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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ..... AND WHITE THE WHITE INVOKES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The breasts of white camellias lead the way
Last Line: "that soothe her with an echoed, ""innocent."
Subject(s): Camellias; Cypress Trees; Pine Trees; Sea; Trees; Ocean


A B C'S IN GREEN, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees are god's great alphabet
Last Line: I learn to read.
Variant Title(s): A B C's Garden
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; God; Trees


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 BASSWOOD TREE, by ROBERT SPARKS WALKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pawnbroker tree
Last Line: And pawn a note for food.
Subject(s): Basswood Trees


A BOUNDLESS MOMENT, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He halted in the wind, and–what was that
Last Line: A young beech clinging to its last year’s leaves
Subject(s): Trees


A BREAD AND BUTTER LETTER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Although it was not my home
Last Line: The window smelled just the same
Subject(s): Plums; Smells; Plum Trees; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


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 CHARM SAID UNDER AN OAK, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oak, with thy straightness
Last Line: Deus robur meus.
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Oak Trees; Trees


A CHRISTMAS SONG, by HATTIE SANFORD RUSSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The oak is a strong and stalwart tree
Last Line: By the beautiful christmas tree.
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Trees; Oak Trees; Nativity, The


A DANGEROUS TIME, by LINDA PASTAN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: November is a dangerous time for trees
Last Line: And a wolf is at the door
Subject(s): November; Trees


A DAWN IN A TREE OF BIRDS', by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And then another
Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Trees; Sunrise


A DREAM ABOUT THE ASPEN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! Know ye why the aspen leaves so tremulously / sigh
Last Line: "that ""they who shut love out shall be in turn shut out from love."
Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Crucifixion; Trees; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion


A DREAM OF SUMMER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bland as the morning breath of june
Last Line: Has left his hope with all!
Subject(s): Holidays; Summer; Trees


A DREAM OF TREES, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a thing in me that dreamed of trees,
Subject(s): Trees


A DUMB FRIEND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I planted a young tree when I was young
Last Line: In shade the cypress weaves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Seasons; Tears; Trees


A FALLEN BEECH, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nevermore at doorways that are barken
Last Line: Sits beside thee where, forgot, dost rest thee.
Subject(s): Beech Trees; Trees


A FALLEN YEW, by FRANCIS THOMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It seemed corrival of the world's great prime
Last Line: So few birds house!
Subject(s): Yew Trees


A FANTASY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A fantasy that came to me
Last Line: Her mystic fingers knew so well.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Flowers; Trees; Vision; Nightmares


A FLOWER FROM THE CATSKILLS, by E. W.    Poem Text                    
First Line: The orchards that climb the hillsides
Last Line: Reach heavenly perfectness.
Subject(s): Trees


A FOREST HYMN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The groves were god's first temples. Ere man learned
Last Line: Learn to conform the order of our lives.
Variant Title(s): God's First Temples;the Groves
Subject(s): Forests; Religion; Trees; Woods; Theology


A FOREST THOUGHT, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fine old oak hath pass'd away, its noble stem hath shrunk
Last Line: And cling to me like green moss to the old gray tree.
Subject(s): Oak Trees


A GOOD RULE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A farmer, who owned a fine orchard, one day
Last Line: So, what you're ashamed to do, don't do at all.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Cures; Sin; Conduct Of Life


A GROUP OF TREES, by CHRISTINE SLOAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is the place where the foot
Last Line: A long time under these trees.
Subject(s): Trees


A HALF-DEAD BLACK CHERRY TREE ACROSS THE ROAD FROM MY CHILDHOOD HOUSE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Remnant of some lost orchard
Last Line: Toward your slow heart.
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Children; Childhood


A JAPANESE DWARF TREE, by ISABEL ANDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: So old, so tiny, it its bowl of blue
Last Line: Of a million swords!
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Japan; Trees; Japanese


A LEAF, by JOHN MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: From out the topmost bulb - a budding sentry
Last Line: A withered leaf was hearsed upon the breeze.
Subject(s): Leaves; Oak Trees


A LEAFY WELCOME, by MARY JANE DEW    Poem Text                    
First Line: A pear tree stood by aunt sue's gate
Last Line: "to one and all, a leafy welcome."
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Pears


A LEGEND OF MINNESOTA, by LILLIAN ATCHERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The stately pines came marching
Last Line: A paradise was born.
Subject(s): Minnesota; Pine Trees


A LESSON (1), by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Woodland, green and gay with dew
Last Line: Like the dimness of a breath.
Subject(s): Trees


A LESSON (2), by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One autumn-time I went into the woods
Last Line: To god's great law.
Subject(s): Trees


A LITTLE BOY AND A CHERRY TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Was washington!
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Children


A LONDON PLANE-TREE, by AMY LEVY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Green is the plane-tree in the square
Last Line: On city breezes borne.
Subject(s): London; Plane Trees; Sycamores


A MISSION FULFILLED, by CATHARINE R. HEALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Looking with pity at an old dead tree
Last Line: Then what else I say could matter at all?
Subject(s): Death; Trees; Dead, The


A PAGE'S ROAD SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jesu, / if thou wilt make
Last Line: Jesu.
Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Trees; Paradise


A PEAR LIKE A POTATO, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it worms, having once bitten
Last Line: Like this poor pear
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears


A PINE TREE AIN'T A MAPLE, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old crazy pete he says to me
Last Line: But not as crazy as you think.
Subject(s): Trees


A POEM ON MORAL LEADERSHIP AS A POLITICAL DILEMMA, by JUNE JORDAN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Morality; Cherry Trees; Ethics


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 POISON TREE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was angry with my friend
Last Line: My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
Subject(s): Anger; Bible; Enemies; Environment; Hate; Men; Mythology; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


A PRAYER FOR BILL, by M. REES    Poem Text                    
First Line: When me and bill wuz ridin
Last Line: Wouldn't do to foller me.
Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Growth; Pine Trees; Trees


A RESTING-PLACE, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sea of shade; with hollow heights above
Last Line: Tired earth may taste heaven's honey-dew of rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Rest


A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 2, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Last Line: To see the cherry hung with snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Variant Title(s): Cherry Trees;loveliest Of Trees
Subject(s): Aging; Carpe Diem; Cherries; Cherry Trees; Easter; Environment; Fruit; Holidays; Spring; Time; Trees; The Resurrection; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


A SNAKE YARN, by W. T. GOODGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You talk of snakes,' said jack the rat
Last Line: "it was a log!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Goodge, William Thomas
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Trees; Serpents; Vipers


A SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My head on moss reclining
Last Line: And nothing but the willow / remained there to be seen
Subject(s): Willow Trees


A SONG OF HARVEST, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This day, two hundred years ago
Last Line: If not on earth, at last in heaven.
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


A SPRING SONG, by SARAH E. SIMONS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wind-swept trees
Last Line: For I know that spring is here!
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Spring; Trees


A TALE OF THE BUSH, by W. J." "B. [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was twenty years last autumn since my comrade and I
Last Line: Seared upon my heart for ever its dread memory lives on
Alternate Author Name(s): "b., W. J.;
Subject(s): Death;deserts;food & Eating;murder;pain;suicide;travel;trees; "dead, The;suffering;misery;journeys;trips;


A TOUCH OF NATURE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When first the crocus thrusts its point of gold
Last Line: And inarticulate ardors of the vine.
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


A TRADITION OF OKER HILL IN DARLEY DALE, DERBYSHIRE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis said that to the brow of yon fair hill
Last Line: That to itself takes all, eternity.
Subject(s): Trees; Absence; Brothers


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 TREE MAY BE LUAGHTER IN THE SPRING, by HAZEL COLLISTER HUTCHISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A tree may be laughter in the spring
Last Line: It is a dare.
Subject(s): Seasons; Trees


A TREE TELLING OF ORPHEUS, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White dawn. Stillness. When the rippling began
Subject(s): Environment; Music & Musicians; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


A TREE WITHIN, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tree grew inside my head
Subject(s): Trees


A WELL, AND THE CHERRY TREES SWAYING, by ALEXEY (ALEKSEY) KONSTANTINOVICH TOLSTOY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Their whispers—the splash of the pails
Alternate Author Name(s): Prutkov, Koz'ma Petrovich
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


A WHITE BIRCH TREE, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I would not be a clinging vine
Last Line: It lifts again to meet the sky.
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Introspection; Strength


A WINDY DAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dawn was a dawn of splendor
Last Line: In a spatter of spiteful rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dawn; Prayer; Trees; Wind; Sunrise


A WINTER OF LOVE LETTERS AND A MORNING PRAYER: 7, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The beeches are vibrant because there is black
Last Line: Like lace. Jane with sunspots; with, almost, grace.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Trees; Dejection


A YOUNG WOMAN, A TREE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The life spills over, some days
Subject(s): Trees; Women; Youth


ABOUT A TRANSDANUBIAN ALMOND TREE, by JANUS PANNONIUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not even hercules saw in the yard of the hesperides land
Last Line: Or had it been so hard for you to wait for the spring
Subject(s): Almond Trees; Trees


ABOVE THE BATTLE, by MARK VAN DOREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Higher than hate, and the abused
Last Line: That was our day. %this is our night
Subject(s): Trees


ABRUPTLY ALL THE PALM TREES ROSE LIKE PARASOLS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Palm Trees; Time


ACACIA, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In locust trees the roots run along the ground
Subject(s): Locust Trees; France


ACQUA FREDDA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By acqua fredda's cloister-wall
Last Line: Long lost to me, is treasured there.
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Life; Soul; Youth


ACTUAL WILLOW, by WINIFRED WELLES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once when I looked at willows, I would say
Last Line: Seems fanciful and beutiful enough for me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs.
Subject(s): Willow Trees


ADDRESS TO THE ORANGE-TREE AT VERSAILLES, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When france with civil wars was torn
Last Line: To heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Oranges; Trees; Versailles, Frances; War


ADDRESSED TO A BEECH TREE ..., by CHRISTIAN CARSTAIRS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What taints thy shade - or doth the year decay?
Last Line: Or mourns the time delayed.
Subject(s): Beech Trees; Trees


AEGEUS: WIND IN THE POPLARS, by SOPHOCLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As in the boughs of a tall poplar-tree
Last Line: Moves 'neath the breeze, and waves her leafy pinions.
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


AERIAL IN THE PINES, by RALPH BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To cut off the top branches
Subject(s): Pine Trees


AFFORESTATION, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a population of trees
Last Line: For which the wind sighs
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


AFTER APPLE PICKING, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Last Line: Or just some human sleep.
Subject(s): Americans; Apple Trees; Apples; Fruit; Trees; United States; America


AFTER FORTY YEARS, by MAMIE A. MELOY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The shining, friendly cottonwoods
Last Line: Beneath their changeless prairie sky.
Subject(s): Canadian River; Cottonwood Trees; Graves; Pioneers; Time; Tombs; Tombstones


AFTER THE HURRICANE, by HENRY DUNCAN CHISHOLM    Poem Text                    
First Line: The pines that rimmed our world, massed high upon
Last Line: New hills, and low and bright another star.
Subject(s): Hurricanes; Pine Trees; Sun; Trees


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


AFTERNOON TEA, by CHARLOTTE MEW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Please you, excuse me, good five-o'clock people
Last Line: Is such a lovely thing
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


AGAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: That tree again
Last Line: Prowl
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Night; Summer; Trees


AGAMEDE'S SONG, FR. THE CITY, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grow, grow, thou little tree
Last Line: Would rest the changing seasons through.
Subject(s): Trees


AGE OF TREES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Man counts his life by years
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


ALCAIC, by PETER CHAD TIGAR LEVI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out in the deep wood, silence and darkness fall
Last Line: Making the mist and the darkness listen
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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


ALL DAY: WEARINESS, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day I have thought of rain-wet bark
Last Line: Like weariness!
Subject(s): Rain; Trees; Weariness; Fatigue


ALL SOULS' NIGHT, by GERTRUDE HUNTINGTON MCGIFFERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: As it was promised so I beheld
Last Line: A gibbering, furtive beast, by nature damned.
Subject(s): All Souls' Day; Moon; Stars; Sun; Trees


ALL YELLOW, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A dandelion sprang on the lawn
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


ALMOND BLOSSOM, by EDWIN ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blossom of the almond trees
Last Line: Almond bloom, we greet thee well!
Subject(s): Almond Trees; Trees


ALMOND BLOSSOMS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tis not summer yet, full well I know
Subject(s): Almond Trees; Trees


ALMOND PETALS, by MARION E. THORPE DILLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: You planted almond
Last Line: Summer winds blow memories.
Subject(s): Almond Trees


ALMOND TREES, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's nothing here %this early
Last Line: That grieves in silence, like parental love
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


ALMOND, WILD ALMOND, by HERBERT TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Give counsel to me!
Subject(s): Love; Almond Trees


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


AMANG THE TREES WHERE HUMMING BEES, by ROBERT BURNS            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Trees


AMERICAN FORESTS, by JOHN MUIR    Poem Source                    
First Line: The forests of america, however slighted by man
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


AMIR KHAN, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Brightly o'er spire, and dome, and tower
Last Line: Too full to weep -- too blest to sigh!
Subject(s): Kashmir, India; Plane Trees; Cashmere, India; Sycamores


AMONG THE PINES, by HELENA COLEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like druid priests, dark vestured, slim
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees


AMONG THE REDWOODS, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell to such a world! Too long I press
Last Line: Along the sea of space to grander things.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Trees; Redwoods


AMONG THE TREES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh ye who love to overhang the springs
Last Line: Back to his covert, and forego his prey.
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


AMORETTI: 6, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be nought dismayed that her unmoved mind
Last Line: To knit the knot that ever shall remaine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Patience; Oak Trees


AMPHION, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father left a park to me
Last Line: A little garden blossom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


AN ANGEL, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At my window there's an angel
Last Line: Tis the maple on the lawn!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Angels; Maple Trees


AN ANSWER; FRAGMENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To make it glad with a goodly crop
Last Line: Repaying the blood that fed the soil.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Fruit; Harvest; Trees


AN APPLE BOUGH, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath its ruddy burden proudly bending
Last Line: And only empty lives fall ever dead.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


AN APPLE GATHERING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I plucked pink blossoms from mine apple-tree
Last Line: Fell fast I loitered still.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


AN APPLE TREE IN FRANCE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An apple tree beside the way
Last Line: They put to death an apple tree!
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Apple Trees; World War I; First World War


AN APPLE-TREE RHYME, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here stands a good old apple tree
Last Line: "holla, boys, holla, hip hip hurrah!"
Variant Title(s): Apple Howling Song: Surrey
Subject(s): "apple Trees;surrey, England;trees;


AN ARBOR DAY TREE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear little tree that we plant today
Last Line: A tale of the children who planted me
Subject(s): Arbor Day;holidays;trees


AN AUTUMNAL EVENING, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep black against the dying glow
Last Line: Great dusky moths go flitting by.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Autumn; Elm Trees; Evening; Seasons; Fall; Sunset; Twilight


AN ENCOUNTER, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once on the kind of day called 'weather breeder'
Last Line: "half looking for the orchid calypso."
Subject(s): Trees


AN IMPRESSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The arching skies, the ancient wind
Last Line: Deeper than mortal minstrelsy.
Subject(s): Beauty; Girls; Love; Soul; Trees


AN INTERIOR, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because you cannot sit with me
Last Line: Which brings death -- not escape.
Subject(s): Books; Death; Pine Trees; Trees; Voices; Reading; Dead, The


AN INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Already, close by our summer dwelling
Last Line: Their dower of beauty from thy glad looks.
Subject(s): April; Country Life; Holidays; Trees


AN OLD ELM TO A SAPLING, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hold fast to earth and have no shame
Last Line: And stand a cynosure to god!
Subject(s): Advice; Growth; Trees


AN OLIVE FOR SATIE, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Easily whelmed by the past
Last Line: To presence of world in her face
Subject(s): Olive Trees & Olives


ANCIENT WILLOW, by DIANA RIVERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Entering this new chapter, a new land spreads before you
Last Line: The inner path of the moonshell glimmers silver
Subject(s): Willow Trees


AND AGAIN, MARCH IS ALMOST HERE, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I were a tree you'd say
Last Line: They offered me bluebeard
Subject(s): March (month); Trees


AND AGAIN, MARCH IS ALMOST HERE, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I were a tree you'd say
Last Line: Who asks you this secret again
Subject(s): March (month); Trees


AND I DREAMED I WAS A TREE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Like steel propellers / they held fast
Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs.
Subject(s): Trees


AND LOCUSTS BLOOM TOMORROW, by MILDRED TELFORD BARNWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: My heart is like an unused room
Last Line: With bloom tomorrow!
Subject(s): Locust Trees


ANNUNCIATION, by GEORGES DUHAMEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: From the tall mountain's brow
Last Line: And the man that it will crush.
Subject(s): Hearts; Mountains; Trees; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ANOTHER GRIEVING FOREST ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The blood of petals blown adorns the ground
Last Line: With nodding blue, lament the lonely trust.
Subject(s): Forests; Memory; Trees; Woods


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


ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 3, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave o my soul this baser world below
Last Line: Allelujahs to heavens king.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Heaven; Life; Soul; Trees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Paradise


ANTI-ROMANTIC, by MARIE PONSOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I exlpain ontology, mathematics, theophily
Subject(s): Knowledge; Trees


ANTICIPATION, by RUTH CLAY PRICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pine tree: / sun still
Last Line: Fulfill!
Subject(s): Nature; Pine Trees; Trees


ANTIPODAL, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dusk that brings the whippoorwill
Last Line: Here and now?
Subject(s): Birds; Stones; Trees; Whipporwills; Granite; Rocks


ANTIQUATED TREE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Remotest consulate
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1514; Poem: 154
Subject(s): Trees


ANTIQUITY OF FREEDOM, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here are old trees, tall oaks and gnarled pines
Last Line: Beheld thy glorious childhood, and rejoiced.
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Trees; Independence Day; Liberty


APART, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They stood on either side the gate
Last Line: Walk hand in hand the path of death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Fear; Trees; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The


APOSTROPHE TO AN OLD TREE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where thy broad branches brave the bitter north
Last Line: And if he can't avert, endures the blast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Trees


APPLE BLOSSOMS, by WILLIAM WESLEY MARTIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Have you seen an apple orchard in the spring?
Variant Title(s): An Apple Orchard In The Sprin
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


APPLE BLOSSOMS, by HELEN ADAMS PARKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is there anything in spring so fair
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


APPLE BLOSSOMS, by ARTHUR LEONARD PHELPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shy, amorous %the brown-haired dryads
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


APPLE BLOSSOMS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day in the green, sunny orchard
Last Line: The while that he dreamily spoke.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Farm Life; Forests; Fruit; Harvest; Spring; Trees; Agriculture; Farmers; Woods


APPLE BLOSSOMS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why do they come? I know, I know
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


APPLE BLOSSOMS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The orchard trees are white
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Nature; Spring; Trees


APPLE ORCHARD, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the apple orchard she sat on a small wood bench
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Lust


APPLE POEM, by VERNON SCANNELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Take the apple from the bowl or bough
Last Line: Of apples, flowering orchards, countless seeds
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


APPLE SEASON, by FRANCES MARY FROST    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come up in the orchard with grass to your knees
Last Line: We're gathering apples with shout and song, %and we'll taste summer all winter long!
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Fruit; Trees


APPLE-BLOSSOM, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blossom of the apple trees
Last Line: Swift as joy to come and go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Apple Trees


APPLES, by LENNART SJOGREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The apples fall in the night. The trees are still
Last Line: On such matters neither the night nor the apples see much difference
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Gardens And Gardening; Harvest; Trees


APPLES, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was the clumsy child
Last Line: To a continent dark with apples
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Desire; Fruit; Kindness; Trees


APPLES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, by MARIE EMILIE GILCHRIST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long poles support the branches of the orchards in new hampshire
Last Line: Next year the trees will rest and apples will be few
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


APRICOT TREE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sitting on the cabin porch
Last Line: On the cabin roof
Subject(s): Apricot Trees; Trees


APRICOT TREES, by W. S. DI PIERO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The toothy limbs pruned in february
Last Line: False, perfectly imagined apricots
Subject(s): Apricot Trees; Trees


APRIL, by JOHN BURROUGHS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If we represent the winter of our northern climate
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


APRIL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis the noon of the spring-time
Last Line: And, as sun to the sleeping earth, love to the soul!
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


APRIL [DAY], by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the warm sun, that brings
Last Line: Life's golden fruit is shed.
Subject(s): April; Holidays; Trees


ARABIAN NIGHTS: DATES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We grow to the sound of the wind
Last Line: Shall hear us murmur ever above his sleep
Subject(s): Date Trees;death; "dead, The;


ARBOR DAY, by MICHELLE BOISSEAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above the house, the topmost branches reel
Last Line: Around the one that has fallen
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Trees


ARBOR DAY, by NICHOLAS FAREBOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is not long since some of our treeless western
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


ARBOR DAY, by B. PICKMAN MANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The project of connecting the planting
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


ARBOR DAY, by B. G. NORTHRUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Observance of arbor days has already
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


ARBOR DAY, by SEYMOUR S. SHORT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Again we come this day to greet
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


ARBOR DAY, by THOMAS E. STOCKWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rapid approach of spring
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


ARBOR DAY, by TERESE SVOBODA    Poem Source                    
First Line: You planted trees three times
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Trees


ARBOR DAY, by DOROTHY BROWN THOMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: To plant a tree! How small the twig
Last Line: I did not know that it would be %so vast a thing to plant a tree
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Spring; Trees


ARBOR DAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Plant in the springtime the beautiful trees
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


ARBOR DAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now a strong, fair shoot
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


ARBOR DAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our modern institution
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


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


ARBOR DAY ALPHABET, by ADA SIMPSON SHERWOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: A is for apple tree, sweet with bloom
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


ARBOR DAY ASPIRATION, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We will try to make some small piece of ground
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


ARBOR DAY EXERCISE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To him who in the love of nature
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


ARBOR DAY IN SCHOOLS, by B. G. NORTHRUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: J. Sterling morton, once secretary of the
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


ARBOR DAY INVOCATION, by EMMA S. THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like the glad birds of springtime
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


ARBOR DAY MARCH, by ELLEN BEAUCHAMP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Celebrate the arbor day
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


ARBOR DAY OBSERVENCE, by A. S. DRAPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The primary purpose of the legislature
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


ARBOR DAY ODE, by PARR HARLOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Raise a song of gladness on this festal day
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


ARBOR DAY POEM, by LILLIAN E. KNAPP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Listen! The grand old forests
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


ARBOR DAY POEM, by ANNA R. PRIDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come thou, my oftimes sadly labored muse
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


ARBOR DAY SONG, by MARY A. HEERMANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of nature broad and free
Last Line: And then above.
Variant Title(s): Tribute To Nature
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


ARBOR DAY SONG, by ALICE S. WEBBER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We've left our books and tasks today to plant our favorite tree
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


ARBOR DAY TRIBUTE, by JARED BARHITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wish lavish hand our god hath spread
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


ARBUTUS, by ELAINE GOODALE EASTMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hail the flower whose early bridal
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


ARBUTUS, by ANNE HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sweet welcome to thee
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


ARBUTUS, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If spring has maids of honor
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


ARBUTUS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Arbutus, thou dost faintly swing
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


ARBUTUS, by ISAAC WATTS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How fair is the rose!
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


ARMISTICE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wintry war is over, and he stands
Last Line: Leafless in may.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Change; Trees; Veterans; Veterans Day; War


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 LOVELY AS THEY, by EVA MARBELL BONDI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let me stand
Last Line: "as lovely as they!"
Subject(s): Trees


ASH GROVE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Half of the grove stood dead, and those that yet lived made
Last Line: And I had what most I desired, without search or desert or cost
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Ash Trees; Trees


ASH HOLLOW: I., by R. F. MCEWEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We didn't see outright. The springtime fell
Last Line: Your heart. And with your eyes still, open wide
Subject(s): Ash Trees; Family Life; Spring; Trees


ASPECTS OF THE PINES, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tall, sombre, grim against the morning sky
Last Line: Wears for a gem the tremulous vesper star.
Subject(s): Pine Trees


ASPEN AND THE STREAM, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beholding element, in whose pure eye
Last Line: Even if that blind groping but achieves %a darker head, a few more aspen leaves
Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Brooks; Trees


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 PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All day and night, save winter, every weather
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Trees


ASPENS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All day and night, save winter, every weather
Last Line: Or so men think who like a different tree
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Trees


ASPENS, by OLIVE WATKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As quivering aspen leaves reflect
Last Line: The love notes of your voice.
Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Trees; Voices


AT AUNTY'S HOUSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One time, when we'z at aunty's house
Last Line: When we et on the porch!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Aunts; Cherry Trees; Country Life


AT CROWN HILL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave him here in the fresh greening grasses and trees
Last Line: It is midnight to us -- it is morning to him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilies; Love; Tears; Trees; Dead, The


AT LOCK-UP, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old elm, upon whose wrinkled breast
Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C.
Subject(s): Elm Trees


AT NIGHT, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Night is happening %outside your window
Subject(s): Trees


AT THE END OF ELMWOOD AVENUE, by DRUSILLA M. WILEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The elmwood trees form an arch at the end of our street
Last Line: But the trees remain silent. Their arms are barren.
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Home


AT THE SIGN OF THE ALMOND TREE, by LOUISE MANNING HODGKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: To the inn of the sign of the almond tree
Last Line: Beyond the peaceful almond tree.
Subject(s): Almond Trees; Trees; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College


ATTITUDE FOR A DUSE, by JOSEPH WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: What is so simple as the wind
Last Line: Wind leaves you as it finds you -- flesh and bone.
Subject(s): Devil; Trees; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub


AUBADE, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I would free the white almond from the green husk
Last Line: I should see that in my hands glittered a gem beyond counting.
Subject(s): Almond Trees; Hands; Love; Trees


AUGUST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There were four apples on the bough
Last Line: Mown from the harvest's middle-floor
Subject(s): Apples; August; Fruit; Trees


AUSTRALIAN TRANSCRIPTS: IN THE FERN, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The feathery fern-trees make a screen
Last Line: Of lime-tree in an english june.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Flowers; Trees


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


AUTUMN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "I at my window sit, and see"
Last Line: "then, not despised, I'll not complain, / but cherish autumn in her stead"
Subject(s): Autumn;leaves;seasons;trees; Fall


AUTUMN, by DAISIE DELL CHURCHWARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The maple, standing long in green
Last Line: Before her stark array.
Subject(s): Autumn; Maple Trees; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: All summer long
Last Line: Setting the hills ablaze
Subject(s): Trees


AUTUMN AGAIN, YOU WOULDN'T KNOW IN THE CITY, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Red red oak, oh, what's your worry?
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


AUTUMN CARES: 2, by MENG CHIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The autumn's moon complexion is ice
Last Line: A beech tree looming and bare, %sound and echo like sad notes plucked
Subject(s): Autumn; Beech Trees; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Seasons; Trees


AUTUMN LEAVES, by THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou who bearest on thy thoughtful face
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


AUTUMN LEAVES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am a leaf from the tall elm tree
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


AUTUMN VOICES, by F. W. B.    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was in the wood today
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


AUTUMN WHIMSIES, by DAISY WRIGHT FIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The poplar is an old woman,
Last Line: Even into the winter of her discontent!
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Wright
Subject(s): Cedar Trees; Poplar Trees


AUTUMN WINDS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O autumn winds, with voices far away
Last Line: And stand forth free to struggle and endure!
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Trees; Wind; Fall


AUTUMNAL, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish the poplar tree would shed
Last Line: Again, the long-perished dear delight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Autumn; Poplar Trees; Seasons; Fall


AVALANCHE, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A thousand pines are sprawled
Last Line: An enormous thunder of snow
Subject(s): Trees


AWAKENING YEAR, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bluebirds and the violets
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


B C OF LANDSCAPE GARGENING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Keep lawn center open
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


BALLAD OF AN OLD CYPRESS, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In front of the shrine of zhu-ge liang
Last Line: It has always been true that the greatest timber %is hardest put to use
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Cypress Trees


BANJO BOOMER, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mulberry is a double tree
Subject(s): Mulberry Trees


BANJO BOOMER, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mulberry is a double tree
Last Line: Mulberry, shade me, shade me awhile
Subject(s): Mulberry Trees


BANYAN, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The banyan toils
Last Line: He toils
Subject(s): India; Trees


BANYAN, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Something screamed / from the fringes of the swamp
Subject(s): Banyan Trees


BARBICAN ASH, by JON STALLWORTHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: City pigeons on the air
Last Line: Roots, cable roots, strangling my own
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


BARE ALMOND TREES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wet almond-trees, in the rain
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Travel; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Journeys; Trips


BARE ALMOND TREES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wet almond-trees, in the rain
Last Line: Of uneatable soft green
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Travel; Trees


BATTLE OF THE TREES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tops of the beech tree
Last Line: On the field of goddeu brig
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


BEACH, by SOPHIA DE MELLO BREYNER ANDRESEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pines moan when the wind passes
Last Line: And an ancient nostalgia of being a mast %sways in the pines
Subject(s): Masts; Pine Trees; Ships And Shipping; Trees


BEAM, by ROBERT HILL LONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The beeches with muscular gray torsos have nothing
Last Line: The soil's patience is incomprehensible
Subject(s): Beech Trees; Trees


BEAR ME, POMONA, TO THY CITRON GROVES, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Spread thy ambrosial stores, and feast with jove!
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


BEARDED OAKS, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The oaks, how subtle and marine
Last Line: That we may spare this hour's term %to practice for eternity
Subject(s): Oak Trees


BEAUTIFUL THINGS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beautiful ground on which we tread
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


BEAUTIFUL TREES, by A. L. R.    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nature's children, beautiful trees!
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


BEAUTY CRUCIFIED, by ANNA SHAW BUCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: My neighbor's tree, in sunny field
Last Line: Revealed by beauty crucified!
Subject(s): Growth; Neighbors; Trees


BEAUTY OF TREES, by WILSON FLAGG    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is difficult to realize how great a part of all
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


BEAVER DAM, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do you see gnawed trees
Last Line: To redesign the stream
Subject(s): Trees


BECAUSE WORDS HAVE NO EFFECT UPON THE WIND, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is to stay alive
Subject(s): Language; Wind; Trees; Survival


BEECH, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where my imaginary line
Last Line: Though by a world of doubt surrounded
Subject(s): Beech Trees; Trees


BEECH, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where my imaginary line
Last Line: Though by a world of doubt surrounded
Subject(s): Beech Trees; Trees


BEECH, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis            
First Line: They will not go. These leaves insist on staying
Last Line: Now half-forgotten, no part of a tree?
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


BEECH, by KEVIN MCFADDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: For a tree, you're the worst kind
Last Line: In your own way, spreading the word
Subject(s): Beech Trees; Trees


BEECH TREE, by NINA NYHART    Poem Source                    
First Line: My childhood has left me, stomped out like a sullen child into the back
Last Line: She needed to be touched, touched continuously
Subject(s): Beech Trees; Trees


BEECH TREES, by PATRICK KAVANAGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A planted in february
Last Line: My beech tree will never hide sparrows %from hungry hawks
Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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


BEFORE A CRUCIFIX, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, down between the dusty trees
Last Line: Hide thyself, strive not, be no more.
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; God; Jesus Christ; Trees; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The


BEFORE THE END OF DAY, by WINNIFRED HOLLOWAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The brief, drab interval between
Last Line: Of rose and blue and white . . .
Subject(s): Evening; Seasons; Trees; Sunset; Twilight


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


BEGGARS, by WESLEY MCNAIR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The one without legs reaches
Subject(s): Solitude; Trees


BEHIND THE REDWOOD CURTAIN, by NATASHA WING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Redwood trees rise like skyscrapers
Last Line: Behind the redwood curtain
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees


BEING PROPERTY ONCE MYSELF, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Same thing for other things. %same thing for men
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


BELATED, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A single buttercup I found
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


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


BENEATH A SHADY TREE, by ALBA NORA MARTINEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beneath a shady tree, they lay
Last Line: Two bobolinks had nested
Subject(s): Trees


BEST TREES AND VINES, by W. J. MILNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trees best adapted for successful culture
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


BETWEEN TWO TREES, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Summer %fills the
Last Line: With a %hammock
Subject(s): Trees


BEWILDERED, by ETHEL KNIGHT FISHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The blossom sere hangs on the tree
Last Line: And take the half-blown rose?
Subject(s): Flowers; Night; Noon; Trees; Bedtime


BIG SWING-TREE IS GREEN AGAIN, by MARY JANE CARR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: All the children waiting turns, %standing in a row
Subject(s): Swings; Trees


BIG TREES IN MARIPOSA, by ELIZABETH ANDERSON COOK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I stood with awe in silence on the ground
Last Line: But these majestic giants still live on!
Subject(s): Mariposa County, California; Trees


BILL'S BEANS; FOR WILLIAM STAFFORD, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the leaves, they're long and curling
Last Line: And the brevity of bean.
Subject(s): Beans; Food & Eating; Oregon; Plantation Life; Trees


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


BIRCH, by KATE FARRELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are five divining sticks of birch
Last Line: Your father in the backyard. %the story you told me
Subject(s): Birch Trees


BIRCH TREE, by ADDIE V. MCMULLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though oak, and elm, and maple tree
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


BIRCH TREE SWANG HER FRAGRANT HAIR, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


BIRCH TREES, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: The night is white / the moon is high
Last Line: So beautiful.
Subject(s): Birch Trees


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


BIRCH/BETH: DECEMBER 24-JANUARY 20, by HILARY LLEWELLYN-WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: After twelfth night comes the reality
Last Line: Gathering twigs for a journey
Variant Title(s): Birch; December 24 - January 2
Subject(s): Birch Trees


BIRCHES, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I see birches bend to left and right
Last Line: One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Children; Environment; Trees; Winter; Youth; Childhood; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


BIRCHES, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tidal darkness floods the lonely land
Last Line: With brave, unarmored companies of white.
Subject(s): Birch Trees


BIRCHES, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I see birches
Last Line: One could do worse than see birches
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets


