Nature poems

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The Evening Wind

© William Cullen Bryant

Spirit that breathest through my lattice, thou


 That cool’st the twilight of the sultry day,

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On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born

© Charles Lamb

I saw where in the shroud did lurk


A curious frame of Nature's work.

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A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687

© John Dryden

Stanza 4
 The soft complaining flute
 In dying notes discovers
 The woes of hopeless lovers,
Whose dirge is whisper'd by the warbling lute.

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This Lime-tree Bower my Prison

© Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[Addressed to Charles Lamb, of the India House, London]


Well, they are gone, and here must I remain,

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Chorus Sacerdotum

© Fulke Greville

from Mustapha


O wearisome condition of humanity!

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Hotel François 1er

© Gertrude Stein

It was a very little while and they had gone in front of it. It was that they had liked it would it bear. It was a very much adjoined a follower. Flower of an adding where a follower.
  Have I come in. Will in suggestion.
  They may like hours in catching.
  It is always a pleasure to remember.

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Song

© Aphra Behn

O Love! that stronger art than wine,

Pleasing delusion, witchery divine,

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A Little Language

© Robert Duncan

I know a little language of my cat, though Dante says 
that animals have no need of speech and Nature 
abhors the superfluous. My cat is fluent. He 
converses when he wants with me. To speak

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The Relic

© John Donne

When my grave is broke up again

  Some second guest to entertain,

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from The Task, Book I: The Sofa

© William Cowper

(excerpt)


Thou know’st my praise of nature most sincere,

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The Virgin

© André Breton



Mother! whose virgin bosom was uncrost

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Dejection: An Ode

© Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon,
With the old Moon in her arms;
And I fear, I fear, my Master dear!
We shall have a deadly storm.

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Thoughtless Cruelty

© Charles Lamb

There, Robert, you have kill'd that fly — ,
And should you thousand ages try
The life you've taken to supply,
 You could not do it.

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Lines Written in Early Spring

© André Breton

I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.

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The Cave Painters

© Eamon Grennan

Holding only a handful of rushlight

they pressed deeper into the dark, at a crouch 

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Niagara

© Daniel Nester

Driving westward near Niagara, that transfiguring of the waters,
I was torn—as moon from orbit by a warping of gravitation—
From coercion of the freeway to the cataract’s prodigality,
Had to stand there, breathe its rapture, inebriety of the precipice . . .

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Satire III

© John Donne

Kind pity chokes my spleen; brave scorn forbids

Those tears to issue which swell my eyelids;

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Paradise Lost: Book X

© Patrick Kavanagh

So having said, he thus to Eve in few:
"Say, Woman, what is this which thou hast done?"
To whom sad Eve, with shame nigh overwhelm'd,
Confessing soon, yet not before her Judge
Bold or loquacious, thus abash'd replied,
"The Serpent me beguil'd, and I did eat."

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Cabin

© Anne Waldman

eviction people arrive to haunt me
 with descriptions of summer’s wildflowers 
 how they are carpet of fierce colors

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Upon the Hill and Grove at Bilbrough

© Andrew Marvell

TO THE LORD FAIRFAX


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