Category: Nature

Ted Hughes, “Rain”

14 Mar 2025
Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese”

13 Mar 2025
Seamus Heaney, 3 Poems from “Squarings”

12 Mar 2025
Sharon Olds, “The Connoisseuse of Slugs”

11 Mar 2025
Eavan Boland, “The Making of an Irish Goddess”

7 Mar 2025
2 Early Versions of “The Holly and the Ivy”

22 Jan 2025
Shakespeare: 3 Sonnets on Love, Lust, and Exhaustion

17 Jan 2025
Shakespeare: King Lear Out in the Elements

15 Jan 2025
Ben Jonson, from “The Triumph of Charis”

9 Jan 2025
Henry King, “The Exequy”

6 Jan 2025
George Herbert, “The Flower”

30 Dec 2024
John Milton: Eve and the Serpent from “Paradise Lost”

26 Dec 2024
Henry Vaughan, “The Book”

25 Dec 2024
Thomas Gray, “Ode on the Spring”

16 Dec 2024
Gilbert White, “The Naturalist’s Summer-Evening Walk”

13 Dec 2024
Mark Akenside, from “The Pleasures of Imagination”

12 Dec 2024
Joseph Warton, from “The Enthusiast: or The Lover of Nature”

11 Dec 2024
Thomas Cole, from “The Life of Hubert”

6 Dec 2024
Thomas Warton, “Sonnet: To the River Lodon”

5 Dec 2024
John Cunningham, “Morning”

4 Dec 2024
William Cowper, from “The Task”

28 Nov 2024
George Farewell, from “The Country Man”

25 Nov 2024
John O’Keeffe, “Air”

22 Nov 2024
Robert Burns, 2 Songs

18 Nov 2024
William Wordsworth, Three Sonnets on How to Live

15 Nov 2024
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Frost at Midnight”

14 Nov 2024
Walter Savage Landor, “Separation”

13 Nov 2024
John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

7 Nov 2024
Emily Brontë, “The night is darkening round me”

4 Nov 2024
Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road”

1 Nov 2024
Matthew Arnold, “Lines Written in Kensington Gardens”

31 Oct 2024
Christina Rossetti, “A Dirge”

28 Oct 2024
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Binsey Poplars”

25 Oct 2024
A. E. Housman, “I hoed and trenched and weeded”

24 Oct 2024
Walter de la Mare, “The Scarecrow”

2 Oct 2024
Robert Frost, “The Pasture”

1 Oct 2024
Edward Thomas, “Rain”

29 Sep 2024
H. D., “The God”

22 Sep 2024
Robinson Jeffers, “New Mexican Mountain”

20 Sep 2024
Yvor Winters, “Time and the Garden”

15 Sep 2024
Robert Francis, “Earthworm”

13 Sep 2024
Kenneth Rexroth, “Hapax”

11 Sep 2024
Vernon Watkins, 2 Poems for Wine & Festival

10 Sep 2024
Theodore Roethke, “Root Cellar”

6 Sep 2024
Elizabeth Bishop, “A Cold Spring”

5 Sep 2024
R. S. Thomas, “The Moor”

4 Sep 2024
A. R. Ammons, “The City Limits”

22 Aug 2024
Galway Kinnell, “The Porcupine”

21 Aug 2024
W. S. Merwin, “Air”

19 Aug 2024
Anne Sexton, “Her Kind”

12 Aug 2024
Gary Snyder, “August on Sourdough, A Visit from Dick Brewer”

9 Aug 2024
Ted Hughes, “October Salmon”

7 Aug 2024
Mary Oliver, “Snow Moon – Black Bear Gives Birth”

5 Aug 2024
Frances Horovitz, “Rain – Birdoswald”

4 Aug 2024
Seamus Heaney, 2 Bog Poems

1 Aug 2024
Thomas James, “Lambs”

25 Jul 2024
Jane Kenyon, “Let Evening Come”

22 Jul 2024
Brigit Pegeen Kelly, “The Leaving”

21 Jul 2024
Aidan Carl Matthews, “Woodniche”

16 Jul 2024
Two Anonymous Poems from ca. 1325

14 Jul 2024
Alexander Barclay, from “Certayne Ecloges”

8 Jul 2024
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, “The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes”

