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Poems about Nature

• In The Poppy Field

  Mad Patsy said, he said to me,
  That every morning he could see

  by James Stephens 24 lines, 1 comment
• Ode To Bird Watching

  Let's look for birds!
  The tall iron branches

  by Pablo Neruda 106 lines
• Laughing Song

  When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
  And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;

  by William Blake 14 lines, 3 comments
• Shui lung yin

  Like a flower, but not a flower
  No one cares when it falls

  by Su Tung-po 24 lines
• The Rhodora: On Being Asked, Whence Is The Flower?

  In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes,
  I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods,

  by Ralph Waldo Emerson 15 lines, 2 comments
• The Weeping Garden

  The garden is frightful! It drips, it listens:
  Is it in loneliness here,

  by Boris Pasternak 20 lines
• An Octopus

  of ice. Deceptively reserved and flat,
  it lies "in grandeur and in mass"

  by Marianne Moore 201 lines
• Running Water

  I sit beside a little shadowy stream,
  And try to tell in words my thoughts of you.

  by Robin Hyde 16 lines, 3 comments
• South Country

  After the whey-faced anonymity
  Of river-gums and scribbly-gums and bush,

  by Kenneth Slessor 21 lines
• Sonnet

  A sea of foliage girds our garden round,
  But not a sea of dull unvaried green,

  by Toru Dutt 15 lines, 1 comment
• First Snow

  This is the first soft snow
  That tiptoes up to your door

  by May Sarton 20 lines
• Renyard the Fox - Part 1

  It's shot all day and poached all night.
  We shall draw blank and lose the light,

  by John Masefield 1373 lines
• Hunting The Hare

  Hark for'ard, hark for'ard, hark for'ard, to hills where October
  Lingers awhile in his vesture resplendent yet sober,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 23 lines
• The Sun Has Wept Rose

  The sun has wept rose in the shell of your ears,
  The world has rolled white from your back,

  by Arthur Rimbaud 5 lines
• A cicada shell

  A cicada shell;
  it sang itself

  by Matsuo Basho 2 lines, 7 comments
• Clouds

  Down the blue night the unending columns press
  In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow,

  by Rupert Brooke 14 lines
• Mangroves

  These black bush-waters, heavy with crusted boughs
  like plumes above dead captains, wake the mind....

  by Kenneth Slessor 15 lines, 1 comment
• The Grasshopper

  Happy insect, what can be
  In happiness compared to thee?

  by Abraham Cowley 34 lines
• Desert Flowers

  Living in a wide landscape are the flowers -
  Rosenberg I only repeat what you were saying -

  by Keith Douglas 16 lines, 2 comments
• Wind And Window Flower

  Lovers, forget your love,
      And list to the love of these,

  by Robert Frost 27 lines, 3 comments
• Sinfonia En Gris Mayor (Symphony In Gray Major)

  El mar como un vasto cristal azogado
  refleja la lámina de un cielo de zinc;

  by Ruben Dario 76 lines, 2 comments
• The Dragon-Fly

  By the clear green river,
  One afternoon in early autumn,

  by Clark Ashton Smith 11 lines, 1 comment
• Song Of The Rain VII

  I am dotted silver threads dropped from heaven
  By the gods. Nature then takes me, to adorn

  by Khalil Gibran 37 lines
• To A May Baby

  To come at tulip time how wise!
  Perhaps you will not now regret

  by Winifred Mary Letts 19 lines, 2 comments
• A Sea Dirge

  There is an insect that people avoid
  (Whence is derived the verb 'to flee').

  by Lewis Carroll 48 lines, 1 comment
• The Earth-Spirit

  Then spoke the Spirit of the Earth,
      Her gentle voice like a soft water's song--

  by William Ellery Channing 72 lines
• Mother Night

  Eternities before the first-born day,
  Or ere the first sun fledged his wings of flame,

  by James Weldon Johnson 14 lines
• A Dream

  I dreamt of autumn in the window's twilight,
  And you, a tipsy jesters' throng amidst. '

  by Boris Pasternak 16 lines, 2 comments
• Flight of the Wild Geese

  Rambling along the marshes,
  On the bank of the Assabet,

  by William Ellery Channing 88 lines
• A Hard Frost

  A frost came in the night and stole my world
  And left this changeling for it - a precocious

  by Cecil Day Lewis 20 lines

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