BIRCHES, by SUE STANDING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Birch bark scrolls %lie on the forest floor
Last Line: And always it is only %the negative rain %and the positive clouds
Subject(s): Birch Trees


BIRCHES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My birches are the girlhood of the glen
Last Line: So of their inner whiteness are they sure.
Subject(s): Birch Trees


BIRD SONGS, by KATHIE MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is what the robin sings
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


BIRD TRADES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The swallow is a mason
Last Line: "and busy little tailors too, / among the birds are found"
Subject(s): Birds;holidays;trees


BIRD'S SONG IN SPRING, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The silver birch is a dainty lady
Last Line: I love him best of all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Variant Title(s): Child's Song In Spring
Subject(s): Socialism; Spring; Trees


BIRDS AND THE CHILDREN, by E. T. SULLIVAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A little brown birdie sat up in a tree
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


BIRDS IN SUMMER, by MARY HOWITT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How pleasant the life of a bird must be
Last Line: How pleasant the life of a bird must be!
Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary
Subject(s): Birds; Holidays; Trees


BIRDS IN SUMMER, SELS., by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How pleasant the life of a bird must be
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Birds; Holidays; Trees


BIRDS' NESTS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The skylark's nest among the grass
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


BISCUIT TREE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This remarkable vegetable production has never yet been described or
Last Line: Cannot be said to remain on
Subject(s): Nonsense; Trees


BITTER-SWEET, by J. ROY ZEISS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like the rustle of old silk thru barren halls
Last Line: In fantastic transient moods.
Subject(s): Solitude; Trees; Wind; Loneliness


BLACK OAKS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves of the black oak linger the winter through
Last Line: I forget the plains, I behold new england's face.
Subject(s): New England; Oak Trees


BLACK PINE TREE IN AN ORANGE LIGHT, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me what you see in it :
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Orange (color); Black (color)


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 SNAKE; 6, by RAUL BOPP    Poem Source                    
First Line: I pass the swamp borders
Last Line: Undid undeciphered writings
Subject(s): Forests; Plants; Travel; Trees; Wanderers And Wandering


BLESS YOU, by S. P. HEALEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I say this as the continents continue to drift
Last Line: Although she can't hear me. %bless you
Subject(s): Earth; Evolution; Trees


BLESSED BE GOD FOR FLOWERS!, by MRS. CHARLES TINSLEY    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


BLUEBIRD, by C. F. GERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tis early spring
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


BLUEBIRD'S SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know the song that the bluebird is singing
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


BLUNDEN'S BEECH, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I named it blunden's beech; and no one knew
Last Line: To summer's idyll an unheeded grace
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


BLUSHING MAPLE TREE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When on the world's first harvest day
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


BOG OAK, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A carter's trophy %split for rafters
Last Line: Of the woodes and glennes' %towards watercress and carrion
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


BOLEHILL TREES, by JAMES MONTGOMERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now peace to his ashes who planted yon trees
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


BOOJUM TREE, by LIAM WEITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: It looks like something carroll would create
Last Line: And her son because the drapes were thin
Subject(s): Imagination; Trees


BOOK OF ODES: 16, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: That broad and spreading sweet pear
Last Line: Lord shao rested there
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


BORN LIKE THE PINES, by JAMES EPHRIAM MCGIRT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Born like the pines to sing
Last Line: In th' winds I cannot rest.
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees


BRANCH: 4. TREE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even the mutual lust of the moon and the waters
Last Line: With the almond-oval, purple eyes
Subject(s): Trees


BRANCHES OF TREES, by JENNIE D. MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trees, trees are ours, the sweet spring flowers
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


BRIDGE, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: This tree across the stream
Last Line: Often soggy %crossing
Subject(s): Trees


BROKEN STRING, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The winter shows me
Last Line: Captured wayward kites
Subject(s): Trees


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


BUCOLIC COMEDY: GREEN GEESE, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees were hissing like green geese
Last Line: "sighed those green geese, ""now the queen is dead."
Subject(s): Trees


BUD, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A tiny velveteen satchel
Last Line: Neatly packed %leaf
Subject(s): Trees


BUNGLING THE TREES, by MOLLY TENENBAUM    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this whipping wind the tree has arms wrapping unwrapping
Last Line: Each time a branch slices through
Subject(s): Trees


BURIAL PLACE, SELS., by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


BURNHAM-BEECHES, by HENRY LUTTRELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A bard, dear muse, unapt to sing
Last Line: Farewell to burnham beeches.
Subject(s): Beech Trees; Trees


BUSHY LEAFY OAK TREE, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is the to and fro and to and fro %of an oak rod
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


BUT OF LIFE?, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What I want in heart
Subject(s): Trees


BUTTERCUP, by K. C.    Poem Source                    
First Line: A little yellow buttercup
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


BY SUMMER WOODS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The leafy city of the birds
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


BY THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lone 'bush' breaks: and the forest dips and clings
Last Line: "^2^ australia has, however, her own ""song-thrush"" and ""song-lark."
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Australia; Brooks; Desolation; Forests; Trees; Streams; Creeks; Woods


BYRON'S OAK AT NEWSTEAD ABBEY, by TIMOTHY THOMAS FORTUNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The little twig that byron planted here
Last Line: While byron's fame through endless time will reign!
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Newstead Abbey, England; Oak Trees; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


CALLING THEM UP, by GEORGE COOPER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I go and call them up
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


CANCIONERO DEL BANYAN, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind freustratzes itself held
Subject(s): Banyan Trees; Florida; Cuban Americans


CARDIFF ELMS, by GILLIAN CLARKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Until this summer %through the open roof of the car
Last Line: Firewood, elmwood, the start %of some terrible undoing
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


CATALPA TREE, by PADRAIC COLUM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Catalpa tree wigh trunk like monolith
Last Line: Sans baronies of bloom
Subject(s): Catalpa Trees


CATALPA, MEANING HEAD WITH WINGS, by BROOKS HAXTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stars beyond the black whirlpool of the catalpa
Last Line: They look up into the bare three-story whorl of the catalpa %tree
Subject(s): Catalpa Trees


CEDAR, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the cellar, in a far corner, there's a door
Last Line: The hat you could almost be wearing
Subject(s): Cedar Trees; Memory


CEDAR, by RUTH PITTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look from the high window with the eye of wonder
Last Line: The dwellings of the blessed in the green savannahs
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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


CEDARHOME, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Make no mistake. The cedar
Last Line: What a cedarhome
Subject(s): Cedar Trees; Coffins


CEDARS, by PAT CASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the air still held your shape
Last Line: Like cedars %in sun
Subject(s): Cedar Trees


CEDARS, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are so dark, the cedars
Last Line: Into a waiting pool.
Subject(s): Cedar Trees


CEDARS, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All down the years the fragrance came
Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs.
Subject(s): Cedar Trees


CEDARS OF LEBANON AT WARWICK CASTLE, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cedars of lebanon! Labyrinths of shade
Last Line: Funeral trees -- beloved of lebanon?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Cedar Trees


CELEBRATION, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wait here a minute
Last Line: Happy arbor day!
Subject(s): Trees


CELEBRATION ARBOR DAY, by WALTER E. RANGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: By an excursion into the woods pupils may learn
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


CELEBRATION OF ARBOR DAY, by MONCURE DANIEL CONWAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is a great pleasure to think of the young
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


CEREMONIES FOR CANDLEMASSE EVE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down with the rosemary and bayes
Last Line: New things succeed, as former things grow old.
Variant Title(s): Candlemas Eve
Subject(s): Candlemas; Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


CHALK-PIT, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is this the road that climbs above and bends
Last Line: Between us still we breed a mystery
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


CHANGELESS WORLD, by SARAH S. JACOBS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The forest trees are transient things and frail
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


CHARM FOR CUTTING AN ELDER TREE; LINCOLNSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Owd sal, gi' me of thi wood
Last Line: An' I will gi' thee some of mine %when I grow into a tree
Subject(s): Trees


CHERRIES, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the tree the farmer said
Last Line: F. E. Weatherley.
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Robins


CHERRY BLOOM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Frailest and first to stand
Last Line: The parent tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


CHERRY RAIN, by MARY ATHEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: No petals fall as silently
Last Line: Within the heart, and not the eye.
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


CHERRY RIPE, by KATE LOUISE BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: May time! May time!
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


CHERRY TREE, by IVY ETHEL OLIVE EASTWICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The chaffinch flies fast
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


CHERRY TREE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In her gnarled sleep it
Last Line: She knows nothing about babies
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Environment; Homosexuality; Poetry And Poets; Trees


CHERRY TREE IN AUTUMN, by MARIE DAVIES WARREN BECKNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A cherry tree bends by a cinder walk
Last Line: My face against its barrenness.
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


CHERRY TREES A-BLOOM, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the spring's elysian
Last Line: Of the cherry trees a-bloom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Fruit; Smells; Spring; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


CHERRY TREES IN APRIL, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: As the branches of cherry trees in april
Last Line: Before the blossoming time is past.
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Fruit


CHESTNUT IN MAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chestnut builds the loveliest house, the
Last Line: Chestnut builds the loveliest house for wooing and for wedding.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birds; Chestnut Trees; Home; Love; Marriage; May (month); Weddings; Husbands; Wives


CHESTNUTS, by JOHN ENGELS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing so imprisoned the young light
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees


CHESTNUTS ARE FALLING, by LILIAN MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: First
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees


CHILD AND TREE, by E. A. HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm like the tiny tree
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


CHILDREN AND FLOWERS, by AMANDA B. HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: What do these children do who never have a
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


CHILDREN IN THE WOOD, by THOMAS PERCY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He took the children by the hand
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


CHILDREN'S ARBOR DAY MARCH, by E. A. HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are marching for the arbor
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


CHILDREN'S PRAISE SONG, by W. B. DOWNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thus came the welcome favor
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


CHIPMUNKS, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The supposedly old / and apparently new
Last Line: We have the rondo all over again!
Subject(s): Chipmunks; Trees


CHOOSING A MAST, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This mast, new-shaven, through whom I rive the ropes
Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy
Subject(s): Masts; Pine Trees; Ships & Shipping; Trees


CHOOSING A MAST, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This mast, new-shaven, through whom I rive the ropes
Last Line: From whose great bow the long keel shooting home %shall fly, the feathered arrow of the foam
Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy
Subject(s): Masts; Pine Trees; Ships And Shipping; Trees


CHOOSING A TREE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A song to the oak, the brave old oak
Subject(s): Oak Trees


CHORUS OF THE FLOWERS, by LUCY WHEELOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am the honeysuckle
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


CHRISTMAS TREE, by STANLEY COOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stores and filling stations prefer a roof
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Trees


CHRISTMAS TREE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Put out the lights now!
Last Line: If it lives or dies now
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Christmas; Environment; Trees


CHRISTMAS TREE, by MARY ELEANOR WILKINS FREEMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother was a singing wind I never knew
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkins, Mary E.
Subject(s): Christmas; Pine Trees; Trees


CHRISTMAS TREE, by MRS. RUSSELL KAVANAUGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oho! This is the tree I am to fill
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


CHRISTMAS TREE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To be %brought down at last
Last Line: Receptive. Still to recall, to praise
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


CHRISTMAS TREE, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because the tree is joyous and as a child
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


CHRISTMAS TREE, by LAURENCE SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Star all over
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Trees


CHRISTMAS TREE IN THE NURSERY, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With mild surprise %four great eyes
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Trees


CHRISTMAS TREES, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw along each noisy city street
Last Line: Grant then your blessing, friend of trees, we pray, %on those who deck green boughs for christmas da
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


CHRISTMAS TREES, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The white trees for christmas
Last Line: And the stars for the rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Trees; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS TREES', by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bonhoeffer in his skylit cell
Subject(s): Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (1906-1945); Christianity; Christmas; Christmas Trees; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS TREES', by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bonhoeffer in his skylit cell
Last Line: We hear too late or not too late
Subject(s): Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (1906-1945); Christianity; Christmas; Christmas Trees


CHRISTMAS TREES; A CHRISTMAS CIRCULAR LETTER, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The city had withdrawn into itself
Last Line: In wishing you herewith a merry christmas.
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


CIRCUS IN THE TREES, by ANDREW HUDGINS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love to watch the gray squirrels leap
Last Line: Cascading down as sparks
Subject(s): Squirrels; Trees


CITY TREES, by VERE DARGAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The trees along our city streets
Last Line: Are lovely, gallant things.
Subject(s): Cities; Trees; Urban Life


CITY TREES, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees along this city street
Last Line: I know what sound is there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Cities; Trees; Urban Life


CLASS TREE, by EMMA S. THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grow thou and flourish well
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 140, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Willows by the eastern gate
Last Line: And now the morning star shines pale
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Willow Trees


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 6, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peach tree soft and tender
Last Line: She well befits these folk
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Trees


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 64. 'QUINCE', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She cast a quince to me
Last Line: But by this love will last
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Quince Trees


CLEANING TREES, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Catch a night wind in a white tablecloth between two hills
Last Line: Then, until you have passed two hills, keep silence and do not look back
Subject(s): Trees


CLEMATIS, by DORA READ GOODALE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the woodland streamlets flow
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


CLIMBING A TREE, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My daughter's red-winged kite is stuck in the branches
Last Line: Begins down here on dangerous grassland
Subject(s): Danger; Trees


CLIMBING A TREE, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My daughter's red-winged kite is stuck in the branches
Last Line: Begins down here on dangerous grassland
Subject(s): Danger; Trees


CLOISTERED DAWN, by BERT MOREHOUSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw birch trees against a winter dawn
Last Line: A robin's nest as chalice to the sun.
Subject(s): Birch Trees


CLOTHES-BRUSH TREE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This most useful natural production does not produce many clothes
Last Line: Unnecessary to be diffuse upon
Subject(s): Trees; Vegetables


COAST LIVE OAK, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: The oak is old
Last Line: I love this tree
Subject(s): Oak Trees


COCKS CROW, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cocks crow in the treetops
Last Line: A tree will offer itself for another, %but brother forgets brother
Subject(s): Brothers And Sisters; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Trees


COCOA PALM, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our trees stood upright like men, but
Last Line: I left thee at last beneath thy rainy skies
Subject(s): Cocoa; Palm Trees


COMBE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The combe was ever dark, ancient and dark
Last Line: Dug him out and gave him to the hounds, %that most ancient briton of english beasts
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Animals; Environment; Trees


COME TO THE FOREST, THE BRIGHT SUN IS SHINING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


COME, FARMERS, THEN, AND LEARN THE FORM OF TENDANCE, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And fruits unlike its own
Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


COMMONEST DELIGHT, by CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: To own a bit of ground
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


COMPANIONSHIP AT NIGHT, by AGNES STEWART BECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: An owl's weird cry comes across the hill
Last Line: Keeps coming across the hill all night.
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats; Night; Owls; Trees; Bedtime


COMPOSED ON THE THEME WILLOWS BY THE RIVERSIDE, by YU XUANJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Kingfisher green lines the deserted shore
Last Line: They startle dreams and compound the gloom
Subject(s): Willow Trees


COMPOSITION, by ADAM DICKINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Collecting strewn branches after high winds
Last Line: And find a way to release the genius %of a hill
Subject(s): Collectors And Collecting; Trees; Wind


CONFESSION, by EDNA S. MCKINLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sat in church, the opening hymn was sung
Last Line: And so I spent my hour with god.
Subject(s): Churches; Confessions; Sea; Trees; Cathedrals; Ocean


CONTACT, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O flame-shaped cypresses
Last Line: It is they who light the stars?
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Stars


CONTRA MORTEM: THE TREES, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Birches birches birches true and white
Last Line: This being swells the night of the living woods
Subject(s): Birch Trees


COOPERATION, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since there are two horses
Last Line: Like a jigsaw puzzle
Subject(s): Trees


COUNTING-OUT RHYME, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silver bark of beech, and sallow
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Trees


COUNTING-OUT RHYME, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silver bark of beech, and sallow
Last Line: Stem of elder, tall and yellow %twig of willow
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Trees


COURAGE, by TILLA BARBARA SPERRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The young birch bends to ruthless fate
Last Line: Your fate courageously.
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Courage; Valor; Bravery


COURTYARD LOCUST TREE, by ZHENG YUNDUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wind encircles the courtyard locust, coaxing the fence gate open
Last Line: Casually she watches the ants of the southern branch come and go
Subject(s): Locust Trees


CRAB TREE, by OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is the crab tree
Last Line: Which makes it stand up
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


CRIMINAL TREATMENT OF TREES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rev. Egleston once called attention
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


CRIMSON CHERRY TREE, by HENRY TREECE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: There is no sweeter sight, I swear, in heaven
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


CRIMSON TREE, by ELIZABETH MAXWELL PHELPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is not just a tree, red-gold
Last Line: Hosannah and amen in me!
Subject(s): Religion; Trees; Theology


CROCUS BELLS, by ALICE E. ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lightly ring; lightly ring
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


CROSS AND THE TREE, by WILLIAM LEROY STIDGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A tree is such a sacred thing
Subject(s): Holidays; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Trees


CROWS, by DOUG ANDERSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hunch in the trees %to gossip
Last Line: And snow sifts %down from the tree
Subject(s): Aging; Birds; Crows; Night; Trees; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Winter


CRYSTAL AND CORAL, by LOUIS GINSBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Each tree is armored in ice. Each street
Last Line: Lost atlantis of crystal and coral!
Subject(s): Ice; Trees


CUNNING OLD CROW, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the limb of an oak sat a cunning old crow
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


CUTTING DOWN A TREE, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Having picked your tree and cleared its base of suckers
Subject(s): Trees


CYPRESS, by JOSE A. CALCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Should you pass by my grave
Last Line: Of that sad cypress tree!
Subject(s): Absence; Cypress Trees; Graves; Love - Loss Of


CYPRESS & CEDAR, by TONY HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A smell comes off my pencil as I write
Last Line: The smell coming off my pencil as I write
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


CYPRESSES, by ROBERT FRANCIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At noon they talk of evening and at evening
Last Line: Teaching birds in little schools, by little skills %how to be shadows
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Night


CYPRESSES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tuscan cypresses %what is it?
Last Line: And mechanical america montezuma still
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Etruscan Civilization; Florence, Italy


CYPRESSES, by NANCY SCHOENBERGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pulled by the roots from a hot southern town
Subject(s): Cypress Trees


CYPRESSES OF PROVENCE, by FRANCES REUBELT    Poem Source                    
First Line: By broken shrine of where white roads advance
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Provence, France


DADDY'S ACTING ODD IN SPRINGTIME (MARCH 16), by JOHN BALABAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Groaning on each other in windy woods
Last Line: He's twined a willow spring around his head %and is laughing at arguing trees
Subject(s): Fathers; March (month); Trees


DAFFODIL, by MARY ELLEN GRAYDON SHARPE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dainty lady daffodil
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


DAISY, by MRS. B. C. RUDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Daisies, bright daisies keep nodding
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


DANCE OF THE DAISIES, by SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So, my pretty flower-folk, you
Last Line: For a daisy-dance, you know, %is a pleasant matter
Alternate Author Name(s): Piatt, Sarah
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


DANDELION (3), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a dandy little fellow
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


DAPHNE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do you not hear her song
Last Line: Half tree?
Subject(s): Fantasy; Trees; Women


DAWN AMID SCOTCH FIRS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The furtive lights that herald dawn
Last Line: For one brief moment dazzlingly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dawn; Trees; Sunrise


DAWN IN A TREE OF BIRDS', by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And then another
Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Trees


DEAD PINES, by EDNA COE MAJORS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shunned as a menace, in the green forest
Last Line: Through the long years, stand the dead pines.
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees


DEAD WOOD, by ANTHONY THWAITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Worn down to stumps, shredded by the wind
Last Line: To hold up books, or prop open a door
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


DEAR DANDELION, by LAURA D. NICHOLS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Winter is over! Summer is coming
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


DEAR ELM, IT IS OF THEE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


DEATH AMONG THE TREES, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Death walketh in the forest
Last Line: Soften to his sad heart the thought of death.
Subject(s): Trees


DEATH IN THE FLOWER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a fair tree, the almond-tree: there spring
Last Line: Tis death!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Almond Trees; Death; Trees; Dead, The


DEATH IS LIKE THE INSECT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Tis the vermin's will
Subject(s): Insects; Death; Trees


DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the conference of the conservation of
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


DEDICATORY EXERCISES [FOR ARBOR DAY] (1), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What do we plant when we plant a tree?
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Trees


DEDICATORY EXERCISES [FOR ARBOR DAY] (2), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Joy to the thought of own, own tree
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Trees


DELIGHT OF BEING ALONE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know no greater delight than the sheer delight of being alone
Last Line: Alone on a hillside in the north, humming in the wind
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


DESTINY, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some trees will become %grandfather clocks
Last Line: Others, pencils, toothpicks, or ordinary %kitchen matches
Subject(s): Trees


DETACHED VIEW, by ALMA DENNY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The acorn is a masterpiece
Last Line: Holding within, when dropped - watch out! %the makings of a mess!
Subject(s): Eggs; Trees


DICKENS IN CAMP, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting
Last Line: This spray of western pine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): Books; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Pine Trees; West (u.s.); Writing & Writers; Reading; Southwest; Pacific States


DIEBACK, by DOUGLAS DUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eyes register their natural frontiers
Last Line: Standing in their own coffins
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


DILEMMA OF THE ELM, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In summer elms are made for me
Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs.
Subject(s): Elm Trees


DIRGE IN WOODS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A wind sways the pines
Last Line: Even so.
Subject(s): Forests; Pine Trees; Wind; Woods


DISCIPLINE OF GARDENING, by JOHN WILLIAM COLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is such a close affinity
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


DISCONTENT, by SARAH ORNE JEWETT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down in a field, one day in june
Variant Title(s): The Discontented Buttercu
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


DISCOURAGED CHERRY TREE, by KATHLEEN MILLAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Winter was so late in coming
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


DISCOURSE ON TREES, by HENRY WARD BEECHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


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


DO AND DON'T, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Make your street and yard in front
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


DOG-FENNEL, by HAROLD LENOIR DAVIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today burn tree-prunings. Dead branches are cut and
Last Line: O dead sister, your pride keeps seasons like the birds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, H. L.
Subject(s): Trees


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


DON'T PLANT TREES, by LI HE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't plant trees in the garden
Last Line: This autumn like autumns past
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Trees


DRAPER'S TEN COMMANDMENTS ON TREE PLANTING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do not allow roots to be exposed to the sun
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


DREAM OF THE ROOD, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Standing at the edge of the grove
Last Line: Put your ear to the trunk of any tree, and listen
Subject(s): Oak Trees


DREAMER AND REAPER, by J. H. ECOB    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father loved a tree as men
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


DRINKING WINE(1), by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A green pine is in the east garden,
Last Line: Why then be fastened to the world
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Pine Trees; Trees


DRUNKEN WINTER, by JOSEPH CERAVOLO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oak oak! Like like
Subject(s): Oak Trees


DRUNKEN WINTER, by JOSEPH CERAVOLO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oak oak! Like like
Last Line: Of again %oak sky
Subject(s): Oak Trees


EARLY EVENING IN APRIL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A drift of fragrance down a lane of spring
Last Line: Wistful and delicate and debonair.
Subject(s): April; Evening; Mountains; Trees; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


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


ECHO, by L. V. HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love the proud grandeur of the old forest trees
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


EDEN RETOLD: 4. THE TREE OF GUILT, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, on her way to the oracle of love
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Trees; Guilt; Eve


EDEN RETOLD: 5. THE CONFESSION, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As on the first day her first word was thou
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Sin; Trees; Food & Eating; Eve


EFFECTS OF SPRING, by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The great sun
Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


EIN FICHTENBAUM STEHT EINSAM, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pine-tree standeth lonely
Last Line: On its ridge of burning stone.
Subject(s): Mourning; Pine Trees; Solitude; Trees; Bereavement; Loneliness


ELDER, by PATRICK JOSEPH GREGORY KAVANAGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Feigns dead in winter, none lives better
Last Line: Of bones. A good example
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


ELEGY FOR A LITTLE GIRL BURNED BENEATH OAK TREES, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If slender feet would care to go
Last Line: Nor keep her feet still.
Subject(s): Death; Girls; Oak Trees; Dead, The


ELEGY; FOR JAMES WRIGHT, by GREGORY ORR    Poem 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


ELEMENTAL HEART, by DIANE GLANCY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He slept on the back porch then the yard
Last Line: His branches moving in the wind
Subject(s): Trees


ELIOT'S OAK; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou ancient oak! Whose myriad leaves are loud
Last Line: And is forgotten, save by thee alone.
Subject(s): Natick, Massachusetts; Oak Trees


ELK COUNTY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From lands of the elk and the pine-tree
Last Line: As wild as the runes of the fiords.
Subject(s): Elk; Forests; Trees; Woods


ELM, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the place where dorothea smiled
Last Line: This is the place where dorothea smiled
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Environment; Trees


ELM, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My thousand-thousand-leaved
Last Line: Returning to dye the night
Subject(s): Elm Trees


ELM, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My thousand-thousand-leaved
Last Line: Returning to dye the night
Subject(s): Elm Trees


ELM BEETLE, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So long I sat and conned
Last Line: Roller-striped fields, and smooth cow-shadowed pond
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


ELM BLOSSOM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bloom of the elm is falling
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


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


ELM TREES, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Elm trees, I think -- I know, are feminine
Last Line: Perhaps enchanted ladies live in them!
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Women


ELM VERSUS APPLE, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The elm, in all the landscape green
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


ELM'S HOME, by WILLIAM HEYEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dark sky blowing over
Last Line: My lightning lord, %my home
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


ELM; FOR RUTH FAINLIGHT, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Variant Title(s): The Elm Speaks
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Fear


ELM; FOR RUTH FAINLIGHT, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root
Last Line: It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults %that kill, that kill
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Variant Title(s): The Elm Speak
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Fear


ELMS, by JOHN FULLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Air darkens, air cools
Last Line: I am still alive
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


ELMS, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All day I tried to distinguish
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


ELMS, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All day I tried to distinguish
Last Line: And have understood %it will make no forms but twisted forms
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Grief


ELMS UNDER CLOUD, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Elms, old men with thinned-out hair
Last Line: Above the scene, again be smoothly rolled?
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


EMBLEMS, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where sweet ferns blow, where hemlock shadows lie
Last Line: The living trees are emblems of our dead!
Subject(s): Death; Plants; Trees; Dead, The; Planting; Planters


EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 35. PERSEVERE, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What if her heart be found as hard as flint?
Last Line: And sturdy trees yield to repeated stroke.
Subject(s): Love; Perseverance; Trees


ENCHANTED BIRCHTREE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An angel lived in a birchtree
Last Line: And her dear (but paunchy) knight
Subject(s): Birch Trees


ENDING UP IN KENT, by EVA SALZMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm leaning out the cottage window, latch
Last Line: What leaves are left on what trees are left will turn
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


ENGLISH WOOD, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This valley wood is pledged
Last Line: Small pathways idly tend %towards no fearful end
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


ENGLISH WOODS AND AMERICAN, by JOHN BURROUGHS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pastoral or field life of nature in england is
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


EPIGRAM, by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mayflower once filled this shore
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


EPIGRAM ON LOPPING TREES IN HIS GARDEN, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mr ld. Complains, that p-- (stark mad with gardens)
Last Line: A lord's acquaintance? -- let him file his bill.
Subject(s): Trees


EPISODE OF THE CHERRY TREE, by MILDRED WESTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: An ill-advised %and foolish thing
Last Line: A patriot %who would not lie
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


ERIGONE, by RENATE WOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: First I heard the dog whimper. Then I knew
Last Line: Don't you see they are the same?
Subject(s): Death; Trees


ERINNERUNG, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the door of my thatched hut
Last Line: Sounds like the rustle of brocaded silk
Subject(s): China; Gingko Trees; Wind


ERINNERUNG, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the door of my thatched hut
Last Line: Sounds like the rustle of brocaded silk
Subject(s): China; Gingko Trees; Wind


ESPALIERED PEAR TREES, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You tack the pear trees to the wall
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Pears


ETCHING, by ULYSSES GOLDBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far away over the river
Last Line: Shivering. ...
Subject(s): Etching; Nature; Trees


EUCALYPTUS, by GRACE REINI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tattered shreds of wind-blown dress
Last Line: Why must clothing hide a tree?
Subject(s): Eucalyptus Trees


EUCALYPTUS TREES, by SISTER BENEDICTION    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stately eucalyptus trees
Last Line: Stately eucalyptus trees.
Subject(s): Eucalyptus Trees


EVE AND THE ASH TREE, by JOHN ENGELS    Poem Source                    
First Line: October has always seemed %an error of time-who will not argue
Last Line: Beneath the reawakened %light-feeding tree
Variant Title(s): The Ash Grove In Octobe
Subject(s): Ash Trees; Trees


EVE WAKES IN THE GARDEN, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: One the first day she wakes under a shade
Last Line: Is hot, the smell of blossoms thick about her
Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Apple Trees; Bible; Eden; Trees


EVENING TRAINS, by MARY TRUE AYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through shadowy trees in brilliant flight
Last Line: Weird torches flaming, racing there.
Subject(s): Evening; Railroads; Trees; Sunset; Twilight; Railways; Trains


EVENING WALK, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You give the appearance of listening
Subject(s): Night; Trees; Walking; Bedtime


EVERGREEN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though thieving centuries grip ageing trees
Last Line: And clouds enough to thunder rain on death!
Subject(s): Clouds; Cypress Trees; Rain


EVERGREENS, by EDWARD COATE PINKNEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When summer's sunny hues adorn
Alternate Author Name(s): Pinkney, Edward Coote
Subject(s): Trees


EXALTATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O leaf upon the highest bough
Last Line: Nor finds what it hath made.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Trees


EXILE IN PARIS, 1899, by JANE YEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the trees are thick in their trunks, hard-veined
Last Line: & astonishing in their finery. Turn, counterturn, stand
Subject(s): Paris, France; Trees


FACTS ABOUT TREES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cutting down trees spoils the beauty of the
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FAIRY TREE, by TEMPLE LANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: All night around the thorn tree
Last Line: You'll never fear the thorn tree %that grows beyond clogheen!
Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends; Trees


FALL, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The black oaks
Subject(s): Oak Trees; Autumn; Fall


FALL, by HARRIET ZINNES    Poem Source                    
First Line: It came suddenly. You had created it. It had not been there before. This
Last Line: Not created that. But who had planted the fig tree in that northern %garden?
Subject(s): Autumn; Creation; Fig Trees; Mourning; Seasons


FALL SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ash-berry clusters
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FALLEN IN THE NIGHT, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It dressed itself in green leaves all the summer long
Last Line: "t will be a good ending, ""fallen in the night!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Trees


FALLEN LEAVES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the frost-stripped forest boughs, the
Last Line: We need not grieve to lie forgot, like sere leaves 'neath the tree!
Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Leaves; Life; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Woods


FAME, by STELLA LAVINA OLSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A forest tree was sore distressed
Last Line: He had his one brief hour of fame!
Subject(s): Fame; Trees; Reputation


FAMILY PORTRAITS, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Five buds were on the parent tree
Last Line: To hear the summons home!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): Trees


FAMILY TREE, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many leaves
Subject(s): Death; Trees; Dead, The


FAMILY TREES, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You boast about your ancient line
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees


FATE OF THE OAK, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The owl to her mate is calling
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Holidays; Oak Trees


FAUN, by ANGELO PHILIP BERTOCCI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pour me my bath of sunlight
Last Line: Drenched with spring fragrance of trees.
Subject(s): Flowers; Grass; Trees


FELLING A TREE, by IVOR GURNEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The surge of spirit that goes with using an axe
Last Line: And tomorrow would be fuel for the bright kitchen-for brown %tea, against cold night
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


FELLOWSHIP, by EDITH HARRIET JONES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twin trees! I see them everywhere
Last Line: Who lives and reigns for aye.
Subject(s): Miracles; Trees


FENCE POSTS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It might be that horses would be useful
Last Line: Penny wise pound foolish either way
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


FEW OLD PROVERBS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If the oak is out before the ash
Subject(s): Holidays; Proverbs; Trees


FEW STATISTICS, by JR. TREADWELL CLEVELAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are now cutting timber from the forests of the
Subject(s): Holidays; Statistics And Statisticians; Trees


FIFTY FAGGOTS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There they stand, on their ends, the fifty faggots
Last Line: Foresee or more control than robin and wren.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; World War I; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; First World War


FIFTY-THREE, by EILEEN MYLES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've already had a lot of them
Subject(s): Birthdays; Middle Age; Books; Trees; Reading


FIG, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Under the green leaf hangs a little pouch
Last Line: And you have dared to eat a universe
Subject(s): Fig Trees


FIR FOREST, by ETHEL ROMIG FULLER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up above, a passing breeze
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FIR TREE, by LUELLA CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hark, hark! What does the fir tree say?
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FIREWEED, by ELNA L. VON PINGEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The woodsman and his ax have conquered
Last Line: On slopes where once great forests trod.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rasmussen, Elna
Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Trees


FIRST CHRISTMAS AFTER THEIR DIVORCE, by PHILIP S. BRYANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Coming home
Last Line: Didn't bother to take
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Trees; Holidays; Santa Claus


FIRWOOD, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fir trees taper into twigs and wear
Last Line: Winter is almost summer where they grow.
Subject(s): Fir Trees


FIVE TREES, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Five pine trees held up on the nape of a broken hill
Last Line: Which are you today?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees


FIVE-FINGERED MAPLE, by KATE LOUISE BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Green leaves, what are you doing'
Subject(s): Maple Trees


FLIGHT AMONG THE OLIVES, by JIM DANIELS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Olive olive olive evening
Last Line: We were once birds, I tell them
Subject(s): Olive Trees And Olives


FLINT AND STEEL, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mountain / mesquite
Last Line: For the little verb that will kindle the fire!
Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; Smells; Spring; Trees; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


