Nature poems

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The Old Vicarage, Grantchester

© Rupert Brooke



Just now the lilac is in bloom,

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Song Of The Rain VII

© Khalil Gibran

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

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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 251-500 (Whinfield Translation)

© Omar Khayyám

Are you depressed? Then take of bhang one grain,
Of rosy grape-juice take one pint or twain;
Sufis, you say, must not take this or that,
Then go and eat the pebbles off the plain!

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Paradise Lost : Book IV.

© John Milton


O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw

The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud,

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Sonnet XXXVII. To John Greenleaf Whittier.

© Christopher Pearse Cranch

UNBIDDEN to the feast where friends have brought,
To greet thy seventy years, their wreaths of rhyme, —
For that thy form erect such weight of time
Should bear, was never present to my thought, —

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The Progress Of Refinement. Part III.

© Henry James Pye

CONTENTS OF PART III. Introduction.—Comparison of ancient and modern Manners. —Peculiar softness of the latter.—Humanity in War.— Politeness.—Enquiry into the causes.—Purity of the Christian Religion.—Abolition of Slavery in Europe.— Remaining effects of Chivalry.—The behaviour of Edward the Black Prince, after the battle of Poitiers, contrasted with a Roman Triumph.—Tendency of firearms to abate the ferocity of war.—Duelling.—Society of Women.—Consequent prevalence of Love in poetical compositions. —Softness of the modern Drama.—Shakespear admired, but not imitated.—Sentimental Comedy.—Novels. —Diffusion of superficial knowledge.—Prevalence of Gaming in every state of mankind.—Peculiar effect of the universal influence of Cards on modern times.—Luxury.— Enquiry why it does not threaten Europe now, with the fatal consequences it brought on ancient Rome.—Indolence, and Gluttony, checked by the free intercourse with women.—Their dislike to effeminate men.—The frequent wars among the European Nations keep up a martial spirit.—Point of Honor.—Hereditary Nobility.—Peculiar situation of Britain.—Effects of Commerce when carried to excess.—Danger when money becomes the sole distinction. —Address to Men of ancient and noble families.— Address to the Ladies.—The Decline of their influence, a sure fore-runner of selfish Luxury.—Recapitulation and Conclusion.


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Views Of Life

© Anne Brontë

When sinks my heart in hopeless gloom,
And life can show no joy for me;
And I behold a yawning tomb,
Where bowers and palaces should be;

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Sonnet LIV. Idle Hours.

© Christopher Pearse Cranch

YE idle hours of summer, not in vain,
To one by Nature's beauty fed, ye pass —
Though sending through the mental camera glass
No philosophic lesson to the brain,

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The Hall Of Justice

© George Crabbe

Take, take away thy barbarous hand,
And let me to thy Master speak;
Remit awhile the harsh command,
And hear me, or my heart will break.

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I.--Life

© Paul Hamilton Hayne

SUFFERING! and yet majestical in pain;
Mysterious! yet, like spring-showers in the sun,
Veiling the light with their melodious rain,
Life is a warp of gloom and glory spun;

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As On A Holiday

© Friedrich Hölderlin

  As on a holiday, when a farmer

  Goes out to look at his fields, in the morning,

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A Golden Hour

© William Watson

A beckoning spirit of gladness seemed afloat,
  That lightly danced in laughing air before us:
The earth was all in tune, and you a note
  Of Nature's happy chorus.

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To The Fossil Flower

© Jones Very

Dark fossil flower! I see thy leaves unrolled,

With all thy lines of beauty freshly marked,

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The Kalevala - Rune X

© Elias Lönnrot

ILMARINEN FORGES THE SAMPO.


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Aurora Leigh: Book Two

© Elizabeth Barrett Browning


  I pulled the branches down
To choose from.

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Miss Edith Makes It Pleasant For Brother Jack

© Francis Bret Harte

"Crying!"  Of course I am crying, and I guess you would be crying,

  too,

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Love And Thought

© Ralph Waldo Emerson

Two well-assorted travellers use

The highway, Eros and the Muse.

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The Canterbury Tales; PROLOGUE

© Geoffrey Chaucer

  Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote,

  The droghte of March hath perced to the roote

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Hope

© William Cowper

Ask what is human life -- the sage replies,

With disappointment lowering in his eyes,

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Battle Of Hastings - II

© Thomas Chatterton

OH Truth! immortal daughter of the skies,

Too lyttle known to wryters of these daies,