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| Searching... Subject: ENVIRONMENT Matches Found: 1045 11-FEB-83, by MAXINE RUTH SOLOW COMBS Poem Source First Line: Outside it's snowing hard enough to freeze a mammoth Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters 1914: 5. THE SOLDIER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: If I should die, think only this of me Last Line: In hearts at peace, under an english heaven. Variant Title(s): The Soldier Subject(s): Death; England; Environment; Fields; Flowers; Patriotism; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; First World War 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 14, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pity this busy monster, manunkind Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 14, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pity this busy monster, manunkind Last Line: Of a good universe next door; let's go Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Environment 22-JUN-69, by MICHAEL CERAOLO Poem Source First Line: All hail john d. Rockefeller! Last Line: A floe of fire floating on top of a river Subject(s): Capitalism; Environment; Rockefeller, John Davison (1839-1937) A FARM PICTURE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn Last Line: And haze and vista, and the far horizon fading away. Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas A HAPPY LIFE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: O what a life is this I lead Last Line: With such a life as this to lead? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Life; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas A POISON TREE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation 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 SHROPSHIRE LAD: 2, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation 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 SONG OF THE SEASON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am a moth ball Last Line: But out! Subject(s): Animals;environment;insects;moths; Environmental Protection;ecology;conservation;bugs A SPARROW-HAWK IN THE SUBURBS, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At that time of year there is a turn in the road where Last Line: Last frosts of our / back gardens Subject(s): Environment; Hawks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A TREE TELLING OF ORPHEUS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White dawn. Stillness. When the rippling began Subject(s): Environment; Music & Musicians; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A VISION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we will have the wisdom to survive Last Line: Its hardship is its posibility Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A WOODCHUCK LESSON, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To reach the university, / you park your car on rapist hill Last Line: Who huddle near the fence, near the loading ramp. Subject(s): Environment; Teaching & Teachers; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A.M., by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: ... And here the dark infinitive to feel Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation A.M., by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: ... And here the dark infinitive to feel Last Line: How well they shine upon the fatal sprawl %of everything on earth. How well they love us all Subject(s): Environment ACID RAIN, by DAVID HOVAN CHECK Poem Source First Line: The environmental issue Subject(s): Acid Rain; Environment ACID RAIN, by ED ZAHNISER Poem Source First Line: Upriver, handymen sell their houses back to strout realty Last Line: It's the tenth portion that anchors your barn Subject(s): Acid Rain; Environment; Nature AD ASTRA: 32, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Tho' factory smoke and film of whirring loom Last Line: And nature's harness'd powers his will subserve. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Environment; Pollution; Smoke; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation AD ASTRA: 33, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Then cities shall arise, both sweet and fair Last Line: Health the handmaid of peace and child of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Cities; Environment; Health; Urban Life; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation ADDRESS TO WEYERHAEUSER, THE TREE-GROWING COMPANY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After miles of stumps and slash and the once-buried endeavors Last Line: To move if you could sing or even listen Subject(s): Environment ADULTERESS, by LUCY CALCOTT Poem Source First Line: I see him %drawing in the sand Last Line: Drawing %in the sand Subject(s): Environment ADVENT, by GILLIAN CLARKE Poem Source First Line: After the wideawake galaxies Last Line: Against infinite light Subject(s): Environment ADVICE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, you two eyes, that have all night been sleeping Last Line: Come into the meadows, where the lambs are leaping. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas ADVICE FROM THE SHOULDER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Put down the dust rag Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment ADVICE TO A PROPHET, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city Last Line: When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Christianity; Environment; Judgment Day; Messiah; Nuclear War; Religion; Sea Monsters; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Theology; S AFFORESTATION, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source 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 FISH, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Between gills %I stabbed the knife Last Line: The cats come from nowhere Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment AFTER IKKYU: 25, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Talked to the god of hosts about the native american Last Line: Half-human bears still dance in imperfect circles. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Environment; Native Americans; Prayer; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AFTER THE STORM, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Waters come welling into this valley Last Line: In their voices of liquid suasion, of travelling thunder %from what depths they have drunk and from Subject(s): Environment AFTERNOON TEA, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Source 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 THE APPLES RIPEN LIKE HILLS, by REG SANER Poem Source First Line: ... And our october fields dwindle off Last Line: For hiking there still, for gathering everything %parting with nothing Subject(s): Environment; Nature AIR, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the open window, a confusion Last Line: Is deeply inhaling, exhaling its doppelgänger breath. Subject(s): Air; Environment; Gasoline; Pollution; Sickness; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Illness AIR: AN ARIA, by RICHARD POOLE Poem Source First Line: To be air, atmosphere Last Line: That glitter in oblique shafts of light in silent rooms Subject(s): Environment 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 ALCHEMISTS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By day Last Line: And live forever, %all base metals %in cermonial fire Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment ALL WINTER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In winter I remember Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America ALL WINTER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In winter I remember Last Line: The things we might forget Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans ALMOND TREES, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing here %this early Last Line: That grieves in silence, like parental love Subject(s): Environment; Trees ALONE IN THE WOODS, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source 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 AMAZONAS, by PAUL MILLS Poem Source First Line: Straight up out of the pacific Last Line: Riding in that boat against the wind Subject(s): Environment AMO ERGO SUM, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because I love %the sun pours out its rays of living gold Last Line: And sleeping wake, and flowing are at rest Subject(s): Environment AMPHION, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text 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 ADDRESS TO WEYERHAEUSER, THE TREE-GROWING COMPANY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After miles of stumps and slash and the once-buried endeavors Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation ANCESTOR OF THE HUNTING HEART; AFTER BREUGEL, by JOHN HAINES First Line: There is a distance in the heart Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation ANCESTOR OF THE HUNTING HEART; AFTER BREUGEL, by JOHN HAINES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a distance in the heart Last Line: The rest are camped indoors, %their damped fires smoking %inthe early dusk Subject(s): Environment; Nature ANCIENT TURTLE DANCE, by ALBERT CARL VERNON CLARK Poem Source First Line: Turtle, turtle, come up to breathe Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters ANDEAN FLUTE, by DEREK MAHON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He dances to that music in the wood Last Line: Who said the banished gods were gone for good? Subject(s): Environment ANOTHER COUNTRY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I visited with the porpoises Last Line: That harvest the tuna like wheat Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents ANOTHER COUNTRY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I visited with the porpoises Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters APPLE, by ANGELA KIRBY Poem Source First Line: Consider the demotic apple Last Line: Of windfalls, a distant thrum of wasps Subject(s): Environment 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 SHED, by ALICE OSWALD Poem Source First Line: It suddenly thunders and the blue cloud Last Line: Of time taken and rendered back as apples? Subject(s): Environment APPLETREE, by JEM POSTER Poem Source First Line: You turn and sigh, %tugging the sheet, and I'm %plucked from my reverie Last Line: Has changed. You extend your arm. %my mouth is open, the white %flesh sweet and warm Subject(s): Environment APRIL, by ALICE OSWALD Poem Source First Line: The sheer grip and the push of it -- growth gets Last Line: Between the river's excess and the sun's Subject(s): Environment ARCHANGEL, by JEM POSTER Poem Source First Line: My children have never seen it. It was common here Last Line: Fragrant, ammoniac from the moistened earth Subject(s): Environment ARROWHEAD, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the soft breath Last Line: In the breeze %are the sounds of this man %chipping stone, %his old knees bent %and birds %falling % Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment ARS POETICA, by PETER ABBS Poem Source First Line: It will listen to the arias of whales Last Line: It will remain in quest Subject(s): Environment AS FOR POETS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Is seen from all sides, %everywhere, %at once Subject(s): Environment; Poetry And Poets ASCENSION, by MARGO TAFT STEVER Poem Source First Line: Beads of sweat well up on the sea- Last Line: Seven men inhale the vision, their hearts %slackening with each breath Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters AT CUCKMERE ESTUARY, by PETER ABBS Poem Source First Line: We stand on the shingle as night comes in. Behind us Last Line: In the forgotten dark. The tide spumes white against the chalk Subject(s): Environment AT LAND'S END, by ART GOODTIMES Poem Source First Line: Vertebrates %we balance the skullcase of ancient apes Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters AT MALHEUR GAME REFUGE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Coyote butte rinsed by earthlight begins Last Line: This day floods over the earth and splashes %against you. In the sky your way appears: true north Subject(s): Environment; Nature AT THE DARK'S EDGE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sister tree, %deaf and dumb and blind, and we Last Line: What we can't... %light Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Environment AUBADE, by CAROL-ANN LUMLEY RUMENS Poem Source First Line: Light as a rose Last Line: To save us both Subject(s): Environment AUGURY, by CAITRIONA O'REILLY Poem Source First Line: Magnetic winds from the sun pour in Last Line: For days they practise flying, then they fly Subject(s): Environment AUN (24), by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The whaling grounds of quintay, empty Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters AUTUMN, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The civility of nature overthrown, the badger must fight in the roofless Last Line: It will endure? It will endure as long as the frost Subject(s): Environment AUTUMN AGAIN, YOU WOULDN'T KNOW IN THE CITY, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Red red oak, oh, what's your worry? Subject(s): Environment; Trees AVALANCHE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just last month Last Line: Coming soon with its wildflowers Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Women BABY HARP SEAL, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: When the baby seal looks up Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters BABY WHALE IN CAPTIVITY, by NORMAN ROSTEN Poem Source First Line: I miss the sea most of all Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters BACK, by JEM POSTER Poem Source First Line: We'd guessed already, of course-pressing between Last Line: Spirits sweeping back to claim their own Subject(s): Environment BACKWARD YEARS, by JAMES RAGAN Poem Source First Line: These are backward years Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters BADGER, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pushing the wedge of his body Last Line: The trees they tilted Subject(s): Environment BALLADE, by JUDITH MOFFETT Poem Source First Line: The reptile brain is cold and small Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters 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'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'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 BARN OWL AT LE CHAI, by GILLIAN CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Tonight, cooling off on the terrace Last Line: And the air is blood-flecked, %a grief in retrospect Subject(s): Environment BARROW, by ANTHONY THWAITE Poem Source First Line: In this high field strewn with stones Last Line: One living, and not these dead Subject(s): Environment; Fields BARROW, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our brittle bones were chilled to envy Last Line: Above our age's burial mound Subject(s): Environment; Fields BATTLE OF THE TREES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tops of the beech tree Last Line: On the field of goddeu brig Subject(s): Environment; Trees BEAR ME, POMONA, TO THY CITRON GROVES, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Spread thy ambrosial stores, and feast with jove! Subject(s): Environment; Trees BECOMING A REDWOOD, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stand in a field long enough, and the sounds Last Line: Part of the midnight's watchfulness that knows %there is no silence but when danger comes Subject(s): Environment; Nature BEDROCK, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Snowmelt pond -- warm granite Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation BEDROCK, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Snowmelt pond -- warm granite Last Line: We laugh %and grieve Subject(s): Environment BEECH, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source 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 CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blizzards have brought down the beech tree Last Line: The amplitude of dawning spaces as when %the tower rebuilt itself out of the mist each morning Subject(s): Environment 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 BEES IN TRANSIT: OSAGE COUNTY, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like a hundred white bedroom chests Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment BEGGAR'S LUCK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Where did you sleep in the country, lad? Last Line: And drove me away with stones.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Environment; Fields; Homeless; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas BEGINNING, by JAY RAMSAY Poem Source First Line: Doing nothing about this Last Line: Endlessly begun, and about to begin Subject(s): Environment BEING PROPERTY ONCE MYSELF, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Same thing for other things. %same thing for men Subject(s): Environment; Trees BELOW CYM BYCHAN, by RICHARD POOLE Poem Source First Line: There was nothing to be said about Last Line: In a green and greener dream of leaves Subject(s): Environment BETWEEN VOYAGES, by ROBYN BOLAM Poem Source First Line: You brought me a seahorse, succulent shells Last Line: And flood, gulls wheel above this inland roof Subject(s): Environment BEWICK SWANS ARRIVE AT OUSE WASHES, by LYNNE WYCHERLEY Poem Source First Line: Just when I think winter has won Last Line: Star after star after star Subject(s): Environment BIG MAC WHOPPER, by RICHARD CLOKE Poem Source First Line: Take a hundred acres, as a sample Last Line: Doubles every few years - %invitation to plague? Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life BINSEY POPLARS (FELLED 1879), by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text 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 BIRCHES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation 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 BLACK FENS, by LYNNE WYCHERLEY Poem Source First Line: This land remembers %the grebe's long shadow, %fisher-king Last Line: Out of the dark %into the cold light of now Subject(s): Environment BLACK FURROW, GRAY FURROW, by GEORGE MACKAY BROWN Poem Source First Line: From the black furrow, a fecund Last Line: Fishbone and crust Subject(s): Environment; Fields BLACK NIKES, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We need quarters like king tut needed a boat. A slave could row him to heaven from his crypt in Subject(s): Egypt; Environment; Shoes; Homecoming; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers BLACK WALNUT TREE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother and I debate: %we could sell Last Line: And, month after month, the whip-%crack of the mortgage Subject(s): Environment BLACKBIRD, by DEREK MAHON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One morning in the month of june Last Line: Breaking the silence of the seas Subject(s): Environment BLESSING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed / are the injured animals Last Line: When no one is left to speak. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation BLESSING THE CHILDREN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blue curves of our ears %are filled with a bird Last Line: All the places are holy. %everything blesses us Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment BLUE KNOB, PA, by CAROLYN PAGE Poem Source First Line: See the yellow trucks and the ant men Last Line: It's a living Subject(s): Environment; Nature BLUE OX, by MARGOT TREITEL Poem Source First Line: In his dream he is getting off the boat Last Line: Axing the woods %into gardens, selling the quarter acres for a song Subject(s): Environment; Nature BLUNDEN'S BEECH, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Source 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 BOG OAK, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source 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 BOY IN THE BELL, by HUGO WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Over my head the balance of nature Last Line: To the music we are searching for Subject(s): Environment BOYA GLACIER, by LYNNE WYCHERLEY Poem Source First Line: Eerily blue like a cascade from heaven Last Line: A sweat of diamonds vanishing as I watch Subject(s): Environment BRAN'S SONG, by HUGH LUPTON Poem Source First Line: I saw a realm of blood and fire Last Line: To a wife's embrace, %a mother's tears Subject(s): Environment BREAD AND BUTTER LETTER, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: Bread is the fields of wheat Last Line: No daemon darken your site Subject(s): Environment; Fields BREAKING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the forest was seed Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment BREATHING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An absolute %patience Last Line: Happiness itself, a breathing %too quiet Subject(s): Environment BRIDGE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In straw Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment BRIEF HISTORY OF LIGHT, by CAITRIONA O'REILLY Poem Source First Line: The dazzle of ocean was their first infatuation Last Line: Knowing barely enough to know it was not theirs Subject(s): Environment BRIGHT FIELD, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen the sun break through Last Line: Once, but is the eternity that awaits you Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Environment; Fields BRIGHT WINGS, DAYBREAK, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Small fires, the wings %red as morning Last Line: And let wings rise, %weightless fire, above the body's ruins Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment BRINK, by BENJAMIN W. HOWARD Poem Source First Line: After the cold %light of march Last Line: Nurtured in damp remains Subject(s): Environment; Nature BROCKHAMPTON, by ALISON BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: The land was too wet for ploughing; yet it is done Last Line: The stubborn light of things Subject(s): Environment; Fields BROWN EARTH LOOK, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The youth burning couch grass is as tired Last Line: Peace with its sorrow blots out the agonies of strife Subject(s): Environment; Fields BRUEGHEL'S SNOW, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the snow Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation BRUEGHEL'S SNOW, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the snow Last Line: Four hundred winters ago Subject(s): Environment BUFFALO DUSK, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The