FLOCK OF BIRDS, by ANNIE E. CHASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am a bluebird; on branches bare
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FLOWER MISSION, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Children, a flower seems a little thing, but little things often have a
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FLOWER'S HELPERS, by MALANA A. HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I come to you, my name is frost, I kiss the forest trees
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FLOWERING QUINCE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This devils me: uneasy ease at my window
Subject(s): Trees


FLOWERS OF THE MAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A caller! Who is it?
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FLY FISHING IN THE CRYSTAL RIVER, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hitch up my waders
Last Line: And catch %a pine
Subject(s): Trees


FOOL-YOUNGENS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Me an' bert' an' minnie-belle
Last Line: An' ist choke a-laughin'.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Laughter; Trees; Wind


FOOLISH LITTLE ROBIN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once there was a robin lived outside the door
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FOR ALICE WALKER (A SUMMERTIME TANKA), by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Redwood grove and war
Last Line: "you say, ""these sweet trees: this tree"
Subject(s): Walker, Alice (b. 1944); Congo (republic); Sequoia Trees; Belgian Congo; Redwoods


FOR ARBOR DAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What do we do when we plant a tree?
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Trees


FOR NOEL (WHERE A GATE SWINGS EITHER WAY), by BEULAH ALLYNE BELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bring one rosette of alien mistletoe
Last Line: Lay warmth of heart, a song of cherished vows.
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


FOR OUR BETTER GRACES, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: God loves / the rain, not us
Last Line: "her fragrance
Subject(s): God; Love; Pine Trees; Rain; Trees


FOR OVER-AL, WHERE THAT I MYN EYEN CASTE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The victor palm, the laurer to devyne
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


FOR POSTERITY, by ALEXANDER SMITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man does not plant a tree for himself
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


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 FUTURE, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Planting trees early in the spring
Subject(s): Trees


FOR THE YOUNG VINE MAPLES, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If they sprout deep
Subject(s): Maple Trees


FOR YOU - TRULY, by YVONNE FLORENCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dare not write too lightly
Last Line: To tell you what you are!
Subject(s): Beauty; Sea; Trees; Writing & Writers; Ocean


FOREIGN LANDS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up into the cherry tree
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FOREST, by RICHARD JEFFERIES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under the trees the imagination plays unchecked
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FOREST, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who shall describe the inexpressible tenderness
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FOREST CULTURE, by HORACE GREELEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Money can be more profitably and safely
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FOREST ELEGIES, SELS., by LENNART SJOGREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If someone now checks the wind in flight
Last Line: Quite a new season has begun
Subject(s): Forests; Trees


FOREST FELLED, by PUBLIUS PAPINIUS STATIUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sacred thro' time, from age to age it stood
Last Line: They strike, they level, seize and bear away
Alternate Author Name(s): Statius
Subject(s): Lumber And Lumbering; Trees


FOREST MEDITATION, by HERNICE HALL LEGG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The green spires of the forest
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FOREST PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION, by JAMES S. WHIPPLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My desire in writing this article is to interest
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FOREST SCENE, by EDITH MAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know a forest vast and old
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FOREST SONG, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A song for the beautiful trees
Subject(s): Trees


FOREST SPONGE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What child has not seen a muddy freshet
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FOREST TREES, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up with your heads, ye sylvan lords
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FOREVER CHERISHED BE THE TREE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To screen them from renown
Subject(s): Trees


FORGIVENESS, by J. EDMONDSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: When on a fragrant sandal tree
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FORK TREE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This pleasing and amazing tree never grows above four hundred and
Last Line: Produce a musical tinkling to the ears of the happy beholder
Subject(s): Nonsense; Trees


FORMS AND EXPRESSIONS OF TREES, by WILSON FLAGG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The different forms of trees, and their endless
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FORWARD, MARCH!, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spring gives the order, 'forward march!'
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FOUR METRICAL EXPERIMENTS: 4. PINDARIC, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once again, sweet willow, wave thee!
Last Line: Why stays my love?
Subject(s): Pindar (522-440 B.c.); Willow Trees


FOUR REQUIREMENTS FOR THE BEST SERVICE, by GIFFORD PINCHOT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A forest well managed under the methods of
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FOUR SISTERS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There will come a maiden soon, I ween
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


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


FRAGMENT, by STELLA LUCIA MANN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, let me not to beauty of a tree be blind
Last Line: The song on wings against the sky!
Subject(s): Beauty; Singing & Singers; Trees


FRANK AVOWAL, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I said, just now, that I had not yet planned a single
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FREEDOM'S FLOWER, by ANNIE DOUGLAS GREEN ROBINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let merry england proudly rear
Alternate Author Name(s): Douglas, Marian
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


FRENCH PARK, by MAGDA GUTAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ashes hover above the neat park
Last Line: And the swans begin their dance shyly
Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Forests; Parks; Smoke; Trees


FRIENDLY TREE, THIS IS YOUR DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Seeking god within the sky
Subject(s): Trees


FRIGHTENED TREES, by EDWIN CARLILE LITSEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw three trees against a stormy sky
Last Line: In solitude to moan themselves to rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Litsey, E. Carl Edwin Carlile
Subject(s): Storms; Trees


FROM THE CASTELLO, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My window is a frame for one dark tree
Last Line: I shall possess thee now for all my days!
Subject(s): Castles; Cypress Trees; Flowers; Lilacs; Vision


FROM THE WHITE DICTIONARY, by AMIR OR    Poem Source                    
First Line: It never began, you know, the sea was like the sea, the waves
Last Line: The oak tree was on the room I saw him leap, all green, %too late for me %to stop dying
Subject(s): Death; Trees


FRUIT SALAD: 3. PEAR, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Most easily hurt of fruits
Last Line: We take refuge from our troubles in its sweetness, %wasps burrowing head-first through its pulp
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Pear Trees; Trees


FRUIT TREE, by ZSOFIA BALLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We urge on the fruit tree every spring
Last Line: That butterfly's death - caterpillar -behold! Has given birth
Subject(s): Butterflies; Fruit; Insects; Trees


FRUIT TREE, by IBN QADI MILA    Poem Text                    
First Line: When bosoms quivering
Last Line: My taste, when hung with fruit.
Subject(s): Trees


FRUIT TREE, by PARK SONG'YONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Can anything surprise me more
Last Line: But in autumn I recover my vision %at the miracle of the fruit tree
Subject(s): Trees


FULFILLED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas august; and a gypsy breeze
Last Line: Arrayed in red and gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Trees


FULFILLMENT, by FRANCES MOORE GEIGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Happy is he who in life's field shall gain
Last Line: Close round thy roots, enriching thine own heart.
Subject(s): Growth; Trees


GARDEN ON THE SANDS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once, on a time, some little hands
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


GAUDETE, SELS., by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see the oak's bride in the oak's grasp
Last Line: In a brown leaf nostalgia %an acorn stupor
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


GENERAL TREES, by JOHN ISLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sinking is one way, a good way
Last Line: Treed in a waterwall of days
Subject(s): Trees


GETTING A WORD IN, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Very sad
Last Line: Come out of nowhere) / very sad
Subject(s): Grief; Language; Rain; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness; Words; Vocabulary


GIANT TREE, by LUCILE LE CLERCQ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Giant tree within the wood
Last Line: Giant tree within the wood.
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Redwoods


GIFT OF OLIVES, by JEANNE WAGNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: He can only manage
Last Line: This man who has never %trusted sweetness
Subject(s): Gifts And Giving; Olive Trees And Olives


GINGERBREAD TREE, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, do you know, and do you know
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


GINGKO, by THOM TAMMARO    Poem Source                    
First Line: When we were young, we gathered leaves for a big book for
Last Line: And then your memory rustles when the wind blows
Subject(s): Books; Gingko Trees; Leaves


GIVE ME A LAND OF BOUGHS IN LEAF, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Not though they hale in crimsoned nets %the sunset from the main
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


GLORY OF THE WOODS, by SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


GLYN CYNON WOOD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Aberdare, llanwynno through
Last Line: In the depth of cynon vale
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


GOD PROVIDETH FOR THE MORROW, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lo! The lilies of the field
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


GOD'S LOVE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's not a flower that decks the vale
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


GOD'S WISDOM AND POWER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's not a tint that paints the rose
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


GOLDENROD, by EVA J. BEEDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: All hail the lovely goldenrod
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


GOLDENROD, by HOPESTILL GOODWIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am the rustic goldenrod
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


GOLDENROD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the flying train, behold
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


GOOD COMPANY, by KARLE WILSON BAKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees
Last Line: Lord, who am I that they should stoop -- these holy folk of thine?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte
Subject(s): Animals; Religion; Trees; Theology


GOODBYE, WINTER, by C. S. STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The meadow brooks are full, and busy
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


GOSHEN GAP, by KATHERINE SONIAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oaks make an altogether deadly rattle
Last Line: That crippled pause in the moonlight
Subject(s): Trees; Wind


GOSSIP, by JEAN LOUISE LEIGHTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The yellow-green of little trees
Last Line: Then summer's only talk.
Subject(s): Spring; Trees


GRAIN OF CORN AND INFANT'S HAND, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


GRANDPA'S TREES, by BARBARA M. HALES    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandpa built a farmhouse
Last Line: Holding earth and sky together
Subject(s): Grandparents; Trees


GRANITE AND CYPRESS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White-maned, wide-throated, the heavy-shouldered children of
Last Line: And people are so shaken
Subject(s): Future; Cypress Trees


GRASS, by EDGAR FAWCETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rose is praised for its beaming face
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


GREEN ASH, RED MAPLE, BLACK GUM, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How often the names of trees consoled me
Last Line: Black gum, black gum, black gum.
Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Marriage; Moving & Movers; Refugees; Trees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


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 CROSSES, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the back of the pompous houses
Last Line: The green cross of love.
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


GREEN MAN, by HEATHER HARRISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fleet in the forest
Last Line: A yellow corn and a berried harvest
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


GREEN MAN IN THE GARDEN, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Sleep well, my friend,' he said
Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles
Subject(s): Environment; Ghosts; Supernatural; Trees


GREEN THINGS GROWING, by CHARLES H. FULLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh! The green things growing! The green things growning!
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


GREEN WILLOW IS MY GARLAND, by JOHN HEYWOOD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All a green willow, willow, willow
Subject(s): Willow Trees


GREENVILLE TREES: THE CHINA-BERRIES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thousands of years ago
Last Line: Yet then too we are beautiful!
Subject(s): Prehistoric Antiquities; Trees


GREY BIRCHES, by MARGARET SHERWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: We lead the life of desk and book, the life that fails and strives
Last Line: But oh! The little leaves of green that do not need to speak!
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College


GRIEF OF TREES, by ROBIN BECKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We returned at night, the autumn landscape
Last Line: The evening grosbeak, like the storm, just passing through
Subject(s): Grief; Trees


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


GROWTH, by EMILY J. BUGBEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grow as the trees grow
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


HAIKU, by MASAOKA SHIKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: They've cut down the willow
Subject(s): Willow Trees


HAIKU, by MASAOKA SHIKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peeling pears
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


HAIKU, by MIZUHARA SHUOSHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pear blossoms
Last Line: Mild, misted sky
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


HAIKU: 5, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A bare pecan tree
Subject(s): Pecan Trees


HAIL, ARBOR DAY, by LIZZIE D. ROOSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now fair arbor day is here
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


HAIL, OLD PATRICIAN TREES SO GREAT AND GOOD!, by ALICE B. NEAL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Alice; Bradley, Emily
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


HAMPSTEAD: THE HORSE CHESTNUT TREES, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the top of a low hill
Last Line: Hardening tender green %to insensate lumber
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Hampstead, England


HAPPY THOUGHT, by HENRY WARD BEECHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flowers are the sweetest things that god ever
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


HAROLD THE DAUNTLESS: INTRODUCTION, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a mood of mind we all have known
Last Line: Than ennui's yawning smile what time she drops it down
Subject(s): Holidays; Spring; Trees


HART'S HORN TREE, NEAR PENRITH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here stood an oak, that long had borne affixed
Last Line: Verse that would guard thy memory, hart's-horn tree!
Subject(s): Oak Trees; Scotland


HARVEST APPLES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out in the orchard, years ago
Last Line: "you 'll find a ""honey-core,"" I guess."
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Fruit; Trees


HAVE YOU PLANTED A TREE?, by HENRY ABBEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What do we plant when we plant the tree?
Last Line: We plant all these when we plant the tree.
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


HE WHO PLANTS AN OAK LOOKS FORWARD TO FUTURE AGES, by WASHINGTON IRVING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Oldstyle, Jonathan
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


HEART'S EASE! ONE COULD LOOK FOR HALF A DAY, by MARY HOWITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


HEARTSEASE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: While o'er my life still hung the morning star
Last Line: I sing through life with heart's-ease at my breast
Subject(s): Plants;trees; Planting;planters


HEAVE, THE WAVE, AND BEND, by JOHN NEAL    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


HER CHERRY-TREE ABLOOM, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I mind the jauntin'-cars a jinglin'
Last Line: Roun' my lone, wee room!
Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Cherry Trees; Driving & Drivers; Memory


HER TREE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She sowed a seed of sorrow in the earth
Last Line: They said it was the tree of sympathy!
Subject(s): Sympathy; Trees; Empathy


HER VOICE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her eyes have already transfixed him
Last Line: He is quiet.
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Eyes; Voices


HERESY FOR A CLASSROOM, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Green willows are for girls to study under
Subject(s): Spring; Trees


HERMAE...WHITAKERI, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Binde ye my browes with mourning cyparisse
Last Line: A double life: that neither liu'd afore?
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Poplar Trees; Soul; Sun


HIDE AND GO SEEK, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Little sister %thinks that
Last Line: With an %elbow and a knee
Subject(s): Trees


HIEROGLYPHIC, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bent over his time-polished pitchfork
Subject(s): Sycamore Trees; Time


HIGH ROAD, by THEODORA HALFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The river-road / has left me far behind
Last Line: For drinking with the trees!
Subject(s): Roads; Trees; Paths; Trails


HILL-SIDE TREE, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a drowsy, rain-browned saint
Last Line: With a whisper that holds the smile you cannot shape.
Subject(s): Trees


HILLS, by JOHN RUSSELL MCCARTHY    Poem Text                    
First Line: You have not lived until you know a hill
Last Line: That strange tree-god that watches over all.
Subject(s): Mountains; Trees; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HINTS, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two thirsty travelers chanced one day to meet
Last Line: And that a tree is stronger than a vine.
Subject(s): Trees


HINTS FOR THE FIRST SCHOOL GARDEN, by EDITH ALER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Begin early-early enough to stir up
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


HISTORIC TREES, by ALEXANDER SMITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not wonder that great earls value their trees
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


HISTORICAL TREES - TOLD IN RHYME, by LIZZIE M. HADLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: One by one we are turning
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


HOAR-FROST, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wee folk, the fairy folk, have shaken out their laces
Last Line: And fairies' lacy petticoats all hanging out to air.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Seasons; Winter


HOLIDAYS, by LOUISE POLLOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Away with all pencils, with slates and with books
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


HOLLY AND PINE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When christmas comes with mirth and cheer
Last Line: When again the christmas angels come.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas Trees; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Public Worship; Childhood; Church Attendance


HOLLY AND THE IVY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The holly bears the crown
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


HOME BY THE WARM SOUTHERN SEA, by MRS. B. C. RUDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, give me a home by the warm southern sea!
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


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


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


HORSE CHESTNUT, by CICELY MARY BARKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My conkers, they are shiny things
Last Line: O laddies, only wait a bit, %I'll shake them down to you!
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Fairies; Flowers; Seasons


HORSE CHESTNUT TREE, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Boys in sporadic but tenacious droves
Last Line: Which we held in idea, a little handfull
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees


HOW DREARY WOULD THE GARDEN BE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE THE WOODS?, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Into the ease of sight, the brotherhood of eye and leaf
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


HOW TO BECOME A TREE IN SWEDEN, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I look up ahead and see
Subject(s): Sweden; Trees


HOW TO MAKE A WHISTLE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: First take a willow bough
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


HOW TO PLANT A TREE, by JULIA E. ROGERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dig the hole wider and deeper than the tree
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


HOW TREES WORK, by LOUIS PHILLIPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ramsquaddled as I am %with debt and bad relations
Last Line: Me? I am in too much of a rush
Subject(s): Trees


HUANG YING;ER: A SANQU IN TEN SONGS, by WU XIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: No other flower is more delicate
Last Line: Stand apart like the parallel lines of migrating geese
Subject(s): Flowers; Trees


HUNTING PHEASANTS IN A CORNFIELD, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is so strange about a tree alone in an open field?
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Pheasants; Willow Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


HUNTING PHEASANTS IN A CORNFIELD, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is so strange about a tree alone in an open field?
Last Line: If I were a young animal ready to turn home at dusk
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Pheasants; Willow Trees


HWAET! A DREAM CAME TO ME AT DEEP MIDNIGHT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Keened the king's death. Christ was on the cross
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


HYMN FOR ARBOR DAY, by HENRY HANBY HAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: God save this tree we plant!
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


HYMN IN PRAISE OF THE NATURAL WORLD, by ELLEN BEAUCHAMP    Poem Source                    
First Line: The winter storms have passes away
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


HYMNS OF THE MARSHES: SUNRISE, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain
Last Line: The day being done.
Subject(s): Holidays; Plants; Sun; Swamps; Trees; Planting; Planters; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


I AM A MONARCH, THE KING OF TREES, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


I BENDED UNTO ME A BOUGH OF MAY, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Trees


I HAD A LITTLE YELLOW BIRD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


I KNOW NOT WHICH I LOVE THE MOST, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


I LEAN SUNWARD, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I lean sunward all the year
Last Line: To the light behind the sun!
Subject(s): Sun; Trees


I LOVE ACACIA, by EDITH LOVELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once when I was very young
Last Line: Akin to youth and my ideal.
Subject(s): Acacia; Aging; Trees; Youth


I LOVE THEE IN THE SPRING, by WILLIAM JEWETT PABODIE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


I SHAKE MY FIST AT A TREE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To see you dead, then there is no answer %to your death but but life, and I am living it
Subject(s): Leaves; Trees


I TOOK A LITTLE SEED TO YOU, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Foir that small seed
Subject(s): Seeds; Trees


ICE LEAVES, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I feel caught in a snare
Last Line: Trees break if they don't bend
Subject(s): Ice; Leaves; Trees


ICE STORM, by CHARLOTTE BLAKE LORING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Above my head the branch no longer green
Last Line: Whose shadow had pressed heavy on my heart.
Subject(s): Birds; Snow; Trees


ICED BRANCHES, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: The branches interlacing down the street
Last Line: Heavily as the heaviest gold of spring.
Subject(s): Trees


IF ALL THE LITTLE CHRISTMAS TREES, by CAROLYN SHERWIN BAILEY    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


IF JOVE WOULD GIVE THE LEAFY BOWERS, by UNKNOWN+26    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO FAMILIAR AMERICAN TREES, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't get it about the natural world
Subject(s): New York City; Trees; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


IMITATION OF A SONG, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oak, that stately and alone
Last Line: Thrice woe to him who lives too long!
Subject(s): Oak Trees


IMPERMANENCE, by ALICE H. MERTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: The love you proffered and professed
Last Line: An evanescent gleam.
Subject(s): Love; Sky; Trees


IMPRINT OF FERNS, CRISSCROSSED WITH BRANCHES AND TWIGS, by SANDOR CSOORI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring has arrived. It's returned again
Last Line: As amber does the ferns with crisscrossed branches and twigs
Subject(s): Forests; Poetry And Poets; Spring; Trees


IMPROVEMENT OF SCHOOL GROUNDS, by LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: One's training for the work of life is begun
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


IN A MYRTLE SHADE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When should I be bound to thee
Last Line: And grey hairs are on my head.
Subject(s): Aging; Bible; Myrtle Trees; Mythology; Religion; Theology


IN A TREE, by DIANE AVERILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In late december, what used to be
Last Line: My bright granddaughter, rippling in the limbs of her mother
Subject(s): December; Family Life; Trees


IN A WOOD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale beech and pine so blue [or, pine-tree blue]
Last Line: Life-loyalties.
Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods


IN CITIES, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In cities you watch the way of wind with smoke
Last Line: Delights deeper than any a city divines.
Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Hearts; Memory; Trees; Urban Life


IN DAYS OF YORE, TIS SAID, THE SWIMMING ALDER, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Suffice to cross the purling wave and gain the destin'd port?
Subject(s): Trees; Sea


IN EARLY AUTUMN, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a day when the trees are exchanging the cured gold of the sun
Last Line: Under this hill of bones that calls my flesh its home
Subject(s): Autumn; Colors; Seasons; Trees; Fall


IN FRANCE, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poplars in the fields of france
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 2, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old yew, which graspest at the stones
Last Line: And grow incorporate into thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): The Dead Friend;in Memoriam;in Memoriam (1);in Memoriam: 2
Subject(s): Environment; Mourning; Trees; Yew Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Bereavement


IN MEMORY OF AN OLD MAPLE ON THE GROUNDS OF THE ASYLUM ..., by BROOKS HAXTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dawn air moved among the youngish maple trees. One branch
Last Line: Lifted a little, billowed in the mist of rain
Subject(s): Maple Trees


IN MIDWINTER A WOOD WAS, by PETER CHAD TIGAR LEVI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: To see the deer running
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


IN SHIMMERING ROBES, by VIRGINIA SPATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: They told me when a wondering child
Last Line: Brings shining visions down to earth.
Subject(s): Children; Plants; Trees; Childhood; Planting; Planters


IN SOMER, WHEN THE SHAWES BE SHEYNE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Under the grene-wode tre
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


IN THE GOLDEN BIRCH, by JANE ELIZABETH GOSTWYCKE ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: How the leaves sing to the wind!
Last Line: And the hill-tops own its might!
Subject(s): Birch Trees


IN THE HEMLOCKS, by JOHN BURROUGHS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ancient hemlocks, whither I propose to
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


IN THE SHADE OF THE OLD APPLE TREE, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's barely room enough under the branches
Last Line: Ready for almost anything
Subject(s): Apple Trees


IN THE SPRING, by MELEAGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the bright crocus flames, and now
Last Line: And sweeter than the violets!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros
Variant Title(s): Spring
Subject(s): Admiration; Holidays; Trees


IN THE WOODS, by CRAIG RAINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Always at this time there is the bankrupt plant
Last Line: Has eaten here and manufactured death
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


IN THESE STREETS WITH THE BINARY TREES, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday, in a refusal
Subject(s): Trees


IN TRACKLESS WOODS, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In trackless woods, it puzzled me to find
Subject(s): Maple Trees


IN WESTERHAM WOODS, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two lovers here once carved their name
Last Line: From either side a broken heart
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


INCENSE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: These long green sticks I shall burn
Last Line: My soul may catch and hold the fragrance.
Subject(s): Incense-trees; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


INCENSE FOR THE BUDDHA, by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Boy do I burn
Last Line: A lot & that's about all %I do
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Buddhism; Grief; Incense-trees; Loss


INDIANA BEECH WOODS: AUGUST, by ETHEL ARNOLD TILDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beyond the sprawling snake-rail fence
Last Line: Whimpering, whimpering, ceaselessly --
Subject(s): August; Beech Trees; Trees


INDIANA BEECH WOODS: MARCH, by ETHEL ARNOLD TILDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Against the gray of the distance
Last Line: A cardinal's song -- it is scarlet!
Subject(s): Beech Trees; March (month); Trees


INDIANA BEECH WOODS: OCTOBER, by ETHEL ARNOLD TILDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Flakes of copper and gold
Last Line: Out of the glistening beechwood.
Subject(s): Beech Trees; October; Trees


INFORMATION, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This tree has two million and seventy-five thousand leaves
Subject(s): Trees


INFORMATION, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This tree has two million and seventy-five thousand leaves
Last Line: We could swap information
Subject(s): Trees


INSCRIPTION FOR THE ENTRANCE TO A WOOD, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs
Last Line: Ungreeted, and shall give its light embrace.
Subject(s): Forests; Holidays; Trees; Woods


INSCRIPTION: IN A FOREST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger! Whose steps have reached this solitude
Last Line: The weeds and mosses from this letter'd stone.
Subject(s): Advice; Forests; Holidays; Solitude; Strangers; Trees; Woods; Loneliness


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


INTO MY OWN, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One of my wishes is that those dark trees
Last Line: Only more sure of all I thought was true.
Subject(s): Trees


INTO THE SUNBEAM'S KEEPING, by JENNIE D. MOORE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


INTREPID FLOWERING, by LOIS CANFIL    Poem Text                    
First Line: If there are five white blossoms
Last Line: Or a cleft, flowering tree.
Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Trees


INTRODUCTION OF THE BROWN TREE SNAKE, by SARAH LINDSAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The trees fill with silk and the space between trees
Last Line: There's another one forty-eight %and a thread breaks over her lips
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Trees


INVENTORY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thanksgiving today. Soaked with sleet
Last Line: Here: in america. In america.
Subject(s): Belgium; Confessions; Daughters; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Holidays; Honor; Larch Trees; Loss; Memory; Moving & Movers; Numbers; Omens; Refugees; Sons; Thanksgiving Day; Time; United States - Immigration & Emigtration


INVOCATION, by PARR HARLOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: We, children of the free
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


ITALIAN QUATRAIN: LEMON TREES, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees are ripe with yellow birds, I vow
Last Line: Dripping and warm from out your golden throats!
Subject(s): Italy; Lemons; Italians; Lemon Trees


ITALIAN QUATRAIN: OLIVE TREE, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Moonlight is always on its leaves
Last Line: Lovers who chance to wander there.
Subject(s): Italy; Olive Trees And Olives; Italians


IVY, by HENRY BURTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pushing the clods of earth aside
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


JACK HORNER, by MOTHER GOOSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little jack horner / sat in a corner
Last Line: And said, what a good boy am I!
Subject(s): Plums; Plum Trees


JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


JAPANESE CHERRIES, by KATHERINE MARIE CORNELIA BREGY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I carried a burden of bitterness
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


JAPANESE MAPLES, by JENNIE SCOTT ARNOLD    Poem Text                    
First Line: They burn
Last Line: A flame.
Subject(s): Maple Trees


JOSEPH'S LAMENT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My boy, my boy, and art thou dead?
Last Line: My murdered boy! ... Woe, woe is me!
Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Murder; Trees; Dead, The


JOY OF SPRING, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For lo! No sooner has the cold withdrawn
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


JUSTICE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All around the house huge elms and oaks
Subject(s): Cicadas; Elm Trees; Justice; Oak Trees


KEATS' GRAVE IN ROME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though thou liest prone and mute
Last Line: Draw our hearts unto thy grave!
Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Summer; Trees; Tombs; Tombstones


KIND, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can't understand it
Last Line: And with a flower
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees


KIND WORDS (1), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Kind hearts are the gardens
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


KINGS CANYON, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a doorway
Last Line: I breathe tree
Subject(s): Trees


KISIABATON, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beat-up datsun idling in the road
Subject(s): Trees


KNOCKING TREE, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I complain about the skinny tree
Last Line: You will feel the wet satin pollen of my other skin
Subject(s): Children; Trees


KNOTHOLES, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm glad that
Last Line: And spy %on %you
Subject(s): Trees


KNOW THE TREES, by AUSTIN C. APGAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Arbor day, when in all the schools we are talking
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


L'ENVOI, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've passed the grim and threatening warders
Last Line: I know my songs are nearest fame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Grief; Seasons; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness


LADY GOLDEN-ROD, by CARRIE W. BRONSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: O, pretty lady golden-rod
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


LAND O' PINES; OLD HOME WEEK IN MAINE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not least of stars thy star
Last Line: That star is dear.
Subject(s): Forests; Maine (state); Pine Trees; Woods


LANDSCAPE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See the trees lean to the wind's way of leaning
Subject(s): Trees; Wind


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


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


LARCH TREES, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All men speak ill of thee, unlucky tree!
Subject(s): Landscape; Larch Trees


LARCH WOOD SECRETS, by IVY ETHEL OLIVE EASTWICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: In larch wood
Subject(s): Larch Trees


LARCHES, by KITAHARA HAKUSHU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through the larch forest
Last Line: Only the hill steam gurgles, %only the wind in the larches
Subject(s): Larch Trees


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


LEAF, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How beautifully it falls,' you said
Last Line: From a fair, simple land?
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


LEAF AND SOUL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let go the limb
Last Line: Both leaf and soul let go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Trees


LEAF-MOULD, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What's the chief charm of woods - besides mere trees?
Last Line: "here is perennial joy fed rich on death."
Subject(s): Forests; Leaves; Trees; Woods


LEAVES, by JOHN LEE HIGGINS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I shall think of autumn to the end
Last Line: And shall not grieve again at autumn's loss.
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Trees; Fall


LEAVES, by JANE SATTERFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I watch them go - %red leaf, yellow
Last Line: Nameless, a number on the delible plain?
Subject(s): Leaves; Trees


LEAVES, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the dry brown bough
Last Line: The rustling of their fall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Trees; Fall


LEAVES, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: He was cleaning leaves for one at a time
Subject(s): Trees


LEAVES, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Myriads and myriads plumed their glistening wings
Last Line: With faces turned one way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Leaves; Trees


LEAVES FALLING, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leaves falling in numbers speak of
Last Line: As oracles there is something in the soil
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Green (color); Leaves; Spring; Trees


LEAVING WOODS' LAKE, COLORADO, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have it all planned
Last Line: My brothers will ride home %in the trunk
Subject(s): Trees


LEGEND OF THE ASPEN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O'er the forests of judea
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


LENIN'S SEQUOIA, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In car-infested california
Last Line: There's no sequoia? %yes, there is!
Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei
Subject(s): California; Sequoia Trees


LENTEN FLOWERS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Primrose, anemone, bluebell, moss
Last Line: All must die that enter here!
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Trees; Dead, The


LESSON OF THE LEAVES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How do the leaves grow
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


LET ME BE LIKE A TREE, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, like a tree
Variant Title(s): The Tre
Subject(s): Trees


LEUCADIAM ARTEMIS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the intolerable rhythm
Last Line: And the luminous trees.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Arcadians; Artemis; Bible; Mythology - Classical; Trees; Arcadia


LIFE IN ITS SPRING-TIME, by E. A. HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tis the time to be cheerful, when nature is gay
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


LIFE'S FOREST TREES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day grows brief; the afternoon is slanting
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


LIGHT BETWEEN THE TREES, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long, long, long the trail
Last Line: Light between the trees!
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Light; Trees


LIGHT HEARTED AUTHOR, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birches are mad with green points
Subject(s): Brothers; Conduct Of Life; Relationships; Birch Trees; Half-brothers


LIGHTS AMONG REDWOOD, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the streams here, ledge to ledge
Last Line: At their rosy immanence
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Travel


LILAC, by CLARA DOTY BATES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun shone warm, and the lilac said
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


LIMEN, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem 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 FROM A NOTEBOOK - FEBRUARY 1807 (2), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As some vast tropic tree, itself a wood
Last Line: Broods o'er the rude idolatry beneath. --
Variant Title(s): The Tropic Tree
Subject(s): Trees


LINES ON DR. ROBERT SMITH, by THOMAS GRAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you ask why old focus silvanus defies
Last Line: But because he has writ about seeing.
Subject(s): Cambridge University; Chestnut Trees


LITTLE ACORN, by M. H. HUNTINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm nothing but a little acorn
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


LITTLE BIRCH TREE, by RACHEL LEWIS DITHRIDGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like a child at early morn
Last Line: Gleaming through the autumn night!
Subject(s): Trees


LITTLE BIRDIE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear little birdie
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


LITTLE BROWN SEED IN THE FURROW, by IDA W. BENHAM    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


LITTLE DAVID'S CHRISTMAS, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little hunchback david
Last Line: Is tall, and straight, and strong.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal
Subject(s): Babies; Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Christmas Trees; Infants; Nativity, The


LITTLE FIR-TREES, by EVALEEN STEIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hey! Little evergreens
Subject(s): Fir Trees; Trees


LITTLE JOKE, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stripping an almond tree in flower
Last Line: Pure as a drop of metheglin.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Trees


LITTLE LEAF, by HENRY WARD BEECHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once on a time a little leaf was heard to sigh and
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


LITTLE MANDY'S CHRISTMAS TREE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little mandy and her ma
Last Line: Bigger than the other tree!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas Trees; Poverty; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood


LITTLE PLANTER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Down by the wall where the lilacs grow
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


LIVE OAK, by HENRY R. JACKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: With his gnarled old arms, and his iron form
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


LIVERY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old-fashioned raiment suits the tree
Last Line: His ancestors have worn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Trees


LIVING A GOOD WAY UP A MOUNTAIN, by JOHN FULLER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Then growing from its shoulders
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


LIVING BRANCH, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I existed as a tree
Last Line: From the living branch
Subject(s): Pentastichs; Trees


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


LOCUST TREE IN FLOWER (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among %the leaves %bright
Last Line: Down %and quickly %fall
Subject(s): Locust Trees


LOCUST TREE IN FLOWER (SECOND VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among %of %green
Last Line: May %again
Subject(s): Locust Trees


LONDON TREES, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the roads of london springs the forest
Last Line: To quench the sorrows thirsting in the world's eyes
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


LONG-TAILED TITS, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I stopped to hear it clear
Last Line: Flowed the cascade of long-tailed tits
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


LOOKING AT A BUS STOP, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Water is just a five-letter word
Last Line: That autumn hurts.
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Slavery; Trees; Serfs


LOVE IN THE WORLD, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The olives where we walk to-day
Last Line: A beauty dimly understood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Love; Olive Trees And Olives


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


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


LULLABY, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tree sighs softly
Last Line: She rocks her birds to sleep
Subject(s): Trees


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 35, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A lonely fir tree is standing
Last Line: In silent sorrow doth stand.
Subject(s): Fir Trees; Trees


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 63, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees in the autumn wind rustle
Last Line: "thy foolish reverie?"
Subject(s): Autumn; Night; Seasons; Trees; Wind; Fall; Bedtime


MAGIC APPLE TREE, by ELAINE FEINSTEIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Sealed in rainlight one
Last Line: Be sweetened by a strange tree
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


