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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. A Ballad of DreamlandAlgernon Charles Swinburne · 29 lines
  2. A Ballad of the Trees and the MasterSidney Lanier · 16 lines
  3. A Ballad upon a WeddingSir John Suckling · 132 lines
  4. A BirthdayChristina Rossetti · 16 lines
  5. A Birthday Song. To S. G.Sidney Lanier · 33 lines
  6. A Calendar of Sonnets: JanuaryHelen Hunt Jackson · 15 lines
  7. A Calendar of Sonnets: JuneHelen Hunt Jackson · 14 lines
  8. A Calendar of Sonnets: MayHelen Hunt Jackson · 14 lines
  9. A Child's LaughterAlgernon Charles Swinburne · 30 lines
  10. A cloud of flowersMatsuo Basho · 3 lines
  11. A Dead RoseElizabeth Barrett Browning · 32 lines
  12. A Descriptive Poem on the Silvery TayWilliam Topaz McGonagall · 29 lines
  13. A Dialogue Betwixt Himself and Mistress Eliza Wheeler, under the Name of AmarillisRobert Herrick · 24 lines
  14. A Farewell to False LoveSir Walter Raleigh · 30 lines
  15. A Hymn for Christmas DayThomas Chatterton · 42 lines
  16. A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint TeresaRichard Crashaw · 140 lines
  17. A Letter from Artemesia in the Town to Chloe in the CountryJohn Wilmot · 266 lines
  18. A Letter from the Trenches to a School FriendCharles Sorley · 97 lines
  19. A Letter to Her HusbandAnne Bradstreet · 27 lines
  20. A Little Budding RoseEmily Bronte · 18 lines
  21. A MemoryWilliam Allingham · 7 lines
  22. A Musical InstrumentElizabeth Barrett Browning · 42 lines
  23. A Night-Rain in SummerJames Henry Leigh Hunt · 16 lines
  24. A poem on divine revelationHugh Henry Brackenridge · 678 lines
  25. A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac NewtonJames Thomson · 209 lines
  26. A poem, on the rising glory of AmericaHugh Henry Brackenridge · 760 lines
  27. A RaptureThomas Carew · 166 lines
  28. A Red, Red RoseRobert Burns · 16 lines
  29. A Sea DirgeLewis Carroll · 48 lines
  30. A Song of AutumnAdam Lindsay Gordon · 16 lines
  31. A Song of Pitcairn's IslandWilliam Cullen Bryant · 45 lines
  32. A Song of the RoadJames Whitcomb Riley · 20 lines
  33. A Song to DavidChristopher Smart · 602 lines
  34. A Summer AfternoonJames Whitcomb Riley · 28 lines
  35. A Sweltering Day in AustraliaMark Twain · 49 lines
  36. A Word for the HourJohn Greenleaf Whittier · 29 lines
  37. Across the Sea Along the ShoreArthur Hugh Clough · 28 lines
  38. Ali's AnswerMaghreb oral tradition · 71 lines
  39. An Essay on CriticismAlexander Pope · 747 lines
  40. An Excelente Balade of Charitie: As Wroten bie the Gode PriThomas Chatterton · 91 lines
  41. An Exile's FarewellAdam Lindsay Gordon · 56 lines
  42. An Hymn to Humanity (To S.P.G. Esp)Phillis Wheatley · 41 lines
  43. An Ode to Master Endymion Porter, upon His Brother's DeathRobert Herrick · 28 lines
  44. And ask ye why these sad tears stream?Lord Alfred Tennyson · 26 lines
  45. Annabel LeeEdgar Allan Poe · 41 lines
  46. ApologyJoyce Kilmer · 41 lines
  47. Auld Lang SyneRobert Burns · 24 lines
  48. AutumnThomas Hood · 62 lines
  49. AutumnWalter Savage Landor · 8 lines
  50. AutumnWilliam Morris · 4 lines
  51. Autumnal SonnetWilliam Allingham · 14 lines
  52. Ballade of an OmnibusAmy Levy · 30 lines
  53. Beautiful Newport on the Braes o' the Silvery TayWilliam Topaz McGonagall · 28 lines
  54. Because I could not stop for DeathEmily Dickinson · 20 lines
  55. Between the Dusk of a Summer NightWilliam Ernest Henley · 16 lines
  56. Blow, Blow, Thou Winter WindWilliam Shakespeare · 20 lines
  57. Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou ArtJohn Keats · 14 lines
  58. Brother Jonathan's LamentOliver Wendell Holmes · 36 lines
  59. Celestial LoveRalph Waldo Emerson · 107 lines
  60. Ch’ang-KanLi Po · 41 lines
  61. ChildrenHenry Wadsworth Longfellow · 36 lines
  62. ChristabelSamuel Coleridge · 689 lines
  63. Come hither, childEmily Bronte · 32 lines
  64. Come Home!Mary Elizabeth Coleridge · 12 lines
  65. DeathEmily Bronte · 32 lines
  66. DeathJohn Clare · 26 lines
  67. DeathThomas Hood · 14 lines
  68. Death, to the Dead for EvermoreRobert Louis Stevenson · 25 lines
  69. Do not weep, maiden, for war is kindStephen Crane · 26 lines
  70. Double Ballade on the Nothingness of ThingsWilliam Ernest Henley · 72 lines
  71. Doubtful DreamsAdam Lindsay Gordon · 433 lines
  72. Drinking SongLi Po · 30 lines
  73. Easter DayOscar Wilde · 14 lines
  74. Easter WeekCharles Kingsley · 16 lines
