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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis            
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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was angry with my friend
Last Line: My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
Subject(s): Anger; Bible; Enemies; Environment; Hate; Men; Mythology; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


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


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


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


AGAIN 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's nothing here %this early
Last Line: That grieves in silence, like parental love
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


ALONE IN THE WOODS, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone in the woods I felt
Last Line: More and more %in the wrong direction
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Trees


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


AN ADDRESS TO WEYERHAEUSER, THE TREE-GROWING COMPANY, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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            Poet Analysis            
First Line: There is a distance in the heart
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


ANCESTOR OF THE HUNTING HEART; AFTER BREUGEL, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a distance in the heart
Last Line: The rest are camped indoors, %their damped fires smoking %inthe early dusk
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Coyote butte rinsed by earthlight begins
Last Line: This day floods over the earth and splashes %against you. In the sky your way appears: true north
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


AT THE DARK'S EDGE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wet almond-trees, in the rain
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Travel; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Journeys; Trips


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


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snowmelt pond -- warm granite
Subject(s): Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


BEDROCK, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snowmelt pond -- warm granite
Last Line: We laugh %and grieve
Subject(s): Environment


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


BEECH, by CHARLES TOMLINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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         Poet Analysis            
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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled
Last Line: Sweet especial rural scene.
Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Environment; Holidays; Nature; New Year; Poplar Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


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


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         Poet Analysis            
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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I named it blunden's beech; and no one knew
Last Line: To summer's idyll an unheeded grace
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This bush with light green leaves
Last Line: The big winter can come back, and only %bushes from mongolia will survive
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


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


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


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


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


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


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


COME 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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis            
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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A smell comes off my pencil as I write
Last Line: The smell coming off my pencil as I write
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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


DELIGHT SONG OF TSOAI-TALEE, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ever since the great planes were murdered
Last Line: Were simply biding their time
Subject(s): Civilization; Environment; Nature; Trees


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silver water not the standard
Last Line: No small part of their safe-conduct - habits %by now a fact like plumage, axiomatic
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


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


ELM 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         Poet Analysis            
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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis            
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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This valley wood is pledged
Last Line: Small pathways idly tend %towards no fearful end
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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


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


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd seen / their hoofprints in the deep
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


FIVE A.M. IN THE PINEWOODS, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd seen %their hoofprints in the deep
Last Line: So this is how you pray
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lean at your rail. Look close at the ripe water
Last Line: By a sea change through which everything is forgiven, %not given up for lost, not even %you disappea
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


FOR INSTANCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Often, it's nowhere special: maybe
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


FOR INSTANCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Often, it's nowhere special: maybe
Last Line: That inward cry again - %erde, du liebe
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


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


FOR THE CHILDREN, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see the oak's bride in the oak's grasp
Last Line: In a brown leaf nostalgia %an acorn stupor
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


GEO-BESTIARY: 4, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Not though they hale in crimsoned nets %the sunset from the main
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is charged with the grandeur of god
Last Line: World broods with warm breast and with ah! Bright wings.
Subject(s): Christianity; Earth; Environment; Faith; God; Labor & Laborers; Men; Nature; Redemption; Religion; War; World; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Work; Workers; Theology


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twelve ravens squawk, squork, crork
Last Line: Earth / loves to love
Subject(s): Environment; Geology; Mythology; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


HAIDA GWAI NORTH COAST, HAIKOON BEACH, HIELLEN RIVER RAVEN CROAKS, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twelve ravens squawk, squork, crork
Last Line: Tangled in fall flood streams
Subject(s): Environment; Geology; Mythology; Nature


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It ended at the time of hiroshima. Everything
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


HISTORY AS HORSE LIGHT, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It ended at the time of hiroshima. Everything
Last Line: A skillet sputtering %brilliant greases, pure and imageless,down the dark
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


HISTORY OF 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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The arctic fox of kiska now is quelled
Last Line: Who, sizing up the prospects of the few %in saving one, eradicated two
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, to be in england, now that april's there
Last Line: Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!
Variant Title(s): April In England
Subject(s): April; England; Environment; Fields; Homesickness; May (month); Nature; Spring; Travel; Trees; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is so strange about a tree alone in an open field?
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Pheasants; Willow Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


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


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


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


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


IN 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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, where shallows and hillside
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


IN SMOOTH WATER THE MOUNTAINS SUSPEND THEMSELVES, by JANE HIRSHFIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, where shallows and hillside
Last Line: How they rest like folded wings in the clear water %patient,waiting, having borne us this far
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