MAGNOLIA-GRANDIFLORA, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Majestic flower! How purely beautiful
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MAJESTY OF TREES, by WASHINGTON IRVING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a serene and settled majesty in woodland
Alternate Author Name(s): Oldstyle, Jonathan
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MAN AND DOG AND HORSE AND TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Friend to man, dog, horse and tree
Subject(s): Dogs; Horses; Trees; Mankind


MANGO, by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The day hot, the air wet felt
Last Line: I put my hand on my mouth and bow down
Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret
Subject(s): Fruit; Mango Trees


MANGO TREE, by MURRAY CARLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Men of the milder zone, you find
Last Line: Its fibrous sweet birth down
Subject(s): Mango Trees


MANGO, NUMBER 61, by RICHARD BLANCO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pescado grande was number 14, while pescado chico was number 12
Last Line: Number 61s, mangos, here in number 87, america
Subject(s): Language; Mango Trees; Numbers; Spain


MANGOES, by TAUFIQ RAFAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Enamelled basins, full
Last Line: Hands reaching down, never touching bottom
Subject(s): Mango Trees; Muslims


MANGOES, by RICHARD TIPPING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mangoes are not cigarettes %mangoes are fleshy skinful passionate fruits
Last Line: Mangoes like poetry
Subject(s): Mango Trees


MANZANITA, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before dawn the coyotes
Subject(s): Trees


MAPLE, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gray squirrels, fall-fat, having
Last Line: Naked you wouldn't believe it survives
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): Maple Trees; Squirrels; Winter


MAPLE, by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That was a day of delight
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MAPLE AND STARLINGS, by WILLIAM HEYEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over my head, a maple fills with starlings
Last Line: From nowhere to nowhere. A maple. Starlings
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


MAPLE AND SUMACH, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maple and sumach down this autumn ride
Last Line: Speak in me now for all who are to die!
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Autumn; Environment; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


MAPLE LEAF, by GONG PEIYU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is a heart-shaped leaf
Last Line: As you quiver on your twig
Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding
Subject(s): China - Democracy; Leaves; Maple Trees


MAPLE LEAVES IN AUTUMN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the many leaves that change
Last Line: A scarlet wreath you crown.
Subject(s): Autumn; Maple Trees; Seasons; Fall


MAPLE SHOOT IN THE PUMPKIN PATCH, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Remember me? %I helicoptered past
Last Line: I must %have %dozed %off
Subject(s): Trees


MAPLE TREES, by NAOMI REYNOLDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Death is life seen in a looking glass
Last Line: Now, they fall cold upon my heart.
Subject(s): Maple Trees


MAPLES IN A SPRUCE FOREST, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They live by attenuation
Last Line: In its mouth my body tastes like stale milk
Subject(s): Maple Trees


MAPLES IN A SPRUCE FOREST, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They live by attenuation
Last Line: A little while, the fretted gloom %is dappled with chartreuse
Subject(s): Maple Trees


MAPLES IN FALL, by JR. A. POULIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: These trees tremble with a precious
Last Line: The bulk of the smallest human need
Subject(s): Autumn; Maple Trees; Seasons


MARCH THOUGHTS FROM ENGLAND, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O that I were lying under the olives
Last Line: Rudel sing the lady of tripoli.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): England; March (month); Olive Trees And Olives; English


MARIGOLD: GRIEF, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Open afresh your round of starry folds
Last Line: His mighty voice may come upon the gale
Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Trees


MARRIAGE OF THE FLOWERS, by SAMUEL HAWKINS MARSHALL BYERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is six,' the swallows twittered, 'and you're very late in rising'
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MARY AND HER PET SQUIRREL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do you think my pet squirrel will go quite away
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MAY, by ? CLARKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When apple trees in blossom are
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MAY, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: May, thou month of rosy beauty
Last Line: And find us in the fields together.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MAY, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All the buds and bees
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MAY, by WILLIAM G. PARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Can it be that it is morning
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hail may, with fair queen and may-pole
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MAY COMMOTIONS, by RENEE WEISS    Poem Source                    
First Line: As the sycamore
Last Line: Dreams %its long flight
Subject(s): Memory; Plane Trees


MAY DAY, by EMMA A. OPPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, 'tis bland, and oh, 'tis blooming, for it's may
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MAY FLOWER, by HOPESTILL GOODWIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When stern new england's tardy spring
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MAY MORNING, by ELIZA L. SPROAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Greeted me at early day
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MAY MORNING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O lady, leave thy silken thread
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MAY MORNING LESSON, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twice one are two
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MAY SONG), by ANNA MARIA PRATT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The orchard is a rosy cloud
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MAY SONG), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A merry little maiden
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MAY TO APRIL, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Without your showers %I breed no flowers
Subject(s): Holidays; Spring; Trees


MAY-DAY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come hither, come hither, and view the face
Last Line: "with a world's which shouts, ""rejoice, rejoice!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Variant Title(s): Spring Morning
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MAY-TREE, by KIM TAPLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As if when a man was striding on an errand
Last Line: Bud and break out and bring in better times
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


ME AN' BILL, by F. KENNA    Poem Text                    
First Line: We were sawin' a log was bill an' me
Last Line: "have you got a match in your pocket, jim?"
Subject(s): Accidents; Lumber & Lumbering; Trees; Woodsmen


MEAPLE LEAVES BE YOLLOW, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, let's stroll down so vur's the poun'
Last Line: Though meäple leaves be yollow.
Subject(s): Autumn; Maple Trees; Seasons; Fall


MEASURE, by ROBERT HASS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Recurrences. / coppery light hesitates
Last Line: That forms these lines
Subject(s): Trees


MEMORIAL TREES, by MICHAEL VINCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here in the public garden deep with shade
Last Line: A trickle bright as pain for nourishment
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


MEMORIES, by JOHN RUSSELL MCCARTHY    Poem Text                    
First Line: You remember, big tree, the year of the hurricane
Last Line: Who is dead.)
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Redwoods


MEN AND TREES, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some time since, on an enchanted summer afternoon
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MERRY SPRING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


METAMORPHOSES: A TREE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the hills of phrygie neere a teyle there stands a tree
Last Line: Of theyr two bodies, growing yit togither joyntly there
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Variant Title(s): Philemon And Bauci
Subject(s): Trees


METAPHORS OF THE TREE, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The play yard with its automobile tire
Last Line: Where the wind does not pause.
Subject(s): Leaves; Parks; Trees


MIDNIGHT EDEN, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The crusted tree of stars soars quite
Last Line: Not understood
Subject(s): Trees


MIDSUMMER, by ABBIE F. JUDD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behold the flood-tide of the year
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MIDSUMMER: 36, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The oak inns creak in their joints as light declines
Subject(s): Environment; Hotels; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


MIDSUMMER: 36, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The oak inns creak in their joints as light declines
Last Line: Of shallow or silence in their fading garden
Subject(s): Environment; Hotels; Trees


MIMOSA, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Days and nights the dull metallic %hammer of welders' work
Last Line: The night is starting to burn and to bloom
Variant Title(s): The Mimosa
Subject(s): Summer; Trees; Water


MISS WILLOW, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was spending a delicious spring afternoon
Last Line: Of my glorious reflection.... %splash
Subject(s): Trees


MISSION OLIVE, by GABRIEL SPERA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's time, the day says, as it
Last Line: Helpless to resist the sweet %waking of their pearl-black flesh
Subject(s): Olive Trees And Olives


MOMENTS, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A crow caws, / on the pine tops
Last Line: Eternity seems to end.
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Future Life; Pine Trees; Trees; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


MON-DA-MIN, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So grew osseo, as a lonely pine
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MONTH OF APPLE BLOSSOMS, by HENRY WARD BEECHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It makes no difference that you have seen forty
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MONTH OF MAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here I am, and how do you do?
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MOON AND THE YEW TREE, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary
Last Line: And the message of the yew tree is blackness - blackness and silence
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Moon; Yew Trees


MOONLIT APPLES, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the top of the house
Last Line: On moon-washed apples of wonder.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Fruit; Trees


MOONRISE, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grub-white mulberries redden among leaves
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Mulberry Trees; Night; Bedtime


MOONRISE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The first snows of the year lie white
Last Line: While faint the windy stars are seen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Moon; Night; Pine Trees; Snow; Trees; Bedtime


MORAL OF A LEANING TREE, by PETER ALFRED PETERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a tree well rooted in the ground
Last Line: The tree that fell began to lean when small
Subject(s): Morality; Trees


MORNING AFTER, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside of town the green hills roll
Last Line: Hold on to the same dollar bill
Subject(s): Apple Trees; September; Trees


MORNING RUN, by MATTHEW JOY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oak pine oak %a grayness in my eyes
Last Line: Smelling the acorn %while I breathe by
Subject(s): High School Students; Morning; Teenagers; Track Athletics; Trees


MORTMAIN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grey and ghostly cypresses
Last Line: She had a lovely face.
Subject(s): Death; Faces; Lips; Sin; Trees; Dead, The


MOTION SONG - DAISY FAIR, by ANNIE E. CHASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Have you heard the song of the daisy fair?
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


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)


MUSIC, THOU QUEEN OF SOULS, by THOMAS RANDOLPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Music, thou queen of souls, get up and string
Last Line: Strike a sad note, and fix them trees again.
Variant Title(s): A Song
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Trees


MY CHILDHOOD TREES, by EDITH SODERGRAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My childhood trees stand stall in the grass
Last Line: We want to wake you, dead one, from your sleep
Subject(s): Children; Sleep; Trees


MY CHILDHOOD'S TREES, by EDITH SODERGRAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My childhood's trees stand high in the grass
Last Line: We would knock against your forehead, you sleeping one, %we would wake you, dead one, from your slee
Subject(s): Trees


MY DEATH AS A GIRL I KNEW, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was in a story
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Girls; Trees; Dead, The


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 GRANDFATHER WALKS IN THE WOODS, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere / in the light above the womb
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Grandparents; Trees; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


MY HOME IN THE WILDWOOD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come to my home in the wildwood
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MY LITTLE ALMOND TREE, by ALEXEY (ALEKSEY) KONSTANTINOVICH TOLSTOY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: By bitter loads brought low
Alternate Author Name(s): Prutkov, Koz'ma Petrovich
Subject(s): Trees


MY PINE TREE, by DEMMON GILBERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Vandal - scarred - still dost thou keep
Last Line: Sends, singing happily, a rivulet.
Subject(s): Pine Trees


MY SON'S SON TO HIS SON'S SON - PERHAPS, by MABEL RUTHERFORD BRIDGES    Poem Text                    
First Line: See that lovely, stately thing!
Last Line: And write of trees.
Subject(s): Grandchildren; Pine Trees; Grandsons; Granddaughters


MY TREE, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's the cedar--the mother of lingonberry--that is my tree
Last Line: Among all the trees on earth it is nearest to the great snows, %to the blind son of the glacier. I w
Subject(s): Glaciers; Snow; Strength; Trees; Winter


MY TREE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Which is the best of all the trees?
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


MYRRH BEARERS, by E. D. MUND    Poem Source                    
First Line: The silver cord is loosed, the bow is broken
Subject(s): Incense-trees; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible


MYRRH-BEARERS, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three women crept at break of day
Last Line: Their spices had been bruised for christ!
Subject(s): Incense-trees; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology


MYTHS AND TEXTS: LOGGING: 14, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The groves are down
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


MYTHS AND TEXTS: LOGGING: 14, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The groves are down
Last Line: To his eager nose
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


NAMING THE TREE, by MRS. B. C. RUDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm a merry little maid
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


NATURE, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To plant, to build
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


NATURE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O nature! I do not aspire
Last Line: Only be it near to you.
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


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)


NEATH THE COTTON-WOOD TREES, by MRS. B. C. RUDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let one who sips life's tears with strange delight
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


NEVER TELL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The saplings of the green-tipped birch
Last Line: Tell no secret to a maid!
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


NEW HOLIDAY IS A BOON TO AMERICANS, by GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


NEW TREE, by RUTH FAINLIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Planted a tree the afternoon before
Last Line: And wish it well until tomorrow's dawn
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


NEW YORK STATE PROGRAMME, 1889, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do not make the programme too long
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


NEWS OF SPRING, by MAURICE MAETERLINCK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen the manner in which spring stores
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


NEXT TIME, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gingko trees live 1,000 years
Last Line: The flesh, the stem, the central vein.
Subject(s): Gingko Trees; Mothers


NIGHT AND DAY: 3, by ISAAC ROSENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then spake I to the tree
Last Line: "desire will sing to you."
Subject(s): Trees; Desire


NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS (1), by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the high skies birds are falling
Subject(s): Birds; Trees


NIGHT OAK TREE, by AGNES NEMES NAGY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It happened at night that a passerby
Last Line: The deserted hole was waiting for the oak %to knit back into it
Subject(s): Night; Oak Trees


NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 2. VOICE OF A YOUTHFUL TURK, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If only up the straits the tempest flew
Last Line: Dying again upon the mouth of you!
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Death; Moon; Storms; Dead, The


NO-MAN'S WOOD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Shall I have jealous thoughts to nurse
Last Line: Clean through the heart of no-man's wood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods


NOCTURNE, by MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The moonlit hill
Last Line: When the year is old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cypher, Angela; Hay, Elijah
Subject(s): Trees


NOCTURNES: JOSHUA TREE, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each of us locked inside our rooms
Last Line: Nailed down behind the bedroom door
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Trees; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


NOCTURNES: JOSHUA TREE, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each of us locked inside our rooms
Last Line: Nailed down behind the bedroom door
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Trees


NOONDAY WOODS - NIPIGON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Between thin fingers of the pine
Last Line: No more shall know his joyous tread.
Subject(s): Forests; Trees; Wind; Woods


NOR LESS ATTRACTIVE IS THE WOODLAND SCENE, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As bushful, yet impatient to be seen
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


NOT A GREEN WILLOW, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not a green willow, veiled to hide her weeping,
Last Line: Rest after labor, quiet after strife!
Subject(s): Grief; Rest; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness


NOT AFTER PLUTARCH, by MARY CASEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Comfort me with apples'
Last Line: Of avalon with sleep and mellow apple fruitage
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


NOVEMBER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will come back to you and you to me
Last Line: I will come back to you and you to me.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Grass; November; Sea; Trees; Ocean


NOVEMBER THROUGH A GIANT COPPER BEECH, by EDWIN HONIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: This almost bare tree is racing
Last Line: This beech tree, heavy as death %on the lawn, braces for throat-%cutting ice, bandaging snow
Subject(s): Beech Trees; November; Trees


NOVEMBER TREE, by MARY CAROTHERS DILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is magnificence in one gaunt tree
Last Line: (a weathered strength is beauty, too, it seems!)
Subject(s): Seasons; Trees


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


NOW I AM HERE, WHAT THOU WILT DO WITH ME, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Her household to me, and I should be just
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


NOW I'M ALONE, by JOHN FREDERICK ZURN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I long for forests of redwood and pine
Last Line: I once had a tribe, now I'm alone
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


NOW IS THE TIME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bud will soon become a flower
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


NOW WEEKENDS FOR THE GODS NOW, WARS, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Busy about the tree of life
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


NOW, MY CO-MATES AND BROTHERS IN EXILE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I would not change it
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


NUDISTS, by FLOZARI ROCKWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shade trees stand everywhere undressed
Last Line: Pastelled in rainbow sheen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton-hemingway, Flozari
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Trees; Fall


NURSE LOGS, by POLLY BRODY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stilled, they lie %long green combers
Last Line: In which they root, %those long, prone swells, inspirited
Subject(s): Forests; Harvest; Trees


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


O DREAMY, GLOOMY, FRIENDLY TREES!, by HERBERT TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Your darkness on its noise
Subject(s): Trees


O ROSALIND! THESE TREES SHALL BE MY BOOKS, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


O SPRUCE PINES ON THE CUMBERLANDS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O spruce pines on the cumberlands
Last Line: Upon the cumberland.
Subject(s): Cumberland Mountains; Spruce Trees


OAK, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Slow in growth, late in putting out leaves
Last Line: Where new frames, new doors, mere deal, again and again have %rotted
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


OAK, by JAMES MONTGOMERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tall oak, towering to the skies
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


OAK, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The young oak grew, and proudly grew
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


OAK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With his gnarled old arms
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


OAK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The oak, for grandeur, strength
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


OAK TREE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long ago, in changeful autumn
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


OAK TREE IN THE ROAD, by KEITH VAN VLIET    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was as a young man I first saw the tree
Last Line: And the miracle of all existence
Subject(s): Aging; Life; Oak Trees


OAK'S INTRODUCTION, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've been wondering
Last Line: How high %you can %climb
Subject(s): Trees


OAK-TREE, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The girt woak tree that's in the dell!
Subject(s): Oak Trees


OAK/DUIR: JUNE 10-JULY 7, by HILARY LLEWELLYN-WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I put my head in the bag of leaves
Last Line: Oaks in me, as the sun inches south
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


OAKS, by J. C. JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ha! Ha! We've stemm'd the stream
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


OAKS, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No flaming hue is here
Last Line: In russet and bronze and gold.
Subject(s): Oak Trees


OBITUARY WITH POPLAR TREES, by MIRIAM SAGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two white enormous poplars -- its raining
Last Line: Sky without a moon - %illiterate meaning
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


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: 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


OCTOBER, by DAVID ZAUHAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: After osip mandelstram
Last Line: That sent everybody home %introspective and afraid
Subject(s): Sports; Trees


OCTOBER MAPLE, by MADELINE LAMBERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Your flame-tipped candle holds me as I cry
Last Line: "and pin it to a blue october sky."
Subject(s): Maple Trees


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


ODE ON A SILVER BIRCH IN ST. JAMES'S PARK, by HERBERT TRENCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Muse, I will show thee, on a grassy mound
Last Line: Is blind!
Subject(s): Birch Trees


ODE TO THE OLIVE TREE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Altho' thy flowers minute, disclose
Last Line: Of liberty!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Olive Trees And Olives


ODE TO THE TREES, by MAGGIE MAY WELSH    Poem Source                    
First Line: O who is there within whose heart
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


ODES II, 13. TO A CURSED TREE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoever first planted you, o tree, surely
Last Line: To hunt lions or the timid lynx
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Trees


ODES OF ANACREON, SELS., by THOMAS MOORE                        Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


OF ALL THE CORNERS TO FORGET: MINSTREL, by GIAN LOMBARDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: This tree knows when ice forms on the river, it's time to dream. In the ...
Last Line: And fall among the branches of this tree
Subject(s): Trees; Winter


OF THE FLOWER OF LOVE AND THE WANDERING HORSES, by ROBERT DESNOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the forest lived a giant flower that risked killing
Last Line: The wandering horses
Subject(s): Surrealism; Horses; Flowers; Trees; Love


OH! BEAR ME THEN TO VAST EMBOWERING SHADES, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


OH! COME TO THE WOODLANDS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


OH, THE GINGKOS, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this city where's it's perfectly ordinary
Last Line: He stopped the police from raiding gay bars
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Gingko Trees


OH, WHEN I DIE, by WILLIAM LAIRD BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Poet names his burial-stead
Last Line: I wonder, those bright other orchards are?
Alternate Author Name(s): Laird, William
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Death; Trees; Dead, The


OLD APPLE TREES, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like battered old mill hands, they stand in the orchard
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Corpses; Detroit, Michigan; Orchards; Trees; Cadavers


OLD APPLE TREES, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like battered old mill hands, they stand in the orchard
Last Line: It seemed better that we kept alive
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Corpses; Detroit, Michigan; Orchards; Trees


OLD ELM SPEAKS, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is as I told you, young sapling
Last Line: Before you snag %your %first %moon
Subject(s): Trees


OLD ELM TREE BY THE RIVER, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shrugging in the flight of its leaves
Last Line: The strength by which we held to it %and stood, the daylight over it %a mighty blessing we cannot be
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


OLD FASHIONED FLOWERS, by MAURICE MAETERLINCK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This morning, when I went to look at my flowers
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


OLD GROWTH, by JACQUELINE HOEKSTRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the smoking years
Last Line: I run through the timber
Subject(s): Growth; Trees


OLD LADY WITH DISPOSABLE RAIN HAT, by MICHAEL TUTTLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have heard of apples in korea
Last Line: They are certainly unwrapped %and misted now and then
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


OLD MOTHER, by HELEN REGAN SKILLERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah! Yes, indeed, I am a tree
Last Line: A veined skeleton of still happy hours.
Subject(s): Trees


OLD SAWMILL PARKER SETTLEMENT 1937, by RUTH GENEVIEVE WORK IODICE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the great saws died down
Last Line: Outside and in the wind round the house they thought %they heard the whine and whang of great saws
Subject(s): Children; Forests; Saws; Trees


OLD TREE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old tree, how low you seem to stoop
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


OLD TREE BY THE PENOBSCOT, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is an old pine tree facing penobscot bay
Last Line: Hummingbirds thought red sugar-water flasks real %flowers
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees


OLD TREES, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old trees, old trees! In your mystic gloom
Last Line: "old trees, to guard ""our dead""."
Subject(s): Trees


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 WOMEN TREES, by DOROTHY MARIE DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The pine needles click
Last Line: Into scarves of song.
Subject(s): Pine Trees


OLD WOOD, by HUGH KELSO    Poem Source                    
First Line: To me, no dull insensate growth
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS, by ETHEL LYNN BEERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are the sweet old fashioned posies, morning-glories, tints of purple
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, Ethelinda; Lynn, Ethel
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


OLIVE, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The olive in its orchard
Last Line: So deep the root is planted %in the corrupting grave
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Subject(s): Olive Trees And Olives


OLIVE TREES OF PALESTINE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Among the gray old rounded hills
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


ON A DRAWING OF THE ELM-TREE; ... DUKE OF WELLINGTON STOOD, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is there one heart that beats on english ground
Last Line: It fell for many here, but there it stood for all.
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Waterloo; Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852); Battle Of Waterloo; Wellington, Duke Of


ON A JUNIPER-TREE, CUT DOWN TO MAKE BUSKS, by APHRA BEHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whilst happy I triumphant stood
Last Line: And of loves temple keep the door.
Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara
Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Soul; Trees


ON A PALMETTO, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through all that year-scarred agony of height
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Palmetto Trees


ON A TREE FALLEN ACROSS THE ROAD (TO HEAR US TALK), by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tree the tempest with a crash of wood
Last Line: And steer it a direction straight through space.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


ON ENTERING A FOREST, by ELINOR LENNEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Approach this court with deference
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


ON KILLING A TREE, by GIEVE PATEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It takes much time to kill a tree
Last Line: Twisting, withering, %and then it is done
Subject(s): Human Rights; Trees


ON LEAVING TAORMINA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O almond trees, beneath whose fruited shade
Last Line: Take on, I pray, one shade of pink the more.
Subject(s): Love; Sea; Soul; Summer; Trees; Ocean


ON MOVING AGAIN, by LIZ WALDNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This evening, walking along the long field
Subject(s): Trees


ON PLANTING A TREE AT INVERARA, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who does his duty is a question
Last Line: So may the statelier of argyll!
Subject(s): Friendship; Trees


ON THE DEATH AND WORKS OF MASTER GREENHAM, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some skilfull caruer helpe me to endorse
Last Line: But emulate thy works eternitie.
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Graves; Time; Trees; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


ON THE PALATINE HILL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the palace of the caesars blow
Last Line: Long time agone, such a great while ago!
Subject(s): Flowers; Passion; Trees


ON THE SITE OF A MULBERRY-TREE PLANTED BY SHAKESPEARE ..., by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This tree, here fall'n, no common birth or death
Last Line: Some tailor's ninth allotment of a ghost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Dramatists; Hate; Mulberry Trees; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists


ON THE WILLOW BANK, by YEN CHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The riverbank is white like silver.
Last Line: And ahead will keep on flying
Subject(s): Spring; Willow Trees


ONE TREE IN AUTUMN, by DAVID MORTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So little wind would ruin all this gold
Last Line: This once ... This once ... For all I stayed to know.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Trees; Fall


ONLY YOUR LOVE AND REMEMBRANCE COULD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And make these branches, leafless now so long, %blossom again in song
Subject(s): Chairs; Trees


ORCHARD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Its seeds were in the clearing sown
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


ORCHARD BLOSSOMS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Doth thy heart stir within thee at the sight
Last Line: And will for us endear spring-memories to the end.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Holidays; Spring; Trees


ORCHARD WASSAIL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here's to thee %old apple-tree!
Last Line: Holla, boys, holla! %huzza!
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


ORPHEUS TO WOODS, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! O hark! You guilty trees
Last Line: Aught but coffins and their tombs.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Trees


OUR CASURINA TREE, by TORU DUTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like a huge python, winding round and
Last Line: May love defend thee from oblivion's curse.
Subject(s): Trees


OUR CHRISTMAS TREE, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our christmas tree is
Last Line: Christ come into the world
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Nativity, The


OUR CHRISTMAS TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do you know
Last Line: And our tree is here at last!
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; December


OUR DUTY HERE, by JOHN BOWRING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is our duty here?
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


OUR OLD VERMONT APPLE POLE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As on along through life I go
Last Line: A picture of our apple pole.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Fruit; Harvest; Trees; Vermont


OUR ORCHARD TREES, by LETTIE E. STERLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: In springtime, we look at our blooming orchardd trees
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


OUR WILLOWS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is when the east wind blows
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


OZARK FUTILITY, by RUTH H. TYLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Peach trees in bloom again
Last Line: Beauty wasted -- so!
Subject(s): Trees


PAINTING OF A PINE, by JIN-YUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: That painted pine looks exactly
Last Line: The third trunk over
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Paintings And Painters; Pine Trees; Trees


PALM SONG, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, my sweetly beloved, your countenance is my palmgarden
Last Line: Oh, my sweetly beloved.
Subject(s): Bible; Palm Trees


PALM TREE, by A. R. BONAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thy lofty shade is o'er the lonely streams
Subject(s): Palm Trees


PALM TREE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The loveliest %amid a thousand strange and lovely shapes
Subject(s): Palm Trees


PALM TREE, by PETER WESSEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only by the accurate hairs
Subject(s): Palm Trees


PALM-TREE, by UNKNOWN+99    Poem Source                    
First Line: Majestic palm, tow-ring on lebanon!
Subject(s): Palm Trees


PALMS, by CLARK ASHTON SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Palms in the sunset of a languid summer land
Last Line: Or the slow-coming of the lion-colored moon.
Subject(s): Palm Trees


PEACH FIRES, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out in the orchards the dogs stood
Subject(s): Trees; Fire; Winter


PEAR BLOSSOMS, by HSU WEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spring rain spring
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


PEAR LIKE A POTATO, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it worms, having once bitten
Last Line: Here in the sun of a somewhat cloudy morning
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


PEAR TREE, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silver dust
Last Line: In their purple hearts.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Pear Trees; Trees; Pears


PEAR TREE, by PHYLIS EICHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sweet essence of pear blossom
Last Line: Spring has opened your white buds %to light, insect lovers, %the promise of heavy fall fruit
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


PEAR TREE, by CAROL FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As at the bottom of a mirror
Last Line: And go on
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears


PEAR TREE, by CAROL FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As at the bottom of a mirror
Last Line: Empty, I will feel my niggardly heart %and go on
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


PEAR TREE, by PATRICIA HOOPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing ever comes %of this tree, not
Last Line: And nothing had ever tasted %so sweet, so good
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


PEAR TREE, by BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The jewel called citrine is yellow. And so are my pears
Last Line: Beneath the pear tree - will become - another pear tree
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


PEAR TREE, by E. ELIZABETH LONGWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love our old pear tree
Last Line: For me and the bears
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Play; Trees


PEAR TREE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this squalid, dirty dooryard
Last Line: Like the waste-man's little daughter %in her first communion dress
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


PEAR TREE IN MOONLIGHT, by MERLE PRICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pierced through with silver lance, tonight I stand
Last Line: Entranced I bear the splendid agony.
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears


PEARL HARBOR DAY 1970, by RICHARD LOURIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just this morning I signed the contract
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Trees; Vermont


PEBBLE AND THE ACORN, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a pebble! And yield to none!'
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


PEEPING THRU THE SNOW, by MARY BEALE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


PERSPECTIVE, by LENA HALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I folded trees as shepherds fold their flocks
Last Line: Weaving a seamless robe from broken strands.
Subject(s): Sheep; Trees


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


PIETY OF THE CYPRESS, by ALFONSINA STORNI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Traveler: this cypress tree that soars
Last Line: You stumble, human, upon heaven
Subject(s): Cypress Trees


PINE, by BLAKE MORRISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Growing up under the weight of wardrobes
Last Line: The coming clean of our loyalties, and lies
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


PINE BRANCH, by BERENICE BRIGHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Drooped in darker green
Last Line: That day -- you know -- the walk for three.
Subject(s): Love; Pine Trees


PINE NEEDLES, by WILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If mother nature patches the leaves of trees and vines
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


PINE SONG, by MARIANA BACHMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: O pine trees singing in the early spring
Last Line: This melody of pine song every year.
Subject(s): Pine Trees


PINE TREE, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tremendous unity of the pine absorbs and
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


PINE TREE, by SHEN YIXIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: In my leisure I take shelter under you to capture the chilly breeze
Last Line: And listen to the cranes wing through the lucid evening sky?
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees


PINE TREE ACADEMY, by V. E. SCHARFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the birdies went to school
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


PINE TREE ON EARTH, by PARK HEE-JIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From where a pine tree on earth spreads up heavenward
Last Line: To become one, hugging each other burns the sun %glaringly, washed clean
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees


PINE TREE TOPS, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the blue night
Subject(s): Night; Pine Trees; Rabbits; Deer; Bedtime; Hares


PINE TREES, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pine trees patiently unstitch
Last Line: From those who stand with prisoned limbs.
Subject(s): Pine Trees


PINE TREES ON THE MOUNTAIN, by ROSE CRAWFORD PHILLIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Silence and solitude, and a dove's low call
Last Line: Pine trees of the mountains... Looking up to god!
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees; Worship


PINE-CLAD HILLS, by ELIZABETH DAVIS RICHARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hope that I shall live forever, here
Last Line: Her promises of immortality.
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees


PINE-TREE, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In nature, only the tree is upright as man
Last Line: Pine was silhouetted against the dove-colored mountain
Subject(s): Japan; Pine Trees; Trees


PINE-TREE KIN, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pine-tree
Last Line: As the wind passed by?
Subject(s): Pine Trees


PINE-TREES AND THE SKY: EVENING, by RUPERT BROOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd watched the sorrow of the evening sky
Last Line: Being glad of you, o pine-trees and the sky!
Subject(s): Environment; Soldiers' Writings; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


PINEY WOODS, by MALCOLM COWLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Teeth on the saw
Last Line: The little tree dies
Subject(s): Trees


PINK, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And, dearer I, the pink, must be
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


PINK ALMOND, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So delicate, so airy
Last Line: Her roses on the grey.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Almond Trees; Flowers; Roses; Trees


PINON, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Incense-trees


PITCH PINE MAN, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At home you notice how tall
Last Line: As there is plenty of gravy
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees


PLAINT OF THE PINE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I found a pine that shot its solemn bole
Last Line: "with a fear of the ocean, that knoweth not rest."
Subject(s): Dreams; Pine Trees; Sea; Trees; Nightmares; Ocean


PLANT A TREE, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He who plants a tree / plants a hope
Last Line: And his work its own reward shall be.
Variant Title(s): Who Plants A Tree
Subject(s): Trees


PLANT THE OAK, by ADDIE V. MCMULLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come plant the oak, the grand old oak
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


PLANT TREES, by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The young should plant trees in recongnition
Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


PLANTATION, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Any point in that wood
Last Line: To be pilot and stray -- witch %hansel and gretel in one
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


PLANTED, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I held my baby on my knee
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


PLANTING FOR THE FUTURE, by HARRIET B. WRIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In youth's glad morning hour
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


PLANTING ON SCHOOL GROUNDS, by CHARLES H. PECK    Poem Source                    
First Line: An ideal tree should be one with a sound
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


PLANTING THE POPLAR, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because thou'rt not an oak
Last Line: Poplar, by the stream.
Subject(s): Love; Poplar Trees; Soul; Time


PLANTING THE TREE, by E. P. WATERBURY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gather we here to plant the fair tree
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


PLANTING TREES, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the mating of trees
Last Line: And the sound of the wind in them
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


PLANTING TREES, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the mating of trees
Last Line: Shining, and their shadows on the ground, %and the sound of the wind in them
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


PLANTING TREES, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our last connection with the mythic
Last Line: Told me over and over, spreading
Subject(s): Trees


PLANTING TREES, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our last connection with the mythic
Last Line: Told over and over, spreading
Subject(s): Trees


PLANTS AND FLOWERS, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wonderful, in universal adaptation to man's
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


PLEA, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not rob or mar a tree
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


PLUM TREE, by VIRGINIA WOODSON FRAME CHURCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Plum tree / I do not wonder
Last Line: "beyond the cold."
Subject(s): Plums; Plum Trees


PLUM TREES, by RANKO    Poem Text                    
First Line: So sweet the plum trees smell!
Last Line: A fall of purest snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Reinko; Takakuwa Ranko
Subject(s): Plums; Plum Trees


PLUME, by RICHARD KENNEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the orchard
Last Line: And still, a shame
Subject(s): Trees


POACHING, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The neighbor's fruit tree
Last Line: Ripe plums for dessert
Subject(s): Trees


POEM FOR ARBOR DAY, by YEHUDA AMICHAI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Children are planting their shoots
Last Line: And puts it down there in rooms / and leaves, alone
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Trees


POEM FOR ARBOR DAY, by YEHUDA AMICHAI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Children are planting their shoots
Last Line: And leaves, alone
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Trees


POEM FOR ARBOR DAY: WHAT TREES SPEAK?, by CHARLOTTE BREWSTER JORDAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My bark is rough, my wood is strong
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Trees


POEM LIKE A TREE OR A BUS, by JOHN ALEX LATTA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here in the disgathering of general attention
Last Line: Limb' 'remaining' 'on' 'that' 'tree'
Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Poetry And Poets; Trees