buffaloes are gone Subject(s): Buffaloes; Environment; Middle West; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States BUFFALO DUSK, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The buffaloes are gone Last Line: And the buffaloes are gone Subject(s): Buffaloes; Environment; Middle West BULLDOZER, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bulls by day %and dozes by night Last Line: No, not the bulldozer Subject(s): Environment; Travel BURNING OFF, by MAUREEN DUFFY Poem Source First Line: Already autumn stains %a branch here and there Last Line: I should pour my heart's blood %out for luck. I do Subject(s): Environment; Fields BUSH FROM MONGOLIA, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This bush with light green leaves Last Line: The big winter can come back, and only %bushes from mongolia will survive Subject(s): Environment; Nature BUSHY LEAFY OAK TREE, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Is the to and fro and to and fro %of an oak rod Subject(s): Environment; Trees BY A LAKE, by BILL WOOD Poem Source First Line: This guy listens for the moon Last Line: Suddenly, they know what is human Subject(s): Environment; Nature BY FRAZIER CREEK FALLS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Standing up on lifted, folded rock Subject(s): Environment; Waterfalls; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation BY FRAZIER CREEK FALLS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Standing up on lifted, folded rock Last Line: We could live on this earth %without clothes or tools! Subject(s): Environment; Waterfalls BY RAIL THROUGH THE EARTHLY PARADISE, PERHAPS BEDFORDSHIRE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poet's Biography First Line: The fishermen among the fireweed Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas BY RAIL THROUGH THE EARTHLY PARADISE, PERHAPS BEDFORDSHIRE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fishermen among the fireweed Last Line: An angler's fly %lost in the sedge to watch the centuries Subject(s): Environment; Fields CABBAGE FIELD, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Both taine and the inland english child Last Line: Anything but the sea? Subject(s): Cabbage; Environment; Fields CALIBAN'S BOOKS, by MICHAEL DONAGHY Poem Source First Line: Hair oil, boiled sweets, chalk dust, squid's ink Last Line: And all his magic books are drowned Subject(s): Environment CALIFORNIA REQUIEM, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I walked among the equidistant graves Last Line: For killing what we cannot even name Subject(s): Environment CALLING MYSELF HOME, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There were old women Last Line: To the shells locked together %on his back, %gold atoms dancing underground Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment CANUTE, by JOSPEHINE ABBOTT Poem Source First Line: No monument for me but the beach Last Line: Pounding on the shifting ground %of misunderstanding Subject(s): Environment 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 CARETTA CARETTA, by JULIA OLDER Poem Source First Line: The loggerhead turtle Last Line: In a far corner of cassiopeia Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Sea Monsters CAVE, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Source First Line: Sometimes when the boy was troubled he would go Last Line: And we are lucky if we keep them still Subject(s): Environment 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 CELEBRATION: BIRTH OF A COLT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we reach the field Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Women Writers; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CELEBRATION: BIRTH OF A COLT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we reach the field Last Line: With pollen blowing off the corn, %land that will always ownus, %everywhere it is red Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Women - Writers CEREMONIES FOR CANDLEMASSE EVE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text 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 CETUS, A LETTER FROM JONAH, by SIV CEDERING Poem Source First Line: The whales are singing Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters CHALK-PIT, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source 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 CHANGING WEATHER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's something in the blood's stomach Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment CHEETAH, by ANDREW WATERMAN Poem Source First Line: So here they are, what above all Last Line: Or you who've entered its? Subject(s): Environment CHERRY TREE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source 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 CHILD IS SINGING, by ADRIAN MITCHELL Poem Source Last Line: But the child who is singing Subject(s): Environment CHILDHOOD MEMORY, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sunshine in morning field Last Line: Chasms of inhuman darkness veiled Subject(s): Environment; Fields CHILDREN IN FOG, by JR. A. POULIN Poem Source First Line: Ebbtide: a thin fog sails in from the sea Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters CHRISTMAS TREE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source 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 CHRYSANTHS, by DONALD ATKINSON Poem Source First Line: These then for you: %tough flowers Last Line: In their embrace %die blinded Subject(s): Environment CIVILIZATION, by PATRICIA SHIRLEY Poem Source First Line: Once upon a time, ancient forests of oak, walnut Last Line: Their ugly flow outdone the sullied waters %of the civilized world Subject(s): Environment; Nature CLOVER FIELDS, by EDITH JOY SCOVELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fields are overcast with light at evening Last Line: The meadows give their answer to this hour of waiting Alternate Author Name(s): Scovell, E. J. Subject(s): Environment; Fields COMBE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source 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 IN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another morning walks in this canyon Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment 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 CONFESSIONAL, by KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: I come once more to this terrible place Last Line: And I can go, prepared for the possible; %dream and bone set out from the confessional Subject(s): Environment CONSERVATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While we're conserving coal and trees Last Line: And prudently conserve -- themselves. Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers preach to us if we will hear Last Line: To nourish one small seed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Flowers; Lilies; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CONSIDER THE WHALES (AN ACROSTIC), by JAMES BERTOLINO Poem Source First Line: Let's consider seven whales Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters CORNISH ACRE, by ALFRED LESLIE ROWSE Poem Source First Line: This is the field that looks to the south Last Line: Pause yet awhile upon this slope %remembering me Subject(s): Environment; Fields COWSLIPS AND LARKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear it said yon land is poor Last Line: Are many a sunny mile from here. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas COYOTE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Steel jaws are tense to clamp shut Last Line: The blackest sweat %of [or, the] morning on the ground Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans 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 CRAYFISH, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The warm hands %the soft hands of kind men Last Line: Fear gripped inside the soft hands, the warm hands Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment CROWS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hear them speak like men Last Line: They are quiet, %so still %I wait for a breath %to escape the warm feathers Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment CURLEW, by JEREMY HOOKER Poem Source First Line: The curve of its cry Last Line: Up the long flight of bone Subject(s): Environment CYNDDYLAN ON A TRACTOR, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, you should see cynddylan on a tractor Last Line: As cynddylan passes proudly up the lane Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Environment; Fields CYPRESS & CEDAR, by TONY HARRISON Poem Source 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 DADDY-LONG-LEGS, by GEORGE SZIRTES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was an act of daring then to fling one at the girls Last Line: Girls proffering leaves and hands, ragged, memorial Subject(s): Environment DARWIN IN PATAGONIA, by PAULINE STAINER Poem Source First Line: I brood on the process Last Line: At the irreproachable design %of the eye Subject(s): Environment DAUGHTERS SLEEPING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday the younger one slept in my arms Last Line: And blew about their home %a warm snow Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment DAWN, by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the name %for the moment the quiet house Last Line: The moment that ice is not ice anymore %but isn't yet water Subject(s): Environment DAWN CHORUS, by DEREK MAHON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is not sleep itself but dreams we miss Last Line: We yearn for that reality in this Subject(s): Environment DAY BEFORE SPRING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my hand Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment DAY BEGINS AT GOVERNOR'S SQUARE MALL, by LEON STOKESBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, newness is all. Or almost all. And like Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation DAY BEGINS AT GOVERNOR'S SQUARE MALL, by LEON STOKESBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here, newness is all. Or almost all. And like Last Line: The people wander forward now. And the world begins. Subject(s): Environment DAYBREAK, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: How soft %you disappear confused %daughter %daughters %I love you Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment DAYBREAK, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Daybreak. %my daughter sitting at the table Last Line: You disappear confused %daughter %daughters %I love you Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment 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 DEATH OF KINGS, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Giant; %sleek master of the oceans Last Line: And we shall have one more kingdom %empty of kings Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Sea Monsters DEATH OF THE PILOT WHALES, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every few years, down at the florida keys Last Line: We wish not to think, we tow them bakc to sea, %cut them open and they sink Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters DEATH, ETC., by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Senorita, he said, come dance with me Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment DELIGHT OF BEING ALONE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source 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 DELIGHT SONG OF TSOAI-TALEE, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am a feather on the bright sky Last Line: You see, I am alive, I am alive Alternate Author Name(s): Momaday, N. Scott Subject(s): Environment DESCARTES AND THE STOVE, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thrusting its armoury of hot delight Last Line: And the moist reciprocation of his palms Subject(s): Environment DESERT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the earth Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment DESERT SPACE, by REG SANER Poem Source First Line: A great garden of blossoming nails Last Line: On this land, quiet as sunlight %in motion, or the 747, melting away %to a sheep bell Subject(s): Environment; Nature DHARMA: THE SUITCASE OF MANY MEANINGS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Amid all the blood of illusion, eating roast chicken Last Line: But cuts across the reflex of a star Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Environment; Grief; Loss; Pollution DIEBACK, by DOUGLAS DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eyes register their natural frontiers Last Line: Standing in their own coffins Subject(s): Environment; Trees DIFFERING VIEWS OF A DEAD WHALE, by VIRGINIA LINTON Poem Source First Line: Looming monstrous, he shone a hide weathered Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters DIRECTOR OF THE ENVIRONMENT'S SECRET JOURNEY, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: One day in september - air pressure 1005 millibar Last Line: Which already feel they know %the pacifying report Subject(s): Environment DISAPPEARANCES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever love or hate we hold Last Line: And loving every small thing %every step we take on earth Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment DIVERS, by JOHN PETER SCUPHAM Poem Source First Line: We knew infallibly: love marked the spot Last Line: Amazed discoverers of our buried selves Subject(s): Environment DO WE BECOME, by FRANCES HOWARTH Poem Source First Line: In the threshing of the crop and the thrashing of a tree Last Line: For each coin, every piece, of this world's wealth Subject(s): Environment DOLPHIN WAY, by JR. WILLIAM ARCHIBALD MCGIRT Poem Source First Line: In another age between time of trees Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters DOLPHIN: MONOLOGUE & SONG, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once I approached you Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters DOLPHINS, by RICHARD HARTEIS Poem Source First Line: Who hasn't at some point succumbed Last Line: Boy drowned at sea Subject(s): Aids (disease); Dolphins; Environment; Homosexuality; Sea Monsters; Sickness DOMUS CAEDET ARBOREM, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Source 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 DRAGONFLY, by ROBERT MINHINNICK Poem Source First Line: Bullet of stained glass glancing out of the traffic Last Line: I hold in my hand a crucifix on the cribwr road Subject(s): Environment DRAW, AND DRINKE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Milk still your fountains, and your springs, for why? Last Line: The more th'are drawn, the lesse they wil grow dry. Subject(s): Environment; Fountains; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation DREAMING BIRDS, by JOHN POWELL WARD Poem Source First Line: The eyes and feathers intermesh Last Line: I dream of swifts that soar asleep Subject(s): Environment DRIVE, by HUGO WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: The trees attend to the high wind Last Line: Which float down through the air %becoming days Subject(s): Environment DRIVING AT NIGHT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The world is full of these roads Last Line: Asleep at night %dreaming all the dark roads %out of the world Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment DRIVING IN FOG, by ROBERT MINHINNICK Poem Source First Line: Driving in fog I part the crowded air Last Line: But the fog like countless faces crowds the glass Subject(s): Environment DROUGHT REPORT 1988, by JANE LAVENDER Poem Source First Line: Dreamy visions recall - ppast warming Last Line: Quench %droughty earth Subject(s): Environment; Nature DRY TORTUGAS, by EDMUND PENNANT Poem Source First Line: A middle-aged turtle allowed himself Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters DUCK PAIR, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Silver water not the standard Last Line: No small part of their safe-conduct - habits %by now a fact like plumage, axiomatic Subject(s): Environment; Nature DURER WENT TO SKETCH THE WHALE, by JUDITH HEMSCHEMEYER Poem Source First Line: Even though he could do marvelous rabbits Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Environment; Sea Monsters DUSK, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the gathering dark, the tree trunk bare Last Line: Being fed the sky Subject(s): Environment; Nature EAGLE SPACE PROBE, by EDWARD WILLEY Poem Source First Line: Any man-made sound would Last Line: Where I am hours' deep %into a parallel creation Subject(s): Environment; Nature EARTH, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the earth doesn't shake, when the sky Last Line: The beginning of the world and the end Subject(s): Environment EARTH RISING, by CLIVE WILMER Poem Source First Line: The men who first set foot on the bleached waste Last Line: And all that therein is. And plague and sword Subject(s): Environment EARTHDAY, by JOHN FREDERICK ZURN Poem Source First Line: On the sixth day of their campaign I saw Last Line: May make us rich, but they can't make us feel Subject(s): Environment EARTHWORM, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who really respects the earthworm Last Line: This deathless, gray, tiny farmer in the planet's soil Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Men ECLIPSE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: While you were looking at the mountain Last Line: A fireline %above the mountain's blue smoke Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment ECLIPSE OF THE MOON, by GILLIAN CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Whose shadow's that? Last Line: Who drowned %reaching for the coin? Subject(s): Environment ECLISPE: 2, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The earth shows her face to the moon Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment ECLOGUE: APRIL, by HERBERT READ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To the fresh wet fields Last Line: Came the wild errant %swallows with a scream Subject(s): Environment; Fields ECOLOGY, by DALLAS EUGENE WIEBE Poem Source First Line: Sea otters backstroke away Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters ECOLOGY LESSON, by JOYCE LA MERS Poem Source First Line: The great blue whale, once near extinct Last Line: Swilling down endangered krill Subject(s): Environment; Whales EEL, by JEREMY REED Poem Source First Line: The eel, that cold-water siren Last Line: Ecstasy in the flame's surprise Subject(s): Environment 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, by CAROL-ANN LUMLEY RUMENS Poem Source First Line: This is a summer of heat but not light Last Line: Spilling their small fire into a granite tundra Subject(s): Environment ELEGY FOR 41 WHALES BEACHED IN FLORENCE, OREGON, JUNE 1979, by LINDA LOUISE BIERDS Poem Source First Line: In the warm rods of your ears Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters ELK SONG, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We give thanks Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Elk; Environment ELM, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source 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 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 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'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 ELMS, by JOHN FULLER Poem Source First Line: Air darkens, air cools Last Line: I am still alive Subject(s): Environment; Trees ELMS UNDER CLOUD, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON Poem Source First Line: Elms, old men with thinned-out hair Last Line: Above the scene, again be smoothly rolled? Subject(s): Environment; Trees END OF IT ALL, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My friend the ecologist tells Last Line: Late there's nothing we can do Subject(s): Environment; Parra, Nicanor END OF THE WORLD, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We're going,' they said, 'to the end of the world' Last Line: The sound of the water, and the water's reply Subject(s): Environment ENDANGERED, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: Down on the gulf coast of texas, in the aransas wetland Last Line: And we knew, we knew we would die without seeing the species again Subject(s): Birds; Environment; Nature ENDANGERED SPECIES, by DAVID CONSTANTINE Poem Source First Line: No wonder we love the whales. Do they not carry Last Line: Down, down, into an infinite pacific Subject(s): Environment ENDANGERED SPECIES, SELS., by DEENA POSY METZGER Poem Source First Line: If it were only a question of whales Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters 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 ENGINEERING, by ISOBEL THRILLING Poem Source First Line: Stars: %not set like necklaces Last Line: Fix a kind %of harvest-a leaf, a child, love Subject(s): Environment ENGLISH WILD FLOWERS, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source First Line: Forget the latin names; the english ones Last Line: An eden summer, this flower-rich creation Subject(s): Environment; Fields ENGLISH WOOD, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This valley wood is pledged Last Line: Small pathways idly tend %towards no fearful end Subject(s): Environment; Trees EPITAPH AT GREAT TORRINGTON, DEVON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here lies a man who was killed by lightning Last Line: But the flash cut him, and he lies in the stubble Subject(s): Environment; Fields EROSION, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are slowly / underminded. Grain Subject(s): Environment; Change; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation ETHIOPIAN SAINT OF BLACK CREEK, by ROY ZARUCCHI Poem Source First Line: The old woman of sculptured ebony Last Line: Yes, I know. We'll be just fine Subject(s): Environment; Nature EVERYTHING COMES OUT OF THE COOL DARK MINE, by PETER REDGROVE Poem Source First Line: Cars in gridlock %trains running on time Last Line: Gongs, horns, organ pipes, %copper, iron, zinc, silver Subject(s): Environment EVOLUTION, by ANDREW WATERMAN Poem Source First Line: Why do I linger to watch them dart and pass Last Line: From depths of inscrutable creative yearning Subject(s): Environment EVOLUTION IN LIGHT AND WATER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Above the gold dragons of rivers Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment EXTINCTION DAY, by TERRY JONES Poem Source First Line: The dodo and the barbary lion Last Line: Extinction day! Extinction day! Subject(s): Environment FALLEN OAK, by PETER BLUE CLOUD Poem Source First Line: The great, gnarled fingers of roots Last Line: That I waited %a long time Subject(s): Environment; Nature FARMWORKER, by PATRICK JOSEPH GREGORY KAVANAGH Poem Source First Line: Manhandled haybales not so yellow Last Line: To suffer birds and not have to answer Subject(s): Environment; Fields FEAR OF THE DARK, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After ten years Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment 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 FENCE POSTS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It might be that horses would be useful Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation FENCE POSTS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source 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 FENS, by KENNETH C. STEVEN Poem Source First Line: The flat land was a watery eye Last Line: Came down muttering eskimo on thin water Subject(s): Environment FETCHING COWS, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The black one, last as usual, swings her head Subject(s): Cows; Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FETCHING COWS, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The black one, last as usual, swings her head Last Line: The black cow is two native carriers %bringing its belly home, slung from a pole Subject(s): Cows; Environment; Fields FIELD, by RUTH FAINLIGHT Poem Source First Line: The field is trampled over utterly Last Line: Unprecendented as all he hopes for. %the field is fertile. He must survive Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature FIELD, by EDITH JOY SCOVELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The field is bounded by four hedges built of may Last Line: That travellers stare from the gate and cannot pass Alternate Author Name(s): Scovell, E. J. Subject(s): Environment; Fields FIELD, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That's where I saw the lysander crash Last Line: That I can never show him Subject(s): Environment; Fields FIELD AND FOREST, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you look down from the airplane you see lines Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FIELD AND FOREST, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you look down from the airplane you see lines Last Line: The trees can't tell the two of them apart Subject(s): Environment; Fields FIELD DAY, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The old farmer, nearing death, asked Last Line: I think I know what the shape of the field was %that made the old man weep Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Mourning FIELD IN JUNE, by GERALD WILLIAM BULLETT Poem Source First Line: Greed is dumb at sight of so much gold Last Line: Let's joy and desire out of the dark prison Subject(s): Environment; Fields FIELD NAMES, by CLIVE SANSOM Poem Source First Line: Our name-givers loved the world and loved the word Last Line: And stake, in some fragment of england, their loving claim Subject(s): Environment; Fields FIELD, TOMORROW, by GEORGE MACBETH Poem Source First Line: I wanted the bare field out there to be mine Last Line: And their mouths, low and cropping, surrounded by flies Subject(s): Environment; Fields FIELDWALKING, by NORMAN JACKSON Poem Source First Line: The field quartered %by a nudge of ice Last Line: Finds this, a place to stray Subject(s): Environment; Fields FIFTY FAGGOTS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text 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 FINDING BEADS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: White beads Last Line: Our hands like the dry reeds %knotted together %could sweep all this away, %break the clear thread Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment FINDRINNY, by CHARLOTTE ANNE ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Today (we know so much) Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters FIRE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fire breaks through rivers Last Line: Seamless, burning alive morning's double embers %the salamander passes through Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment FIRST DEGREE EQUATION WITH ONE VARIABLE, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: In the city's last river, by mistake Last Line: The omnipotent language of our mother, %death Subject(s): Environment; Nature FIRST LIGHT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I early morning Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment FIRST LIGHT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In early morning %I forget I'm in this world Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment FISH, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I caught a tremendous fish Last Line: And I let the fish go Subject(s): Environment; Fishing And Fishermen; Sea; Sports FISH ARE ALL SICK, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fish are all sick, the great whales dead Last Line: And closing its grip, and closing its grip Subject(s): Environment FISHERMAN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun, yellow spider Last Line: Sunlight and air %pulled in on a line Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment FISHING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stones go nowhere Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment FIVE A.M. IN THE PINEWOODS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd seen / their hoofprints in the deep Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation FIVE A.M. IN THE PINEWOODS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'd seen %their hoofprints in the deep Last Line: So this is how you pray Subject(s): Environment; Nature FLENSERS, by ROBERT GIBB Poem Source First Line: Torn out of the sea Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters FLINTS, by JEREMY HOOKER Poem Source First Line: They are ploughed out, %or surface under surface Last Line: The core with is brutal edge %shaped the hand Subject(s): Environment; Fields FLOOD, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Water asleep %all across china Last Line: Downstream in their sleep Subject(s): Environment; Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged FLORA, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A flutter of leaves %and pages open Last Line: Blue periwinkles, %meadowsweet, tansy Subject(s): Environment FLORIST'S AT MIDNIGHT, by SARAH MAGUIRE Poem Source First Line: Stems bleed into water %loosening their sugars %into the dark Last Line: The streetlights %in pieces %on the floor Subject(s): Environment FOLKSONG, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The men are in assembly Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment FOR A COMING EXTINCTION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray whale / now that we are sending you to the end Last Line: That it is we who are important Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Environment; Extinct Animals; Whales; Dead, The; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation FOR A FISHERMAN WHO DYNAMITED A CORMORANT ROOKERY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lean at your rail. Look close at the ripe water Last Line: By a sea change through which everything is forgiven, %not given up for lost, not even %you disappea Subject(s): Environment; Nature FOR INSTANCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Often, it's nowhere special: maybe Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation FOR INSTANCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Often, it's nowhere special: maybe Last Line: That inward cry again - %erde, du liebe Subject(s): Environment; Nature FOR OVER-AL, WHERE THAT I MYN EYEN CASTE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The victor palm, the laurer to devyne Subject(s): Environment; Trees FOR THE CHILDREN, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rising hills, the slopes Subject(s): Children; Environment; Mothers; Childhood; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation FOR THE CHILDREN, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rising hills, the slopes Last Line: Stay together %learn the flowers %go light Subject(s): Children; Environment; Mothers FOR THE DANCERS, by RICHARD BURNS Poem Source First Line: Cut twigs of green willow and plait a wreath Last Line: Dance for the green rider Subject(s): Environment FOX, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I saw the fox, it was kneeling Last Line: Missed step was a plunge at the hill's blinding interior Subject(s): Environment FREEMAN'S POINT, by KATHY ANDRE-EAMES Poem Source First Line: Widening a mile %at lighthouse point Last Line: So little stands between us %and the dead Subject(s): Environment; Nature FRIDAY NIGHT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I see a light in her kitchen Last Line: Peppermint is every bit as good as the ambulance. %and I said, yes. It is home grown Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment FRIENDLY ARE MEADOWS, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Friendly are meadows when the sun's gone in Last Line: To mere wonder at lightning and torrentous strong flying hail Subject(s): Environment; Fields FRONT LINES, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The edge of the cancer Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation FRONT LINES, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The edge of the cancer Last Line: And here we must draw %our line Subject(s): Environment FUTURE OF FORESTRY, by CLIVES STAPLES LEWIS Poem Source First Line: How will the legend of the age of trees Last Line: A sight of tree-delighted eden Subject(s): Environment GAMBLE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those men with dollars on the mind Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment GAME REFUGE, by GENE FRUMKIN Poem Source First Line: A passage, this game refuge Last Line: That first thought edging to the shore Subject(s): Environment; Nature GANDER DOWN, by JEREMY HOOKER Poem Source First Line: The ploughed chalk sweeping %and shelving is a shore Last Line: Larks rise singing from the ocean bed Subject(s): Environment; Fields GARRA ROCK, by LISA DART Poem Source First Line: We must remember: all is always now Last Line: The salt stain on our lives then- %here, now, quick-immediate Subject(s): Environment GAUDETE, SELS., by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source 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 GEO-BESTIARY: 4, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some eco-ninny released Last Line: A clump, among others, of red-spotted snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation GEO-BESTIARY: 6, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O blm, blm, and nfs Last Line: Now mostly scar tissue? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation GEODES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We open Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment GEORGES BANK, by JULIA OLDER Poem Source First Line: They were fishing two centuries or more Last Line: String of pearls with whose final link %their lives, as ours, irreclaimably are fated Subject(s): Environment; Nature GERANIUMS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Life is burning Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment GERMINAL, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Downstairs, things are growing Last Line: And all things saved and growing Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment GET UP, GO AWOL!, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The soldiers on bivouac Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment GIANT SURF, by JEREMY REED Poem Source First Line: We can't locate its place of origin Last Line: Rings with each new wave's volubility Subject(s): Environment GIFTS OF RAIN, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cloudburst and steady downpour now for days Subject(s): Environment; Rain; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation GIFTS OF RAIN, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cloudburst and steady downpour now for days Last Line: Rises to pleasure me, dives, %hoarder of common ground Subject(s): Environment; Rain GIVE ME A LAND OF BOUGHS IN LEAF, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source 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 GLEANERS, by MARTYN CRUCEFIX Poem Source First Line: In the distance, a man Last Line: But soon to insist they lift their heads, %scarved in the red and blue, %and imagine the artist Subject(s): Environment; Fields 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 ATE THE BUFFALO, by BARBARA L. GANZEL Poem Source Last Line: We are the mouths for the plains Subject(s): Environment GOD'S GRANDEUR, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The world is charged with the grandeur of god Last Line: World broods with warm breast and with ah! Bright wings. Subject(s): Christianity; Earth; Environment; Faith; God; Labor & Laborers; Men; Nature; Redemption; Religion; War; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Work; Workers; Theology GOING TO TOWN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wake up early while you sleep Last Line: Close your eyes & it comes, %the music of old roads %we still travel together, so far %the sound is Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment GOLD HAS AN E-NUMBER, by ISOBEL THRILLING Poem Source First Line: A pinch emblazons exotic chocolates Last Line: To the recipes of moons and quarks Subject(s): Environment GOLIATH, by ATANAS SLAVOV Poem Source First Line: People knew for quite some time Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters GRANDFATHER IN THE GARDEN, by ROBERT MINHINNICK Poem Source First Line: Digging was always my worst work Last Line: Those acts of affirmation his deep need Subject(s): Environment GRASSHOPPERS, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grasshoppers go in many a thrumming spring Last Line: He springs, that bends until they touch the ground. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Grasshoppers; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas GRASSHOPPERS AND OLD MEN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Grasshoppers the colors of old suitcases Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment GREAT LAWS AND LIGHT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Have faith Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment GREAT WING OF NEW ENGLAND, by ROBERT HAROLD SIEGEL Poem Source First Line: From sounding depths off martha's vineyard Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters GREBES, by JEREMY REED Poem Source First Line: I intersected with in their seasonal Last Line: Rampart of snow clouds packed above the bay Subject(s): Environment GREEN APHIS, by SEBASTIAN BARKER Poem Source First Line: Who made the little aphis, %the plump green fly Last Line: Can teach me only that he moves %at god's command Subject(s): Environment GREEN LIGHT FOR THE MX MISSILE, by CHARLES ATKINSON Poem Source First Line: I've seen owls here - great horned Last Line: Turns on us at last, raining down %passion at its purest - burning, burning Subject(s): Environment; Nature GREEN 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 GREENPEACE SCIENTIST DEBATES THE ESKIMO WHALER, by PATRICIA MONAGHAN Poem Source First Line: Flutes: whales respond to their sound Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters GUARDING A CHILD'S SLEEP, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her body sweats in sleep Last Line: Who lost their red horses %as if tethered to fire Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment HABITAT, by FRANCINE STERLE Poem Source First Line: It is the hollow where the landscape Last Line: Aims as it lifts up, squeezes both eyes shut-and leaps Subject(s): Environment; Nature HACKBERRY TREES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We walk small Last Line: The insects walk over our warm skin. %they think we are the earth Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment HAIDA GWAI NORTH COAST, HAIKOON BEACH, HIELLEN RIVER RAVEN CROAKS, by GARY SNYDER Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve ravens squawk, squork, crork Last Line: Earth / loves to love Subject(s): Environment; Geology; Mythology; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation HAIDA GWAI NORTH COAST, HAIKOON BEACH, HIELLEN RIVER RAVEN CROAKS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve ravens squawk, squork, crork Last Line: Tangled in fall flood streams Subject(s): Environment; Geology; Mythology; Nature HALF-LIFE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Things of the past remain, %the dancing horse Last Line: Into tomorrow a power %looking simply like lace %and light Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment HALF-SALT RIVER; IN MEMORY OF RICHARD HUGO, by KATHRYN HUNT Poem Source First Line: The mudflats and wood-painted shacks are still Last Line: As good as they know how Subject(s): Environment; Rivers HANDS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The poor hands, overworked and dry Last Line: Assert themselves through the skin Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Hands; Women HARBOR SEALS, by BARBARA A. HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: First one, then two, another some distance off Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters HARD QUESTIONS, by MARGARET TSUDA Poem Source First Line: Why not mark out the land Last Line: A bosom %not his own? Subject(s): Environment HARES AT PLAY, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birds are gone to bed, the cows are still Last Line: Sturts quick as fear, and seeks its hidden lair. Subject(s): Animals; Environment; Fields; Rabbits; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hares HARES BOXING, by ROGER GARFITT Poem Source First Line: This way and that %goes the runaway furrow Last Line: Jack hare squares up to dancing jack Subject(s): Environment; Fields HARP SEALS, by SARAH COTTERILL Poem Source First Line: The cow nudges her young %between ice floes Last Line: Musicians at last for our own pleasure, and %hilarious, in spite of the hunter Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters HARVEST, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are mowing wheat %through the heavy days Last Line: They are mowing wheat %through the heavy days Subject(s): Environment; Fields HARVEST, by JAMES CROWDEN Poem Source First Line: A time for hay and a time for harvest Last Line: Eerie the desolation Subject(s): Environment; Fields HARVEST, by PAMELA GILLILAN Poem Source First Line: They were summers full of sunshine. In the fields Last Line: Who stood at laneside gates, %watched us without a smile Subject(s): Environment; Fields HARVEST AT MYNACHLOG, by GILLIAN CLARKE Poem Source First Line: At last the women come with baskets Last Line: One moment in the eclipsing light Subject(s): Environment; Fields HARVEST HYMN, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We spray the fields and scatter Last Line: Are ours from working hard Subject(s): Environment; Fields HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY, by HICOK. BOB Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Never before have I so resembled british petroleum Last Line: Or notional, now that oceans are wheezing to a stop? Subject(s): Oil & Gas Companies; Environment; Poetry & Poets; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation HAVING LOST ALL CAPACITY, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today I read how japanese fishermen %lured thousands of dolphins ashore Last Line: Here in my room, the sons of bitches, %the bastards Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters HAWKS, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hawks hovering, calling to each other Last Line: On capable wings to such reaches of desire Subject(s): Environment HAY, by GILLIAN CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Seven hold their breath Last Line: Where hay was cut Subject(s): Environment; Fields HAYMAKING, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After night's thunder far away had rolled Last Line: Immortal in a picture of an old grange Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): England; Environment; Fields; Hay And Haymaking HEALTH TO EARTH, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And her magnificent digestion Last Line: It all to pure geology Subject(s): Environment HEARTLAND, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are few moments of silence Last Line: Breathes the heart of soil upward, the voice of our gods beneath concrete. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment HERE, AT THE TIDE'S TURNING, by KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: You close your eyes and see Last Line: Here you watch, you write, you tell the tides. %you walk clean into the possible Subject(s): Environment HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Innocently Last Line: Arms raised. Two steps to the side. %bend clumsily in the knees Subject(s): Environment HERITAGE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From my mother, the antique mirror Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indian HERITAGE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From my mother, the antique mirror Last Line: Of never having a home Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; U.s. - Race Relations HERON, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the copper marsh / I saw a stilted heron / wade the tidal wash Last Line: Marsh flew through my flesh Subject(s): Environment; Herons; Journeys; Trips HERTFORDSHIRE, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had forgotten hertfordshire Last Line: Than my mishandling of a gun Subject(s): Environment; Fields HILL FIELD, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look there! What a wheaten Last Line: To grind the fruits of earth Subject(s): Environment; Fields HISTORY AS HORSE LIGHT, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It ended at the time of hiroshima. Everything Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation HISTORY AS HORSE LIGHT, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It ended at the time of hiroshima. Everything Last Line: A skillet sputtering %brilliant greases, pure and imageless,down the dark Subject(s): Environment; Nature HISTORY OF FIRE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother is a fire beneath stone Last Line: Fanning the flame Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Fire; Smoke HIT IT WITH THE BABY', by ANN RUSSELL DARR Poem Source First Line: Rounding a corner in an open ocean Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters HOLDERLIN, by GILLIAN CLARKE Poem Source First Line: The river remembers, %then crumples in a frown of loss Last Line: In the broken face of water Subject(s): Environment HOLLY AND THE IVY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: The holly bears the crown Subject(s): Environment; Trees HOLOGRAM, by KATHLEEN SPIVACK Poem Source First Line: I sit alone in human-woman form Last Line: All that wild sky-life streaming %over the shapes that are world in its dances Subject(s): Environment; Nature HOMAGE TO BINSEY POPLARS, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The arctic fox of kiska now is quelled Last Line: Who, sizing up the prospects of the few %in saving one, eradicated two Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Environment; Nature HOMAGE TO PAUL CELAN, by JAY RAMSAY Poem Source First Line: Something will be, later Last Line: Where you live on %in our inner ear Subject(s): Environment HOME-FIELD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But ah!The long gone happy hours Last Line: But there were still their day Subject(s): Environment; Fields HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation 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 HORSE CHESTNUTS, by JEREMY REED Poem Source First Line: The wood was steaming with high summer rain Last Line: The hard, glazed dignity it would put on Subject(s): Environment HORSE WHO LOVES ME, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: The horse who loves me is strong and unsaddled Last Line: I am never coming back Subject(s): Environment HORSES, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a boy here Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas HORSES, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a boy here Last Line: A song, whatever is said Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields HOUSE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE THE WOODS?, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Into the ease of sight, the brotherhood of eye and leaf Subject(s): Environment; Trees HUEVOS MEXICANOS, by MICHAEL GREGORY Poem Source First Line: The full moon gapes onto the beach at nexpa Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters HUMPBACKS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is, all around us Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents HUMPBACKS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is, all around us Last Line: Even the great whale, %throbs with song Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters HUMPBACKS, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: We know the humpback sings Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters HUNTING PHEASANTS IN A CORNFIELD, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text 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'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 TO DEMETER, by JEREMY HOOKER Poem Source First Line: Pardon us %that we will Last Line: & make, for you, %a song Subject(s): Environment I ASK THE WHALE, WHY?, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: For my spout is seen for miles Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters I GOT TWO VIELDS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I got two vields, an' I don't ceare Last Line: What squire mid have a bigger sheare! Subject(s): Environment; Fields I SING FOR THE ANIMALS, by UNKNOWN+182 Poem Source First Line: Out of the earth Last Line: I sing for them Subject(s): Environment I'M GLAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I'm glad the sky is painted blue Last Line: All sandwiched in between Subject(s): Air;earth;environment;nature;sky; World;environmental Protection;ecology;conservation I. A PLACE FOR THE EAGLE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across a field of snow %where the coyote's track ends Last Line: Inhabiting skin and hair %like silence around itself Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment ICE MAN, by MICHAEL WOODWARD Poem Source First Line: You seem tenuous and brittle as a dry Last Line: We are tiny in the immensity of ice Subject(s): Environment IDAHO FALLS, 1961, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dark fields, dark sky. %wires carry light to children Last Line: Blazing through narrow wires %birds touch and leave Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment IF THE OWL CALLS AGAIN, by JOHN HAINES Poem Text First Line: At dusk / from the island Last Line: Cold world awakens. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Environment; Owls; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation II. STONE DWELLERS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ants, living in the mountians Last Line: Touch the people %the country %and things we try to forget Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment III. HOUSES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father and I driving Last Line: Birds %that remind us we are in this life, %we are this world Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment IMAGINARY DRAWINGS OF THE SONG ANIMALS, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Treefrog winks without springing Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation IMAGINARY DRAWINGS OF THE SONG ANIMALS, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Treefrog winks without springing Last Line: Forty years to unmask the soul! Subject(s): Environment; Nature IN A BIRD SANCTUARY, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because they could not give it too much ground Last Line: What's all about Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation IN A BIRD SANCTUARY, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because they could not give it too much ground Last Line: On routine visions; we must figure out %what all's about Subject(s): Environment IN A SUMMER SEASON WHEN THE SUN WAS MILD, by WILLIAM LANGLAND Poem Source Last Line: And have whatever wits they need to work if they wanted Subject(s): Environment; Fields IN A WOOD, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text 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 DECEMBER, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In december the stubble nearly is Last Line: With the hills heroically they ally Subject(s): Environment; Fields IN EARLY SPRING, WHEN THE ICE ON THE SNOWY MOUNTAINS, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And disciplines the acres he commands Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Environment; Fields IN FLANDERS FIELDS, by JOHN MCCRAE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In flanders fields the poppies blow / between the crosses, row on row Last Line: In flanders fields. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Flanders, Belgium; Freedom; Patriotism; Soldiers; World War I; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Liberty; First World War IN MEMORIAM, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First, there were the first people Last Line: Want to move, they didn't want to move Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Environment; Grief; Loss IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 2, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text 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 MIDWINTER A WOOD WAS, by PETER CHAD TIGAR LEVI Poem Source Last Line: To see the deer running Subject(s): Environment; Trees IN SILENCE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In silence the world grows Last Line: Listneing for wind %that doesn't come tonight Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment IN SMOOTH WATER THE MOUNTAINS SUSPEND THEMSELVES, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where shallows and hillside Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation IN SMOOTH WATER THE MOUNTAINS SUSPEND THEMSELVES, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where shallows and hillside Last Line: How they rest like folded wings in the clear water %patient,waiting, having borne us this far Subject(s): Environment; Nature IN SO MANY DARK ROOMS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is impossible to close a door on dust Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment IN SOMER, WHEN THE SHAWES BE SHEYNE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Under the grene-wode tre Subject(s): Environment; Trees IN SUMMER (2), by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night lies down / in the field when the moon Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN SUMMER (2), by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Night lies down %in the field when the moon Last Line: Move on, stiff and %not yet awake Subject(s): Environment; Fields IN THAT OPEN FIELD, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Or there, or elsewhere. In my beginning Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Environment; Fields IN THE FALLOW FIELD, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I went down on my hands and knees Last Line: That a great forest fell before the plough Subject(s): Environment; Fields IN THE FIELDS, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, when I look at lovely things which pass Last Line: Over the fields. They come in spring. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN THE FOREST WITHOUT LEAVES, by JOHN HAINES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This earth written over with words Last Line: "one tree, one leaf, Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation IN THE FOREST WITHOUT LEAVES: 3, by JOHN HAINES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This earth written over with words Last Line: And silence for the clearing %where no house stands Subject(s): Environment; Nature IN THE 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 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 INAUGURATION: 1985, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We have elected the end Last Line: We are flying from the center %multiplying as we burn Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Environment; Nature INCANDESCENCE, by TED WALTER Poem Source First Line: The earth remembers in the dark Last Line: A hint of truth in all that's said Subject(s): Environment INCOMPREHENSIBLE INGREDIENTS OF FIRE, by PAUL MATTHEWS Poem Source First Line: Dear christopher smart Last Line: Nothing but the glory? Subject(s): Environment INHERITORS, by NEWTON MINER Poem Source First Line: There, in brazil Last Line: And our future leaps at us %on methane-laden wind Subject(s): Environment INSIDE OF THINGS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Such lovely voices, the angels Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment INSIDE THE CHICAGO ZOO, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The black snakes are there Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment INSIDE THE TURTLE, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: My heart once promised Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters INVERSNAID, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This darksome burn, horseback brown Last Line: Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. Subject(s): Brooks; Environment; Nature; Scotland; Wilderness; Streams; Creeks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation INVISIBLE GLOBE, by JEREMY HOOKER Poem Source First Line: On bare hillsides, pale fields Last Line: On a white ground %of endless beginnings Subject(s): Environment; Fields INVOCATION TO PAN, by HILARY LLEWELLYN-WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Come, eye of the forest Last Line: In your power, your power, your power Subject(s): Environment ISENHEIM ALTAR OF MATTHIAS GRUNEWALD, by FRANCES HOWARTH Poem Source First Line: The lamb is come down: from the cross, the cross folded forever Last Line: Perpetually sustained by this issue, of blood, the cup, the lamb, its cross Subject(s): Environment ISLE OF MULL, SCOTLAND, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because by now we know everything is no green everywhere Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation IT CERTAINLY WAS DIVINE RUNNING INTO YOU, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Well, just a momentary good idea as your form Last Line: New moon %has hardly seemed to grow Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Conventions; Environment; Grief; Loss IT MUST BE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am an old woman Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment IV. WILL NOT HOLD, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Between the mountain and the ant Last Line: Fly off the page %and enter the air %like that small ounce the soul weighs Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment JINJA, by PHILIP WELLS Poem Source First Line: Though the boys selling coke at jinja Last Line: The joy of flight with silver in my beak Subject(s): Environment JOHN BARLEYCORN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There were three men came out of the west Last Line: Without a little barleycorn Subject(s): Environment; Fields JOHN CLARE'S MADNESS, by DAVID WHYTE Poem Source First Line: Northamptonshire's %deadly flat %spreads beneath the hawk Last Line: Comes back with the fiercest pain Subject(s): Environment JONES'S SELECTION, by G. H. GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You hear a lot of new-chum talk Last Line: The land don't get on yous. Alternate Author Name(s): Ironbark; Gibson, George Herbert Subject(s): Death; Environment; Punishment; Dead, The; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation JOURNAL OF THE LAGUNA DE SAN IGNACIO, by NATHANIEL TARN Poem Source First Line: Immense architecture building in air Last Line: Hearing the music of the sirens %thought to be angels... Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters KINGDOM THAT I LEFT BEHIND, by PAUL MATTHEWS Poem Source First Line: There was a river with swans Last Line: Of swans reflecting on the water's face Subject(s): Environment KINGFISHER, by JOHN PETER SCUPHAM Poem Source First Line: December took us where the idling water Last Line: His proof that ice and sapphire conjure flame Subject(s): Environment KINGSNAKE, by K. W. JAYNES Poem Source First Line: On a path the deer made coming to drink Last Line: As waves that reach a thicker medium Subject(s): Environment; Nature KNIFE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This knife was used to sever the cord Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment LAGUNA LAMENT, by SYLVIA K. POLIKOFF Poem Source First Line: The mountains cried! Last Line: Man would one day destroy %what 'god hath wrought!' Subject(s): Environment LAMARCK ELABORATED, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The greeks were wrong who said our eyes have rays Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation LAND, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When julius fabricius, sub-prefect of the weald Last Line: For whoever pays the taxes old mus' hobden owns the land Subject(s): Environment; Fields LAND I WALK ON IS AN OCEAN OF CONCRETE, by NANCY WOOD Poem Source Last Line: We are one footstep going on Subject(s): Environment LAND OF EXILE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So far from home. %it has been flying out of me Last Line: Always flying %from the dark hollow of my chest Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment LANDING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the lake %a hunter loses himself Last Line: Across what is awake %the light %inside ribs %in the dark Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment LANDSCAPE, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here my imagination Last Line: Me and my reflection Subject(s): Environment LANDSCAPE OF ANIMALS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bodies of animals %against the earth Last Line: Are they birds %whose voices fill the air around me? Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment LAST ONE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Well they'd made up their minds to be everywhere because why not Last Line: The lucky ones with their shadows Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Environment LAST-MINUTE MESSAGE FOR A TIME CAPSULE, by PHILIP APPLEMAN Poem Source First Line: I have to tell you this, whoever you are Last Line: From this deaad and barren place is %to beware the righteous ones Subject(s): Environment; Loss; Nature LEAF, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A leaf is spiralling directly at the tall grass Last Line: To find itself a place on earth Variant Title(s): Leaving The Door Open: 4 Subject(s): Aging; Environment; Nature LEAF, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How beautifully it falls,' you said Last Line: From a fair, simple land? Subject(s): Environment; Trees LEAVING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Good-bye, divisions of people Last Line: They say I've burned all my brown sticks %for telling time %and still it passes away Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment LEFT HAND CANYON, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the air %which moves the grass Last Line: From their secret houses %of air Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ranch Life; Women - Writers LEFT HAND CANYON, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the air Last Line: When all the old animals %come back %from their secret houses %of air Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment LEGAL SYSTEM, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One body, like a jury Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment LEVIATHAN, by LEWIS PUTNAM TURCO Poem Source First Line: Morning touches the waves and breaks Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters LICORICE FIELDS AT PONTEFRACT, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the licorice fields at pontefract Last Line: And held in brown arms strong and bare %and wound with flaming ropes of hair Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Love LIFE, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As quick as a hawk's wing tipped Last Line: Still lift and touch me as %she sails all the way through Subject(s): Environment; Nature LIGHTING THE FIRST FIRE OF AUTUMN, by GREVEL LINDOP Poem Source First Line: Here they are, the quartered logs in their wicker Last Line: And the paper ignites. Watch, and the poems will come Subject(s): Environment LIKE GHOSTS OF EAGLES, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The indians have mostly gone Last Line: Those mighty whisperers %missouri, mississippi Subject(s): Environment; Language; Native Americans LINDEN TREE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rich yellow blossoms Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment LINUM, by ALISON BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: It is not tall enough, it will not make a crop Last Line: It is not every day you can run through the sky Subject(s): Environment; Fields LITTLE COSMIC DUST POEM, by JOHN HAINES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the debris of dying stars Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation LITTLE COSMIC DUST POEM, by JOHN HAINES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the debris of dying stars Last Line: This arm, this hand, %my voice, your face, this love Subject(s): Environment LIVING A GOOD WAY UP A MOUNTAIN, by JOHN FULLER Poem Source Last Line: Then growing from its shoulders Subject(s): Environment; Trees LOAVES AND FISHES, by DAVID WHYTE Poem Source First Line: This is not %the age of information Last Line: And one good word is bread %for a thousand Subject(s): Environment LOCUST, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This one didn't break %the walls of the body Last Line: It lived in the shelter of leaves, %a temple with green walls Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment LONDON TREES, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source 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 LOOK BELOW YOU, by YI HYONBO Poem Source Last Line: It is easier to forget the world's troubles Subject(s): Environment LOOKING AROUND II, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pale sky and one star pale star Last Line: Said it and meant lord that's it and please turn off the light %and he did Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Environment; Life LOST ACRES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These acres, always again lost Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas LOST ACRES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These acres, always again lost Last Line: But of the substance of mere words: %to walk there would be loss of sense Subject(s): Environment; Fields LOST BRIDGE, by JARED CARTER Poem Source First Line: They said there was nothing left at all, after the rising and falling Last Line: I left that world behind, and rowed across the shining lake Subject(s): Environment; Nature LOST GIRLS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't remember when Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment LOUISIANA MAN: MIDWINTER REFLECTIONS, by KATHY ANDRE-EAMES Poem Source First Line: When winter come down real hard Last Line: Sharp, %in the cold mud Subject(s): Environment; Nature LOVE POEM, by JUDITH GALLOWAY Poem Source First Line: It was the kingfisher I saw there first Last Line: Felt the pelting evening storm hitting land Subject(s): Environment LOVE-SONG, by JOAN POULSON Poem Source First Line: He has lived with her tribe, become fluent Last Line: Honours the beauty of imperfection Subject(s): Environment LOVELIEST COUNTRY OF OUR LIVES, by CAROLYNE WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: The trains crawl from the stations Last Line: We are passing %through the loveliest country of our lives Subject(s): Environment; Nature LUMBER, by ISOBEL THRILLING Poem Source First Line: Full moon, the hills are flying Last Line: Its church fixed firm as a molar Subject(s): Environment MAGIC APPLE TREE, by ELAINE FEINSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Sealed in rainlight one Last Line: Be sweetened by a strange tree Subject(s): Environment; Trees MAGNOLIA TREE, by ROBYN BOLAM Poem Source First Line: Blood-stemmed, the pink buds grow in pairs of claws Last Line: Soften-as they did, into feathers; rain Subject(s): Environment MAGPIE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven is south. %turn the darkening membrane of one eye Last Line: Discovered on an old crone %who buys herself %out on bond Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment MAMMALS, by ERNEST KROLL Poem