IN 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, when I look at lovely things which pass
Last Line: Over the fields. They come in spring.
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


IN THE FOREST WITHOUT LEAVES, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This earth written over with words
Last Line: "one tree, one leaf,
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


IN THE FOREST WITHOUT LEAVES: 3, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This earth written over with words
Last Line: And silence for the clearing %where no house stands
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


IN THE 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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have elected the end
Last Line: We are flying from the center %multiplying as we burn
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This darksome burn, horseback brown
Last Line: Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
Subject(s): Brooks; Environment; Nature; Scotland; Wilderness; Streams; Creeks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A leaf is spiralling directly at the tall grass
Last Line: To find itself a place on earth
Variant Title(s): Leaving The Door Open: 4
Subject(s): Aging; Environment; Nature


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


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As quick as a hawk's wing tipped
Last Line: Still lift and touch me as %she sails all the way through
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the roads of london springs the forest
Last Line: To quench the sorrows thirsting in the world's eyes
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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


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


MARE, by VERNON WATKINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The oak inns creak in their joints as light declines
Subject(s): Environment; Hotels; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


MIDSUMMER: 36, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The oak inns creak in their joints as light declines
Last Line: Of shallow or silence in their fading garden
Subject(s): Environment; Hotels; Trees


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, it's still the loveliest meadow in all vermont
Last Line: Maybe I have lived too long with the world
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature; Plants; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Planting; Planters


MYTHS AND TEXTS: LOGGING: 14, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The groves are down
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


MYTHS AND TEXTS: LOGGING: 14, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The groves are down
Last Line: To his eager nose
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


NAMING THE 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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis            
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         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Shall I have jealous thoughts to nurse
Last Line: Clean through the heart of no-man's wood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods


NOR LESS ATTRACTIVE IS THE WOODLAND SCENE, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As bushful, yet impatient to be seen
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Her household to me, and I should be just
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


NOW I'M ALONE, by JOHN FREDERICK ZURN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I long for forests of redwood and pine
Last Line: I once had a tribe, now I'm alone
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


NOW WEEKENDS FOR THE GODS NOW, WARS, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Busy about the tree of life
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


NOW, MY CO-MATES AND BROTHERS IN EXILE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I would not change it
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


NURSERY RHYME, by CAROL ANN DUFFY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shrugging in the flight of its leaves
Last Line: The strength by which we held to it %and stood, the daylight over it %a mighty blessing we cannot be
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


OLD 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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tree the tempest with a crash of wood
Last Line: And steer it a direction straight through space.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


ON 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis            
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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Glory be to god for dappled things
Last Line: Praise him.
Subject(s): Beauty; Christianity; Environment; Fields; God; Language; Men; Nature; Religion; Worship; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Words; Vocabulary; Theology


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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd watched the sorrow of the evening sky
Last Line: Being glad of you, o pine-trees and the sky!
Subject(s): Environment; Soldiers' Writings; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


PIPEFISH, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the green / and purple weeds
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


PIPEFISH, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the green %and purple weeds
Last Line: Gathering and closing %so dry and slow
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


PLANTATION, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Any point in that wood
Last Line: To be pilot and stray -- witch %hansel and gretel in one
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the mating of trees
Last Line: And the sound of the wind in them
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


PLANTING TREES, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the mating of trees
Last Line: Shining, and their shadows on the ground, %and the sound of the wind in them
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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         Poet Analysis            
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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A people in the throes of national prosperity, who
Last Line: Has been wakened in the night by a dream of the calamity of peace
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was remarkable, that day on the river
Last Line: Magic enough to avoid eight rifles flashing %as long as all that and still, as they finally were, %b
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old forest, tall household of the birds, no more
Last Line: All forms will pass, matter alone remain
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, the great sky!
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


SILENT SPRING, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, the great sky!
Last Line: Hear your own steps %in violent silence
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These are amazing: each
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


SOME TREES, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These are amazing: each
Last Line: These accents seem their own defense
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


SONG, by PETER REDGROVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think that I shall never see / a billboard lovely as a tree
Subject(s): Billboards; Environment; Kilmer, Joyce (1886-1918); Nature; Travel; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Journeys; Trips


SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think that I shall never see %a billboard lovely as a tree
Last Line: I'll never see a tree at all
Subject(s): Billboards; Environment; Kilmer, Joyce (1886-1918); Nature; Travel; Trees


SONG OF THE 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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where have you been, south wind, this may-day morning
Last Line: When you stole to me shyly with scent of hawthorn.
Subject(s): Environment; Soldiers' Writings; Trees; Wind; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