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


POLLY'S TREE, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A dream tree, polly's tree
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Trees


POND IN THE LAKE, by HANS FAVEREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pond lies in the middle of the lake
Last Line: Repeated the message, at which he %understood, dying just like that
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Lakes


POOR TREE, by THOMAS CARLYLE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor tree; a gentle mistress placed thee here
Last Line: Hers the green memory and immortal day
Subject(s): Trees


POPLAR LEAF, by GEORGE SEFERIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It trembled so the wind swept it away
Last Line: My god how I sought for it
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


POPLAR LEAVES, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind blows down the dusty street
Last Line: As fresh as poplar leaves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Leaves; Poplar Trees


POPLAR MEMORY, by PATRICK KAVANAGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked under the autumnal poplars that my father planted
Last Line: Peering through the branched sky
Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


POPLAR TREES ARE HAPPIEST, by HARRY NOYES PRATT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poplar trees are laughing trees
Last Line: Of all the trees I know.
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


POPLAR'S SHADOW, by MAY SWENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was little, when
Last Line: The poplar plume belongs %to what enormous ring?
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


POPLAR: 1, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The blinding sky's unkind
Last Line: But the poplar hath her fill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Poplar Trees; Wind


POPLAR: 2, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No gale that heaven could send her
Last Line: Who hears exalt her art.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Noises; Poplar Trees; Storms


POPLARS, by ELIZABETH H. EMERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Poplars in winter wear dresses of silver
Last Line: Pouring a river of gold into the sea.
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


POPULAR POPLAR TREE, by BLANCHE WILLIS HOWARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the great wind sets things whirling
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birches are mad with green points
Last Line: And it ends.
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Despair; Brothers


PORTRAIT SONNETS: 1, by HENRY BELLAMANN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She was more like a tree upon a hill
Last Line: By which we climbed to know a hill-top dream.
Subject(s): Solitude; Trees; Loneliness


PORTRAIT SONNETS: 2, by HENRY BELLAMANN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She must have lived so long with only trees
Last Line: Nor can she tell us what it was she found.
Subject(s): Solitude; Trees; Loneliness


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)


POSTSCRIPT; TO MAXIME KUMIN, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear max. I call you that because
Last Line: "here, it hurts."
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Disasters; Kumin, Maxine; Lightning; Pain; Trees; Lightning Rods; Suffering; Misery


PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 125, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lead me, my lord upon mount lebanon
Last Line: All smelling of thy lebanons rich wine.
Subject(s): Cedar Trees; Lebanon; Puritans In Literature


PRETTY FIR TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pretty fir tree, when you grew
Last Line: Pretty fir tree, just as you!
Subject(s): Fir Trees


PRETTY ROSE-TREE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Being weary of love, I flew to the grove
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


PRIMROSES, by W. GRAHAM ROBERTSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: What has happened in the night?
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


PROPER PLACE, by ROBERT NYE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside my window
Last Line: Trees make the world %a proper place
Subject(s): Trees


PROUD LITTLE SPRUCE FIR, by JEANNIE KIRBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a cold winter day the snow came down
Subject(s): Spruce Trees


PRUNED TREE, by HOWARD MOSS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a torn paper might seal up its side
Last Line: Now, I am stirring like a seed in china
Subject(s): Trees


PRUNING TREES, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Trees growing - right in front of my window
Last Line: But better still, -- to see the green hills!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Trees


PSALM: 1, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who hath not walkt astray
Last Line: Runs to decay.
Subject(s): God; Religion; Sin; Trees; Theology


PUSSY AND THE POPPIES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poppies red, pink, and white
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


PUSSY WILLOW, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The brook is brimmed with melting snow
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


PUSSY WILLOW DAYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Birds and pussies in a tree
Last Line: In the shining weather.
Subject(s): April; Birds; Children; Friendship; Play; Spring; Weather; Willow Trees; Childhood


PUSSY WILLOWS, by ELIZABETH BRADY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Perhaps they are pearls from the robe of / the night
Last Line: Have I solved your sweet secret at last?
Subject(s): Spring; Willow Trees


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


PUT FLOWERS IN YOUR WINDOW, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


QUATRAIN: AMONG THE PINES, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Faint murmurs from the pine-tops reach my ear
Last Line: Let the soft south wind waft its music here.
Subject(s): Pine Trees


QUERY, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pear tree, why blossom?
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears


QUERY, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pear tree, why blossom?
Last Line: In an agony's %sproutings) it must
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


QUIET OF THE SEVEN SISTERS, by TOM WAYMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember the quiet of the seven sisters
Last Line: As if in camouflage from some war %carried you away
Subject(s): Forests; Memory; Trees


QUINCE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gentle quince blossoms open
Last Line: They look down on me %knowing me well %some place I had left
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Quince Trees


QUINCE, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Near a small village in the west
Last Line: I cannot leave you my direction!'
Subject(s): Quince Trees; Villages


QUINCE TO LILAC, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear lilac, how enchanting
Last Line: Remarkable discernment. %your ever loving quince
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; Quince Trees


QUOTATIONS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If ever I see
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


RACE OF THE FLOWERS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The trees and the flowers seem running a race
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


RAIMENT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How beautiful your feathers be!'
Last Line: "to keep us from the cold!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Trees


RAINY AFTERNOON, by FLORENCE S. PAGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Great pine-trees, gauzy in the mist
Last Line: The lightning -- the keen memory of your face.
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Rain; Trees


RATIONAL MAN, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His restless glance abruptly drew
Last Line: Took comfort from the poplar trees.
Subject(s): Men; Poplar Trees; Reason; Solitude; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness


READY FOR DUTY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Daffy-down-dilly came up in the cold
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


REAL TREE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What a stange underground life is that
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


REBELS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stiff in midsummer green, the stolid hillsides
Last Line: "swiftly we live and splendidly we die."
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Trees


RECEIVED BY ANGELS SINGING LIKE THE BIRDS, by JOHN MATTHIAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Venite ... Inginocchiatevi &
Last Line: Tremolo among the shining shaken leaves
Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Trees


RED MAPLE LEAVES, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The maple leaves are brilliant
Last Line: And then I drive west into the smoky sunset
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Maple Trees; Past


RED MAPLE LEAVES, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The maple leaves are brilliant
Last Line: And then I drive west into the smoky sunset
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Maple Trees; Past


RED MAPLES, by STAN PROPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: They ringed them because
Last Line: Trees don't live here
Subject(s): Maple Trees


RED MAPLES, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the last year I have learned
Last Line: That is born out of agony?
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Maple Trees


REDWOODS, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mountains are moving, rivers are hurrying
Last Line: Turning in our heads the stars and clouds, %considering whom to please
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees


REDWOODS, by ETHEL RICHARDSON STILLWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not all the piles of rome and greece
Last Line: And point the ancient stars.
Subject(s): History; Sequoia Trees; Historians; Redwoods


REDWOODS AT REDWAY, by DAISIE E. B. ROBINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: At redway, lies a massive, fallen tree
Last Line: Until eternity . . . And never die.
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Redwoods


REFLECTION OF THE WOOD, by LEONIE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Light at each point was beating then to flight
Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs.
Subject(s): Trees


REINCARNATION, by ALICE CHURCHILL CHAPHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: If, when my dust has once again
Last Line: Swinging like a green-bowed swing.
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Reincarnation; Trees; Transmigration; Pretas


RELATIONS OF TREES TO WATER, by WILSON FLAGG    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a spot which I used to visit some years
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


REPOSE OF THE SOUL IN THE WOOD OF L'HAUTIL: THE GOD OF SUNNY DAYS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Proud yearning of the wind above the forest deeps, of a wind that
Last Line: Pair of horns from out my forehead grow.
Subject(s): Forests; Trees; Wind; Woods


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


REQUIEM, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last year an army
Subject(s): Trees; Caterpillars


RESPONSE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I said I love you
Last Line: Waved back at me
Subject(s): Conversation; Love; Trees


RESTORATION OF THE FORESTS, by GEORGE PERKINS MARSH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The objects of the restoration of the forests are
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


RESURGAM, by SEYMOUR S. SHORT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the great architect conceived the plan
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


RESURRECTION, by ELIZABETH ROBINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come to me, my beloved
Last Line: Save the plaint of a leaf in the tree.
Subject(s): Love; Past; Trees


RETURN OF SPRING, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now time throws off his cloak again
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


REVISION, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someting stutters, falls out of a tree
Subject(s): Trees


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


RHAPSODY ON PINE AND CYPRESS, by ZUO FEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How grand and luxuriant these wondrous trees
Last Line: Like the southern mountains they are forever tranquil
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Pine Trees; Trees


RIDDLE, by BRIAN SWANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have a house
Last Line: That has no door
Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Eggs; Riddles; Trees


RITES, by NEAL BOWERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bound to a backyard maple
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Trees


RIVER'S SUPPLICATION, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now saucy phoebus' scorching beams
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


ROBIN AND THE CHICKEN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A plump little robin flew down from the tree
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


ROBIN REDBREAST, by E. A. MATHERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pretty robin redbreast
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


ROBIN REDBREAST'S SECRET, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm a little robin readbreast
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


ROBIN'S COME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the elm-tree's topmost bough
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


RONSARD'S LAMENT FOR THE CUTTING OF THE FOREST OF GASTINE, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old forest, tall household of the birds, no more
Last Line: All forms will pass, matter alone remain
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


ROOTS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mrs. Leamington stood on a cloud
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): Trees


ROSE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: White with the whiteness of the snow
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


ROSES, by EDGAR FAWCETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, the queen of all the roses it cannot be denied
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


ROUND OAK, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The apple top't in the old narrow lane
Last Line: I loved thy shade once -- now I love but thy name
Subject(s): Oak Trees


ROYAL PALM; FOR GRACE HART CRANE, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green rustlings, more-than-regal charities
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Palm Trees


ROYAL PALM; FOR GRACE HART CRANE, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green rustlings, more-than-regal charities
Last Line: Unshackled, casual of its azured height, %as though it soared suchwise through heaven too
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Palm Trees


ROYAL PALMS OF SOUTH FLORIDA, by GEOFFREY BROCK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They line the streets like stoic palace guards
Last Line: About exiled rulers in a dull new world
Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff
Subject(s): Florida; Palm Trees


RUE DU BOIS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Harmonious trees, whose lit and lissom graces
Last Line: Will never give an aspen to the spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Love; Trees


RYTON FIRS, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear boys, they've killed our woods: the ground
Last Line: "befriending languid hours."
Subject(s): Fir Trees; Trees


SACRED WOODS, by GRACE GALLATIN SETON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three trees I know
Subject(s): Trees


SACRIFICIAL FIRES, by NEVA MCFARLAND WADHAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across the sunlit hills of dawn
Last Line: And autumn's fires burn low.
Subject(s): Trees


SADNESS AND STILL LIFE, by BIN RAMKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a heavy bowl two pears
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


SAINT-LIEUX, 1930'S, by CLAIRE MALROUX    Poem Source                    
First Line: Studded with plane-trees
Last Line: Beyond the ditch teeming with tadpoles
Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara
Subject(s): Trees; Villages


SALT WATER'S LURE, by VIRGINIA WAINWRIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I always lived beside the wave and spray
Last Line: With boats and fog. Would life were otherwise.
Subject(s): Hearts; Sea; Trees; Ocean


SALUTE TO THE TREES, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Many a tree is found in the wood
Last Line: "thou ancient, friendly, faithful tree."
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Trees


SAPPERS, by ROY A. SHELDON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Someone slashed this bug-bitten sugar maple
Subject(s): Maple Trees


SATIE: TROIS MELODIES, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The frog on the tumbler-game in the park
Subject(s): Trees; Statues; Time


SAUCHS IN THE REUCH HEUCH HAUCH, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's teuch sauch grwoin' I' the reuch heuch hauch
Last Line: Sall god's ain sel' them wile
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh
Subject(s): Willow Trees


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


SAYING OF LINNAEUS, by JOHN FISKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I often think, when working over my plants, of
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SCARS, by ESSE HAMOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: When first I found you in the forest's green
Last Line: That sovereignty for all comes hard, comes slow.
Subject(s): Scars; Trees


SCENT OF APPLES, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One morning, waking %to the fresh scent of apples
Last Line: And those ripe mouths, blossoming, %promised everything
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Apples; Food And Eating; Fruit; Trees


SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Improvent and care of the school grounds
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SCHOOL GARDEN SHOULD BE CONSIDERED, by L. C. CROBETT    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SCRATCHED INTO THE TREE OF ORIGINAL SIN'S BARK, by TIM SHEA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The poem
Last Line: Is to let death %in
Subject(s): Sin; Trees


SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And god said, let the earth bring for the
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SCRUB PINES, by J. D. SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are joined, gerontocrats, a geometer's dream
Last Line: Browsing deer pass by on their acute bones, %repelled by our fixity
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees


SEASONS, by MARY E. N. HATHEWAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: What does it mean when the blue bird
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SEASONS, by KATIE DOUGLAS WALSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: O! The spring! The beautiful spring!
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SEED (2), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The farmer planted a seed
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SEED WORD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twas nothing, - a mere idle word
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SEEING OAKS: 1., by FRANCES PRESLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her love of her mother. Her mother's gift of language. We were
Last Line: Some twigs. They could clear this away
Subject(s): Mothers; Oak Trees


SEEING OAKS: 2., by FRANCES PRESLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pine needles
Last Line: And that is true of any oak tree
Subject(s): Oak Trees


SEEKING THE MAYFLOWER, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sweetest sound our whole year round
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


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


SENSES OF HERITAGE, by NTOZAKE SHANGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandpa waz a doughboy from carolina
Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette
Subject(s): Race Awareness; African Americans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Trees; Moon; Family Life; Negroes; American Blacks; Heritage; Heredity; Relatives


SENTINELS, by ROSE PARKWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh line of trees all dark and green
Last Line: "your trembling leaves cry ""hark!"
Subject(s): Trees


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


SEVEN POEMS: 2, by PAUL ANTSCHEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gigantic, %trackless, tree-
Last Line: Rose-%rise
Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul
Subject(s): Trees


SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 1, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ragged pilgrim, on the road to nowhere
Last Line: "a lantern, which he does not know is out."
Subject(s): Night; Trees; Bedtime


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


SHADE TREE, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trapjaw was tired
Last Line: In his mind, he moved toward it %stepping lightly, almost on air
Subject(s): Trees; Weariness


SHE CRUSHES THE YELLOW ELM LEAVES BENEATH HER, by SHANE RHODES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Black shoes and lady I want to whisper
Last Line: In the burning of leaves
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Leaves


SHEA-OAK TREES ON A STORMY DAY, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er sandy tracts the shea-oak trees
Last Line: A death song o'er the mournful plain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Death; Oak Trees; Dead, The


SHED AND DREAM, by HICOK. BOB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rest with me under the linden tree.
Last Line: O pie in the sky
Subject(s): Trees; Time


SHUT YOUR CATTLE IN, by MRS. B. C. RUDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ye herds that haunt the country ways'
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SHUT, TOO, IN A TOWER OF WORDS, I MARK, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Some let me make you of the water's speeches
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


SIC TRANSIT, by KATHARINE WILLIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As fall the sere leaves from the tree
Last Line: Seeds will find roots and flowers grow!
Subject(s): Autumn; Dreams; Flowers; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Nightmares


SILVER SPRUCE, by HELEN JANE HOPPER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where the wild rose blooms the sweetest
Last Line: The trees at close of day.
Subject(s): Spruce Trees


SILVER TREE, by GEORGE SZIRTES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a hot steamed-up room five girls are spinning
Last Line: Imaginary gods pass by and cut them down
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


SING A SONG TO ME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Little robin in the tree
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 110, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh fair to see
Last Line: Oh fair to see!
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


SINGLE TREE, by PATRICK JOSEPH GREGORY KAVANAGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: You ask for more rungs in the ladder I
Last Line: Before they walked without him to the wood
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA ARGUES ON BEHALF OF THE TREES, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They mean three things: once
Last Line: Boats to float the soul
Subject(s): Trees


SKETCHBOOK ON EASEL, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Slowly, %the wind lifted
Last Line: Sketchbook so the birds in the tree %could see
Subject(s): Trees


SNOW FALLING IN THE PINE FOREST: 1, by CHONG CH'OL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Snow falling in the pine forest
Last Line: If he but sees it first?
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees


SNOW FALLING IN THE PINE FOREST: 2, by CHONG CH'OL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why does that pine tree stand
Last Line: Will want to cut it down
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees


SNOWFLAKES, by FREDA EFTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whirling breathless through the air
Last Line: Of the earth and sky!
Subject(s): Earth; Sky; Snow; Trees; World


SO MUCH FOR SENTIMENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is gone, the old oak, which, for centuries past
Last Line: "and the tree was maturely ripe."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Oak Trees; Trees


SOARING, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart is a bird to-night
Last Line: Make shudder the trees, lean and bare!
Subject(s): Hearts; Stars; Trees


SOLEMN WORK OF BUILDING UP THE PYRE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As custom was and lit the funeral pyre
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


SOLILOQUY OF DOUGLAS - SOLEMNITY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This place, - the centre of the grove
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SOME TREES, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These are amazing: each
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


SOME TREES, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These are amazing: each
Last Line: These accents seem their own defense
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


SOMEBODY'S KNOCKING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's somebody knocking. Hark! Who can it be
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not knowing what a mulberry sidewalk looks like
Subject(s): Mulberry Trees


SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME, by GERALD STERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not knowing what a mulberry sidewalk looks like
Last Line: For belief and one for just pleasure I wouldn't be singing
Subject(s): Mulberry Trees


SOMETIMES, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes I tnink I'd like to be
Last Line: And be with great big things that are
Subject(s): Robins; Trees


SONG, by SUN TZU-HOU    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the eastern way at the city of lo-yang
Last Line: "joy and love never come back again."
Subject(s): Aging; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Trees


SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Apple, beech, and cedar fair
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SONG FOR MAY, WHOSE BREATH IS SWEET, by EBEN EUGENE REXFORD    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SONG FOR THE ROYAL PALMS OF MIAMI, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Everywhere they stand, slightly bent
Subject(s): Change; Memory; Trees; Wind


SONG OF APPLE-TREES, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Song of apple-trees, honeysweet and murmurous
Last Line: Avalon of the heart's desire, avalon of the hidden shores.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Avalon (legend); Desire; Dreams; Hearts; Singing & Singers; Trees; Nightmares


SONG OF DEDICATION, by ELLEN BEAUCHAMP    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tree we are planting
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SONG OF PALMS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mighty, luminous, and calm
Last Line: Dwarf cane and tall marití.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E.
Subject(s): Palm Trees


SONG OF THE EARTHLINGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the earth we came
Last Line: Old time has laid them low.
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; Time; Trees; Nightmares; World; Songs


SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD, by OGDEN NASH    Poem 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 REDWOOD-TREE, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A california song
Last Line: To build a grander future.
Subject(s): California; Sequoia Trees; Redwoods


SONG OF THE ROSE, FR. ACHILLES TATIUS, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If zeus chose us a king of the flowers in his mirth
Last Line: As they laugh to the wind as it laughs from the west!
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Holidays; Love; Mythology - Classical; Trees


SONG OF THE STAND-PIPE, by MAUREEN DUFFY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look the trees are dying in the drought
Last Line: Into the tumbled city %to begin again
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


SONG OF THE TREE, by FOLKE ISAKSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: During the final approach before landing
Last Line: Return to an existence that had long ago passed into oblivion
Subject(s): Forests; Forgetfulness; Leaves; Trees


SONG OF THE TREES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind
Last Line: I am afraid of
Subject(s): Trees; Wind


SONG OF THE WINTER TREE, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What a happy life was mine
Last Line: And forget ye as they do the winter tree.
Subject(s): Trees


SONG OF THE WULFSHAW LARCHES, by ERNEST RHYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heart of earth, let us be gone
Last Line: Heart of earth, let us be gone!
Alternate Author Name(s): Rhys, Ernest Percival
Subject(s): Larch Trees


SONG TO MOTHER EARTH, by JAMES H. KELLOGG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the merry month of may
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SONG TO THE MAPLE TREE, by E. A. HOLBROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tis the trees of the state, and most wisely selected
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SONG TO THE TREES, by JOSEPH W. MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hail to the trees!
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SONGS AND CHORUS OF THE FLOWERS, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are blushing roses
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 2. JUST WHY, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just why the wind more sadly blows
Last Line: Believe what I will of naked trees.
Subject(s): Trees; Wind; Winter


SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 8. THINGS AT TWILIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is at twilight mostly that things want words
Last Line: And as for clouds, who knows so much of passing?
Subject(s): Evening; Life; Stars; Trees; Sunset; Twilight


SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 9. OF SUCH STRANGE STUFF, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Slowly my window darkens: each bare limb
Last Line: Of neither night nor morrow will be afraid.
Subject(s): Time; Trees; Youth


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 57, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain ways one summer
Last Line: Cold cheek to cheek at last!
Subject(s): Mountains; Trees


SONNET WRITTEN IN SWEFFLING CHURCHYARD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a spirit in these ancient stones
Last Line: The measure of man's destiny fulfilled.
Subject(s): Death; Life; Trees; Dead, The


SONNET: 3, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The roadside lined with ragweed, the sharp hills
Last Line: Or, with the white moon, rise in spirit from the trees.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Trees


SONNET: THE AXE AND PINE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All day, on bole and limb the axes ring
Last Line: While falls the insatiate steel, sharp, cold and sheer!
Subject(s): Pine Trees


SONNETS: 7. EVENING, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O soft last hour of evening, when the gold
Last Line: On bournes unknown, and far untravelled ways.
Subject(s): Dawn; Evening; Love; Trees; Sunrise; Sunset; Twilight


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


SOUNDING HARVEY CREEK, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the narrow, splintering, slatted floor of the dock
Last Line: Their bones showing like veins in a tiny leaf?
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Fish & Fishing; Solitude; Swamps; Anglers; Loneliness; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


SOURCE, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know how poems spring up. Well water flows
Last Line: The singers lift their silver for man's seeing.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Trees; Water; Songs


SOUTH WIND, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where have you been, south wind, this may-day morning
Last Line: When you stole to me shyly with scent of hawthorn.
Subject(s): Environment; Soldiers' Writings; Trees; Wind; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


SPAIN: 2. GRANADA, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red earth and raw, the olive clumps olive and silver
Last Line: From the cypresses, the mountains, the olives turning silver?
Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Olive Trees And Olives


SPAIN: 2. GRANADA, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red earth and raw, the olive clumps olive and silver
Last Line: From the cypresses, the mountains, the olives turning silver
Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Olive Trees And Olives


SPARE THE TREES, by ? MICHELET    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alas, in how many places in the forest which once
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SPEAKING TREE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great alexander sailing was from his true course turned
Last Line: It calls your name. It tells what we mean
Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Identity; Trees


SPING RELISH, by JOHN BURROUGHS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a brief period in our spring when I like
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SPIRIT OF ARBOR DAY, by FRANK A. HILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The spirit of arbor day is that of a deep love for
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


SPIRIT OF THE PINE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All outward wisdom yields to that within
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SPLITTING FIR ROUNDS, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Absent mindedly, after
Last Line: Focus my thoughts %& select another round
Subject(s): Fir Trees; Trees


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: COLUMBUS CHENEY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This weeping willow!
Last Line: As well as for us?
Subject(s): Willow Trees


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CONRAD SIEVER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not in that wasted garden
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Time


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DOW BRITT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Samuel is forever talking of his elm
Last Line: Trying to grow.
Subject(s): Elm Trees


SPRAY OF PINE, by JOHN BURROUGHS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pine is the tree of silence
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SPRING, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I said in my heart, 'I am sick of four walls and ceilings'
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SPRING, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In all climates spring is beautiful
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SPRING, by DONALD G. MITCHEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The budding and blooming of sping
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SPRING, by JAMES SPEED    Poem Source                    
First Line: Have you ever gone into the woods on an early
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SPRING AND SUMMER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spring is growing up
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SPRING APPLE TREE; AQUARELLE, by IGOR SEVERIANIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An apple-tree in spring shakes me,-to see it grow
Last Line: And I lift up my lips to kiss her flowering face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Severyanin, Igor
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Flowers; Fruit; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Spring; Trees


SPRING BLOSSOMS: 2, by KI NO TSURAYUKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hue is as rich
Last Line: Of the one who planted the tree
Subject(s): Spring; Trees


SPRING BLOSSOMS: 3, by KI NO TSURAYUKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind that scatters
Last Line: Snow flurries like these
Subject(s): Spring; Trees


SPRING CLEANING, by SAM WALTER FOSS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, clean yer house, an' clean yer shed
Variant Title(s): The Souls Spring Cleanin
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SPRING FLOWERS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When spring came into the garden
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SPRING IN SOUTHERN PINES, by MARY PARKER COLVIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The tall pines with their candles
Last Line: Of springtime here in southern pines.
Subject(s): Pine Trees


SPRING MAGIC, by CHARLES DICKENS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What man is there over whose mind a bright
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SPRING POINTING TO GOD, by MICHAEL BRUCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loosed from the bands of frost, the verdant ground
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SPRING SONG, by KATE HAWTHORN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now the lovely spring has come
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SPRING SONG, by JESSIE YOUNG NORTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hark, the robins sweetly sing
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SPRING TIME, by LILY RUTHERFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hark! It is the spring time
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SPRING UNDER THE CYPRESSES, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the cypresses, here in the stony
Last Line: Sings here alone, and is lost to the bushes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Italy; Spring; Italians


SPRING [AND THE FLOWERS], by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the snowing and the blowing
Variant Title(s): Nearly Read
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SPRING'S CALL, by CARRIE VAN GILDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spring is dressed in white, with pink sash and green cap
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SPRING-TIME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tis spring-time, bright spring-time!
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SPRUCE, by PHILLIP WILLIAM GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: She transplanted each spruce, blue as the
Last Line: And I wonder: why?
Subject(s): Spruce Trees


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


STAND OF TREES, by MICHAEL JOSEPH HEFFERNAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It wasn't long before we got where we got
Last Line: Delight them as they reached their arms to him
Subject(s): Trees


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


STILL LIFE, by GEORGE+(2) YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Six pears on a kitchen window-sill
Last Line: My other life is nothing
Subject(s): Growth; Pear Trees; Trees


STONE TREES, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night a sword-light in the sky
Last Line: The hoot came ghostly of the owl.
Subject(s): Trees


STOP FOURTEEN, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't get too excited about the albino
Last Line: Green thought the world has ever had
Subject(s): Cowell, Henry (1897-1965); Parks; Trees


STORM, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last night, wind howled
Last Line: And a broken tree
Subject(s): Trees


STORM - THE KING, by FRANCIS MILES FINCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the storm - the king!
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


STORM IN THE FOREST IS RENDING AND SWEEPING, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


STORY OF NARCISSUS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Narcissus was a beautiful youth, who, seeing his
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


STORY OF THE APPLE, by MALANA A. HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It comes as a beautiful blossom in spring
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


STORY OF THE HYACINTH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hyacinth was a beautiful youth beloved by
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


STORY OF THE SUNFLOWER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clytie was a beautiful water-nymph in love with
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


STOVEWOOD, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two thousand years of fog and sucking minerals
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


STOVEWOOD, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two thousand years of fog and sucking minerals
Last Line: And stick it in a stove
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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


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


STREET TREE, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: All day long, I stand
Last Line: I dream wild. %I am forest
Subject(s): Trees


STRIFE AND PEACE, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The yellow poplar leaves came down
Last Line: Hath entered into peace.
Subject(s): Laughter; Life; Poplar Trees; Sleep


STUDY OF TWO PEARS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Opusculum paedagogum / the pears are not viols
Last Line: As the observer wills
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears


STUDY OF TWO PEARS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Opusculum paedagogum %the pears are not viols
Last Line: The pears are not seen %as the observer wills
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees


STUMP, by GARY ETTARI    Poem Source                    
First Line: You dig half a grave to get it out
Last Line: Knock dirt from the brown heaven of roots
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Tools; Trees


STUMP, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today they cut down the oak.
Subject(s): Oak Trees


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


SUGARING, by RAYMOND HOLDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A man may think wild things under the moon
Last Line: So to be very near her when she stirs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond Peckham
Subject(s): Trees; Winter


SUGGESTIONS FOR ARBOR DAY OBSENANCE, by ALFRED SONTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Arbor day had its origin with a view to creating
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Holidays; Trees


SUMMIT AND GRAVITY, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hers is a long and silent street
Last Line: Transparent balance
Subject(s): Trees


SUNDOWN, by LEONIE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the time lean woods shall spend
Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs.
Subject(s): Evening; Trees; Sunset; Twilight


SUNRISE ON THE HILLS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood upon the hills, when heaven's wide arch
Last Line: Dim the sweet look that nature wears.
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SUNRISE THROUGH THE TREES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where ocean reaches vast and wonderful
Last Line: And greet thee through the parting of the trees!
Subject(s): Dawn; Jesus Christ; Trees; Sunrise


SUNSHINE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fitful april sunshine
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SURREALIST IN TIME, by MICHAEL SPRING    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are no more trees
Last Line: They know what time it is %they are hungry
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Surrealism; Trees


SWEENEY ASTRAY: THE TREES OF THE FOREST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stag on the westward ridge, melodious
Last Line: Of point and time. Below, the roe-bucks %are grazing in a dappled row
Subject(s): Trees


SWEENEY PRAISES THE TREES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The branchy leafy oak-tree
Last Line: Is the swishing to and fro %of an oak-rod
Subject(s): Trees


SWEET RED ROSE, by JOEL STACY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good morrow, little rose-bush
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


SYCAMORE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Zaccheus he
Last Line: Our lord to see
Subject(s): Bible; Plane Trees; Zacchaeus; Sycamores; Zaccheus


SYCAMORE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Zaccheus he
Last Line: Our lord to see
Subject(s): Bible; Plane Trees; Zacchaeus


SYCAMORE, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The 300-year-old sycamore
Last Line: Never mind, I say to myself, this is some tree
Subject(s): Plane Trees


SYCAMORE, by KIM HYUN-SUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Have you a dream?
Last Line: Into which I can open my window %and see the shining stars
Subject(s): Plane Trees


SYCAMORE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pecooliarity of his bark
Last Line: "he never'll sic 'em more."
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Plane Trees; Dead, The; Sycamores


SYCAMORE, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always it's the tree zacchaeus climbed
Last Line: Always the flesh free-falling, %always the house sufficient to take it in
Subject(s): Bible; Plane Trees; Zacchaeus


SYCAMORE, by NORMAN H. RUSSELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leaves much larger than my hands
Last Line: Which turns and sings as it seeks %its way past the green valley
Subject(s): Plane Trees


SYCAMORE, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was march third I came outside and saw
Subject(s): Plane Trees; Sycamores


SYCAMORE, by GERALD STERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was march third I came outside and saw
Last Line: Across the desert, and here I am now in new york %and here I am now in pittsburgh, the perfect wilde
Subject(s): Plane Trees


SYCAMORES IN BLOOM, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like flame-wing'd harps the seed blooms lie
Last Line: The red harps of the sycamores.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Earth; Plane Trees; Singing & Singers; World; Sycamores


SYCAMORES IN WINTER, by JOANNE KENNEDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A sudden white
Last Line: Stripped down to beautiful bare bones
Subject(s): Trees; Winter


TAKING DOWN, by WYATT PRUNTY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or finding in the air's subtractive touch %that each was thirsty and completely recognized
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Religion


TALK WITH A TREE, by FREDERICK MUNDLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cradled in its boughs
Last Line: A plum branch inside you
Subject(s): Conversation; Trees


TALKS AND TREES, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And when terror and shrinking and deary
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


TALL FRUIT-TREES, by RUTH PITTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll lop them, it will be easier so to tend them
Last Line: Mountains of blossom and fruit on the stalwart timber
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TAMARISK TREES, by STARR VON FLUSS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We fled from our worries and illness
Last Line: O slim, green tamarisk trees.
Subject(s): Trees


TAPESTRY TREES, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oak: I am the rooftree and the keel
Last Line: Of living song and dead renown!
Subject(s): Trees


TEMPLE, by ANNA EMILIA BAGSTAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did many of us ever really see a tree
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


TEMPLE OF THE TREES, by J. D. C. PELLOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Between the erect and solemn trees
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


TEN O'CLOCK NO MORE, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind has thrown
Last Line: And looked again.
Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Sleep; Trees; Dead, The


TEN PRINCIPLES OF PRUNING, by JULIA E. ROGERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pruning the roots lessens the food supply
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


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


THE ACORN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In small green cup an acorn grew
Last Line: Of a mighty forest oak
Subject(s): Oak Trees


THE ACORN, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An acorn fell from an old oak tree
Last Line: Preserved for its destiny.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Oak Trees


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 ALMOND TREES, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's nothing here / this early
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE ANACREONTICS: 7, by JACOPO VITTORELLI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O happy plane, thou prosperous tree!
Last Line: Still rages in my troubled breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Vittorelli, Iacop
Subject(s): Storms; Trees


THE APPLE TREE, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the essential prose
Subject(s): Apple Trees


THE APPLE TREE, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was hiding in the crooked apple tree
Last Line: He fled, as if he heard some thing behind!
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Children; Trees; Childhood


THE APPLE TREE, by JANE TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old john had an apple tree, healthy and green
Last Line: Nor forgets what we try to conceal.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA, by ROBERT HASS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are walking in the woods along the coast
Last Line: And then he wanders among strangers all he wants
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Apple Trees; Male-female Relations


THE APRICOT TREE, by IBN A'ISHA    Poem Text                    
First Line: The tree stretched high
Last Line: Her beauty all too lavish?
Subject(s): Apricot Trees; Trees


THE ARAB TO THE PALM, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Next to thee, o fair gazelle
Last Line: But none, o palm, should equal mine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Arabs; Palm Trees; Trees


THE ASH TREE, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandmother led me out
Subject(s): Grandparents; Gardens & Gardening; Childhood Memories; Ash Trees; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


THE ASPEN AND THE STREAM, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beholding element, in whose pure eye
Last Line: A darker head, a few more aspen-leaves
Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Brooks; Trees; Streams; Creeks