Source First Line: The sailor, shipwrecked, treading Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters MAMMALS, by LINDA MCCARRISTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whales are mourning Last Line: In his pen of air - from whom %the wind whips such noises Subject(s): Environment; Mourning; Sea Monsters; Whales MAN CALLING DEER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With the song of his voice and a bell Last Line: There's a bell in dark stone, %a single bird %walking Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment MAN IN THE MOON, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He's the man who climbs his barn Last Line: I am like you %putting on a new white shirt %to drive away on the fine roads Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment MANTRA, by GREVEL LINDOP Poem Source First Line: Everything turns away Last Line: Everything falls away Subject(s): Environment 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'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 MARE, by VERNON WATKINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The mare lies down in the grass where the nest of the skylark Last Line: It is easy to darken the sun of her unborn foal at play Subject(s): Environment; Fields MARY MAGDALENE, by LUCY CALCOTT Poem Source First Line: I was watching miriam %abandon herself to jesus Last Line: Drink her love %into holy week Subject(s): Environment 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, CROW, FISH, AND THE MAGI, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rooster %the smaller he is Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment MEADOW IN DROUGHT, by RUTH BIDGOOD Poem Source First Line: There was still shade on the old path Last Line: The soft-leaved hour, the valley of abundance Subject(s): Environment; Fields 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 METAPHORIC, by EDWARD WILLEY Poem Source First Line: A waterfall is among nature's %finest visual proofs Last Line: This aboriginal liquid purpose %rushing in place Subject(s): Environment; Nature MIDSUMMER PRAYER, by DAVID WHYTE Poem Source First Line: In midsummer, under the luminous %sky of everlasting light Last Line: I'll not touch them there Subject(s): Environment MIDSUMMER: 36, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text 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'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 MILLOM CRICKET FIELD, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The soft mouths of summer bite at the eyes Last Line: That he could watch me not was his joy then Subject(s): Environment; Fields MILTON BY FIRELIGHT, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh hell, what do mine eyes with grief behold' Subject(s): Environment; Milton, John (1608-1674); Mines & Miners; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation MILTON BY FIRELIGHT, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh hell, what do mine eyes with grief behold' Last Line: On an old trail %all of a summer's day Subject(s): Environment; Milton, John (1608-1674); Mines And Miners; Sierra Nevada Mountains MISSING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night the crickets were gone Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment MISSING THE ANIMALS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So many have escaped %space disappears Last Line: Fired down the edge of the world %have missed them Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment MISSISSIPPI SNAPPERS, by BENJAMIN W. HOWARD Poem Source First Line: They were better left uncaught. They came Last Line: Hung up like shields on the market's walls Subject(s): Environment; Nature MISSISSIPPI TREES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some memory, underground pulse Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment MMMMMM, by DONALD FINKEL Poem Source First Line: All night the lady tosses in her sodden sheets Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters MORNING, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From high tide in the night a dead Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters MORNING, by BILL WOOD Poem Source First Line: Grey sky, grey sky, where's the deep edge? Last Line: Bellowing for grain in hollis black's fields Subject(s): Environment; Nature MORNING WITH BROKEN WINDOW, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment MORNING'S DANCE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet. %time to sleep, %time when trees move earth Last Line: Carbon %red ochre %we rise %burning %out of soil Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment MORNING: THE WORLD IN THE LAKE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath each black duck Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment MOSQUITOES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To keep them from you Last Line: I will be still as a stone %at the edge of water %watching my blood carried into air Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans MOTHER AND DAUGHTER BY THE NORTH SEA, by LYNNE WYCHERLEY Poem Source First Line: I watch you walk through your grief Last Line: The sun holding its celandine to your face Subject(s): Environment MOTHS, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the air smells of cut grass Last Line: And my child's shadow longer than my own Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation MOTHS, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the air smells of cut grass Last Line: My child's shadow longer than my own Subject(s): Environment MOURNING, by JEANNE VOEGE Poem Source First Line: In cold morning wind we stand on shore Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters MOWING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was never a sound beside the wood but one Last Line: My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Mowing & Mowers; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Lawn Mowers MY GRANDMOTHER'S WORDS (& MINE) ON THE LAST SPRING BLIZZARD, by RAY A. YOUNG BEAR Poem Source First Line: The snow has fallen in variations Last Line: With his brilliant white blanket %covering the green grass-shoots %of another year.) Subject(s): Environment; Nature MY MEADOW, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, it's still the loveliest meadow in all vermont Last Line: Maybe I have lived too long with the world Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature; Plants; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Planting; Planters MYTHS AND TEXTS: LOGGING: 14, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text 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's Biography First Line: The groves are down Last Line: To his eager nose Subject(s): Environment; Trees NAMING THE FIELD, by DAVID HART Poem Source First Line: We here call this grass, you can pick it Last Line: Air is, grass is, honeysuckle is-smell it %and I am Subject(s): Environment; Fields NAMING WEATHER: NOTES FOR JEAN: 1. ATMOSPHERE, by MARY PINARD Poem Source First Line: Like this, but it was nothing like this Last Line: You'd set in motion, boisterous inside me Subject(s): Environment NARWHALS, by KATHRYN NOCERINO Poem Source First Line: Under the water they click their horns together Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters NATIVITY, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old women Last Line: Bread. %the smell %comes from stone Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment NEAR A MOUNTAIN, by BILL WOOD Poem Source First Line: I cannot read these blind stone Last Line: Is a red oak, with three deep crotches %and corrugated bark Subject(s): Environment; Nature NEIGHBORS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In this country Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Neighbors NEUTRAL, by JEREMY REED Poem Source First Line: Green grass growing back through a stubble field Last Line: The wild unclaimed kestrel's territory Subject(s): Environment; Fields 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 APARTMENT: MINNEAPOLIS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The floorboards creak Last Line: And deer walking quietly on the soft red earth Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Memory; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; U.s. - Race Relations NEW CEMETERY, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the town's dead Last Line: Making the thumped mud ring Subject(s): Environment; Fields NEW CROPS, by HELEN DUNMORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O engines Last Line: Of harvests, you're the foreshore %of soaked soil leaching %undrinkable streams Subject(s): Environment; Fields NEW PROVIDENCE ISLAND, BAHAMAS, by DONALD KUMMINGS Poem Source First Line: Pallid, bloated as a fish, the day swells with heat Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters 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 NEWT AND THE WHALE, by ROGER CARL PFINGSTON Poem Source First Line: Wait to go %to the whale symposium Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters NIGHT, by JOHN HAINES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do not wake me, for I am not ready Last Line: Mute in the transformation %and do not wake me Subject(s): Environment NIGHT AND DAY, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night, alone Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Night NIGHT DANCE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everything wants to open itself Last Line: Night soil %like dancers too shy for the grace of light Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment NIGHT WATCH, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bent men go home. %they leave empty clothes Last Line: White as numbers %on the night watches of men Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment NIGHT WATCHING, by FREDDA S. PEARLSON Poem Source First Line: Only now does she emerge Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters NIGHT WIND, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come in, I'll hold you Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment NO SPRINKLING OF BRIGHT WEEDS, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON Poem Source First Line: Earth-that old-hat phrase of superseded days Last Line: No sprinkling of bright weeds Subject(s): Environment; Fields NO-MAN'S WOOD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text 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 NOR LESS ATTRACTIVE IS THE WOODLAND SCENE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: As bushful, yet impatient to be seen Subject(s): Environment; Trees NORTHERN MOUNTAIN, by XU GANG Poem Source First Line: Now there's a mountain to remember! Last Line: A dream so long and simple Subject(s): Environment; Nature 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 NOTED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Death claimed the last pure dusky seaside sparrow Last Line: Where, once indigenous, the dusky sparrow %soared trilling twenty feet above its burrow Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Environment; New York Times (newspaper) NOTES ON A FIELD-MAP, by KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: Corrugated and clouded, %many acres foxed Last Line: This was home meadow. %silver dust Subject(s): Environment; Fields NOVEMBER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun climbs down Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment NOW I AM HERE, WHAT THOU WILT DO WITH ME, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Source 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 WEEKENDS FOR THE GODS NOW, WARS, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source 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's Biography Last Line: I would not change it Subject(s): Environment; Trees NURSERY RHYME, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What do we use to wash our hair? Last Line: It doesn't hurt the rabbit Subject(s): Environment O ROSALIND! THESE TREES SHALL BE MY BOOKS, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she Subject(s): Environment; 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/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 OBJECTIVE NATURALIST, by RICHARD POOLE Poem Source First Line: This remnant of a once ancient forest Last Line: Though I left, of course, no stone unturned Subject(s): Environment OCEAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray whales are going south: I see their fountains Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents OCEAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gray whales are going south: I see their fountains Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters 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 OF GRASS, by GEORGE SZIRTES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was the shade of grass -- no, something greener Last Line: Understood the word you spoke as grass Subject(s): Environment OF LIGHT, WATER AND GATHERED DUST, by ROBERTA HILL WHITEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Above chequamegon bay Last Line: For that moment, %even crickets pause Alternate Author Name(s): Hill, Roberta Subject(s): Environment; Nature OF SEALS AND OUR SMILES, by MICHAEL BENEDIKT Poem Source First Line: The last time they did any harm to anyone was 1000's of years ago Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters OF WILLIAM STILLMAN (1828-1901), by ROGER MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: His life lived in the semi-pathetic way Last Line: Sent there from albany, a thing that was now only inside him Subject(s): Environment; Nature OFFERING, by CAROLYN FINLAY Poem Source First Line: Opening I give Last Line: I give it Subject(s): Environment OFFERING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today the golden koi Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment OH WORLD, I WISH, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Oh world, I wish you were my mother Last Line: Of blood and sand and bone Subject(s): Environment OHIO RIVER WINTER, by SALLIE BINGHAM Poem Source First Line: The duck hunters are out these winter mornings Last Line: Their bodies, on china plates, do not cover %the painted pink cabbage rose Subject(s): Environment; Nature OIL, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Men smile like they know everything Last Line: With blue flame that never sleeps %and spreads its wings around us Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment OKEECHOBEE, by JOHN+(4) ALLISON Poem Source First Line: Cottonmouth white faces survey the marshes Last Line: Final cry is speeding toward a star Subject(s): Environment OLD ELM TREE BY THE RIVER, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source 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 MILL, by GRAHAM DUNCAN Poem Source First Line: Another spring prodigy, the stream rackets Last Line: The water, used, flumes away, %reckless, impatient to roar again Subject(s): Environment; Nature OLD SHOWFIELD, by TOM RAWLING Poem Source First Line: An aeroplane might still see where Last Line: What had gone on at ennerdale show Subject(s): Environment; Fields ON A DROPPED FEATHER, by CAITRIONA O'REILLY Poem Source First Line: Until the feather tapers like an arrow Last Line: It fell like the notched blade of a knife Subject(s): Environment ON A TREE FALLEN ACROSS THE ROAD (TO HEAR US TALK), by ROBERT FROST Poem Text 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 MERROW DOWN, by JOHN BURNSIDE Poem Source First Line: This is the moment of the cuckoo bee Last Line: Into the hoop of rain and yellow stars Subject(s): Environment; Fields ON PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA'S 'MAGDALEN', by MARTIN SCHMALDT Poem Source First Line: The brow is proud, and though the eyes are inward Last Line: Making law of rupture and attraction Subject(s): Environment ON THE CIRCUMFERENCE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Birds are flying juniper blue feathers Last Line: Smell of blood %singing %against earth's bounds Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment ON THE HILL, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One, two, three, four-eleven Last Line: Coining in dead living seed %their immortality Subject(s): Environment; Fields ON THE WHALES OF THE CALIFORNIA DESERT, by HILLEL SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: They were there once Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters ONE USED TO BE ABLE TO SAY, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Even pollute the people under his own roof Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents ONE USED TO BE ABLE TO SAY, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters ORCA, by BREWSTER GHISELIN Poem Source First Line: Beastblack under a fin torpedo-swift Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters ORCHARD WITH WASPS, by PETER REDGROVE Poem Source First Line: The roughed fruits in Last Line: Its brassy bottles and its aladdin gold-black drunks Subject(s): Environment ORDINATION, by MARTIN SCHMALDT Poem Source First Line: From the scuttlings of a hundred and seventy lives Last Line: A mouse in the peregrine claw grows wings, grows wide %over his old field Subject(s): Environment OREGON COAST, by JOHN HAINES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This half-ruined porch of giants Last Line: Magnificence not yet destroyed Subject(s): Environment ORPHEUS ATTENDING, by DONALD ATKINSON Poem Source First Line: Always between the tracks your singular voice Last Line: Your tapes play philomel beyond our earth-crimes Subject(s): Environment OTHER LIFE, by CONSTANCE URDANG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know in my other life I am a whale Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters OTHER SIDE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At sunset %the white horse has disappeared Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment OTHER VOICES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are things we do not tell Last Line: And I hear them %and I don't %and even police can't stop earth telling Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ranch Life; Women - Writers OUR FALL WAS INTO FORGETFULNESS, by JAMES BAKER HALL Poem Source First Line: We see them only when they surface Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters OUR HOUSES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we enter the unknown Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment OUTDOOR CAFE APPROACHING STORM, by KEVIN PRUFER Poem Source First Line: My mouth wants a handful of coins to fill it Last Line: To bring a storm everything has been said so well %I cannot do better Subject(s): Environment; Noises; Storms OUTDOOR MOVIES AT THE STATE PARK, by DAVID WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: It's not that the people watching the movie Last Line: Failure and compromise %don't matter until they reach shore Subject(s): Environment; Nature OVER THE FIELDS, by MAURA DOOLEY Poem Source First Line: Whoever heard of a seamless garment? Last Line: Over the fields wires hum Subject(s): Environment; Fields PASSAGE, by D. E. STEWARD Poem Source First Line: Approaching the walvis ridge and the tropic Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters PASSING OF DOLPHINS, by DAVID B. DE LEEUW Poem Source First Line: Bluegreen bodies moving sleekly in the ocean Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters PASSING THROUGH, by GLENN MCKEE Poem Source First Line: Land is passing through me Last Line: Ways we abuse our mother Subject(s): Environment; Nature PASTURELANDS, by HERBERT READ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We scurry over the pastures Last Line: We discover frog-spawn in the wet ditch Subject(s): Environment; Fields PEACOCK, by DAVID CONSTANTINE Poem Source First Line: A man's fist may be very gentle Last Line: Eyes in the dark. The man has her in his head Subject(s): Environment PEACOCK, by GREVEL LINDOP Poem Source First Line: Michaelmas daisy, latest flower Last Line: The flowers of death and life are full Subject(s): Environment PENITENCE, by JOHN BURNSIDE Poem Source First Line: I was driving into the wind Last Line: Still resonant, remembered through the fender Subject(s): Environment PERSEPHONE, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see as through a skylight in my brain Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation PERSEPHONE, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I see as through a skylight in my brain Last Line: Their footsteps borrow silence from the snow Subject(s): Environment PERVERSITY, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: Once it was sweet when darkness veiled the hills Last Line: Missing life's comforts, we would just be bored. Subject(s): Air; Environment; Night; Pollution; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Bedtime PHOTOGRAPH, by PATRICK WORTH GRAY Poem Source First Line: Arnett, oklahoma, from wesley bishop's back porch Last Line: Remind them of the reason they must go home? Subject(s): Environment; Nature PIED BEAUTY, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Glory be to god for dappled things Last Line: Praise him. Subject(s): Beauty; Christianity; Environment; Fields; God; Language; Men; Nature; Religion; Worship; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Words; Vocabulary; Theology PIG MOON, TURTLE MOON, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source First Line: The moon's horns stick Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters PILLOW, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are nights with feathers underhead Last Line: And bootblack shoes Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment 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-TREES AND THE SKY: EVENING, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text 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 PIPEFISH, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the green / and purple weeds Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation PIPEFISH, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the green %and purple weeds Last Line: Gathering and closing %so dry and slow Subject(s): Environment; Nature PLANTATION, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source 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 PLANTING A CEDAR, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From beneath a stone Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment PLANTING A SEQUOIA, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All afternoon my brothers and I have worked