  75. Easter ZundayWilliam Barnes · 28 lines
  76. Elegy to the Memory of WerterRobinson · 38 lines
  77. Eloisa to AbelardAlexander Pope · 366 lines
  78. Endymion (For Music)Oscar Wilde · 42 lines
  79. Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Being the Prologue to the SatiresAlexander Pope · 425 lines
  80. Faithless Sally BrownThomas Hood · 68 lines
  81. Farewell Frost, or Welcome the SpringRobert Herrick · 22 lines
  82. Farewell to the CourtSir Walter Raleigh · 14 lines
  83. FightingLi Po · 22 lines
  84. First AnniversaryAndrew Marvell · 402 lines
  85. FlowersThomas Hood · 24 lines
  86. Flowers in WinterJohn Greenleaf Whittier · 68 lines
  87. For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry (excerpt, Jubilate Agno)Christopher Smart · 74 lines
  88. FragmentsAlan Seeger · 83 lines
  89. From Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, lines 695-768Christopher Smart · 77 lines
  90. From the Short Story a Christmas Dream, and How It Came TrueLouisa May Alcott · 24 lines
  91. Gitanjali 02: When thou commandest me to sing it seems thatRabindranath Tagore · 11 lines
  92. Gitanjali 03: I know not how thou singest, my master! I everRabindranath Tagore · 9 lines
  93. Gitanjali 05: I ask for a moment’s indulgence to sit by thyRabindranath Tagore · 9 lines
  94. Gitanjali 06: Pluck this little flower and take it, delay noRabindranath Tagore · 7 lines
  95. Go, Lovely RoseEdmund Waller · 20 lines
  96. GodKahlil Gibran · 26 lines
  97. GodsWalt Whitman · 32 lines
  98. HomeAnne Bronte · 28 lines
  99. Home-Thoughts, from AbroadRobert Browning · 20 lines
  100. Hope is the thing with feathersEmily Dickinson · 12 lines
  101. How still, how happy!Emily Bronte · 32 lines
  102. How we Beat the FavouriteAdam Lindsay Gordon · 367 lines
  103. I am the autumnal sunHenry David Thoreau · 18 lines
  104. I Find No PeaceSir Thomas Wyatt · 14 lines
  105. I Have a Rendezvous with DeathAlan Seeger · 24 lines
  106. I taste a liquor never brewedEmily Dickinson · 16 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: Fragment AChristopher Smart · 113 lines
  115. Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 4Christopher Smart · 192 lines
  116. Juvenilia, an Ode to Natural BeautyAlan Seeger · 175 lines
  117. Kissing timeEugene Field · 32 lines
  118. KU FĒNG, No. 6Li Po · 16 lines
  119. Kubla KhanSamuel Coleridge · 54 lines
  120. L'AllegroJohn Milton · 152 lines
  121. La Belle Dame Sans MerciJohn Keats · 48 lines
  122. Late AutumnWilliam Allingham · 14 lines
  123. LaudamusAdam Lindsay Gordon · 19 lines
  124. Let such pure hate still underpropHenry David Thoreau · 66 lines
  125. LibertyEdward Thomas · 27 lines
  126. LifeCharlotte Bronte · 24 lines
  127. LifeRobinson · 39 lines
  128. Lines Written from HomeAnne Bronte · 32 lines
  129. Lines Written in Early SpringWilliam Wordsworth · 24 lines
  130. Lord Ullin's DaughterThomas Campbell · 56 lines
  131. LorraineCharles Kingsley · 24 lines
  132. Love among the RuinsRobert Browning · 84 lines
  133. M'Fingal - Canto IIJohn Trumbull · 810 lines
  134. M'Fingal - Canto IIIJohn Trumbull · 662 lines
  135. M'Fingal - Canto IVJohn Trumbull · 1040 lines
  136. Meeting at NightRobert Browning · 12 lines
  137. MemoryWilliam Browne · 18 lines
  138. Merry AutumnPaul Laurence Dunbar · 40 lines
  139. MiraclesWalt Whitman · 37 lines
  140. MithridatesRalph Waldo Emerson · 34 lines
  141. Music: An OdeAlgernon Charles Swinburne · 29 lines
  142. Music's EmpireAndrew Marvell · 24 lines
  143. My Last DanceJulia Ward Howe · 48 lines
  144. My Little March GirlPaul Laurence Dunbar · 24 lines
  145. My MuseAlexander Pushkin · 16 lines
  146. My TriumphJohn Greenleaf Whittier · 72 lines
  147. MycerinusMatthew Arnold · 127 lines
  148. Nay, Lord, not thus! White lilies in the spring,Oscar Wilde · 32 lines
  149. Nearer, my God, to TheeSarah Flower Adams · 35 lines
  150. O Gather Me the RoseWilliam Ernest Henley · 16 lines
  151. Ode IIHafiz · 26 lines
  152. Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for FranceAlan Seeger · 104 lines
  153. Ode on a Grecian UrnJohn Keats · 50 lines
  154. Ode on SolitudeAlexander Pope · 20 lines
  155. Ode on the SpringThomas Gray · 50 lines
  156. Ode to a NightingaleJohn Keats · 80 lines
  157. Ode to AutumnJohn Keats · 33 lines
  158. Ode to BeautyRalph Waldo Emerson · 99 lines
  159. Ode to WinterThomas Campbell · 64 lines
  160. Ode VHafiz · 20 lines