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Poems about nature, seasons, and the living world

Nature poetry can be descriptive, devotional, political, comic, or inward. A landscape may remain a landscape, or become a way to think about time, freedom, labor, desire, and mortality.

These poems were selected through nature tags, recurring images, and local semantic signals. Move among poets and periods to see how the same moon, bird, flower, or storm changes meaning.

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Poems in this path

  1. "Hope" is the thing with feathersEmily Dickinson · 12 lines
  2. 209. Song—M’Pherson’s FarewellRobert Burns · 28 lines
  3. 310. Tam o’ Shanter: A TaleRobert Burns · 224 lines
  4. 447. Song—A red, red RoseRobert Burns · 16 lines
  5. A Ballad of DreamlandAlgernon Charles Swinburne · 29 lines
  6. A Ballad Of The Trees And The MasterSidney Lanier · 16 lines
  7. A Ballad upon a WeddingSir John Suckling · 132 lines
  8. A BirthdayChristina Rossetti · 16 lines
  9. A Birthday Song. To S. G.Sidney Lanier · 33 lines
  10. A Calendar of Sonnets: JanuaryHelen Hunt Jackson · 15 lines
  11. A Calendar of Sonnets: JuneHelen Hunt Jackson · 14 lines
  12. A Calendar of Sonnets: MayHelen Hunt Jackson · 14 lines
  13. A Child's LaughterAlgernon Charles Swinburne · 30 lines
  14. A cloud of flowersMatsuo Basho · 3 lines
  15. A Dead RoseElizabeth Barrett Browning · 32 lines
  16. A Descriptive Poem on the Silvery TayWilliam Topaz McGonagall · 29 lines
  17. A Dialogue Betwixt Himself and Mistress Elizawheeler, Under the Name of AmarillisRobert Herrick · 24 lines
  18. A Farewell to False LoveSir Walter Raleigh · 30 lines
  19. A Hymn for Christmas DayThomas Chatterton · 42 lines
  20. A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint TeresaRichard Crashaw · 140 lines
  21. A Letter from Artemesia in the Town to Chloe in the CountryJohn Wilmot · 266 lines
  22. A Letter From the Trenches to a School FriendCharles Sorley · 97 lines
  23. A Letter to Her HusbandAnne Bradstreet · 27 lines
  24. A Little Budding RoseEmily Bronte · 18 lines
  25. A MemoryWilliam Allingham · 7 lines
  26. A Musical InstrumentElizabeth Barrett Browning · 42 lines
  27. A Night-Rain in SummerJames Henry Leigh Hunt · 16 lines
  28. A poem on divine revelationHugh Henry Brackenridge · 678 lines
  29. A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac NewtonJames Thomson · 209 lines
  30. A poem, on the rising glory of AmericaHugh Henry Brackenridge · 760 lines
  31. A Red, Red RoseRobert Burns · 16 lines
  32. A Sea DirgeLewis Carroll · 48 lines
  33. A Song of AutumnAdam Lindsay Gordon · 16 lines
  34. A Song of AutumnAdam Lindsay Gordon · 320 lines
  35. A Song of Pitcairn's IslandWilliam Cullen Bryant · 45 lines
  36. A Song of the RoadJames Whitcomb Riley · 20 lines
  37. A Summer AfternoonJames Whitcomb Riley · 28 lines
  38. A Sweltering Day In AustraliaMark Twain · 49 lines
  39. A Word for the HourJohn Greenleaf Whittier · 29 lines
  40. Across the Sea Along the ShoreArthur Hugh Clough · 28 lines
  41. Ali's AnswerMaghreb oral tradition · 71 lines
  42. An Essay on Criticism.Alexander Pope · 747 lines
  43. An Excelente Balade of Charitie: As Wroten bie the Gode PriThomas Chatterton · 91 lines
