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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TREES Matches Found: 2109 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 proudlyfair 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 growand 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 |
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