THE ASPEN TREE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The little aspen tree stands high
Last Line: The lisping cadence of a kiss.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Trees


THE AVENUE, by GEORGES BOUTELLEAU    Poem Text                    
First Line: Calm summer eves that once did hide
Last Line: The kisses of their old desire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cognac Merchant; Novelist
Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Maple Trees; Male-female Relations


THE AWAKENING OF THE TREES, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First, when all the boughs, still heavy-laden, swished and rattled
Last Line: "we knew it all -- we knew it all amany months ago!"
Subject(s): Trees


THE BEARDED, by RAY KOUBECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: A monastery of talking trees
Last Line: The burden of the world!
Subject(s): Trees


THE BEECH TREE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My beautiful beech, your smooth grey coat is trimmed
Last Line: "-- o god of pity and sorrow, not alone!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Beech Trees; Trees


THE BEECH TREE'S PETITION, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O leave this barren spot to me!
Last Line: Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree!
Subject(s): Beech Trees; Trees


THE BEGGAR TREES, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The beggar trees stood wan and old
Last Line: And thus were beggars turned to princes in a day
Subject(s): Trees


THE BEST TREE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Karl lay on the floor by the firelight bright
Last Line: That blossoms at christmastide
Subject(s): Christmas;christmas Trees;gifts & Giving;pine Trees;trees; "nativity, The;


THE BIBLICAL TREE, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of life and knowledge
Subject(s): Trees


THE BIOGRAPHY OF A TREE, by PAMELA ALEXANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is not like that of a building which
Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam
Subject(s): Trees


THE BIRCH TREE, by FRIEDRICH ADOLF AXEL DETLEV VON LILIENCRON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We loved. I sat beside your bed to stare
Last Line: The soft scythe whirrs, now sinks your dying head.
Alternate Author Name(s): Liliencron, Detlev Von
Subject(s): Birch Trees


THE BIRCH-TREE, by E. A. H.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like a shower, breeze-suspended
Last Line: Seems the birch at summer-tide.
Subject(s): Birch Trees


THE BIRCH-TREE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rippling through thy branches goes the sunshine
Last Line: My heart is floated down into the land of quiet.
Subject(s): Birch Trees


THE BIRDS' LULLABY, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing to us, cedars; the twilight is creeping
Last Line: And we drowse to your dreamy whispering.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Birds; Cedar Trees; Night; Bedtime


THE BIRKS OF INVERMAY [OR, ENDERMAY], by DAVID MALLET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The smiling morn, and breathing spring
Last Line: Farewell, ye birks of endermay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Malloch, David
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Love; Transience; Impermanence


THE BLOSSOMING OF THE SOLITARY DATE-TREE. A LAMENT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the blaze of a tropical sun the mountain peaks are the
Last Line: Why was I made for love and love denied to me?
Subject(s): Date Trees; Love - Complaints; Mothers


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 BOTTICELLIAN TREES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The alphabet / of the trees
Subject(s): Trees; Winter


THE BOYS AND THE APPLE TREE, by ANN TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As william and thomas were walking one day
Last Line: "although but in stealing an apple. "
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


THE BRANCHES, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The branches looked first like tepees
Subject(s): Trees


THE BRAVE OLD OAK, by HENRY FOTHERGILL CHORLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A song to the oak, the brave old oak
Last Line: When a hundred years are gone!
Subject(s): Oak Trees; Trees


THE BURNING BEECH, by MIMS THORNBURGH WORKMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Four-thirty it was. He says he can remember
Last Line: "that day in arkansas among the pine."
Subject(s): Beech Trees; Fire; Trees


THE BUTTONWOOD, by CHARLES JOSEPH RIDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old tree, beneath whose canopy I've lain'
Last Line: May you live on, unharmed, forevermore.
Subject(s): Trees


THE CAROL OF THE FIR TREE, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Quoth the fir-tree, 'orange and vine'
Last Line: In your own soul, this 'gloria.'
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Fir Trees; Trees


THE CASTLE OF GATHORE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a place none knows but I
Last Line: And the castle of gathore!
Subject(s): Castles; Death; Home; Love; Soul; Trees; Dead, The


THE CEDARS OF LEBANON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye ancients of the earth, beneath whose shade
Last Line: Than ye have known -- cedars of lebanon!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Cedar Trees; Lebanon


THE CHERRY BOUGH, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a new poet's and a new friend's honor
Last Line: "your bough is dying."
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Friendship


THE CHERRY BOUGHS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, now the heavenly cherry boughs
Last Line: In the stopping of the wind.
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


THE CHERRY TREE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Perched on the fifth rung of the ladder, the girl
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


THE CHERRY TREE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In her gnarled sleep it
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Environment; Gays & Lesbians; Poetry & Poets; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


THE CHERRY TREE, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come from your bed, my drowsy gentleman!
Last Line: Beneath the cherry bush, a rondelay.
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Children; Childhood


THE CHERRY TREES, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cherry trees bend over and are
Last Line: This early may morn when there is none to wed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Environment; Trees; War; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE CHESTNUT TREE, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Misshapen seed! Thy uncouth form
Last Line: Bloom in immortal verdure there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Brattleboro, Vermont; Chestnut Trees; Industrial Revolution; Kennicott, Benjamin (1718-1783)


THE CHRISTMAS TREE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Put out the lights now!
Last Line: If it lives or dies now
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Environment; Nativity, The; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE CHRISTMAS TREE, by EDWARD SHILLITO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If christ could ever be born again
Last Line: "wherever a wound is found."
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


THE CHRISTMAS TREE OF THE ANGELS, by ANGELA MORGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you seen god's christmas tree in the sky
Last Line: To this tree of god in paradise?
Subject(s): Angels; Christmas Trees; Gifts & Giving; Heaven; Magic; Paradise


THE CIRCUS IN THE TREES, by ANDREW HUDGINS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love to watch the gray squirrels leap
Subject(s): Squirrels; Trees


THE COCOA-NUT TREE, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the green and the graceful - the cocoa-nut tree
Last Line: There will a picture of beauty be!
Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet
Subject(s): Beauty; Cocoa; Islands; Sea; Trees; Ocean


THE COMBE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The combe was ever dark, ancient and dark
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Animals; Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE COMFORT OF THE TREES, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gentle and generous, brave-hearted, kind
Last Line: Found comfort in the moving green of trees.
Subject(s): Assassination; Mckinley, William (1843-1901); Trees


THE CONFIDANT, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wood is talking in its sleep
Last Line: Green, garrulous wood; I trusted you so!
Subject(s): Trees


THE CONSECRATION OF BRAILLE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was a barren tree before
Last Line: In the darkness of the blind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Blindness; Night; Solitude; Trees; Visually Handicapped; Bedtime; Loneliness


THE CRAB APPLE TREE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, solitary, blow!
Last Line: Fair boughs by the roadside.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


THE CRAB TREE, by CAROLINE CLIVE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A bank rose high above a rill
Last Line: The lovely, useless, sweet crab tree?
Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline
Subject(s): Trees


THE CRIMSON TREE, by ELSIE J. COSLER CAMPBELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beside a tomb I saw a crimson tree
Last Line: The living, crimson tree -- the christ of god!
Subject(s): Immortality; Trees


THE CYCLADS, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They have been longer than usual in coming to this place
Last Line: O purblind, blind, panhandler of the siltage in time's stream
Subject(s): Trees


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 CYPRESS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O ivory bird, that shakest thy wan plumes
Last Line: Long in the shadow of the cypress tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E.
Subject(s): Birds; Cypress Trees


THE CYPRESS-TREE OF CEYLON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They sat in silent watchfulness
Last Line: Our souls should keep with thee!
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Sri Lanka; Ceylon


THE DAISY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The daisy blossoms on the rocks
Last Line: St stephen's constancy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Trees


THE DEAD TREE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I had a cherry tree, one day
Last Line: On my dead cherry tree!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


THE DEAD TREE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Erect in death thou standest gaunt and bare
Last Line: Yet echoed in eternal dreams to her?
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Trees


THE DECIDUOUS TREES, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tree is no more leaves than a person days
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): Trees


THE DIFFICULT LIFE OF A YOKOHAMA LEAF, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each train that passes
Last Line: By the delightful discovery drugstore.
Subject(s): Leaves; Mountains; Trees; Wind; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE DOOMED OAK; IN IMITATION OF ANATOLE FRANCE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the warm wood bedipped with rosy day
Last Line: And brings the bisson mildews hurrying on.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): France, Anatole (1844-1924); Oak Trees


THE DOVES, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: On yonder hillside, white with tombs
Last Line: But vanish at the break of day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Doves; Dreams; Palm Trees; Nightmares


THE ELDER TREE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "bourtree, bourtree, crookit rung"
Last Line: Since our lord was nail'd t' ye
Subject(s): Crucifixion;trees; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion


THE ELM, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the place where dorothea smiled
Last Line: This is the place where dorothea smiled
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE ELM TREE, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old giant from the days we call primeval
Last Line: Through hope's bright portal in the happy west.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Desolation; Elm Trees; Spring


THE ELM TREE; A DREAM IN THE WOODS, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in a shady avenue
Last Line: Where lofty elms abound.
Subject(s): Elm Trees


THE ELMS ARE FLOWERING, by JOYCE GRENFELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The elms are flowering in a rosy cloud
Last Line: Stand look and sense fulfilment being born.
Subject(s): Elm Trees


THE ELMS OF NEW HAVEN, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves we knew
Last Line: The hearts he touch'd drew to him.
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Hillhouse, James (1754-1832); New Haven, Connecticut


THE EMBERS SPEAK, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I was the acorn that fell
Last Line: And the dying ember dims.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Acorns; Trees


THE ESCAPE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dreadful city's roar
Last Line: Far from these clattering stones.
Subject(s): Bones; Cities; Escapes; Lakes; Trees; Urban Life; Fugitives; Pools; Ponds


THE FADED BLOSSOMS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One gazed back sadly on his years withdrawn
Last Line: We need not mourn the unsoiled blank of youth.
Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Trees


THE FALLEN ELM, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old elm that murmured in our chimney top
Last Line: & freedoms birthright from the weak devours
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Environment; Freedom; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Liberty


THE FALLEN LIME-TREE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O joy of the peasant! O stately lime!
Last Line: The crown of the hamlet is fallen in thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Lime Trees


THE FALLEN PINE-CONE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lift thee, thus, thou brown and rugged cone
Last Line: Into the void of silence evermore!
Subject(s): Pine Trees


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 FELLED TREE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They set me up, and bade me stand
Last Line: Is the same that made me grow.
Subject(s): Trees


THE FIG TREE, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old as the world,
Subject(s): Fig Trees


THE FIG-TREE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First go-between in fallen man's defence
Last Line: Wherewith to hide his shame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Fig Trees


THE FIG-TREES OF GHERARDESCA, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye brave old fig-trees! Worthy pair
Last Line: The girlish glee! Old friends, farewell!
Subject(s): Farewell; Fig Trees; Parting


THE FIR TREE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A fir tree stands so lonely
Last Line: On a burning cliff must stand.
Subject(s): Fir Trees; Trees


THE FIR TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I heard a mother fir tree say
Last Line: Our shining christmas tree.
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; December


THE FIR-TREE, by LUISE VON PLOENNIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: High on that hill thou seest
Last Line: When, when wilt thou be cold?
Subject(s): Fir Trees; Trees


THE FIRST DAYS, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first thing I saw in the morning
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Bees; Pear Trees; Beekeeping; Pears


THE FIRST FLOWERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For ages, on our river borders
Last Line: Were real, or the rhymer's dream!
Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Spring; Trees


THE FLOWER, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once in a golden hour
Last Line: Call it but a weed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Trees


THE FLOWERING TREE, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What fairy fann'd my dreams
Last Line: Which thou gav'st me to kiss.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Love; Trees


THE FLYING MOUSE (NEW SOUTH WALES -- MOONLIGHT), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The eucalyptus-blooms are sweet
Last Line: Flits bat-like where the white gums rise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Birds; Eucalyptus Trees


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 FOOLISH FIR-TREE, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little fir grew in the midst of the wood
Last Line: The very best kind of a christmas tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Trees; Nativity, The


THE FOREST PINE, by LAURENCE BINYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A hundred autumns fallen in fire
Last Line: Still their wild wings.
Subject(s): Forests; Pine Trees; Woods


THE FOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fountain, that springest on this grassy slope
Last Line: Gush midway from the bare and barren steep?
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


THE FRIENDLY TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've found a place beside a friendly tree
Last Line: "my true and silent friend."
Subject(s): Friendship; May (month); Trees


THE FRIENDLY TREES, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will sing of the bounty of the big trees
Last Line: That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Trees


THE FUNERAL TREE OF THE SOKOKIS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Around sebago's lonely lake
Last Line: The indian's fitting monument!
Subject(s): Funerals; Native Americans; Sebago (lake), Maine; Trees; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE GOLD HESPERIDEE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Square matthew hale’s young grafted apple tree
Last Line: To walk a graver man restrained in wrath
Subject(s): Apple Trees


THE GOOD OLD OAK, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In early spring it was we moved up here
Last Line: I found beside me then a good old oak.
Subject(s): Oak Trees


THE GOURD AND THE PALM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: How old art thou?' said the garrulous gourd
Last Line: Yet here I stand -- but where are they?
Subject(s): Arbor Day;trees


THE GRAPE-VINE SWING, by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lithe and long as the serpent train
Last Line: Does the maiden still swing in thy giant clasp?
Subject(s): Grapes; Trees


THE GREAT ELM, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From a friend's house had I gone forth
Last Line: Came creeping o'er the wold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Elm Trees


THE GREEN CHRIST, by ANDREW HUDGINS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So long they almost touch
Last Line: Or take me when he returns
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Trees


THE GREEN WILLOW, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree
Last Line: "aye me, the green willow must be my garland"
Subject(s): Willow Trees


THE GROVE, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enormous and solid
Last Line: Little by little the names petrify
Subject(s): Trees


THE HANGING TREE, by GEORGIA PERLE SCHMIDT    Poem Text                    
First Line: A gnarled old tree trunk with shoots
Last Line: "forgives and saves the soul."
Alternate Author Name(s): Schmidt, G. Perle
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Trees; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty


THE HAPPY PAIR, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It came and went so lightly
Last Line: A grandchild and a son.
Subject(s): Love; Poplar Trees; Sea; Ocean


THE HAUNTED OAK, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Pray why are you so bare, so bare
Last Line: On the trunk of a haunted tree.
Subject(s): Lynching; Oak Trees


THE HEART OF THE TREE, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What does he plant who plants a tree?
Last Line: Stirs in his heart who plants a tree.
Subject(s): Trees


THE HEMLOCK TREE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O hemlock tree! O hemlock tree! How faithful are thy branches!
Last Line: "the meadow brook, the meadow brook, is mirror of thy falsehood"
Subject(s): Holidays;trees


THE HILLS OF HOME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the mighty levels of the west
Last Line: The hills of home!
Subject(s): Home; Memory; Soul; Trees; Youth


THE HOLLY TREE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O reader! Hast thou ever stood to see
Last Line: As the green winter of the holly-tree.
Subject(s): Holly; Trees


THE HOPIA TREE; PLANTED OVER THE GRAVE OF MRS. ANN H. JUDSON, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rest! Rest! - the hopia tree is green
Last Line: Beneath the hopia tree.
Subject(s): Graves; Judson, Ann Hasseltine (1789-1826); Missions & Missionaries; Trees; Tombs; Tombstones


THE HORIZON, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale trees on the horizon grow
Last Line: So it goes. So it always will!
Subject(s): Lakes; Silence; Trees; Wharves; Pools; Ponds; Piers


THE HORSE CHESTNUT TREE, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Boys in sporadic but tenacious droves
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees


THE HORSE IN THE TREE, by E. S. SORENSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: High in the fork of a gnarled old tree
Last Line: "twas a dam' fine leap he made."
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Trees; Dead, The


THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 89. THE TREES OF THE GARDEN, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye who have passed death's haggard hills; and ye
Last Line: Their journey still when his boughs shrink with age.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Trees


THE HOUSE OF THE TREES, by AGNES ETHELWYN WETHERALD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ope your doors and take me in
Last Line: To your leafy brood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wetherald, Ethelwyn
Subject(s): Trees


THE HUMMING BIRDS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green wing and ruby throat
Last Line: Sleeps in this bloom; and, when it falls, they go.
Subject(s): Bees; Heaven; Hummingbirds; Insects; Sleep; Summer; Trees; Beekeeping; Paradise; Bugs


THE HURRICAN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tree lay down
Subject(s): Hurricanes; Trees


THE IMMORTAL TREE, by GLADYS VONDY ROBERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: It stands alone on barren plane
Last Line: Distance, time, eternity.
Subject(s): Trees


THE KILLING OF THE TREES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Trees


THE LADY OF THE LAKE: CANTO 1. THE CHASE, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Harp of the north! That mouldering long hast hung
Last Line: And morning dawned on ben-venue.
Subject(s): Courage; Evening; Fairies; Holidays; Katrine, Loch (scotland); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Trees; Women - Bible; Valor; Bravery; Sunset; Twilight; Elves; Virgin Mary


THE LAKE ON THE MOUNTAIN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The eastern sky of azure hue
Last Line: From out the mountain lake.
Subject(s): Lakes; Mountains; Trees; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE LARCH GROVE, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Line above line the nursling larches planted
Last Line: But rumble out your days as railway sleepers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley
Subject(s): Larch Trees


THE LAST DAY OF AUGUST, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man in a lawn chair
Last Line: Growing on the counter next to the knife.
Subject(s): August; Fruit; Grass; Pear Trees; Summer; Trees; Pears


THE LAST LULLABY, by HENRY BATAILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sing sweetly, killore
Last Line: With a black magpie on a bough.
Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Singing & Singers; Trees; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Songs


THE LAST TREE, by FRIEDRICH HEBBEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On heaven's rim, when day is done
Last Line: Eternal pilgrimage.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hebbel, Christian Friedrich
Subject(s): Trees


THE LAST TREE OF THE FOREST, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whisper, thou tree, thou lonely tree
Last Line: For the stormy past, with thee?
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Trees


THE LAUGHING WILLOW, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To see the kaiser's epitaph
Last Line: Would make a weeping willow laugh.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Laughter; Willow Trees


THE LAUREL TREE, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the clear light that confuses everything
Subject(s): Trees; Korean War, 1950-1953


THE LAURELS ARE LAID NOW, by MAY FOLWELL HOISINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who'll go with me a-nutting
Last Line: "the laurels are laid low."
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Laurels


THE LEMON TREES, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen; the poets laureate
Subject(s): Lemons; Lemon Trees


THE LIFE OF TREES, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pines rub their great noise
Subject(s): Trees


THE LINE-GANG, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here come the line-gang pioneering by.
Last Line: They bring the telephone and telegraph.
Subject(s): Trees; Poles


THE LITTLE SHEPHERD'S SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The leaves, the little birds, and I
Last Line: A bird!
Subject(s): Poplar Trees; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers


THE LITTLE TREE, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It pushed a guided way between
Last Line: "is wakened from above!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Graves; Trees; Tombs; Tombstones


THE LOCUST TREE IN FLOWER (SECOND VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among / the leaves / bright
Subject(s): Locust Trees


THE LOCUST TREE IN FLOWER (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among / the leaves / bright
Last Line: And quickly / fall
Subject(s): Locust Trees


THE LOCUST TREE IN FLOWER (SECOND VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among / of / green
Subject(s): Locust Trees


THE LONDON ALMOND TREE, by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In desolate streets of london town
Last Line: Beneath a london almond-tree.
Subject(s): Almond Trees; London; Trees


THE LONELY HUNTER, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Green branches, green branches, I see you
Last Line: But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Hearts; Hunting; Loss; Love; Trees; Hunters


THE LONG TRAIL: THE TIMBER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hickory and walnut, the thicket's mass
Last Line: Thro' open glades to splashing feet.
Subject(s): Fields; Plums; Prairies; Roads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Plum Trees; Plains; Paths; Trails


THE LOWLAND GROVE, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem 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 MAHOGANY TREE, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas is here
Last Line: Round the old tree!
Subject(s): Christmas; Friendship; Trees; Nativity, The


THE MAN IN THE TREE, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sat in the cold limbs of a tree
Subject(s): Trees


THE MAN WHO HATED TREES, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When he started blaming robberies
Subject(s): Trees


THE MANGO-TREE, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He wiled me through the furzy croft
Last Line: A furzy croft; a sandy lane.
Subject(s): Mango Trees; Soldiers


THE MAPLE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The maple puts her corals on in may
Last Line: That age shall bear, silent, yet unresigned!
Subject(s): Holidays; Maple Trees; Trees


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, by LOUISE BOGAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where should he seek, to go away
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs.
Subject(s): Apple Trees


THE MARRIAGE IN THE TREES, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the wind was right everything else
Subject(s): Trees


THE MASQUE OF PANDORA: 1. THE WORKSHOP OF HEPHAESTUS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not fashioned out of gold, like hera's throne
Last Line: Thou henceforth shalt bear.
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


THE MEETING OF THE DRYADS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was not many centuries since
Last Line: In sadness to her wounded tree.
Subject(s): Trees


THE MESSAGE, by KALFUS KURTZ GUSLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: The trees plunge deeply to the heart of things
Last Line: Will somewhere in their branches still live on.
Subject(s): Trees


THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE WALNUT-TREE OF BOARSTELL: CANTO 1, by WILLIAM BASSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who has not heard, how many ages since
Last Line: To weary, then deceiue, the hearing sence.
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Death; Gifts & Giving; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


THE MIMOSA, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Days and nights the dull metallic / hammer of welders' work
Last Line: The night is starting to burn and to bloom
Variant Title(s): The Mimosa:
Subject(s): Summer; Trees; Water


THE MOON AND THE YEW TREE, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Moon; Yew Trees


THE MOORLAND TREE IN THE GARDEN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brought from afar but with no studied choice
Last Line: Thou good man's model, lowly though full-leaved!
Subject(s): Trees


THE MULBERRY TREE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sweet brier grows in the merry green wood
Last Line: And they drop like dead leaves from the mulberry - tree
Subject(s): Life;mulberry Trees


THE MULBERRY TREE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, it's many's the scenes which is dear
Last Line: They go racin' acrost fer the mulberry tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Mulberry Trees; Youth; Nightmares


THE MUNICIPAL CHRISTMAS TREE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It shines a tree of fairy land
Last Line: Shall bring to each his honest share.
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


THE MUSIC OF THE PINES, by WARREN CHENEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: These woods are never silent. In the hush
Last Line: Before he played them on the human heart.
Subject(s): Pine Trees


THE MYSTIC TREE, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Its branches up to heaven a tree is sending
Last Line: Sing on, jean paul!
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Trees


THE NEEDLES OF THE PINE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: All to the west incline
Subject(s): Pine Trees


THE NEW APOCRYPHA: THE FIG TREE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With all of the rest of my troubles my fig tree's withered and gone
Last Line: If this be the work of faith, then faith itself is a curse.
Subject(s): Faith; Fig Trees; Belief; Creed


THE NEW DOLL'S HOUSE: 6. THE GARDEN, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The garden full of
Last Line: Trees and chickens.
Subject(s): Chickens; Gardens & Gardening; Trees


THE NOBLE OLD ELM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O big old tree, so tall an' fine
Last Line: "but shade belongs to you an' me."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Neighbors; Trees; Childhood


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 OAK, by GEORGE HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A glorious tree is the old gray oak
Last Line: The heads of his foes in fight.
Subject(s): Holidays; Oak Trees; Trees


THE OAK, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What gnarled stretch, what depth of shade, is his!
Last Line: Among my boughs disdain to perch and sing.
Subject(s): Oak Trees


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 OAK AND THE HILL, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the storm fell'd our oak, and thou, fair wold
Last Line: Beyond each fallen tree some fair blue hill.
Subject(s): Oak Trees


THE OAK AND THE MAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The oak said to the forest trees
Last Line: Said: in my woods the wind stirreth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Ignorance; Life; Mankind; Oak Trees; Pride; Dullness; Stupdity; Human Race; Self-esteem; Self-respect


THE OAK OF OUR FATHERS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas for the oak of our fathers, that stood
Last Line: In its beauty, the glory and pride of the wood!
Subject(s): Death; Ivy; Lament; Oak Trees; Parasites; Dead, The


THE OAK TORCH, by JULIA BOYNTON GREEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now sober autumn walks the mountain ways
Last Line: Where a lone oak thrusts forth her great flambeau!
Subject(s): Oak Trees


THE OAK; A FRAGMENT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the last survivor of a race
Last Line: This oak has no companion!...
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Oak Trees


THE OLD APPLE-TREE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a memory keeps a-runnin'
Last Line: Neath the old apple tree.
Subject(s): Apple Trees


THE OLD APPLE-TREE, by ANN S. STEPHENS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am thinking of the homestead
Last Line: Reverberate on earth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wintherbotham, Ann
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


THE OLD BEECH TREE, by EDWARD R. CAMPBELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old father time sad change hath made
Last Line: Thy length'ning shadows, brave old tree!
Subject(s): Beech Trees; Trees


THE OLD ELM OF NEWBURY, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Did it ever come in your way to pass
Last Line: The veteran elm of newbury.
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Newbury, Massachusetts


THE OLD ELM TREE BY THE RIVER, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shrugging in the flight of its leaves
Last Line: A mighty blessing we cannot bear for long
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE OLD MAN'S COUNSEL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among our hills and valleys, I have known
Last Line: Is at my side, his voice is in my ear.
Subject(s): Holidays; Old Age; Trees


THE OLD OAK TREE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I sit beneath your leaves, old oak
Last Line: The stars turn over leaves of light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Oak Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE OLIVE TREE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The palm -- the vine -- the cedar -- each hath power
Last Line: Trembled, perchance, within thy trembling shade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Holidays; Olive Trees & Olives


THE OLIVE TREE, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Save for a lusterless honing-stone of moon
Subject(s): Jews; Olive Trees & Olives; Judaism


THE OLYMPIANS, by AMORY HARE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They said, 'it's bitter cold today'
Last Line: But one had watched the olympian tournament!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hutchinson, Amory Hare
Subject(s): Trees; Winter


THE ONE SINGER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Dead leaves from off the tree
Last Line: When she is left alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Trees; Songs


THE OPTIMIST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fields were bleak and sodden. Not a wing
Last Line: The optimistic willow spoke of spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hope; Willow Trees; Optimism


THE PALM, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dreams on the lonely height
Last Line: Mid wastes of burning sand.
Subject(s): Palm Trees; Solitude; Loneliness


THE PALM AND THE PINE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When peter led the first crusade
Last Line: Renew their blended lives -- in mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Crusades; Holidays; Trees


THE PALM TREE, by ABD-AR RAHMAN I    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the midst of my garden
Last Line: Never forsake you.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Palm Trees


THE PALM TREE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It waved not through an eastern sky
Last Line: The same whence gushed that child-like tear!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Palm Trees; Women


THE PALM-TREE, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear friend sit down, and bear awhile this shade
Last Line: And weave it for your head against you wake.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Palm Trees


THE PALM-TREE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it the palm, the cocoa-palm
Last Line: "thanks to allah, who gives the palm!"
Subject(s): Palm Trees


THE PALMETTO AND THE PINE, by MANLEY H. PIKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There grows a fair palmetto in the sunny southern lands
Last Line: In one grand whole, as one soil bears the palmetto and the pine!
Subject(s): North, The; Palmetto Trees; Pine Trees; Reconciliation; Southern States; Trees; South (u.s.)


THE PARK, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a park where oaks of atlas girth
Last Line: Lest on time's pitiless road I fall and faint!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Parks; Time; Trees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE PEAR TREE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "this shade-bestowing pear-tree, thou"
Last Line: Beneath it paused the duke of shaou
Subject(s): Pear Trees;trees; Pears


THE PEAR-TREE, by IWAN GOLL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here once the evenings sobbed
Last Line: And brings you a breath of sea, a memory of stars.
Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Yvan
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Trees; Pears


THE PERCH, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a fork in a branch
Last Line: The heat waiting inside their mouths
Subject(s): Trees


THE PESSIMIST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pessimist locust, last to leaf
Last Line: Though all the world is glad, still talks of grief.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Locust Trees; Pessimism


THE PINE AT TIMBERLINE, by HARRIET MONROE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What has bent you
Last Line: Why tarry here?
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees


THE PINE FOREST OF MONTEREY, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What point of time, unchronicled, and dim
Last Line: Will make sad answer to the listening sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Monterey, California; Pine Trees; Trees


THE PINE FOREST OF THE CASCINE NEAR PISA (1ST DRAFT OF 'TO JANE'), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dearest, best and brightest
Last Line: Than calm in waters seen.
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Pisa, Italy; Trees


THE PINE OF MONTE MARIO AT ROME, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw far off the dark top of a pine
Last Line: Crowned with st. Peter's everlasting dome.
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Rome, Italy; Trees


THE PINE PLANTERS (MARTY SOUTH'S REVERIE), by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We work here together
Last Line: We pass away.
Subject(s): Pine Trees


THE PINE TREE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The somber pine is a norseman grave
Last Line: And what remembering roots has he!
Subject(s): Cold; Graves; Pine Trees; Soul; Trees; Winter; Tombs; Tombstones


THE PINE TREE, by IVAN VAZOV    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Below the great balkan, a stone's-throw from thrace
Last Line: To profound lamentation and weeping gave way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Vazoff, Ivan
Subject(s): Balkan Peninsula; Pine Trees; Trees


THE PINE TREE, by LAURA MARQUAND WALKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Straightway from out its brown pine needle bed
Last Line: O wind-swept harmony of sight and sound!
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees


THE PINE TREE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lift again the stately emblem on the bay state's rusted shield
Last Line: And to plant again the pine-tree in her banner's tattered field!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Massachusetts; Pine Trees; Trees; Antislavery Movement - United States


THE PINE'S MYSTERY, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen! The somber foliage of the pine
Last Line: For something lost that shall not live again!
Subject(s): Pine Trees


THE PINE-TREE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With whispers of futurity
Last Line: Her coronach and die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees


THE PINES AND THE SEA, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the low marsh-meadows and the beach
Last Line: The mournful strain was in thyself alone.
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Seashore; Soul; Trees; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE PINES, SIXTY-SEVENTH STREET; CENTRAL PARK, LOOKING SOUTHWARD, by HARVEY MAITLAND WATTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though winds are bleak this greening tells of may
Last Line: And ceaseless flows this restless human tide.
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Pine Trees; Trees; Winter


THE PLANTING, by MARGARET LEE ASHLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have planted a tree
Last Line: I have planted a tree.
Subject(s): Plants; Prayer; Snow; Trees; Planting; Planters


THE PLANTING OF THE APPLE TREE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, let us plant the appple tree
Last Line: "on planting the apple-tree."
Subject(s): Apple Trees


THE PLUCKY PRINCE, by MAY BRYANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a young scion
Last Line: They hastened home to tell.
Subject(s): Arbor Day; Trees


THE PLUM ON THE SILL, by ERIC PANKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cold at its poles and blush
Subject(s): Plums; Plum Trees


THE PLUMS, by ALPHONSE DAUDET    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well, since you ask me, this is how
Last Line: We fell in love -- it was the plums!
Subject(s): Birds; Love - Beginnings; Orchards; Plums; Plum Trees


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 158, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A tree grew here before the grove
Last Line: What remains is real
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Trees


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 17, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hundred-foot trees produced by heaven
Last Line: It still could prop up a stable
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Lumber & Lumbering; Trees; Woodsmen


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 198, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw some trees by the river
Last Line: Why blame heaven and earth
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Trees


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 213, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hiked yesterday to the summit
Last Line: Is now a pile of ashes
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hiking; Mountains; Trees; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 96, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone points to a cedar
Last Line: It's hard to make a ball
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Trees; Buddha; Buddhists


THE POET AMONG THE TREES, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oak is the noblest tree that grows
Last Line: And dainty flavour to our custard!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Parnassus (mountain), Greece; Poetry & Poets; Trees


THE POET'S JOURNAL: INSCRIPTION TO THE MISTRESS OF CEDARCROFT, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The evening shadows lengthen on the lawn
Last Line: Wife of my heart, and mother of my child!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Variant Title(s): Sunset
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE LOST MAY, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When may, with cowslip-braided locks
Last Line: And cannot give us now.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE RETURN OF SPRING, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have I passed through death's unconscious birth
Last Line: To the dawning light of love?
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Holidays; Spring; Trees


THE POET'S TREE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The burch and the juniper
Last Line: He lives across town and rarely comes this way
Subject(s): Trees; Neighbors


THE POINT OF VIEW, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the birch tree was cut down
Last Line: Said the wren.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Birds; Trees


THE POOR TREES STAND AND SHIVER SO, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Without a cloak in wind and snow
Subject(s): Trees; Winter


THE POPLAR, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, here stands the poplar, so tall and so stately
Last Line: And turn true-love's alphabet all upside down!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


THE POPLAR FIELD, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade
Last Line: Have a being less durable even than he.
Subject(s): Aging; Environment; Fields; Poplar Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE POPLARS, by BERNARD FREEMAN TROTTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, a lush green english meadow - it's there I that would lie
Last Line: For a row of wind-blown poplars against an english sky.
Subject(s): Poplar Trees; Soldiers; World War I; First World War


THE POWER OF MAPLES, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: F you want to live in the country you have to understand the power of maples.
Subject(s): Maple Trees


THE PROBLEM OF DESCRIBING TREES, by ROBERT HASS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The aspen glitters in the wind
Last Line: The aspen doing something in the wind
Subject(s): Trees


THE PURBLIND PRAISES THE LORD, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They cannot know, the keen of sight
Last Line: That he remembers me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Beauty; Blindness; God; Praise; Trees; Visually Handicapped


THE QUESTION, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While needles of the evergreen
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Trees


THE QUINCE, by BEN SARA OF SANTAREN    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is nothing in the quince
Last Line: Such a comfort for the weary?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Sara; Ibn Sarah
Subject(s): Quince Trees


THE RAMBO-TREE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When autumn shakes the rambo-tree
Last Line: It's a long, sweet way across the orchard.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Orchards; Seasons; Trees; Fall


THE RAVENNA PINE FOREST, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A heavy spot the forest looks at first
Last Line: Or startled gull up-screaming toward the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Forests; Pine Trees; Ravenna, Italy; Trees; Woods


THE REASON, by HERVEY ALDIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: They asked me what ailed her
Last Line: "of too much blossoming."
Subject(s): Apples; Death; Fruit; Trees; Dead, The


THE REDWOOD, by GRACE COOMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In majesty the mighty redwood stands
Last Line: Ever reaching up to heaven and to god.
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Redwoods


THE REDWOODS, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mountains are moving, rivers are hurrying
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Redwoods


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 RESURRECTION, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My true love still is all that's fair
Last Line: Which throws a shadow on my mind.
Subject(s): Flowers; Jesus Christ; Love; Resurrection, The; Trees


THE RETURN OF THE BIRDS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear, from many a little throat
Last Line: "and freedom to the slave!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; Holidays; Trees; United States - History


THE RETURN: AN ELEGY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem 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 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 ROOKERY AT SUNRISE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lofty elm-trees darkly dream
Last Line: In one black phalanx towards the day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Animals; Dawn; Elm Trees; Sunrise


THE ROOM, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through that window—all else being extinct
Last Line: I will praise darkness now, but then the leaf
Subject(s): War; Trees; Creation


THE ROWAN TREE, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O rowan tree, o rowan tree! Thou'lt aye be dear to me!
Last Line: O rowan tree!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness
Subject(s): Trees


THE SAD TREES, by ELOISE ROBINSON MUCHMORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The white oak and the ash and fir
Last Line: The tall young trees of france.
Subject(s): Trees; Wellesley College


THE SECRET OF THE PINES, by ECKFORD COHEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sat and listened to the pines
Last Line: Chant when the breezes blow.
Subject(s): Pine Trees


THE SELF AND THE MULBERRY, by MARVIN BELL    Poem 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 SHEPHERD'S TREE, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Huge elm, with rifted trunk all notched and scarred
Last Line: To leave some fragment of itself behind.
Subject(s): Elm Trees


THE SILENT SINGER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All sudden she hath ceased to sing
Last Line: She mutely pities us.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Singing & Singers; Trees; Dead, The


THE SILKEN SHOE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The firelight danced and wavered
Last Line: "the sheen of a silken shoe."
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


THE SILVER POPLAR, by HENRY E. PILKENTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a rushing sound in the poplar tree
Last Line: By listening to her whispers low.
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


THE SINGING TOWER, by ELEANOR STIMMEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Majestic beauty! Pride of southern state!
Last Line: "to pause, and ""take thy shoes from off thy feet."
Subject(s): Southern States; Trees; South (u.s.)


