The Poetry of Nature

Verse rooted in the living world — birds and seasons, fields and weather — from the Romantics to the nature-soaked moderns.

The world, closely watched

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• He Attempts to Paint her Beauties, but not her Virtues (Quella Per Cui Con Sorga Ho Cangiat' Arno)
• The Dead Fox Hunter
• The Badger
• The Dogs and the Fox
• The Tides of Barnegat
• Dot and the Kangaroo
• What Happened
• Thos. J. Wall
• The Story of Marutūāhu, the Son of Hotunui, and of Kahureremoa, the Daughter of Paka
• The Lakewood Boys in the Frozen North
• A Yellow Pansy
• In the Garden
• Love
• The Lion and the Wild Ass
• Magnetism and Electricity
• A Three-Part Song
• At Sunset
• The Careful Angler Chose His Nook
• Two Minds
• Vaila
• Beast and Man in India
• The Owl
• A Star in a Stone-Boat
• The Rainbow
• An Alphabet Zoo
• Felipe's Sugaring-Off
• Mirls
• Blackberrying
• A Little Swiss Boy
• The Flower
• Trees
• I Dream'D I Lay
• The Ploughman's Life
• Raging Fortune: Fragment of Song
• John Barleycorn: a Ballad
• Song Composed in August
• My Nanie, O
• One Night as I did Wander
• Farewell to Ballochmyle
• To a Mouse, on Turning her up in her Nest with the Plough
• The Auld Farmer's New-Year-Morning Salutation to his Auld Mare, Maggie
• The Vision
• Suppressed Stanza's of "the Vision"
• Song, Composed in Spring
• To a Mountain Daisy
• The Lass o' Ballochmyle
• The Night was Still, and o'Er the Hill
• Farewell Song to the Banks of Ayr
• A Winter Night
• Yon Wild Mossy Mountains
• The Bonie Moor-Hen
• Verses Written with a Pencil at the Inn at Kenmore
• Lines on the Fall of Fyers Near Loch-Ness
• Castle Gordon
• On Scaring some Water-Fowl in Loch-Turit
• A Rose-Bud by my Early Walk
• Go on, Sweet Bird, and Sooth my Care
• My Hoggie
• Up in the Morning Early
• The Winter it is Past
• Of a' the Airts the Wind can Blaw
• The Fall of the Leaf
• To Miss Cruickshank
• The Wounded Hare
• The Gard'Ner Wi' his Paidle
• On a Bank of Flowers
• The Banks of Nith
• Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes
• My Heart's in the Highlands
• To Mary in Heaven
• Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots, on the Approach of Spring
• The Banks o' Doon (First Version)
• The Banks o' Doon (Second Version)
• The Banks o' Doon (Third Version)
• Sweet Afton
• Address to the Shade of Thomson
• Pleasant it was, when Woods were Green
• Flowers
• An April Day
• With what a Glory Comes and Goes the Year
• Woods in Winter
• Sunrise on the Hills
• The Spirit of Poetry
• It is not Always May
• To the River Charles
• Rain in Summer
• Thou Comest, Autumn, Heralded by the Rain
• Seaweed
• Daybreak
• Snow-Flakes
• A Day of Sunshine
• Flower-De-Luce
• The Brook and the Wave
• Aftermath
• Eliot's Oak
• The Harvest Moon
• To the River Rhone
• Cadenabbia
• The Sermon of St. Francis
• Songo River
• The Herons of Elmwood
• To the River Yvette
• My Cathedral
• The Poet's Calendar
• The Four Lakes of Madison
• Moonlight
• Sundown
• Mad River
• O Faithful, Indefatigable Tides
• Soft through the Silent Air Descend the Feathery Snow-Flakes
• The Brook
• Whither?
• The Hemlock Tree
• Wanderer's Night-Songs
• The Return of Spring
• Spring
• On the Terrace of the Aigalades
• To my Brooklet
• Barréges
• The Terrestrial Paradise

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