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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FORESTS Matches Found: 471 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the woods my master went Last Line: Baltimore, november, 1880. Variant Title(s): The Cross;the Trees And The Master Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Easter; Forests; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Nature; Religion; Trees; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; The Resurrection; Woods; Theology A COIGN OF THE FOREST, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hills hang woods around, where green, below Last Line: There runs a whisper as of wind-swept oats. Subject(s): Forests; Woods A COTTAGE IN THE MIDST', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The flight of cawing crows Subject(s): Calm; Forests; Landscape; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Woods A CRYSTAL FOREST, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The air is blue and keen and cold Last Line: Each frozen fern with crystal ends. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Forests; Snow; Woods A FAITH ON TRAIL, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the morning of may Last Line: Him through handmaiden me.' Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Forests; World; Belief; Creed; Woods A FOREST GRAVEYARD, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The birds brood silent in the underbrush Last Line: Be I thy mourner, child, and thou my care! Subject(s): Forests; Graves; Humanity; Mourning; Nature; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement A FOREST HYMN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The groves were god's first temples. Ere man learned Last Line: Learn to conform the order of our lives. Variant Title(s): God's First Temples;the Groves Subject(s): Forests; Religion; Trees; Woods; Theology A FOREST RENDEZVOUS, by WILLIAM GRIFFITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They said someone was waiting Last Line: Being blind. Subject(s): Forests; Love - Loss Of; Woods A FOREST SYMPHONY, by EMMA WING THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: The orange fringe of sunset brightly flames Last Line: And forest symphony are antiphon. Subject(s): Forests; Woods A HOUSEKEEPING, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surprised by young desire, as by the dawn Last Line: How had he waked, and stretched his arms, and smiled! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Fantasy; Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Woods A LESSER ODE, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little reed has been enough Last Line: Have made the very forest sing. Subject(s): Forests; Love; Reeds; Singing & Singers; Woods A LONGING FOR THE WOODS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, to be away, to be away Last Line: I long for the woodland cool and sweet. Subject(s): Forests; Longing; Woods A MIDSUMMER'S NOON IN THE AUSTRALIAN FOREST, by CHARLES HARPUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not a sound disturbs the air Last Line: Musing thus of quietness. Subject(s): Australia; Forests; Nature; Woods A MURMUR IN THE TREES TO NOTE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: No fear you'll miss the road Subject(s): Forests; Farewell A SORCERER BEFORE MY HOUSE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: We who beheld this sight were two, I swear, pierre lelong and I Last Line: The better view, for nature has no fox so sly. Subject(s): Forests; Magic; Nature; Woods A SOUTH CAROLINA FOREST, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, hush, these woods are thick with shapes and voices Subject(s): Forests; South Carolina; Woods A TRUE STORY OF GOD, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Henry thoreau is lost in the maine woods Last Line: Snapping from the flames like gunfire. Subject(s): Cruelty; Forests; Maine (state); Moose; Nature; Order; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Woods A WALK THROUGH THE WOOD, by GEORGE W. DAVIS Poem Text First Line: I wandered in the solemn wood Last Line: And mark the way so gladly gone. Subject(s): Forests; Roads; Woods; Paths; Trails A WATER-COLOR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low hidden in among the forest Last Line: Were just romantic parcels of her dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Forests; Sleep; Woods A WOOD SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love is a bush in bloom Last Line: And dearer far than you. Subject(s): Forests; Love; Singing & Singers; Woods A WOODLAND GRAVE, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bring no jarring lute this way Last Line: Doz'd with woodland lullabies. Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Forests; Graves; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones A ZEMERLY FOR RABBI NACHMAN: 1. RABBI NACHMAN GOES INTO THE WOODS, by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He would go, in his broken-heartedness, into the woods Last Line: To open again, soothed, or even healed. Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, Henry Benjamin; Slavitt, David R. Subject(s): Clergy; Forests; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Woods ABSTRACTION, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came that morning, in gowns of pale green and white Last Line: Unprovisioned and naked, had fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Escapes; Forests; News; Secrets; Soldiers; Fugitives; Woods ADVENTURE WITH SKY, by JESSIE M. DOWLIN Poem Text First Line: Dusk crept out from the woods to the water Last Line: The fawn bent down and sampled sky! Subject(s): Dusk; Forests; Sky; Water; Woods ADVICE TO A FOREST, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O trees, to whom the darkness is a child Subject(s): Forests; Woods AFTER RUYSDAEL, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through briery ways, from underneath Last Line: That over all so darkly brood! Subject(s): Brier; Forests; Briar; Woods ALL ROADS LEADING ME TO, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: To night and its %faith in the time %of healing Subject(s): Forests; France; Healing; Nature; Paintings And Painters AN INVOCATION, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never prayed for dryads, to haunt the woods again Last Line: Two minds shall flow together, the english and the greek. Subject(s): Forests; Woods ANOTHER GRIEVING FOREST ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blood of petals blown adorns the ground Last Line: With nodding blue, lament the lonely trust. Subject(s): Forests; Memory; Trees; Woods ANTENNA-FOREST, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Up on the city's roofs are great plains Last Line: --who rests here %in these deep graves? Subject(s): Death; Forests; Graves; Silence APPLE BLOSSOMS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day in the green, sunny orchard Last Line: The while that he dreamily spoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Apple Trees; Farm Life; Forests; Fruit; Harvest; Spring; Trees; Agriculture; Farmers; Woods ARCANA SYLVARUM, by CHARLES DE KAY Poem Text First Line: Hark! ... / what booming Last Line: To touch the red lizard vile, spread on the damp white bark. Subject(s): Forests; Woods ARCH OF GOLD IN THE FOREST, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: When I left yeddo the great sun was flaming Last Line: Mingling with their ceaseless whisper Subject(s): Forests; Houses; Japan ARRACOMBE WOOD, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some said, because he wud'n spaik Last Line: And on the eve of christmas, fallin' snow. Subject(s): Forests; Woods AS IN THE WOODLAND I WALK, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As in the woodland I walk, many a strange Last Line: That the burning gold of june is the gray of december's rain. Subject(s): Forests; Woods ASAGUMORI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the forest path Last Line: My sleeves wet with memory. Subject(s): Forests; Memory; Woods ASPECTS OF AUTUMN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the wonder of their weaving lie the forests and the fields Last Line: Yea, utterly forgotten, every one. Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Hearts; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Seasons; Tears; Fall; Woods ATLAS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am used to the heft of it Last Line: To carry everything. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Forests; Labor & Laborers; Strength; Black Heritage; Woods; Work; Workers AUTUMN IN THE WEALD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, for here the lazy night Last Line: Alone with the mist I linger on. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons; Fall; Woods AUTUMN WOODS, by ANNA M. ACKERMANN Poem Text First Line: The autumn woods in late october vie Last Line: Of color softened by warm sunset light. Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons; Fall; Woods AUTUMN WOODS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere, in the northern gale Last Line: And waste its little hour. Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons; Fall; Woods AUTUMN WOODS, by BLANCHE SHOEMAKER WAGSTAFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These woods are wintry now ... That yesterday Alternate Author Name(s): Carr, Mrs. Donald Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons BALDOVAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scenery of baldovan Last Line: And quacking in their innocent play. Subject(s): Forests; Travel; Walking; Woods; Journeys; Trips BALLADE OF THE FOREST HAUNTERS, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still do they sing, the swarm of mocking fays Last Line: Where dian thro' the forest fareth by. Subject(s): Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Woods BALLADE OF THE FOREST IN SUMMER, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Fra cruachan tae aberdeen Last Line: It's summer noo in a' the hills! Subject(s): Forests; Summer; Woods BALLADE ON THE MIDNIGHT FOREST, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still sing the mocking fairies, as of old Subject(s): Forests; Woods BALLADE: 1, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Resound my voice, ye woods, that hear me plain Last Line: But, as reward, death for to be my meed? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods BEE, by ENRIQUE ALVAREZ HENAO Poem Source First Line: Wee sovereign of the forest dense and gray Last Line: And white wax for the tapers of the dead Subject(s): Bees; Forests; Honey; Insects BEECHWOOD, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear me, o beeches! You Last Line: And all around gigantic beeches rise. Subject(s): Beech Trees; Forests; Leaves; Nature; Trees; Woods BELLS BEYOND THE FOREST, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild-eyed woodlands, here I rest me, underneath the gaunt and ghastly trees Last Line: Mighty minstrels sing behind me, but the promise of my youth is past. Subject(s): Aging; Bells; Forests; Woods BIALA VIEZA, by MARGARET C. SZUMOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Farmers on slow carts carry sweet hay. Last Line: We were born for forests deep with snow Subject(s): Forests; Poland BLACK SNAKE; 11, by RAUL BOPP Poem Source First Line: I wake up Last Line: Oh, do not make noise Subject(s): Forests; Travel; Wanderers And Wandering BLACK SNAKE; 2, by RAUL BOPP Poem Source First Line: Begins here, the ciphered forest Last Line: Tonight I will sleep with queen luzia's daughter Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Travel BLACK SNAKE; 4, by RAUL BOPP Poem Source First Line: This is the rotten-breathed forest Last Line: Today I will enjoy queen luzia's daughter Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Trees BLACK SNAKE; 6, by RAUL BOPP Poem Source First Line: I pass the swamp borders Last Line: Undid undeciphered writings Subject(s): Forests; Plants; Travel; Trees; Wanderers And Wandering BOLLESWOOD, by FRANCES BARBER Poem Text First Line: Now is bolleswood buried deep Last Line: All is silent, all is still. Subject(s): Death; Forests; Dead, The; Woods BOOK OF SONGS: PREFACE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the olden fairy wood! Last Line: "have never ceased to ponder." Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Love; Moon; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Woods; Songs BURIAL OF AN EMIGRANT'S CHILD IN THE FOREST, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The desolation and the agony Last Line: Kneel, and bow submitted hearts to god! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death - Children; Forests; Funerals; Death - Babies; Woods; Burials BURNING THE RAIN FOREST, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: I watched webster hold an ax blade to a gray Last Line: And child, I can see the smoke from illinois Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Memory; Rain Forests BY THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lone 'bush' breaks: and the forest dips and clings Last Line: "^2^ australia has, however, her own ""song-thrush"" and ""song-lark." Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Australia; Brooks; Desolation; Forests; Trees; Streams; Creeks; Woods CALL OF THE WILD, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The wild is calling, and we know Last Line: Till some rube sheriff scares us home! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Forests; Woods CHAMBER MUSIC: 20, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In the dark pine-wood Last Line: Sweet love, away. Subject(s): Forests; Love; Woods CLEARING, by CHRISTIAN HAWKEY Poem Source First Line: No one spoke, though none of us knew where we were going Last Line: A rope had been strung to guide us. %I kept my head low Subject(s): Children; Forests; Walking COME DOON THE HOWM, by HUGH C. WILSON Poem Text First Line: Come doon the howm and meet me by the gate o' rustic spars Last Line: Then doon the howm, come doon the howm, and meet me by the spars. Subject(s): Forests; Woods COME TO THE WOODS, by LYDIA JANE PEIRSON Poem Text First Line: Come to the woods in june Last Line: The city of our god. Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Lydia Jane Subject(s): Forests; Woods COMING UP DRY (1), by DAVID HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: When I was still a child Last Line: Spilling, splashing over us %like waterfalls Subject(s): Children; Forests COMING UP DRY (2), by DAVID HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: The clearing Last Line: The space within %where his dream had been Subject(s): Fathers; Forests COMING UP DRY (3), by DAVID HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: Later, he sold the tract Last Line: Levelled the trees %for the view Subject(s): Forests CONE INVESTIGATES, by BOB HEMAN Poem Source First Line: Dr. Cone herds a dozen or so of his clones down a dirt road deep Last Line: Surprised sigh. Once again they have given him the wrong script Subject(s): Forests; Travel COTTAGE IN FOREST, by GLYN MAXWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The captains halt, gasping: they left Subject(s): Forests; Woods COTTAGE IN FOREST, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The captains halt, gasping: they left Last Line: In wet forests of ash and steel Subject(s): Forests COTTAGE IN THE MIDST', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The flight of cawing crows Subject(s): Calm; Forests COUNTING THE FORESTS, by MARK LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: We had little to work with. That was his plan Last Line: Like a memory-braid or a pair of braids Subject(s): Forests CRAIGIEBURN WOOD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet closes the ev'ning on craigieburn wood Last Line: Beyond thee, &c. Subject(s): Forests; Woods CUTTING FIREWOOD IN AUTUMN, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we cut firewood in the late autumn forest Last Line: In the middle of the autumn forest Subject(s): Forests; Lumber And Lumbering; Memory; Wood DADDY'S ACTING ODD IN SPRINGTIME (MARCH 15), by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Springs fork out through hillside stones Last Line: High overhead, canada geese are honking home %spilling mad calls into cold air Subject(s): Forests; March (month); Nature DANGER ZONES (1), by TOMAS HARRIS Poem Source First Line: A rain-soaked treetop Last Line: Whose foliage was simply leaves Subject(s): Forests; Rain DARK DANNY, by IVY ETHEL OLIVE EASTWICK Poem Source First Line: Dark danny has eyes Last Line: Dark danny knows all %these lovely things Subject(s): Boys; Forests DAVID AND BATHSHUA: SPRING SONG, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How joyous the spring is! Last Line: The daffodil glade. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Seasons; Spring; Woods DEAD MAN'S MORRICE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There came a crowder to the mermaid inn Last Line: And look in vain. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Forests; Ghosts; Lips; May (month); Night; Supernatural; Dead, The; Woods; Bedtime DEEP IN THE FOREST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Deep in the forest there is a pond Last Line: "our brothers, even the birds and deer, / who always float down to us / with alarmed and startled ey Variant Title(s): After The Anonymous Swedish; Seventeenth Century Subject(s): Death;forests;lakes;water; "dead, The;woods;pools;ponds; DEEP WOODS, by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS Poem Source First Line: If it were so - a sudden turn in the track Subject(s): Forests DEER IN THE MISTY WOODLOT, by FRED LAPE Poem Text First Line: My feet were held by grasses bent with snow Last Line: Curtains of life, running into the clear. Subject(s): Deer; Forests; Woods DEER PARK, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: The mountain is empty, no man can be seen; Last Line: Shines again on green moss, above Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Forests; Mountains DEFTON WOOD, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I held my way through defton wood Last Line: I have lost my -- one Subject(s): Forests DIRGE IN WOODS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wind sways the pines Last Line: Even so. Subject(s): Forests; Pine Trees; Wind; Woods DURER'S HARE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: On the earth %or was all that %just to make the treads sway Subject(s): Forests; Guns; Hunting EASTERN FORESTS, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been walking in the eastern forests Subject(s): Forests; Woods ECSTASY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon shines now Last Line: Hour of delight! Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Love; Moon; Nightmares; Woods EDITH; A TALE OF THE WOODS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woods -oh! Solemn are the boundless woods Last Line: That lovely sleep had melted into death. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Forests; Women; Woods EGOIST, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the night wood between the nether glow Last Line: "is only -- ""whippoorwill! Whippoorwill!" Subject(s): Birds; Egoism And Egotism; Forests; Life; Night; Passion; Whipporwills; Woods; Bedtime ELK COUNTY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From lands of the elk and the pine-tree Last Line: As wild as the runes of the fiords. Subject(s): Elk; Forests; Trees; Woods ENTANGLED, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood as one enchanted Last Line: Fled down the mossy way. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Forests; Birds; Voices; Fear; Escapes; Freedom; Woods; Fugitives; Liberty EVANGENE BAKER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pore afflicted evangene Last Line: Will smooth down her wings tomorry! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Disease; Forests; Dead, The; Woods FAIRY FORESTS, by HEATHER MACTAVISH Poem Text First Line: Fairy forests grow for me Last Line: Where fairy forests grow for me! Subject(s): Forests; Woods FALLEN LEAVES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the frost-stripped forest boughs, the Last Line: We need not grieve to lie forgot, like sere leaves 'neath the tree! Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Leaves; Life; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Woods FAWN OF THE FOREST, by EDITH LOMBARD SQUIRES Poem Text First Line: Fawn of the forest in later spring Last Line: The budding horns on the young oak's head. Subject(s): Forests; Woods FILED GUIDE TO DESIRE, by LYNN POWELL Poem Source First Line: If the forest keeps a closed mind Last Line: Keeping in touch with everything possible Subject(s): Forests FIRE_FLOWERS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And only where the forest fires have sped Last Line: And life revives, and blossoms once again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Fire; Forests; Nature; Survival; Woods FIRST PERSON, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One lies on one's back in the woods Last Line: The last one / to die Subject(s): Forests; Aging; Animals; Poetry & Poets; Mortality FLINT AND STEEL, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mountain / mesquite Last Line: For the little verb that will kindle the fire! Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; Smells; Spring; Trees; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Odors; Aromas; Fragrances FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 3. SOLDANELLA, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hermit: / what wilt thou with me, maiden? Little wins Last Line: That snow environed blossom, woman's love. Subject(s): Death; Forests; Hermits; Plays & Playwrights ; Soul; Spring; Dead, The; Woods; Dramatists FOR A FOREST WALKER, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quaff the mid-forest spring! Sink palms and knees Last Line: Seven times repeated on the crimson air! Subject(s): Forests; Springs (water); Woods FOREST AND FIELD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green, watery jets of light let through Last Line: Its final period was a kiss. Subject(s): Fields; Forests; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Woods FOREST COUPLETS, by CLARENCE THOMAS URMY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath a redwood let me lie Last Line: Of solace, peace, and calm content. Subject(s): Calm; Forests; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Woods FOREST DWELLERS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men who have hardly uncurled Last Line: Life must die that life %may go on. They wear flowers in their hair Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Forests FOREST ELEGIES, SELS., by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: If someone now checks the wind in flight Last Line: Quite a new season has begun Subject(s): Forests; Trees FOREST HISTORY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the vans of doom did men pass in Last Line: Nor let the poet's awe in rapture wane. Subject(s): Forests; History; Mythology; Woods; Historians FOREST POOL, by ROSALIE REGEN Poem Text First Line: I had forgotten nature's depth of calm Last Line: Is buried the green stillness of my pool. Subject(s): Calm; Forests; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Woods FOREST SONGS, by KATHERINE HUNTER COE Poem Text First Line: No words could sing your beauty which belongs Last Line: When winter reigns with cold, bleak curtains drawn. Subject(s): Forests; Woods FOREST TRAIL, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: The way the darkness draws one inward Last Line: Steals toward the woodcarver's cabin Subject(s): Forests FOREST VOICES, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The forest hath its voices Last Line: Each forest-voice is sweet and true. Subject(s): Forests; Silence; Woods FOREST WORSHIP, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the sunlit forest Last Line: The storm of heaven from speaking. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Forests; Woods FORESTS, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: And further and further away in the forest Last Line: And those in the passageways under the earth are gnawing each other Subject(s): Forests; Landscape FORESTS AND CAVERNS, by CATHERINE ANNE WARFIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have stood in forests, so old and vast Last Line: Hath been filled up by a newer birth Alternate Author Name(s): Warfield, Catherine M. Subject(s): Caves; Forests; Kentucky FRENCH PARK, by MAGDA GUTAI Poem Source First Line: Ashes hover above the neat park Last Line: And the swans begin their dance shyly Subject(s): Fire-weeds; Forests; Parks; Smoke; Trees FROM DELPHI TO CAMDEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From delphi to camden - little hoosier towns Last Line: On this reckless road to ruin or to fame was -- dr. Smith! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Castles; Delphi; Forests; Robin Hood; Castri; Woods FROM THE NORTH, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more without you! Sighing,dear,once more Last Line: The amber midnight smiles in dreams of dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dawn; Forests; Night; Sunrise; Woods; Bedtime GASCOIGNE'S WOODMANSHIP, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My worthy lord, I pray you wonder not Last Line: A tedious tale in rime, but little reason. Subject(s): Forests; Gamekeepers; Woods GETTING UP THE WINTER WOOD IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard a dozen farmers say Last Line: You wish you owned another stove! Subject(s): Farm Life; Forests; Lumber & Lumbering; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Woods; Woodsmen GOOD OLE DAYS, by CARL STILLWELL Poem Source First Line: 500 years ago %on america's eastern coast Last Line: Why can't they make forests %like they used to %in the good ole days? Subject(s): Forests; History GREEN SYMPHONY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The glittering leaves of the rhododendrons Last Line: Sun-kindled for me. Subject(s): Forests; Woods HAIKU, by YOSA BUSON Poem Source First Line: Blow of an axe Last Line: The winter woods Alternate Author Name(s): Buson; Taniguchi Buson Subject(s): Forests; Winter HAPPY VALE OF TORMES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thou happy vale of tormes %grow rich with sunny showers Last Line: For my little maiden cometh %she comes to gather flowers Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Love; Roses HARDCASTLE CRAGS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Flintlike, her feet struck Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Night Walk Subject(s): Forests; Woods HARDCASTLE CRAGS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flintlike, her feet struck Last Line: Her down to mere quatrz grit in that stony light, %she turned back Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Night Wal Subject(s): Forests HEALING, by ETHEL GODFREY LOUD Poem Text First Line: From all the hustle, bustle, nerve-wear, noise Last Line: If once he knows the healing woods of maine. Subject(s): Forests; Healing; Life; Woods; Cures HEARD IN THE WOODS, by ROBERT NECKER Poem Source First Line: March crow: Last Line: Made muscular by all below... Subject(s): Forests HEART OF THE WOODS, by WESLEY CURTWRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Deep in the woods we'll go Last Line: In the heart of the woods. Alternate Author Name(s): Curtright, Wesley Subject(s): Forests; Woods HEIST, by ELIZABETH HOWKINS Poem Source First Line: The moon %stretches a bandanna of light Last Line: Pocketing the last dry leaves %like crisp bills Subject(s): Forests HENRI ROUSSEAU'S BED, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took my bed into the forest Subject(s): Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910); Beds; Forests; Woods HERE THE AIR IS SWEET, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: With its false, but fairy seeming Subject(s): Forests HERMIONE: 1. THE LOST MAGIC, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White in her snowy stone, and cold Last Line: Thy secret spell, pygmalion? Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Forests; Pygmalion; Letters HIMMY'S OUTING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Himmy went to market Last Line: For his breakfast food. Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Escapes; Forests; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Fugitives; Woods HOLLOW WOOD, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the sun the goldfinch flits Last Line: Down there as he flits on thistle-tops Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Birds; Forests HOME, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Far away where the meadows are dark Last Line: So that you may rest your head on the blue of the sky Subject(s): Forests; Home HUNTING SEASON, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A bird in the wildwood is singing Last Line: Life redeemed shall abide in his love. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Birds; Forests; Hunting; Wings; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Woods; Hunters HYMN OF THE FORESTS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the harps which the winds play Last Line: While round the circling seasons swing. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Earth; Forests; Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Woods; Ocean HYND ETIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: May margaret sits in her bower door Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;forests; Woods I AM STEINKIND IN MY BLACK DRESS, by EVA STROM Poem Source Last Line: And weathers with me, weathers with me into sand Subject(s): Fields; Forests; Sweden I ROBBED THE WOODS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What will the oak tree say? Variant Title(s): Poem: 4 Subject(s): Forests I, OR SOMEONE LIKE ME, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a wilderness, in some orchestral swing Subject(s): Forests; Music & Musicians; Vision; Woods I, OR SOMEONE LIKE ME, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a wilderness, in some orchestral swing Last Line: And someone like me listening for a resolution Subject(s): Forests; Music And Musicians; Vision IMMALEE; SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gather thyme upon the sunny hills Last Line: And even the watchful hare stands not aloof. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods IMPRINT OF FERNS, CRISSCROSSED WITH BRANCHES AND TWIGS, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spring has arrived. It's returned again Last Line: As amber does the ferns with crisscrossed branches and twigs Subject(s): Forests; Poetry And Poets; Spring; Trees IN A SPRING GROVE, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here the white-ray'd anemone is born Last Line: Each and all these,and more, and more than these! Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Leaves; Spring; Thorns; Woods IN A WOOD, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale beech and pine so blue [or, pine-tree blue] Last Line: Life-loyalties. Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods IN A WOOD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, 'tis thy voice Last Line: Sorrow is all. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Forests; Woods IN A WOOD CLEARING, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night I wearied utterly of the pillow of darkness Last Line: And the wash of her hair that fell about me like rain. Subject(s): Forests; Woods IN BLACKWATER WOODS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, the trees Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods IN CENTRAL EUROPE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: When you cross through the grass in central europe, you see Last Line: When the bamboo grows, %when the bamboo reaches the sipapuni%when each ring reaches the sipapuni %th Subject(s): Bolinas, California; Europe; Forests; Grass; Roads; Travel IN DEER SEASON, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I sing like pavarotti Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Opera; Pavarotti, Luciano (b. 1935); Singing And Singers IN IRELAND: 5. IN THE WOOD OF FINVARA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have grown tired of sorrow and human tears Last Line: And the peace that is not in the world has flown to me. Subject(s): Forests; Ireland; Woods; Irish IN MEMORY OF A GROVE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The town about my house upon the hill Last Line: Who fells a london grove? Subject(s): Change; Comfort; Forests; London; Nature; Woods IN TERMS UNFAMILIAR, by ADAM DICKINSON Poem Source First Line: It has been thirty years %since fire bared and bent across the hillside Last Line: A crow in a nearby mountain ash %flicked a glance of coal Subject(s): Fire; Forests; Spring IN THE DARK FOREST THE WHISPER', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of a million waves Subject(s): Forests; Leaves; Waves IN THE DEPTHS OF A FOREST, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the depths of a forest secluded and wild Last Line: And rejoice that a rest has been found for the weary. Subject(s): Forests; Woods IN THE FOREST, by ELINOR PETERSON ALLEN Poem Text First Line: A land of softly blended night and day Last Line: And stills the weary heart beneath its beam. Subject(s): Forests; Woods IN THE FOREST, by ALEXANDER MCLACHLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soon we entered in the woods Last Line: But this stranger no one knew. Variant Title(s): The Arrival Subject(s): Forests; Pioneers; Woods IN THE FOREST, by LILIANA URSU Poem Source First Line: I wrote the essential poem on an oar Last Line: I wrote the essential poem on an oar, %just before setting out Subject(s): Forests; Poetry And Poets IN THE FOREST, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the mid-wood's twilight Last Line: I track him in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Forests; Woods IN THE GREEN WOOD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the green wood, by a green slope Last Line: My heart goes crying and soaring yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Green (color); Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Woods IN THE PINE WOODS AT MARIENBAD, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here come we, to this temple strange and vast Last Line: Whose help must reach us, or we helpless die? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Forests; Marienbad, Czech Republic; Woods IN THE WOOD, by HERBERT EDWIN CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Through laughing leaves the sunlight Last Line: Let us ride on! Subject(s): Forests; Woods IN THE WOOD, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: A brooklet flows beneath the vaulted wood Last Line: A brooklet flows beneath the vaulted wood. Subject(s): Forests; Grief; Nature; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness IN THE WOOD, by THEODORE MAYNARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here there is hardly Last Line: As I never knew. Subject(s): Forests; Woods IN THE WOOD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I found at the root of a tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fairies; Forests; Time; Elves; Woods IN THE WOOD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night's in the wood now, in poplars and larches Last Line: "shouting ""good-night, now!"" in the old madcap way." Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blackbirds; Forests; Noises; Woods IN THE WOODS, by DOROTHY BAKER Poem Source First Line: Oh where have you been all day Subject(s): Forests IN THE WOODS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hill-sides are dark Last Line: And a gift in our breath. Subject(s): Forests; Life; Nature; Woods IN THE WOODS, by JR. WILLIAM MEYER Poem Source First Line: Sundays my father silently drove Last Line: Branches of the terrible high pines Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Forests; Sabbath IN THE WOODS, by HEINZ PIONTEK Poem Source First Line: Afternoon and two men Last Line: Against the harsh wind Subject(s): Death; Forests IN THE WOODS, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is god's house - the blue sky is the ceiling Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Forests IN THE WOODS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Other people - innocents or lunatics / find in the woods only pallid charms Last Line: Sound like waiting assassins plotting to strike. Subject(s): Fear; Forests; Night; Woods; Bedtime IN THE WOODS OF RYDAL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild redbreast! Hadst thou at jemima's lip Last Line: To trust a poet in still musings bound. Subject(s): Forests; Woods INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT IN THE NEW FOREST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place where william's kingly power Last Line: Pray for the wicked rulers of mankind. Subject(s): Canada; Courts & Courtiers; Evil; Forests; King, William Lyon Mackenzie (1874-1950); Prayer; Canadians; Woods INSCRIPTION FOR THE ENTRANCE TO A WOOD, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs Last Line: Ungreeted, and shall give its light embrace. Subject(s): Forests; Holidays; Trees; Woods INSCRIPTION: IN A FOREST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger! Whose steps have reached this solitude Last Line: The weeds and mosses from this letter'd stone. Subject(s): Advice; Forests; Holidays; Solitude; Strangers; Trees; Woods; Loneliness INTERIOR WITH FOREST AUTUMN (DETAIL WITH STAGS), by DINU ADAM Poem Source First Line: The stag herds descend from the mountains Last Line: And you smile upon its grizzled