Poems about Nature

• The Australian Sunrise

  The Morning Star paled slowly, the Cross hung low to the sea,
  And down the shadowy reaches the tide came swirling free,

  by James Lister Cuthbertson 13 lines, 11 comments
• Boomerang

  This piece of hardwood, cunningly shaped,
  was curved so evenly while piccaninnies gaped

  by Rex Ingamells 8 lines, 1 comment
• Tentacles of Time

  The Moon Dies, The Sun Dies
  The Earth and Sky Die Too |

  by Kabir 35 lines, 1 comment
• At Best

  The faithful helm commands the keel,
  From port to port fair breezes blow;

  by John Boyle O'Reilly 14 lines, 4 comments
• Autumn Casualties

  It is not that my heart grieves
  For these burnt-out Autumn leaves,

  by Douglas Gibson 11 lines, 12 comments
• The Sun

  He prisons many a life indeed
  Within the narrow cells of seed,

  by John Bannister Tabb 4 lines, 1 comment
• The Highlands

  Saw ye first, arrayed in mist and cloud;
  No cheerful lights softened your aspect bold;

  by Sarah Margaret Fuller 14 lines
• A Love By The Sea

  Out of the starless night that covers me,
  (O tribulation of the wind that rolls!)

  by William Ernest Henley 20 lines
• Moonlit Apples

  At the top of the house the apples are laid in rows,
  And the skylight lets the moonlight in, and those

  by John Drinkwater 16 lines
• Nature

  As a fond mother, when the day is o'er,
  Leads by the hand her little child to bed,

  by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 14 lines, 1 comment
• Great, Wide, Beautiful, Wonderful World

  Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,
  With the wonderful water round you curled,

  by William Brighty Rands 21 lines, 4 comments
• April Aubade

  Worship this world of watercolor mood
  in glass pagodas hung with veils of green

  by Sylvia Plath 14 lines
• Having Seen Them Long

  Having seen them long,
  I hold the flowers so dear

  by Saigyo 5 lines, 7 comments
• September in Australia

  Grey Winter hath gone, like a wearisome guest,
  And, behold, for repayment,

  by Henry Kendall 54 lines, 4 comments
• At Home from Church

  The lilacs in the sunshine lift
      Their plumes of dear old-fashioned flowers

  by Sarah Orne Jewett 24 lines, 4 comments
• The Vampire Moon

  The vital vapors to absorb,
  The moon, with famished gaze,

  by John Bannister Tabb 12 lines
• From My Diary, July 1914

  Leaves
  Murmuring by miriads in the shimmering trees.

  by Wilfred Owen 32 lines
• Pu suan tzu

  A fragment moon hangs from the bare tung tree
  The water clock runs out, all is still

  by Su Tung-po 8 lines
• The Hidden Tide

  WITHIN the world a second world
  That circles ceaselessly:

  by Roderic Quinn 60 lines
• Sky-Blue

  The azure blue, the heavenly hue,
  The first created realm of blue;

  by Nikoloz Baratashvili 24 lines
• A Song of an Autumn Night

  Under the crescent moon a light autumn dew
  Has chilled the robe she will not change —

  by Wang Wei 3 lines, 5 comments
• Autumn

  HE autumn comes, a maiden fair
  In slenderness and grace,

  by Kalidasa 24 lines
• A Song Of Farewell

  THE spring will come again, dear friends,
  The swallow o’er the sea;

  by Dora Greenwell 33 lines
• Progress

  The city's heat is like a leaden pall—
  Its lowered lamps glow in the midnight air

  by Osbert Sitwell 16 lines
• The Black Vulture

  Aloof within the day's enormous dome,
  He holds unshared the silence of the sky.

  by George Sterling 14 lines, 1 comment
• Windy Night (Haoyar Rat)

  Last night was thick with wind, a time of countless stars.
  All night long, a vast wind played within my mosquito net.

  by Jibanananda Das 43 lines, 1 comment
• Spring

  Gentle Spring! in sunshine clad,
    Well dost thou thy power display!

  by Charles I de Valois, Duke of Orleans 25 lines
• Indian Summer

  Along the line of smoky hills
  The crimson forest stands,

  by William Wilfred Campbell 12 lines, 3 comments
• A Winter Day

  The cock, warm roosting 'midst his feather'd dames,
  Now lifts his beak and snuffs the morning air,

  by Joanna Baillie 296 lines
• Constant Beauty

  It's good to have the trees again, the singing of the breeze again,
  It's good to see the lilacs bloom as lovely as of old.

  by Edgar Albert Guest 16 lines

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