7 Jul 2024
Edward Dyer, “A Silent Love”

5 Jul 2024
Edmund Spenser, “The Garden of Adonis”

3 Jul 2024
Christopher Marlowe, “The Passionate Sheepheard to his Love”

28 Jun 2024
Henry King, “A Contemplation upon Flowers”

21 Jun 2024
2 Anonymous Poems from 1600

16 Jun 2024
Andrew Marvell, “The Garden”

6 Jun 2024
Richard Leigh, “Greatness in Little”

31 May 2024
Anne Finch, “A Nocturnal Reverie”

30 May 2024
James Thomson, from “Summer”

28 May 2024
Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

26 May 2024
Christopher Smart, from “Jubilate Agno”

24 May 2024
Oliver Goldsmith, from “The Deserted Village”

23 May 2024
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Work Without Hope”

20 May 2024
William Blake, “Thou hearest the Nightingale begin the Song of Spring” (from “Milton”)

19 May 2024
William Wordsworth, “Was it for this”

16 May 2024
William Cullen Bryant, “The Prairies”

14 May 2024
Walter Savage Landor, “The leaves are falling; so am I”

13 May 2024
John Clare, “Mouse’s Nest”

10 May 2024
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Snow-Storm”

6 May 2024
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 3 Sonnets from the Portuguese

5 May 2024
Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”

29 Apr 2024
Christina Rossetti, “Up-Hill”

26 Apr 2024
William Morris, “Pomona”

23 Apr 2024
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”

21 Apr 2024
A. E. Housman, “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now”

14 Apr 2024
Laurence Binyon, from “The Burning of the Leaves”

6 Apr 2024
Robert Frost, “After Apple-Picking”

2 Apr 2024
John Masefield, “Sea-Fever”

29 Mar 2024
Edward Thomas, “Digging”

26 Mar 2024
Wallace Stevens, “How to Live. What to Do”

25 Mar 2024
Witter Bynner, “Wistaria”

24 Mar 2024
Elinor Wylie, “Wild Peaches”

18 Mar 2024
Robinson Jeffers, “Inscription for a Gravestone”

16 Mar 2024
Rupert Brooke, “The Soldier”

11 Mar 2024
T. S. Eliot, from “Burnt Norton”

10 Mar 2024
Alan Seeger, “Rendezvous”

7 Mar 2024
Conrad Aiken, “The Room”

6 Mar 2024
e.e. cummings, “O sweet spontaneous”

4 Mar 2024
Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Spring”

29 Feb 2024
Mark Van Doren, “Axle Song”

23 Feb 2024
Charles Reznikoff, “A grove of small trees”

22 Feb 2024
Janet Lewis, “Winter Garden”

18 Feb 2024
Hart Crane, “Voyages #1”

16 Feb 2024
Yvor Winters, “The Slow Pacific Swell”

15 Feb 2024
Richard Eberhardt, “This Fevers Me”

11 Feb 2024
Kenneth Rexroth, “Spring, Coast Range”

9 Feb 2024
Theodore Roethke, “Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, & Frau Schwartze”

29 Jan 2024
R. S. Thomas, “Affinity”

23 Jan 2024
Dylan Thomas, “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower”

21 Jan 2024
Richard Wilbur, “In Trackless Woods”

19 Jan 2024
Laurie Lee, “Milkmaid”

16 Jan 2024
Galway Kinnell, “Tillamook Journal”

4 Jan 2024
Derek Walcott, “Tales of the Islands #10”

28 Dec 2023
Gillian Clarke, “Overheard in County Sligo”

26 Dec 2023
Ted Kooser, “Late February”

24 Dec 2023
Seamus Heaney, “Bogland”

21 Dec 2023
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, “Swineherd”

20 Dec 2023
Paul Muldoon, “Why Brownlee Left”

15 Dec 2023

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