THE SITTING-DOWN TREE, by ANNA MARIE FISHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When god turned aside
Last Line: And kept on sitting.
Subject(s): Beech Trees; Trees


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 SONG OF THE OLD LEAVES, by HILMA PARSONS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The autumn wind in a gust of joy
Last Line: "the lady of death is queen of the world!"
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Oak Trees; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The


THE SONG OF THE SOWER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The maples redden in the sun
Last Line: The sails that bring thy glistening store.
Subject(s): Maple Trees


THE SOUND OF ASPENS, by PEARLE R. CASEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a sound the aspens make
Last Line: Of earth -- to learn again to pray.
Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Trees


THE SOUND OF THE TREES, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder about the trees
Last Line: But I shall be gone.
Subject(s): Trees


THE SOWER AND HIS SEED, by WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He planted an oak in his father's park
Last Line: And will never be heard again.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Oak Trees; Thought; Agriculture; Farmers; Thinking


THE SPEAKING TREE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great alexander sailing was from his true course turned
Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Identity; Trees


THE SPIRIT OF POETRY, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a quiet spirit in these woods
Last Line: Heard in the still night, with its passionate cadence.
Subject(s): Holidays; Poetry & Poets; Trees


THE SPRAY OF PLUM BLOSSOMS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: She has separated my lord and me
Last Line: Or as plum blossoms in early spring.
Subject(s): Fruit; Plums; Unfaithfulness; Plum Trees; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE STARS, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars are lighted candles
Last Line: He gets a present, as he should.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


THE STRAIGHT YOUNG TREES, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The straight young trees too proudly stand
Last Line: And friendly time but makes them stronger, kinder, closer grow
Subject(s): Trees


THE SUMMIT REDWOOD, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only stand high a long enough time your lightning
Last Line: Star, secret against the supreme sky
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Redwoods


THE SWING, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was like floating in a blessed dream to roam
Last Line: So wide a sky, so great a tree.
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Fields; Home; Trees; Relatives; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE SYCAMORES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the outskirts of the village
Last Line: Stand hugh tallant's sycamores.
Subject(s): Haverhill, Massachusetts; Plane Trees; Sycamores


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 TAKING DOWN, by WYATT PRUNTY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ever since the seriously ill were sent away,
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Religion; 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 TALL TREES LOOK OUT VERY FAR, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: For I must stay quite near the ground
Subject(s): Trees


THE TEARS OF THE POPLARS, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hath not the dark stream closed above thy head
Last Line: Brother beloved, we are thy funeral trees!
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


THE TEMPLE IN THE TREES, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like priests the shadows to and fro
Last Line: With song and sweetness lift their love.
Subject(s): Trees


THE THORN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a thorn; it looks so old
Last Line: "oh woe is me! Oh misery!'"
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE THREE POPLARS, by PHILIP FRANCIS LITTLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I shall have three grey poplar trees above me when I sleep
Last Line: But upright as the staff of one who watcheth o'er his sheep.
Subject(s): Night; Poplar Trees; Sleep; Bedtime


THE THREE TREES, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The oak is a brave tree that groweth in the wood
Last Line: By such as ye the cruel cross was made.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Crosses; Crucifixion; Oak Trees; Pine Trees; Trees; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion


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 TIMBER, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sure thou didst flourish once! And many springs
Last Line: Dirt in her way, will keep above the sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Decay; Trees; Rot; Decadence


THE TREE, by BJORNSTJERNE MARTINIUS BJORNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tree's early leaf-buds were bursting their brown
Last Line: Said the tree, while he bent down his laden boughs low.
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


THE TREE, by HAROLD BULLARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: O fair and forest tree
Last Line: Stricken and dead?
Subject(s): Trees


THE TREE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I chose the flourishing'st tree in all the park
Last Line: To that unlucky historie.
Subject(s): Love; Trees


THE TREE, by ANNE FINCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair tree! For thy delightful shade
Last Line: And some bright hearth be made thy urn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of
Subject(s): Trees


THE TREE, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood still and was a tree amid the wood
Last Line: That was rank folly to my head before.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE TREE, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh to be free of myself
Last Line: Its thin black tracery.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Serenity; Trees


THE TREE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Think of her when she shall be dead
Last Line: Who lost a resting-place.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Seasons; Trees; Dead, The; Bereavement


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 TREE (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Planted by the master's hand
Last Line: Wait; the christ will come to thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Trees


THE TREE (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art the blessed tree
Last Line: Of love divine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Trees; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary


THE TREE (3), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To me the trembling adam fled in shame
Last Line: For adam's guilt to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Trees


THE TREE ACROSS THE ROAD, by ELIZABETH KELTY BEITEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: God never made a fairer thing!
Last Line: Of autumn, in the wood.
Subject(s): Autumn; God; Seasons; Spring; Trees; Fall


THE TREE AND THE LADY, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have done all I could
Last Line: Gone is she, scorning my bough!
Subject(s): Trees


THE TREE BUDS, by KATE LOUISE BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rock-a-by, baby
Last Line: We love you. Good-bye.
Subject(s): Trees


THE TREE FALLING IN A VACANT FOREST, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The window open. Hearing
Last Line: Each one hearing the same one
Subject(s): Trees; Science


THE TREE GOD PLANTS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wind that blows can never kill
Last Line: Forever grows
Subject(s): Growth;plants;trees; Planting;planters


THE TREE MEN CALLED BEAUTIFUL, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: They distorted and twisted my life
Last Line: But I have grown free, as the gods intended trees to grow—and women.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Trees


THE TREE OF DEATH, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the king of the grave be asked to tell
Last Line: So dark as the vine, the tree of death.
Subject(s): Death; Trees; Dead, The


THE TREE OF LIFE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a mighty, magic tree
Last Line: . . . . .
Subject(s): Life; Trees


THE TREE OF LIFE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When that man was cast away
Last Line: "what I lost by eden bower."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; Life; Trees


THE TREE OUTSIDE, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The tree outside stands straight and tall
Last Line: I love you, tree, straight, kind, and tall
Subject(s): Trees


THE TREE STANDS VERY STRAIGHT AND STILL, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Is there no word to tell to me?
Subject(s): Trees; Silence


THE TREE THAT INFLUENCED ME MOST, by SARAH AVERY FAUNCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let others sing in praise of men
Last Line: Was mother's little birch.
Subject(s): Trees


THE TREE THAT LIVES BESIDE THE BROOK, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: The shadows of its leafy face
Subject(s): Trees; Brooks


THE TREE UPROOTED (IN MEMORY), by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The earth-bound giant now is free, is free
Last Line: Who heard the eagle scream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Trees


THE TREE'S DOUBLE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How beautiful the tree shadows lie on
Last Line: Dances upon the grass to the same measure.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Autumn; God; October; Seasons; Shadows; Trees; Fall


THE TREE-LOVER, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet in the sweet may weather
Last Line: And the young bloom on the trellis!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): God; Love; Spring; Trees


THE TREE; AN OLD MAN'S STORY, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Its roots are bristling in the air
Last Line: Twas said for love of me.
Subject(s): Love; Trees


THE TREES, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's something in a noble tree
Last Line: "be patient,"" say they all."
Subject(s): Trees


THE TREES, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees are coming into leaf
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE TREES, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees inside are moving out into the forest
Subject(s): Trees


THE TREES ARE DOWN, by CHARLOTTE MEW    Poem 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 TREES OF HADDONFIELD, by THOMAS J. MURRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sing of haddonfield, west jersey's town
Last Line: The starry banner and the union jack.
Subject(s): Cities; New Jersey; Trees; Urban Life


THE TREES OF MADAME BLAVATSKY, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is always the cough. In the afternoon
Last Line: Showing her breasts to a boy in a cemetery.
Subject(s): Convalescence; Secrets; Singing & Singers; Trees; Walking; Songs


THE TREES WILL UNDERSTAND, by MATTIE RICHARDS TYLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: How still a house can be on such a night!
Last Line: For they and I have lost our all, my dear!
Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Houses; Seasons; Soul; Trees; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness


THE TURNING OF THE LEAVES, by VERNON WATKINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not yet! Do not yet touch
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Leaves


THE TWO TREES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beloved, gaze in thine own heart
Last Line: Gaze no more in the bitter glass.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Trees


THE ULTIMATE (1), by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the head of a man lies under the sod
Last Line: Like mice have scuttled back into the air.
Subject(s): Death; God; Graves; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Rome, Italy; Trees; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


THE UPAS IN MAYBORNE LANE, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A tree grew in java, whose pestilent rind
Last Line: And hew down the upas in marybone-lane.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; London; Upas Trees


THE UPAS TREE, by CHARLES FRANCIS RICHTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have it growing in my garden now
Last Line: And drop off quickly to contented sleep.
Subject(s): Poisons And Poisoning; Upas Trees


THE USE OF FLOWERS, by MARY HOWITT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: God might have bade the earth bring forth
Last Line: Will care much more for him!
Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary
Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Trees


THE USED-TO-BE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the purple, hazy trees
Last Line: The lips of used-to-be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Loss; Summer; Trees; Nightmares


THE VANISHED VOICE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There stood a tree beside his boyhood's door
Last Line: Youth in the air and sunset in the west.
Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Singing & Singers; Trees; Voices; Youth; Songs


THE VASSAL'S LAMENT FOR THE FALLEN TREE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes! I have seen the ancient oak
Last Line: Woe for the fall of the glorious tree!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Trees


THE VIOLET'S GRAVE, by VICORTARI    Poem Text                    
First Line: The woodland, and the golden wedge
Last Line: Where would you choose to die?
Subject(s): Death; Trees; Dead, The


THE VIREO, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the lofty elm tree sprays
Last Line: Striving to lift our thoughts above the street.
Subject(s): Birds; Elm Trees; Vireos


THE VOICE OF THE GRASS, by SARAH ROBERTS BOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere
Last Line: Creeping, silently creeping everywhere.
Alternate Author Name(s): Roberts, Sarah
Subject(s): Grass; Trees


THE WATER-LILY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whence, o fragrant form of light
Last Line: Left her garment in the tide.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Lilies; Plants; Trees; Planting; Planters


THE WAY OF THE CONVENTICLE OF THE TREES, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just yesterday afternoon I heard a man
Last Line: For a long, long time when I'm gone
Subject(s): Trees


THE WAY THE TREES BREAK THE SKYLINE, by KATHARINE TONKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The shoreline of infinities
Last Line: Of dream blows me thither like dust.
Subject(s): Forests; Trees; Woods


THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They shut the road through the woods
Last Line: But there is no road through the woods.
Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Roads; Time; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods; Paths; Trails


THE WAY-SIDE TREE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The loiterers in my shade of old
Last Line: The holy sepulchre of rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Trees


THE WEEPING WILLOW, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold, all nature throbs with joy
Last Line: And sings thanksgiving songs of praise.
Subject(s): Willow Trees


THE WHANGO TREE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The woggly bird sat on the whango tree
Subject(s): Nonsense;trees


THE WHITE ROOM, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The obvious is difficult
Subject(s): Summer; Trees; Mind, The


THE WILLOW, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My parent stem was nurtured in the soil
Last Line: And who that sorcery will dare impeach?
Subject(s): Willow Trees


THE WILLOW GARLAND, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A willow garland thou did'st send
Last Line: Come forth and sweetly dye.
Subject(s): Willow Trees


THE WILLOW TREE, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tree of the gloom, o'erhanging the tomb
Last Line: "oh, bury me under the willow tree!"
Subject(s): Graves; Willow Trees; Tombs; Tombstones


THE WILLOW TREE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Willow! In thy breezy moan
Last Line: Ever, willow! Willow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Variant Title(s): The Willow Song
Subject(s): Willow Trees


THE WILLOW, OR THE ROSE-PROP, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How shall I hew thee down, thou mighty bower?
Last Line: While thou hast soar'd aloft, to toss and sigh!
Subject(s): Willow Trees


THE WILLOW-SEEDS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look! The seeds of a willow-tree
Last Line: Of more than mortal mysteries.
Subject(s): Fate; Grass; Life; Omens; Wandering & Wanderers; Willow Trees; Wind; Destiny


THE WILLOWS, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The skies they were ashen and sober
Last Line: And this nightingale, kept by one shear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Willow Trees


THE WIND IN THE PINES, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When winds go organing through the pines
Last Line: Of iliads that the woods are dreaming.
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


THE WIND IN THE TREES, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sound of waters in the tree
Last Line: Find the belovèd sea at last.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Sea; Trees; Ocean


THE WIND IN THE TREES; CHESTNUT IN APRIL, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The chestnut is a candlestick
Last Line: Make christmas trees for spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Spring


THE WIND'S MESSAGE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There came a whisper down the bland between the dawn and dark
Last Line: And strike once more the bridle-track that leads along the bland.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Cities; Life; Trees; Voices; Wind; Urban Life


THE WIND-SWEPT TREE, by ZENOBIA CRUTCHER FEINEMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I do not miss
Last Line: And bloom around my feet.
Subject(s): Trees


THE WOOD FIRE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O giant oak, majestic, dark, and old
Last Line: To cheer some spirit in its winter night.
Subject(s): Life; Oak Trees


THE WOOD GIANT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From alton bay to sandwich dome
Last Line: The lesson of endurance.
Subject(s): Trees


THE WOODS OF WESTERMAIN, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter these enchanted woods
Last Line: You who dare.
Subject(s): Courage; Environment; Forests; Magic; Mythology; Trees; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods


THE WOODTICKS, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's things out in the forest
Last Line: A-crawlin' thro' yer hair.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Forests; Insects; Spiders; Trees; Worms; Woods; Bugs


THE YELLOWBIRD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hey! My little yellowbird
Last Line: Pippin on the tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening; Trees


THE YOUNG BIRCH, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birch begins to crack its outer sheath
Last Line: To live its life out as an ornament
Subject(s): Birch Trees


THE YOUNG FIR-WOOD, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These little firs today are things
Last Line: Upon the earth and elder sands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Fir Trees; Love; Trees


THERE ARE ROUGHLY ZONES, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We sit indoors and talk of the cold outside
Last Line: It can blame this limitless trait in the hearts of men
Subject(s): Ambition; Trees


THERE ARE ROUGHLY ZONES, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We sit indoors and talk of the cold outside
Last Line: But if it is destined never again to grow, %it can blame this limitless trait in the hearts of men
Subject(s): Ambition; Trees


THERE IS AN OLD TALE GOES THAT HERNE THE HUNTER, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Disguis'd, like herne, with huge horns on his head
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


THERE LET THY BLEEDING BRANCH ATONE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Youth; Memory; Trees; Wood Carving; Whittling


THERE OFT THE MUSE, WHAT MOST DELIGHTS HER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


THERE WAS AN OLD MAN IN A TREE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To make themselves nests in that tree
Subject(s): Environment; Nonsense; Trees


THESE BONES GONNA RISE AGAIN, by MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ho, pines, black pines, walk 'round, walk 'round
Last Line: That the old lost dreams were right.
Alternate Author Name(s): Douglass, Marjorie Stoneman
Subject(s): Bones; Trees


THESE GREEN-GOING-TO-YELLOW, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This year / I'm raising the emotional ante
Subject(s): Comfort; Gingko Trees; Leaves


THESE PINES, by KATHARINE WASHBURN HARDING    Poem Text                    
First Line: The pines grow tall, their boughs wide-spread
Last Line: Will keep them in his heart, a shrine.
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Silence; Trees


THEY, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My destiny has been to prune one tree
Subject(s): Simplicity; Trees


THEY ALL BELONG TO ME, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye cannot shut the trees in
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


THEY HAVEN'T HEARD THE WEST IS OVER, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So that no one should forget, and no one be forgotten -- isn't that
Last Line: Arms to the north, and the road from here keeps going, as if it were going somewhere
Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Disappeared Persons; Funerals; Mountains; Trees; Wyoming; Dead, The; Missing Persons; Burials; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THEY'VE CUT THE WOOD AWAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


THICKET, by MICHAEL VINCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My weald of tales, my beech leaves, my bronze
Last Line: And bare ground grows a little clearer
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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


THIS BLUE SPRUCE, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: This blue spruce %will scratch sky
Subject(s): Trees


THIS FOR THAT, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What will I have for breakfast?
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Plums; Plum Trees


THIS IS JUST TO SAY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have eaten / the plums
Subject(s): Love; Plums; Plum Trees


THIS NIGHT I WALK THROUGH A FOREST IN MY HEAD, by JOHN HEATH-STUBBS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Cold hollows of my skull and echoing silences
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


THOUGH BIRDS HAVE FLOWN, by BETTIE MARGOT CASSIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now that the trees are stripped of all their fire
Last Line: Though birds have flown the trees still harbor nests.
Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Dreams; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Nightmares


THOUGHTS CONNECTED WITH TREES (1), by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trees, gracious trees! - how rich a gift
Last Line: And a lost mother's eye gives back its holy light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Spring; Trees


THOUGHTS CONNECTED WITH TREES (2), by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And ye are strong to shelter! All meek things
Last Line: Confessed a spirit's breath, and heard a ceaseless hymn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Spring; Trees


THOUGHTS ON CONSERVATION, by WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It should be our purpose, not only to
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


THOUGHTS ON CONSERVATION, by JAMES J. HILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of all the sinful wasters of man's inheritance on ...'
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


THOUGHTS ON CONSERVATION, by JAMES S. WHIPPLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The most imperative thing that we have to do
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


THREE NATURE POEMS: VICTORY, by EVA HINTON ROBINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Draw you your tangled drapes about your twisted form
Last Line: Of those who greet the spreading dawn.
Subject(s): Oak Trees


THREE SONGS OF LOVE (CHINESE FASHION): 1. THE MANDARIN SPEAKS, by WILLIAM A. BEATTY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cherry blossom
Last Line: Fragrance?
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


THREE TREES, by MARY JO BANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The aqua green goes with the pink
Subject(s): Trees


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 WOOD SONGS: 1. TO A DOGWOOD IN SUMMER, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They tell me that essential you
Last Line: Your moonlight and your snow.
Subject(s): Dogwood; Snow; Summer; Trees


THREE WORLDS, by SAM HAMILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the split, dry trunk
Last Line: Holds a perfect red flower
Subject(s): Leaves; Trees


THROWING A TREE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The two executioners stalk along over the knolls
Last Line: And two hundred years steady growth has been ended in less %than two hours
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


THUMBPRINT, by CELESTE TURNER WRIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Almost reluctant, we approach the block
Last Line: Can all our aspirations and our dreams %leave but filamentous line or two?
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sequoia Trees; Time


TIMBER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the avenues of yesterday
Last Line: The word that has whitened the traveller's hair
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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 TO BE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit where the leaves of the maple
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


TIME'S BETRAYAL, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone, whose morals need mending
Last Line: "keats, stabbed by the muses, his garland's a splendor!"
Subject(s): Maple Trees; Time


TIMID ASH TREE, by KATHLEEN MILLAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ash tree is the only one
Subject(s): Ash Trees; Trees


TINY TREES, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are five little tots that march in line
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


TO A BIRCH TREE, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lay hold upon the earth and thrust
Last Line: Air round you: -- double, your delight.
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Trees


TO A BLOSSOMING PEAR TREE, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful natural blossoms,
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Pear Trees; Old Age; Pears


TO A CYPRESS; ATHENS, 1913, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark and mysterious watcher of the dead
Last Line: To wander in thine ancient spell.
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Death; Ghosts; Grief; Secrets; Supernatural; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


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 FALLEN WALNUT TREE, by LYNNE MCMAHON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the columbia tribune a mere paragraph
Subject(s): Trees


TO A LATE POPLAR, by PATRICK KAVANAGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not yet the half-drest
Last Line: Among leaf-full branches
Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TO A MAPLE, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Green leaves outside my window
Subject(s): Maple Trees


TO A MAPLE SEED, by LLOYD MIFFLIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Art thou some winged sprite, that, fluttering round
Last Line: Under thy boughs, when I, alas! Am dead.
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


TO A PERSIAN BOY IN THE BAZAAR AT SMYRNA, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gorgeous blossoms of that magic tree
Last Line: Or in the bowers of blissful samarcand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Asia; Beauty; Trees; Far East; East Asia; Orient


TO A PINE TREE, by LEILA W. MARSHALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the hill you stand alone
Last Line: To worship him with song and praise.
Subject(s): Birds; Moon; Pine Trees; Trees


TO A POOR OLD WOMAN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Munching a plum on
Subject(s): Plums; Plum Trees


TO A REDWOOD TREE, by PHILIP H. DODGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: From out the stronghold of the earth to rise
Last Line: Nor man regard thy majesty the less.
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Redwoods


TO A SALESGIRL, WEARY OF ARTIFICIAL HOLIDAY TREES, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The clock shows nearly five
Last Line: The last girl of the year, %and one more year's far gone
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


TO A SILVER BIRCH, by BEULAH JACKSON CHARMLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I never knew until I crossed the prairie
Last Line: For now at last I see.
Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Prairies; Trees; Plains


TO A TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beautiful tree, feet in the ground
Last Line: Seek you, like me, god in the sky?
Subject(s): May (month); Trees


TO A TREE IN LONDON, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here you stay %night and day
Last Line: Smelt the landscape's sweet serene
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TO A TREE MADE INTO PAPER, by ROBERT SPARKS WALKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw you when you reached the paper mill
Last Line: To scan your bark for black-shelled beetle-words.
Subject(s): Paper; Trees


TO A WITHERED ROSE, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy span of life was all too short
Last Line: To live and die a rose?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton
Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Roses; Trees


TO A YOUNG APPLE TREE, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have been wondering about you
Last Line: Of brown sandal-wood!
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees


TO A. E. HOUSMAN, by MARGARET ASH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Your fifty springs and seven more you saw
Last Line: Whose soul still lingers here in songs, too few?
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Singing & Singers; Soul; Spring; Songs


TO AN ADOLESCENT WEEPING WILLOW, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't know what you think you're doing
Last Line: It means you are a boy.
Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Grief; Willow Trees; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness


TO AN OAK AT NEWSTEAD, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Young oak! When I planted thee deep
Last Line: Are lost in the hours of eternity's day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Newstead Abbey, England; Oak Trees; Time


TO AN OAK TREE, FR. WAVERLEY, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Emblem of england's ancient faith
Last Line: Rome bound with oak her patriots' brows, %as albyn shadows wogan's tomb
Subject(s): Courage; Oak Trees


TO AN OLD MULBERRY TREE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old mulberry! With all thy moss around
Last Line: Nor strength to bear him, if he had, hast thou.
Subject(s): Mulberry Trees


TO BLOSSOMS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair pledges of a fruitful tree
Last Line: Into the grave.
Subject(s): Plants; Trees; Planting; Planters


TO CHERRY-BLOSSOMES, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye may simper, blush, and smile
Last Line: When as cherries come in place?
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


TO GROVES, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye silent shades, whose each tree here
Last Line: To live remembred in your story.
Subject(s): Trees


TO MAKE A TREE, by PAUL HYLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Take wood, seasoned or green
Last Line: Nail up the fruit
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TO MY MYRTLE [MIRTLE], by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To a lovely myrtle bound
Last Line: O my lovely myrtle tree
Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Trees


TO MY TOTEM, by HENRY CHARLES BEECHING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy name of old was great
Last Line: Small gifts it fain would hide.
Subject(s): Beech Trees; Trees


TO ONE WHO SPOKE OF ETERNAL THINGS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hush! For the shadow of a flower
Last Line: More than eternity.
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Future Life; Trees; Worship; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


TO THE FIR-TREE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O fir-tree green! O fir-tree green!
Subject(s): Fir Trees; Trees


TO THE HAWTHORN-TREE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hawthorn fair, whose burgeoning
Last Line: E'er avail to lay thee low.
Subject(s): Hawthorn; Love; Trees; Wind


TO THE MULBERRY-TREE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hither, in half blown garlands drest
Last Line: What patience, industry, and art, can do.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Mulberry Trees


TO THE OAKS OF GLENCREE, by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My arms are round you, and I lean
Last Line: With worms eternally.
Alternate Author Name(s): Synge, J. M.
Subject(s): Oak Trees


TO THE TREE, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ballad! I have a message you must bear
Last Line: And plague the god of life and love to favour me.
Subject(s): Trees


TO THE TREES, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye noble oaks, symmetrical and vast
Last Line: And labor frenzied, live the dreamer's life.
Subject(s): Trees


TO THE WILLOW TREE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art to all lost love the best
Last Line: Come to weep out the night.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Willow Trees


TO THE YEW AND CYPRESS TO GRACE HIS FUNERAL, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Both you two have / relation to the grave
Last Line: Thankfull to you, or friends, for me.
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Funerals; Yew Trees; Burials


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)


TOM DANCERS GIFT OF A WHITEBARK PINE CONE, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: You never know what opportunity is going to travel to you, or through you.
Subject(s): Exrement; Bears; Pine Trees


TORREY PINES, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are these strangers gathered on our shore?
Last Line: From tyre or sidon, yearning for the seas.
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Ships & Shipping; Trees


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


TRAGEDIES: 4, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: And I was a full-leaved, full-bough'd tree
Last Line: Tranquil, and trembling, and deep in the night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Moon; Night; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


TRAGEDIES: 8, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dream'd I was in sicily
Last Line: I'd tied at the headstone long ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Dreams; Graves; Sicily; Trees; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones


TRAILING ARBUTUS, by HENRY ABBEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In spring, when branches of woodbine
Last Line: Of noble, unselfish deeds.
Subject(s): Arbutus; Trees; Mayflowers


TREE, by DANNIE ABSE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Grotesquely shaped, this stubbed tree craves a madman's %eye
Last Line: Unanchored, free, in prosperous moonlight and amaze
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREE, by DAVID CHORLTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A single tree
Last Line: The sacristan sweeps up to keep %in a burlap sack
Subject(s): Trees


TREE, by JUAN CARLOS GALEANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man in love with a tree goes to live with him awhile before get-
Last Line: Cloud, or something more versatile
Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Trees


TREE, by WILLIAM HEYEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not everyone can see the tree, its summer cloud of green
Last Line: Book to light, you will see the watermarks of their faces
Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Lidice, Czechoslovakia; Life; Trees


TREE, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under unending interrogation by wind
Last Line: Lets what happens to it happen
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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, by CHARLES TOMLINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This child, shovelling away
Last Line: Flagstones spread at his feet
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREE, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tree, lend me this root
Last Line: Where will your dryad be?
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREE 1947, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Living now in myself the end of the world
Last Line: To burst into the last flowering of the world.
Subject(s): Death; Eden; Trees; Dead, The


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 AND SKY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: - again / the bare brush of
Subject(s): Trees; Sky


TREE AT MY WINDOW, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tree at my window, window tree
Last Line: Mine with inner, weather
Subject(s): Trees


TREE AT MY WINDOW, WINDOW TREE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Your head so much concerned with outer, %mine with inner, weather
Subject(s): Trees


TREE CUTTER, by MARY MCLAUGHLIN SLECHTA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tree cutter appeared one morning
Last Line: For a half dozen winters %yet to be
Subject(s): Trees


TREE FALL, by MAUREEN DUFFY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The saw rasps the morning into logs
Last Line: Tick over when the lasersaw brings it down
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREE FEELINGS, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder if they like it - being trees?
Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Subject(s): Animals; Holidays; Trees


TREE FERNS, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They were the local ohio palm, tropic in the heat of trains.
Subject(s): Palm Trees; Railroads; Railways; Trains


TREE HORSE, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My tree horse shakes
Last Line: Vaulting toward sky
Subject(s): Trees


TREE HOUSE, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last spring a neighbor boy / nailed up a house in a tree
Subject(s): Houses; Play; Trees; Youth


TREE IN THE GOODS YARD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So sigh, that hearkening pasts arouse
Last Line: Tombed worlds for me
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREE OF GOODNESS, by YU CHI-HWAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the roadside where I would roam stood an old pine
Last Line: From the remote sphere above my head %I grieve over the loss of a good tree to prove it
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees


TREE OF GUILT, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When first we knew it, gibbet-bare
Last Line: Is that a noose that dangles there?
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREE OF HEAVEN, by KATRINA PORTEOUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Harvard has famous elms, boston its maples
Last Line: It springs from, like scars
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREE OF LIFE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was born in a wheat field snapping my fingers
Last Line: I stepped on white mushrooms, watching the clouds of dust, %touching branches from the room's window
Subject(s): Fields; Trees


TREE OF STATE, by MRS. B. C. RUDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Emblem tree of the empire state
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


TREE PARTY, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your health, master willow. Contrive me a bat
Last Line: But do not be vexed, I will postdate a cheque for you
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREE PLANTING, by MARY FRANCES MARSHALL BUTTS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A boy strolled through a dusty road
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


TREE PLANTING, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees may outline the memory of more that
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


TREE PRAYER, by LOUISE HARTLEY WASSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh god, that man may come to know
Last Line: Their vigil till the last long sleep.
Subject(s): Prayer; Trees


TREE SONG, by W. D.    Poem Source                    
First Line: The birds upon the branches high
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


TREE SONG, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the trees that grow so fair
Last Line: By oak, and ash, and thorn!
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREE SPEAKS TO TREE, by F. G. HAGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Said the fir tree to the pine tree
Last Line: "age of steel."
Subject(s): Faith; Trees; Belief; Creed


TREE TELLING OF ORPHEUS, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White dawn. Stillness. When the rippling began
Last Line: Recalling our agony, and the way we danced. %the music!
Subject(s): Environment; Music And Musicians; Trees


TREE THAT TRIED TO GROW, by FRANCIS LEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: One time there was a seed that wished to be a
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


TREE TRAFFIC, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Major tree traffic today
Last Line: The treeway is %heavily squirreled
Subject(s): Trees


TREE TRIMMING, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's this to a good day's sweat
Last Line: A whole wood and touch no memory
Subject(s): Trees


TREE TRIMMING, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's this to a good day's sweat
Last Line: He who could sweat down, tree by tree, %a whole wood and touch no memory
Subject(s): Trees


TREE WITH ORNAMENTS BY MY MOTHER, by ELIZABETH MACKLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It could be a wintering bear this year
Last Line: Invisible bird fir fragrance, who says they could even be broken
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Trees; Trees; Winter


TREE WITHIN, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tree grew inside my head
Last Line: Come closer-can you hear it?
Subject(s): Trees


TREE WORSHIP, by HELEN BURWELL CHAPIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The peony maidens of mount lao
Last Line: I will brave the danger.
Subject(s): Trees


TREE'S PLACE, by KRISTINE O'CONNELL GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tree has staked its claim
Last Line: You must %go around
Subject(s): Trees


TREE-BUILDING, by FRANKLIN CABLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A tree is built of many things
Last Line: The music of intangible things.
Subject(s): Religion; Trees; Theology


TREE-BURIAL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Near our southwestern border, when a child
Last Line: "my home till I depart to be with thee."
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


TREE-KILL, by SPIKE MILLIGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chip chop %chip chop
Last Line: Please stop %or else we'll all be dead!
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREE-TRUNKS, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How often were these trees
Last Line: Or lying homer passed his hat for pence
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREE; OWEN GLYN DWR SPEAKS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gruffudd llwyd put into my head
Last Line: How sorrow may bud the tree with tears, %but only his blood can make it bloom
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Trees


TREES, by WILLIAM ALLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: We marvel how the elms can grow
Last Line: When dawn breaks cool and still.
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Violence; War; World War Ii; World War Ii - Atrocities; Second World War


