: The welcome music of immortal years. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature; Bugs THE LOST ONE, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The red gleam o'er the mountains Last Line: The lost one to my breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature THE LOST PHILOPENA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More blest is he who gives than who receives Last Line: And freely squander what thou hast from all. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Nature THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 10, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frost covers the reeds of the marsh Last Line: My full heart throbs with bliss Subject(s): Happiness; Nature; Joy; Delight THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 13, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying in the meadow, open to you Last Line: My rose petals Subject(s): Nature; Relationships THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 16, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scorched with love, the cicada Last Line: My flesh is consumed with love Subject(s): Love; Nature THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 26, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the time when Last Line: Brant write the character “heart” Subject(s): Hearts; Language; Nature; Words; Vocabulary THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 28, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring is early this year Subject(s): Bodies; Nature; Spring THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 43, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two flowers in a letter Last Line: Nothing else Subject(s): Nature; Night; Bedtime THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 47, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long, long ago Last Line: We swept through clouds of fireflies Subject(s): Nature; Sailing & Sailors THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 110. THE OASIS OF SIDI KHALED, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How the earth burns! Each pebble under foot Last Line: Oh, this is rest! Oh, this is paradise! Subject(s): Nature; Oases; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LOVER AND THE BIRDS, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Within a budding grove, / in april's ear sang every bird his best Last Line: Most comforting and gentle thoughts I had. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Nature Of; Pity; Sensibility; Tears THE LOWLAND GROVE, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now the lowland grove is down, the trees Last Line: Of year with year, time with returning time Subject(s): Nature; Trees THE LURE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw night leave her halos down Last Line: When south-east winds are blowing low. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE LYRE OF SPRING, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Song in the forest is ringing Last Line: "repeats your ""wood notes wild." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Spring THE LYRICS POET'S APOLOGY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I strive to probe to other hearts, and find Last Line: In syllables of self, and can no other way. Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Nature; Poetry & Poets THE MAGIC FLOWER, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You bear a flower in your hand Last Line: Let not your magic blossom fall. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Nature Of THE MAPLE TREE OVER THE WAY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of the queen of the forest we sing Last Line: Like the maple leaves over the way. Subject(s): Autumn; Life; Maple Trees; Nature; Seasons; Fall THE MARK OF THE ROSE, by HOWARD THAYER KINGSBURY Poem Text First Line: I opened the book before me Last Line: Shall last forever and aye. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Nature Of; Roses THE MASTER SINGER, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A laughter in the diamond air, a music in Last Line: "and with the fiery-footed watchers shake in myriad dance and song." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Mythology - Celtic; Nature; Singing & Singers THE MEASURE, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Now frail the flower and strong the weed Last Line: Measures the long step of the sun. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Nature; Planets; World THE MEASURE OF A MAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Not - 'how did he die?' but - 'how did he live?' Last Line: "but -- ""how many were sorry when he passed away?" Subject(s): Human Behavior;truth;virtue; Conduct Of Life;human Nature THE MENDICANTS, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are as mendicants who wait Last Line: That night, and slept beneath the stars. Subject(s): Gypsies; Nature; Gipsies THE MILL-HOUSE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An alley ran across the pleasant wood Last Line: And grapple with grim questionings of heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Forests; Mills And Millers; Nature; Woods THE MINER OF PERU, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that vast realm, where down the rivers wash Last Line: Beside the cherish'd grave of him she loved! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mines And Miners; Nature; Dead, The THE MINISTRY OF NATURE; OR, THE TEMPLE SERVICE OF THE SEASONS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Ordained of god to preach the truth to men Last Line: Thus nature worships god the whole year through. Subject(s): Indian Summer; Native Americans - History; Nature; Preaching & Preachers; Seasons THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS, by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Who can tell how hard it is to climb Last Line: Tis meet that I should mourn: flow forth afresh, my tears. Subject(s): Nature THE MOAT, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Around this lichened home of hoary peace Last Line: Blooms like a rose that never means to fade. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Home; Nature THE MOCKING WIND, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind, you will not break my house Last Line: Built me my house, -- my house of dreams. Subject(s): Home; Nature; Wind THE MONKS OF BASLE, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I tore this weed from the rank, dark soil Last Line: By nature is mocked and scorned. Subject(s): Monks; Nature THE MONTHS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contorted by wind Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Time THE MORNING WALK, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us wander through the woodland bowers Last Line: To cull the treasures of the infant year. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Nature THE MOTHER; A SONG DRAMA, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's I have conquered you Last Line: Curtain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Dust; Grass; Mothers; Nature; Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists THE MOUNTAINEER, by FRANK PIERCE GALLAGHER Poem Text First Line: He sits astride his brawny horse Last Line: We would be mountaineers. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Nature THE MOUNTAINS OF GLAMORGAN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountains of glamorgan Last Line: That look towards the sea. Subject(s): Mountains; Mystery; Nature; Wales; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Welshmen; Welshwomen THE MOURNING DOVE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What art thou saying, doing, pensive dove Last Line: "to die or live unchanging lovers true." Subject(s): Absence; Death; Doves; Life; Love; Nature; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE MOUSE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This mouse that in my absence haunts the room Subject(s): Nature THE MOWER AGAINST GARDENS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Luxurious man, to bring his vice in use Last Line: The gods themselves with us do dwell. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Nature THE MOWING, by ALBERT POTTER Poem Text First Line: Mowing the snow in the meadow Last Line: As the bloom when the mowing began! Subject(s): Mowing And Mowers; Nature THE MOWING, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the voice of high midsummer's heat Last Line: May cheer the herds with pasture memories. Subject(s): Grass; Mowing And Mowers; Nature; Summer THE MURMURING OF BEES, HAS CEASED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Than persons, that we know Subject(s): Nature THE MUSIC OF THE STREAM, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a spirit voice - an angel's song Last Line: And beauty, bloom, and song exist no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Streams; Creeks THE MUSICAL ASS, by TOMASO DE YRIARTE Poem Text First Line: The fable which I now present Last Line: May shine for once, -- by accident. Alternate Author Name(s): Iriarte, Tomaso De; Iriarte, Tomas De Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Fables; Nature; Allegories THE MYSTERY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your eyes drink of me Last Line: Or you know me? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE NATURALIST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In gentlest worship has he bowed Last Line: Lifts will he hear and comprehend. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Peace; Woods THE NATURALIST ON A JUNE SUNDAY, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My old gardener leans on his hoe Last Line: "amen!"" says he." Subject(s): June; Nature - Religious Aspects THE NATURALIST'S SUMMER-EVENING WALK, by GILBERT WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When day declining sheds a milder gleam Last Line: Leander hastened to his hero's bed. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Crickets; Nature; Owls; Wings THE NATURE LOVER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The years passed by, and my pure love Last Line: Nature for me has saved mankind. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Nature THE NATURE OF BEAUTY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As sometimes whiteness forms in a clear sky Last Line: Tell where we've really been, much less remain Subject(s): Beauty; Nature THE NESTING SWALLOWS, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer day was spoiled with fitful storm. Last Line: To make me glad and grateful. That is all. Subject(s): Nature; Summer; Swallows THE NEW AND THE OLD, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New are the leaves on the oaken spray Last Line: "chilling the blood, and frosting the brow." Subject(s): Nature THE NEW YEAR, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk on the cold mountain above the city Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; New Year THE NIGHT PIECE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The prophetic raven brings Last Line: Where everlasting sunshine reigns. Subject(s): God; Nature; Night; Bedtime THE NIGHT-JAR, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the river, in the shallows, on the shore Last Line: Which is death. Subject(s): Boats; Death; Nature; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime THE NIGHTINGALE, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I read in many a foreign tale, oh nightingale! Last Line: Of one sweet sigh. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Nightingales; Singing & Singers THE NORTH SHORE WATCH, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things are lovely as they were, and still Last Line: With phosphorescent gleams, and dark oars dropping light. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Nature; Seashore; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore THE NORTHERN LIGHTS, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To claim the arctic came the sun Last Line: Those northern lights, forever cold! Subject(s): Aurora Borealis; Nature; Northern Lights THE NORTHERN PINE, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: Hark! O man, to the urgent song I sing Last Line: Hark! O man, to the urgent song I sing. Subject(s): Beauty; Creation; Nature; Pine Trees THE NOVICE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love one and he loveth me Last Line: And shadowy branches wave. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Nature; Dead, The THE OAK, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live thy life / young and old Last Line: Naked strength. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Human Behavior; Oak Trees; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE OFFSET, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some miles beyond the last reef's barricade Subject(s): Nature THE OLD CHURCH ON THE HILL, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Palid and cold as the morning star Last Line: And taming its raging waves. Subject(s): Churches; Churchyards; Graves; Nature - Religious Aspects; Prayer Meetings; Worship; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones THE OLD SQUIRE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like the hunting of the hare Last Line: In the days ere I was born. Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Nature; Rabbits; Sussex, England; Hunters; Hares THE OLIVE GROVE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up on the hill Last Line: Rinsed in the moonshine. Subject(s): Nature THE ONE ARTIST, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A window-pane; bare boughs against the sky Last Line: Of any bough through any window-pane. Subject(s): Nature THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twice you have been around the world Last Line: Woman, that is Subject(s): Human Behavior; Travel; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Journeys; Trips THE ORDER OF NATURE, by ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS BOETHIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who wouldst read, with an undarkened eye Last Line: That gave them being, they would cease to be. Subject(s): Nature THE OUTCAST FLOWER, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You turn up your nose at me? I suppose Last Line: Just think what I've told. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Nature THE OWL, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here was the sound of water falling only Subject(s): Nature; Owls THE PAINTING AFTER LUNCH, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't working. Didn't look back. Needed something else. So Subject(s): Nature; Paintings & Painters THE PASSING OF AUTUMN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sky has donned a mourning veil Last Line: For nature's glories never die! Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Fall THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD: AGLAIA. A PASTORAL, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sylvan muses, can ye sing Last Line: Till she come abroad again. Subject(s): Love; Nature; Beauty THE PATH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The path we planned beneath october's sky Last Line: To bar the ways for mutual succor made! Subject(s): Hiking; Nature THE PATH, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The path led just a shade too steeply Subject(s): Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails THE PATH OF LIFE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first to youth's enchanted eyes Last Line: And bid thy heart be gay. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE PATIENT LOVERS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is an illness still to be Last Line: That we are ill, of being well. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Sickness; Women; Women's Rights; Illness; Feminism THE PEACE OF PRAIRIES, by GRACE DICKINSON SPERLING Poem Text First Line: To heal my spirit's ill there seemed no cure Last Line: And peace where skies bend low to kiss the plain. Subject(s): Nature; Prairies; Plains THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When despair for the world grows in me Subject(s): Animals; Anxiety; Despair; Nature; Peace; Wilderness THE PEOPLE OF THE OTHER VILLAGE, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Hate the people of this village Subject(s): Villages; Hate; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE PERFECT LIFE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Who knows the perfect life on earth? Last Line: And not inflict it on another? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE PERSISTENCE OF NATURE IN OUR LIVES, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You find them in the darker woods Subject(s): Nature THE PHILOSOPHER TO HIS LOVE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest, a look is but a ray Last Line: Or some sweet angel, likest thee! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE PILGRIM SOUL, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the winding mazes of windy streets Last Line: That all who beheld him were born once again. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Mankind; Human Behavior; Human Race; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE PLACE FOR NO STORY, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The coast hills at sovranes creek Last Line: But dilute the lonely self-watchful passion Subject(s): Desolation; Nature; Landscape THE PLACE OF LOVE, by S. C. BRACKETT Poem Text First Line: Love, thou art not alone for gentle dells Last Line: Where thou art waiting, love. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE PLEASURES OF HOPE: 1, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At summer eve, when heaven's ethereal bow Last Line: "love! -- mercy -- wisdom! -- rule for evermore!" Variant Title(s): Hope;the Distant In Experience Subject(s): Beauty; Freedom; Hope; Landscape; Nature; Politics & Government; Liberty; Optimism THE PLOUGH; A LANDSCAPE IN BERKSHIRE, by RICHARD HENGIST (HENRY) HORNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above yon sombre swell of land Last Line: Plough deep and straight with all your powers! Variant Title(s): In Berkshire Subject(s): Berkshire, England; Nature; Plowing & Plowmen THE PLOUGHMAN, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clear the brown path, to meet his coulter's gleam! Last Line: The sword has rescued what the ploughshare won! Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Plowing & Plowmen; Seasons; Fall THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 106, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The layered bloom of hills and streams Last Line: What more could I want in that land of dreams Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 11, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me a hidden eddy Last Line: Nowadays lasts how many years Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 122, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where clouds and mountains are piled to the sky Last Line: Are mindless like the rivers flowing east Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 13, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brothers share five districts Last Line: Swim with fish in a stream Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Government; Nature; Politics & Government THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 130, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Painted beams aren't for me Last Line: You'll never see a bud Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Forests; Home; Nature; Woods THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 133, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I can't bear to watch birds play Last Line: And heading south for cold mountain Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 134, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday was so long ago Last Line: We looked but couldn't speak Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Silence THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 147, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At sunset I went down the western slope Last Line: Didn't I tremble in fright Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Evening; Fear; Nature; Sunset; Twilight THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 150, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting alone I keep slipping away Last Line: Yearend finds me old with regrets Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 157, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold mountain has so many wonders Last Line: Unless it's clear you can't get through Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 166, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing to do I climbed flower peak Last Line: White clouds flew with cranes Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Climbing; Nature THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 175, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The place where I've retired Last Line: When I first feel the sun's heat Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Retirement; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 176, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I recall the places I've been Last Line: I would hug my knees in a frigid wind Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 191, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cinnabar hills rise up to the clouds Last Line: Vine linked to vine stream joined to stream Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 197, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is there a self or not Last Line: Leave offerings by my bier Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Self THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 204, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down to the stream to watch the jade flow Last Line: What do I need in the faraway world Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Nature; Quiet Life THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 22, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My home is below green cliffs Last Line: I chant beneath the trees Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Home; Nature THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 222, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A state relies on people Last Line: Gains only a short-term profit Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Government; Nature THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 257, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The five peaks turn to dust Last Line: Be sure not to tie the ten knots Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Nature; Buddha; Buddhists THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 26, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since I came to cold mountain Last Line: Heaven and earth can crumble and change Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Comfort; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 27, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man who lives on rose-colored clouds Last Line: He forgets a whole lifetime of sorrow Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Forgetfulness; Grief; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 278, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today I sat before the cliffs Last Line: A mind without a care Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Quiet Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 300, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On cold mountain road Last Line: What are my signs Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Roads; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Paths; Trails THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 49, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woods and springs make me smile Last Line: All I hear is noise Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Forests; Happiness; Nature; Springs (water); Woods; Joy; Delight THE POET AND THE WOODLOUSE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said a poet to a woodlouse - 'thou art certainly my brother Last Line: While he makes his mundane music -- and he will not stop, I think.' Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets; Soul THE POET SPEAKS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much living have you done? Last Line: And loving only giving. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE POET'S JOURNAL: SYLVAN SPIRITS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gray stems rise, the branches braid Last Line: She is not purer than her child. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Life; Nature; Soul; Woods THE POET'S JOURNAL: THIRD EVENING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For days before, the wild-dove cooed for rain Last Line: Low harmonies to suit the varied strain. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Evening; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Nature; Sunset; Twilight THE POND, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snapping turtles in the pond eat bass, sunfish Last Line: And the steel hook wrenched straight as a pin. Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Turtles; Pools; Ponds; Tortoises THE POOLS, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to look into the green-brown Subject(s): Water; Nature THE POSIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O luve will venture in, where it daur na weel be seen Last Line: And this will be a posie to my ain dear may. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE POWER OF LOVE, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My children, know love is not love alone Last Line: Shatters all purposes of men and gods. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE PRE-ADAMITE WORLD, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall declare the glory of the world Last Line: Whose last pang was the first each creature knew? Subject(s): Nature; Pre-human History THE PREACHER, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if the one tree you love so well and hardly Subject(s): Old Age; Nature; Social Commentgaries; Country Life; Death; Dead, The THE PROUD ONE'S DOOM, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen pearl's own equal - nay Last Line: And with her pride did into lethe pass. Subject(s): Nature; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE PURE OF HEART; GENNESARET, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er my head the starry legions marched upon their trackless way Last Line: While afar the westward summits slowly turned from gold to gray. Subject(s): God; Nature THE QUEST OF SUMMER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had been waiting long Last Line: Is the summer here again. Subject(s): Birds; Life; May (month); Nature; Spring; Summer THE QUESTION, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While needles of the evergreen Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Trees THE RABBIT LEAPS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In angry mood Subject(s): Animals; Nature THE RAINBOW [IN THE SKY], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My heart leaps up when I behold Last Line: Bound each to each by natural piety. Variant Title(s): "my Heart Leaps Up When I Behold"";my Heart Leaps Up; Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Nature; Rainbows; Religion; Work; Workers; Theology THE RAPE OF THE MIST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High o'er the clouds a sunbeam shone Last Line: In the sunbeam's passionate arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Mist; Nature; Sun THE RAVINE OF SAINT-GILLES, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The gorge is dark below the reeds' massed slimness Last Line: And lights in him the eternal hope unquelled! Subject(s): Hope; Nature; Water; Optimism THE REASON WHY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love thee and I love thee not Last Line: I know my love can never die. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE REASSURER, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A people in the throes of national prosperity, who Last Line: Has been wakened in the night by a dream of the calamity of peace Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE RECIPE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love is made of tenderness, love is made of fire Last Line: And faith and hope and charity—and simple common sense. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE RED-MAN'S ALTAR, by INA SIZER CASSIDY Poem Text First Line: Son of nature, copper-skinned and stalwart Last Line: Distill incense for your devotions. Subject(s): Native Americans; Nature; Spiritual Life; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE REED, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN Poem Text First Line: This is the song of the reed Last Line: And all the world shall hearken to his singing! Subject(s): Flutes; Musical Instruments; Nature; Reeds THE RENTED HOUSE IN MAINE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn, the liquid clatter of rain Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Nature THE RESPECTABLE FOLKS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The respectable folks,- / where dwell they? Last Line: For all are their debtors and all their friends. Subject(s): Immortality; Nature; Oak Trees THE RETURN: AN ELEGY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The east wind finds the gap bringing rain Subject(s): Grief; Death; Pine Trees; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Dead, The THE REWARD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heights and caverns of the hills Last Line: Forgetfulness of misery. Subject(s): Earth; Life; Love; Mothers; Nature; Pain; Rewards; World; Suffering; Misery THE RICH RIVALL, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say you're angry, and rant mightily Last Line: Ah, simple soule what would become of thee! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes THE RIVER, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awed I behold once more Last Line: And soon may give my dust their funeral shade. Subject(s): Children; Growth; Nature; Rivers; Trees; Childhood THE RIVER GOD, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I may be smelly and I may be old Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Nature; Rivers THE RIVER OF LEITH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I stood upon the dean bridge and viewed the beautiful scenery Last Line: Because the river of leith scenery cannot be beat. Subject(s): Nature; Rivers; Sight; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE RIVER ROAD, by WILLIAM GARDINER Poem Text First Line: Perfume of honey, incense sweet Last Line: Not ecstasy? Subject(s): Beauty; Nature THE RIVER WAS THE EMBLEM OF ALL BEAUTY; ALL, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river swanly in its swanhood flowed Subject(s): Rivers; Nature; Beauty THE RIVER-MECHANT'S WIFE: A LETTER, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead - see more at: http://www.Poets.Org/viewmedi Subject(s): Nature; Marriage; Againg; Absence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Separation; Isolation THE ROAD, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On gilead road the shadows creep Last Line: So dear is that before. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails THE ROARING FROST, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flock of winds [or, wings] came winging [or, flying] from the north Last Line: And fold, and fall? Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Nature; Wind THE ROSA SANGUINEA, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As often as a martyr dies Last Line: Informs us which way he is gone. Subject(s): Martyrs; Nature THE ROSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It tossed its head at the wooing breeze Last Line: Will hide in the leaves in wait for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Roses; Sun THE ROSE BOWER, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A crimson bower the garden glows Last Line: Shines with immortal worth. Subject(s): Calm; Immortality; Life; Nature; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility THE ROSE ENTHRONED, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It melts and seethes, the chaos that shall grow Last Line: A fair and fragile weed. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Flowers; Life; Nature; Roses; World THE ROSE OF SHARON, by HARRY WEISS Poem Text First Line: Oh! I love to roam in fancy o'er the hills where Last Line: For our god has made our mission not for us but for all men. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Jews; Nature; Palestine; Roses; Judaism THE ROSY STREAM ROLLS DOWN THE HILL, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Nature plays her music of life Subject(s): Nature THE ROVER, by LOUISE AYRES GARNETT Poem Text First Line: The day is full of busy-ness Last Line: And make me sleep till day? Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE ROYAL MISCHIEF: EPOLOGUE, by DELARIVIERE MANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our poet tells me I am very pretty Last Line: May stamp our poet's work, and nature's too compleat. Subject(s): Nature; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Youth THE RUNE OF THE FOUR WINDS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the voice in the corries Last Line: On shore and shallow and sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Life; Nature - Religious Aspects; Voices; Wind THE SAME SUBJECT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that your sail bent to the ocean-swell Last Line: And left us only longing and regret. Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Fortune; Lips; Muses; Nature; Sailing & Sailors THE SEA EATS THE LAND AT HOME, by KOFI AWOONOR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: At home the sea is in the town Alternate Author Name(s): Awoonor-williams, George Subject(s): Nature THE SEAKONK WOODS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I want to crawl face down in the fields Last Line: It is not now then never, shines what is Subject(s): Nature THE SEASON, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And must I wear a silken life Last Line: Would never do for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE SEASONS: A HYMN, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These, as they change, almighty father Last Line: Come, then, expressive silence, muse his praise. Variant Title(s): Hymn Of The Seasons;a Hymn On The Seasons Subject(s): Nature; Seasons THE SECEDERS: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet what were love, and what were toil and thought Last Line: And make dull earth a heaven of thought below. Subject(s): Life; Love; Nature THE SECOND EPODE OF HORACE IMITATED, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man who free from cares and strife Last Line: In innocence of joy and rural mirth. Subject(s): Farm Life; Hunting; Nature; Praise; Quiet Life; Agriculture; Farmers; Hunters THE SECRET, by GREGOIRE LE ROY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou wouldst speak unto my grief, be wary Last Line: Is shape and sound of beauteous things gone by. Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness THE SECRET, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightingales warble about it Last Line: If one sweet maid is true. Subject(s): Love; Nature THE SEED GROWING SECRETLY, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If this world's friends might see but once Last Line: Till the white-winged reapers come! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology THE SELF AND THE MULBERRY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to see the self, so I looked at the mulberry Last Line: Let nature take a turn at saying what love is! Subject(s): Mulberry Trees; Nature; Self; Trees THE SHALLOWS OF THE FORD, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did you ever wait for daylight when the stars along Last Line: As the water cleared and sparkled in the shallows of the ford. Subject(s): Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Friendship; Nature; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE SHEPHERD'S DESCRIPTION OF LOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "shepherd, what's love, I pray thee tell" Last Line: And shepherd this is love I trow Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE SHEPHERD'S HUT, by ALFRED DE VIGNY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thy heart, groaning under life's rude burden Last Line: Nor will I cry to thee, in love's despite. Subject(s): Nature; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE SHOWER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The landscape, like the awed face of a child Last Line: Drenched with the love of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Rain; Soul; Storms THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My head and shoulders, and my book Subject(s): Nature; Self THE SILVER SWAN: MARICHI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An hour before sunrise Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Nudity; Male-female Relations; Nakedness THE SILVER SWANS: 19, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The drowned moon plunges Subject(s): Nature; Winter THE SKYLARK: CAGED AND FREE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet minstrel of the summer dawn Last Line: I to a loftier sphere on high! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Nature; Skylarks THE SLEEPER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The glen was fair as some arcadian dell Last Line: Forget, like sleep; and then forgive, like death! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Life; Nature; Peace; Sleep; Dead, The THE SLEEPER OF THE VALLEY, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a green hollow where a river sings Last Line: Tranquil -- with two red holes in his right side. Subject(s): Nature; Soldiers THE SLEEPING CITY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A princess in the eastern tale Last Line: Its latest life beyond recall. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Sin; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology THE SLEEPING WORLD, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is asleep, all the cares of the day Last Line: While night holds its breath, and all nature is still. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Sleep; Bedtime THE SMALL THING LOVE IS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My body is filled by a summer of lust Last Line: By a power only the earth could love Subject(s): Passion; Love – Nature Of THE SNOW MAN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: One must have a mind of winter Last Line: Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. Subject(s): God; Nature; Perception; Religion; Theology THE SNOW-SHOWER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand here by my side and turn, I pray Last Line: At rest in the dark and silent lake. Subject(s): Nature; Snow; Winter THE SNOW-STORM, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Announced by all the trumpets 0f the sky, / arrives the snow Last Line: The frolic architecture of the snow. Variant Title(s): The Snowstorm Subject(s): Nature; Snow; Storms; Wind THE SNOW-STORM, by AGNES ETHELWYN WETHERALD Poem Text First Line: The great soft downy snow-storm like a cloak Last Line: To give a radiant answer to the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Wetherald, Ethelwyn Subject(s): Nature; Snow THE SNOWING OF THE PINES', by THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Softer than silence, stiller than still air Last Line: The snow-flakes drop as lightly -- snows on snows. Subject(s): Autumn; Holidays; Nature; Pine Trees; Seasons; Snow; Trees; Fall THE SOLITARY WOODSMAN, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the gray lake-water rushes Last Line: Fellow to the falling leaves. Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods THE SONG BY THE BARADA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the brow of lebanon Last Line: As soars that song elysian. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Nature THE SONG IN THE DELL, by CHARLES EDWARD CARRYL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a way / of hearing what the larks and linnets say Last Line: About my head upon a sultry day. Subject(s): Nature THE SONG OF FLOWERS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is a bird but a living flower? Last Line: The song of a flow'r-soul hears! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Nature; Singing & Singers; Soul THE SONG OF SONGS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair woman's body is a song Last Line: Be thinner than befitting. Subject(s): Bodies; Nature; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs THE SONG OF SONGS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the lark by avon's side Last Line: But the robin's is immortal! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Nature; New Hampshire THE SONG OF THE MICMAC, by JOSEPH HOWE (1804-1873) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Who on the mountain, the plain, or the wave Last Line: With triumph shall smile on the spots where they fell. Subject(s): Canada; Nature; Canadians THE SORROW OF LOVE (1), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The quarrel of the sparrows in the eaves Last Line: Are shaken with earth's old and weary cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE SOUND, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a boy at this time of year Last Line: I said, if only I could hear them. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Nature; Sound; Beekeeping; Bugs THE SOUND OF THE HORN, by ALFRED DE VIGNY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the sound of the horn in the deep, dim woodland Last Line: The shades of the noble roland is still forlorn! Subject(s): Horns (musical Instruments); Nature; Sound THE SOUTH WIND, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the kiss of love and the soul of song Last Line: When he quiets the earth by the south wind! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects; Wind THE SOUTH WIND AND THE SUN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the south wind and the sun! Last Line: They laugh and sail away. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fantasy; Love; Nature; Sun; Wind THE SPANISH FRIAR: 1-3. LOVE'S DESPAIR, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell ungratefull traitor Last Line: When living is a pain. Subject(s): Friars; Love; Love - Nature Of THE SPECKLED TROUT, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With rod and line I took my way Last Line: And opes the way to faeryland. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Nature; Trout; Anglers THE SPIRE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bavarian steeple, on the hour, Subject(s): Clocks; Time; Country Life; Nature THE SPIRIT IS TOO BLUNT AN INSTRUMENT, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Body, Human; Nature; Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE SPRING, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Why, gentle spring, why hide away Last Line: "even as now they still are thine." Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; Nature; Pleasure; Spring THE SPRING FEVER, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: There's a witchery to the winds that shiver so Last Line: Underneath the sleepy-headed summer trees. Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Wind THE SPRING JOURNEY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Green was the corn as I rode on my way Last Line: And our tears add a charm to the prospect of heaven! Subject(s): Nature; Spring THE STARS ARE MANSIONS BUILT BY NATURE'S HAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Abodes where self-disturbance hath no part Subject(s): Calm; Nature; Stars THE STEP THAT WE KNOW, by MARY E. MODRICKER Poem Text First Line: When the day is done Last Line: For the step that we know. Subject(s): Comfort; Love - Nature Of THE STONE AGE; A FANCY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is sultry o;er the marble lands Last Line: Looks with an innocent and curious glance. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): History; Nature; Historians THE STONE TABLE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here at the stone table on the hill Last Line: Grafted for our lifetimes onto paradise root-stock Subject(s): Nostalgia; Nature; Death; Friendship THE STONES, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One night in my room Last Line: Among the excellent vegetables. Subject(s): Environment; Happiness; Nature; Self; Stones; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Joy; Delight; Granite; Rocks THE STORM, by ANNA A. ARMBRUSTER Poem Text First Line: A storm rides in the sky Last Line: Of nature, man, and god. Subject(s): Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Storms THE STORY, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are telling a story Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE STORY OF MY LIFE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enthused I went to yale, enthused Subject(s): Human Behavior; Wit & Humor; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE STRANGER, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere the first red-orange glimmer Last Line: And wilds to mourn him, with the sighing stream. Subject(s): Massachusetts; Strangers; Nature; Mourning THE SUGAR-CANE: CRESCENDO, by JAMES GRAINGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And pity the poor planter when the blast Last Line: Bugs of uncommon shape. Subject(s): Fields; Insects; Nature; Plague; Plantation Life; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs THE SUMMER HOUSE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took his hand Subject(s): Human Behavior; Books; Solitude; Love; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Reading; Loneliness THE SUMMONS, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now all who love the best Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE SUN HAS SET, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun has set and the long grass now Last Line: Comes sighing o'er the heathy sea Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Nature THE SUNDAY QUESTION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! Shut the gardens! Lock the latticed gate! Last Line: But what is your opinion, mrs. Grundy? Variant Title(s): The Open Question Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Wilderness; Zoos THE SUNSET CITY, by HENRY SYLVESTER CORNWELL Poem Text First Line: There's a city that lies in the kingdom of clouds Last Line: The beautiful city no more! Subject(s): Nature THE SUTTEE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat upon the pile by her dead lord Last Line: That burning mother's scream. Subject(s): Mothers; Nature; Soul; War THE SWEET O' THE YEAR, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the frog, all lean and weak Last Line: Welcome in the sweet o' the year. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Spring THE SYLVAN YEAR, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the bards are sighing Last Line: Reappear. Subject(s): Nature; Time THE SYMBOL OF MADNESS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'll now begin to sing the song Last Line: "above the reach of vulgarity." Subject(s): Grief; Insanity; Nations; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness THE TABLES TURNED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up! Up! My friend, and clear your looks Last Line: That watches and receives. Subject(s): Country Life; Environment; Nature; Religion; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Theology THE TALKING OAK, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the gate behind me falls Last Line: And humm'd a surly hymn. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Nature; Oak Trees THE TEMPLE OF NATURE, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the clear air of field and wood Last Line: Thyself shalt light the century! Subject(s): Nature THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 12. THE WORSHIP OF NATURE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The harp at nature's advent strung Last Line: The prayerless heart of man. Variant Title(s): Nature's Reverence Subject(s): Nature THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF RIVERS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rivers of my life Last Line: Comfortably on the ground, beginning to roll. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Identity; Life; Memory; Nature; Relationships; Rivers THE THINGS THAT DIE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Immortality; Love – Nature Of THE THIRD OF NOVEMBER, 1861, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Softly breathes the west-wind beside the ruddy forest Last Line: Leave the heart unfrozen, and spare the cheerful mind! Subject(s): Nature THE THOUGHT, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you do love as well as I Last Line: If you do love as well as I. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE THREE SINGERS TO YOUNG BLOOD, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carols nature, counsel men Last Line: Heavenly rose to swelling sea. Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Love - Unrequited THE THREE TREES OF ROCKWINNER, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark was the world when I rode to rock-/winner Last Line: The hill rose proudly—fair was the world. Subject(s): Nature; Trees THE THRUSH AND POLYPHEMUS, by JACK MERTEN Poem Text First Line: A mountain oak core-riven by a gale Last Line: "I see, polyphemus, where your rocks miss hitting." Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE TIME OF ROSES, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, it is the time of roses! Last Line: Crown me with the rose of love! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Love - Nature Of; Perfume; Roses THE TINY HAT UPON THE BROW, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That elfin crown, so light and neat Last Line: Not diadem upon the brow. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Courts & Courtiers; Nature; Soul; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE TOUCH, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Age-old, age-silent, nature queen Last Line: Wavers along the boughs. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Spring; Touch (sense) THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE RE-BIRTH, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As to a watcher on a pier at night Last Line: A deeper gloaming and I slept in night.' Subject(s): Balder (norse God Of Light); Goddesses & Gods; Hodur (norse God); Mythology; Mythology - Norse; Nature; Sea; Ocean THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE RE-BUILDING, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then searching in the long grass at their feet Last Line: Upon the story of earth's destinies! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Immortality; Mythology; Mythology - Norse; Nature THE TRAIL IS NOT A TRAIL, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I drove down the freeway Subject(s): Nature THE TRAIL TO LILLOOET, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sob of fall, and song of forest, come you here on haunting quest Last Line: And call across the cañon on the trail to lillooet. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Fraser (river), British Columbia; Nature; Roads; Paths; Trails THE TRANSCENDENTALIST, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember that day in brewster, mass. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Nature THE TREE, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love thee when thy swelling buds appear Last Line: On stars that brighter beam, when most we need their love. Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Trees THE TREES ARE DOWN, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are cutting down the great plane-trees at the end of the gardens Subject(s): Bible; Nature; Religion; Trees; Theology THE TRIUMPH OF TIME, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before our lives divide for ever Last Line: If I cry to you then, will you hear or know? Subject(s): Aging; Death; Life; Nature; Time; Dead, The THE TROPICS IN NEW YORK, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Bananas ripe and green, and ginger root Last Line: I turned aside and bowed my head and wept. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Fruit; Nature; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE TRYSTING-PLACE, by M. E. H. EVERETTE Poem Text First Line: The winds blow up through the blooming vale Last Line: Forgotten and left alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Everett, M. E. H. Subject(s): Longing; Love - Nature Of; Solitude; Loneliness THE TWO VOICES, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A still small voice spake unto me Last Line: Than him that said, 'rejoice! Rejoice!' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Despair; Nature; Suicide THE TWO WALLETS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why humankind should ever be Last Line: The hinder pocket with our own. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE TWO WIVES (SMOKER'S CLUB STORY), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I waited at home all the while they were boating together Last Line: "and it's just the same thing, don't you see." Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE ULTIMATE JOY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I have felt the thrill of passion in the poet's mystic book Subject(s): Art & Artists;happiness;july;nature; Joy;delight THE UNCHANGEABLE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I within these last two years of grace Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): World War I; Human Behavior; First World War; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE UNCONCERNED; SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the world is all in a maze Last Line: And keep himself safe from the noise of gun. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE UNCULTURED MAN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He does not see nor understand Last Line: All things just commonplace. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Nature; Seasons THE UNDERSONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the sea-song of the blood in my heart Last Line: And of tears? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Hearts; Nature; Pain; Sea; Suffering; Misery; Ocean THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven is full of stars to-night; the earth Last Line: Wherever they were going, they are gone. Subject(s): Footprints; Nature THE VACATION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once there was a man who filmed his vacation Subject(s): Vacation; Nature; Vacation THE VAGABOND, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: The wind is in the wood, / the sap hath stirred Last Line: They used to do! Subject(s): Nature; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE VALLEY, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fairy-like valley, with grim mountains / hiding it Last Line: And scent of the wild flowers filling the air. Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Rest; Valleys THE VALLEY, by VIRGINIA KEATING ORTON Poem Text First Line: Wide, green valley, between low hills, pine clad Last Line: Wide, green valley, between low hills pine clad. Subject(s): Nature THE VANISHED MOUNTAINS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Miles upon miles they toss, the wrathful waves Last Line: For here the snowy peaks are seen no more. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips THE VIOLIN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing sweet, sing sweet, my violin, sing Last Line: Is gone for us. Good-night, good-night. Subject(s): Curses; Desire; Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of THE VOICE OF THE WATERS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Where the greyhound river windeth Last Line: Where the stars like dewdrops glistened on the mountain slope of night. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): God; Nature - Religious Aspects THE WAGER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five years ago in this same garden space Last Line: Claire. Why not a woman's love? Subject(s): Gambling; Kisses; Love - Complaints; Love - Nature Of; Wagering; Betting THE WALK, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A queen rejoices in her peers Last Line: Will find with glass in ten times ten. Subject(s): Nature THE WALK, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blest walk! That with your leavy arms embrace Last Line: Requiting your own warmth with equal fires. Subject(s): Nature THE WANDERER, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a mountain height, far from the sea Last Line: Sing, o my home! Sing, o my home, of thee! Subject(s): Nature; Patriotism; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ONCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A falling star that shot across Last Line: "but ever love is love forever!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love - Nature Of; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WAR THAT ISN'T WHAT YOU THINK, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little wind I saw curving and lifting Last Line: Where she grazes the horizon down to nothing Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Horses; Humanity; Nature THE WATERS OF LUNG-T'OU (THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER), by HSU LING Poem Text First Line: The road that I came by mounts eight thousand feet Last Line: That I ever lived in the streets of hsien-yang. Alternate Author Name(s): Hsiao-mu Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Frontier & Pioneer Life; Nature THE WAVE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood on the shore of the world Last Line: Vanished into the air. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Waves THE WAY IT IS, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie in bed Subject(s): Modern Life; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE WAY OF THE WORLD, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sneer and we laugh with the lip Last Line: Very well! There is somewhere a nemesis waiting for you. Subject(s): Desire; Human Behavior; Self-righteousness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE WAY TO LIVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A man and a woman got married one day Last Line: And if we can't get on we may think it strange Subject(s): Human Behavior;marriage; Conduct Of Life;human Nature;weddings;husbands;wives THE WAYSIDE BANK, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With primroses gentle / she did her bedight Last Line: For the dusty day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE WEDDING, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At noon, tithonus, withered by his singing Last Line: Woke from the nap, forgetting him; and ate him. Subject(s): Insects; Love - Nature Of; Mythology - Classical; Spiders; Bugs THE WELL-HEAD, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The withered rushes made a flame Last Line: Than not to reach the lord at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Nature; Spring THE WEST, by ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE PRAT LAMARTINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea grew silent like a seething bowl Last Line: Vast sea of being that all life doth drink! Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE WEST WIND, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: When but a boy with eager ears Last Line: When the balmy west winds blow. Subject(s): Nature; Wind THE WIFE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The day was fair, the wind blew steadily Last Line: Stunned by the thought of our own littleness. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Nature; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Dead, The; Parting; Ocean THE WILD BIRD'S NOTE, by GERTRUDE WEBSTER Poem Text First Line: List, the wild bird's note! Last Line: Sleep white, fragrant clouds. Subject(s): Birds; Nature THE WILD HORSE, by MARY ANN BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Broad are the palms, whose boughs Last Line: Of human tyranny is on the earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Horses; Human Behavior; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE WILD ROSE AND THE SNOWDROP, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snowdrop is the prophet of the flowers Last Line: Nature's most beautiful and perfect flower. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Nature; Roses THE WILL TO LIVE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since faith is a veil that has nothing behind it Last Line: Still one can go and pick daisies with molly! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE WIND, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Blow, blow, blow Last Line: Thou hast strewn with wrecks the sea! Subject(s): Disasters; Nature; Sea; Shipwrecks; Tragedy; Wind; Ocean THE WIND AND STREAM, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A brook came stealing from the ground Last Line: The ever-murmuring, mourning stream. Subject(s): Nature THE WIND BLOWETH WHERE IT LISTETH, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live like the wind, he said, 'unfettered' Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE WINDS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O weary fa' the east wind Last Line: And let my ae love be. Subject(s): Marines - Great Britain; Nature; Wind THE WINDS DREW OFF, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Beware an austrian Subject(s): Wind; Nature THE WINTER SOLSTICE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the time of the year? Last Line: And god for earth is born! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Nature; Winter THE WOOD WHITTLER, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whales and fish Last Line: Witless earth. Subject(s): Carving (arts); Nature THE WOODLAND WAY, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: When the glowworms trim their lanterns Last Line: Love tires at last of kisses. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE WOODS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finally the woods / are stripped down Last Line: Glades for the deer. Subject(s): Change; Forests; Nature; Simplicity; Woods THE WOODS AND BANKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The woods and banks of england now Last Line: Where are you now, cuckoo? Cuckoo! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Nature THE WORLD HAD FLED, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world had fled, with all its silly cares Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE WORLD WAS SURELY MADE FOR ME, by MAUD MORRISON HUEY Poem Text First Line: The world was surely made for me Last Line: It suits me so completely. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Nature; World THE WORLD'S A BUBBLE, by POSEIDIPPUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world's a bubble, and the life of man Last Line: Not to be borne, or being borne to dye. Alternate Author Name(s): Posidippus; Poseidippos Subject(s): Human Behavior; Life; Marriage; Mortality; Peace; War; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WORLD; SONNET, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is too much with us: late and soon Last Line: Or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn. Variant Title(s): Rather A Pagan;worldliness Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Melancholy; Men; Nature; Paganism & Pagans; Social Protest; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dejection THE WRONG MAN, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where wild-heaped rubble o'erpeers the pit-mouth black Last Line: A be t'roight mon for yo' an' no mistake.' Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Death; Habits; Human Behavior; Social Problems; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Dead, The; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE YARD, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bunchgrass or the months-dry wheat Last Line: And the fragrance outside turns to fruit – to do again Subject(s): Nature THE YELLOW LEAF, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The year is on the wane - the blue Last Line: Visions, whose resting-place is heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Autumn; Earth; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Fall; World THE YOUNG PRINCESS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the south sang like a nightingale Last Line: To the breeze and the orange-flower. Subject(s): Chivalry; Love; Love - Nature Of THE YOUNG USURPER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On my darling's bosom Last Line: To claim it for his own. Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of THEIR BALLS WERE SO SWOLLEN THEY COLLIDED, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With only momentary regret Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Accidents; Nature THEIR BEAUTY HAS MORE MEANING, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday morning enormous the moon hung low on the ocean Last Line: Than the whole human race and the race of birds Subject(s): Beauty; Nature THEIR CAROL CALL TO THEE, by DAISYMAY CAMPBELL HUBER Poem Text First Line: So might I, standing on this pleasant lea Last Line: From self-clung sorrow -- your whole mind reclaim. Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) THEN MOUSETRAPS IN THE CELLAR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Pretty good odds for living Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Death - Animals; Mice; Nature; Rodents THEODORE AND HONORIA, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the cities in romanian lands Last Line: For one fair female, lost him half the kind. Variant Title(s): Ravenna Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Nature; Romania; Allegories; Rumania; Roumania THERE ARE MORNINGS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Even my empty cup Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Hope; Nature THERE ARE THOSE WHO LOVE TO GET DIRTY, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Human Behavior; Tea; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THERE COMES A TIME..., by KAREN VOLKMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Fitful keeper, who sears and scalds. But my zero, sum and province, %whose howl, skies the all Variant Title(s): Untitled; Three Poem Subject(s): Nature; Poetry And Poets THERE IS A BONDAGE WORSE, FAR WORSE, TO BEAR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Fade, and participate in man's decline Subject(s): Decay; Nature THERE IS A FLOWER THAT BEES PREFER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What cancelled by the frost Subject(s): Nature THERE IS AN EMINENCE, OF THESE OUR HILLS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hath to this lonely summit given my name Subject(s): Nature; Solitude THERE IS AN ERROR AT THE HEART OF DESIRE, by CHARD DENIORD Poem Source First Line: Where does she go around the corner? Last Line: I hold her there in giving arms. %I bend the light of a million stars Subject(s): Nature THERE IS JUST ONE OF US, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Old rooster crowing with a stretched neck Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Roosters THERE IS NO NO IN NATURE, by CATHERINE N. PARKE Poem Source First Line: Durer's hare requires us to see Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Nature THERE IS ONE SPOT FOR WHICH MY SOUL WILL YEARN, by MYRON B. BENTON Poem Source Subject(s): Nature THERE WAS A TIME AN ECLIPSE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Art' to me is like walking down the street with someone and saying don't you love that building Subject(s): Eclipses; Glaciers; Moon; Music And Musicians; Nature; Sky THERE WHERE THE LAND OF LOVE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Flashes a moment and goes out Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Nature THERE WILL BE STARS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There will be stars over the place forever Last Line: There will be stars forever, while we sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Stars THERE'S BEAUTY ALL AROUND US, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All around us there is beauty Last Line: And our work less irksome be. Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Nature THESE ARE THE SIGNS TO NATURE'S INNS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And in the north, the star Variant Title(s): Poem: 1077; Poem: 110 Subject(s): Nature THESE HEADLIGHTS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The seine of falling snow Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving And Drivers; Nature; Snow THESE HOURS LIKE MAKING LOVE, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Living this day is like making love after Last Line: Besotted by birdsong, giddy with leaves Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature THESE HOUSE-TRAILER FIRES KILL THOUSANDS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The opinions and scorn of the rich Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Poverty; Wealth THESE LEGS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Their flat earth rest Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Legs; Mountain Climbing; Nature; Weariness THESE THINGS THAT POETS SAID, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I, loving not, am different Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Poetry And Poets THEY'RE PUTTING A NEW GREEN TIN ROOF, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Bang, what violence Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Roofing And Roofers THIEF!, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Jaeger, you pirate-bird Last Line: Your day's work done Subject(s): Nature THING TO DO, by INGRID DARLENE WENDT Poem Source First Line: Though what I did that day was right Last Line: And menace never multiplied, one season to next Subject(s): Nature; Rattlesnakes THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW I LOVED: AFTER NAZIM HIKMET, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always knew I loved the sky, Subject(s): Nature THINGS WE THINK WE CANNOT SEE: 4. GARDEN, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: We are changed Last Line: Speechless before dawn Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature THINGS WE THINK WE CANNOT SEE: 5. RED OAK, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Her roots cracked and swirling mid-air Last Line: Coming to set you sail Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Oak Trees THINK ON GOD, by R. E. S. Poem Text First Line: Forget thee, oh my god! And can this be? Last Line: Your maker is your life, your soul's delight. Subject(s): God; Jews; Nature - Religious Aspects; Religion; Judaism; Theology THINKING OF MADAME BOVARY, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first hot april day the granite step Last Line: The ant was struggling with its own desire Subject(s): Nature THINKING OF SAINTS AND OF PETRONIUS ARBITHE, by MARY BUTTS (1890-1937) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between a toy and a crucifix Last Line: Any people but these. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THINKING REED, by PHILLIP FOSS Poem Source First Line: You observe the drainage of air, enflamed harvest Last Line: At winter solstice, a blue heron wades through the reflected sky: %cloud wisps; no memory Subject(s): Nature; Reeds; Thought THINNING THE WOODS, by WILLIAM J. VERNON Poem Source First Line: Clear-cut, the trees came back as thick Last Line: The red painted marks, learned to hate %the stumps, the open space I'd made Subject(s): Environment; Nature THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 22, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus I resolve, and time hath taught me so Last Line: Wild born be wild still, though by force you tame. Variant Title(s): Thus I Resolve Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THIS BACK, QUICK AS DARTING TROUT, by ROSALIE SANARA PETROUSKE Poem Source First Line: I do not know this back, %where I place my hand Last Line: It could carry me for hours Subject(s): Love; Nature THIS IS A BLESSING, THIS IS A CURSE, by CHARD DENIORD Poem Source First Line: No sound from the stone Last Line: This is a curse for my heart %that needs to hear Subject(s): Nature THIS IS LIVING, by LUCILLE IREDALE CARLESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said: / I shall write poignant bitter words Last Line: But then -- this is living! Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THIS IS THE COUNTRY FAIR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who is leading? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Festivals; Nature THIS LOVELINESS I KNOW, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And I who thought the world was done Last Line: Becomes a little part of god. Subject(s): God; Nature THIS MORNING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On the bottom of the river Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Morning; Nature THIS MORNING, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've spent this morning studying the leaves Last Line: And shakes them up, as if to remind them Subject(s): Environment; Nature THIS SLENDER BLUE THREAD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Connects everything Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Relationships THIS SOLITUDE OF CATARACTS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: He never felt twice the same about the flecked river Last Line: Breathing his bronzen breath at the azury center of time Subject(s): Nature THIS SOLITUDE OF CATARACTS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He never felt twice the same about the flecked river Last Line: Without the oscillations of planetary pass-pass, %breathing his bronzen breath at the azury centre o Subject(s): Nature THIS SWEET AND MERRY MONTH OF MAY, by WILLIAM BYRD Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Take well in worth a simple toy. Subject(s): May (month); Nature; Pleasure THIS THEN IS BEAUTY, by DESSIE GARNER MOORE Poem Text First Line: This then is beauty in its sweetest way Last Line: My head on your shoulder as the bright day ends! Subject(s): Nature THISTLE-DOWN, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond a ridge of pine with russet tips Last Line: Far floats their down—far drifts my dream away. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Nature THOSE ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: Delicately copulating in a lagoon Last Line: Nor moral smartarse envoi Subject(s): Alligators; Nature; Sex THOSE WHO LOVE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those who love the most Last Line: A light would pass over her face. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THOSE WHO WANT OUT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In their homes, much glass and steel. Their cars Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Environment; Exiles; Nature; Estrangement; Outcasts; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THOSE WHO WANT OUT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In their homes, much glass and steel. Their cars Last Line: They do not love the earth Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Environment; Exiles; Nature THOU DUSKY SPIRIT OF THE WOOD, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Last Line: Lay thy haunts low? Subject(s): Nature THOUGH THE BOLD WINGS OF POESY AFFECT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With brow in penitential sorrow bent! Subject(s): Nature; Writing & Writers THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS: 4. REMEMBRANCE OF NATURE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O nature! Thou didst rear me for thine own Last Line: To meet on brighter shores thy majesty unstained. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Nature; Sickness; Illness THOUGHTS IN A CATHEDRAL, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, not with these thy priesthood dwells Last Line: With these thy holy priesthood dwells. Variant Title(s): In A Cathedral Subject(s): Churches; Creation; God; Nature; Spring; Cathedrals THOUGHTS ON MY SICK BED, by DOROTHY WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And has the remnant of my life Last Line: I thought of nature's loveliest-scenes; %and with memory I was there Subject(s): Nature; Sickness THOUGHTS ON THE CONSTITUTION OF HUMAN NATURE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strong passions draw, like horses that are strong Last Line: As god's unerring spirit shall inspire. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THOUSAND-YEAR WAR, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Imagine, if you will, a people sleeping Last Line: Will we ever speak of it? Subject(s): Central America; Nature THREE IN TRANSITION, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I understood the beauty Last Line: Of the branches Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Williams, William Carlos (1883-19530 THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, by REBECCA S. PALFREY Poem Text First Line: What do the robins whisper about Last Line: At three o'clock in the morning. Subject(s): Nature; Robins; Summer THREE SONGS, by CLAUDE KOCH Poem Source First Line: Now equal night unsettles sleep Last Line: In feckless latitudes of march Subject(s): Change; Nature THREE STEPS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three steps there are our human life must climb Last Line: As touches the white rose and mystic dove. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THREE TEETH PULLED INCLUDING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The jaw's lonesome holes Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Teeth THREE TREES, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poplar is a french tree Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Nature; Oak Trees; Poplar Trees THREE TREES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The pine-tree grew in the wood Subject(s): Nature; Winter THREE WEEDS; FIREWEED, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For towhees, mice, and mule deer, fireweed blazes Last Line: Of a woman in a pickup, pulling over %to let him in. The burning. The flowering. Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Nature THREE WEEDS; HORSETAIL, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Swishing the flat backs of boxwood and stone, Last Line: The compost pile, until one stalk, one augur %of empire, clears the wall and lopes away. Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Weeds THREE WEEDS; PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another interloper staking out its claim- Last Line: The plowman cuts a switch of willow-herb and whips %the backs of broad animals, clearing the air. Subject(s): Nature; Weeds THRENODY, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In olive leaves a lyre hung Last Line: And lo! 'tis only wind that grieves. Subject(s): Leaves; Nature; Orchards THRESHOLDS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: In the solitude of the plains Last Line: I am a painter who walks Subject(s): Leaves; Nature; Paintings And Painters THRESHOLDS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High on the reef, the chalk-dry barnacles Last Line: With eyelids shut and trembling, the mind's eye staring Subject(s): Environment; Nature THROUGH THE BEARDED BARLEY, by O. R. HOWARD THOMSON Poem Text First Line: Through the bearded barley where summer winds / were blowing Last Line: And the elm-tree's shadow ever farther stealing. Subject(s): Nature THROUGH THE STORM, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Dogs bark through the storm tonight Last Line: To distant barking in the rain Subject(s): Earth; Nature THROUGH THE WOOD (BY DARTMOOR, SEPT. 1893), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day long upon her throne Last Line: Now the heart must beat alone! Subject(s): Hearts; Nature; Reason; Solitude; Travel; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips THROW OUT THE ANCHOR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Out of my mind at last Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Hearts; Nature; Reason THROWN ASIDE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! I have loved thee fondly Last Line: My love can never fade! Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Worship THUS, SPEAK THE CHROMOGRAPH, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saying: one night in a cloud chamber Last Line: Run toward the sea) Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Crane, Hart (1899-1932); Nature; Reading TIGER, by STEVEN OSTERLUND Poem Source First Line: He lay %under slices Last Line: Gorged on sex and a startled %villager Subject(s): Nature TIMBERLINE, by JESSIE M. GILMORE Poem Text First Line: When twilight falls on timberline Last Line: As sweetly as a vesper hymn. Subject(s): Nature; Trees; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes TIME FLEW IN AND OUT OF THE WINDOW, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Until she dropped dead in the kitchen Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Time TIME MAKES US SUPPLICANT WHORES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The bottle's iron mouth suckles the brain dry Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Carver, Raymond (1939-1988); Nature; Time TIME MENDS, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time mends a ruined wall as well Last Line: Are singing vernal orisions. Subject(s): Healing; Nature; Repairing; Time; Cures; Mending TIME OF CLEARER TWITTERINGS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time of crisp and tawny leaves Last Line: In the thicket while he sings! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Brooks; Harvest; Nature; Seasons; Fall; Streams; Creeks TIME OF DISTURBANCE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The best is, in war or faction or ordinary vindictive Last Line: To strike dead than strike often. It is better not to strike Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature TIPPECANOE RIVER, by MARTIN WALLS Poem Source First Line: Two herons stretching. Their necks smoke through a cross-hatch of boughs Last Line: The way a filigree of cobwebs in the lowest branches catches & holds the light Subject(s): Herons; Nature; Rivers TIS MOONLIGHT, SUMMER MOONLIGHT, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Nature TITHE, by DAVID AXELROD Poem Source First Line: Some apples always remain Last Line: Jabber as though at their jubilee Subject(s): Nature; Tithes TO - . LINES WRITTEN AFTER A SUMMER DAY'S EXCURSION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair nature's priestesses! To whom Last Line: The hymns of gods to hear! Subject(s): Nature TO A BEAUTIFUL BUT HEARTLESS COQUETTE, by FRANCISCO DE TERRAZAS Poem Source First Line: Renounce those threads of twisted gold Last Line: To be grateful, cruel, vain, austere! Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Nature; Spring TO A BEE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou wert out betimes, thou busy busy bee Last Line: Woe then for thee, thou busy busy bee! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Labor & Laborers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Teaching & Teachers; Beekeeping; Bugs; Work; Workers TO A BUTTERFLY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Butterfly Last Line: While with thee I wander! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature - Religious Aspects; Wandering & Wanderers; Bugs; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes TO A CHILD OF FIVE YEARS OLD, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fairest flower, all flowers excelling Last Line: Evergreens! Which ne'er decay. Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Flowers; Nature TO A DRY ELM, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the old elm split in two by a ray Last Line: Another miracle of spring Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Nature; Rivers; Spring TO A FALLEN TREE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: O thou grand monarch of the spacious wood Last Line: For her dead kings; it is indeed thy due. Subject(s): Autumn; Courts & Courtiers; Nature; Seasons; Trees; Fall TO A GENTLEMAN, ON HIS INTENDING TO CUT DOWN A GROVE ..., by ELIZABETH CARTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In plaintive sounds, that tun'd to woe Last Line: Unknown to solar fire; %and what excludes apollo's rage, %shall harmonize his lyre Subject(s): Nature TO A HERMIT THRUSH, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dweller among leaves, and shining twilight boughs Last Line: My wings must fail e'en with my song. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Thrushes TO A LOVER OF BIRDS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the window ropes of nuts Last Line: And send all bedward, well content. Subject(s): Birds; Nature TO A NEST OF YOUNG THRUSHES, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear little birds, you're ready now to fly Last Line: From day to day. Subject(s): Birds; Explorers; Nature; Solitude; Youth; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Loneliness TO A NIGHTINGALE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O nightingale! How hast thou learnt Last Line: Round whom the future sings! Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Nightingales TO A TROUBLESOME FLY, by THOMAS MACKELLAR Poem Source First Line: What! Here again, undomitable Subject(s): Nature TO A WATERFOWL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither, midst falling dew Last Line: Will lead my steps aright. Variant Title(s): The Waterfowl Subject(s): Birds; Faith; God; Migration; Nature; Religion; Soldiers; Waterfowl; Belief; Creed; Theology TO A YOUNG LADY; WHO ... REPROACHED FOR TAKING LONG WALKS IN COUNTRY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear child of nature, let them rail! Last Line: Shall lead thee to thy grave. Variant Title(s): The Child Of Nature Subject(s): Nature TO AN ALASKAN GLACIER, by CHARLES AUGUSTUS KEELER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the cloud world sweeps Subject(s): Alaska; Nature TO AN INDEPENDENT PREACHER, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In harmony with nature?' restless fool Last Line: Fool, if thou canst not pass her, rest her slave! Subject(s): Nature TO AN ISLAND PRINCESS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since long ago, a child at home Last Line: Tantira, tahiti, nov. 5, 1888. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Islands Of The Pacific; Nature; Tahiti; Travel; Oceania; Journeys; Trips TO AUTUMN, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness Last Line: And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. Variant Title(s): Ode To Autumn Subject(s): Autumn; Men; Nature; Seasons; War; Fall TO BAPTISTA TURRIANO, ON THE DEATH OF HIS SONS, by GIROLAMO FRACASTORO Poem Text First Line: Since with sweet balm the muse alone can heal Last Line: Together rush'd to form th' emerging world. Alternate Author Name(s): Fracastorius, Hieronnymus Subject(s): Creation; Death; Grief; Mourning; Nature; Parents; Sons; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Parenthood TO BE HERE, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The february road to the river is mud Last Line: Uncovered to the quiet soft day Subject(s): Nature TO CELIA, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old fictions say that love hath eyes Last Line: Who hath no ugliness to hate. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of TO CELIA, UPON LOVE'S UBIQUITY, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one that strives, being sick, and sick to death Last Line: I'll think on you, and by you think on heaven. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of TO CHAUNCEY HARE TOWNSHEND, ON HIS LINES PRAISING THE TRANQUILITY OF A, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh townshend! Couldst thou linger where scarce a ripple play'd Last Line: For health and hope are in thy song, thou deep full-voiced sea! Subject(s): Admiration; Nature TO CHLOE, by JOHN OLDMIXON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prithee, chloe, not so fast Last Line: Love without it will not please. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Patience TO CONTEMPLATION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faint gleams the evening radiance through the sky Last Line: And the calmed spirit loves the joy of grief. Subject(s): Contentment; Gifts & Giving; Grief; Happiness; Introspection; Life; Memory; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight TO DELIA: 1, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unto the boundless ocean of thy beauty Last Line: Who can show all his love doth love but lightly. Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of TO DELIA: 45, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Care-charmer sleep, son of the sable night Last Line: And never wake to feel the day's disdain. Variant Title(s): "to Delia: 51;sonnet On Sleep;to Delia: 49;""care-charmer Sleepe, Sonne Of The Sable Night""; Subject(s): Despair; Love; Nature; Night; Sleep; Bedtime TO EVERYTHING THAT ENDANGERS...', by CATHERINE FUCHS Poem Source Last Line: Between the gold and the night %of a wounded love Subject(s): Earth; Nature TO HAVE REVERENCE FOR LIFE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But leave when summoned by the gods Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Life; Nature TO HIS MISTRESS, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There comes an end to summer Last Line: Than love which is not free. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of TO HIS MISTRESS, by GEORGE VILLIERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a dull fool was I Last Line: To you alone, it always shall be true! Alternate Author Name(s): Buckingham, 2d Duke Of Subject(s): Love - Nature Of TO JANE: THE INVITATION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Best and brightest, come away! Last Line: In the universal sun. Variant Title(s): The Invitation Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Williams, Jane TO JEAN, by LURA PUTNAM CARR Poem Text First Line: I would give to thee only life's beautiful things Last Line: And a love that only true living brings. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of TO JOHN BURROUGHS, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From blossomed boughs and nesting birds Last Line: All nature hails her son, john burroughs. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Burroughs, John (1837-1921); Love; Nature TO JOHN MUIR, by PETER BORRELLI Poem Source First Line: Across the valley, blue hills Last Line: I am part of all time %and a geography called hope Subject(s): Environment; Nature TO L.C.P., by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the slow-moving shadows on the grass Last Line: From the sad eyes of dark mnemosyne. Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Heaven; Life; Nature; Youth; Nightmares; Paradise TO LOVE THEE, YEAR BY YEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And so I pieced it, with a flower, now Subject(s): Love – Nature Of TO MARY STUART, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All beauty, granted as a boon to earth Last Line: Her majesty should quite eclipse his own. Subject(s): Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Nature; Mary Stuart TO MOINA, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were no heaven but for lovers' eyes Last Line: And find his purple if his lady choose. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Love - Nature Of TO MY DAUGHTER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Learn to live, and live to learn Last Line: Reckless joys are fugitive! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Daughters; Learning; Nature TO MY ITALIAN PERGOLA REVISITED, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shaded avenue of bloom Last Line: That your glowing hearts are mine. Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Nature; Roses; Spring TO MY LOVE, by KJELL HJERN Poem Source First Line: You have as many defects as a pig has lice and you will rub against Last Line: With a great and insatiable appetite Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Passion TO MY MUCH ESTEEMED FRIEND ON HER PLAY, FATAL-FRIENDSHIP, by SARAH PIERS Poem Text First Line: With what concern I sat and heard you play Last Line: Our mutual friendship, may ne'er fatal be. Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Nature; Plays & Playwrights TO MY WIFE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long must elapse ere you behold again Last Line: Schooner equator. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods TO NATURE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my stern mother, aye, in that name loved Last Line: Receives, and bids be calm as it is calm. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Nature TO NATURE, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love thee, sweet, because thou art so sure Last Line: And a pale splendor satisfy the air. Subject(s): Nature TO NATURE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more I rise to offer with pure joy Last Line: On all the stars that shine and winds that blow. Subject(s): Happiness; Nature; Sea; Wind; Joy; Delight; Ocean TO NIGHT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Swiftly walk o'er the western wave Last Line: Come soon, soon! Variant Title(s): Night;to The Night Subject(s): Death; Nature; Night; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Bedtime TO ONE IN PARADISE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou wast all that to me, love Last Line: By what eternal streams. Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of TO ONE WHO SCANTS WORDS, by IRENE M. MORSE Poem Text First Line: Love me, my dear, and tell me that you do Last Line: Love me, my dear, and tell me that you do. Subject(s): Hearts; Language; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Romance; Words; Vocabulary TO PREVENT LEAKAGE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A jubilant drift downward Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Clouds; Nature TO S-----D (2), by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You all your youth observed the golden rule Last Line: Mine is the flesh the bones may be your share Subject(s): Bible; Human Behavior; Mythology; Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834); Conduct Of Life; Human Nature TO SENECA LAKE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On thy fair bosom, silver lake Last Line: And evening tells us toil is o'er! Subject(s): Inland Waters; Nature; Seneca Lake TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I beheld the fairest of her kind Last Line: And give more beauties, than he takes away. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1649-1723); Nature; Paintings & Painters; Speech Disorders; Voices; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Kniller, Gottfried; Stuttering; Muteness TO SWINBURNE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poet! Thou art to me a faery king Last Line: Sea, wind and sun, the gods who rule the earth. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean TO THE BURNIE BEE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blithe son of summer, furl thy filmy wing Last Line: Fit for the spring that waits beyond the tomb. Subject(s): Future Life; Insects; Ladybirds; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bugs; Ladybugs TO THE FURZE BUSH, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let burns and old chaucer unite Last Line: And beneficence learn from the furze! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes TO THE GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW IN ALASKA, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, minstrel of these borean hills Last Line: Between thy home and mine. Subject(s): Alaska; Nature; Sparrows TO THE HOUSATONIC AT STOCKBRIDGE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Contented river! In thy dreamy realm Last Line: By fall and shallow to the adventurous sea! Subject(s): Housatonic (river); Nature TO THE LADIES OF ENGLAND, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauties! -- (for, dressed with so much taste Last Line: A well-dressed english woman. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Beauty; England; Nature; Women; English TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While flattering crowds officiously appear Last Line: Because the centre of it is above. Subject(s): Holidays; Hyde, Edward. 1st Earl Of Clarendon; Nations; Nature; New Year; Politics & Government; War TO THE NIGHTJAR, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: When the moon hangs high in the heavens Last Line: Till thy song comes over the hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Nature; Night; Nightjars; Southern States; Bedtime; South (u.s.) TO THE SWEETWILLIAM, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I search the poet's honied lines Last Line: Sweetwilliam! Subject(s): Dramatists; Nature; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO THE TUNE OF INTOXICATED IN THE SHADOWS OF FLOWERS, by LI CH'ING-CHAO Poem Source First Line: Thin mist, dense clouds, a grief-stricken day; Last Line: And I am even thinner than a yellow flower Subject(s): Nature TO THE TUNE OF THE COVENTRY CAROL, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nearly right Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Love - Nature Of TO THE TUNE OF THE COVENTRY CAROL, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nearly right Last Line: Forget him and forget her Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Love - Nature Of TO THE WEST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to the crowded east Last Line: The singers and thinkers for whom we wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking TO THYRZA (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One struggle more and I am free Last Line: To that which cannot quit the dead? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love – Nature Of TO WORDSWORTH, by O. F. EMERSON Poem Source First Line: Poet of nature, thou didst teach to see Last Line: Thus having been, that thou shouldst cease to be Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; Poetry And Poets; Trees; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TO YOU I TURN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: To you I turn in time of stress Last Line: To you I turn! Subject(s): Despair; Love - Nature Of TODAY A PINK ROSE IN A VASE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tomorrow, petals Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Flowers; Nature TODAY'S MEDITATION, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fiery palm tree in front of me Last Line: I think of spain, all of it sold out, %river by river, mountain by mountain, sea to sea Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Nature; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) TOGETHER AGAIN, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It will rain tonight on the green, calcareous dunes Last Line: Will climb a tardy ladder to bite your forehead Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Nature; Togetherness TOLSTOY'S BEAR, by FRED CHAPPELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Disgusting russia, he told his diary Last Line: An early winter descended like silver blindness %where the count pawed over his russian cruelties Subject(s): Environment; Nature TOMORROW, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: The sun shall shine in ages yet to be Last Line: Revisions of the ruby and the rose. Subject(s): Future; Nature TOO HUMAN, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many are strong enough to reject riches? Last Line: And the scourge of need. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature TOO YOUNG TO KNOW, by CORNELIUS ROBERT EADY Poem Source First Line: One day, my father chopped down Last Line: If one day, I'll glance %out my window %at the sycamore, %and cluck my teeth Subject(s): Nature TOWARD A DEFINITION OF LOVE, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another time they were making love. It's even better Subject(s): Love - Nature Of TOWARD A DEFINITION OF LOVE, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another time they were making love. It's even better Last Line: Of the kids playing with a ball in the gutter Subject(s): Love - Nature Of TOWARD AN ORGANIC PHILOSOPHY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glow of my campfire is dark red and flameless Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Spring; Fall TOWARD AN ORGANIC PHILOSOPHY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glow of my campfire is dark red and flameless Last Line: And links the roll of a planet alike with the interests %of marmots and men' Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Spring TOWARD DANCE, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: So in love we are Last Line: We never in this world could have chosen Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature TOWARD NOW, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back then someone said, 'I will tell them a story Last Line: Willingly caught up, being part of what is Subject(s): Environment; Nature TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. AMONG THE FERNS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay among the ferns Last Line: Death shall change as the light 'twixt moonset and dawn. Subject(s): Equality; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Nature TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A MESSAGE COMMITTED TO THE WAVES, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see the waters flowing as of old - dancing, rippling Last Line: Arise! For great is your triumph! Subject(s): Humanity; Love - Nature Of TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A NEW LIFE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Henceforth I propound a new life for you Last Line: Your own your native abode. Subject(s): Nature TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. NEARER THAN EVER NOW, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I should be taken up into thee, o blue blue sky Last Line: Form. Subject(s): Love; Nature TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE LONG DAY IN THE OPEN, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hour after hour passes by, the sun wheels on Last Line: Dost thou not say what I have to say, are not our purposes one? Subject(s): Nature TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. IN A SCOTCH-FIR WOOD, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a scotch-fir wood Last Line: Go hence, and in the centuries come again! Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Trees; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. INDIA, THE WISDOM-LAND, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here also in india - wonderful, hidden - over thousands of miles Last Line: The precious semen of democracy. Subject(s): Himalayas (mountains); India; Jungles; Nations; Nature TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. LITTLE BROOK WITHOUT A NAME, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little brook without a name, that hast been my companion for so many years Last Line: And bear away on thy bosom, and scatter them likewise. Subject(s): Brooks; Love; Nature; Spring; Streams; Creeks TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE LAKE OF BEAUTY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let your mind be quiet, realising the beauty of the world Last Line: You. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE LOVER FAR ON THE HILLS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here on this high top far above the world Last Line: With the dear god that dwells behind them both. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mountain Climbing; Nature TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE SONG OF THE BIRDS, WHO HEARS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The song of the birds, who hears? In the high trees calling Last Line: And goal of its agelong pilgrimage. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Singing & Singers; Songs TRACKING THE DEAD, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Everything comes from and goes Last Line: Sing to the snow %still coming down Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature TRADITIONAL FROG'S CURSE, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: May you live %among cranes Last Line: Stay just beyond %your tongue Subject(s): Nature TRAGIC LOVE, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall invoke when we are gone Last Line: But some pure lustre from their light %all future worlds shall have Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of TRAIL IS NOT A TRAIL, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I drove down the freeway Last Line: And it faded away - %out in the open, %everywhere to go Subject(s): Nature TRAIN WINDOW GOING AND COMING, SELS, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ride backwards to see what I'm missing Last Line: I look forward to going back, either way Subject(s): Commuters; Fields; Nature; Railroads; Tourists; Travel TRANSCENDENT LOVE, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: In all the world, the greatest thing is love Last Line: By the sound in trumpet call—transcendent love. Subject(s): Happiness; Love - Nature Of; Joy; Delight TRANSFORMATION, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: This morning, leaves and small birds Last Line: In the rivers of this wind %that takes us all Subject(s): Earth; Nature TRANSIENT, by ELIZABETH SEYDEL MORGAN Poem Source First Line: Widening circles of thin gold swamp grass Last Line: The creator knows, and lets go Subject(s): Art And Artists; Creative Ability; Nature TRANSITION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O lay again thy hand in mine Last Line: Dear voice, speak on. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Love - Nature Of; Transience; Dead, The; Impermanence TRANSPOSITION, by AGNES MOORE FRYBERGER Poem Text First Line: I forget his name; but, oh, his smile Last Line: And put the cobbler in the music store? Subject(s): Human Behavior; Retail Trade; Shoes; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers TRASHING OF GATLINBURG, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty is momentary in the land Last Line: While nature and greed, like lovers, interlock %stretched out in gatlinburg, with greed on top Subject(s): Environment; Nature TRAVELERS: 1, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: How did we come here? Last Line: Finally: shoes, jewelry, photographs Subject(s): Central America; Nature TRAVELERS: 2, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Flimsy as the reeds that scratch her bony cheekbone, the world is a Last Line: Essential landscape. Our hearts grew light when the burden of trying %to save ourselves lifted Subject(s): Central America; Nature TRAVELERS: 3, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: A man and a woman enter the landscape, moving clumsily Last Line: Whispers: brother, we will find it Subject(s): Central America; Nature TREASURE WHAT YOU FIND, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Already in your pocket, friend Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Contentment; Nature TREE, by JOSE JOAQUIN OLMEDO Poem Source First Line: In the calm, wide-spreading shadow Last Line: Underneath the desert's tree Subject(s): America - Exploration; Nature; Sea Voyages; Travel; Trees TREE ALSO DIED THE EXACT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A lower branch Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Nature; Ravens; Trees TREE SONG, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between dirt dark and giddy sky Last Line: My secret hardwood no bud ever knew Subject(s): Environment; Nature TREES, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Time is never wasted, listening to the trees Subject(s): Nature TREES ARE DOWN, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are cutting down the great plane-trees at the end of the gardens Last Line: But I, all day, I heard an angel crying: %'hurt not the trees Subject(s): Bible; Nature; Religion; Trees TREES BE COMPANY, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When zummer's burnen het's a-shed Last Line: The trees would still be company. Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Pleasure; Seasons; Solitude; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Loneliness TREES IN AUTUMN, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: --when the summer's gone out of them Last Line: Defenseless. Now %we see through them Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Weather TREES LIKE TASSELS -- HIT -- AND SWUNG, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of nature's - summer day Variant Title(s): Poem: 606; Poem: 52 Subject(s): Nature; Summer TREES STANDING SENTRY, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Geese dreaming north drift Last Line: Kings of the axe with eyes %like wolves Subject(s): Nature TREES STAY IN PLACE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Our last track is a skull Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature TRELAWNY BURNED SHELLEY'S HEART, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Were waiting for transplants Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Mary Wollenstonecraft Godwin; Trelawney, Sir Jonathan (1650-1721) TRIADS: 1, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word of the sun to the sky Last Line: Who knows all three? Subject(s): Life; Nature; Secrets; Sun TRIFLES, by J. COLESWORTHY Poem Source First Line: A raindrop is a little thing Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons TRILCE: 1, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who's making all that racket, not even leaving testation to the islands beginning to appear Subject(s): Islands; Nature TRINITY, by ERIN NOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: That night it rained - Last Line: The shatterer of worlds Subject(s): Nature; Trinity, The TRIPTYCH: JUMP STUDIES: 1. CATARACT, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: He hangs, toe- %holds and hands almost Last Line: If any of us shouted, %none would hear Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) TRIPTYCH: JUMP STUDIES: 2. DIVIDE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: The rock stops, drops %near- vertical, there Last Line: The singular, %slight drumming %of his stride Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) TRIPTYCH: JUMP STUDIES: 3. KILL SITE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Open grass chitter %dickcissel rock Last Line: We don't talk stop %breathe imagine back Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) TRIUMPHANT LIFE AGAIN, by CARMEN NELSON RICHARDS Poem Text First Line: Last week I sat in thoughtful mood, alone Last Line: And gay life reigns where late death's ruin lay. Subject(s): Happiness; Nature; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Joy; Delight TROUT STREAM, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Great fish %hang in the swift waters Last Line: You too may hear them singing %flesh to flesh Subject(s): Earth; Nature TROUTING, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With slender rod, and line, and Subject(s): Nature TRUANT, by S. A. HUDSON Poem Source First Line: Tommy thought there was nobody looking Subject(s): Nature; Summer TRUE GREATNESS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sad that all great things are sad Last Line: With baby flowers at his feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature TRUE LOVE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True love. Is it normal Subject(s): Love - Nature Of TRUE LOVE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True love. Is it normal Last Line: Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die Subject(s): Love - Nature Of TRUE LOVE'S REWARD, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Love, walking in the garden of the king Last Line: And lo! The king made him an honored guest. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Flowers; Love; Love - Nature Of TRUE OR FALSE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So you think you love me, do you? Last Line: We will -- wait and see! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Soul TRUST SNOW TO KEEP IT A SECRET, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Snow TULIPS, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: They are the breathing that passes Last Line: Over and over for all our days Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Herbs; Nature; Tulips TUNE-UP, by CARL DENNIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before tomorrow's timeless beauty of ripples Last Line: And he can turn to another as I drive off %caught up in the hum arriving from tomorrow Subject(s): Nature TURBULANCE, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Now and then an airplane Last Line: The pterodactyl sails on through the aether %unable to come home Subject(s): Earth; Nature TURKISH REFRAIN, by ALPHONSO GERALD NEWCOMER Poem Text First Line: The sunlight slants through the tremulous trees Last Line: For soon, ah, soon, spring passes away. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of TURTLE HAS JUST ONE PLAN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: At a time, and every cell %buys into it Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Turtles TURTLES, by ROBERT HAROLD SIEGEL Poem Source First Line: They have thought upon this log Last Line: Sunlight like moss %heavy on his tongue, %their chairman is still %clearing his throat Subject(s): Nature TUSCAN OLIVES: RISPETTO 1, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The colour of the olives who shall say? Last Line: As love is always love in tears or jest. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Olive Trees And Olives TWELVE ARTICLES, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lest it may more quarrels breed Last Line: And continue special friends. Subject(s): Friendship; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature TWENTY WAYS TO TIE A SARONG, by MARCIA SOUTHWICK Poem Source First Line: I'm fleeing the city - back to pine trees Last Line: We can always go to yuca, the [or, that] cuban upscale club for show-biz types Subject(s): Abandonment; Country Life; Nature TWICE HAD SUMMER HER FAIR VERDUE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For thy wandering bird? Variant Title(s): Poem: 846; Poem: 95 Subject(s): Nature TWILIGHT MUSIC, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know you the low pervading breeze Last Line: Blending divine delight with loveliest desire. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Bedtime TWILIGHT OF THE WOOD, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaf is no more now than corruption's scent Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Nature; Trees TWILIGHT VIEW, by W. S. RENDRA Poem Source First Line: The wet twilight calms the burning forest Last Line: I know this is a view which satisfies you %for you have worked so intently to create it Subject(s): Nature TWILIGHT, A ROOM ON RUSSIAN HILL, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: White orchids in the goldrose light Last Line: At the heart, a white perfection of petals Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature TWILIGHT-PIECE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden river-reach afar Last Line: This small strange touch of human pain! Subject(s): Evening; Fish & Fishing; Nature; Pain; Rivers; Sunset; Twilight; Suffering; Misery TWISTED MY ANKLE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Beating in my foot Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Pain TWO AND ONE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Two ears and only one mouth have you Subject(s): Nature; Winter TWO BUZZARDS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And a third just gliding in Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Buzzards; Nature TWO CAMPERS IN CLOUD COUNTRY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this country there is neither measure nor balance Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Canada; Nature; Canadians TWO CAMPERS IN CLOUD COUNTRY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this country there is neither measure nor balance Last Line: We'll wake blank-brained as water in the dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Canada; Nature TWO DUETS, FR. ARION, AN UNPUBLISHED MASQUE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aglai-a! Aglai-a! / sweet, awaken and be glad Last Line: An idle lie deluded! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Love; Nature TWO FAIRY TALE FIGURES GIVE ME ADVICE: 2. THE MAGIC BROOM, by MARCIA SOUTHWICK Poem Source First Line: Walk out into the fields without looking behind you Last Line: Carry this broom -- to sweep away each footprint behind you as you go Subject(s): Nature TWO FROM RANCHO CIENEGUILLA: MORNING, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The bird tracks in the dust Last Line: Shaking out her black and orange silks Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Passion TWO HEARTS IN A FOREST: LUSH LIFE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I could have gone to stringtown Last Line: Between the fern and dark thighs Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Life; Nature TWO LITTLE KITTENS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Nature; Winter TWO OF A TRADE, by SAMUEL WILLOUGHBY DUFFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dragon-fly and I together Last Line: And I at the oars, our course to hold. Subject(s): Nature; Summer TWO OLD MEN, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Men travel far and far away Subject(s): Nature TWO SONNETS: 2, by HANS ZINSSER Poem Source First Line: Now is death merciful. He calls me hence Last Line: Then, ageless, in your heart I'll come to rest %serene and proud as when you loved me best Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of TWO SQUIRRELS FIGHT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: While chipmunks continue feeding Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fights; Nature; Squirrels TWO SWANS, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One morning during carnival they found two Last Line: Fixedly into a fixed and empty sky. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Old Age TWO VIEWS OF BUSON, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A french scholar says he affected the chinese manner Last Line: He saw bubbles of crab-froth among the river reeds Subject(s): Nature; Love TWO WISE OWLS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We are two dusky owls, and we live in a tree Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons TZU YEH SONG: 5, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I have brought my pillow and am lying at the northern window Last Line: How long do you think our love can last? Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.);love - Nature Of UBI SUNT, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Sometime near dawn the fog moved Last Line: Now, now, now, they all call out Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Nature; November; Weather; West (u.s.) ULTIME THULE, by LINDA BIERDS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little candlewax on the thumbnail, liquid Subject(s): Nature UNCERTAIN, by MARY M. WOOLEY Poem Text First Line: Can I be sure that love is still for me? Last Line: A muted melody, complete? Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Time UNCERTAIN THE FINAL RUN TO WINTER, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: Summer, %a fat horse Last Line: I see myself as statue weathered, %sitting its saddle like an ichabod Subject(s): Nature UNCOMMON NUMBER OF US DIE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And abruptly you're back home Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birthdays; Death; Nature UNCONSCIOUS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds, the stars, and the skies though Last Line: Nor heeds the fire in his hearth and home. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): God; Human Behavior; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature UNCOVERING SPRING VIOLETS BEFORE THEIR TIME, by BILLY C. CLARK Poem Source First Line: I raked some winter leaves away Last Line: Anxiety had been mine Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Leaves; Nature; Violets UNDER CANVAS; IN MUSKOKA, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lichens of green and grey on every side Last Line: The owl's uncanny cry, the wild loon's laugh. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Nature; Night; Bedtime UNDER HARSH LIGHT, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: On the white wall, under harsh light Last Line: Towards the unimaginable - and make it back! Subject(s): Nature UNDER THE PALISADES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light as a leaf on the lifting swell Last Line: I shall be deathless when ye are naught! Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; Nature; New York City; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple UNDER THE PINES, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the pines with her hair in a tangle Last Line: Still tossing her flowers she stands as of old. Subject(s): Nature; Pine Trees; Trees UNDER THE STORYTELLER'S HAT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Are many heads, all troubled Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Affliction; Grief; Nature; Story-telling UNDER THE SUN, by T. K. ANDRES-EAMES Poem Source First Line: A dying snake gleams upright in the sun Last Line: What darkness makes such oddness of us all Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Snakes UNDERSTANDING, by ANNA HOLM POGUE Poem Text First Line: No longer drab and meaningless, at last Last Line: For love is truth, and it has set me free. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of UNDERSTANDING THE UNIVERSE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're told how the great mazy world we wander Subject(s): Nature UNDERSTANDING THE UNIVERSE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're told how the great mazy world we wander Last Line: At a page a second, take ten thousand years Subject(s): Nature UNEASY RIDER, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Falling in love with a mustache Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Motorcycles UNEXAMPLED FEAR, by SYDNEY LEA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black thieves, red-tailed darters Last Line: With day, its sweetness, woe %the frank sun burning south Subject(s): Environment; Nature UNHOLY SONNET 13, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drunk on the umbrian hills at dusk and drunk Last Line: Our bodies, bread, a sharp umbrian wine Subject(s): God; Nature UNHOLY SONNETS: 4, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So many creatures and so many minds Last Line: Were not a way of loving our own kind Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 4 Subject(s): Creation; Nature UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN WITH HORSE, by GEORGE LOONEY Poem Source First Line: It's how birds mimic the horse's mane, strung in the dead elm Last Line: Maybe the horse is the point of this, the only thing not left Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Nature; Women UNINTERPRETED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Supinely we lie in the grove's Last Line: Born of a rose or a patter of rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Trees; Wind UNION IN DISSEVERANCE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset worn to its last vermilion he Last Line: One. More one than the bridally embraced. Subject(s): Evening; Evening Star; Love - Nature Of; Sunset; Twilight UNKNOWN FAIR FACES, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I am faithful to my loves lived through Last Line: My heart she goes from -- never from my sight! Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of UNKNOWN TERRAIN: THE LANDSCAPES OF ANDREW WYETH [WHITNEY MUSEUM 1998], by FRANCES RICHEY Poem Source First Line: [1. Winter fields for gail] it isn't the crow talons crossed Last Line: Holding itself up to the cold the wind %the beauty of the root Subject(s): Nature; Winter UNMARKED, by ETHELYN MILLER HARTWICH Poem Text First Line: Unrecognized Last Line: Has energized. Subject(s): Nature UNNATURAL ACTS, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: Somewhere along the line Last Line: Style, style, style Subject(s): Dreams; Hitchhikers; Hotels; Nature; Travel UNSATISFACTORY, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have other lovers - say, my love Last Line: "I'll see what I can do." Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Love - Nature Of UNSEEN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are more things in heaven and earth Last Line: And know a world of mystery is near. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Life; Nature; Wisdom UNSOLVABLE, by SUDIE STUART HAGER Poem Text First Line: Why his wife deserted him, he simply couldn't see Last Line: Saying that in nature she saw god! Subject(s): Nature UNTIL DEATH, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make me no vows of constancy, dear friend Last Line: But while I live, be true! Subject(s): Fidelity; Human Behavior; Faithfulness; Constancy; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature UNTITLED, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surely I am able to write poems Last Line: Another poem? Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Poetry & Poets UNTITLED, by ANDREW GENN-DORIAN Poem Source First Line: Her blue jacket Last Line: Counting the hills of graves %rather than the geese Subject(s): Nature UP IN THE CHIRICAHUAS, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: About 9,000 feet Last Line: Of secular epiphania Subject(s): Birds; Nature UPSTREAM, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: The fetal bear who floats Last Line: They follow still, as they swim upstream? Subject(s): Earth; Nature URBAN GALLERY, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the wind invades the treetops Subject(s): Human Behavior; City & Town Life; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature VACATION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once there was a man who filmed his vacation Last Line: Would not be in it. He would never be in it Subject(s): Nature; Vacation VACATION, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The spirit of life has wrought upon the world Last Line: In whom we live, and move, and have our being. Subject(s): Life; Nature VAGABOND, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To tread the path of glory needs a braver soul than I Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Nature VAGABOND AT HOME, by RUTH WRIGHT KAUFFMAN Poem Source First Line: Oh, it's spring once more in france, and it's spring Subject(s): Nature VAGABONDS, by SARA HAMILTON BIRCHALL Poem Source First Line: Upon us vagabonds who take Subject(s): Nature VAGRANT, by GEORGE ELLISTON Poem Text First Line: My heart is anywhere Last Line: Or laggard anywhere. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of VALENTINE, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou canst make the frost be gone Last Line: Thou dost not so! Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; Valentine's Day VALLEY OF THE ELK, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: The valley is wide and long Last Line: In the valley of the elk Subject(s): Nature VAPOR TRAILS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Vapor trails crisscross the blue Last Line: But soon they're gone Subject(s): Nature VARIATIONS ON A THEME, by PAUL MARIANI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miami sunlight, as in a painting Subject(s): Nature VARIATIONS ON A THEME, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miami sunlight, as in a painting Last Line: Three dots drifting slowly out to sea Subject(s): Nature VARIATIONS ON THE HORIZONTAL: 1. EQUINOX, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Cormorants crossing the air Last Line: The quick %confluence of edges Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) VARIATIONS ON THE HORIZONTAL: 2. EMERGENCE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: In the first world, nothing %had spoken. Therefore, distances Last Line: But lifting from the level ground, %the charred, dark statues gaze Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) VARIATIONS ON THE HORIZONTAL: 3. CLOVIS POINT WITH MASTODON, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Already the world %was changing, the plain Last Line: To propulsive, sudden tumors, %lead within the breast Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) VARIATIONS ON THE HORIZONTAL: 4. SAVANNA, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Like melody caught in the mind's %fond ear, the grasslands sang Last Line: In wind, the flames raced %sideways %and I stood up Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) VARIATIONS: 16, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against an orange twilight sky Last Line: The streetlamp gleams like an evil eye. Subject(s): Nature VELIZY: THE MYSTIC HOUR, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: All's silent, save a murmuring. This evening, standing in the wheat Last Line: And all the wheat is bowed in prayer. Subject(s): Nature VENTURESOME BUDS, by A. C. Poem Source First Line: Last autumn, when winter was taking Subject(s): Nature; Spring VENUS THREAD, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Here is the gold coin spinning Last Line: Who we are, what we will become? Subject(s): Central America; Nature VERMILION FLYCATCHER FLEW TOO FAR NORTH, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But don't mind it. I rise again the third day Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Nature; United States VERMONT SPRING, by LETHA ELLIOTT Poem Source First Line: Walking in spring Last Line: To breathe the wooded air Subject(s): Nature; Vermont VERNAL EQUINOX, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Like the ginkgo wearing the weight Last Line: Into the cups of our hands Subject(s): Forests; Nature VERSE AT THE MILLENNIUM, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER PRESFIELD Poem Source First Line: Looking back upstream, beyond Last Line: Guarding its wounded pride Subject(s): Millenium; Nature VERSES DESCRIPTIVE OF AN EARLY MORNING WALK IN APRIL: 1830, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blithe voice o' spring through the woodlan's was ringin' Last Line: "an' will lo'e till I leave't for ""the lan' o' the leal." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Walking VERSES ON HEARING THAT AN AIRY AND PLEASANT SITUATION .. NEW BUILDINGS, by MARIA LOGAN Poem Text First Line: There was a time! That time the muse bewails Last Line: And give youth, ease and health to thy enfeebling arms. Subject(s): Industrial Revolution; Leeds, England; Nature VERSES ON THE CALDER IN ITS COURSE BY ST. ENOCH'S, ROSEHALL, ETC., by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone calder! Sweet calder! Beloved of my youth Last Line: A song that is nameless thy beauties to sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Nature; Past; Youth VERSES WRITTEN IN A GARDEN, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See how that pair of billing doves Last Line: The pedant priest, and giddy rake. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Government; Nature; Pleasure; Religion; Virtue; Theology VERSES: THE THIRD BOY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crime in a poet, sirs, to steal a thought?' Last Line: Sluggishly saunt'ring forth, makes none of them his own. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Human Behavior; Plagiarism; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature VERTICALS, by HELEN DANFORTH PRUDDEN Poem Text First Line: How many verticals there are! Last Line: My spirit cries its impotence. Subject(s): Nature VERY LEAVES OF THE ACACIA-TREE ARE LONDON, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And sparrows are free of all the time in the world: %less than a window-pane between Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Trees VESTIGIA, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I took a day to search for god Last Line: I knew god dwelt within my heart. Subject(s): God; Nature VICISSITUDE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O blithe and bonny! When woods are green Last Line: Unto no earthly spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Forests; Love - Nature Of; Spring; Woods VINE, by SUSAN FROMBERG SCHAEFFER Poem Source First Line: I believe, I said %in the resurrection of all the dumb things Last Line: Our world %not yours Subject(s): Environment; Nature VIOLET, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love all things the seasons bring Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Nature; Spring VIOLET LIGHTNINGS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I would image her features Last Line: My soul basks on for hours. Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of VIOLETS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Violets, shy violets! Last Line: Will wait on mine and gladden me! Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Nature; Violets VIOLIN SONGS: AUTUMN SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn clouds are flying, flying Last Line: Burns to hues of spring. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Nature; Seasons; Spring; Fall; Dead, The VIOLIN SONGS: LOVE IS HOME, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is the part, and love is the whole Last Line: Home unto thee, we are coming home! Subject(s): Creation; God; Home; Love; Nature VIOLIN SONGS: PICTURE SONGS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pale green sky is gleaming Last Line: Still it rises again! Subject(s): Death; Horseback Riding; Longing; Love; Nature; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean VIOLIN SONGS: WILD FLOWERS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Content primroses, / with hearts at rest in your thick leaves' soft care Last Line: Of a past, age-long somnolence ! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; God; Nature; Dead, The VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: SATIRE: 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To what ende did our lauish auncestours Last Line: Let swinish grill delight in dunghill clay. Subject(s): Muses; Nature; Pain; Suffering; Misery VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 7. THE IMPECUNEOUS FOP, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seest thou how gayly my young maister goes Last Line: Vntill the mawes wide mouth be stopt with store. Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Nature VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vvhat boots it pontice, tho thou could'st discourse Last Line: More than his life, or lands, or golden line. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Life; Nature; War; Heritage; Heredity VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 5: SATIRE: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The satire should be like the porcupine Last Line: For welthy thames to change his lowly rhene. Subject(s): Nature; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Porcupines; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect VIRGINIA RAIL, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: The eye lifts to the shimmer %of sky and water Last Line: Beside the salt marsh squinting, trying to see Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) VIRTUE OF DEPARTURES, by CORINNE GIROUD Poem Source First Line: Field of white seagulls... We kept ourselves at the edge furthest from Last Line: Myself as I move away Subject(s): Nature VISIONS IN VERSE: 1. SLANDER, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lovely girl, I write for you Last Line: And skulk'd away to shun the light. Subject(s): Defamation; Human Behavior; Slander; Libel; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature VISIONS IN VERSE: 8. LIFE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let not the young my precepts shun Last Line: The genius suddenly withdrew. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Life; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature VISIT OF THE HAWK, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: Across the blank blue of my study window Last Line: Grandly feathered breast but merely a slightly %bobbing twig Subject(s): Nature VISITATION, by BRUCE BERGER Poem Source First Line: I stargazed from my bedroll Last Line: Scrawl of our galaxy Subject(s): Camping; Nature VITAMINS AND ROUGHAGE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strong ankled, sun burned, almost naked Subject(s): Humanity; Nature VITAMINS AND ROUGHAGE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strong ankled, sun burned, almost naked Last Line: Vanish in the gymnopaedia Subject(s): Humanity; Nature VOICE IN SILENCE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ghast in white moonshine shone the frozen / bones Last Line: Sudden, in a muted world, your human note. Subject(s): Love; Nature; Silence VOTIVE TABLETS: GENIUS, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Intellect can repeat what's been fulfill'd Last Line: In nature's kingdom nature to enlarge! Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Genius; Nature VOYAGER, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: It probes the solar system Last Line: Among the stars Subject(s): Earth; Nature WAIT, by TIMOTHY OTIS PAINE Poem Text First Line: Nature alway is in tune Last Line: But my life became a song. Subject(s): Nature; Waiting WAITED ALL DAY FOR THE MOON TO RISE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I can't believe my luck Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Moon; Nature WAITING FOR EASTER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The clarion march wind! Its wild, defiant greeting Last Line: We will wait the coming of the blessed easter day! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Nature; Waiting; The Resurrection WAITING FOR GRUSHENKA IN WEST VIRGINIA, by VINCENT HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: Already, the moon. What wouldn't come with such Last Line: And in the labored hum-joy of bees at sage Subject(s): Nature; West Virginia WAITING FOR MR. TING AT HIS MOUNTAIN PAVILION, YEH-SHIH, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun burns out past western peaks Last Line: A lonely lute attends his vine-hung path Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Nature WAKE UP, LITTLE DAISY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Nature; Spring WALK, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday the only day we don't work Last Line: Stoppt and swam and ate my lunch Subject(s): Nature WALK IN SPRING, by M. A. STODDART Poem Source First Line: I'm very glad the spring is come: the sun shines out so bright Subject(s): Nature; Spring WALK IN WINTER, by JEANNINE DOBBS Poem Source First Line: Walking over the crest of naticook hill Last Line: As if I have suffered a great loss or blessing Subject(s): Environment; Nature WALKING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking back on a chill morning past kilmer's lake Last Line: Dark endless weight of water. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Hunting; Nature; Walking; Water; Hunters WALKING AT NIGHT, by AMORY HARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My face is wet with the rain Alternate Author Name(s): Hutchinson, Amory Hare Subject(s): Nature WALKING BESIDE A CREEK, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The lifeblood thudding %in their tight, wet boots Subject(s): Nature WALKING IN AUTUMN, by FRANCES HOROVITZ Poem Source First Line: We have overshot the wood Last Line: And, our breath caught, not trembling now, %a strange reluctance to enter within doors Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Trees WALKING IN TALL GRASS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Small toad Last Line: I must watch for us both Subject(s): Nature WALKING MEDITATION, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm the first tall animal Subject(s): Walking; Nature WALKING MY LIFE, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Striding away from my house when the sun was hot and high Last Line: In my lungs this steady exultant breathing in %and breathing out Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature WALKING ON BACK ROADS, by BARBARA CROOKER Poem Source First Line: Hazy mid-summer evenings Last Line: And we keep walking down the road, %the darkness turning to wine Subject(s): Environment; Nature WALKING ON THE BEACH, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside the ocean flow great rivers Last Line: That its glance almost makes us disappear Subject(s): Nature; Seashore WALKING THROUGH A NARROW STRIP OF WOODS, by TOM HENNEN Poem Source First Line: Pines, as always, pried at the sky with their tips, ignoring the wind mak Last Line: Are allowed to pity everything, except ourselves Subject(s): Grass; Nature; Pine Trees; Trees; Wood WALKING TO COOTEHILL, by JOHN ENGELS Poem Source First Line: It has been a long walk to cootehill Last Line: To shudder, hover and bare %to the general mockery %my unbecoming skull Subject(s): Nature WALKING, SELS., by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We hug the earth, - how rarely we mount! Methinks we might elevate Last Line: With a sudden gush return to my senses Subject(s): Earth; Forests; Nature WALL AND IVY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Root that partakes of stone Last Line: With stone and ivy one. Subject(s): Leaves; Nature; Poison Ivy WALL IN THE WOODS: CUMMINGTON, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it for, now that dividing neither Last Line: With one life through all changes, %and of how we are enlarged %by what estranges Subject(s): Nature WALTZ, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: We live a life of ever-two Last Line: Should hang its head for the city's shame Subject(s): Botany And Botanists; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Travel WANDER LURE, by KENDALL BANNING Poem Source First Line: The robin's on the wing again; I hear the call o' spring Subject(s): Nature WANDERING OF THE BIRDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Autumn has come, so bare and gray Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons WANDERLUST, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The highways and the byways, the Last Line: Never a look or a turning back till the dust shall claim the dust! Subject(s): Nature; Wandering & Wanderers WANTED: LOOKING FOR OWL ROOSTS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For pellets for science project Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Owls; Science WARM-BLOODED ANIMALS, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: The elk's massive beauty, the speed Last Line: The harsh musk of their untamed cells Subject(s): Nature WARNING, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Nature without a plan? Last Line: Simply dislodgement. Subject(s): Nature; World War Ii; Second World War WASHING OUR HANDS OF THE REST OF AMERICA, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water is moving again in the lakes of central america Subject(s): Allergies; Disease; Earth; Nature; Pollution; Sickness; Water; World; Illness WASHING THE ROOTS OF THE MIND, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: They come up dangling, with the dirt Last Line: Is the way the forest grows %without distraction Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature WASP, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Has built his palace %in a bell Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Nature; Wasps WATCHERS, by ROBERT PACK Poem Source First Line: And so I'm linked to you Last Line: Dividing, and divided from the rest, %forming a monster embryo Subject(s): Nature WATER IS TAUGHT BY THIRST, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Birds, by