  44. An Exile's FarewellAdam Lindsay Gordon · 56 lines
  45. An Hymn To Humanity (To S.P.G. Esp)Phillis Wheatley · 41 lines
  46. An Ode to Master Endymion Porter, Upon His Brother's DeathRobert Herrick · 28 lines
  47. And ask ye why these sad tears stream?Lord Alfred Tennyson · 26 lines
  48. Annabel LeeEdgar Allan Poe · 41 lines
  49. ApologyJoyce Kilmer · 41 lines
  50. AutumnThomas Hood · 62 lines
  51. AutumnWalter Savage Landor · 8 lines
  52. AutumnWilliam Morris · 4 lines
  53. Autumnal SonnetWilliam Allingham · 14 lines
  54. Ballade of an OmnibusAmy Levy · 30 lines
  55. Beautiful Newport on the Braes o' the Silvery TayWilliam Topaz McGonagall · 28 lines
  56. Between the Dusk of a Summer NightWilliam Ernest Henley · 16 lines
  57. Blow, Blow, Thou Winter WindWilliam Shakespeare · 20 lines
  58. Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou ArtJohn Keats · 14 lines
  59. Brother Jonathan's LamentOliver Wendell Holmes · 36 lines
  60. Buried Life, TheMatthew Arnold · 98 lines
  61. Celestial LoveRalph Waldo Emerson · 107 lines
  62. Ch’ang-KanLi Po · 41 lines
  63. ChildrenHenry Wadsworth Longfellow · 36 lines
  64. ChristabelSamuel Coleridge · 689 lines
  65. Come hither, childEmily Bronte · 32 lines
  66. Come Home!Mary Elizabeth Coleridge · 12 lines
  67. DeathEmily Bronte · 32 lines
  68. DeathJohn Clare · 26 lines
  69. DeathThomas Hood · 14 lines
  70. Death, To The Dead For EvermoreRobert Louis Stevenson · 25 lines
  71. Do not weep, maiden, for war is kindStephen Crane · 26 lines
  72. Double Ballade on the Nothingness of ThingsWilliam Ernest Henley · 72 lines
  73. Doubtful DreamsAdam Lindsay Gordon · 433 lines
  74. Drinking SongLi Po · 30 lines
  75. Easter DayOscar Wilde · 14 lines
  76. Easter WeekCharles Kingsley · 16 lines
  77. Easter ZundayWilliam Barnes · 28 lines
  78. Elegy to the Memory of WerterRobinson · 38 lines
  79. Eloisa to Abelard.Alexander Pope · 366 lines
  80. ENDYMION (For music)Oscar Wilde · 42 lines
  81. Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot; or, Prologue to the Satires.Alexander Pope · 425 lines
  82. Faithless Sally BrownThomas Hood · 68 lines
  83. Farewell Frost, or Welcome SpringRobert Herrick · 22 lines
  84. Farewell to the CourtSir Walter Raleigh · 14 lines
  85. FightingLi Po · 22 lines
  86. First AnniversaryAndrew Marvell · 402 lines
  87. FlowersThomas Hood · 24 lines
  88. Flowers in WinterJohn Greenleaf Whittier · 68 lines
  89. For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry (excerpt, Jubilate Agno)Christopher Smart · 74 lines
  90. FragmentsAlan Seeger · 83 lines
  91. from Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, lines 695-768Christopher Smart · 77 lines
  92. From The Short Story A Christmas Dream, And How It Came TrueLouisa May Alcott · 24 lines
  93. Gitanjali 02: When thou commandest me to sing it seems that Rabindranath Tagore · 11 lines
  94. Gitanjali 03: I know not how thou singest, my master! I everRabindranath Tagore · 9 lines
  95. Gitanjali 05: I ask for a moment’s indulgence to sit by thy Rabindranath Tagore · 9 lines
  96. Gitanjali 06: Pluck this little flower and take it, delay noRabindranath Tagore · 7 lines
  97. GodKahlil Gibran · 26 lines
  98. Gods.Walt Whitman · 32 lines
  99. Her Sweet turn to leave the HomesteadEmily Dickinson · 28 lines