TREES, by HARRY BEHN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Trees are the kindest things I know
Last Line: Of sleepy children long ago...%trees are the kindest things I know
Subject(s): Trees


TREES, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oldest of friends, the trees!
Last Line: The trees!
Subject(s): Trees


TREES, by SARA COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The oak is called the king of trees
Last Line: The beech amid the forest lives.
Subject(s): Trees


TREES, by NELSON ANTRIM CRAWFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pink-sprinkled summer twilight
Last Line: In spite of your faultlessness.
Subject(s): Trees


TREES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: They ask me where the temple stands
Last Line: I'd live as long as this green tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Trees


TREES, by RUTH FAINLIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trees, our mute companions
Last Line: The attributes of judges, not victims
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREES, by ADA GRAVES    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is so much beauty in a tree
Last Line: Oh, how grandly beautiful is a tree.
Subject(s): Trees


TREES, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I asked the holly, 'what is your life if ... ?'
Last Line: Makes me so horrifying %I dare not hear my own footfall
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Trees


TREES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love it when trees lean forward or sideways
Last Line: I pray for my brother's peace
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Trees


TREES, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a tree
Last Line: But only god can make a tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce
Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Environment; Faith; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Religion; Soldiers; Travel; Trees; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Theology; Journeys; Trips; First World War


TREES, by KIM NAM-JO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look %how the trees love each other
Last Line: As much as they know of parting
Subject(s): Trees


TREES, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees are coming into leaf
Last Line: Last year is dead, they seem to say, %begin afresh, afresh, afresh
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREES, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I became a caliph I have known
Last Line: We yawn, and plead the heaviness of state.
Subject(s): Trees


TREES, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a little grove of forty trees
Last Line: "a man -- who might prefer to be a tree!"
Subject(s): Trees


TREES, by AGNES NEMES NAGY    Poem Source                    
First Line: One has to study the winter trees
Last Line: The unspeakable deeds of trees
Subject(s): Trees


TREES, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees inside are moving out into the forest
Last Line: Its pieces flash now in the crown %of the tallest oak
Subject(s): Trees


TREES, by JULIA E. ROGERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The meaning of trees in a landscape
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


TREES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Forest trees have always
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


TREES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crooked, black tree
Last Line: In your eagerness.
Subject(s): Trees


TREES AGAINST THE SKY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pines against the sky
Last Line: Trees and the infinite sky
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Oak Trees; Olive Trees And Olives; Palm Trees; Pine Trees; Trees


TREES AND THE WIND, by HARRIET P. JORDAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The fir trees bowed with cold disdain
Last Line: Into the wind's embrace!
Subject(s): Trees; Wind


TREES ARE COMMON THINGS, by EDWIN B. WILKINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A tree is such a common thing
Last Line: Yes, trees are common things.
Subject(s): Trees


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 AT THE ARCTIC CIRCLE, by ALFRED WELLINGTON PURDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are 18 inches long
Last Line: The dwarf trees of baffin island
Alternate Author Name(s): Purdy, Al
Subject(s): Arctic; 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 BESIDE WATER, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stag- / headed elders, the book
Last Line: Pressed in the book
Subject(s): Trees


TREES BESIDE WATER, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stag- %headed elders, the book
Last Line: I am a few leaves, %pressed in the book
Subject(s): Trees


TREES FOR THE FOUR FORESTS, by MICHAEL BURKARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ghost of ghosts
Last Line: And the vanishing 'I' in a vanishing world
Subject(s): Forests; Ghosts; Supernatural; Trees


TREES I'LL PLANT, by LETTIE E. STERLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because I love the robins well
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


TREES IN A TOWN, by VERNON WATKINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why must they fell two chestnuts on the road?
Last Line: Whose highway must be useful and be clean
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREES IN AUTUMN, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Golden starred, lapped in silver brocade
Last Line: To each breeze that stirs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Eucalyptus Trees; Leaves; Plane Trees; Seasons; Willow Trees; Fall; Sycamores


TREES IN THE CITY, by ALICE B. NEAL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis beautiful to see a forest stand
Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Alice; Bradley, Emily
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


TREES IN THE GARDEN, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah in the thunder air / how still the trees are!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Trees


TREES IN THE GARDEN, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah in the thunder air %how still the trees are!
Last Line: As the green grass glows upwards, strangers in the garden
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Trees


TREES IN TUBS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little laurel trees, your roots can find
Last Line: The budding evergreen of time
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREES IN WINTER, by ARTHUR WILLIAM BEER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like ghosts of happier days, they stand
Last Line: Abroad their canopy of spring.
Subject(s): Death; Trees; Winter; Dead, The


TREES IN WINTER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through a dumb-shifting veil of snow
Last Line: Into a tranced immensity.
Subject(s): Snow; Trees; Winter


TREES IN YELLOWSTONE FOREST, by FLORENCE RILEY RADCLIFFE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The silent generations hold you fast
Last Line: A universe of beauty to renew!
Subject(s): Beauty; Trees; Yellowstone National Park


TREES OF CORN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The child looked out upon the field
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


TREES OF KNOWLEDGE, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's all about the trees, then
Last Line: It's all about the trees now
Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Apple Trees; Bible; God; Knowledge; Religion; Trees


TREES ON THE CALAIS ROAD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like mourners filing into church at a funeral
Last Line: Of that dead army driving by.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Trees; World War I; First World War


TREES STAND, by LARRY EIGNER            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Trees


TREES TO LET, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've pleasant rooms to rent, you've / heard?
Last Line: To all the songs my tenants sing.
Subject(s): April; Birds; Singing & Singers; Trees


TREES WALKING, by EDNA G. HENRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: When on dark starless roads I ride
Last Line: And open endless aisles for me.
Subject(s): Trees


TREES WRITE THEIR THOUGHTS, by A. PEARLE CARTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Trees write their thoughts upon the sky's wide page
Last Line: Words of calm patience, and a faith sublime.
Subject(s): Thought; Trees; Thinking


TRILOGY OF TREES, SELS., by KATHLEEN MILLAY    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Birch Trees


TRIMMING THE CHRISTMAS TREE, AFTER YOUR MOTHER'S STROKE, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are looking for a small tree. If we stand it
Last Line: From on high, inaudible as a dog whistle
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Family Life; Holidays


TRIOLETS UNDER THE TREES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out under the trees
Last Line: Shall I sing for your pleasure.
Subject(s): Love; Trees


TRUE NOBLEMAN, by WASHINGTON IRVING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is an affinity between all natures, animate
Alternate Author Name(s): Oldstyle, Jonathan
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


TULIP TREE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now my blood with long-forgotten fleetness
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


TURNING OF THE LEAVES, by VERNON WATKINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not yet! Do not yet touch
Last Line: Look up now, softly: break it with your eyes
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Leaves


TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 14, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flower of the cypress, little bitter bloom
Last Line: Tight round my breast to kill the heart beneath.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Love - Complaints; Tuscany, Italy


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


TUSCAN OLIVES: RISPETTO 2, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We walked along the terraced olive-yard
Last Line: He had his meagre wine, and we our love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Love; Olive Trees And Olives; Tuscany, Italy


TUSCAN OLIVES: RISPETTO 3, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We climbed one morning to the sunny height
Last Line: I did not turn, my love, I looked at you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Love; Olive Trees And Olives


TUSCAN OLIVES: RISPETTO 4, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How hot it was! Across the white-hot wall
Last Line: Under the olives first I called you mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Love; Olive Trees And Olives


TUSCAN OLIVES: RISPETTO 5, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At lucca, for the autumn festival
Last Line: As on our risen love our lives are grown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Love; Olive Trees And Olives; Tuscany, Italy


TUSCAN OLIVES: RISPETTO 6, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who would have thought we should stand again together
Last Line: Here, where we know we shall love for aye and ever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Love; Olive Trees And Olives


TUSCAN OLIVES: RISPETTO 7, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Reach up and pluck a branch, and give it to me
Last Line: How much is left behind? I do not know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Olive Trees And Olives


TWAS 30 YEARS AGO, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: & when the birds were hushed
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Deforestation


TWIG THAT BECAME A TREE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tree of which I am about to tell you was once
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


TWILIGHT, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My daughter set whatever had begun
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Harvest; Pear Trees; Trees; Women; Pears


TWILIGHT, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My daughter set whatever had begun
Last Line: When he takes the first dangerous bite
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Harvest; Pear Trees; Trees; Women


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


TWIN ROWS OF POPLARS, by MAIMIE A. RICHARDSON    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Poplar Trees


TWO CREPE MYRTLES, by MILDRED D. SHACKLETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two tall, soft-rounded myrtles, side by side
Last Line: Or do the myrtles move on down the grass?
Subject(s): Myrtle Trees


TWO JAPANESE MAPLES, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How can the snow
Last Line: As the u.S.A?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TWO LITTLE ROSES, by JULIA P. BALLARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: One merry summer day
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


TWO PALM TREES, by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Love rose up between us
Subject(s): Palm Trees


TWO PICTURES OF A LEAF, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I make up this leaf
Last Line: Come to resemble so much that does not.
Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Leaves; Survival; Trees; Dead, The; Anglers


TWO PINES: 1. YUNG CHIA RECONSIDERED, by SAM HAMILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A wind in the pine
Last Line: What does it mean
Subject(s): Cold; Pine Trees; Trees; Winter


TWO PINES: 2. HAKUTSU'S PINE, by SAM HAMILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A great pine stands close
Last Line: Like meeting ancient sages %face-to-face
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees


TWO SLICES OF SEQUOIA, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Without rooted fingers to clutch
Last Line: With, and as thick as trust
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees; Redwoods


TWO-GALLON REDWOOD, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pat bought a young redwood
Last Line: Back yard know its fate
Subject(s): Sequoia Trees


TYPHUS, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The whole earth was covered with snow,
Last Line: We were poor—a box was worth something
Subject(s): Epidemics; Plums; Death; Plum Trees; Dead, The


ULTIMA THULE: MY CATHEDRAL, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like two cathedral towers these stately pines
Last Line: And learn there may be worship with out words.
Subject(s): Animals; Pine Trees


UMBRELLA PINES, by JAY ROGOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not chaste and balletic
Last Line: Us faint %with arias of aroma
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees


UNDAUNTED EVERGREENS, by MARY JANE CARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The evergreens stand proudly now
Last Line: And sing triumphantly of spring!
Subject(s): Storms; Trees; Winter


UNDER PINE TREES, by TIMOTHY HOUGHTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through layers of needles
Last Line: Let no one mourn for me
Subject(s): Death; Forests; Mourning; Pine Trees; Trees


UNDER THE CEDARCROFT CHESTNUT, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trim set in ancient sward, his manful bole
Last Line: Tampa, florida, february, 1877.
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees


UNDER THE FIGTREE, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like drifts of balm from cedared glens, those darling memories come
Last Line: And I forget how lone we sit beneath this old figtree.
Subject(s): Fig Trees


UNDER THE OAK, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You, if you were sensible
Last Line: What place have you in my histories?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


UNDER THE OCTOBER MAPLES, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What mean these banners spread
Last Line: More insubstantial too!
Subject(s): Maple Trees


UNDER THE PINES, by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All is still / under the pines
Last Line: All is still.
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; God; Pine Trees; Eve


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 PLANE TREE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under my wall / and plane-tree tall
Last Line: The home in which they find repose.
Subject(s): Lakes; Plane Trees; Rivers; Sea; Pools; Ponds; Sycamores; Ocean


UNDER THE REDHAW TREE, by RUTH GENEVIEVE WORK IODICE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Late october, leaden sky
Last Line: Late october, leaden sky
Subject(s): October; Trees


UNDER THE TREES, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wonderful, strong, angelic trees
Last Line: Come now, let 's tell the tale beneath the old roof-tree.
Subject(s): Trees


UNDER THE TREES, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I lay full length near lonely trees
Last Line: Till the end come when we forget.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Trees


UNDER THE TREES, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer or winter, day or night
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


UNDER THE VULTURE-TREE, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We have all seen them circling pastures
Last Line: With mercy enough to consume us all and give us wings.
Subject(s): Angels; Mercy; Trees; Vultures


UNDER THE WASHINGTON ELM, CAMBRIDGE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eighty years have passed, and more
Last Line: Was bright on our brave old tree!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Elm Trees


UNDER THE WILLOWS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Frank-hearted hostess of the field and wood
Last Line: All life washed clean in this high tide of june.
Subject(s): Willow Trees


UNDER THE YALLER PINES I HOUSE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


UNDER TREES, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Yellow tunnels under the trees, long avenues
Last Line: Tunnels, under yellow leaves, long avenues
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


UNDER WILLOWS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under willows among the graves
Last Line: She shall die at last.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Love; Seasons; Willow Trees


UNDISMAYED, by MARY ETHEL NEWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: When rain-storms drench the lofty pines
Last Line: Retain their shining coats of green.
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees


UNFADING EVERGREEN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How bright the unfading evergreen
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


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


UNIQUE CELEBRATION, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Most unique celebration of arbor day
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


UNITED, by HELEN F. O'NEILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Asmuch tall
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


UNITY, by VIRGINIA WOODWARD CLOUD    Poem Text                    
First Line: A sombre pine is stirred
Last Line: And brushed by the bird's soft wing.
Subject(s): Dreams; Pine Trees; Nightmares


UNTITLED, by RACHEL BLUM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't go yet
Last Line: That climbs on and blooms %in front of the houses
Subject(s): Trees


UNTITLED, by SUH JUNG-JU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pine flower's blooming,' says
Last Line: Can you imagine %this scent?
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Smells; Trees


UPON A DYING LADY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With the old kindness, the old distinguished grace
Last Line: It is about to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Courage; Death; Dolls; Toys; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


UPPER LAMBOURNE, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up the ash tree climbs the ivy
Subject(s): England; Environment; Trees; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


UPPER LAMBOURNE, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up the ash tree climbs the ivy
Last Line: Far surrounding, seem their own
Subject(s): England; Environment; Trees


URGENT, by SHEILA WINGFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Villages pass under the plough
Last Line: And our elms. We have %barely a minute now
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


USELESSNESS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let mine not be that saddest fate of all
Last Line: "she lives, but all her usefulness is past."
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Trees; Dead, The; Destiny


USES OF THE FOREST, by GIFFORD PINCHOT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A forest, large or small, my render its service
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


VELLEN THE TREE, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Aye, the girt elem tree out in little hwome groun
Last Line: Wer a-stannèn this mornèn, an' now's a-cut down.
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Farm Life; Lumber & Lumbering; Spring; Agriculture; Farmers; Woodsmen


VERSES FOR CHILDREN: CHRISTMAS TREE, by ZEDA K. AILES    Poem Text                    
First Line: We boys and girls all love the tree
Last Line: To tell old santa claus just why.
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


VERSES FOR CHILDREN: MAPLE TREE, by ZEDA K. AILES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Outside there stands a maple tree
Last Line: To don their lovely yellow dresses.
Subject(s): Maple Trees


VERSES ON A TREE SPLIT IN A STORM; YORKSHIRE, 1863, by ? FORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: When didst thou first behold the blush of morn?
Last Line: Speak, if thy knotted trunk has a tongue, %and tell us how things looked when thou wast young
Subject(s): Trees


VERTICAL, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps the purpose
Subject(s): Trees


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


VICTIMS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold, throughout the land
Last Line: The sacrifice is done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Trees


VIOLET AND OAK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Down through the trees is my green walk
Last Line: A little violet in the grass.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Flowers; Trees; Violets; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


VIOLET UNDER THE SNOW, by RACHEL CAPEN SCHAUFFLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: To thee I would bring
Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Trees; Violets


VIOLETS, by AMANDA B. HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Has anyone, I wonder ever classed and
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


VIOLETS, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They neither toil nor spin
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


VIOLIN MOOD, by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today the sense of spring fills all my frame
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


VIRGIN IN A TREE, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How this tart fable instructs
Last Line: Till irony's bough break
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


VIRGIN IN A TREE, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How this tart fable instructs
Last Line: Easy and often as each breath
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


VIRGINIA, by VIRGINIA STAIT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know not how her trees compare
Last Line: Me, resurrection's spring!
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Trees; Water; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


VISIONS: 3, by PETRARCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The heavenly branches did I see arise
Last Line: For no such shadow shal be had againe
Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco
Subject(s): Trees


VOICE OF THE PINE, by CHARLES TIMOTHY BROOKS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O tall old pine! O gloomy pine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooks, C. T.
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Transcendentalism; Trees


VOICES OF THE NIGHT: PRELUDE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pleasant it was, when woods were green
Last Line: "be these henceforth thy theme."
Subject(s): Trees


VOICES OF THE TREES, by W. H. BENEDICT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am familliar to all as the american elm
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


WAITING FOR THE MAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From out his hive there came a bee
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


WALK IN SPRING, by JAMES MONTGOMERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wander'd in a lonely glade
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


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 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


WALNUT ST., OAK ST., SYCAMORE ST., ETC, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So this is what happened
Last Line: Where they had gone
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


WALNUT ST., OAK ST., SYCAMORE ST., ETC, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So this is what happened
Last Line: Where they had gone
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


WANG STREAM COLLECTION': WILLOW WAVES, by WANG WEI (699-761)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lacy trees, touching in separate rows
Last Line: That suffer from parting in the spring breeze
Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell; Willow Trees


WAR HERO, by GLYN MAXWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where recollections end,
Subject(s): Grandparents; Storms; Oak Trees; Children; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Childhood


WARNINGS FROM HISTORY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the time when joshua conquered the
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


WASTE OF TIME! TILL INDUSTRY APPROACHED, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To bows strong-straining, her aspiring sons
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


WASTE PLACES, by SAMUEL F. CARY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Imparting to waste places more than their
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


WATCH, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Watching it closely, respecting its mystery,
Subject(s): Bees; Sycamore Trees; Conduct Of Life; Beekeeping


WATTLE AND MYRTLE, by JAMES LISTER CUTHBERTSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gold of the tangled wilderness of wattle
Subject(s): Acacia; Trees


WAY DOWN SOUTH ON THE OLD S'WANNEE, by BENJAMIN D. DAVIES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Way down on the s'wannee river ...'
Last Line: Way down south on the old s'wannee.
Subject(s): Florida; Love - Marital; Palm Trees; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


WAYSIDE INN - AN APPLE TREE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I halted at a pleasant inn
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


WE ARE THE TREES, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am the oak! For ages I've stood
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


WEATHER, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The elm is turned to crystal
Last Line: Ours that only natures %that you cannot give back
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): Birch Trees


WEEPING WILLOW TREES, by NELL GRIFFITH WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Weeping willow trees
Last Line: Are peaceful trees.
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WELCOME, PURE THOUGHTS!, by HENRY WOTTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE DEAD TREES...', by CATHERINE FUCHS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: To speak of light %- our possible comparison
Subject(s): Trees; Winter


WHAT DO YOU SEE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whether we see much or little in nature
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


WHAT IS THE SONG THE SWALLOWS SING?, by HARRY BACHE SMITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


WHAT ROBIN TOLD, by GEORGE COOPER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How do robins build their nests?
Last Line: That's what robin told me
Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Holidays; Robins; Trees


WHEN ALMONDS BLOOM, by MILICENT WASHBURN SHINN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When almond buds unclose
Last Line: Who doubts of may's red rose?
Subject(s): Almond Trees; Trees


WHEN FIRST THE EYE THIS FORREST SEES, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As if the night within were hedg'd
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


WHEN I AM AMONG TREES, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Trees


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 PINE TREES WHISTLE, by WALTER RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pine trees sighin? Wal, I guess not
Last Line: Standin' bare agin the sleet.
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees; Yale University


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 GREEN GITS BACK IN THE TREES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In spring, when the green gits back in the trees
Last Line: Jest a-potterin' roun' as I - durn - %please-- %when the green, you know, gits %back in the trees!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Spring; Trees


WHEN THERE PRESSED IN FROM THE PORCH AN APPALLING FIGURE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And graven in green with graceful designs
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


WHEN WE PLANT A TREE WE ARE DOING, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


WHERE FALL THE TEARS OF LOVE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


WHERE'S AGNES?, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, if I had come back so
Last Line: Poplars, cedars, cypresses!
Subject(s): Trees; Beauty


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


WHISPERING PALMS, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Holy angels and blest
Last Line: My babe is asleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega
Variant Title(s): A Christmas Cradlesong
Subject(s): Christmas; Palm Trees; Nativity, The


WHISPERINGS IN WATTLE-BOUGHS, by ADAM LINDSAY GORDON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, gaily sings the bird! And the wattle boughs are stirr'd
Last Line: "can never be disturb'd by such as thou!"
Subject(s): Acacia; Trees


WHISTLING TREE, by ALAN DIXON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We pass a whistling tree
Last Line: Mock over-spenders' loads
Subject(s): Trees


WHITE BIRCH, by DORA HAGEMEYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Teach me to bend beneath the wind as purely!
Last Line: Strong as the sun, unshaken and divine.
Subject(s): Birch Trees


WHITE BIRCHES, by MARY BRADLEY BRAMHALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Against the upper darkness - the dark pines
Last Line: On this morning of silver rain.
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Fields; Pine Trees; Rain; Trees; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


WHITE BIRCHES, by EMILY MEGOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Against the gray of dreary winter skies
Last Line: The hope of all mankind, o easter trees.
Subject(s): Birch Trees


WHITE BIRCHES OF NEW ENGLAND, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ghosts of tall lonely women, birches crowd
Last Line: Sprinkling new england's wastes with loveliness.
Subject(s): Birch Trees


WHITE OAK, by JANET LEWIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I grow forever in one place, yet stir
Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs.
Subject(s): Oak Trees


WHITE TREE IN BLOOM, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under the yellow sun
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


WHY BIRCH TREES ARE WHITE, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've seen thousands, millions by now, and still they amaze me
Last Line: All things, the peace so profound it passes all understanding
Subject(s): Birch Trees; White (color)


WHY YE BLOSSOME COMETH BEFORE YE LEAFE, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once hoary winter chanced - alas!
Last Line: How blossomed so ye leafless bough.
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


WILD CHERRY, by JEANNE ROBERT FOSTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Branches of wild cherry!
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


WILD CHERRY, by MALCOLM LOWRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We put a prop beneath the sagging bough
Last Line: Whose longing was to wash away to sea
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


WILD CHERRY BRANCHES, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lithe sprays of freshness and faint perfume
Last Line: Let life or death be the fruit.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


WILD CHERRY TREE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here be rural graces, sylvan places
Last Line: A long long sigh to the darling tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Cherry Trees


WILD CRAB-APPLE TREE, by ADELIA FRASER HARDY    Poem Text                    
First Line: It grew near the alley by an old fence
Last Line: Twill ne'er be cut down.
Subject(s): Trees


WILD DUCKS, by ROSE HENDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I heard the wild ducks passing in the night
Last Line: I heard the wild ducks passing in the night.
Subject(s): Ducks; Night; Spring; Trees; Mallards; Drakes; Bedtime


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 FLOWERS, by RICHARD JEFFERIES    Poem Source                    
First Line: A fir tree is not a flower, and yet it is associated in
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


WILD PLUM, by ORRICK JOHNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are unholy who are born
Last Line: Wild plum at night.
Subject(s): Evil; Plums; Plum Trees


WILD PLUM BLOSSOMS, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Seafoam and mist and moonbeams
Last Line: Robed in their bridal lace.
Subject(s): Flowers; Plums; Trees; Plum Trees


WILD STRAWBERRY, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For my own part, I approve of garden flowers
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


WILD THORN BLOSSOMS, by JULIAN S. CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Deep within the tangled wildwood
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


WILD VIOLET, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Violet, violet, sparkling with dew
Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Trees; Violets


WILLOW, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O willow, why forever weep
Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW, by ELIZABETH DELMORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are the clan of willows
Last Line: But remember, without us you can't make a hit %in the beautiful white english game
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW, by LI SHANG-YIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Awakening spring: how many leaves!
Last Line: Who would enjoy just the brows of her eyes?
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW, by LINDA MCCARRISTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One willow, bending over the river
Last Line: I fathom you for an instant: %waking to your stone in silt %and embracing him
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If not, why should the willow bend? It bends
Last Line: Past blood and tissue where remembrance lies
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW, by BENJAMIN ALIRE SAENZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I loved a tree in my boyhood, a tree
Last Line: So harshly that even the roots came up %shaking the whole garden
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW, by HAROLD FEHRSEN SAMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a blue valley far from me
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My neighbor's willow sways its frail
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW, by ALPAY ULKU    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is a woman washing clothes by the river bank
Last Line: One in purple, one in pink, as a present to his father
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW BRANCH LYRIC, by XIANG LANZHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Green trees, shady and cool, make the tavern flag fresh
Last Line: All the willow branches broken by the springtime wind - and still he does not know
Subject(s): Farewell; Willow Trees


WILLOW BRANCH SONG, by LIU YU-HSI    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the days when they were first planted before the calyx tower
Last Line: Whom would they mourn, these dew-laden leaves that seem to weep?
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW POEM, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a willow when summer is over
Last Line: Into the water and on the ground
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW POEM, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a willow when summer is over
Last Line: Into the water and on the ground
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW POEM, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a willow when summer is over
Last Line: Into the water and on the ground.
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW POOL, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even the willows scarcely shook their leaves
Last Line: "—is there a curse upon the barren woman?"
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW SONG; FOR FRANCES HOROWITZ, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I went down to the railway
Subject(s): Horowitz, Frances (1938-1983); Willow Trees


WILLOW SONG; FOR FRANCES HOROWITZ, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I went down to the railway
Last Line: The first one was the rose bay willow
Subject(s): Horowitz, Frances (1938-1983); Willow Trees


WILLOW TREE, by ANNA C. ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: With movement light and airy now
Last Line: Yellow tips and then disband.
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW TREE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How now, shepherd, what means that?
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOW WARE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: On grandmamma's table is waiting for me
Last Line: "that beautiful, queer, little land of blue"
Subject(s): Grandparents;legends;willow Trees; Grandmothers;grandfathers;great Grandfathers;great Grandmothers


WILLOW'S STARS, by SARA-LOUISE HEILBRON    Poem Text                    
First Line: You told me to look up and see the stars
Last Line: And you the weeping willow tree.
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOWS, by WALTER PRICHARD EATON    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the little river
Last Line: That were once so fair
Subject(s): Willow Trees


WILLOWS, by SSU-MA KUANG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Highroads are clogged with carts and horses
Last Line: Sir, what I wish is a heart like yours, %preserving trees islike preserving human life
Subject(s): Landscape; Trees


WIND AND TREE, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the way that the most of the wind
Subject(s): Environment; Love - Erotic; Love; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


WIND AND TREE, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the way that the most of the wind
Last Line: I tell new weather
Subject(s): Environment; Erotic Love; Love; Trees


WIND FLASHES THE GRASS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Leaves pour blackly across
Last Line: Streams rivers of shadow
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


WIND IN THE CYPRESS, by MARY BEALE CARR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wind in the cypress, - sing to me!
Last Line: Like broken chords from a harp unstrung.
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Wind


WINTER, by SHEILA WINGFIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The tree still bends over the lake
Subject(s): Environment; Love; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


WINTER, by SHEILA WINGFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tree still bends over the lake
Last Line: And I try to recall our love, %our love which had a thousand leaves
Subject(s): Environment; Love; Trees


WINTER OAKS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, winter oaks, you give me courage
Last Line: Spring's miracle so well?
Subject(s): Oak Trees; Snow; Winter


WINTER SUN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is noon. A park
Last Line: Licking the almost deaf %and greenish stone
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Autumn; Old Age; Seasons; Trees


WINTER TREE, by WALTER R. ADAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: To leaves that crooned in sun and rain
Last Line: The flame about our feet.
Subject(s): Trees; Winter


WINTER TREE, by DORA HAGEMEYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I have shed me bare of leaves
Last Line: About my naked shoulder.
Subject(s): Trees


WINTER TREES, by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over their stark austerity the trees
Last Line: To sing, and winds to stir with passionate words.
Subject(s): Birds; Pride; Trees; Winter; Self-esteem; Self-respect


WINTER TREES, by CLIFFORD DYMENT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Against the evening sky the trees are black
Last Line: This is the winter, kind only to the bound
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


WINTER TREES, by CARL PHILLIPS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wet dawn inks are doing their blue dissolve
Last Line: The shadows of ringdoves chanting, but easing nothing
Subject(s): Trees; Winter


WINTER TREES, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wet dawn inks are doing their blue dissolve
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


WINTER TREES, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wet dawn inks are doing their blue dissolve
Last Line: The shadows of ringdoves chanting, but easing nothing
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


WINTER TREES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like champions of old
Last Line: With vernal trophies crowned.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Trees


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 TREES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All the complicated details
Last Line: Stand sleeping in the cold.
Subject(s): Trees


WINTER TREES ON THE HORIZON, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O delicate! Even in wooded lands
Last Line: I soothe it with mine equal eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Trees


WINTER TWILIGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little while ago and you might see
Last Line: Moves nightward, merges into mystery.
Subject(s): Evening; Snow; Trees; Winter; Sunset; Twilight


WINTER WIZARDRY, by LAURA S. BECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who could have dreamed / so many branches in
Last Line: Bare branches etched against the sky.
Subject(s): Trees; Winter


WINTER'S APPRENTICE, by JESSICA HORNIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The leaves seem to be hanging on okay, still green
Last Line: Like subtleties slipping by not quite unnoticed
Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Trees; Winter


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 A SPRAY OF APPLE BLOSSOMS, by WALTER LEARNED    Poem Text                    
First Line: The promise of these fragrant flowers
Last Line: And send this snowy spray to thee.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Holidays; Trees


WITH HEART OF OAK, by ROBERT DESNOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With the tender and hard woods of these trees, with heart of oak
Last Line: With oaken heart and birchbark
Subject(s): Surrealism; Trees


WITH THE TREES: A PROSE POEM, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The liveoaks are my soldiery
Last Line: Such is my desire while I am with the trees.
Subject(s): Trees


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


WOMAN WAVNG TO TREES, by DOROTHEA TANNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not that anyone would
Subject(s): Trees


WONDERFUL TREE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a wonderful tree, a wonderful tree
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


WOOD, by JULIA E. ROGERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trees grow, therefore wood is cheaper than
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


WOOD, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A wood. %a man entered
Last Line: Without end? How many times %over must he begin again?
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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 OF THE SELF-MURDERED, by NORMAN NICHOLSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees against the mountain's groin
Last Line: Do penance in the broken ore
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


WOOD RIDES, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who hath not felt the influence that so calms
Last Line: And felt a placid joy refreshed at heart
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


WOOD-GRAIN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the way that the sap-river ran
Last Line: On the brink of the tide never see.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Trees


WOOD-LOT HILL, by FRANCES MARY FROST    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Every winter %the woods shrink back
Subject(s): Trees


WOOD-SONG, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love must be a fearsome thing
Last Line: Speed you, and good-morrow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs.
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


WOODEN-SHOULDERED TREE IS WILD AND HIGH, by PETER CHAD TIGAR LEVI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: But is alive. It is alive and dies
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


WOODING, by ANDREW MOTION    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From windows in the home, old people
Last Line: Still destitute of ways to show our grief
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


WOODLAND HYMN, by PHEBE A. HOLDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We seek remembered wood-paths, fragrant with breath of pines
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


WOODMAN AND ECHO, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Close echo hears the woodman's axe
Last Line: An echo clapping harmony.
Subject(s): Forests; Lumber And Lumbering; Trees; Woods


WOODS, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I part the out thrusting branches
Last Line: There is flight around me
Subject(s): Blessings; Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


WOODS, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I part the out thrusting branches
Last Line: Though I am heavy %there is flight around me
Subject(s): Blessings; Environment; Trees


WORDS ON WILLOW BRANCHES, by WU XIAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the house willows burgeon like the painted eyebrows of a beautiful woman
Last Line: He just produces a new branch where the old one broke off before
Subject(s): Farewell; Willow Trees


Y WAS A YEW, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Dark little yew!
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


YARDLEY OAK, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Survivor sole, and hardly such, of all
Last Line: Eventful, should supply her with a theme.
Subject(s): Environment; Oak Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


YE FALLEN AVENUES! ONCE MORE I MOURN, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Play wanton, every moment, every spot
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


YEW-TREES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a yew-tree, pride of lorton vale
Last Line: Murmuring from glaramara's inmost caves.
Subject(s): Yew Trees


YOU LINGERING SPARSE LEAVES OF ME, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You lingering sparse leaves of me on winter-nearing boughs
Last Line: The faithfulest -- hardiest -- last.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


YOU SAT UNDER AN ELM, by RONALD WARDALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: You sat under an elm writing a letter in your diary with a stub of pencil
Last Line: Your last breath durable as dirt
Subject(s): Diaries; Elm Trees


YOUNG APRIL, by EDWARD F. MORRILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The tall pines stretch to deepening sky
Last Line: Maine children love young april still!
Subject(s): April; Pine Trees; Trees


YOUNG BIRCH, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birch begins to crack its outer sheath
Last Line: It was a thing of beauty and was sent %to live its life out as an ornament
Subject(s): Birch Trees


YOUNG DANDELIONS, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a bold fellow
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Holidays; Trees; Weeds


YOUNG SYCAMORE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I must tell you
Subject(s): Plane Trees; Sycamores


YOUNG SYCAMORE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I must tell you
Last Line: But two %eccentric knotted %twigs %bending forward %hornlike at the top
Subject(s): Plane Trees


YOUNG TIMOTHY AND THE FORGET-ME-NOTS, by ESTELLE THOMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Young tomothy crept to the old meadow bars
Subject(s): Holidays; Trees


YOUNG TREE, by STELLA NGATHO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alone in the vast forest of elders
Last Line: Amidst the elders of time
Subject(s): Trees


YOUNG WOMAN, A TREE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The life spills over, some days
Last Line: Cold slime, %as deep as that
Subject(s): Trees; Women; Youth


YOUR VIOLIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your violin! Ah me!
Last Line: Of paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): April; Music & Musicians; Trees; Violins