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Poems about Nature

• The Song of the Barren Orange Tree

  Woodcutter.
  Cut my shadow from me.

  by Federico Garcia Lorca 15 lines, 1 comment
• Ashes Of Sunset

  Who fares to find the sunset ere it fly,
  Turning to light and fire the further west,

  by Clark Ashton Smith 9 lines
• The Mountains of Mourne

  Oh Mary this London's a wonderful sight
  With people here workin' by day and by night

  by William Percy French 24 lines
• Fog

  The ghost am I
  Of winds that die

  by John Bannister Tabb 12 lines, 3 comments
• The Camp Fires of the Past

  A thousand, thousand camp fires every night,
  in ages gone, would twinkle to the dark

  by Rex Ingamells 18 lines, 2 comments
• Aquatic Nocturne

  deep in liquid
  turquoise slivers

  by Sylvia Plath 28 lines
• Nature

  O Nature! I do not aspire
  To be the highest in thy choir, -

  by Henry David Thoreau 20 lines
• The Orchard-Pit

  The Orchard-Pit
  Piled deep below the screening apple-branch

  by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 26 lines
• Winter Morning

  Spring stars glitter in the freezing sky,
  Trees on watch are armoured with frost.

  by James Phillip McAuley 9 lines
• Summer - The Second Pastoral; or Alexis

  A Shepherd's Boy (he seeks no better name)
  Led forth his flocks along the silver Thame,

  by Alexander Pope 91 lines
• The Heart Of The Tree

  WHAT does he plant who plants a tree?
  He plants a friend of sun and sky;

  by Henry Cuyler Bunner 27 lines
• With Child

  Now I am slow and placid, fond of sun,
  Like a sleek beast, or a worn one,

  by Genevieve Taggard 21 lines
• Three Flowers

  I made a little song about the rose
  And sang it for the rose to hear,

  by William Watson 20 lines, 1 comment
• June Nights

  In summer, when day has fled, the plain covered with flowers
  Pours out far away an intoxicating scent;

  by Victor Marie Hugo 8 lines, 4 comments
• The Bluebell

  A fine and subtle spirit dwells
  In every little flower,

  by Anne Bronte 48 lines
• Leili

  To tangled paths where shy gazelles are straying,
  And parrot-plumes outshine the dying day.

  by Sarojini Naidu 0 lines, 1 comment
• The Bay Of Naples

  Naples Sea, you're amazing at night
  With the Zephyr's scarf unrolled,

  by Ivan Vazov 12 lines
• An Emu Hunt

  West of Dubbo the west begins
  The land of leisure and hope and trust,

  by A B Banjo Paterson 40 lines
• My Nose

  It doesn't breathe;
  It doesn't smell;

  by Dorothy Keeley Aldis 8 lines
• At The River Crossing

  Oh! the quiet river-crossing
  Where we twain were wont to ride,

  by Harry Breaker Morant 32 lines, 4 comments
• Stray Birds 1 - 10

  STRAY birds of summer come to my window
  to sing and fly away.

  by Rabindranath Tagore 74 lines, 1 comment
• The Rainbow

  Watch the white dawn gleam,
  To the thunder of hidden guns.

  by Leslie Coulson 36 lines, 3 comments
• Come Home!

  When wintry winds are no more heard,
  And joy's in every bosom,

  by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 12 lines
• Mind, I have a question for you

  Mind, I have a question for you — How is it you stay so young?
  As the years pile up on my body, you too should grow old.

  by So Kyongdok 3 lines, 2 comments
• Miranda's Song

  Ye elves! when spangled starlight gleams,
  That flit beneath the ray,

  by Louisa Stuart Costello 16 lines
• Autumn

  How droops the troubled year
  And now her tiny sunset stains the leaf.

  by George Sterling 20 lines, 1 comment
• Magpie

  The magpie's mood is never surly
  every morning, wakening early,

  by James Phillip McAuley 14 lines, 1 comment
• Symphonies

  The red-gold sun
  

  by Esther Popel 75 lines
• The New Moon

  What have you got in your knapsack fair,
  White moon, bright moon, pearling the air,

  by Zora Bernice May Cross 16 lines
• Well Thou Showest, Gracious Spring

  Well thou showest, gracious spring,
  what fair works thy hand can bring;

  by Charles I de Valois, Duke of Orleans 25 lines

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