  100. HomeAnne Bronte · 28 lines
  101. Home Thoughts, From AbroadRobert Browning · 20 lines
  102. How still, how happy!Emily Bronte · 32 lines
  103. How we Beat the FavouriteAdam Lindsay Gordon · 367 lines
  104. I am the autumnal sunHenry David Thoreau · 18 lines
  105. I Find No PeaceSir Thomas Wyatt · 14 lines
  106. I Have A Rendezvous With DeathAlan Seeger · 24 lines
  107. I Wandered Lonely As A CloudWilliam Wordsworth · 24 lines
  108. In a Spring GroveWilliam Allingham · 14 lines
  109. In Memoriam A. H. H.: 121. Sad Hesper o'er the buried sunLord Alfred Tennyson · 20 lines
  110. In Memoriam A. H. H.: 78. Again at Christmas did we weaveLord Alfred Tennyson · 20 lines
  111. In spring and summer winds may blowWalter Savage Landor · 20 lines
  112. InsensibilityWilfred Owen · 65 lines
  113. Jehovah JesusWilliam Cowper · 24 lines
  114. Jubilate Agno (excerpt)Christopher Smart · 74 lines
  115. Jubilate Agno: Fragment AChristopher Smart · 113 lines
  116. Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 4Christopher Smart · 192 lines
  117. Juvenilia, An Ode to Natural BeautyAlan Seeger · 175 lines
  118. Kissing timeEugene Field · 32 lines
  119. KU FĒNG, No. 6Li Po · 16 lines
  120. Late AutumnWilliam Allingham · 14 lines
  121. LaudamusAdam Lindsay Gordon · 19 lines
  122. Let such pure hate still underpropHenry David Thoreau · 66 lines
  123. LibertyEdward Thomas · 27 lines
  124. LifeCharlotte Bronte · 24 lines
  125. LifeRobinson · 39 lines
  126. Lines Written From HomeAnne Bronte · 32 lines
  127. Lines Written In Early SpringWilliam Wordsworth · 24 lines
  128. Lord Ullin's DaughterThomas Campbell · 56 lines
  129. LorraineCharles Kingsley · 24 lines
  130. Love Among the RuinsRobert Browning · 84 lines
  131. M'Fingal - Canto IIJohn Trumbull · 810 lines
  132. M'Fingal - Canto IIIJohn Trumbull · 662 lines
  133. M'Fingal - Canto IVJohn Trumbull · 1040 lines
  134. MemoryWilliam Browne · 18 lines
  135. Merry AutumnPaul Laurence Dunbar · 40 lines
  136. Miracles.Walt Whitman · 37 lines
  137. MithridatesRalph Waldo Emerson · 34 lines
  138. Music: An OdeAlgernon Charles Swinburne · 29 lines
  139. Music's EmpireAndrew Marvell · 24 lines
  140. My Last DanceJulia Ward Howe · 48 lines
  141. My Little March GirlPaul Laurence Dunbar · 24 lines
  142. My MuseAlexander Pushkin · 16 lines
  143. My TriumphJohn Greenleaf Whittier · 72 lines
  144. MycerinusMatthew Arnold · 127 lines
  145. Nay, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring,Oscar Wilde · 32 lines
  146. Nearer, my God, to Thee.Sarah Flower Adams · 35 lines
  147. O Gather Me the RoseWilliam Ernest Henley · 16 lines
  148. Ode IIHafiz · 26 lines
  149. Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for FranceAlan Seeger · 104 lines
  150. Ode On A Grecian UrnJohn Keats · 50 lines
  151. Ode on Solitude.Alexander Pope · 20 lines
  152. Ode On The SpringThomas Gray · 50 lines
  153. Ode To AutumnJohn Keats · 33 lines
  154. Ode To BeautyRalph Waldo Emerson · 99 lines
  155. Ode to WinterThomas Campbell · 64 lines
  156. Ode VHafiz · 20 lines
  157. Ode VIHafiz · 52 lines
  158. Ode Written On The First Of DecemberRobert Southey · 43 lines
  159. Ode Written On The First Of JanuaryRobert Southey · 56 lines
  160. Ode XVIIHafiz · 18 lines