in the orchard Last Line: I want you to stand among strangers, all young and ephemeral to you, %silently keeping the secret of Subject(s): Environment PLANTING TREES, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text 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'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 PLASMA, by ISOBEL THRILLING Poem Source First Line: The cathedral has fossils Last Line: Love unsettling dust Subject(s): Environment PLATEAU: TOP AND BOTTOM, by GRAHAM DUNCAN Poem Source First Line: Down in the creek beds and gullies Last Line: And what's below will surely rise Subject(s): Environment; Nature PLENTY, by JEM POSTER Poem Source First Line: The phrase seemed right for the time. There are, we'd say Last Line: Haunting the sullen back-streets; the deserted guays Subject(s): Environment PLOUGHING, by CLIVE SANSOM Poem Source First Line: The tractor-driver ploughs his road as straight as a %roman's Last Line: And lift again like torn papers blown in the wind Subject(s): Environment; Fields PLOUGHING THE ROUGHLANDS, by HELEN DUNMORE Poet's Biography First Line: It's not the four-wheeled drive crawler Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature; Plowing & Plowmen; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PLOUGHING THE ROUGHLANDS, by HELEN DUNMORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's not the four-wheeled drive crawler Last Line: Fenced by the primary %colours of crawler and silo Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature; Plowing And Plowmen PLOUGHMAN, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In these small fields Last Line: Over the drain %or through the ditch Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): Environment; Fields PLOUGHMAN AND WHALES, by GEORGE MACKAY BROWN Poem Source First Line: The ox went forward, a black block, eyes %bulging Last Line: Loaf, honey-comb, fleece, ale-jar, fiddle Subject(s): Environment; Fields PLOUGHMAN, PLOUGHMAN, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ploughman, ploughman, hold thy hand Last Line: Thy plough across earth's dream Subject(s): Environment; Fields POEM FOR THE END OF THE WORLD, by JOHN HEATH-STUBBS Poem Source First Line: Some day, it seems, the cosmos Last Line: Before the first creation of the world Subject(s): Environment POEM OF THE TOWHEE, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Peripheral leaf-shufflers Last Line: Grave and acute, in characters %beyond any translation Subject(s): Environment; Nature POET ANSWERS THE ACCUSER, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No matter what I am Last Line: What matter who I am? Subject(s): Environment POET VISITS, by FRANCES HOROVITZ Poem Source First Line: Fields of foxy sorrel Last Line: You said, %'the vision comes and goes' Subject(s): Environment; Fields POINT NO POINT, by SUJATA BHATT Poem Source First Line: Why name a place point no point? Last Line: That made our blood learn- %that made our blood learn Subject(s): Environment 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 POND, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment POOL, by PHILIP WELLS Poem Source First Line: I will always smile at my neighbor Last Line: Cupped in our hands Subject(s): Environment 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 PORCUPINE ON THE ROAD TO THE RIVER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The porcupine walked Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment POSTSCRIPT TO DEATH, ETC., by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In north america Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment POTATOES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the month of warm days Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment POTHOLES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The streets we live by fall away. Last Line: Take care, a hundred suns look out of earth %beneath circling tires. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment PRAYER, by ALICE OSWALD Poem Source First Line: Here I work in the hollow of god's hand Last Line: Turns and returns to meet me when it's done Subject(s): Environment PRAYER FOR THE GREAT FAMILY, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gratitude to mother earth, sailing through night and day Subject(s): Environment; Holidays; Prayer; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation PRAYER FOR THE GREAT FAMILY, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gratitude to mother earth, sailing through night and day Last Line: The mind is his wife. %so be it Subject(s): Environment; Holidays; Prayer PRUNING IN FROST, by ALICE OSWALD Poem Source First Line: Last night, without a sound Last Line: Getting carved into this effigy of orchard Subject(s): Environment PURSE-SEINE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark of the moon; daylight ... Last Line: There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is deat Subject(s): Environment; Fishing And Fishermen QUESTION IN A FIELD, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pasture, stone wall, and steeple Last Line: Or the horrible beautiful kind? Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas QUESTION IN A FIELD, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pasture, stone wall, and steeple Last Line: Tge heart-rending homely people, %or the horrible beautiful kind? Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Environment; Fields RAIN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When it rains fish Last Line: Sun that brings fish, %children and even the rain %back home again Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment RAIN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rain's story Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment RAIN FOREST, by JOHN HAINES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A green ape, drinker of clouds Last Line: To a tongue growing green Subject(s): Environment RAINBOW, by CAROLYN FINLAY Poem Source First Line: Firebreathing %I let you lead me Last Line: I am the dragon I am afraid of Subject(s): Environment RAINY SEASON, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The women are walking to town Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment RAPTURE, by GEOFF PETERSON Poem Source First Line: At death of makin-meang Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters READING SUNDAY, by TERRENCE MAURICE SAVOIE Poem Source First Line: Clouds is 19th century Last Line: On the edge of the pot of sky like %mongrels exhausted with the rain Subject(s): Environment; Nature READING TO ROCKS, by RUTH MORRIS MOOSE Poem Source First Line: Some listen, moss ears Last Line: I hear their dreams Subject(s): Environment; Nature REASSURER, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A people in the throes of national prosperity, who Last Line: Has been wakened in the night by a dream of the calamity of peace Subject(s): Environment; Nature RED CLAY, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Turtle, old as earth Last Line: We are here, the red earth %passes like light into us %and stays Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment RED EFTS, by K. W. JAYNES Poem Source First Line: A pair of red efts, one atop the other Last Line: Disturbed the stream and bent me back to life Subject(s): Environment; Nature REINCARNATION, by KAY BOYLE Poem Source First Line: There is death in the house Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters REMARKABLE EXHIBITION, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was remarkable, that day on the river Last Line: Magic enough to avoid eight rifles flashing %as long as all that and still, as they finally were, %b Subject(s): Environment; Nature REMEMBERING THE LIGHTNING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In that flash of light Last Line: The sky crackles like a gun %and shadows of thin trees %falldown to the ground Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment REMEMBERING THE SEA ELEPHANT, by WILLIAM PITT ROOT Poem Source First Line: Perhaps it is time for candor Subject(s): Candor; Environment; Sea Monsters REQUIEM FOR A RIVER, by KIM WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: So we diverted the river,' he said Last Line: We concreted the dam,' bert said. %thanks Subject(s): Environment RETURN, by JOHN DANIEL Poem Source First Line: When at one in the morning a raccoon Last Line: In the black light of darkness %sees its slow-stepping way Subject(s): Environment; Nature RHUBARB RHUBARB, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Return, return, o rhubarb fields Last Line: I think it looked so nice! Subject(s): Environment; Fields RILEY, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the water-meadows riley Last Line: Never know now, said the jay. Never know Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Environment; Fields RIVER, by PETER BORRELLI Poem Source First Line: The river, cold and dark as gun metal Last Line: We are not one %but captured in the same moment Subject(s): Environment; Nature RIVER CALLS THEM, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tadpoles in a jar Last Line: Stiff frogs are dropped into earth %damp and waiting Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment RIVER SONG, by JEAN PEARSON Poem Source First Line: River changes after rain Last Line: To turn those dark stones silver Subject(s): Environment; Nature ROAD-SIDE DEATHS, by PETER ABBS Poem Source First Line: On the same day two animals on the track to the coast Last Line: No rites, no burials. The glinting cars swish past Subject(s): Environment RONSARD'S LAMENT FOR THE CUTTING OF THE FOREST OF GASTINE, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source 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 ROUGH COUNTRY, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Give me a landscape made of obstacles Last Line: And nesting jays, a sign that there is still %one piece of property that won't be owned Subject(s): Environment; Nature RUINS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The children's voices %I thought I heard Last Line: The sounds called back to themselves, %the ears ringing, %the sheep Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment RURAL LIFE, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms Last Line: Exposing most, when most it gilds distress Subject(s): Environment; Fields RUSSET APPLES, by GREVEL LINDOP Poem Source First Line: Lie back against the pillows Last Line: Ripening, longing to welcome us %back into paradise Subject(s): Environment SABBATHS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the slavery of the body, dumbfoundment Last Line: In light's ordinary miracle Subject(s): Environment SAMARA, by CAHTERINE SIGNORELLI Poem Source First Line: Where are the samara? Last Line: Hear? Here they are Subject(s): Environment SAND ROSES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They lie down in the fields Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SAND-QUARRY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father and I drove to the sand-quarry across the wined marshlands Subject(s): Quarries; Fathers & Daughters; Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SAP, by ROBERT MINHINNICK Poem Source First Line: Where the stream ox-bowed Last Line: Green stick swam past the hand Subject(s): Environment; Rivers SAVING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My good clothes Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SAYING SOMETHING, by CAROLYN FINLAY Poem Source First Line: Saying nothing %saying something Last Line: All over the garden %and us Subject(s): Environment SCARECROW, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: Stuck up? Maybe. But not proud Last Line: If they thought it could, you'd never see me again Subject(s): Environment; Fields SCARECROW, by CLIVE SANSOM Poem Source First Line: Dressed in the farmer's ancient coat Last Line: And turns in the wind as the wind turns Subject(s): Environment; Fields SCARECROW, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He strides across the grassy corn Last Line: Is spring not hard enough to bear %for one at autumn of his year? Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Scarecrows SCHOOL SYSTEM PRAYER, by ANNA KIRWAN Poem Source First Line: Teach my children evolution, telling time Last Line: -and between the- %lines Subject(s): Environment SCORPION, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the old days %she was a god Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SCRIMSHAW, by NANCY ROXBURY KNUTSON Poem Source First Line: There's something wrong Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SCYTHING, by JAMES CROWDEN Poem Source First Line: Gently we feel the edge of dawn creep forward Last Line: Creeping forward into the shadow's singing. %swish swish swish swish Subject(s): Environment; Fields SEA CANARY, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: We heard her, white and weary Last Line: And the long dark shanks of our hold Subject(s): Environment SEA OTTER SURVIVAL ASSURED', by PHILIP APPLEMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEA STORY, by CLARINDA HARRISS LOTT Poem Source First Line: I find it hard Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEA TURTLE, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: Writing news of her nest to foragers Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEA TURTLE, by DUANE LOCKE Poem Source First Line: Near st. Augustine there is a shore of rocks Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEA TURTLE, by KENNETH GEORGE POBO Poem Source First Line: Before me is a sea turtle Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEA TURTLES, by JAN GOODLOE Poem Source First Line: On the summer beaches of trinidad Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEA TURTLES, by EDWARD P. WILLEY Poem Source First Line: Centuries packed into something indifferent Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEALS, by PETER WILD Poem Source First Line: For months desperate for lemons and a passage Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEALS IN BERLIN, by GILLIAN CLARKE Poem Source First Line: They cry in the city Last Line: O.O. Cry fathoms Subject(s): Environment SEALS IN PENOBSCOT BAY, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hadn't heard of the atom bomb Last Line: Of guns punched dark holes in the sky Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEALS IN THE INNER HARBOR, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ducks, at first, except they didn't Last Line: Needing a place to spit and plan %the rescue of children's children Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SECOND DEATH OF CHACO CANYON, by GENE FRUMKIN Poem Source First Line: One sickly civilization Last Line: That chaco was a myth %that only the ore sustained us Subject(s): Environment; Nature SEEING THROUGH THE SUN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How dishonest the sun Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SELF-PORTRAIT, by DAVID WHYTE Poem Source First Line: It doesn't interest me if there is one god Last Line: The god speak of god Subject(s): Environment SEPTEMBER, by JOHN BURNSIDE Poem Source First Line: The first owls are working the dusk Last Line: Hunting for blood and warmth, in the yellow bracken Subject(s): Environment; Fields SHADOW, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What do I know of you, no wrinkles on your face Last Line: My hand on yours, %I wish you long life Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SHAPE OF THINGS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She lets go of my hand Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SHUT, TOO, IN A TOWER OF WORDS, I MARK, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Some let me make you of the water's speeches Subject(s): Environment; Trees SILENT SPRING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, the great sky! Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SILENT SPRING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O, the great sky! Last Line: Hear your own steps %in violent silence Subject(s): Environment; Nature 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-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 97, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hurt no living thing Last Line: Nor harmless worms that creep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Environment; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation 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 SIR, IF YOU ARE, SIR, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Sir, if you are, sir -- the unnameable flame Last Line: Of naming and divining the unnameable flame Subject(s): Chemical Warfare; Environment; Nuclear Waste; Trade SIZE IS NOT THE SOUL., by PAUL ROCHE Poem Source Last Line: Within beyond it %what tremulous drive is thinking? Subject(s): Environment; Nature SKYLARK, by KATRINA PORTEOUS Poem Source First Line: Suddenly above the fields you're pouring Last Line: Full of its sudden fall, silent fields Subject(s): Environment; Fields SLEEP AND SPIDERS, by CAITRIONA O'REILLY Poem Source First Line: It is too strange to kill Last Line: Trussed, barely breathing, %paralytic with dreams Subject(s): Environment SLUG LEAVES, by BILL WOOD Poem Source Last Line: On a sundial Subject(s): Environment; Nature SMALL ANIMALS AT NIGHT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Surprised in sleeping flesh %they wake up Last Line: The voices here in grace %in the hollows of this body Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SMALL LIFE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I surrender to them all %the arcana of insects Last Line: Which means we are safe %we are never alone Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SMOKEY THE BEAR SUTRA, by GARY SYNDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in the jurassic about 150 million years ago Subject(s): Buddhism; Pollution; Environment; Bears; United States; Buddha; Buddhists; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; America SMOOTH AND GLEAMING, by JOHN TAGLIABUE Poem Source First Line: Spending the day Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SNAKE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Snake lazing in the wet grass Last Line: Each one her own stepping stone Subject(s): Environment SNOW ON THE COAL, by SALLIE BINGHAM Poem Source First Line: February: the barges from upstream are white-tipped Last Line: Where history begins, with its iron repititions Subject(s): Environment; Nature SNOWING GLOBE, by JOHN PETER SCUPHAM Poem Source First Line: A trick of the fingers Last Line: The snow is settling now Subject(s): Environment SOIL, by GEORGE SZIRTES Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What colour would you call that now? That brown Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SOIL, by GEORGE SZIRTES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What colour would you call that now? That brown Last Line: On which you stand but cannot visit %or know Subject(s): Environment SOLEMN WORK OF BUILDING UP THE PYRE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: As custom was and lit the funeral pyre Subject(s): Environment; Trees SOLO, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source First Line: At dawn, the heron revives the lake Last Line: His reflection, and no repercussions %spread across the lake Subject(s): Environment; Nature SOLSTICE, by HILARY LLEWELLYN-WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: The sun must move, if it is a fire, because fire is the most Last Line: Gold forming in the crucible Subject(s): Environment SOME TREES, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Text 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's Biography First Line: These are amazing: each Last Line: These accents seem their own defense Subject(s): Environment; Trees SONG, by PETER REDGROVE Poem Source First Line: The deep gabble and %deafening groan of the work Last Line: Yoni of water, ladderless depths Subject(s): Environment SONG FOR MY NAME, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before sunrise Last Line: It's the name that goes with me %back to earth %no one else can touch Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SONG FOR OSEI BONSU, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC Poem Source First Line: In the cave cut by waves Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SONG FOR THE DEER AND MYSELF TO RETURN ON, by JOY HARJO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning when I looked out the roof window Subject(s): Deer; Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SONG FOR THE DEER AND MYSELF TO RETURN ON, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning when I looked out the roof window Last Line: And nearly too late to go home Subject(s): Deer; Environment SONG OF ORPHEUS, by PETER ABBS Poem Source First Line: I was the first in an unforgettable line Last Line: To calm the dizzy stars. Slow their cooling Subject(s): Environment SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD, by OGDEN NASH Poem Text Poem Explanation 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'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 SKY LOOM, by UNKNOWN+182 Poem Source First Line: Oh our mother the earth, oh our father the sky Last Line: Oh our mother the earth, oh our father the sky! Subject(s): Environment 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 SONGS FOR THE SEACOW, by ARTHUR MCA. MILLER Poem Source First Line: It was seventeen days with no water laid like flatiron on the sail Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SOUND OF THE WIND THAT IS BLOWING, SELS., by J. KITCHENER DAVIES Poem Source First Line: The land of y llain was on the high marsh Last Line: Planning their hedges prudently to shelter me in my day, - %nothing - despite my wishing and wishing Variant Title(s): Love's Chariot; Her Triumph; Charis' Triump Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Trees SOUTH DOWNS, by TED WALTER Poem Source First Line: Long before names, before we thought of naming Last Line: It took to get here, step by step Subject(s): Environment SOUTH WIND, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text 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 SPARROW-HAWK IN THE SUBURBS, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At that time of year there is a turn in the road where Last Line: Last frosts of our %back gardens Subject(s): Environment SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Between railroad cars Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SPRIGS OF ROSEMARY, by PETER ABBS Poem