the snow Subject(s): Nature WATER SPIDER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But cannot shake the lake Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Insects; Nature; Spiders; Water WATER TABLE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shy the attraction / of simple rain to the east wind Last Line: To write his name Subject(s): Autumn; Brooks; Mines & Miners; Mountains; Nature; Seasons; September; Water; Fall; Streams; Creeks; Hills; Downs (great Britain) WATERCOLORS AT YEAR'S END, by ANDRES ROJAS Poem Source First Line: Your trees were, rightly, secondary Last Line: Never the grace of a blank page Subject(s): Colors; Nature WAVE, by MARK JARMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always offshore, or already broken, gone Subject(s): Nature; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore WAVE, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always offshore, or already broken, gone Last Line: Swelling again with pleasure; %all riders lifted easily as light Subject(s): Nature; Seashore WAVES, by MARCIA SOUTHWICK Poem Source First Line: The waves break against the shore with the force Last Line: Performing their subtle calculations, %will cancel me out of the equations Subject(s): Nature WAY A SPRINGER SPANIEL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I was once a lover like that Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Love Affairs; Nature; Past WAY OF LIFE, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: After twenty years, judgment returned Last Line: Brave soul's template of tracks Subject(s): Nature WAY OUT IN THE LOCAL WILDERNESS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Pigeon-toed, aimless Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Footprints; Nature; Solitude WAYS TO BE UNIMPORTANT, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Helped this morning by the large soggy leaves Last Line: And the flat, disintegrating leaves Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature WE ARE ENTITLED TO LOVE AUTUMN, by MAHMOUD DARWISH Poem Source First Line: We are entitled to love the end of this autumn and ask Last Line: We are entitled to die the way we want to die. Let the land hide in an %ear of wheat Subject(s): Nature WE ARE MADE, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are made - pure by power Last Line: I lift my hands - marker of fists, honorary %all that is left simple - runs down my veins Subject(s): Nature WE FEED THE BLUE JAYS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The opportunity to do so narrows Subject(s): Life; Nature WE FLAP OUR GUMS, OUR WATTLES, OUR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Watching the bellies of passing birds Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Human Behavior; Nature WE IN THE SHAPE OF A WET FEATHER, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: From the springs, he said, set forth Last Line: Circular shadow on the springs, he said, a star bait in %flames Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Rain; Spring WE OUTGROW LOVE LIKE OTHER THINGS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Like costumes grandsires wore Subject(s): Love – Nature Of WE SHOULD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And wait for the door %to open Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Nature; Waiting WE SHOULD NOT MIND SO SMALL A FLOWER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And dandelions gold Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Melancholy WE SPY THE FORESTS AND THE HILLS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Some wednesday afternoon? Subject(s): Nature WE THANK THEE (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: For flowers that bloom about our feet Subject(s): Nature; Summer WE'LL GO NO MORE THE WOODLAND WAY, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: We'll go no more the woodland way, the laurel-leaves are clipt. Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods WEATHER-COCK'S COMPLAINT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: No wonder he creaks as the winds go by Subject(s): Nature; Spring WEAVING, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day she stands before her loom Last Line: "thy sister's keeper know thou art!" Subject(s): Life; Nature; Weaving & Weavers; Women WEBSTER, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did all manly gifts in webster fail? Last Line: He wrote on nature's grandest brow, for sale. Subject(s): Nature; Social Protest; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) WEDNESDAY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gray rainwater lay on the grass in the late afternoon Last Line: Might drop his arms, that he had held up all day since the dew. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness WEEHAWKEN, 1820, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weehawken!-in thy mountain scenery yet Last Line: Nor feel the prouder of his native land. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Nature; Weehawken, New Jersey WEEK-END SONNETS, by JOHN FRENCH WILSON Poem Text First Line: Come out to our house any week-end in june Last Line: To dance among the red chrysanthemums. Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects WEIGHT OF SPEECH, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: Oh, but words are heavy Last Line: Where nothing listens, and the real work begins Subject(s): Nature WELCOME MAR OF MOONLIGHT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Before getting into bed Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Moon; Nature; Night WELCOME TO OCTOBER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, october, let my simple song Last Line: To the mild glories of the loving skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Nature; October WELCOME TO OCTOBER, 1867, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hail and bless thy presence, month most dear Last Line: Canst with soft magic charm life's weary hours. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; October; Seasons; Fall WELL, by ROSALIE SANARA PETROUSKE Poem Source First Line: By the backyard pump at my grandmother's house Last Line: I pulled harder on the handle Subject(s): Love; Nature WELL BEFORE DAWN I WOKE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On the cabin roof Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Comfort; Nature; Rain WERE NATURE MORTAL LADY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And by departure more Variant Title(s): Poem: 1762; Poem: 178 Subject(s): Nature WESTERN CIVILIZATION, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That woman still lives at her ranch Last Line: That just now shaded your eyes Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Stars; Wyoming WESTERN GREBE IN MOUNTAIN LIGHT, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: Twenty hours and four thousand feet %after last night's alpine hail Last Line: In the sun like water tossed %from the grebe's bright neck Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) WETLANDS, by RONALD SMITS Poem Source First Line: Let me legislate for wetlands Last Line: Rapids that we ride for pleasure Subject(s): Nature; Swamps WHALE AT TWILIGHT, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is enormous, but calm with evening Last Line: Tranquil as a fountain in a garden where no %wind blows Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Nature WHALE HEAT; FOR SCOTT MCVAY, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Whales dive into frigid waters Last Line: Seethes in their bones Subject(s): Earth; Nature WHAT DO I SEE, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A very little snail Last Line: Listen to them frfom here Subject(s): Women; Language; Nature WHAT FRANK, MARTHA AND I KNOW ABOUT THE DESERT, by ALICE SADONGEI Poem Source First Line: My mother Last Line: May be lizards or snakes %sleeping under the cool %stone Subject(s): Nature WHAT GOOD ARE THE STARS, by FRANK X. GASPAR Poem Source First Line: I apologize to the names of my failures Last Line: All gravity and speed, coming and going? Subject(s): Errors; Nature WHAT GOOD SHALL ALL MY LIFE DO ME', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No hope in life: yet is there hope Last Line: With love and cast their lots with you Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love – Nature Of WHAT HARMONIOUS IS WITH THEE, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Dear city of the living god! Subject(s): Nature; Poetry And Poets WHAT HAS BECOME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Today he won't kill flies Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Hunting; Nature WHAT I KNOW ABOUT OWLS, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They can break the night like glass Last Line: Rolling down its bloody pipe into %the fierce acids of its stomach Subject(s): Nature WHAT I LEARNED: DOGS WALK UPSTAIRS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tonight the moon owns this river Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Knowledge; Nature; Self WHAT I LIVE FOR, by GEORGE LINNAEUS BANKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I live for those who love me, / whose hearts are kind and true Last Line: And the good that I can do. Variant Title(s): Why Do I Live;my Aim Subject(s): Human Behavior; Religion; Service; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology WHAT I WOULD DO FOR WISDOM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Even on walks I follow the dog Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Wisdom WHAT IF EVERYONE YOU'VE LOVED, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of the young, who don't know it Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Loss Of; Nature; Old Age WHAT IS IT THE WIND HAS LOST, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Under each leaf? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Wind WHAT IS IT?, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who can say / is it a snowy egret? Subject(s): Nature; Animals WHAT IS LOVE, by ROBERT HEATH Poem Text First Line: Tis a child of phansie's getting Last Line: Tis all in all: without love nothing is. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of WHAT IS THERE, by CAROL SNYDER HALBERSTADT Poem Source First Line: There are these books Last Line: Their seeds shed, %season after season Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries; Nature WHAT LOSS IS, by JUDE NUTTER Poem Source First Line: What is it we are saying Last Line: And walk and not come back Subject(s): Loss; Nature WHAT LOVES, TAKES AWAY, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the nose of the pig in the market of firenze Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature WHAT MAKES THE GRIZZLIES DANCE, by SANDRA ALCOSSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: June and finally the snowpeas Last Line: To waltz the hills / like a beast? Subject(s): Nature WHAT MAKES THE GRIZZLIES DANCE, by SANDRA ALCOSSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: June and finally the snowpeas Last Line: Have you never wanted %to waltz the hills %like a beast? Subject(s): Nature WHAT PLEASURE: A NEW STRAW HAT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With a green brim to look through! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Hats; Nature WHAT PRIZES AND AWARDS WILL I GET FOR REVEALING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I know how to win the war but I'm not telling Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Soul WHAT REDRESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pray you, do not use this thing Last Line: There's nothing hurts like tenderness. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Prayer WHAT THE COAL SAYS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am as black as black can be Subject(s): Nature; Winter WHAT THE DARK PROPOSES, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: --but no, it isn't over for them yet Last Line: Gives answers to the questions that she poses, %another hungry feeder on the prowl Subject(s): Nature WHAT THE DAY GIVES, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Suddenly, sun. Over my shoulder Last Line: And to that most beautiful form of courage, %to be happy Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature WHAT THE POOL SAID, ON MIDSUMMER'S DAY, by LIZ LOCHHEAD Poem Source First Line: I've led you by my garrulous banks, babbling Last Line: I watch. You clentch, %clench and come into me Subject(s): Nature WHAT THE POOL SAID, ON MIDSUMMER'S DAY, by LIZ LOCKHEAD Poem Source First Line: I've led you by my garrulous banks, babbling Last Line: I watch, you clench, %clench and come into me Subject(s): Nature WHAT THE SNOWBIRDS SAID, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Cheep, cheep,' said some little snowbirds Subject(s): Nature; Winter WHAT THE WIND SAID, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I muse to-day, in a listless way Last Line: The winter storm-king sigh.' Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Nature; Wind; Human Race WHATEVER IT TAKES (2), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You be a red fox in rocky mountain park Last Line: Or eagle dives, you be the wind Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Animals; Nature WHEATLAND, PA, 1985, by DON FEIGERT Poem Source First Line: I traveled west from frantic jersey on interstate 80 across pennsylvania Last Line: The good old days, sit on gloss-painted benches by the river, and wait %for federal aid Subject(s): Environment; Nature WHEN A HAMMER SINGS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Its head is loose Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Tools WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she says margarita she means daiquiri. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Drinks & Drinking; Absence; Wine; Separation; Isolation WHEN EARLY MARCH SEEMS MIDDLE MAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When country roads begin to thaw Last Line: The spring is coming round this way. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Spring WHEN I AM DEAD, by LILLIAN R. WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Bury me not too deep Last Line: I shall be one with living things. Subject(s): Death; Nature; Relationships; Dead, The WHEN I AM WISE, by MARY GRAY Poem Source First Line: When I am wise in the speech of grass Last Line: From my outstretched hands Subject(s): Nature WHEN I FOUND MY TRACKS IN THE SNOW, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They turned the wrong way and went on Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Errors; Nature; Self-criticism WHEN I SEE TREES, by HELEN GIDDINGS Poem Text Last Line: Curve of a bough, could make my soul kneel still Subject(s): Trees; Nature WHEN I THINK OF A HEAVEN FOR YOU, by LISA BESKIN Poem Source First Line: I must remove everything Last Line: Who neither hurl themselves against the window, %nor imagine wings Subject(s): Heaven; Nature WHEN I TOUCHED HER LONG FEET, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I quit eating Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Admiration; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Women WHEN I WATCHED HER HANDS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I gave up everything I owned Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Admiration; Hands; Man-woman Relationships; Nature WHEN NEXT IT RAINS, by ROSALIE SANARA PETROUSKE Poem Source First Line: I go with him, his sister lori and niece angela Last Line: My flowered skirt blows in a distant wind Subject(s): Love; Nature WHEN SHE CALLS, by ROSALIE SANARA PETROUSKE Poem Source First Line: Sometimes she calls him %when I am there. The phone Last Line: Shaped into a perfect o Subject(s): Love; Nature WHEN SHE LEFT ME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It missed, first left, then right Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Lightning; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Storms WHEN THE COWS COME HOME, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Clink, clink, clink-clink, a-clinkety-clink' Last Line: And the dusk is here and my eyes are wet. Subject(s): Cows; Nature WHEN THE DAWN COMES LET IT COME SINGING, by JOHN KNOEPFLE Poem Source First Line: Steps in the garden Last Line: Where the world wanted its light Subject(s): Nature; Trees WHEN THE DIM DAY, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the dim day is buried Last Line: Will part nevermore! Subject(s): Rivers; Grief; Nature WHEN THE DOLLHOUSE WAS BUILT IN A MONTH'S WORK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You can hear its breathing a thousand miles Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dollhouses; Ghosts; Nature; Supernatural WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock Last Line: When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Hope; Nature; Seasons; Fall; Optimism WHEN THE ROLL IS CALLED UP YONDER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Maybe. But maybe not Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Doubt; Nature WHEN THERE WERE TREES, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I can remember when there were trees Last Line: And I can remember when there were trees Subject(s): Nature WHEN THEY LEAVE THE WORLD WILL BE AT PEACE, by GEORGE KEITHLEY Poem Source Last Line: Because they are too innocent %to survive Subject(s): Environment; Nature WHEN TIME PICKS APPLES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It eats them with the yellow teeth %of bees Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Time WHEN WE WERE VERY POOR ONE SPRING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That day: eating, drinking, singing, dancing Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Nature; Poverty WHEN WE WERE YOUNG WE TALKED, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The same lakes were bottomless in china Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Lakes; Nature WHEN WOMEN PLEASURE THEMSELVES, I HEARD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Then move on to greatness Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Sex WHEN YOU DRINK FROM DAWN'S LIGHT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You see the bottom of the cup Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dawn; Morning; Nature; Perception WHEN, TO THE ATTRACTIONS OF THE BUSY WORLD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Mingling most earnest wishes for the day Subject(s): Brothers; Nature WHERE A DEER FELL, by AL ORTOLANI Poem Source First Line: My daughter uncovers bones Last Line: Into more ancient flesh Subject(s): Deer; Nature WHERE DOES THE DANCE BEGIN, WHERE DOES IT END?, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't call this world adorable, or useful, that's not it Subject(s): Nature WHERE LOVE IS, THERE COMES SORROW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Then such a long to-morrow Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Grief WHERE PRAIRIES ROLL, by DELLA MCDANIEL Poem Text First Line: Where prairies roll, the gods dispel Last Line: Where prairies roll. Subject(s): Nature; Prairies; Plains WHERE THE MOUNTAIN SIPS THE SEA, by CHARLES JAMES Poem Text First Line: Where the mountain sips the sea Last Line: Heed it, and you will rejoice. Subject(s): Mountains; Nature; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean WHERE WE WENT WHEN WE KNEW ONE OF US WOULD DIE, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: We went to european cathedrals because she Last Line: The hospital. Or speak of the empty boat Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature WHERE YOUR FEET GO, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where your feet go no wind stirs Last Line: On my lids the gradual seal. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Sleep; Wind; Nightmares WHICH WAY WILL THE CREEK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: This wine bottle is empty Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Time WHILE MY BOWL IS STILL HALF FULL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Just bury it out in the flowers Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Hope; Nature WHIMPER OF SYMPATHY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hawk or shrike has done this deed Last Line: And live the young life of a twinkle. Subject(s): Cruelty; Nature WHIMSY GIFTS, by ALICE HARLOW STETSON Poem Text First Line: It was just a whimsy Last Line: In a row. Subject(s): Nature; Poplar Trees WHIPPOORWILL, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: What conundrum tonight Last Line: In the silvery gardens %of your moon Subject(s): Nature WHISPERING FLOWERS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Whispering flowers, murmuring hours Last Line: Love which we know? Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Nature; Story-telling WHISTLING MARMOT, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On mountains cold and bold and high Subject(s): Marmots; Nature WHITE, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: A star fell from the sky one night Last Line: Just rise- %and shine Subject(s): Nature WHITE BOAT, by DARA WIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The birds are sleeping, it's far from morning Last Line: The white boat doesn't want to go home Subject(s): Boats; Nature WHITE CAMELLIA, by EDGAR FAWCETT Poem Source First Line: Imperial bloom, whose every curve we see Subject(s): Camellias; Nature WHITE DRESS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some evening when you are sitting alone Last Line: Even when the sound of my footsteps is no longer heard Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of WHITE ECHO, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The willow's knotty threads Last Line: Shaken whole off side till a breaking %current collapses the snow willow into willow Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Nature WHITE HORSES, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: This time %it was only them Last Line: The first chance %they could Subject(s): Nature WHITE ROCK RAPIDS, by P'EI TI Poem Source First Line: Standing on the rocks, gazing at the water below Last Line: Women wash gauze under a bright moon Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Nature; Stones; Zen Buddhism WHITE WATER, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Fragments of the sun Last Line: Echoes an ancient tongue Subject(s): Earth; Nature WHITE-THROATED SPARROW, by A. WEST Poem Source First Line: Hark! 'tis our northern nightingale Subject(s): Nature WHITETAIL, by CLAUDE WILKINSON Poem Source First Line: Stark out of nowhere Last Line: At the root of the world Subject(s): Nature WHITETAILS, by GREG PAPE Poem Source First Line: The husks of yellow berries move Last Line: Above the snow Subject(s): Deer; Nature WHO PLANTS A DOGWOOD TREE HOLDS HANDS WITH GOD, by MABEL BROWN Poem Source Subject(s): Dogwood; Nature WHY DO I BEHAVE SO BADLY?, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A good answer Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Self-righteousness; Social Problems WHY DO I LOVE YOU?, by ROY CROFT Poem Text First Line: I love you, / not only for what you are Last Line: Love means. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of WHY THERE ARE NO UNICORNS, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER Poem Source First Line: Because Last Line: In a forest with a hope chest waiting at home-- %will soon learn to hunt Subject(s): Nature WHY WILT THOU CHIDE?, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hope for a part in thy despair Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Love – Nature Of WHY?, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: What makes you ask dan cupid 'why?' Last Line: For love never knows the reason why. Subject(s): Angels; Cupid; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Eros WILD, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the eagle Last Line: & tuns in hastily %to the weather reports Subject(s): Animals; Nature; News WILD CREATURES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: They say wild creatures hide themselves Last Line: And one small row of clean, white bones? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets WILD FLOWERS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fragrant dewy rose Last Line: And with my love endower. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Flowers; Nature WILD FLOWERS, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Cold shoots through the soles of our shoes Last Line: Trusting the world to help catch us when we fall Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Oak Trees WILD GRAPES, by WILLIAM DORESKI Poem Source First Line: The thick mauve fragrance lingers Last Line: Dreams I lean over and shut them %with my clammy shuddering hands Subject(s): Grapes; Love; Nature WILD HARVESTS, by STEVE FAY Poem Source First Line: Gathering from what happened Last Line: Under a low branch, %see the face you know Subject(s): Harvest; Nature WILD NATURE, by CHARLES NEWTON Poem Text First Line: Fresh were the breathings of the nightborn gale Last Line: More than an evening's hour, or a long summer's day Subject(s): Creation; Nature WILD PEACHES, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the world turns completely upside down Last Line: And sleepy winter, like the sleep of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Variant Title(s): "when The World Turns Completely Upside Down""; Subject(s): Fruit; Nature; Peaches; Seasons WILD RABBITS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Among the sand-hills Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons WILD ROSE/ECLIPSE, by DAVID PINK Poem Source First Line: There was a crow wing passed over the single light in the back lot Last Line: As we try to live these days beyond the romantic notions we've honed Subject(s): Eclipses; Flowers; Nature; Roses WILL O' THE WISP, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Follow me, follow me Last Line: Where he sits, and you shall see! Subject(s): Mythology; Nature WILL YOU LOVE ME WHEN I'M OLD?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I would ask of you, my darling" Last Line: That you'll love me when I'm old Subject(s): Love - Nature Of WIND, by LINDA LEE HARPER Poem Source First Line: Summer, humid as an old aunt's apartment when she boils the fat out of Last Line: Horizon, pink and black as a mottled pig rooting for corn Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Wind WIND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What is the wind, mamma? Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons WIND, by BENNETT WEAVER Poem Text First Line: The sea, the hurtling sea is at the shore Last Line: Through the eternal spaces of my soul! Subject(s): Nature; Wind WIND AND SEA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An idle group within the willow's shade Last Line: Crying, vengeance, vengeance! All the summer night. Subject(s): Death; Love; Nature; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean WIND IN THE CHIMNEY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Without crushing the ashes Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Chimney Sweepers And Chimneys; Nature; Wind WIND IN THE DUSK, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind feels hard enough tonight Last Line: On me the everlasting skies! Subject(s): Nature; Wind WIND'S LIFE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love the silver-shaken Subject(s): Nature WINDS, by WILHELMINA STAVERS LEE Poem Text First Line: Spring winds / are singing strings Last Line: Her throat. Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Wind WING OF A MOTH, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: For days I have watched Last Line: The warp and woof of something %that will last Subject(s): Earth; Nature WINGED BEAUTY, by VIRGINIA PAULINE SPRIGGS Poem Text First Line: Mad audubon, whom failure could not blight Last Line: And motile beauty, ever on the wing! Subject(s): Audubon, John James (1785-1851); Beauty; Nature; Ohio River WINGED SEEDS, by HELEN GRAY CONE Poem Source First Line: Oh, golden-green wings, and bronze-green wings Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus Subject(s): Nature; Spring WINGS, by ROSALIE SANARA PETROUSKE Poem Source First Line: In my sleep, I move toward the path Last Line: In the full summer light, %we name the flowers Subject(s): Love; Nature WINNERS AND LOSERS, by BOYCE HOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men born in little towns Last Line: You get the same total? Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Human Behavior; Prudence; Success; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Caution WINNIPESAUKEE, by EDMUND PALMER CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Now nature with a lavish hand Last Line: And herons stalk our island's shore. Subject(s): Birds; Islands; Nature; Spring WINTER, by JOHN HOWARD BRYANT Poem Text First Line: The day had been a calm and sunny day Last Line: Stood like hoar priests in robes of white arrayed. Subject(s): Nature; Winter WINTER, by MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS Poem Text First Line: Old winter is the man for me Last Line: And cannot choose but shiver. Alternate Author Name(s): Asmus Subject(s): Nature; Winter WINTER, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What did winter mutter? / o ye frozen ponds Last Line: Winter's come! Subject(s): Nature; Winter WINTER, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the waves / gush pearls Subject(s): Nature WINTER, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the waves %gush pearls Last Line: In this world I am as rich %as I need to be Subject(s): Nature WINTER, by ESTELLE HALE PERRY Poem Text First Line: The fields were brown and sear Last Line: I had seen god's signature. Subject(s): Nature; Winter WINTER, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A diamond glow of winter o'er the world Last Line: Or, knowing, it is gone. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Nature; Winter WINTER APPLES, by HARRIET WHITNEY DURBIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What cheer is there that is half so good Alternate Author Name(s): Whitney, Hattie Subject(s): Nature; Winter WINTER DAWN, by KENNETH SLESSOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At five I wake, rise, rub on the smoking pane Subject(s): Winter; Morning; Nature WINTER DAYS, by HENRY ABBEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now comes the graybeard of the north Last Line: De rohan staked a name to gain. Subject(s): Nature; Winter WINTER FANCIES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter without / and warmth within Last Line: In the heart of a nut! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Wind; Winter WINTER FIRE, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The presence of nature in my winter room Last Line: That rise between our fate, and the lost garden. Subject(s): Fire; Nature; Winter WINTER IN PARALLEL, by CLEM L. RAWLINS Poem Source First Line: Under night's breath, Last Line: Gleams back, a brilliant white Subject(s): Nature WINTER KNOWS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: When a man's pockets %are empty Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Money; Nature; Poverty; Winter WINTER MEMORIES, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the circuit of this plodding life Last Line: To go upon my winter's task again. Subject(s): Nature; Winter WINTER MORNING, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night the wind swept over the house Subject(s): Winter; Nature; Landscape WINTER SONG, by LUDWIG HENRICH CHRISTOPH HOLTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer joys are o'er Last Line: Of the long, long nights. Subject(s): Nature; Winter WINTER TREES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the sky, across the snow Last Line: And winter trees are beautiful. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Forests; Nature; Trees; Winter; Woods WINTER WOODS, by FRANCES HOROVITZ Poem Source First Line: Air hangs like metal Last Line: The sun is livid in exile %we have encroached - %this is not yet our land Subject(s): Nature WINTER'S ASPERITY MOLLIFIES..., by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter's asperity mollifies under the assault of april Last Line: Desire for each other's bodies. In response to death's deplorable %likelihood, we bed each other dow Subject(s): Nature WINTER'S END, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Late today the storm clouds come rolling in Last Line: We've fully known our own wrapped worth %in winter's wind, our place in wind on earth Subject(s): Environment; Nature WINTER-WORSHIP, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of darkness, our lady, %suffer our supplications Last Line: Radiance, loom and sting, %whose ashes rise from the flames Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Variant Title(s): Winter Worshi Subject(s): Nature WINTER: WOMAN LOOKING FROM THE WINDOW AT A SPRUCE TREE, by MARYANN WHALEN Poem Source First Line: The sunlight catches in the heart Last Line: And is that now, ineffably held Subject(s): Nature; Winter WINTERGREEN, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Least ever evergreen Last Line: Degree zero celsius %apple-fresh, mint-angelica flame? Subject(s): Environment; Nature WINTRY WEATHER, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O winter! Wilt thou never, never go? Last Line: Through the white spaces of infinitude. Variant Title(s): In The Shadows: 22 Subject(s): Nature; Winter WISDOM OF THE GEESE, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The geese are displeased Last Line: They step off into the dark water Subject(s): Nature WISH, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: I wanted to give you something for your pain Last Line: By my wish to please. And then you died Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Poetry And Poets; Wishes WISH, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my dream, my car is an aquarium Last Line: Guppies & angels convulsing in the drying soul %of the world until our ecstasy, &/or our end Subject(s): Nature WISH-WASH. TEN THOUSAND TONS OF PEANUTS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh taste and see, but not in a hurry Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Monkeys; Nature; Nuts And Nutting WIT OF THE CORPSE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is lost on the lid of the coffin Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Nature; Wit And Humor WITCH TREE, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Grown out of granite Last Line: This is the light of the world Subject(s): Nature; Trees; Witchcraft And Witches WITH HER BRUSH, THE ARTIST, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Touches one part of her life %with another Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Art And Artists; Life; Nature WITHIN THE BRIGHT POTENTIAL, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: In rockwell kent's alaska, %it is clear the world Last Line: Dark marks within %the circumambient bright potential Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) WITHIN THE WIND, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: We live within the wind Last Line: Of those who bend over us %the wind Subject(s): Earth; Nature WITHOUT HER SCARVES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Has a twisted body Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Willow Trees WITHOUT US, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: In the time it takes for a leaf to fall from a maple tree after a hard gust Last Line: Eyes aglow, watching for signs of weakness %red ants running on a bear's tongue. Fields of broccoli Subject(s): Animals; Fields; Nature WOLF, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: One wolf %in a field Last Line: Through tall grass, hunting Subject(s): Nature WOLF WARRIOR (2), by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A white butterfly speckled with pollen joined me in my prayers yester Subject(s): Nature WOLF WARRIOR (2), by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A white butterfly speckled with pollen joined me in my prayers yester Last Line: Is nourishment carried by the butterfly from one flower to another, this %is an ongoing prayer for s Subject(s): Nature WOLF'S ADVICE TO HIS NEPHEW, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Beware your pig: he runs the show now Last Line: Try to pass for a collie, is all I can say Subject(s): Nature; Survival; Wolves WOMAN SPEAKS TO HER PAST, by JANET MCADAMS Poem Source First Line: Lies make us up like a bed no one's slept in Last Line: But it is you who must speak Subject(s): Central America; Nature WONDER, by SARAH ARVIO Poem Source First Line: What makes the inside of a glacier blue? Last Line: -the obvious is easy to forget.' Subject(s): Blue (color); Colors; Glaciers; God; Nature WONDERFUL PLACES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I am haunted by wonderful places Last Line: And not by human faces. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Colorado (river); Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips WONDERS OF NATURE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ah! Who has seen the mailed lobster rise Subject(s): Flowers;nature;nonsense WONDERS OF THE PEAKE, SELS., by CHARLES COTTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Durst I expostulate with providence Last Line: This from that prospect seems the sulph'rous flood, %where sinful sodom and gommorrah stood Subject(s): Nature WOOD AND STONES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silent trees above my head Last Line: May well give speech to stones and wood! Subject(s): Fate; Nature; Stones; Trees; Wood; Destiny; Granite; Rocks WOOD WITCHERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The way ran under boughs of checkered green Last Line: Unaging beauty by another name. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Nature; New England; Nymphs; Poetry & Poets WOODEN BARREL, BLUE FEZ, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the half-barrel which is my bird feeder I can find Subject(s): Nature WOODLAND PEACE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet as eden is the air Last Line: And eden-sweet the ray. Subject(s): Eden; Forests; Nature; Woods WOODPECKER, by SANDRA ALCOSSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day the poppies Last Line: Undulantg, raw flight Subject(s): Nature WOODPECKER, by SANDRA ALCOSSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day the poppies Last Line: The irregular flags of our body %into undulant, raw flight Subject(s): Nature WOODPECKER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For such little gain? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Woodpeckers WORD OF HONOR, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: I'll not be faithless in this way, assign Last Line: The heart, keep vision clear Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature WORDS THAT WAIT TO BE SAID, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Having come to the place where I Last Line: Told to air, lost along the way Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature WORK, by MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mine is the shape forever set between Last Line: He prays that he may find me after death! Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Wellesley College WORK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If some great angel spoke to me tonight Last Line: Where will and work and strength go hand in hand Subject(s): Angels;labor & Laborers;nature WORK, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD Poem Source First Line: With a finger's chipped polish, she follows Last Line: Stand beside her while she looks Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.) WORK, by PAULANN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: This is the house Last Line: With the wing of a bird Subject(s): Erotic Love; Labor And Laborers; Nature WORK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Down and up, and up and down Subject(s): Nature; Spring WORKING OUTSIDE AT NIGHT, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon swells Last Line: My heart just lies down, / a stone Subject(s): Night; Nature; Bedtime WORKS OF GOD, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God made the sky that looks so blue Subject(s): Nature; Summer WORLDLY PLACE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even in a palace, life may be led well! Last Line: "the aids to noble life are all within." Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature WORTH FOREST, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, prudence, you have done enough to-day Last Line: "sir, the child is dead!" Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Pilgrim Fathers; Rivers; Sussex, England; Worth Forest, England; Streams; Creeks WOUNDS TO COME REMAIN, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: Something is %that will not change Subject(s): Nature; Swamps WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bird carries its peck up the branch Last Line: " lighting by trees is beautiful Subject(s): Nature; Language; Words; Vocabulary WRITING PAST MIDNIGHT, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: Insects drone...The night draws on... Last Line: Just as the moon floats in through the double barn door Subject(s): Nature WRITTEN AT MR RAWSON'S, WAS-WATER LAKE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loveliest of hills! From crime and care removed Last Line: And in his heart finds all he wants of fame. Subject(s): Nature WRITTEN AT THE EAGLE'S NEST, KILLARNEY. JULY 26, 1800, by MARY TIGHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here let us rest, while with meridian blaze Last Line: Shall paint this happiest scene with pencil soft. Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary Subject(s): Nature WRITTEN AT WAN MOUNTAIN POOL, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I sat on a boulder, let my fishing line hang Last Line: Moving in moonlight, I turn back with a rowing song Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Han River, China; Nature; Nymphs WRITTEN ON A SUNDAY MORNING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go thou and seek the house of prayer! Last Line: And ponders on the world to come. Subject(s): Churches; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Presence; Religion; Cathedrals; Theology WUTHERIN HEIGHTS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horizons ring me like faggots, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Solitude; Nature; Loneliness WYUKA, by MINA MERRITT-SAEGER Poem Text First Line: When purple shadows tint the west Last Line: Watched over by a god of love. Subject(s): God; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects X RAY, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my mind a lilac begins to leaf Last Line: A luna moth opening its wings. Subject(s): Nature Y VOLVER, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is to say love Last Line: Horses' manes, and rides Subject(s): Love - Nature Of Y VOLVER, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is to say love Last Line: Free. Love, in her candor, %can't explain the attraction %but nuzzles the wild %horse's mane, and ri Subject(s): Love - Nature Of YARD, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bunchgrass or the months-dry wheat Last Line: And the fragrance outside turns to fruit--to do again Subject(s): Nature YEAR IN, YEAR OUT, by KATHLEEN MILLAY Poem Source Subject(s): Nature YEARS AGO, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I became a nail Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Self YEARS END, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: All corners %of this floating world, swept Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Nature YEARS END, by EVELYN SWANSTROM Poem Text First Line: Calm nature, old and withered, seeks the rest Last Line: Her blue-black mantle round her silvering head. Subject(s): Nature YELLOW: A HAIKU, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: One yellow leaf, yes! Last Line: One fades into all Subject(s): Nature YIN AND YANG, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is spring once more in the coast range Last Line: Between the fish called yes and no Subject(s): Life; Nature YIN AND YANG, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is spring once more in the coast range Last Line: Between the fish called yes and no Subject(s): Life; Nature YOSEMITE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most glorious temple! Open flung Last Line: And seraph-tongued are earth and air! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects; Yosemite Valley And National Park YOSEMITE, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Now I have seen yosemite Last Line: —los angeles saturday night Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Yosemite Valley And National Park YOSEMITE STROPHES, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray and bleakly majestic, the bastioned walls of the valley Last Line: Beauty undreamed of before, now all a dream or a star. Subject(s): Nature; Yosemite Valley And National Park YOU, by CLAIRE STUDER-GOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have the mane Last Line: Across the worlds. Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Claire Subject(s): California; Colorado (state); Earth; Nature; Travel; World; Journeys; Trips YOU ALSO, NIGHTINGALE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Petrarch dreams of pebbles Subject(s): Petrarch (1304-1374); Homecoming; Nature; Francesco Petrarca YOU ASKED, WHAT MAKES YOU SURE?, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I have the faith of the blind, %I answered Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Faith; Nature YOU FIRMLY BUILT ALPS, by JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And pleasing odour Alternate Author Name(s): Holderlin, J. C. F.; Holderlin, Friedrich Subject(s): Nature YOU HAD TO MILK THE COWS AT 5 A.M., by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Even udders can become brutal clocks Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cows; Milk; Nature YOU LOVE, YOU WONDER, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You love a woman and you wonder where she goes all night Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Nature Of; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men YOU SAY YOU LOVE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You say you love, but will you ever know Last Line: No haven, alas, for me Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Love - Nature Of YOU STEP IN THE SAME RIVER ONCE ONLY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The bruised fingers of what might have been Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Chance; Life; Nature; Time YOU TOLD ME YOU COULDN'T SEE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: So I gave you my eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Comfort; Hope; Nature; Perception YOU: PART 12, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A guide to the sky under full nondisclosure. Subject(s): Nature; Language Poetry YOUNG FACE ONE DAY APPEARS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Walks another mythical monster Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Nature; Youth YOUNG REYNARD, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gracefullest leaper, the dappled fox-cub Last Line: Haply you live a day longer in verse. Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Nature; Hunters YOUNG SEA, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is never still Last Line: Where storms and stars come from. Subject(s): Nature; Sea; Ocean YOUTH, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life in the book of lovers bade me look Last Line: "I go to add another page to this!" Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Books; Love; Love - Nature Of; Reading YOUTH AND LOVE, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What does youth know of love? Last Line: It is not youth who knows. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Youth [LITTLE] SUNBEAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A little sunbeam in the sky Subject(s): Nature; Summer |
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