breathing Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons JOURNEY TO THE INTERIOR, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He has gone into the forest Subject(s): Forests; Woods JOY IN THE WOODS, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is joy in the woods just now Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Forests; Slavery; Woods; Serfs LAND O' PINES; OLD HOME WEEK IN MAINE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Not least of stars thy star Last Line: That star is dear. Subject(s): Forests; Maine (state); Pine Trees; Woods LATE WINTER RAMBLE IN ZASYEKA FOREST, by JAY PARINI Poem Source First Line: The woods in winter fill with birds Subject(s): Forests; Winter LAUGHING SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy Last Line: "to sing the sweet chorus of ""ha, ha, he!" Variant Title(s): Laughing Song Subject(s): Bible; Forests; Laughter; Mythology; Spring; Woods LEAF-MOULD, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What's the chief charm of woods - besides mere trees? Last Line: "here is perennial joy fed rich on death." Subject(s): Forests; Leaves; Trees; Woods LEFT-HANDED POEM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the self of my former shadow Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; Prairies; Rivers; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains LIFE IN THE FOREST, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On ettrick forest's mountains dun Last Line: My blessing on the forest fair! Subject(s): Forests; Woods LIKE MIGHTY FOOTLIGHTS BURNED THE RED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Myself distinguished god Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Forests; Light LINES COMPOSED IN PASSING THROUGH A FOREST IN GERMANY, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, when tomorrow's sun with upward ray Last Line: Would half rejoice, I felt that fate no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Forests; Woods LITTLE JOHN AND THE RED FRIAR; A LAY OF SHERWOOD, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deer may leap within the glade Last Line: What sherwood once hath been? Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Animals; Forests; Hunting; Robin Hood; Woods; Hunters LOVE'S ACCOUNTING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunburnt summer less devours Last Line: Love, for love of you. Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Love; Pain; Seasons; Summer; Woods; Suffering; Misery LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 66, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midnight was cold, in plaintive mood Last Line: They shook their heads with pity deep. Subject(s): Forests; Night; Sleep; Woods; Bedtime MAGIC, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love a still conservatory Last Line: And the echoing heart deceives. Subject(s): Forests; Travel; Wilderness; Woods; Journeys; Trips MAGIC, by ELISE FELLOWS WHITE Poem Text First Line: Waiting, listening, long I stood Last Line: Held secrets I could never share. Subject(s): Forests; Secrets; Waiting; Woods MAGNOLIA, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Deep in the forest, full of song and fragrance Last Line: Or like a dove upon the branch asleep Subject(s): Forests; Magnolias; Nature MAKING THE WOOD, by LOIS CANFIL Poem Text First Line: The blade of grass lifts clod beyond its weight Last Line: To make the fibered wood which builders use. Subject(s): Forests; Grass; Mankind; Nature; Woods; Human Race MARKET, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I have come to the south of france to return Last Line: Demented mists %that I am painting Subject(s): Forests; France; Insomnia; Markets MAROUF, by DUDLEY POORE Poem Text First Line: Was it marouf who found at the roots of the mountain Last Line: Of children's voices. Subject(s): Feasts; Forests; Woods MEMORIAL, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: The forest rears no tombstone for its dead Last Line: Out of its crumbled heart. Subject(s): Forests; Woods MINT, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already, we’d be driving past Last Line: The chance of a reprieve Subject(s): Forests; Man-woman Relationships MISSOURI WOODS, by CAROLYN MILLER Poem Source First Line: First they tried to keep me out, erecting thick Last Line: In the folds of my skin, seeds in my pants cuffs, %wildness in my heart Subject(s): Forests; Missouri MOTHER OF MOSQUITOS, by DIANE GLANCY Poem Source First Line: Woman %swat. %why mosquito fly near us? Last Line: Your life is our blood Subject(s): Forests; History; Native Americans - Wars; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, by IRA SADOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woods are thick today Subject(s): Forests; Woods NATURE AND LIFE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave the uproar: at a leap Last Line: Give we it, and good the kiss. Subject(s): Forests; Life; Nature; Soul; Woods NATURE AND NECESSITY, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall we sleep tonight?' the woods hang heavier Last Line: Straight through the storms of fate to reach our goal! Subject(s): Forests; Nature NEGLECTED WOODS, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Neglected woods, all overgrown Last Line: Green shelters to an errant soul! Subject(s): Forests; Woods NEW ENGLAND WOODS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New england woods are fair of face Last Line: A pine, communing with the skies. Subject(s): Forests; New England; Woods NIGHT BURIAL IN THE FOREST, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lay him down where the fern is thick and fair Last Line: The wings of the angel who gathers the souls from the wastes of the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Forests; Funerals; Night; Woods; Burials; Bedtime NIGHT IN CAMP, by SARAH SPENCER ROE Poem Text First Line: Sparks ascending from the fire Last Line: Presently to die. Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Fireplaces; Forests; Wood; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods NO-MAN'S WOOD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Shall I have jealous thoughts to nurse Last Line: Clean through the heart of no-man's wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods NOONDAY WOODS - NIPIGON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between thin fingers of the pine Last Line: No more shall know his joyous tread. Subject(s): Forests; Trees; Wind; Woods NOT BY HANDS CREATED, by PIOTR ORESHIN Poem Text First Line: Fall on your face Last Line: Hosannah in the highest! Subject(s): Forests; Future Life; Russia; Woods; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Soviet Union; Russians NOVEMBER, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who said november's face was grim Last Line: Knows she has sweetness all her own. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Forests; Life; November; Woods NURSE LOGS, by POLLY BRODY Poem Source First Line: Stilled, they lie %long green combers Last Line: In which they root, %those long, prone swells, inspirited Subject(s): Forests; Harvest; Trees NUTTING, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems a day Last Line: Touch -- for there is a spirit in the woods. Subject(s): Forests; Woods OBSEQUIES, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spirits of the twilight go sighing on these slopes Last Line: To a forest funeral. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Forests; Funerals; Woods; Burials OCEAN PARKWAY GAZING, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ocean up %against cliff Last Line: The sea closes in %up to the edge %of mythology Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Grief; Loss; Nature; Sea; Trees OCTOBER, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: October woods, wherein Last Line: Beyond the best conceit of pomp or power Subject(s): Forests; Woods OH SELVA!, by MAXIMIANO GRILLO Poem Text First Line: Bajo tu dombo immenso Last Line: Entre las hojas secas Subject(s): Forests; Woods OLD SAWMILL PARKER SETTLEMENT 1937, by RUTH GENEVIEVE WORK IODICE Poem Source First Line: When the great saws died down Last Line: Outside and in the wind round the house they thought %they heard the whine and whang of great saws Subject(s): Children; Forests; Saws; Trees ON AN EVENING'S STOPPING, by LEN KRISAK Poem Source First Line: I think I know whose woods these are Last Line: And wonder at its cold because Subject(s): Evening; Forests ON FLOWER WREATH HILL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An aging pilgrim on a Last Line: Circle of dancing gopis Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 1, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An aging pilgrim on a Last Line: In the streets of thhazy city Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought; Woods; Thinking ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 4, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No leaf stirs. I am alone Last Line: Rustles softly like fine silk Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 5, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This world of ours, before we Last Line: Sands of the shores of all the world Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought ON GOING UNNOTICED, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As vain to raise a voice as a sigh Last Line: You took as a trophy of the hour. Subject(s): Forests; Woods ON MAY MORNING, TO A LADY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter no more the weeping fields deforms Last Line: And in their bosoms feel another spring. Subject(s): Forests; May (month); Morning; Nature; Nymphs; Praise; Solitude; Spring; Woods; Loneliness OUR FATHER'S CARE, by IVA TEMPLE CARTWRIGHT Poem Text First Line: I wandered in a woodland Last Line: Safe, safe to the other side. Subject(s): Children; Forests; God; Religion; Childhood; Woods; Theology OUR HOME IN THE WOODS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Where the birds in the spring of the year sweetly sing Last Line: For all nature's great world is our own. Subject(s): Forests; Home; Nature - Religious Aspects; Woods OUT OF GRIMM: 3. FRAU TRUDE, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: The forest cups her house like hands in prayer Last Line: Blaze back at us in the glass, yet could not turn away Subject(s): Forests; Hunting OUTER AND INNER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From twig to twig the spider weaves Last Line: The soul through blood and tears. Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods OUTPOST, by PIERRE REVERDY Poem Source First Line: On the edge of the wood Last Line: The black gully where everything is blotted out Subject(s): Forests OVER THE HILLS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old hound wags his shaggy tail Last Line: Over the hills and away. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Forests; Hunting; Woods; Hunters PAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This pan is but an idle god, I guess Last Line: Whether to fan his wings or fly without. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Fantasy; Forests; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Streams; Creeks; Woods PAN AND THALASSIUS: A LYRICAL IDYL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pan! Last Line: Mine. Subject(s): Fantasy; Forests; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Woods PANAMA: THREE PICTURES, by HAROLD WILLARD GLEASON Poem Text First Line: From out of the sultry sky the great moon / beams Last Line: And rest, refreshing rest, hangs over all. Subject(s): Forests; Panama; Pioneers; Travel; Woods; Journeys; Trips PANTHERS, by CAROLYN MILLER Poem Source First Line: I believed %they were in the woods Last Line: My unsuspecting dog %dug frantically for groundhogs Subject(s): Forests; Panthers PASTORAL: 1, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet on sunny afternoons Last Line: That taught us to endure. Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods PASTORAL: 3, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now standing on this hedgeside path Last Line: And sings with wood and field. Subject(s): Fields; Forests; Nature; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Woods PENNYROYAL, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy with cares no winnowing hand could sift Last Line: Safe 'mid the unblighted treasures of the past. Subject(s): Children; Forests; Memory; Past; Childhood; Woods PEOPLE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: How are you getting here? %people who live in the forest Last Line: When they take off their sandals, %nobody knows Subject(s): Forests PINE WOODS IN WINTER, by INEZ CULVER CORBIN Poem Text First Line: Oh, little wood, knee - deep in snow Last Line: Just one more look before I go! Subject(s): Forests; Winter; Woods PLAINT, by LUCIEN PATE Poem Text First Line: I have told my pain to the wood Last Line: My heart so a-fevered with woe? Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Grief; Nature; Pain; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery POOL, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: I know a wood and in that wood Last Line: Of the master of the woods, great of secrets and long of meditations Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Forests; Water POSSESSION, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When soft I lay in the mossy bed Last Line: "we all belong to the sweet, green woods!" Subject(s): Animals; Forests; Love; New York City - Dutch Period; Woods PRIVACY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dense fog shuts down Last Line: A man and a woman cry out with love Subject(s): Forests; Privacy; Sex QUAIL AND THRUSH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The quail's staccato call from out the wood Last Line: Blent in with memories, borne on last year's wind. Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Memory; Thrushes; Woods QUIET OF THE SEVEN SISTERS, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: I remember the quiet of the seven sisters Last Line: As if in camouflage from some war %carried you away Subject(s): Forests; Memory; Trees RAIN, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All afternoon it rained, then Subject(s): Rain; Barbed Wire; Swamps; Fathers; Gardens & Gardening; Forests; Life; Bogs; Fens; Marshes; Woods REACTION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh heart, sink into yourself and rally Last Line: Return to your solitude, oh heart! Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Love; Night; Railroads; Woods; Bedtime; Railways; Trains RED RIDING-HOOD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet little myth of the nursery story Last Line: For the meal have he must, -- red riding-hood! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Forests; Life; Woods REDWOOD CHILDREN, by MARY ELLEN CSAMER Poem Source First Line: Here is a picture of a tree Last Line: It whispers: every child's life %is found money Subject(s): Children; Forests REFUGE, by RANDY BLASING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stand of paper birches years and years Subject(s): Love; Forests; Woods REMEMBERED SCENES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the wood my holy angel-child Last Line: Love weaves my web of life, both warp and woof. Subject(s): Eyes; Flowers; Forests; Life; Woods REMEMBRANCE, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O sacred ground, in wandering back to thee Last Line: "while life and thought remain." Subject(s): Forests; France; Graves; Sand, George (1804-1876); Time; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones; Dupin, Amanda. Baronne Dudevant REMEMBRANCE: GREEK FOLK-SONG, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not unto the forest - not unto the forest, o my lover! Last Line: There is memory in the forest. Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Forests; Greece; Honor; Love; Memory; Singing & Singers; Woods; Greeks REPOSE OF THE SOUL IN THE WOOD OF L'HAUTIL: DREAM OF THE FIRST DAY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Rest in the wood, my soul, on the past no longer brood, on that van Last Line: Proud. Rejoice, rejoice, my soul, one sees pissefontaine . . . Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Soul; Nightmares; Woods REPOSE OF THE SOUL IN THE WOOD OF L'HAUTIL: THE GOD OF SUNNY DAYS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Proud yearning of the wind above the forest deeps, of a wind that Last Line: Pair of horns from out my forehead grow. Subject(s): Forests; Trees; Wind; Woods REQUIEM FOR A FOREST, by SANDOR KANYADI Poem Source First Line: The gaze is still trained Last Line: To refuse to kiss %the ax Subject(s): Forests; Nature RETURNING TO MORGAN'S WOOD, by STEVEN BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: The road to morgan's pond hovers Last Line: I waited for the fracturing to stop Subject(s): Forests; Lakes REVERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dim grows the wood; the amber evening tints Last Line: Now tell me, is this heaven, or is it dawn? Subject(s): Bells; Day; Evening; Forests; Stars; Wind; Sunset; Twilight; Woods REVISITATION, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is here-the lime tree in the garden path Last Line: The harsh gate jars upon its hinges still. Subject(s): Forests; Gardens & Gardening; Lime Trees; Nature; Woods RIOLAMA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a land beyond the lands you know Last Line: My native land that I shall never know. Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Love; Moon; Nightmares; Woods ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: KING RICHARD, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the silent glades of the forest there springs Last Line: And his spurs to his proud horse gives he. Subject(s): Forests; Prisons & Prisoners; Richard I, King Of England (1157-1199); Woods; Convicts ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: AN OLD SONG, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou now art dead, and thou knowest it not Last Line: While in the distance the bells were tolling. Subject(s): Death; Forests; Graves; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones; Songs ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: WOOD SOLITUDE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In former days, in my life's young morning Last Line: As if she some fearful spectre had seen. Subject(s): Beauty; Fairies; Forests; Life; Solitude; Elves; Woods; Loneliness RONDEL - THE WOOD-THRUSH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: In the twilight of the trees Last Line: In the twilight! Subject(s): Birds; Evening; Forests; Singing & Singers; Thrushes; Sunset; Twilight; Woods RONDEL: 1, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far have you come, my lady, from the town Last Line: Since I am sworn to live my life. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Forests; Life; Love; Sea; Woods; Ocean RUBAIYAT OF DOC SIFERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you don't know doc sifers I'll jes' argy, here and now Last Line: Tamam Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Country Life; Forests; Physicians; Sickness; Woods; Doctors; Illness RUBBER ANGEL, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is not Last Line: I dare you Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Forests; Owls; Philosophy & Philosophers; Woods SABBATH, 1985, VI, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have walked so many times, my boy Last Line: Nothing of the season but to be Subject(s): Forests; Fields; Nature; Conservation SABBATH: 1985, V, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long does it take to make the woods? Last Line: Into the ease of sight, the brotherhood of eye and leaf Subject(s): Forests SACRISTY, by MAY GIBSON SHERBAKOFF Poem Text First Line: I must go to the woods at break of april Last Line: We'll yet find solace in her healing tears. Subject(s): April; Forests; Woods SANCTUARIES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou givest me greenest sanctuaries Last Line: With me and talk. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Forests; Gardens & Gardening; God; Hearts; Sanctuaries; Woods SEPTEMBER WOODLANDS, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is not sadness in the wood Last Line: They dream with countenance sedate %not melancholy Subject(s): Forests; September SERENA, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In paraguayan forests there's a flower Last Line: And thee than autumn roses! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Forests; Paraguay; Plants; Woods; Planting; Planters SHADE OF THE WOODS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I yearn with the weariness of my life, laid waste and lost in the woods Last Line: I say it. Joy doth brood for me in the tufted wood that by no path is crossed. Subject(s): Forests; Ghosts; Life; Supernatural; Woods SIR BRUIN, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir bruin was a gallant lad Last Line: "all in ""our best society." Subject(s): Forests; Hunting; Railroads; Woods; Hunters; Railways; Trains SKETCH, by CECILIA MEIRELES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was as dark and slim as a polynesian girl Last Line: How to be cut apart and always come back whole Subject(s): Forests; Grandparents; Life SLEEPY HOLLOW, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the drowsy moon of falling leaves Last Line: That hears the murmur of pocantico. Subject(s): Forests; Magic; New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Woods SO TERRIFYINGLY MELANCHOLY, by HAGIWARA SAKUTARO Poem Source First Line: In a thick stand of trees in a forest Last Line: Ever so terryingly melancholy Subject(s): Forests; Melancholy SOLITUDE, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How still it is here in the woods. The trees Last Line: His five pure notes succeeding pensively. Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Quiet Life; Solitude; Woods; Loneliness SONG, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You're as lovely as a dawn of winds Last Line: In the passionate, silent forest way. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Beauty; Forests; Nature; Woods SONG, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darling eyes, where smiles are waking Last Line: And the word we say is, love. Subject(s): Forests; Hunting; Woods; Hunters SONG OF THE EVENING, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: How does it reach me, the forest wind that lulls the palms at night? Last Line: What, to me, is the forest wind, in sum, that so many tears I shed? Subject(s): Evening; Forests; Singing & Singers; Wind; Sunset; Twilight; Woods; Songs SONG OF THE EVIL SPIRIT OF THE WOODS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the vapour hot and damp Last Line: Rankling all, the wretch expires! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Forests; Native Americans; New York State; Travel; Woods; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips SONG OF THE TREE, by FOLKE ISAKSSON Poem Source First Line: During the final approach before landing Last Line: Return to an existence that had long ago passed into oblivion Subject(s): Forests; Forgetfulness; Leaves; Trees SONG: 110, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must go walk the woods so wild Last Line: And all for your love, my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Forests; Life; Love; Nature; Trust; Woods SONNET: 9, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not undelightful, friend, our rustic ease Last Line: Stands, coolly buried, to the neck in green. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Forests; Spring; Woods SONNET: A FOREST IN BOSNIA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of trajan! What a world is here Subject(s): Forests; Bosnia; Woods SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 17, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So hither you return, only to haste Last Line: And hearts of men, and those calm heights of mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Woods SOUNDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The multitudinous murmurings of day! Last Line: As myrmidons of night and parts of her. Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Night; Sound; Woods; Bedtime SOUS LE FAIX DU FAGOT, by ANDREW SCHENKER Poem Source First Line: I threw a zeugma %in my poem, like la fontaine Last Line: Dead land or chopping down trees, living Subject(s): Forests; Paper; Wood SOUTH-WEST WIND IN THE WOODLAND, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silence of preluded song Last Line: The union is eternal. Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Wind; Woods SPARE THE NESTS, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: Is it a nest? It is a nest! See, 'mid the branches hidden Last Line: Than dry and withered blossoms, or shattered, ruined nests? Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Forests; Sanctuaries; Spring SPECIMEN DAYS: LOAFING IN THE WOODS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: March 8. - I write this down in the country again, but in a new spot Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Nature SPHINX-MOTH AND DADDY LONGLEGS, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening when dark is settling down Last Line: Man, the seeker, seeks himself Subject(s): Animals; Flowers; Forests; Hummingbirds; Insects; Moths SPRING IN THE WOODS, by NINA GAIL STONG Poem Text First Line: Away to the woods! Last Line: We miss those at our feet. Subject(s): Forests; Spring; Woods SPRING RAIN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The smoke of our campfire lowers Last Line: The throb and hiss of the rain Subject(s): Camping; Forests; Rain; Spring SPRING THOUGHTS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man grows sick of the walls of brick, and Last Line: "toil, when the woodland's calling me!" Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Spring; Woods SPRING WOODS, by ELIZABETH ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: I walked in a spring woods Last Line: He starts his work? Subject(s): Forests; Meditation; Woods STAYING ALIVE, by DAVID WAGONER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Staying alive in the woods is a matter of calming down Subject(s): Forests; Survival; Wilderness; Woods STAYING ALIVE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Staying alive in the woods is a matter of calming down Last Line: Then, chances are, you should be prepared to burrow %deep for a deep winter Subject(s): Forests; Survival; Wilderness STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose woods these are I think I know Last Line: And miles to go before I sleep. Subject(s): Duty; Evening; Forests; Religion; Snow; Solitude; Winter; Sunset; Twilight; Woods; Theology; Loneliness STORY OF MONGREL GREY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the story the stockman told Last Line: The purchase money of mongrel grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Dogs; Forests; Moon; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods STORY WITH FOREST, GIRL & BOY, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: In the black forest a girl, of course, and a boy are kneeling at a crossroads. Last Line: Growing hot, trees gleaming in their eyes. Subject(s): Boys; Forests; Girls SUGGESTED BY A VIEW FROM AN EMINENCE IN INGLEWOOD FOREST, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The forest huge of ancient caledon Last Line: Of power that perishes, and rights that fade. Subject(s): Forests; Woods SUMMER FRUITS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When scarlet strawberries first were seen Last Line: "chant ""praise the lord, for he is good." Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Forests; Fruit; Nature; Strawberries; Woods SUNDOWN, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Sounds of the day come out distinct and clear Last Line: And leaves the hills more silent than they were. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Forests; Woods SUNSET IN THE FOREST, by LYDIA JANE PEIRSON Poem Text First Line: Come now unto the forest, and enjoy Last Line: Are hymning gratitude and love to god? Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Lydia Jane Subject(s): Forests; Woods SYLVAN APOLOGY, by MAURICE DU PLESSYS Poem Text First Line: You lie who say the gods have left the woods! Last Line: Still drinks. Alternate Author Name(s): Flandre-noblesse, Sylvan Francois Maurice Subject(s): Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Woods SYLVAN ODE, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Woods of my fathers, sovereign diety Subject(s): Forests TH INN BY THE WOOD, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rank raw mist clung close like a hood Last Line: And I supped like a king at the inn by the wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Forests; Hotels; Woods; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE ALL-GOLDEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through every happy line I sing Last Line: Of time's all-golden yesterdays! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Forests; Singing & Singers; Spring; Woods THE AMERICAN FOREST GIRL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wildly and mournfully the indian drum Last Line: "away,"" they cried, ""young stranger, thou art free!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Forests; Women; Woods THE AXE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: To the soul there is no sound that chimes more dolorously, no sound Last Line: To the old chopper of oaks the robin blithely sings. Subject(s): Axes; Forests; Soul; Hatchets; Woods THE AZURE FROG: 1. PRAYER TO THE GOOD FORESTER, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Good forester, upon our knees we pray you, tell us, if you please, how, Last Line: "man replied to me, ""by this, because he's never seen." Subject(s): Animals; Forests; Frogs; Prayer; Woods THE AZURE FROG: 2. RESPONSE TO THE FORESTER, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Good forester, you lied! Thus is my joy betrayed. This very morn I Last Line: Hue, its glossy form was green, but mirrored stainless blue. Subject(s): Forests; Lies; Woods THE AZURE FROG: 3. REMORSE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I erred! The thing exists. Its little heart doth beat. But it dies be Last Line: Done? I would have tossed thee back. Imperfect is the heart. Subject(s): Fairies; Forests; Remorse; Soul; Elves; Woods THE BEAR STORY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: W'y, wunst they wuz a little boy Last Line: -- an' that's all. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Boy's Bear Story Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Boys; Forests; Woods THE CHILD IN THE GREAT WOOD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is all much worse than I dreamed Subject(s): Forests; Dreams; War; Woods; Nightmares THE CHILD OF THE FORESTS; WRITTEN AFTER READING JOHN HUNTER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is not thy heart far off amidst the wood Last Line: Seek not the deserts and the woods again! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Forests; Native Americans; Woods; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE CHILD'S RETURN FROM THE WOODLANDS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou been in the woods with the honey-bee? Last Line: God in earth's garden -- and not to fear! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Forests; Innocence; Lawrence, Sir Thomas (1769-1830); Woods THE COMFORT OF THE WOODS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I understand my comrades of the woods Last Line: The peaceful benediction of the trees. Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE CONSECRATION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely in the forest chapel Last Line: Where the myrtle blooms for ever. Subject(s): Forests; Life; Love; Smiles; Woods THE CRACKLING DEATH, by STEWART VAN DER VEER Poem Text First Line: And then dawn came, night's curtains were furled Last Line: And a match. Subject(s): Fire; Forests; Woods THE CRY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you not hear her crying Last Line: To find her before I die! Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; God; Grass; Lakes; Lilies; Woods; Pools; Ponds THE DARK FOREST, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark is the forest and deep, and overhead Last Line: The others, day or night. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE DAY OF FLOWERS; A MOTHER'S WALK WITH HER CHILD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to the woods, my boy! Last Line: O'er one rich day of flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Forests; Mothers & Sons; Woods THE DEAD CITY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I rambled in a wood Last Line: And I straightway knelt and prayed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Cities; Death; Fear; Forests; Grief; Urban Life; Dead, The; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness THE DEAD FOREST, by MAIDI PAYNE Poem Text First Line: From the living slopes we went Last Line: And wearing birds that chipper in their sleep. Subject(s): Decay; Forests; Rot; Decadence; Woods THE DESERTED BARN, by ARTHUR CREW INMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the barn, the sunlight seems Last Line: Which he has surveyed so long -- was man's Subject(s): Barns; Forests; Woods THE FAIRY WOOD, by ROBIN ERNEST WILLIAM FLOWER Poem Text First Line: It was the fairy wood Last Line: Song seemed no less than color on the wing. Subject(s): Fairies; Forests; Elves; Woods THE FIDDLING WOOD, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gods, what a black, fierce day! The clouds were iron Last Line: Black, dragon branches whipped below a moon! Subject(s): Forests; Music & Musicians; Woods THE FOREST, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the golden groves when june walketh there Last Line: But not till now was I with the woods again alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Forests; Memory; Woods THE FOREST, by ANN HAWLEY DELONG Poem Text First Line: I walked in the forest at morning Last Line: That god gave to you and to me. Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE FOREST, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By woodman's edge I faint and fail Last Line: Swift, swift before the wind I go. Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE FOREST, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heroic forest of legend and of dream Last Line: Of red-haired centaur and white unicorn. Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Life; Love; Nymphs; Seasons; Fall; Woods THE FOREST, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You should lie down now and remember the forest, Subject(s): Forests; Deforestation; Loss; Woods THE FOREST, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The forest is the town of trees; Last Line: Just as we in cities wide Subject(s): Forests THE FOREST BRAKE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The forest brake - the forest brake Last Line: That lay amid the forest brake. Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE FOREST OF CRECY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: At a pace to reawake my dreaming fantasy, I started then, my mind Last Line: For a sapphire, fare thee well, my forest of crecy! Subject(s): Forests; Life; Love; Woods THE FOREST PINE, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred autumns fallen in fire Last Line: Still their wild wings. Subject(s): Forests; Pine Trees; Woods THE FOREST RANGERS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Red is the arch of the nightmare sky Last Line: Fight! For it is not ours. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Forests; Ranch Life; Woods THE FOREST SANCTUARY: PART ONE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The voices of my home! - I hear them still! Last Line: Earth in her holy pomp, decked for her god alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Forests; Inquisition; Sanctuaries; Spain; Woods THE FOREST SANCTUARY: PART TWO, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bring me the sounding of the torrent-water Last Line: But for his presence felt, whom here my soul hath sought. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Forests; Inquisition; Sanctuaries; Spain; Woods THE FOREST SPRING, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Push back the brambles, berry-blue Last Line: That lone star as a coronet. Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE FORESTER'S CAROL, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lusty hearts! To the wood, to the merry green wood Last Line: Shall be borne by the hands of the free! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE FORESTS OF THE WHITE HILLS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lone waumbek methna! Who dares to profane Last Line: What the red man has hallowed the white man will keep! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; New Hampshire; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE GREEN INN, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sicken of men's company Last Line: To sit in god's green inn. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE GREENWOOD, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, when 'tis summer weather Last Line: We roamed through the greenwood together. Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE HEART O' THE WOODS, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear it beat in morning still Last Line: Thy flight is music every hour. Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Woods THE HEART OF THE WOODS, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: I like the leafy-murmuring solemn hush Last Line: Wild, labyrinthine, dim and fancy-haunted. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Forests; Wellesley College; Woods THE HIDDEN ONES, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A panic in the woods - when a bewildered Last Line: Lost fields, or to hang in their churning sky Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE HONEY-BIRD, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The honey-bird, my children Last Line: Are neighbors to the bees. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Forests; Hunting; Childhood; Woods; Hunters THE HOPE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the woods as the trees fade in the dusk Last Line: And the cold dark Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE HUNGER BOY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hunter boy of hazelwood Last Line: Hunter boy of hazelwood! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Forests; Happiness; Hunting; Youth; Woods; Joy; Delight; Hunters THE JOURNEY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went through the forest without a tree Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE LAURELS ARE FELLED, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We shall go no more to the woods, the laurels are felled Last Line: We shall go no more to the woods, the laurels are felled. Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Grass; Laurels; Lilies; Woods THE LITTLE FIRE IN THE WOODS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even these stones I placed crudely once Last Line: Good night / good night Subject(s): Fire; Forests; Woods THE LITTLE ROADS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great roads are all grown over Last Line: And lead us by a wandering way. Subject(s): April; Forests; Hearts; Roads; Woods; Paths; Trails THE MEISTERSINGER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The magic moment of the eve has come Last Line: So long as men have ears and time a tongue. Subject(s): Forests; Singing & Singers; Time; Woods; Songs THE MILL-HOUSE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An alley ran across the pleasant wood Last Line: And grapple with grim questionings of heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Forests; Mills And Millers; Nature; Woods THE NATURALIST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In gentlest worship has he bowed Last Line: Lifts will he hear and comprehend. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Peace; Woods THE OLD FOOL IN THE WOOD, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could whisper you all I know Last Line: "that's what you'd say." Subject(s): Eyes; Fools; Forests; Grief; Hearts; Idiots; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness THE OUTLAW MURRAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ettrick forest is a fair forest Last Line: As did outlaw murray of the forest frie? Variant Title(s): The Song Of The Outlaw Murray Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;forests; Woods THE PAGEANT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sound as if from bells of silver Last Line: The living jewels of the spring! Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE PASSING OF A ZEPHYR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up from, and out of, and over the Last Line: Of amiable calm. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Forests; Spring; Wind; Woods THE PATH, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a path, I'd keep it open Last Line: Always wider, for people to pass. Subject(s): Forests; Life; Roads; Wandering & Wanderers; Woods; Paths; Trails THE PATH-FLOWER, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A red-cap sang in bishop's wood Last Line: I watched her vanishing. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Forests; Gifts & Giving; Spring; Strangers; Woods THE PATHS OF PEACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would have holiday - outworn Last Line: Of all his loveliest dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Peace; Spring; Youth; Nightmares; Woods THE PETRIFIED FOREST, by MINNIE T. WEIR Poem Text First Line: Great fallen monarchs of the forest lie Last Line: And gaze with thoughtful, wondering eyes? Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE PINE WOODS, by JOHN HANMER Poem Text First Line: We stand upon the moorish mountain side Last Line: And silence as in temples dwelleth there. Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE PLACE I WANT TO GET BACK TO, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is where / in the pinewoods Subject(s): Forests; Deer; Gratitude; Woods THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 130, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Painted beams aren't for me Last Line: You'll never see a bud Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Forests; Home; Nature; Woods THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 49, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woods and springs make me smile Last Line: All I hear is noise Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Forests; Happiness; Nature; Springs (water); Woods; Joy; Delight THE POET'S JOURNAL: CHURCHYARD ROSES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The woodlands wore a gloomy green Last Line: Of love, that death has sanctified! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Flowers; Forests; Love; Roses; Dead, The; Woods THE POET'S JOURNAL: SYLVAN SPIRITS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gray stems rise, the branches braid Last Line: She is not purer than her child. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Life; Nature; Soul; Woods THE PRINCESS WAKES IN THE WOOD, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It darkened; I was cold Last Line: In thee all these – all these, and I, are one Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE RAVENNA PINE FOREST, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A heavy spot the forest looks at first Last Line: Or startled gull up-screaming toward the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Forests; Pine Trees; Ravenna, Italy; Trees; Woods THE RECLUSE: L'ENVOI, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Songs of the woods, verses of those dear days Last Line: Songs of the woods, from out my heart ye sprang! Subject(s): Forests; Singing & Singers; Woods THE RECLUSE: PRELUDE. THE WOOD, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved wood! Thou barrier green! Last Line: "share with us our serener life." Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE RURAL PIPE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, chide me not because my pipe oft sings Last Line: His airs sicilian and his message clear. Subject(s): Country Life; Forests; Love; Singing & Singers; Woods; Songs THE SATYR, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came a satyr creeping through the wood Last Line: And disappeared among the greenery! Variant Title(s): The Crackling Twig Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE SAVAGE OF AVEYRON, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the mazes of a wood Subject(s): Forests; Melancholy; Woods; Dejection THE SINGER IN THE WOODS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where moongrey-thistled dunes divide the woods from the sea Last Line: In the silence I hear my heart sobbing its old woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Forests; Grief; Lament; Singing & Singers; Strangers; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness THE SOLITARY WOODSMAN, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the gray lake-water rushes Last Line: Fellow to the falling leaves. Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods THE SONG OF THE THRUSH, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the beech-trees are green in the woodlands Last Line: Air! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Forests; Singing & Singers; Voices; Woods THE SOU'WESTER (BLOWING OVER THE OVERTON HILLS, CHESHIRE), by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Blustering, boisterous wind, that bloweth over the / bracken Last Line: I am the breath of a spirit that wandereth ever free!' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Forests; Weather; Wind; Woods THE SUITOR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My automobile loves the saintly wood Last Line: Against the woodland's closed, inviolate shrine? Subject(s): Automobiles; Forests; Cars; Woods THE SUMMER CAMP, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here slacken rein; here let the dusty mules Last Line: And gird our loins for action. Let us go! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Camping; Forests; Life; Past; Travel; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods; Journeys; Trips THE SYLVAN LIFE, by EDWARD HOVELL-THURLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in the woods I wander all alone Last Line: I with the deer, and with the nightingale! Alternate Author Name(s): Thurlow, 2d Baron Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE THREE WREATHS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three wreaths make I in the wood Last Line: Down the wind of hallowmas! Subject(s): Forests; Herbs; Woods THE THRILL OF THE FOREST, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: In the green-lit solitudes of the road beneath the woods as clear, Last Line: Forest leaves, pierced by the scent of smoke from distant villages! Subject(s): Fear; Forests; Soul; Woods THE WAIL IN THE NATIVE OAK, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the lone creek, chafing nightly in the cold and sad moonshine Last Line: Like the voice of some fell demon harrowed by a mad despair. Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE WATCHER IN THE WOOD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the wood's recesses cool Last Line: My lord and lady side by side. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE WAY THE TREES BREAK THE SKYLINE, by KATHARINE TONKIN Poem Text First Line: The shoreline of infinities Last Line: Of dream blows me thither like dust. Subject(s): Forests; Trees; Woods THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They shut the road through the woods Last Line: But there is no road through the woods. Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Roads; Time; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods; Paths; Trails THE WOOD, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked a nut-wood's gloom. And overhead Last Line: Beating along my undiscovered mind. Subject(s): Forests; Traffic; Woods THE WOOD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a knight once rode from out the sun Last Line: Or came unto the marsh, I never knew. Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Forests; Knights & Knighthood; Nightmares; Woods THE WOOD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come with me to the mossy places Last Line: If I kissed you, the wood-gods would not tell! Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Forests; Kisses; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Nightmares; Woods THE WOOD OF CRAIGIE LEA, by ROBERT TANNAHILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou bonny wood of craigie lea! Last Line: That I, in youth, hae spent in thee. Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE WOOD OF FLOWERS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the wood of flowers Last Line: In the wood of flowers! Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE WOOD-VOICE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would you learn of the forest? Last Line: And the shadows creep after! Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE WOODLANDS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O spread agen your leaves an' flow'rs Last Line: Though you've a-lost em, zunny woodlands. Subject(s): Forests; Woods THE WOODMAN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The woodman in clearing the forest Last Line: Hewing our way to the light. Subject(s): Forests; Labor & Laborers; Woods; Work; Workers THE WOODS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finally the woods / are stripped down Last Line: Glades for the deer. Subject(s): Change; Forests; Nature; Simplicity; Woods THE WOODS OF WESTERMAIN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter these enchanted woods Last Line: You who dare. Subject(s): Courage; Environment; Forests; Magic; Mythology; Trees; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods THE WOODTICKS, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's things out in the forest Last Line: A-crawlin' thro' yer hair. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Forests; Insects; Spiders; Trees; Worms; Woods; Bugs THE YOUNG HUNTER AND THE FAWN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Far in a wide and silent forest's shade Last Line: "and every wind doth whisper 'murderer!' " Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Deer; Forests; Hunting; Murder; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Woods; Hunters THE YOUTHFUL QUEST, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His lady queen of woods to meet Last Line: To ash at look of eyes. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Desire; Forests; Woods THESE FEVERED DAYS TO TAKE THEM TO THE FOREST, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Seems it sometimes this would be all Variant Title(s): Poem: 1441; Poem: 146 Subject(s): Forests THIEPVAL WOOD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tired air groans as the heavies swing over, the river-hollows Last Line: Nor the blue javelin-flame of thunderous noons strike fear. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Forests; Woods THINGS WE THINK WE CANNOT SEE: 5. RED OAK, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Her roots cracked and swirling mid-air Last Line: Coming to set you sail Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Oak Trees THROUGH MELANCHOLY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: When in forest depths I hear the mourning of the mere, red with the Last Line: World . . . 'tis I. Subject(s): Death; Forests; Grief; Soul; Dead, The; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness THROUGH THE WOOD, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Outside, / a world in sunshine Last Line: By the side of nellie. Subject(s): Forests; Woods TO A WOOD-PIGEON, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have I scared thee from thy bough Last Line: Murmurs night and day! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Forests; Hunting; Wings; Woods; Hunters TO JANE, by JOHN COULTER Poem Text First Line: Against a sloping wood it stands Last Line: Is this the house our dead love built? Subject(s): Forests; Houses; Wind; Woods TO MY CHILDREN: 7. IN THE WOODS, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are your grave eyes graver growing? Last Line: Where I find my flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Forests; Woods TO MY WIFE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long must elapse ere you behold again Last Line: Schooner equator. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods TO THE ANDES, by GUILLERMO VALENCIA Poem Source First Line: Oh, how I miss you, mountains of my home Last Line: The summits of your rough and craggy heights! Subject(s): Forests; Home; Memory; South America TO THE SOLITUDE OF FONTENAY, by GUILLAUME AMFRYE Poem Text First Line: Mid these hamlets and these woods Last Line: Cypress only to my grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Anacreon Of The Temple; Chaulieu, Abbe De Subject(s): Death; Forests; Dead, The; Woods TO THE SUPERIOR NATIONAL FOREST, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are the last great wilderness Last Line: I'd find you glorified. Subject(s): Forests; National Parks; Woods TO THE WOODSMAN OF GASTINE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, woodsman, stay thy hand awhile, and hark Last Line: Matter abides forever, form is lost. Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nymphs; Woods TOTEM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Riding a '23 farmall round and round on a hot afternoon, I always Last Line: Didn't try to find the snag. This year. Everything that died, died twice Subject(s): Forests; Woods TOWN AND COUNTRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They's a predjudice allus 'twixt country and town Last Line: Fer theyr gran'pap to waller 'em round! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Forests; Prejudice; Urban Life; Woods; Bias; Intolerance TRACKS, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Source First Line: After we'd made love all %night, and morning like a gauze Last Line: Through the forest I keep following you back to Subject(s): Aids (disease); Forests; Homosexuality; Hunting; Love; Relationships; Sex; Sickness TRAIL, by MARIA M. HUMMEL Poem Source First Line: First the ox bones and the cherry Last Line: That's what the stones %were saying Subject(s): Animals; Forests; Travel TREES FOR THE FOUR FORESTS, by MICHAEL BURKARD Poem Source First Line: Ghost of ghosts Last Line: And the vanishing 'I' in a vanishing world Subject(s): Forests; Ghosts; Supernatural; Trees TUNSTALL FOREST, by DONALD DAVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stillness! Down the dripping ride Last Line: The liquid eye and elegant head %no more than a mile away Subject(s): Forests TWO PATHS, by MRS. EDGAR A. PERKINS Poem Text First Line: The flaming sun sank down the western sky Last Line: But I was not afraid. Subject(s): Fear; Forests; Travel; Woods; Journeys; Trips TWO SONGS, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: Through the long dusk my spirit sings Last Line: Or day or night be there. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Dusk; Forests; Singing & Singers; Sun; Woods; Songs TWO WORLDS, by VIRGINIA STACY Poem Text First Line: Across the vale the long day pales Last Line: Starve feebly for an hour more gay. Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Night; Woods; Bedtime UNDER PINE TREES, by TIMOTHY HOUGHTON Poem Source First Line: Through layers of needles Last Line: Let no one mourn for me Subject(s): Death; Forests; Mourning; Pine Trees; Trees UNDER THE WOODS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the old woods were young Last Line: On this shed wall. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Forests; Woods VERNAL EQUINOX, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Like the ginkgo wearing the weight Last Line: Into the cups of our hands Subject(s): Forests; Nature VERSES ON THE DESTRUCTION OF DRUMLANRIG WOODS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As on the banks o' wandering nith Last Line: "that reptile wears a ducal crown." Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods VESPER SONG, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the forest shadows dim Last Line: Along the roadside fire-flies glow. Subject(s): Forests; Singing & Singers; Woods VICISSITUDE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O blithe and bonny! When woods are green Last Line: Unto no earthly spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Forests; Love - Nature Of; Spring; Woods VOLUNTARY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the quiet eve Last Line: The hostel door. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Forests; Night; Rest; Woods; Bedtime WALDEINSAMKEIT, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not count the hours I spend Last Line: Crowns all thy mean affairs. Subject(s): Forests; Woods WALK THERE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way through the woods is past trees Last Line: Walk there Subject(s): Walking; Forests WALKING WITH LULU IN THE WOOD, by NAOMI LAZARD Poem Source First Line: The wood is a good place to find Last Line: This winter wood with you, the dark hollow, %the snow-dustedface of the god Subject(s): Death; Forests WALKING, SELS., by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We hug the earth, - how rarely we mount! Methinks we might elevate Last Line: With a sudden gush return to my senses Subject(s): Earth; Forests; Nature WE'LL GO NO MORE THE WOODLAND WAY, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: We'll go no more the woodland way, the laurel-leaves are clipt. Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods WHAT GOES WITHOUT SAYING, by JEFFERY DONALDSON Poem Source First Line: Here is the wood we walked in, falls ago Last Line: Hepatica in the nearer one's mind Subject(s): Forests; Past WHEN SHADOWS ARE CREEPING, by JENNIE E. HUSSEY Poem Text First Line: When over the woods and the river Last Line: The red and white clovers are sleeping. Subject(s): Clover; Evening; Forests; Shadows; Sunset; Twilight; Woods WHO HAS GONE THROUGH THE WOOD, by FLORIS CLARK MCLAREN Poem Text First Line: Is there no landmark: no north-growing moss Last Line: To hear the slow rings growing. Subject(s): Forests; Woods WIND IN THE BEECHWOOD, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glorying forest shakes and swings with glancing Last Line: Moves with the chant and whisper of the glade. Subject(s): Forests; Soldiers' Writings; Wind; Woods WINTER, by ANNE HINCHMAN Poem Text First Line: Have you seen a blue jay flash through a snowstorm? Last Line: And I could see nothing but snow. Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Snow; Winter; Woods WINTER TREES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the sky, across the snow Last Line: And winter trees are beautiful. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Forests; Nature; Trees; Winter; Woods WINTER WOODS WITHOUT SNOW, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: The rain here leaves everything dark Last Line: And nostrils: skin keeps remembrance %like a rind Subject(s): Forests; Winter; Wyoming WINTERGREEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New england woods are softly fair Last Line: A grace that shines in deepest snows! Subject(s): Forests; New England; Woods WITH THE HUNTRESS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the water-eye of night Last Line: Maid-preserver, man-maker. Subject(s): Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Hunting; Mythology; Woods; Hunters WOOD AND THE SHORE, by MURIEL STUART Poem Source First Line: The low bay melts into a ring of silver Variant Title(s): The Shor Subject(s): Forests WOOD BY THE SEA, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dwell in the wood that is dark and kind Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Forests WOOD FLOWER, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I found a flower in the wood Last Line: And now, alas, what voice shall wake her! Subject(s): Fantasy; Flowers; Forests; Woods WOOD MAGIC, by JOHN BUCHAN Poem Source First Line: I will walk warily in the wise woods on the fringes of eventide Subject(s): Forests WOOD WALK AND HYMN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are the aspens, with their silvery leaves Last Line: To walk the woods with thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Forests; Woods WOOD-CUTTER'S NIGHT SONG, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, red and roundy sun Last Line: Bill and mittens, lie ye there! Subject(s): Forests; Labor And Laborers WOOD-FOLK LORE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For every one Last Line: About your eaves, %where scituate looks out to sea Subject(s): Forests; Wanderers And Wandering WOODCRAFT, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their past is sure Last Line: To vex the pigeon and to scare the jay. Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons; Fall; Woods WOODLAND ALLEGORY, by TAYLOR GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: What a sudden clearing Last Line: And left, in a heap for burning, %a history of leaves Subject(s): Fables; Forests WOODLAND JUNE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Yes, june is quite an idle elf, I think Last Line: A twinkling brook where pan is piping low. Subject(s): Forests; June; Woods WOODLAND PEACE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet as eden is the air Last Line: And eden-sweet the ray. Subject(s): Eden; Forests; Nature; Woods WOODMAN AND ECHO, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close echo hears the woodman's axe Last Line: An echo clapping harmony. Subject(s): Forests; Lumber And Lumbering; Trees; Woods WOODS, by MANUEL CARNEIRO BANDEIRA FILHO Poem Source First Line: The woods toss and writhe and shake ... Subject(s): Forests WOODS IN WINTER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When winter winds are piercing chill Last Line: I listen, and it cheers me long. Subject(s): Forests; Winter; Woods WOODS SHALL NOT BE LONELY, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source Subject(s): Forests WOODS; A PROSE SONNET, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wise are ye, o ancient woods! Last Line: Always new, like time itself, or like love. Subject(s): Forests; Woods WORLD TREES, by ERICH FRIED Poem Source First Line: You world-trees: %your reaper Last Line: Who was the stronger? %even death %is dead Subject(s): Death; Forests; Strength |
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