SPARROW-HAWK IN THE SUBURBS, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somehwere %a black bear
Last Line: All day I think of her-- %her white teeth, %her wordlessness, %her perfect love
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


SPRING 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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two thousand years of fog and sucking minerals
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


STOVEWOOD, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two thousand years of fog and sucking minerals
Last Line: And stick it in a stove
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring like smoke in the fruit trees
Last Line: When we live, we live for the last time, %as akhmatova says.%one 'the' in a world of 'a'
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The surveyor climbs a stonewall into woods
Last Line: Sun and study slogans of dirt: 'never consider %a surface except as the extension of a volume.'
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never quite quiet, it accepted what came
Last Line: And begin to feel my invisible hands
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


THAT 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In her gnarled sleep it
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Environment; Gays & Lesbians; Poetry & Poets; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


THE CHERRY TREES, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cherry trees bend over and are
Last Line: This early may morn when there is none to wed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Environment; Trees; War; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


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


THE COMBE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The combe was ever dark, ancient and dark
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Animals; Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE 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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the place where dorothea smiled
Last Line: This is the place where dorothea smiled
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE END, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old elm that murmured in our chimney top
Last Line: & freedoms birthright from the weak devours
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Environment; Freedom; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Liberty


THE FISH, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poetry of earth is never dead
Last Line: The grasshopper's among some grassy hills.
Variant Title(s): On The Grasshopper And Cricket
Subject(s): Crickets; Environment; Fields; Grasshoppers; Insects; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs


THE IDEA OF BALANCE IS TO BE FOUND IN HERONS AND LOONS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I just heard a loon call on a t.V. Ad
Last Line: Within their breasts.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Solitude; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Loneliness


THE LAST ONE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shrugging in the flight of its leaves
Last Line: A mighty blessing we cannot bear for long
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE OLD OAK TREE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I sit beneath your leaves, old oak
Last Line: The stars turn over leaves of light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Oak Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE 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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade
Last Line: Have a being less durable even than he.
Subject(s): Aging; Environment; Fields; Poplar Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE PURSE-SEINE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A people in the throes of national prosperity, who
Last Line: Has been wakened in the night by a dream of the calamity of peace
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One night in my room
Last Line: Among the excellent vegetables.
Subject(s): Environment; Happiness; Nature; Self; Stones; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Joy; Delight; Granite; Rocks


THE SUN USED TO SHINE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up! Up! My friend, and clear your looks
Last Line: That watches and receives.
Subject(s): Country Life; Environment; Nature; Religion; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Theology


THE THORN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a thorn; it looks so old
Last Line: "oh woe is me! Oh misery!'"
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE TREE, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood still and was a tree amid the wood
Last Line: That was rank folly to my head before.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE TREES, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees are coming into leaf
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They shut the road through the woods
Last Line: But there is no road through the woods.
Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Roads; Time; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods; Paths; Trails


THE WELLFLEET WHALE, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter these enchanted woods
Last Line: You who dare.
Subject(s): Courage; Environment; Forests; Magic; Mythology; Trees; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods


THE WORDS, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've spent this morning studying the leaves
Last Line: And shakes them up, as if to remind them
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


THIS 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In their homes, much glass and steel. Their cars
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Environment; Exiles; Nature; Estrangement; Outcasts; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THOSE WHO WANT OUT, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In their homes, much glass and steel. Their cars
Last Line: They do not love the earth
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Environment; Exiles; Nature


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High on the reef, the chalk-dry barnacles
Last Line: With eyelids shut and trembling, the mind's eye staring
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


THROUGH ALL THE MEADOWS..., by SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The two executioners stalk along over the knolls
Last Line: And two hundred years steady growth has been ended in less %than two hours
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TIDE TURNING, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the avenues of yesterday
Last Line: The word that has whitened the traveller's hair
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TIMESWEEP, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here you stay %night and day
Last Line: Smelt the landscape's sweet serene
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TO 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Back then someone said, 'I will tell them a story
Last Line: Willingly caught up, being part of what is
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. 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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Grotesquely shaped, this stubbed tree craves a madman's %eye
Last Line: Unanchored, free, in prosperous moonlight and amaze
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREE, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under unending interrogation by wind
Last Line: Lets what happens to it happen
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREE, by CHARLES TOMLINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This child, shovelling away
Last Line: Flagstones spread at his feet
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREE, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tree, lend me this root
Last Line: Where will your dryad be?
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREE 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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So sigh, that hearkening pasts arouse
Last Line: Tombed worlds for me
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREE OF GUILT, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When first we knew it, gibbet-bare
Last Line: Is that a noose that dangles there?
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREE OF HEAVEN, by KATRINA PORTEOUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Harvard has famous elms, boston its maples
Last Line: It springs from, like scars
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREE PARTY, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your health, master willow. Contrive me a bat
Last Line: But do not be vexed, I will postdate a cheque for you
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREE SONG, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the trees that grow so fair
Last Line: By oak, and ash, and thorn!
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREE SONG, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between dirt dark and giddy sky
Last Line: My secret hardwood no bud ever knew
Subject(s): Environment; Nature