Source First Line: I bring this sprig of rosemary; but what is rosemary for? Last Line: Bring back, at memory's furthest root, the glint of paradise Subject(s): Environment SPRING, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Somehwere %a black bear Last Line: All day I think of her-- %her white teeth, %her wordlessness, %her perfect love Subject(s): Environment; Nature SPRING COMES TO LINE FORK CREEK, by PATRICIA SHIRLEY Poem Source First Line: Snows have watered steep ridges Last Line: And floats easily on line fork Subject(s): Environment; Nature SPURNED GODDESS, by TED WALTER Poem Source First Line: Let us consider earth, explore the ache Last Line: Fifteen billion years it took to make Subject(s): Environment ST LUKE'S SUMMER, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The low sun leans across the slanting field Last Line: Never-predicted poetry is sown Subject(s): Environment; Fields STACKING THE STRAW, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In those days the oatfields Last Line: That everything he'd ever done was straw Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Hay And Haymaking STOLEN TREES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sound we make sleeping Last Line: Trees whose wood flash %light. Trees, beautiful trees %who can kill a man %like the fallen wings of Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment STONE, by INGRID DARLENE WENDT Poem Source First Line: Small as a molar, wisdom tooth Last Line: The end %of some other solitude, once more traveling on Subject(s): Environment; Nature STORM CLOUD, by PETER ABBS Poem Source First Line: A thousand miles square and five miles down Last Line: And blizzards: oh blanched sun, oh withered grass, oh blinded man Subject(s): Environment STOVE BOAT', by ANN STANFORD Poem Source First Line: The whale has caught this boat Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters STOVEWOOD, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text 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's Biography First Line: Two thousand years of fog and sucking minerals Last Line: And stick it in a stove Subject(s): Environment; Trees STRANDED WHALES, by MARGARET WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Aground in shallows here, the dark whales lie Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters STRUGGLING WHEAT, by JEANNE PERDRIEL-VAISSIERE Poem Source First Line: Struggling wheat, weighed down with rain Last Line: Your gallant life is worthy of Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Wheat STUBBLE FIRES, by JOHN PETER SCUPHAM Poem Source First Line: Contours break the skin Last Line: Picked to the black-bone Subject(s): Environment; Fields SUBDIVISION, by SALLIE BINGHAM Poem Source First Line: The man who does not care for trees Last Line: Looks on a woman and sees wristbone, wishbone %the pulmonary cavity Subject(s): Environment; Nature SUCH WEATHER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hands of wind are busy Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SUGAR BIRD, by WILLIAM J. VERNON Poem Source First Line: He's forty before he can hear it Last Line: Explaining how the bird would say %when to tap, singing, 'sugar!' Subject(s): Environment; Nature SUICIDES, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ink blot, sperm on a slide, a squirm Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents SUICIDES, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ink blot, sperm on a slide, a squirm Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SUICIDES, by ADRIENNE WOLFERT Poem Source First Line: Red is the sea, the red sea flecked with white Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SUMMER AGAIN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What does he think about Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment SUN USED TO SHINE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun used to shine while we two walked Last Line: Go talking and have easy hours Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Herefordshire, England; Poetry And Poets; Walking SUNDAY AT HOME AT THE BEGINNING OF APRIL, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spring like smoke in the fruit trees Last Line: When we live, we live for the last time, %as akhmatova says.%one 'the' in a world of 'a' Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Environment; Nature SUNRISE WITH SEA MONSTER, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Well, we either do it or we don't, as the pigeon said to the loaf Last Line: But no diminishment, as in 'fancy' and 'open fifths' and environmental sweepstakes' Subject(s): Clouds; Environment; Sea Monsters; Storms; Weather SURFACE, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The surveyor climbs a stonewall into woods Last Line: Sun and study slogans of dirt: 'never consider %a surface except as the extension of a volume.' Subject(s): Environment; Nature SWALLOWS, by JEREMY REED Poem Source First Line: For five successive days they'v opened out Last Line: A brittle wasp that sputters like a match Subject(s): Environment 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 TASTING THE LAND, by JAROLD RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: Wherever water gathers, or pours over stone Last Line: On the far waters of home Subject(s): Environment; Nature TERRITORY OF NIGHT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do you hear Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment THANKSGIVING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Turkey, blue head on the ground Last Line: Noisy, breaking the glass sky %grey %they are grey %and their wings are weightless Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day THAT LAKE IN THE MOUNTAINS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Never quite quiet, it accepted what came Last Line: And begin to feel my invisible hands Subject(s): Environment; Nature THAT SIMPLE, THAT SOPHISTICATED, by MARIAH BURTON NELSON Poem Source First Line: Sunbathing flat-naked on an empty beach Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters THE ALMOND TREES, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing here / this early Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE ANDEAN FLUTE, by DEREK MAHON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He dances to that music in the wood Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE BLACK WALNUT TREE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother and I debate: / we could sell Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE BLACKBIRD, by DEREK MAHON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One morning in the month of june Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE BREATHING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An absolute / patience Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE BRIGHT FIELD, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen the sun break through Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE CABBAGE FIELD, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Both taine and the inland english child Last Line: Anything but the sea? Subject(s): Cabbage; Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE CHERRY TREE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN 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 TREES, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text 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 CHRISTMAS TREE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text 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 COMBE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text 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 CONQUEST OF THE AIR, by MARY WRIGHT PLUMMER Poem Text First Line: Another world we have, we that have made Last Line: Of thy first gift -- lord, art thou not afraid? Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Environment; Wellesley College; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE DELIGHT SONG OF TSOAI-TALEE, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I am a feather on the bright sky Alternate Author Name(s): Momaday, N. Scott Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE EARTHWORM, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who really respects the earthworm Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Men; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE ELM, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text 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 END, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Not every man [or, everyone] knows what he shall sing at the end Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE FALLEN ELM, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text 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 FISH, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I caught a tremendous fish Subject(s): Environment; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sports; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Anglers; Ocean THE FISH ARE ALL SICK, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fish are all sick, the great whales dead Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poetry of earth is never dead Last Line: The grasshopper's among some grassy hills. Variant Title(s): On The Grasshopper And Cricket Subject(s): Crickets; Environment; Fields; Grasshoppers; Insects; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs THE IDEA OF BALANCE IS TO BE FOUND IN HERONS AND LOONS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I just heard a loon call on a t.V. Ad Last Line: Within their breasts. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Solitude; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Loneliness THE LAST ONE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well they'd made up their minds to be everywhere because why not Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE LICORICE FIELDS AT PONTEFRACT, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the licorice fields at pontefract Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Love; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE NEW APARTMENT: MINNEAPOLIS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The floorboards creak Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Memory; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians THE NEW HIGHWAY, by EVA SMITH TURNER Poem Text First Line: A smooth, broad highway girds our town Last Line: Cast cold, dark shadows on my heart. Subject(s): Environment; Roads; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Paths; Trails THE OLD ELM TREE BY THE RIVER, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text 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 OAK TREE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text 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 ORIGINS OF CORN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the female corn. / this is the male Last Line: Will find it green and alive. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Love; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE POPLAR FIELD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text 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 PURSE-SEINE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark of the moon; daylight ... Last Line: That cultures decay, and life's end is death Subject(s): Environment; Fish & Fishing; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Anglers THE REASSURER, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A people in the throes of national prosperity, who Last Line: Has been wakened in the night by a dream of the calamity of peace Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE SCARECROW, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poet's Biography First Line: He strides across the grassy corn Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Scarecrows; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE SEALS IN PENOBSCOT BAY, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hadn't heard of the atom bomb Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents THE SKYLARK, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rolls and harrows lie at rest beside Last Line: Lies safely, with the leveret, in the corn. Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Environment; Fields; Larks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Skylarks THE STONES, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One night in my room Last Line: Among the excellent vegetables. Subject(s): Environment; Happiness; Nature; Self; Stones; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Joy; Delight; Granite; Rocks THE SUN USED TO SHINE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun used to shine while we two walked Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Herefordshire, England; Poetry & Poets; Walking; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE TABLES TURNED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text 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 THORN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text 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 TREE, by EZRA POUND Poem Text 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 TREES, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The trees are coming into leaf Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE TRUTH IS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my left pocket a chickasaw hand Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Women; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; THE UNGRATEFUL GARDEN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Midas watched the golden crust Last Line: "nature is evil,"" midas said." Subject(s): Environment; Gold; Midas; Women; Women's Rights; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Feminism THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation 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 WELLFLEET WHALE, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You have your language too Subject(s): Environment; Whales; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE WOODS OF WESTERMAIN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text 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 WORDS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind, bird, and tree Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE WORLD, by JAN HELLER LEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Environment; Children; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Childhood THERE ARE DAYS NOW, by MORTON JAY MARCUS Poem Source Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters THERE IS AN OLD TALE GOES THAT HERNE THE HUNTER, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Disguis'd, like herne, with huge horns on his head Subject(s): Environment; Trees THERE WAS AN OLD MAN IN A TREE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To make themselves nests in that tree Subject(s): Environment; Nonsense; Trees THEY ARE PLOUGHING, by EDITH JOY SCOVELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning fields, where fiery red a spray Last Line: Sends its slight tinkling song that shines like gold Alternate Author Name(s): Scovell, E. J. Subject(s): Environment; Fields THEY ARE RIGHT; THEY ARE AWARE; THEIR AWARENESS IS RIGHTNESS, by PAULA BONNELL Poem Source First Line: Fine animals are full of certainties Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters 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 THIN END OF THE WEDGE, by SEBASTIAN BARKER Poem Source First Line: There was no way forward Last Line: Like an axe of light Subject(s): Environment THING IN THE GAP-STONE STILE, by ALICE OSWALD Poem Source First Line: I took the giant's walk on top of world Last Line: Abstracted on a gap-stone between fields Subject(s): Environment; Fields THINGS, by PAUL MATTHEWS Poem Source First Line: What I'll miss most when I'm dead is Last Line: Who can hammer a nail straight Subject(s): Environment THINNING THE WOODS, by WILLIAM J. VERNON Poem Source First Line: Clear-cut, the trees came back as thick Last Line: The red painted marks, learned to hate %the stumps, the open space I'd made Subject(s): Environment; Nature THIS MOMENT, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A neighbourhood / at dusk Last Line: Apples sweeten in the dark Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THIS MOMENT, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A neighbourhood %at dusk Last Line: Apples sweeten in the dark Subject(s): Environment THIS MORNING, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've spent this morning studying the leaves Last Line: And shakes them up, as if to remind them Subject(s): Environment; Nature THIS 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 THIS WORLD, by ORHAN VELI KANIK Poem Source First Line: This world drives you out of your mind Last Line: This tree bursting with flowers from top to toe Subject(s): Environment THISTLE, by LAURIE LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thistle, blue bunch of daggers Last Line: Fevers of long lost fields Subject(s): Environment; Fields THOSE WHO THUNDER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And this is how walls have fallen in other cities Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Thunder THOSE WHO WANT OUT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In their homes, much glass and steel. Their cars Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Environment; Exiles; Nature; Estrangement; Outcasts; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THOSE WHO WANT OUT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In their homes, much glass and steel. Their cars Last Line: They do not love the earth Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Environment; Exiles; Nature THOUGHT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tree is all alone Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment THREE KINDS OF PLEASURES, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, riding in a car, in wisconsin Last Line: And the ditches along the road half full of a private snow Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THREE KINDS OF PLEASURES, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, riding in a car, in wisconsin Last Line: And the ditches along the road half full of a private snow Subject(s): Environment; Fields THREE SISTERS, by SELIMA HILL Poem Source First Line: Three sisters, like three hens, eye one another Last Line: A fly. A knife. The sickly smell of rue Subject(s): Environment THRESHOLDS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: High on the reef, the chalk-dry barnacles Last Line: With eyelids shut and trembling, the mind's eye staring Subject(s): Environment; Nature THROUGH ALL THE MEADOWS..., by SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER Poem Source Last Line: In thank-offering they go Subject(s): Environment; Fields THROUGH THE FOG, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fog closes the world Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment THROWING A TREE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source 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 TIDE TURNING, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through salt marsh, grassy channel where the shark's Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Seashore; Tides; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents; Beach; Coast; Shore TIDE TURNING, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through salt marsh, grassy channel where the shark's Last Line: Carouse on the affluent kisses of the tide Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Seashore; Tides TIMBER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Source 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 TIMESWEEP, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in the morning of the world Subject(s): Animals; Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation TIMESWEEP, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is only one horse on the earth Last Line: And his children cover the earth %and they are named all god's children Subject(s): Animals; Environment TIVA'S TAPESTRY: LA LLORONA, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: White-haired woman of winter Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment TO A FAT LADY SEEN FROM THE TRAIN, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O why do you walk through the fields in gloves Last Line: Missing so much and so much? Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Obesity; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas 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 MOUSE, ON TURNING HER UP IN HER NEST WITH THE PLOUGH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie Last Line: I guess an' fear. Variant Title(s): To A Field-mouse Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Mice; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TO A TREE IN LONDON, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here you stay %night and day Last Line: Smelt the landscape's sweet serene Subject(s): Environment; Trees TO IRON-FOUNDERS AND OTHERS, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you destroy a blade of grass Last Line: Chisels men's hands to magnify. Subject(s): Environment; Industrial Revolution; Labor & Laborers; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Work; Workers TO JOHN MUIR, by PETER BORRELLI Poem Source First Line: Across the valley, blue hills Last Line: I am part of all time %and a geography called hope Subject(s): Environment; Nature TO LIGHT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the spring Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment TO LOOK AT ANY THING, by JOHN MOFFITT Poem Source Last Line: And touch the very peace %they issue from Subject(s): Environment; Science 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 THE DEFILERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, thieves, and take your riches, creep Last Line: And cast your spittle in god's face. Subject(s): Earth; Environment; Prostitution; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Harlots; Whores; Brothels TO THE EDGE, by KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: To the scatter of a hamlet where nothing happens Last Line: Tall reeds sing the ditch. Tide turns against %the wind, bucking and amber and hilarious Subject(s): Environment TOLSTOY'S BEAR, by FRED CHAPPELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Disgusting russia, he told his diary Last Line: An early winter descended like silver blindness %where the count pawed over his russian cruelties Subject(s): Environment; Nature TOPSOIL, by ROBYN BOLAM Poem Source First Line: I walk these moors for what they are Last Line: For what they are Subject(s): Environment TORTOISE SHELL, by JACK HAND Poem Source First Line: There is little to ponder here but absence Subject(s): Environment; Turtles TOTEMS, by LYNNE ELSON Poem Source First Line: As if retrieving pebbles %filmed with shine Last Line: Moraine, the shuttling arc %of the sun Subject(s): Environment TOWARD NOW, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Back then someone said, 'I will tell them a story Last Line: Willingly caught up, being part of what is Subject(s): Environment; Nature TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. IN A MANUFACTURING TOWN, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I walked restless and despondent through the gloomy city Last Line: Little child. Subject(s): Capitalism; Democracy; Depressions, Economic; Environment; Factories; Labor & Laborers; Poverty; Smoke; Recessions; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Work; Workers TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. SUNDAY MORNING NEAR A MANUFACTURING TOWN, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday, a still autumn morning, and all the roads on the outskirts Last Line: Overlie you much longer. Subject(s): Environment; Factories; Smoke; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation TRAIN'S PASSAGE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A siren black whistle %tunnels through dark clouds Last Line: Their song goes on %rushing %light %to fill the distance Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment TRASHING OF GATLINBURG, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty is momentary in the land Last Line: While nature and greed, like lovers, interlock %stretched out in gatlinburg, with greed on top Subject(s): Environment; Nature TRAVELING THROUGH THE DARK, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Traveling through the dark I found a deer Subject(s): Deer; Environment; Humanity; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation TRAVELING THROUGH THE DARK, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Traveling through the dark I found a deer Last Line: Then pushed her over the edge into the river Subject(s): Deer; Environment; Humanity TREE, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source 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 EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source 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 CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source 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 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 IN THE GOODS YARD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Source 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 GUILT, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source 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 PARTY, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source 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 SONG, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source 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 SONG, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between dirt dark and giddy sky Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation TREE SONG, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Between dirt dark and giddy sky Last Line: My secret hardwood no bud ever knew Subject(s): Environment; Nature TREE TELLING OF ORPHEUS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source 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-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 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 ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poem Explanation 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 PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source 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 BE COMPANY, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When zummer's burnen het's a-shed Last Line: The trees would still be company. Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Pleasure; Seasons; Solitude; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Loneliness TREES IN A TOWN, by VERNON WATKINS Poem Source 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 TUBS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Little laurel trees, your roots can find Last Line: The budding evergreen of time Subject(s): Environment; Trees TRUTH IS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my left pocket a chickasaw hand Last Line: The left shoe %and the right one with its white foot Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; U.s. - Race Relations; Women TRUTH OF THE MATTER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The face of daylight has been removed Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment TRYING IT ALL OUT, by JOSEPH LANGLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Earth %is a home of credibilities Last Line: That is our buoyant home Subject(s): Environment TURNER IS LASHED TO THE MAST, by PAULINE STAINER Poem Source First Line: I did not paint it to be understood Last Line: Before unseen currents %disperse their dissolve Subject(s): Environment TURNER'S SEAS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We call them beautiful Last Line: Our scattered falling drops retain of gleaming ocean's unending play? Subject(s): Environment TURNING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fevers of winter have flown away Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment TURNIP-HEADS, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here are the ploughed fields of middle england Last Line: Whatever their message was, we seem to have missed it Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur Subject(s): Environment; Fields TURTLE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm dreaming the old turtle back Last Line: We are amber, %the small animals %are gold inside us Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans TURTLE LADY, by ANN MOCK-BUNTING Poem Source First Line: I am watching fifteen nests now,' the turtle lady said Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters TURTLE ONCE TWINS, by SIMON PERCHIK Poem Source Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters TWIST IN THE RIVER, by KATHERINE PIERPOINT Poem Source First Line: At the clear, beer-coloured and bubbleshot twist in the river Last Line: And the river runs through its own fingers, careless Subject(s): Environment; Rivers TWO JAPANESE MAPLES, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Source 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 OF HEARTS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dream my fingers are knives Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment TWO WINDS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cold north wind Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment UNDER THE OAK, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text 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 TREES, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON Poem Source First Line: Yellow tunnels under the trees, long avenues Last Line: Tunnels, under yellow leaves, long avenues Subject(s): Environment; Trees UNEXAMPLED FEAR, by SYDNEY LEA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black thieves, red-tailed darters Last Line: With day, its sweetness, woe %the frank sun burning south Subject(s): Environment; Nature UP ON THE DOWNS, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up on the downs the red-eyes kestrels hover Last Line: On the chalk downland bare Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Environment; Fields UP THERE, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On cotswold edge there is a field and that Last Line: By the coppice there, level with the flat of the hill Subject(s): Environment; Fields UPPER LAMBOURNE, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text 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'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 V. WHO WILL SPEAK?, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If all the animals came from the hills Last Line: I do not want the words to fall away. %I do not want to break this spell Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment VANISHING MAN, by NAOMI LAZARD Poem Source First Line: He puts down the book he was reading Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters VAPOR CAVE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of stones Last Line: The sun is bright. %the sky is clear. %each tip of the grass is shining Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment VERSES ON THE DESTRUCTION OF DRUMLANRIG WOODS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As on the banks o' wandering nith Last Line: "that reptile wears a ducal crown." Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods VERY LEAVES OF THE ACACIA-TREE ARE LONDON, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source 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 VIKING FIELD, by KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: Not only thistles Last Line: On her own %double-headed axe Subject(s): Environment; Fields VINE, by SUSAN FROMBERG SCHAEFFER Poem Source First Line: I believe, I said %in the resurrection of all the dumb things Last Line: Our world %not yours Subject(s): Environment; Nature VIOLET AND OAK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text 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 VIRGIN IN A TREE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text 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'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 VISION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If we will have the wisdom to survive Last Line: Its hardship is its possibility Subject(s): Environment VOICE OF SUMMER, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In this one of all fields I know the best Last Line: Had lost a word that had no synonym Subject(s): Environment; Fields WAITING FOR THE HARVESTER, by PETER ABBS Poem Source First Line: Here I stood in the crew-cut stubble Last Line: The damp blades whirring above dry bone Subject(s): Environment; Fields WALK IN WINTER, by JEANNINE DOBBS Poem Source First Line: Walking over the crest of naticook hill Last Line: As if I have suffered a great loss or blessing Subject(s): Environment; Nature WALKING 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 ON BACK ROADS, by BARBARA CROOKER Poem Source First Line: Hazy mid-summer evenings Last Line: And we keep walking down the road, %the darkness turning to wine Subject(s): Environment; Nature WALKING ON SUNDAY, by N. S. JACKSON Poem Source First Line: In my wild yahooing days Last Line: I have changed a little, too Subject(s): Environment; Fields WALL SONGS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The southern jungle is a green wall Last Line: Showing again, again %that boundaries are all lies Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans WALNUT ST., OAK ST., SYCAMORE ST., ETC, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text 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's Biography First Line: So this is what happened Last Line: Where they had gone Subject(s): Environment; Trees WALRUS FACTORY, by BETH JOSELOW Poem Source First Line: In the walrus factory: attention Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WANTING ONE GOOD ORGANIC LINE, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source Last Line: Until he heard the frog Subject(s): Environment WARM RAIN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Birds fly into the window and turn Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WASPS, by DAVID CONSTANTINE Poem Source First Line: The apples on the tree are full of wasps Last Line: I bless my life: that so much wants in Subject(s): Environment WASTE OF TIME! TILL INDUSTRY APPROACHED, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To bows strong-straining, her aspiring sons Subject(s): Environment; Trees WATCH ME, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: White cows in the lightning Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WATCHING THE PERSEIDS: REMEMBERING THE DEAD, by JOHN PETER SCUPHAM Poem Source First Line: The perseids go riding softly down Last Line: Our black ark swinging lightly to its mooring Subject(s): Environment WATER RISING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We rose up from the rocks %like the night a mineral spring Last Line: And let us dance away %forever from the dark body Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WATERCOLOR OF GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There, spring lambs jam the sheepfold. In air Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Cambridge, England; Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WATERCOLOR OF GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There, spring lambs jam the sheepfold. In air Last Line: The owl shall stoop from his turret, the rat cry out Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Cambridge, England; Environment; Fields WAYS HOME, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last summer %spiders came down from trees Last Line: Leaving, dancing home %a strand of light Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WE FIELD-WOMEN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How it rained Last Line: And pails, and songs, and love-too rash: %how it shone! Subject(s): Environment; Fields WE HAVE WALKED SO MANY TIMES, MY BOY, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Nothing of the season but to be Subject(s): Environment; Fields WEEDS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What's down in the earth Last Line: As we sing in the wind Subject(s): Environment WELLFLEET WHALE, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You have your language too Last Line: You have become like us, %disgraced and mortal Subject(s): Environment; Whales WHALE, by RAYMOND HENRI Poem Source First Line: Before disaster went down to every sea Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHALE, by SHEILA BUNKER NICKERSON Poem Source First Line: Pole to pole Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHALE, by DOROTHY WARD Poem Source First Line: In the morning he calls her Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHALE HUNT, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN Poem Source First Line: I am trying to say Last Line: The words that stick %in my sides like harpoons Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHALE SONG, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Whalebones arc among white stones Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHALE TIME, by MARNETTE SAZ Poem Source First Line: Whales at play %take their time Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHALE WALKER'S MORNING, by MICHAEL SHORB Poem Source First Line: Few records survive of the whale walkers Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHALE-WATCH OFF PORTSMOUTH, by WILLIAM DORESKI Poem Source First Line: The whales burst the chop like roots Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHALES SING, by CELIA GILBERT Poem Source Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHALES TO OCEANUS, by SARAH BROWN WEITZMAN Poem Source First Line: They went forward Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHALING, by HOWARD NELSON Poem Source First Line: The sailors in their berths half-woke Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHAT GETS IN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In daylight %houses expand Last Line: Even the moon at the window Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Nuclear War WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THESE WORKING HANDS?, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They opened the ground and closed it around seeds Last Line: They drummed the old burial songs Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WHAT I THINK, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is peaceful to cut celery Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WHAT IT IS, by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is %whatever it is %that stirs the house Last Line: The longs to speak, %whatever it is %that trembles Subject(s): Environment WHAT'S LIVING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The amphibious bedlam of mothers Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WHEATLAND, PA, 1985, by DON FEIGERT Poem Source First Line: I traveled west from frantic jersey on interstate 80 across pennsylvania Last Line: The good old days, sit on gloss-painted benches by the river, and wait %for federal aid Subject(s): Environment; Nature WHEN FIRST THE EYE THIS FORREST SEES, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: As if the night within were hedg'd Subject(s): Environment; 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 THEY LEAVE THE WORLD WILL BE AT PEACE, by GEORGE KEITHLEY Poem Source Last Line: Because they are too innocent %to survive Subject(s): Environment; Nature WHO KNOWS WHERE THE JOY GOES, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Last Line: Is the last dolphin dying? %is there no friend left? %are we here alone? Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WIND AND TREE, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Text 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'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's Biography First Line: Leaves pour blackly across Last Line: Streams rivers of shadow Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Environment; Trees WINDOW IN STONE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A child sleeps Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment 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 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 SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text 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'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'S END, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Late today the storm clouds come rolling in Last Line: We've fully known our own wrapped worth %in winter's wind, our place in wind on earth Subject(s): Environment; Nature WINTERGREEN, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Least ever evergreen Last Line: Degree zero celsius %apple-fresh, mint-angelica flame? Subject(s): Environment; Nature WOMAN CHOPPING WOOD, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I like the smell of pine Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WOMAN IN A MUSTARD FIELD, by ALICE OSWALD Poem Source First Line: From love to light my element Last Line: That grows without your love Subject(s): Environment; Fields WOMAN POURING MILK, by PAUL MATTHEWS Poem Source First Line: Thank you vermeer %for a glimpse of interiors Last Line: Out into the mixture Subject(s): Environment WOMEN ARE GRIEVING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Light %lumine %our salvation Last Line: Death is stealing from me %death is dancing me ragged Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WOMEN DANCING IN A FIELD OF POPPIES, by ISOBEL THRILLING Poem Source First Line: Slowly at first they measure Last Line: The scarlet field, %and o the earth Subject(s): Environment WOMEN SPEAKING, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And the russian women in blue towns %are speaking Last Line: Over the wise distances %on perfect feet. %daughters, I love you Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WOOD, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source 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 FARM, by NEIL POWELL Poem Source First Line: Clutching this twisted rusty Last Line: Reflecting through slow decay %a natural dignity Subject(s): Environment 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'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 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 WOODGATHERING IN OCTOBER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dark trees built tall by the sun Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WOODING, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Source 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 WOODS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text 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'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, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The world does not need words. It articulates itself Last Line: Greater than ourselves and all the airy words we summon Subject(s): Environment WORDS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wind, bird, and tree Last Line: In a landscape, the old words Subject(s): Environment WORDS FOR SOME ASH, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor parched man, we had to squeeze Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation WORDS FOR SOME ASH, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Poor parched man, we had to squeeze Last Line: By the current's argument Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Environment WORKDAY, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I go to work Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment WOUNDED OCEAN, by LENNART BRUCE Poem Source First Line: Is striking out Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters X-RAY OF MY DAUGHTER, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath growing breasts Last Line: Passing through the black and white %revelations of bone Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; X-rays XOCHIQUETZAL, by PAULINE STAINER Poem Source First Line: The firefighters of chernobyl Last Line: Holding a butterfly %between her lips Subject(s): Environment Y WAS A YEW, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Dark little yew! Subject(s): Environment; Trees YARDLEY OAK, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text 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's Biography Last Line: Play wanton, every moment, every spot Subject(s): Environment; Trees YOU LINGERING SPARSE LEAVES OF ME, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text 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 YOUNG BOYS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's springtime and young boys Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment |
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