Famous Nature Poems
Poems on Nature
The power, ingenuity, and sheer beauty found in nature has always fascinated mankind. When we look at powerful ocean waves rolling in, we cannot help but feel small and powerless in comparison. Mighty trees in a vast forest inspire feelings of insignificance and awe. Animal mothers taking care of their young make us question the cruelty with which we sometimes treat one another. The truth is, nature can teach us many valuable lessons. It can also lead us to wonder, did this beautiful earth with all of its natural treasures come about by chance or was it created?
38 Famous Nature Poems About The Beauty And Brutality Of Nature
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1. I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
I wandered lonely as a cloud
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That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;Featured Shared StoryHonestly! How lovely is this poem when read aloud. I can see the yellow heads of the daffodils doing their sprightly dance! And, when in the meditative state, I can feel them in my heart...
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2. Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
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His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.Featured Shared StoryI was all of 16 years old (1958) at Oak Park High. We finished subjugating and conjugating at the end of our sophomore year. Finally I could put that dangling participle to rest and move on...
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3. Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature's first green is gold,
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Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour. -
4. My November Guest
My Sorrow, when she's here with me,
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Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree; -
5. The Tyger
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
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In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
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6. A Bird Came Down The Walk
A bird came down the walk:
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He did not know I saw;
He bit an angle-worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw.Featured Shared StoryI take walks daily with my dog to visit and hang out with friends. Fall is the prettiest show-off with her colorful jewels! The birds and squirrels play hide and seek within and keep me...
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7. The Seed-Shop
HERE in a quiet and dusty room they lie,
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Faded as crumbled stone and shifting sand,
Forlorn as ashes, shrivelled, scentless, dry -
Meadows and gardens running through my hand. -
8. A Light Exists In Spring
A Light exists in Spring
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Not present on the Year
At any other period --
When March is scarcely hereFeatured Shared StoryThe poem depicts supremacy of nature. Nature is beyond natural laws. It's the underlying truth that nature poets communicate to us through their writings.
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9. The Fish
I caught a tremendous fish
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and held him beside the boat
half out of water, with my hook
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10. It's September
It's September, and the orchards are afire with red and gold,
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And the nights with dew are heavy, and the morning's sharp with cold;
Now the garden's at its gayest with the salvia blazing red
And the good old-fashioned asters laughing at us from their bed;Featured Shared StoryI can see in my mind's eye all that Edgar shows, especially in the final stanza with his description of Nature coming to her end-of-the-year party dressed to the nines, ready to celebrate a...
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11. Our Blessings
Sitting to-day in the sunshine
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That touched me with fingers of love,
I thought of the manifold blessings
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12. Sea Fever
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
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And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a gray mist on the sea's face, and a gray dawn breaking.Featured Shared StoryMy grandmother lived on the Gulf Coast on a bay, and I visited her throughout my childhood, from my home in the southwest desert. I've lived years now from any coast and found this poem...
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13. The Brook
I come from haunts of coot and hern,
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I make a sudden sally
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.Featured Shared StoryOne of my earliest recollections was this poem being read to me by my father, a keen angler, as a bedtime story nearly 70 years ago. It stayed with me for the rest of my life. Inspirational...
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14. Music
Sweet melody amidst the moving spheres
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Breaks forth, a solemn and entrancing sound,
A harmony whereof the earth's green hills
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15. God The Artist
God, when you thought of a pine tree,
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How did you think of a star?
How did you dream of the Milky Way
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16. There Is Another Sky
There is another sky,
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Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;Featured Shared StoryMy mother, Joyce, loves her garden, which she made and made beautiful; and her other garden is the seeds of positivity, love, and joy that she has sown throughout her life. Joyce is 84 now...
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17. The Glory Of The Garden
Our England is a garden that is full of stately views,
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Of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues,
With statues on the terraces and peacocks strutting by;
But the Glory of the Garden lies in more than meets the eye. -
18. Winter Morning Poem
Winter is the king of showmen,
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Turning tree stumps into snow men
And houses into birthday cakes
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19. No Songs In Winter
The sky is gray as gray may be,
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There is no bird upon the bough,
There is no leaf on vine or tree.
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20. February Twilight
I stood beside a hill
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Smooth with new-laid snow,
A single star looked out
From the cold evening glow.Featured Shared StoryIt gives me a certain joy to be in a place in the forest or a shore or anywhere in nature and imagine that I'm the only person who has ever been in that exact spot. As a young boy, I would...
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