TREE TELLING OF ORPHEUS, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White dawn. Stillness. When the rippling began
Last Line: Recalling our agony, and the way we danced. %the music!
Subject(s): Environment; Music And Musicians; Trees


TREE-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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a tree
Last Line: But only god can make a tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce
Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Environment; Faith; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Religion; Soldiers; Travel; Trees; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Theology; Journeys; Trips; First World War


TREES, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees are coming into leaf
Last Line: Last year is dead, they seem to say, %begin afresh, afresh, afresh
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREES BE COMPANY, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When zummer's burnen het's a-shed
Last Line: The trees would still be company.
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Pleasure; Seasons; Solitude; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Loneliness


TREES IN A TOWN, by VERNON WATKINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why must they fell two chestnuts on the road?
Last Line: Whose highway must be useful and be clean
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TREES IN TUBS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little laurel trees, your roots can find
Last Line: The budding evergreen of time
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How can the snow
Last Line: As the u.S.A?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


TWO 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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You, if you were sensible
Last Line: What place have you in my histories?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


UNDER TREES, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Yellow tunnels under the trees, long avenues
Last Line: Tunnels, under yellow leaves, long avenues
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up the ash tree climbs the ivy
Subject(s): England; Environment; Trees; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


UPPER LAMBOURNE, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up the ash tree climbs the ivy
Last Line: Far surrounding, seem their own
Subject(s): England; Environment; Trees


URGENT, by SHEILA WINGFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Villages pass under the plough
Last Line: And our elms. We have %barely a minute now
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And sparrows are free of all the time in the world: %less than a window-pane between
Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Trees


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         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Down through the trees is my green walk
Last Line: A little violet in the grass.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Flowers; Trees; Violets; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


VIRGIN IN A TREE, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How this tart fable instructs
Last Line: Till irony's bough break
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


VIRGIN IN A TREE, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How this tart fable instructs
Last Line: Easy and often as each breath
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


VISION, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So this is what happened
Last Line: Where they had gone
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


WALNUT ST., OAK ST., SYCAMORE ST., ETC, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So this is what happened
Last Line: Where they had gone
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nothing of the season but to be
Subject(s): Environment; Fields


WEEDS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis            
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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the way that the most of the wind
Subject(s): Environment; Love - Erotic; Love; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


WIND AND TREE, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the way that the most of the wind
Last Line: I tell new weather
Subject(s): Environment; Erotic Love; Love; Trees


WIND FLASHES THE GRASS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Leaves pour blackly across
Last Line: Streams rivers of shadow
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wet dawn inks are doing their blue dissolve
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


WINTER TREES, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wet dawn inks are doing their blue dissolve
Last Line: The shadows of ringdoves chanting, but easing nothing
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


WINTER'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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A wood. %a man entered
Last Line: Without end? How many times %over must he begin again?
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


WOOD 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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who hath not felt the influence that so calms
Last Line: And felt a placid joy refreshed at heart
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From windows in the home, old people
Last Line: Still destitute of ways to show our grief
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


WOODS, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I part the out thrusting branches
Last Line: There is flight around me
Subject(s): Blessings; Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


WOODS, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I part the out thrusting branches
Last Line: Though I am heavy %there is flight around me
Subject(s): Blessings; Environment; Trees


WORDS, 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Dark little yew!
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


YARDLEY OAK, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Survivor sole, and hardly such, of all
Last Line: Eventful, should supply her with a theme.
Subject(s): Environment; Oak Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


YE FALLEN AVENUES! ONCE MORE I MOURN, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Play wanton, every moment, every spot
Subject(s): Environment; Trees


YOU LINGERING SPARSE LEAVES OF ME, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You lingering sparse leaves of me on winter-nearing boughs
Last Line: The faithfulest -- hardiest -- last.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


YOUNG BOYS, by LINDA HOGAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's springtime and young boys
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment