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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LANDSCAPE Matches Found: 553 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 89 CLARENCE STREET, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: My father and I return to his old neighbourhood Last Line: Let nothing fall or break Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape A BUDDING MORROW, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I woke, the sapphire sky Last Line: And laughed to have been mistaken. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English A CALIFORNIAN'S DREAMS, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thunder-storm of the olden days Last Line: With the youth and life and love they held? Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): California; Storms; Landscape A CALM, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the towering heights of the middle heavens Last Line: Sky, mountains, and landscape remove. Subject(s): Landscape A CHRONIC CONDITION, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Berkeley did not foresee such misty weather Subject(s): Fear; Landscape; Weather A CLASSIC LANDSCAPE, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This wood might be some grecian heritage Last Line: Nor learn what happens when the play is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Landscape A CLEARING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What lies at the end of enticing Subject(s): Country Life; Landscape 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 DESCRIPTIVE POEM ON THE SILVERY TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful silvery tay Last Line: To view the beautiful scenery along the banks of the silvery tay. Subject(s): Landscape; Rivers; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips A FAVOURITE SCENE; RECALLED ON LOOKING AT BIRKET FOSTER'S LANDSCAPE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hauntest thou so my waking and my sleeping Last Line: Where boding beauty sighs alas! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Landscape; Paintings & Painters A GREEN PLACE, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a place all fennel-green and fine Subject(s): Landscape A KIND OF MEADOW, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Landscape; Nature A MAP OF THE WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY OF ESSEX IN ENGLAND, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something forgotten for twenty years: though my fathers Subject(s): Essex, England; Landscape; Maps A PASTORAL, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the young year is sweetest, when the year Last Line: That might be hushed, unless you come ere long. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English A PASTURE POEM, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This upstart thistle Subject(s): Landscape A PICTURE: VALLEY OF CATSKILL RIVER NORTH OF THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The glories of a clouded moonlit night Last Line: Can only bow before them and adore. Subject(s): Catskill River, New York State; Landscape A ROOM WITH A VIEW, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At last, outside my window an expanse Subject(s): Landscape; Nature A WATERPIECE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wild-rose bush lets loll Last Line: Incomparably wise, the doom of man. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English A YEOMAN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This man that at the wheatstack side Last Line: And all his life has been alive. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Farm Life; Landscape; English; Agriculture; Farmers AFTER RAIN I WALK ALONE ON THE NORTH BANK OF THE LO RIVER, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the northern city tower I look towards the southern hills Last Line: Whereever you stroll you hear only thr cicadas Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape AFTER THE DEATH OF CANADIAN MARNIE KIMELMAN BY TERRORISTS ON A TEL...., by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: The beach severed from summer Last Line: To blank pages Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape AFTER THE SKY CLEARS, I GO SEE THE SNOW, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold mountain over the river Last Line: I regret the passing of time. %the spring breeze makes me shiver Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape AGRICULTURE: A POEM, SELS., by ROBERT DODSLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farm Life; Landscape ALMSWOMEN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At quincey's moat the squandering village ends Last Line: Some bell-like evening when the may's in bloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Old Age; English AMWELL: A DESCRIPTIVE POEM, SELS., by JOHN SCOTT (1730-1783) Poem Source First Line: How picturesque Subject(s): Landscape AN ANCIENT GODDESS; IN TWO PICTURES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time grows perilous; forth she comes once more Last Line: A moonlit sanctuary from time's worst powers? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English ANCHORED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LAKE ..., by SU SHUN-CH'IN Poem Source First Line: I see a golden hook on a violet screen Last Line: Tomorrow all this will scatter in the void, %leaving only the melancholy Subject(s): Landscape ANCHORING FOR THE NIGHT AT YUEH-YANG, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Resting, I listen to the bells of yueh-yang town Last Line: A light boat with short paddles passed as if flying Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape ANCHORING THE BOAT AT MELON ISLAND, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: Water separates ching-k'ou from the melon island Last Line: Spring breeze dyes the south bank green, %when will the bright moon shine on my return? Subject(s): Landscape AND DAVID MOVED THROUGH A SECRET PASSAGE TO CONQUER THE CITY, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: We stand outside these ancient walls Last Line: Knowledge is in your hands Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape ANGEL IN THE HOUSE, SELS., by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Friendship; Landscape; Love; Love - Marital ANGLER, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wind pulls at the angler's line Last Line: Mist has buried the hills ahead Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape ANGLER'S TENT, SELS., by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How leapt our hearts, when from an airy height Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher Subject(s): Landscape ANGLER, SELS., by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On public roads, and by each hedge-way path Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Landscape ANOTHER SPRING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When lambs were come, who could be slow and sere? Last Line: That now, this soon-come spring, goes slow and sere. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Spring; English ANSTER FAIR, SELS., by WILLIAM TENNANT Poem Source First Line: The saffron-elbow'd morning up the slope Subject(s): Landscape APETHORPE, by JULIAN HENRY FANE Poem Source First Line: The moss-grey mansion of my father stands Subject(s): Landscape APRICOT BLOSSOMS, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: A path with drooping willows Last Line: A setting sun leans on the wall %reddening several branches Subject(s): Landscape ASCENDING THE SQUARE PAVILION, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the sound of bells floating across the cold water Last Line: You can still hear the sound of sutras from afar, %sunset echoes amidst the empty hills Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape ASCENDING THE WANG-HAI TOWER, by SU CH'E Poem Source First Line: Lotus leaves have just dried, paddy smells fragrant Last Line: Blue evening sky slows spreads the beauty of mountains in autumn, %washing away the heavy make-up fo Subject(s): Landscape AT THE RECEPTION PAVILION, SOUTH OF THE CITY OF YANG-CHOU, by SU SHUN-CH'IN Poem Source First Line: Confused humming of cicadas Last Line: Alas! I wish I knew what course to follow Subject(s): Landscape AT THE SPRINGS OF THE CLITUMNUS, by GIOSUE CARDUCCI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even today from the hill, whose back ripples Last Line: And panting to put new industries in train, %an engine whistles Subject(s): Landscape; Springs (water) AUGURY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What sweeter sight will ever charm the eye Last Line: Could steal one mothering wing for folly's bait? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Birds; England; Landscape; Spring; English AURORA LEIGH; A POEM IN NINE BOOKS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of writing books there is no end Last Line: The rest in order: - last, an amethyst Subject(s): Books; Landscape; Mothers; Religion AUTUMN CLOUDS, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: Autumn clouds release their rain on this quiet mountain forest Last Line: To transmit my grief and my resolve, I play on my harp Subject(s): Landscape AUTUMN MOUNTAINS AND FIELDS: A PAINTING BY KUO HSI, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The yu-t'ang hall screens the spring sun Last Line: To paint lungmen with sandbanks, %we must wait till the yi river buys off the mountain springs Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape AVENUE IN SAVERNAKE FOREST, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How soothing sound the gentle airs that move Subject(s): England; Landscape AVOIDING THE SUMMER HEAT I VISIT HSIANG-SHAN MONASTERY, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: With a friend I climb towards the new sky Last Line: Who knows how to obtain these profound tastes? %we tread these ancient rocks green with moss Subject(s): Landscape AYLMER'S FIELD, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dust are our frames; and, gilded dust, our pride Last Line: Follows the mouse, and all is open field. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Friendship; Landscape; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect BALANCE, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched the arctic landscape from above Subject(s): Air Travel; Landscape BALLAD OF CHUNG MOUNTAINS, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: Mountain stream silently curves around the bamboos Last Line: Not a single bird calls; the mountain grows more gloomy Subject(s): Landscape BAMBOO GROVE, by LIN PU Poem Source First Line: Bamboos by the temple lie athwart Last Line: Now I recall your home, %on the whitewashed wall the picture of those plants! Subject(s): Landscape BEGIN, DISTANCE, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning stars are a torment Subject(s): Landscape BLUE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: See my colors fall apart? Green Subject(s): Colors; Landscape; Absence; Separation; Isolation BLUE BUTTERFLY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lucy paused for the blue butterfly Last Line: Is whispering in my lonely walk anew. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Butterflies; England; Insects; Landscape; English; Bugs BOAT TRIP ON WEST LAKE, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Color of willows reflects on the waves with a dark green Last Line: Pavilions and towers rise tall against the evening sun Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape BOATING ON THE EVENING RIVER WITH HSI-SHEN, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Floating gently down the calm waves Last Line: Last words before returning home are delayed. %why not row till the moon returns? Subject(s): Landscape BOATING ON THE YI RIVER, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The current gradually flows through the spring gorge Last Line: Then fly towards the top of the green forest Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape BOTH SIDES, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: On both sides the lines are long Last Line: A prisoner of war Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape BOYHOOD, SELS., by CHARLES ABRAHAM ELTON Poem Source First Line: I stood upon a lawn whose greensward spread Subject(s): Landscape BREATHING LANDSCAPE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying in the sun Subject(s): Landscape BRIGHT WEATHER AFTER A SNOWFALL: SIXTH DAY OF FIRST MONTH, by TSENG KUNG Poem Source First Line: Melted snow of mountain torrents is full of spirit Last Line: It is time to make an appointment to see my flower girl Subject(s): Landscape BRILLIANT DAY, by CHARLES H. TURNER Poem Source First Line: O keen pullucid air! Nothing can lurk Last Line: Unmark'd before, like piles of jewels seem Subject(s): Landscape BROOK IN DROUGHT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The willow catkins fall on the muddy pool Last Line: This universe dried into sands and stones. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English BY THE BANK OF SHOU-YANG, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are green shelters, east and west of the lane Last Line: How unexpected! The first call of the oriole! Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape BY THE WAY EZRA I FORGIVE YOUR ANTI-SEMITISM, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: They are all seated at the great literary table Last Line: Of personal letters Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape BY THE WAY, SELS., by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nestled into a hollow of the downs Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Landscape CAESAREA, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: We came here like romans Last Line: We were neither statues nor gods Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape CARMARTHEN, by DAVID LYNDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wide and wider spreads the vale Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, David; Lyndsay, Sir David Of The Moiunt Subject(s): Landscape CAVALLINO, by GIOVANNI PASCOLI Poem Source First Line: O lovely flowery hill, dear cavallino Last Line: So distant then, I gazed toward with awe %from your flowery side, down in the limpid future Subject(s): Landscape CHANGING MOON, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green east hagged with prowling storm Last Line: And where his useless gold and silver lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Moon; English CHAO-YIN MONASTERY, by TSENG KUNG Poem Source First Line: A narrow lane enters the pines Last Line: I am overfond of lonely places %where water flows and sings Subject(s): Landscape CHATEAU, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: Leafing through the book on artists Last Line: And fields and more fields where nothing grows Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape CHIN-SHAN MONASTERY, by SU SHUN-CH'IN Poem Source First Line: A solitary peak rises from out of the vast river Last Line: As the sun sets I shall get in my boat, %my head bowed in empty self-pity Subject(s): Landscape CHINESE LANDSCAPE BY FAN K'UAN, by MARTHA BLACK JORDAN Poem Source First Line: A bold brush mark on the long scroll Last Line: Unmoved, they drink the ashes in the cup Subject(s): China; Landscape; Paintings And Painters CHRYSALIS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Corpses push up through thawing permafrost Subject(s): Landscape; Nature CHUN-CHI MONASTERY, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Enter the path and view the stone gate Last Line: And then hesitantly listen to the mountain cicadas Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape CITY TOWER, by TSENG KUNG Poem Source First Line: The higher I go up the tower the more my eyes are filled with mountains Last Line: Don't be stingy, enjoy yourself with a hundred bowls of wine Subject(s): Landscape CLEARING SKY, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Wind sweeps the sky; it is like a mirror Last Line: When I seek for spring, grudge me not inebriety; %do not laugh because my hairs are few Subject(s): Landscape CLIMBING THE CENTER PEAK OF T'AI-SHIH MOUNTAIN, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I tether my horse in the shadow of green pines Last Line: Glow of clouds pentrating the dark mist %is beyond my power to capture Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape CLIMBING THE MOUNTAIN, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rapidly I climbed the high mountain Last Line: I can only follow the echo of the woodcutter's song Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape CLIMBING YUN-LUNG MOUNTAIN, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Drunk, I walk along the huang-mao cliff Last Line: Boisterous shih-chun claps his hands and laughs loudly Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape CLOUDS ON THE MOUNTAIN, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: A shower passes across the blue sky Last Line: Once more I love this mountain peace Subject(s): Landscape CLOUDY JUNE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the hedge the spearman thistle towers Last Line: Nor tell me I am I. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; June; Landscape; English COAST SCENERY, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: These iron-rifted cliffs, that o'er the deep Last Line: Its caverned base, the ocean's melancholy thunder? Subject(s): Ireland; Landscape; Seashore; Irish; Beach; Coast; Shore COLD CURRENTS SOUND LOUDER AMIDST THE PINES, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I feel shame to compare myself with su wu, %who after his return never mentioned his own merits Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape COLD WATERCOLOR, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We saw the birds jockeying for the feeder Subject(s): Snow; Landscape COMING DOWN THE MOUNTAIN, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Walking and singing midst the subtle blue Last Line: There is no one to man the evening ferry, %the boat is tied to a tree on the islet Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape COMPOSED ON THE WANG-HU PAVILION AFTER A CAROUSE, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black clouds pouring ink do not hide the hills Last Line: Below the wang-hu pavilion the water is like the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape COMPOSING AT THE RESIDENCE OF SENIOR OFFICIAL LI, by SU SHUN-CH'IN Poem Source First Line: East of t'u-chu the scenery is wonderful Last Line: He returns to it morning and evening, %and now there is a touch of white in his hair Subject(s): Landscape CONFLICT, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: In the distance black clouds Last Line: Finally claims us Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape COTTAGE PICTURES, SELS., by SAMUEL JACKSON PRATT Poem Source First Line: No village dames and maidens now are seen Subject(s): Landscape COURSE OF TIME, SELS., by ROBERT POLLOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Much of my native scenery appears Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert Subject(s): Landscape COVENANT: A LANDSCAPE, by ERIC ORMSBY Poem Source First Line: Covenant sleeps encircled by two brooks Last Line: Our city is nourished by thier secret waters Subject(s): Landscape; Religion CROSSING THE CH'ANG-LU RIVER AT DAYBREAK, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: A sash-like moon over the wintry bank Last Line: The sky clears and chien-yen is near; %bell peak towers over the lonely cloud Subject(s): Landscape CRYSTAL CARAVANS UNTO THE PURPLE PALISADES, by ALICE FERRIN HENSEY Poem Text First Line: Unto the purple palisades that stand Last Line: Of our far land of dreams. Subject(s): Caravans; Gardens & Gardening; Landscape DAY: EVENING, by JOHN CUNNINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the heath the heifer strays Last Line: Bid the setting sun adieu. Subject(s): Evening; Landscape; Nature; Sunset; Twilight DAY: MORNING, by JOHN CUNNINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the barn the tenant cock Last Line: Echoes to the rising day. Subject(s): Landscape; Morning; Nature DAY: NOON, by JOHN CUNNINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fervid on the glitt'ring flood Last Line: Brighten'd by the beams of noon. Subject(s): Landscape; Nature; Noon DEPARTURE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beech leaves caught in a moment gust Last Line: Our casual anglian train. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Farewell; Landscape; English; Parting DESERT, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: And so you have appeared Last Line: And the throat will no longer swallow Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gold shed upon suckling gold Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Landscape; Sorrow; Sadness DISTANT HILLS, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Thousand of ridges stab at the clouds Last Line: Purplish blue, deep and light Subject(s): Landscape DISTANT HILLS, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mountain hues know no far or near Last Line: I meet travellers, I know not their names Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape DIVINING THE LANDSCAPE, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Chin deep Last Line: Once more Subject(s): Landscape; Nature DORA BARACK AT 95, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: We gather to listen Last Line: And return to the heavens Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape DRAGON TEMPLE, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Evening ferry cuts across the jade-green river Last Line: All night long my heart was flying south with the snow-goose Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape DRINKING ON THE LAKES AFTER THE SKY HAS CLEARED, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sparkling water rolls like the sea, clear sky is fine Last Line: I feel urged to compare the western lake with hsi-tzu: %light make-up or heavy, she always remains a Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape EARLY AND LATE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How fondly still the grecian form Last Line: In easter rays! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English EARLY SUMMER ON WEST LAKE, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy rain has come and gone Last Line: Monks roaming those woods care not for welcomes or farewells. %I like to sit on that catch-fish-ston Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape ENDLESS RAIN FLOODS THE RIVER, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Over the yueh-ching mountains clouds rise Last Line: Leave those empty flights of steps. It will rain the whole night long Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape ENGLISH COUNTRY (WHERE THREE SHIRES MEET), by WILLIAM BLISS Poem Text First Line: No change is here. If chaucer came Last Line: Of wood-smoke, as 'twere matins bell. Subject(s): England; Landscape; English ENGLISH GARDEN, SELS., by WILLIAM MASON Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Landscape; Mnemonics ENJOYING THE COOL BREEZE AT WEST LAKE, by TSENG KUNG Poem Source First Line: If you ask me where one can avoid this blazing heat Last Line: Amid the perfume of purple lotuses %I listen to the sound of a bubbling spring Subject(s): Landscape ENNERDALE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I thought of ennerdale as of a thing Subject(s): Landscape ENTERING THE NORTH MONASTERY IN PAI-T'U VILLAGE, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: Farmers' cottages appear over the treetops Last Line: A setting sun, and no one is about, %chickens and ducks are keeping company Subject(s): Landscape ENTERING THE YANGTZE GORGE, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For long have I cherished the desire to enjoy the gloom Last Line: Never does one get a full pot of rice. %pity, what a poor life! Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape EPISTLE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF BURLINGTON, by JOHN GAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here sheep the pasture hide, there harvests bend Subject(s): Landscape EPITAPH, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happily through my years this small stream ran Last Line: Where with so strong a life you run and sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English EVENING DRINK AT P'EI-HSIEN PAVILION, by SU CH'E Poem Source First Line: When the sun is about to set Last Line: Near the bamboo fence %are spread the yellow flowers and the white wine Subject(s): Landscape EVENING MYSTERY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now ragged clouds in the west are heaping Last Line: What poison pours she in slumber's ear? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English EVENING OF THE FEAST DAY, by GIACOMO LEOPARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The night is soft and clear, and there's no wind Last Line: Dying by steps away into the distance %would grip my heart with anguish just like this Subject(s): Landscape EVENING SCENE FROM THE LAKE TOWER, by LIN PU Poem Source First Line: Water of the lake meets the blue sky Last Line: Countless are the trees of the wood; %somebre clouds screen the fishing boat Subject(s): Landscape EVENING SCENE FROM THE WANG-HAI PAVILION, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ocean waves come single file Last Line: Twenty times more will you see those silvery mountains Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape EVENING SCENE ON THE RIVER IN AUTUMN, by HSU HSUAN Poem Source First Line: Setting sun lights up the flat current Last Line: I dare not indulge the joy of idleness, %slowly I descend the city tower Subject(s): Landscape EVENING SKY CLEARS OVER THE HSIN-K'AI LAKE, by SU SHUN-CH'IN Poem Source First Line: Rosy clouds are lost in the east and the west Last Line: Riding the wind in an empty sky Subject(s): Landscape EVENING VIEW AT HO-LUNG MEN PASS, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Vaporous mists drizzle; I look straight ahead Last Line: In these empty and scattered mountains %hundreds of birds are startled Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape EVENING WALK, SELS., by CAROLINE ANNE BOWLES SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My lonely ramble yester-eve I took Alternate Author Name(s): Bowles, Caroline Anne Subject(s): Landscape EVIL LANDSCAPE, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Beach of old bones - the tide gasps / death-knells Last Line: The mushrooms, their stools. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Evil; Landscape FACING THE BATHS OF CARACALLA, by GIOSUE CARDUCCI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dull between the aventine and the caelian Last Line: Through capena down to the appian way she %spreads her strong torso Subject(s): Health Resorts; Landscape FARMER, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Tall trees shade the brushwood door Last Line: What food will be served before the lamp? %shallots are fattening in the dew Subject(s): Landscape FARMER'S BOY, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where noble grafton spread his rich domains Subject(s): Farm Life; Landscape FARMERS LIVING BY THE RIVER, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Slanting sunbeams divide the dawn on river Last Line: A drunken melody rises from the autumn grass; %I would rather live alone with this old family Subject(s): Landscape FATHERLAND, by ELOISE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: For what would a man die? Last Line: A greater spring than ours. Subject(s): Landscape FINDING THE LANDSCAPE, by JONATHAN AARON Poem Source First Line: Last night you questioned the number of stars Last Line: Into laminated darkness like fish, and the horizon %sweepingyour eyes with its little white flag Subject(s): Human Rights; Landscape; Salvation FIRST POGROM, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: It was the warnings of the rabbis and the fears of the peasants stepping out Last Line: In the village or a shallow family grave Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape FIRST SNOW, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the red chimney-pots the pigeons cower Last Line: Even his enemies sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Snow; English FISH POOL, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Fogbound pool, somewhat shallow Last Line: You can see fish and shrimp in the limpid river Subject(s): Landscape FLOATING (2), by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: Floating we'd meander Last Line: Before closing Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape FLOWERING BLOOM, OR THE FLOWER OF THE DESERT, by GIACOMO LEOPARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here on the arid spine %of the terrifying killer Last Line: Thought your frail shoots were planned %by fate or by yourself to live for ever Subject(s): Landscape FOR FU-KUO, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Few peach trees have blossomed between the bamboos Last Line: Suddenly I feel the green and red dazzle my eyes Subject(s): Landscape FOR THE FIRST TIME I SLOWLY ENTER THE HSUAN RIVER, by SU CH'E Poem Source First Line: The traveller comes from afar Last Line: Unlike old t'ao I am just appointed, %thus I cannot write another 'returning home' Subject(s): Landscape FOREFATHERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here they went with smock and crook Last Line: Who made honey long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; England; Landscape; Heritage; Heredity; English FOREST LANDE COVERED WITH MOSS, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Summer rain makes the forest muddy Last Line: Let the spring grass smile! Subject(s): Landscape 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 FRANK SYLVAN, SELS., by THOMAS AIRD Poem Source First Line: O! Now the summer woods! And o! The joy Subject(s): Landscape FROM MIDDLE CHUN-CHI HALL I CLIMB THE ... T'AI-SHIH MOUNTAIN, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: I stop the carriage facing the green cliff Last Line: I look back and the peaks are all transformed Subject(s): Landscape FROM UP THERE, by GIOVANNI PASCOLI Poem Source First Line: The lark, lost in the blank of dawn somewhere Last Line: And holds the song of the cuckoo in one ear Subject(s): Landscape FUCHSIA, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apprentice morning come easily now, Subject(s): Nature; Conduct Of Life; Landscape GARDENS, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: It is half-past three: white mourning Last Line: A theme of reverie and enigma Subject(s): China; Gardens And Gardening; Landscape; Stones GAZING AT CHIANG MOUNTAIN FROM A BOAT WITH SHAO-CHIEN CHANG, by HSU HSUAN Poem Source First Line: Deep-gorge road goes further back Last Line: I know leisure is hard to come by; %I dare not laugh at chou-yung Subject(s): Landscape GENESIS, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: When I wake before you Last Line: The sun on this the first day Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape GLEANING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the baulk the grasses drenched in dews Last Line: With such small winnings more than satisfied. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English GLOW-WORM, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what is this which shines so bright Subject(s): Fireflies; Landscape GOING UP TO K'AN-SHAN PAVILION AFTER SNOW, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Blue fog on the lake, the freeze is not yet over Last Line: Rays of snow-colored mist drift towards my wine Subject(s): Landscape GOSPEL, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The new grass rising in the hills, Subject(s): Landscape; Language; Words; Vocabulary GUILT AND SORROW, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A traveller on the skirt of sarum's plain Last Line: And drop, as he once dropped, in miserable trance. Variant Title(s): Salisbury Plain And Stonehenge Subject(s): Landscape; Salisbury, England; Stonehenge HALLOWED EARTH, by MAUDE PERRY FAETH Poem Text First Line: A carpet of gold's on the pathway Last Line: Hearts are tuned to the father above. Subject(s): Earth; Hearts; Landscape; Nature; World HAN-LU CREEK, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shimmering bright creek ripples with a spring sparkle Last Line: Peach flowers float on the water and the knife-fish grows fat Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape HARD TRAVELING: 2, by PAO CHAO Poem Source First Line: A luo-yang craftsman of renown Last Line: Long I'll sigh facing this %all the years of my life Alternate Author Name(s): Ming-yuan; Bao Zhao Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Landscape HARD TRAVELING: 4, by PAO CHAO Poem Source First Line: Spill water out on level ground Last Line: I waver, swallow back my voice, %and dare not speak a sound Alternate Author Name(s): Ming-yuan; Bao Zhao Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Landscape HAWKING FOR PARTRIDGES, by LORENZO DE' MEDICI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was already pink across the east Last Line: And so, my friend, we passed our happy time %with rhymes, sweet rhymes in sugar, keeping time Alternate Author Name(s): Lorenzo The Magnificent Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Dogs; Hawks; Hunting; Landscape HAWTHORN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath that hawthorn shade the grass will hardly grow Last Line: Sit in this same sanctuary. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Hawthorn; Landscape; English HERE, THERE, AND ELSEWHERE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This late afternoon landscape in perigord Last Line: Never to be seen in such exact secluded light Subject(s): Landscape HIGH SUMMER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now all the birds are flown, the first, the second brood Last Line: Talks forgotten battles with a tear in his eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Summer; English HILLS OF HOME, by CHARLES T. DAVIS Poem Text First Line: After long days when I come Last Line: Gold and jadethe hills of home. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, C. T. Subject(s): Arkansas; Home; Landscape HIO-HSIEN PAVILION, by SU CH'E Poem Source First Line: Northern ranges and southern screens Last Line: Barbarians offer wine and entertain guests; %they know how wonderful these peaks are for travel Subject(s): Landscape HOME FIELD - EVENING, by CHARLES H. TURNER Poem Source First Line: Tis sweet, when slanting light the field adorns Subject(s): Landscape HOODED NIGHT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At night, toward dawn, all the lights of the shore have died Last Line: Amusements are quiet: the dark glory Subject(s): Night; Landscape; Bedtime HSIEN-SHENG MONASTERY, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In that dim forest in the distance the evening crows have gathered Last Line: I only doubt my dream of returning from the southwest %to blue bamboos and the village wrapped in wh Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape HUO-JAN PAVILION, by SU CH'E Poem Source First Line: The city is in the south, the mountains in the north Last Line: I request all of you to compose beautiful verses. %allow me first to write this poem on the pavilion Subject(s): Landscape I ASCEND THE CITY RAMPARTS OF CHOU-WANG UNDER FRESH BLUE SKY, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: I walk on the old city wall Last Line: Disputes among the people are now rare, %slowly I proceed towards my quiet quarters Subject(s): Landscape I CALL ON THE PRIEST OF LING-SHANG BUT DO NOT MEET HIM, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bright rays of red flowers fill the balustrade Last Line: But I sang loudly by the white stone rivulet Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape I CALL THE HILL, by SUSU JEFFREY Poem Source First Line: An earth breast Last Line: The land is her own Subject(s): Landscape; Mountains; West (u.s.) I CLIMB THE KAN-LU MONASTERY PEAK AND LOOK TOWARDS THE NORTH, by HSU HSUAN Poem Source First Line: Tide approaches the curved shore of ching-k'ou and levels the bank Last Line: When I look up, emotion moves me; I love both places Subject(s): Landscape I DABBLE IN THE WATER BY THE BANK OF THE RIVER AT CHING-K'OU, by HSU HSUAN Poem Source First Line: I resigned my post, seeking lonesome quiet by the river Last Line: Far from those islands, I dabble in the murmuring current Subject(s): Landscape I ENJOY A COOL BREEZE IN MING-YUAN PARK PAVILION ..., by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Shoreline is capped in pure cool earth Last Line: Sound of sutras drifts from east of the low bank Subject(s): Landscape I STAY HOME ON AN AUTUMN DAY, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Restless on my couch, I love the brightness of the blue sky Last Line: No man senses this calm landscape; %moss color is reflected on my dress Subject(s): Landscape I WRITE ANOTHER POEM FOLLOWING THE RHYME OF THE LAST ONE, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Plum-blossom village nestles below the lo-fou hills Last Line: Only the fallen pistils remain in sticky and empty goblets Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape IDLY DRIFTING ON AN AUTUMN DAY ON WEST LAKE, by LIN PU Poem Source First Line: Fog merges with the mountain shadow Last Line: Pleasure of homecoming rises from the fisherman's song Subject(s): Landscape IN A BOAT AMIDST WIND AND SNOW, by SU CH'E Poem Source First Line: River surface is clean and pure Last Line: Let us watch every glorious peak of the lu-shan mountain Subject(s): Landscape IN A GARDEN, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is resting without sound or motion, Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Landscape; Connecticut IN FRONT OF THE OLD CASTLE AT VERONA, by GIOSUE CARDUCCI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You made this murmur, rapid and powerful Last Line: Still in that waste land, adige, you shall %sing of eternity's sleepless boredom Subject(s): Landscape IN IMITATION OF A WHISTLING TUNE FROM SU-CHOU, by SU CH'E Poem Source First Line: Fisherman! O fisherman! %slight breeze and delicate rain on the water Last Line: The long flute remains not, %from whence comes that single note? Subject(s): Landscape IN LATE-AFTERNOON LIGHT THE TOPS OF THE BREADFRUIT LEAVES, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In late-afternoon light the tops of the breadfruit leaves Last Line: Rooster crossing a yard blazes like a satrap Subject(s): Landscape IN THE DEPTH OF SPRING, by SU CH'E Poem Source First Line: Red and green countryside turns darker green Last Line: The monk knew that I lack enlightenment Subject(s): Landscape IN THE HUI-CHU MONASTERY ON THE K'UN SHAN MOUNTAINS, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: Mountain peaks appear and disappear Last Line: The company of monks gives me a melancholy joy Subject(s): Landscape IN THE SHADOWS: 11, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, while the long-delaying ash assumes Last Line: Evening, the culver cuts his liquid way. Variant Title(s): To A Friend Subject(s): Landscape IN THIS AMPHITHEATRE, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: In this amphitheatre Last Line: Once again as night Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape INFINITE, by GIACOMO LEOPARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always this baldly solitary hill Last Line: And it is sweet to shipwreck in this sea Subject(s): Death; Landscape INFORMAL DRINKING PARTY WITH FELLOW PREFECTS ..., by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Winding city walls are encircled with layers of mist and clouds Last Line: Treading on snow we view the jade-like peaks Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape INLAND, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the blond prairies, Subject(s): Landscape INTERVAL, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the cloudy evening shows Last Line: Suddenly unconfined as air. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English INVITATION TO A PAINTER: 1, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flee from london, good my walter! Boundless jail of bricks and gas Last Line: Landscape-lords are left alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Colors; Exhibitions; Landscape; Paintings & Painters; World's Fairs; Expositions INVITATION TO A PAINTER: 3, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me take you by the murvagh, sprinkled with those golden weeds Last Line: Round its rocks and sandy verges. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Fairies; Landscape; Atlantic Ocean; Elves ITALIA, ITALIA, by VINCENZO DA FILICAJA Poem Source First Line: O italy, italy, to whom fate gave Last Line: Strange swords, and arms of anyone at all - %to be a slave, whether you win or lose Alternate Author Name(s): Filicaia, Vincenzo Da Subject(s): Landscape ITINERARY, by JAMES MCMICHAEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The farmhouses north of driggs Subject(s): Landscape; Travel; Nature; Journeys; Trips JAFFA, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: On a porch in jaffa Last Line: Uncertain if it's tin or gold Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape JAUNT, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Verona, ohio / right 3 miles Subject(s): Landscape; Travel; Journeys; Trips JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 52. WINTER SKETCHES, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that black ground and bushes Subject(s): Winter; Snow; New York City; Subways; Landscape; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple JERUSALEM UNBOUND, SELS., by TORQUATO TASSO Poet's Biography Subject(s): Landscape JOURNEY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the relic of an ancient ride Last Line: We laughed at time, nor wished a better place. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English JOURNEY INTO THE INTERIOR, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the long journey out of the self, Subject(s): Travel; Landscape; Journeys; Trips JOURNEYING ALONE TO WANG-CH'UAN, by SU SHUN-CH'IN Poem Source First Line: Walking through blue clouds Last Line: Have you perchance met the hermit %sighing alone facing the ancient pine? Subject(s): Landscape KENNST DU DAS LAND, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, I have borne in mind this hill, Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Memory; Landscape KIANGSI, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Kiangsi is my country Last Line: With a loud cry he spears a pair of carp with his fork Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape KIBBUTZ SHAMIR ON A FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 17, 1981, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: One by one we returned to the north Last Line: Somewhere in the night Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape KINGFISHER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eastern god with natural blessing gleams Last Line: The kingfisher returns. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Kingfishers; Landscape; English KUEI-YEN PAVILION AT HUA-CHOU, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This long river, years end, many winds of sorrow have blown Last Line: Will the willows put forth tiny green specks %and the apricots be slightly tinged with red Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape KUNG-LU STREAM, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: I reach the stream of duke yuan Last Line: People do live in this deep valley Subject(s): Landscape LANDSCAPE, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were some pines, a canal, a piece of sky Last Line: And how the miles reel at the wide gaze! Subject(s): Landscape; Farewell; Parting LANDSCAPE, by CHALLIS SILVAY Poem Text First Line: Stalwart old men of earth Last Line: By some miracle of destiny . . . Subject(s): Canyons; Landscape; Mountains; Rivers; Hills; Downs (great Britain) LANDSCAPE (A), by CHON PONGGON Poem Source First Line: The crane lifts up Last Line: A bird flies off %in a parabola Subject(s): Landscape LANDSCAPE (FROM ANNNA PERENNA), by LUCIO PICCOLO Poem Source First Line: Above the roof Last Line: And perhaps an eyeless lizard slides away Subject(s): Landscape LANDSCAPE IN BLUE AND BRONZE, by PATRICIA FARGNOLI Poem Source First Line: If she had lived my mother would have told me Last Line: Toward the deepest water, its blue embrace Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Death; Landscape; Memory; Mothers; Parents; Water LANDSCAPE PAINTING, SELS., by WILLIAM GILPIN Poem Source First Line: Far up yon river, opening to the sea Subject(s): Landscape LANDSCAPE SURVEY, by JOHN BREHM Poem Source First Line: And what about this boulder Last Line: Nothing and be beheld by no one Subject(s): Landscape LANDSCAPE WITH FAUCET AND PHONE, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: There is a cup Last Line: Busy tone Subject(s): Landscape; Poetry And Poets LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: According to brueghel Subject(s): Landscape LANDSCAPE WITHOUT END, by EDWARD BOCCIA Poem Source First Line: When I turn on the stove Last Line: And even later than that, corot Subject(s): Landscape; Paintings And Painters LANDSCAPE, SELS., by JAMES HURDIS Poem Source First Line: Behold that vale, whose sides are cloth'd with wood Subject(s): Landscape LANDSCAPE; TWILIGHT, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gaunt shadows stretch along the hill Last Line: Was star of bethlehem! Subject(s): Landscape LANDSCAPES, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: It will begin quite ordinarily, I know Last Line: To alter the posture %of our earth Subject(s): Landscape LANDSCAPES AND ARCHITECTURES, by KENDALL DUNKELBERG Poem Source First Line: We feed on the twilight Last Line: Body, from which I drink Subject(s): Landscape LANDSCAPES AND SEASCAPES: MAS EL SOLANOT, by CATHARINE SAVAGE BROSMAN Poem Source First Line: When you invited me to mas el solanot, Last Line: The mountains soughing in their leafy dreams Subject(s): Landscape LANDSCAPES BEFORE SURGERY, by CHRISTINE GARREN Poem Source First Line: In the most remote, junglelike corner of the island Last Line: Where the first cell must have divided, somewhere %sometime in that paradise Subject(s): Landscape; Surgery LANDSCAPING ROCKS FOR SALE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They look like what they are: wreckage, the offspring Last Line: Out of the light of earth into our darkness %and a hard beginning Subject(s): Landscape LARCH TREES, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All men speak ill of thee, unlucky tree! Subject(s): Landscape; Larch Trees LAST OF THE VIRGIN SOD, by R. G. RUSTE Poem Text First Line: We broke today on the homestead Last Line: To have marred that work of god? Subject(s): God; Landscape; Nature - Religious Aspects LEISURE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, and lose not the sweet luring cry Last Line: And mercy's music be for ever dumb. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Leisure; English LEWESDON HILL, SELS., by WILLIAM CROWE Subject(s): Landscape LI SHIH-NAN PAINTS AUTUMN LANDSCAPES: 1, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wild trees in confusion descend towards the high-tide mark Last Line: My home is south of the yangtze, in huang-yeh village Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape LI SHIH-NAN PAINTS AUTUMN LANDSCAPES: 2, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In this world, sharp weapons daily make us behave like the barbarians Last Line: Who else would create that ape hanging by his toes? Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape LI SZU-HSUN PAINTS LONG RIVER WITH ITS BARREN ISLANDS, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Green mountains and vast boundless river Last Line: Last year he married his only daughter to a strong and handsome groom Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape LIBERTINE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In summer-time when haymaking's there Last Line: And a dryad will peep when she thinks I'm asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English LIGHT SNOW AT THE SOUTH STREAM, by SU CH'E Poem Source First Line: Night's snowfall at the south stream ceases with dawn Last Line: From time to time I smell the forest and notice early shoots of plum branches Subject(s): Landscape LINES TO A MILKWEED, by GALDYS HIGBEE POLINSKE Poem Text First Line: Ah, lovely weed, and yet it seems a shame Last Line: Because it's passed. Subject(s): Landscape; Seeds; Weeds LITTLE CAPE COD LANDSCAPE, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: The garbage is bagged, deposited in the dump, and several Last Line: Roses and more roses Subject(s): Landscape LITTLE LANDSCAPE, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Little landscape %always at breast Last Line: The dark arches %rise and cross over Variant Title(s): Little Landscap Subject(s): Landscape LOCH NESS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful loch ness, / the truth to express Last Line: Oh, beautiful loch ness! I must bid you good-bye. Subject(s): Landscape; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips LOOKING AT A PICTURE OF MING-CHOU TOWN, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: Outer walls of ming-chou are recorded in painting Last Line: Even in those days the landscape remained as before Subject(s): Landscape LOOKING AT MOUNTAINS FROM THE RIVER, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Watching mountains from a boat is like looking at moving horses Last Line: I raise my hands from the boat wishing to talk to them; %lonely sail goes south like a flying bird Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape LOTUS LEAVES, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wind comes over the pool and waves overflow Last Line: Covering the crimson make-up, %singing as they pick lotus Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape LOTUS POOL, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Unafraid of the dashing rain on the pool Last Line: Their rush scatters the sunset glow on the ripples Subject(s): Landscape LOVER'S JOURNEY, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On either side %is level fen, a prospect wild and wide Subject(s): Landscape LOW-MOON LAND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I often look when the moon is low Last Line: For a longing is on me that will not go. Subject(s): Landscape; Longing; Moon; Sea; Ocean LYING IN A HAMMOCK AT WILLIAM DUFFY'S FARM IN PINE ISLAND, MINNESOTA, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Landscape; Nature MAGIC, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We passed old farmer boothby in the field Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Maine (state); Farm Life; Boats; Landscape; Agriculture; Farmers MALEFACTORS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nailed to these green laths long ago Last Line: Dreary as a passing-bell. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English MAN WITH NO PROFESSION, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: In a time when everyone was known by his profession Last Line: With no profession Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape MENDIP HILLS OVER WELLS, by HENRY ALFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How grand beneath the feet that company Subject(s): England; Landscape MIDDLE PEAK, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You look but cannot reach Last Line: The last glow lingers on the peak's tip Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape MIDNIGHT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last-lighted windows have darkened Last Line: Be the wind in the moonlit thorn? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Night; English; Bedtime MISUNDERSTANDINGS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bright shallow of this broadened dyke Last Line: But to her frost-cold eggs she ne'er returned. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English MODEL FAMILY, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: I am handed another piece, carefully I squeeze the tweezers Last Line: From the model of their lives Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape MODELED ON THE RHYMES OF TS'AN LIAO, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn comes, spreading a white rug Last Line: I do not know who is hoarding this rare work Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape MODERN IMPROVEMENTS, by JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cumbrous pollards that o'ershade Subject(s): England; Landscape MOLE CATCHER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With coat like any mole's, as soft and black Last Line: There's not a peal in england sounds so well. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Animals; England; Labor & Laborers; Landscape; Moles; English; Work; Workers MOONLIGHT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your soul is a landscape rare Last Line: To the tall fountains, slender among the statuary Subject(s): Moon; Gardens & Gardens & Gardening; Soul; Love; Landscape MORAVIAN LANDSCAPE, by S. PROCHAZKA Poem Source First Line: The dust trails on the lonely road Subject(s): Landscape; Moravia And Moravians MORNING (1), by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Poem Source First Line: I bring myself light Last Line: Out of immensity Subject(s): Landscape MORNING (2), by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Poem Source First Line: I turn on Last Line: Endless free light Subject(s): Landscape MORNING (3), by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Poem Source First Line: I light Last Line: From endless space Subject(s): Landscape MORNING (4), by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Poem Source First Line: I become an illumination Last Line: With unlimited colour Subject(s): Landscape MORNING (5), by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Poem Source First Line: I throw on me Last Line: Infinite light Subject(s): Landscape MORNING BREAKS OVER THE HUAI RIVER, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The pale moon drives the clouds towards the dawn Last Line: Silently I count ten waves coming from the middle of the huai Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape MOST ANY BIT OF LANDSCAPE, by JEAN CAMERON AGNEW Poem Text First Line: Most any bit of landscape Last Line: Appeals to me. Subject(s): Landscape; Nature; Pleasure MOUNTAIN PAVILION OF MATER YI-TS'UNG, by LIN PU Poem Source First Line: Edging the forest, it is autumn in the hills Last Line: I sit and watch %fishing boats returning in pairs Subject(s): Landscape MOUNTAIN RETREAT AT CH'IH-YANG, by LIN PU Poem Source First Line: A cluster of village inns by the mountain slope Last Line: A wine-flag flutters slightly by the distant bamboo grove Subject(s): Landscape MOUNTAIN VILLAGE, by SU CH'E Poem Source First Line: Roaming in the mountains Last Line: Ups and downs of this world make me want to avoid it %and take my family wandering as if I were home Subject(s): Landscape MOUTH OF THE ARNO, by GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO Poem Source First Line: The mouth of woman was never to me Last Line: Enjoy enchantment, %our single soul: worship here Subject(s): Arno River, Italy; Landscape; Rivers MUFFLED, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black ponds and boughs of clay and sulky sedge Last Line: When even the owls and bats are hesitating. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English MY BICYCLE, by FRANKLIN VERZELIUS NEWTON PAINTER Poem Text First Line: The sun looks o'er the mountain fair Last Line: Can bring me such a joy and power. Subject(s): Bicycles; Grass; Landscape; Mountains; Wheels; Cycling; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MY BUBBY'S HOUSE, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: She began the day with the morning prayers Last Line: And look heavenward Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape MY GRANDFATHER AND THE BLUES, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: As the cantor holds the last high note Last Line: Except his voice Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape MY NATIVE VILLAGE, SELS., by NOEL THOMAS CARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: Touched by the sunlight of the evening hour Subject(s): Landscape MY PAESE, by GIOVANNI PASCOLI Poem Source First Line: Dream of a summer's day Last Line: Was barking at the outsider %who walked with his face to the ground Subject(s): Landscape MY RESIDENCE AT TING-LIN, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: The cottage goes round the curved creek Last Line: With the river birds and mountain flowers, %share my leisure Subject(s): Landscape NEW ENGLAND, by SUSAN N. PULSIFER Poem Text First Line: Houses of generous, ample line Last Line: Tell of past springs the heart remembers. Subject(s): Landscape; Life; New England; Time NEW ENGLAND LANDSCAPE, by DUBOSE HEYWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a sepia ground Last Line: Is slowly unwinding its skein. Subject(s): Landscape; New England NO CONTINUING CITY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train with its smoke and its rattle went on Last Line: "at this time next year." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Country Life; England; Farewell; Landscape; English; Parting NO SKY, by MARTHA RONK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sky.......A gray backdrop merely and absence Subject(s): Vision; Landscape NOCTURNAL ECLOGUE, SELS., by MOSES BROWNE Poem Source First Line: Hark! The shrill cock, the rising morn proclaims Subject(s): Landscape NOMAD EXQUISITE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: As the immense dew of florida Subject(s): Florida; Landscape NORTH OF THE CITY, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: Robe of spring covers thousand miles of green fields Last Line: A bright sun and a clean valley with wild clouds on high Subject(s): Landscape NORTHERN MICHIGAN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this back road the land Last Line: Through the woods. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Landscape; Michigan; Nature; Rot; Decadence NOTES FOR A POEM, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here are the long fields inviolate of thought, Subject(s): Landscape; Thought; Thinking NOVEMBER MORNING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the night storm sad wakes the winter day Last Line: And sharded pots and rusty curry-combs. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English OAK, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come take a woodland walk with me Subject(s): Landscape OCTOBER, SELS., by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O, the sweet melancholy of the time Subject(s): Landscape ODE TO A FRIEND ON HIS LEAVING ... VILLAGE IN HAMPSHIRE, by THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, mourn, thou loved retreat! No more Subject(s): Landscape ODES: BOOK 1. ODE 1. PREFACE, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On yonder verdant hillock laid Last Line: To pleasure and to health. Subject(s): Contentment; Landscape OFF A SIDE ROAD NEAR STAUNTON, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some nothing afternoon, no one anywhere, Subject(s): Landscape OFFSPRING, SELS., by THOMAS FRANCIS Poem Source First Line: Hard on the high road side, midway between Subject(s): Landscape OIL PAINTING, by CATHERINE MAYER Poem Text First Line: A moss-laid bed beneath a willow tree Last Line: The swans glide on the pond's tranquility! Subject(s): Landscape OLD BOARDS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love to see boards lying on the ground in early spring Last Line: As the rooster walks away springily over the dampened hay Subject(s): Wood; Landscape OLD HOMES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happiest village! How I turned to you Last Line: And in your pastoral still my life has rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Home; Landscape; English ON A LANE IN SPRING, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little lane - the brook runs close beside Subject(s): Landscape ON AN EVENING STROLL IN LU-YIN PARK ..., by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The remnant of spring is far gone Last Line: Bright moon seems to comfort me, %open the alcove and let in the pure light Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape ON AN OCCASION, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: A cloud rises from the chung-shan range Last Line: May I inquire of the mountain folks, %where is that cloud now? Subject(s): Landscape ON BEHOLDING BODIAM CASTLE, by EDWARD HOVELL-THURLOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, brave ruin of the passed time Alternate Author Name(s): Thurlow, 2d Baron Subject(s): Landscape ON BEING DISCOVERED A STOWAWAY, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: As the canvas was lifted he could feel hundreds of silver eyes Last Line: How long since you've eaten boy? Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape ON CHIN-LING, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: By the water my cottage door is ajar Last Line: Behind me the shadows of endless willow forest, %fragrance coming from the next cottage is of plum f Subject(s): Landscape ON DEPARTURE FROM CHIN-LING, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: Dense grass and trees crest the white stone hill Last Line: Men are followed by flying birds making wonderful music Subject(s): Landscape ON LAUREL HILL, SELS., by WILLIAM THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: O pope! The sweetest of the tuneful race Subject(s): Landscape ON LISNADARA, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On lisnadara soft, full soft, falls sleep Last Line: When dreams are done. Subject(s): Landscape ON THE CH'ENG-KUNG BRIDGE, by LIN PU Poem Source First Line: Evening peaks cut across the blue Last Line: I recall that in the south I have seen %chu-jan's famous painting on a screen Subject(s): Landscape ON THE NIGHT RABIN WAS KILLED, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: On the night rabin was killed the voices of the holy Last Line: Into place Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape ON THE RIVER, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: North of the river autumn clouds are half open Last Line: Then suddenly I see a thousand glimmering sails approach Subject(s): Landscape ON THE RIVER, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: The river ripples in the west wind Last Line: A fond farewell from my short flute; %I played on it east of these scattered hills Subject(s): Landscape ON THE ROAD TO HSIN-CH'ENG, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: East wind knows I wish to go to the mountains Last Line: Boil the celery, bake the tender bamboo shoots to serve the ploughman in the spring Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape ON THE ROAD TO TUNG-YANG, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: Mountains that hide the sky of wu are dense Last Line: I urge myself to sing about these things, %and ready myself to help the world Subject(s): Landscape ON THE TOWER, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Over the hundred-foot high tower Last Line: Do not wait for youth, for it passes %like a gust of wind Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape ON THE WAY TO RECEIVE IMPERIAL ORDERS, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rising sun warms with auspicious glow Last Line: I listen to the stags calling in the mountaineous depths; %the wind rises from the dark forests Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape ON UVEDALE PRICE'S ESSAY, SELS., by CHANDOS LEIGH Poem Source First Line: A master mind, that taste and genius grace Subject(s): Landscape ONCE AGAIN I WRITE ABOUT THE RIVER OF PAI-LU ISLAND ..., by HSU HSUAN Poem Source First Line: Riverside road slopes by the pai-lu isle Last Line: But I protect this fluttering, clean, white beauty Subject(s): Landscape OUTING IN SPRING, by SU CH'E Poem Source First Line: The ice has melted on the river, grass bank is green Last Line: Faint beams of the setting sun light up the touching trees Subject(s): Landscape PADDY FIELD, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Shallow jade-green water is flat Last Line: White paddy-birds fly high and low Subject(s): Landscape PAN-SHAN PAVILION, by TSENG KUNG Poem Source First Line: Tree tips are green, cliff path crouches and coils Last Line: Reaching here, I lean on the balustrade and look straight down Subject(s): Landscape PASSING THROUGH YI-PIN COUNTRY ... IN LAND OF THE BARBARIANS, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know this cold clear river Last Line: It bears the paw-marks of jackals and tigers Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape PASSING WILD GEESE ISLET, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Boat sails from the wild geese islet Last Line: Tender shoots of thistle and artemisia are fattening side by side Subject(s): Landscape PAVILION AT THE WEST T'AI-YI KUNG PALACE, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: By the grass border blossoming lotuses shed their petals Last Line: I do not know which family owns this fishing net Subject(s): Landscape PAVILION ON THE CH'IAO-SHAN, by TSENG KUNG Poem Source First Line: The great pavilion rises, pressing close to the city heights Last Line: It is time to go back. %I hesitate under the ascending moon Subject(s): Landscape PAYSAGE MUET, by MARTIN CHESLEY Poem Text First Line: The stillness of a summer's day Last Line: The hand we did not hold. Subject(s): Autumn; Landscape; Seasons; Fall PEACH BLOSSOM SPRING, by TSENG KUNG Poem Source First Line: I come in autumn and there are no peach blossoms Last Line: When they fight, men look for pomp and glory, %they never learn to love mountains and rivers Subject(s): Landscape PEASANT'S COTTAGE, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Green mulberries shine all over the flat valley Last Line: Early sun catches the gorgeous apricot flowers on the roof-top Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape PERCH FISHING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the far hill the cloud of thunder grew Last Line: They did together, never more to do. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Perch (fish); English PHOTOGRAPH OF THE CHILDREN, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: In the family photograph Last Line: For a hand full of air Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape PI-LO GROTTO, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jagged peaks joined in disorder Last Line: Staff in hand, I turn back; %to make this trip I troubled fung-p'ing Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape PIONEERING, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: And so we are halutzim Last Line: I recite the manifesto of love Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape PIUTE CREEK, by GARY SYNDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One granite ridge Subject(s): Nature; Landscape PLACES: 4. EVENING (NAHANT), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an evening when the sky was clear Last Line: Misted with light the meadows of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Variant Title(s): Twilight (nahant) Subject(s): Evening; Landscape; Nahant, Massachusetts; Sunset; Twilight PLAYFORD; A DESCRIPTIVE FRAGMENT, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou a heart to prove the power Last Line: * * * * * * Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Landscape; Playford (city), England PLUM BLOSSOMS IN FLOWER BELOW THE PINE WIND PAVILION, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the huai-nan village on the spring wind range Last Line: Sir, don't heave a sigh at solitary drinking; %you're lucky:the setting moon peeps in your empty gob Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape POEM, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: High and lofty, tiers of rock Last Line: Keeping company with the cold reeds Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape POEM SENT TO THE PAO-HSI TEMPLE AT SHA-CH'I, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love kiangsi, everything is so beautiful here Last Line: Sitting with his legs crossed, burns incense the whole day Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape POEMS OFFERED TO MY COLLEAGUE CHU: 1, by SU CH'E Poem Source First Line: Travelling until the clear stream ends, we reach the dark blue peak Last Line: And climb the blue mountains till the last range is reached Subject(s): Landscape POEMS OFFERED TO MY COLLEAGUE CHU: 2, by SU CH'E Poem Source First Line: Rains clear and shih-chao looks freshly polished Last Line: Why in recent years has my beard grown white? Subject(s): Landscape POEMS WRITTEN AFTER LEAVING CH'I-CHOU: 1, by TSENG KUNG Poem Source First Line: Cloud sails, ten in number, move with the wind Last Line: Waking from a drunken sleep, I still look at the brightening papered window Subject(s): Landscape POEMS WRITTEN AFTER LEAVING CH'I-CHOU: 2, by TSENG KUNG Poem Source First Line: This whole day my pleasure-boat has crawled midst the sand bars Last Line: By the west pavilion a boat brightens the water Subject(s): Landscape POEMS WRITTEN AFTER LEAVING CH'I-CHOU: 3, by TSENG KUNG Poem Source First Line: Bark of trees has put on a sharp, bright design Last Line: But can you forget sorrow by living amidst mists and waves? Subject(s): Landscape POEMS WRITTEN AFTER LEAVING CH'I-CHOU: 4, by TSENG KUNG Poem Source First Line: Perfume of lotus cools my pillow and mat Last Line: A quiet boat, and I am all alone by the window Subject(s): Landscape POSTHUMOUS TALES: TALE 10. THE ANCIENT MANSION, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To part is painful; nay, to bid adieu Last Line: Then lead me to my cot again.' Subject(s): Landscape PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A new grave meets the hastiest passer's eye Last Line: What a low hillock by your path may mean. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Graves; Landscape; Villages; English; Tombs; Tombstones PSALM OF CREATURES, by FRANCIS OF ASSISI Poem Source First Line: O highest lord, all-powerful and good Last Line: Praise and bless my lord and give him thanks, %and be his servants as humbly as we can Alternate Author Name(s): Moriconi, Giovanni; Saint Francis; Francesco D'assisi, San Subject(s): Animals; Landscape QUARTET, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A landscape familiar but always strange Subject(s): Landscape; Seashore; Tourists; Beach; Coast; Shore QUERY, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Landscape / before such as which Subject(s): Landscape QUEST OF THE SANGRAAL, SELS., by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Subject(s): Landscape RAIN, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Spring clouds turn into rain Last Line: Green shadows decsend on western windows Subject(s): Landscape RAPTURE ON THE CORNISH HILLS, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I stood at the foot of rocky carradon Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Subject(s): Landscape RECLUSE BY THE LAKE, by LIN PU Poem Source First Line: Lake water enters the bamboo fence Last Line: Why is the wooded path leading to t'ien-chu monastery %stillin autumn deeply dreaming in blue? Subject(s): Landscape REEDS, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Early reeds sprout like bamboos Last Line: Silently a pair of wild ducks come flying; %all this becomes a painting Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape REMEMBER THE CASTLE, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: Now I remember the castle Last Line: For one afternoon Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape RERAL SCENERY - ECLOGUE 1, SELS., by JOHN SCOTT (1730-1783) Poem Source First Line: Then soon gay summer brings his gaudy train Subject(s): Landscape RESTING IN A VILLAGER'S HUT ... WAY TO YUN FROM HSING-KUO, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blue mountains in a hundred tiers over the mountain stream Last Line: I see only a solitary glow-worm through the open door Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape RETURNING TO KUANG-HUA MONASTERY FROM P'U-T'I IN MOONLIGHT, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Waterfall echoes amidst spring cliff Last Line: All the peaks are the same tint Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape RETURNINGS OF LOVE IN VIVID LANDSCAPES, by RAFAEL ALBERTI Poem Source First Line: We believe, my love, that those landscapes Last Line: And the wakeful mountains singing to us afar Subject(s): Landscape; Memory; Nature RHYMES IN THE MANNER OF YEH SHOU ON FESTIVAL OF TUAN-WU, by SU KUO Poem Source First Line: Hundreds of hidden springs sing amidst the grasses Last Line: The road that passes my gate is the road to the capital Subject(s): Landscape RIVERS, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Poem Source First Line: I cling to this crippled tree Last Line: A corolla %of shadows Subject(s): Landscape; Rivers RIVERS, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI Poem Source First Line: I hold onto this badly wounded tree Last Line: A flower-head %of darkness Subject(s): Landscape; Rivers ROAMING THE LANG-YEH MOUNTAINS, by TSENG KUNG Poem Source First Line: Darting rays melt the piles of snow Last Line: I speak with those who work under me, %and drink my fill of this delicious country spirit Subject(s): Landscape ROARING BROOK; A PASSAGE OF SCENERY IN CONNECTICUT, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a mountain stream that with the leap Last Line: To loiter with these wayside comforters. Subject(s): Brooks; Connecticut; Landscape; Streams; Creeks ROSA MUNDI, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There in a solitude of silence slips Last Line: -- but like a spy the shadow passed their enfilade. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English RURAL EVENING, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The whip cracks on the plough-team's flank Last Line: And a fiddle scrambling after. Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Country Life; Evening; Landscape; Sunset; Twilight RURAL SCENERY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Receded hills afar of softened blue Last Line: And pastoral beauty, and arcadian ease. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Landscape; Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland RUSTIC WREATH, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With may's tomthumb and daisy come Last Line: And only earth's rude rustic here. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Country Life; England; Landscape; English SAILING ON THE YI RIVER, by SU CH'E Poem Source First Line: In my youth when I went south, %I hated all boats Last Line: Ministers of past regimes are difficult to obtain now, %useless to lament the venerable elders Subject(s): Landscape SAN FRANCISCO BAY LANDSCAPE, by JOANIE MACKOWSKI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The calm bay overlaps its grays and greens Last Line: One sees a little of any landscape Subject(s): Landscape; San Francisco SCENES OF INFANCY, SELS., by JOHN LEYDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Again, beside this silver rivulet's shore Subject(s): Landscape SCENES OF YOUTH, SELS., by WILLIAM HOLLOWAY Poem Source First Line: Remember'd long, adown the far-stretch'd vale Subject(s): Landscape SEARCHING FOR THE MONK HUAI-HSIEN IN THE YIN-CHING HILLS, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Delicate tendrils hang low from the pines Last Line: Sadly we return by the five high peaks Subject(s): Landscape SEEING THE LOTUS ON LIANG SHAN LAKE I REMEMBER WU-HSING, by SU CH'E Poem Source First Line: In the south, families speak of colored houseboats Last Line: Suddenly I remember the ten li walk I took at wu-hsing Subject(s): Landscape SHEEP IN THE SHADE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In summer time, I took my road Subject(s): Animals; Landscape SHEET LIGHTNING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When on the green the rag-tag game had stopt Last Line: With fear. Joe beat its brain out on the wheel. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Lightning; English; Lightning Rods SHELLBROOK, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When out by shellbrook, round by stile and tree Last Line: With young offsunder'd from the young in sleep Subject(s): Landscape SHEPHERD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evening has brought the glow-worm to the green Last Line: And gently leads the yoes that are with young. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; English SHEPHERD AND HIS DOG, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dog and I are both grown old Subject(s): Landscape SHEPHERDESS, by FRANCO SACCHETTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mountain shepherdess, young and fair! Last Line: And follow where they led me, everywhere Subject(s): Country Life; Landscape; Shepherds And Shepherdesses SHEPHERDS, by GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO Poem Source First Line: September - let's be off. Time to migrate Last Line: Ah why am I not there among my shepherds? Subject(s): Landscape; Shepherds And Shepherdesses SHOOTING STAR AT HARVEST, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bell softer than silence Last Line: To live in rapture new. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Stars; English SIR LANCELOT, SELS., by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fishy pool Subject(s): Landscape SKETCH FORM BOWDEN HILL AFTER SICKNESS, SELS., by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the point Subject(s): Landscape SKY CLEARS AFTER A SNOWFALL, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wild water comes gliding Last Line: We not only search for fragrant plants %but also inspect the mulberry farms Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape SKY CLEARS ON A SPRING EVENING, by SU SHUN-CH'IN Poem Source First Line: People say spring rains are good Last Line: Who looks out from the lofty tower? %the setting sun is at the far horizon Subject(s): Landscape SKY JUST CLEARED OF CLOUDS, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: Touch of a rosy cloud amidst dark crimson Last Line: Yet a few peaks are locked in white clouds Subject(s): Landscape SNOW ON THE FIFTH DAY OF THE SECOND MONTH, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Second month's raging wind and snow Last Line: We meet and gamble till the rosy sunrise Subject(s): Landscape SOLITARY WALK BY THE YI RIVER, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Green trees wind round the yi river Last Line: With spent passions, I return empty once more Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape SONG OF SNOW, by TSENG KUNG Poem Source First Line: Huge blocks of ice choke streams and marshes Last Line: Seize the opportunity of the rising northeaster; %drive the exhausted cow and burn the unfertile hil Subject(s): Landscape SONG: 2. THE LANDSCAPE, by WILLIAM SHENSTONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How pleas'd within my native bowers Last Line: Divide my love and me. Subject(s): Landscape SONNET, by THOMAS CAULFIELD IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I walk of grey noons by the old canal Subject(s): Landscape SONNET MADE UPON THE GROVES NEAR MERLOU CASTLE, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You well-compacted groves, whose light and shade Last Line: A self-renewing vegetable bliss? Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Landscape SONNET TO THE RIVER OTTER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear native brook! Wild streamlet of the west Last Line: Ah! That once more I were a careless child! Variant Title(s): To The River Otter Subject(s): Landscape; Otter (river), Great Britain; Rivers SONNET: 164, by PETRARCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now sky's at peach with earth, and winds disarm Last Line: I die, I'm born, a thousand times a day, %for my salvation lies so far away Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Landscape SONNET: 19. ON A BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful landscape! I could look on thee Subject(s): Landscape SONNET: 219, by PETRARCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The morning songs of birds on their sad themes Last Line: He made the stars invisible, and she him Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Landscape SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE ESK: 1, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mountain child, 'mid pentland's solitudes Last Line: To tell of drummond's poesy's spring flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Esk (river), Scotland; Landscape SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE ESK: 2, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not lovelier to the bard's enamoured gaze Last Line: The blackbird sings to thee at fall of night. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Esk (river), Scotland; Landscape SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE ESK: 3, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down from the old oak forests of dalkeith Last Line: Anglers, that patient o'er thy mirror lean? Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Esk (river), Scotland; Landscape SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE ESK: 4, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Delightful 'tis, and soothing sweet, at eve Last Line: Looks on thy pool its loveliness to view. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Esk (river), Scotland; Landscape SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE ESK: 5, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A beech-tree o'er the mill-stream spreads its boughs Last Line: Comes not an answer from the solitude! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Esk (river), Scotland; Landscape SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE ESK: 6, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leaning upon the time-worn parapet Last Line: And time is swallowed in eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Esk (river), Scotland; Landscape SOUND TRAVELLER, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: Under the full moon I rattle the sacred Last Line: A seed in the pocket of their blood Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape SOUTH COUNTRY, by KENNETH SLESSOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the whey-faced anonymity Subject(s): Landscape; Nature SPIRITS AND MEN, SELS., by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Again a child, where childhood rov'd, I run Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Landscape SPRING BREEZE, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: A gust of spring breeze; swallows are heading north Last Line: I realize I saw those flowers a year ago Subject(s): Landscape SPRING DAY, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: Green moss shines on water by my cottage door Last Line: It is a long day; birds twitter as they fly back and forth Subject(s): Landscape SPRING EVENING ON PAN-SHAN MOUNTAIN, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: The spring breeze carried the flowers away Last Line: Only the birds of northern mountains are passing through, %leaving behind a lovely tune Subject(s): Landscape SPRING NIGHT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the smothered air the wicker finds Last Line: As if day's host of flowers were a moment's whim. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Spring; English SPRING RIVER AT DAWN: A LANDSCAPE BY HUI TS'UNG, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the bamboo groove are two or three branches of peach flowers Last Line: Now is the time for the porpoise to rise Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape ST. AMBROSE'S, by GIUSEPPE GIUSTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your excellency, though you snarl and growl Last Line: Who rooted there firm as a fence-post stood %twirling his swagger-stick of hazel wood Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions; Landscape; Patriotism STONE MILK, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A backward may, with all the local finches of the fex tal piping in dialect Subject(s): Graubunder, Switzerland; Resorts; Landscape; Aging STONE-SCREEN ROAD, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The stone-screen lies beyond the floating clouds Last Line: Lying there I watch the autumn moon brightening all the peaks Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape SUNG FU-KU'S EVENING LANDSCAPE OF HSIAO AND HSIANG RIVERS, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The soldier stationed in the west recalls the lands of the south Last Line: We can invite the sun in its orbit %to come and view this misty vision Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape T'AI-PAI RANGE, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: Steep and lofty, the t'ai-pai runs southeast Last Line: Where can I find a place like this to live %so that I can share the joy of fishes and birds? Subject(s): Landscape T'UNG-CH'AO PAVILION AT TENG-MAI-YI, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The weary traveller is sad to hear of the long road home Last Line: Below this sombre sky falcons have no place to fly; %that thin hairline of blue hills yonder is chin Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape TA-CH'IN MONASTERY, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The vast bright valley is flat Last Line: These level fields are like a sea, %with waves rolling eastwards Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape TAMERTON CHURCH-TOWER; OR, FIRST LOVE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We left the church at tamerton Last Line: Of tamerton church-tower. Subject(s): Landscape THE BAD LANDS, by ROY LESLIE HERRICK Poem Text First Line: They call them the bad lands, these Last Line: The awesome building of a world. Subject(s): Landscape THE BAKER'S VAN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Village children shouted shrill Last Line: Was still in a brown study seen. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Bakeries & Bakers; England; Landscape; English THE BEAUTY OF THINGS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To feel and speak the astonishing beauty of things – earth, stone and water Last Line: The love, lust, longing: reasons, but not the reason Subject(s): Nature; Landscape; Beauty THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: ALLOY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Furnaces; Landscape; Labor & Laborers; Kilns; Work; Workers THE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE IN PICTURES, by JAMES MCMICHAEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The frontispiece fixes as / british Subject(s): Great Britain; History; Landscape; World War Ii; Historians; Second World War THE BROOK; AN IDYL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here by this brook we parted, I to the east Last Line: But she -- you will be welcome -- o, come in!' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Brooks; Landscape; Streams; Creeks THE BROOKLET, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O deep unlovely brooklet, moaning slow Last Line: To sleep unsunned in an untrampled glen. Subject(s): Brooks; Landscape; Streams; Creeks THE CHARMING OF THE EAST WIND, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Late in the month a rough east wind had sway Last Line: And down he sank, a captive to the spring! Subject(s): East Wind; Landscape THE COVERT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always thought to find my love Last Line: As ever hailed the spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English THE CROWN INN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Round all its nooks and corners goes Last Line: While empires shudder into night. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Hotels; Landscape; English; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE DRIED MILLPOND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old broadbridge pond, once on a time so deep Last Line: Nor any pleasure of the past abides. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Lakes; Landscape; English; Pools; Ponds THE EMBRYO, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That grey-green river pouring past Last Line: The swans through air anew. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English THE FOUR BRIDGES, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love this grey old church, the low, long nave Last Line: Nor sleep so sweet: -- the word was -- eglantine. Subject(s): Churches; God; Grief; Landscape; Love; Soul; Tears; Cathedrals; Sorrow; Sadness THE GARDENER'S DAUGHTER, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning is the morning of the day Last Line: Now the most blessed memory of mine age. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Country Life; Gardens & Gardening; Landscape; Love THE GIANT PUFFBALL, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From what proud star I know not, but I found Last Line: Be but as crouching dust and wind-blown sand. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Puffballs; English THE GRAVE, by ROBERT BLAIR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: While some affect the sun, and some the shade Last Line: Then claps his well-fledged wings, and bears away. Subject(s): Death; Landscape; Dead, The THE GUESTS, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the mountains / the finches Subject(s): Landscape THE IDLERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gipsies lit their fires by the chalk-pit gate anew Last Line: And not one of them all seemed to know the name of care. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Gypsies; Landscape; English; Gipsies THE LANDSCAPE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You and your landscape! There it lies Last Line: Our landscape just a thing of shade. Subject(s): Landscape THE LAST OF AUTUMN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From cloudy shapes of trees that cluster the hills Last Line: And cash upon his garden palisades. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Autumn; England; Landscape; Seasons; Fall; English THE LAST RAY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the world grows weak again, the sinewed woods are all / astrain Last Line: And sneers as one great laugh or gust huffs down the writhing avenue. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English THE LONG TRUCE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rooks in black constellation slowly wheeling Last Line: Only in sweet content for england vying. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English THE MARCH BEE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A warning wind finds out my resting-place Last Line: Still listening to the bee, still basking in the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Bees; England; Insects; Landscape; Beekeeping; English; Bugs THE MASQUERADE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here winds / the chiding chiming brook caught in two minds Last Line: With ringed lights dabbling and twirling the brambles and to yourself a-singing and a-talking. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Masquerades; English THE MAY DAY GARLAND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though folks no more go maying Last Line: Hid up his scythe in flowers! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Spring; English THE MIDNIGHT SKATERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hop-poles stand in cones Last Line: And let him hate you through the glass. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Death; England; Landscape; Skating & Skaters; Sports; Dead, The; English THE NOSE OF KIM DARBY'S DOUBLE, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Canyons, paths / dug thru the snow Subject(s): Driving; Landscape; Language Poetry THE PASSER-BY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The listless year goes dimly down Last Line: "once ended ""never, never part""!" Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English THE PASTURE POND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the pasture pond alone Last Line: Their solitary pasture-pond. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Lakes; Landscape; English; Pools; Ponds THE PIAZZA, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all the world was out-of-doors Subject(s): Crowds; Landscape THE PICTURE, by ARTHUR B. RHINOW Poem Text First Line: Gardener - we shall have to cut you down Last Line: Tree -- maybe your picture is too small. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Landscape THE PIKE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From shadows of rich oaks outpeer Last Line: And the miller that opens the hatch stands amazed at the whirl in the water. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Pike (fish); English THE PLACE FOR NO STORY, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The coast hills at sovranes creek Last Line: But dilute the lonely self-watchful passion Subject(s): Desolation; Nature; Landscape THE PLEASURES OF HOPE: 1, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At summer eve, when heaven's ethereal bow Last Line: "love! -- mercy -- wisdom! -- rule for evermore!" Variant Title(s): Hope;the Distant In Experience Subject(s): Beauty; Freedom; Hope; Landscape; Nature; Politics & Government; Liberty; Optimism THE POET'S THRIFT, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My landscape only need comprise low hills Last Line: In the simple realm of poetry. Subject(s): Landscape; Poetry & Poets THE POOR MAN'S PIG, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already fallen plum-bloom stars the green Last Line: And sulky as a child when her play's done. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Pigs; English; Boars; Hogs THE PROGRESS OF SPRING, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ground-flame of the crocus breaks the mold Last Line: Life which is life indeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Landscape THE PUZZLE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cuckoo with a strong flute Last Line: God's freezing love. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English THE RIVER, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a venerable place Last Line: Flows calm as household love. Subject(s): Landscape; Rivers THE SAME QUESTION, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is all here. It is all with us Last Line: But unsigned, or if so then of no great price Subject(s): Landscape; Memory THE SCYTHE STRUCK BY LIGHTING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thick hot haze had choked the valley grounds Last Line: That ripens into blue, nor knows the storm is by. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Lightning; English; Lightning Rods THE SEASONS: SPRING, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, gentle spring, ethereal mildness, come Last Line: To scenes where love and bliss immortal reign. Subject(s): Animals; Gardens & Gardening; Landscape THE THRESHER'S LABOUR, SELS, by STEPHEN DUCK Poem Text First Line: Soon as the harvest hath laid bare the plains Last Line: We, 'the corn threshes bad, 'twas cut too green.' Subject(s): Landscape THE UNKNOWN QUANTITY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Manda's twig-like arms Last Line: The snarl, the first, the knife in the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English THE VALLEY OF FERN: PART 1, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a lone valley, few charms can it number Last Line: It may fall unreprov'd in the valley of fern. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Valleys; Landscape; Beauty THE VALLEY OF UNREST (1), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far away - far away Last Line: "over the hills and far away." Variant Title(s): The Valley Nis Subject(s): Imagination; Landscape; Fancy THE VALLEY OF UNREST (2), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once it smiled a silent dell Last Line: Perennial tears descend in gems. Subject(s): Imagination; Landscape; Fancy THE VETERAN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stumbles silver-haired among his bees Last Line: His bellman cockerel crying the first round. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Veterans; English THE WAGGONER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old waggon drudges through the miry lane Last Line: As centuries past itself would do. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Variant Title(s): The Waggoner, 1919 Subject(s): England; Landscape; Wagons; English THE WAGGONER: CANTO 1, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis spent - this burning day of june! Last Line: The way the waggon went before. Subject(s): Landscape THE WARTONS AND OTHER EARLY ROMANTIC LANDSCAPE-POETS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mild hearts! And modest as the evening bell Last Line: Shall join with you and hear may-morning chime. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Landscape; Poetry & Poets; Warton, Joseph (1722-1800); Warton, Thomas (1728-1790) THE WAY DOWN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the way down Subject(s): Landscape; Farewell; Parting THEY WORK HARD AND ARE NOT ASHAMED, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I watch the joy of a flying bird, %hiding my desires behind lofty ideals Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS: SABBATH SONNET; COMPOSED DAYS BEFORE DEATH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many blessed groups this hour are bending Last Line: To one deep calm of lowliest thankfulness! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Landscape THREE POEMS WRITTEN ON SPRING EXCURSION, FENG-LO PAVILION: 1, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Red trees and green hills, sun is going down Last Line: In front of the pavilion they come and go, %trampling the falling flowers Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape THREE POEMS WRITTEN ON SPRING EXCURSION, FENG-LO PAVILION: 1, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pale spring clouds and a bright sun Last Line: Returning drunk in my bamboo sedan to transplant a flower Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape THREE POEMS WRITTEN ON SPRING EXCURSION, FENG-LO PAVILION: 1, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Green trees crowd together and mountain birds sing Last Line: Tomorrow when I rise from my intoxicated slumber, %spring will have gone already Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape TIME OF ROSES, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clean flows the wind as from its grand source flowing Last Line: At first that this year grass has brought forth roses. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Flowers; Landscape; Roses; English TIMING, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: I marvel at my grandfather's timing Last Line: Of darkness to scream and applaud Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape TO A LADY BEFORE MARRIAGE, by THOMAS TICKELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, formed by nature, and refined by art Last Line: And s[ecious joys are brought with real woe Subject(s): Landscape; Marriage TO THE RT. HON. JOHN HOOKMAN FRERE IN MALTA, by WILLIAM STEWART ROSE Poem Source First Line: Here, gladden'd by pure air and savour sweet Subject(s): Landscape TO ZANTE, by UGO FOSCOLO Poem Source First Line: Nor shall I touch again the sacred margin Last Line: For fate wrote down for us %mere burial, with no mourners and no tomb Subject(s): Islands; Landscape; Zacynthus TOPICAL SONG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, where, or how, it matters not a damn Last Line: Poor tin jack! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Islands; Landscape; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips TOURING THE SHENG-KUO MONASTERY IN HANGCHOW, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: I view the landscape as I go up Last Line: For once I sit and play my flute; %this faint melody enters fuyang Subject(s): Landscape TOWER AT KAN-LU MONASTERY, by TSENG KUNG Poem Source First Line: If you wish to absorb the beautiful views from this tower Last Line: Though I am old, the dust of the world clings to my robe; %iwish only to admire the high-flying gees Subject(s): Landscape TOWER OF A COUNTRY TOWN, by SSU-MA KUANG Poem Source First Line: A solitary tower Last Line: I instruct the officers to reduce taxes; %it won't do to let farming suffer Subject(s): Farm Life; Landscape TRAVELLING ABROAD FOR A BIT, by GIUSEPPE GIOCCHINO BELLI Poem Source First Line: Could be a lie, but someone who should know Last Line: Now that must make a bloody marvellous trip Subject(s): Landscape TRAVELLING TO LUNG-MEN FROM CH'IEN-CH'I, I PASS PAO-YING, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: From afar I love this beautiful summer view Last Line: Speak not of the long road home, %the bright moon returns to her place Subject(s): Landscape TREETOPS, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: Treetops in the north mountains come gently out of fog Last Line: After the first harvest of yellow clouds, rice plants are just freshening Subject(s): Landscape TRIP TO THE SUBURBS, by TSENG KUNG Poem Source First Line: The bean leaves hurry us to plough Last Line: Ch'ing-ming festival is near %red and white flowers have blossomed on a branch or two Subject(s): Landscape TWO AMERICAN LANDSCAPES, by JAMES RORTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I should hasten or cry out Last Line: See, I bring you gifts of silence, and cool snows. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Landscape; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TWO PASTORALS FOR SAMUEL PALMER AT SHOREHAM, KENT, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot put my hand into Subject(s): Landscape TWO POEMS ON PAI-HUA ISLE: 1, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wild banks, the stream curves a few times Last Line: But I love the deep green of this water-lily Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape TWO POEMS ON PAI-HUA ISLE: 2, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Water-lily deep and luxuriant Last Line: Returning oar is followed by the shining moon Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape TWO POEMS WRITTEN ON THE 29TH DAY OF THE THIRD MONTH: 1, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Orange blossoms outside my door are still bright Last Line: I roll up the curtain, lean on my pillow, and view the mountain Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape TWO POEMS WRITTEN ON THE 29TH DAY OF THE THIRD MONTH: 1, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds pass over the south range, a purple blue appears Last Line: I close my door, lean on the table, and burn incense Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape TWO POEMS WRITTEN WHILE I WAS AT THE SOUTH OF THE CAPITAL: 1, by TSENG KUNG Poem Source First Line: Long pool is filled with water, the rains have passed Last Line: Seeing spring go out, I feel intense loss, %I will roam afar but may never return here Subject(s): Landscape TWO POEMS WRITTEN WHILE I WAS AT THE SOUTH OF THE CAPITAL: 1, by TSENG KUNG Poem Source First Line: Rains drove across the pool, the dike is filled with water Last Line: Now there is only green grass to compete for colors Subject(s): Landscape ULALUME, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The skies they were ashen and sober Last Line: This ghoul-haunted woodland of weir Variant Title(s): Ulalume - A Ballad;ulalume - A Ballad (2) Subject(s): Auber, Daniel Francois (1782-1871); Death; Halloween; Landscape; Love - Loss Of; Mysticism; October; Soul; Supernatural; Weir, Robert Walter (1803-1889); Dead, The ULYSSES, by UMBERTO SABA Poem Source First Line: When I was growing up, I used to sail Last Line: And by the aching desire for life Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Landscape; Mythology - Classical; Poetry And Poets; Ulysses UNLUCKY ENCOUNTERS, by GIUSEPPE GIOCCHINO BELLI Poem Source First Line: I remember, when I was very tiny Last Line: I still won't hear of going for a walk %in any of those lonely country places Subject(s): Landscape UNTITLED, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the buried stones have risen and would almost talk Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Landscape UNTITLED, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When that great conflagration had finished with us, I sat in the silence of rocks Subject(s): Birds; Landscape UP THERE, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Belshazzar saw this blue Subject(s): Landscape URBAN LANDSCAPE, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: What if %instead of growing Last Line: Clouds strung out overhead Subject(s): Landscape VARIATIONS ON A NEO-CLASSIC THEME, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not a landscape from too near Last Line: Forgot against this very hour Subject(s): Landscape VIEW FROM THE HOTEL LOBBY, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bleary by noon, the whitewashed Subject(s): City & Town Life; Landscape VIEW OF THE NORTHERN MOUNTAIN, by LIN PU Poem Source First Line: In the evening I come to see this mountain's northern view Last Line: Whose flute is playing this tune? %reeds and rushes, white birds fly by Subject(s): Landscape VIEWING THE WILDERNESS, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Fresh blue sky; this is the proper time to view the wilds Last Line: Here spring ploughing is late; %the lowing cow rests under the tree Subject(s): Landscape VILLA AT LU-LUNG VILLAGE ON AN AUTUMN DAY, by HSU HSUAN Poem Source First Line: Reject these worldly cares Last Line: Don't ask who I am; %the hill, the trees, the empty boat Subject(s): Landscape VILLAGE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What happy place we travel through! Last Line: Whose steps are wounds -- what happy place? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Facades; Landscape; Villages; English; Appearances VILLAGE CURATE, SELS., by JAMES HURDIS Poem Source First Line: Then let the village bells, as often wont Subject(s): Landscape VILLAGE GREEN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thatched roofs green with moss and grass stand round Last Line: With trousers daubed in mire and face all black. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Soccer; Villages; English VILLAGE IN THE MOUNTAIN, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bamboo fence and thatched cottages lie across the stream Last Line: Solitary smoke curls upward; men live there Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape VISIT TO HSIANG-CH'I MONASTERY AT PO-LO, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For two years I have wandered in the land of fishes and frogs Last Line: On finishing the poem I am convulsed with laughter: %when a scholar speaks of food he speaks of the Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape WALK ON LU-SHAN MOUNTAIN, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: My longing for wilderness is satisfied Last Line: Where do the people dwell? %a cock crows once from beyond the clouds Subject(s): Landscape WALK TO CHURCH, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the holy hour is nigh Subject(s): Landscape WALKLEY, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sarah and william adams! Here we stood Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Landscape WALKS IN A FOREST, SELS., by THOMAS GISBORNE Poem Source First Line: On the bank worn bare Subject(s): Landscape WASTE GROUND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wheat crowds close, the land falls sharp Last Line: The neighbours of a niche for fable. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English WATCHING SCENERY WITH TA'CHIEN CHUNG FROM A BOAT, by HSU HSUAN Poem Source First Line: Levee lies athwart the northern slope Last Line: River is full, day is fair, we play with small ripples Subject(s): Landscape WATER MOMENT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silver eel slips through the waving weeds Last Line: The silver death writhes with the chosen one. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English WATER SPORT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come all who hear our song say yalding bells Last Line: Shine like an angel to the mill boy's sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Boats; England; Landscape; English WAY TO LOVE WISDOM, by TOMASSO CAMPANELLA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The world's a book, the youthful diary Last Line: Illness and ignorance, save us: for god's sake, %we must go back to the original book Subject(s): Landscape WELSH LANDSCAPE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: To live in wales is to be conscious / at dusk of the spilled blood Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Landscape; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen WELSH LANDSCAPE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To live in wales is to be conscious %at dusk of the spilled blood Last Line: Sick with inbreeding, %worrying about the cracase of an old song Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Landscape; Wales WEST TOWER, by TSENG KUNG Poem Source First Line: Clouds like sea waves come and go Last Line: Reclining, I watch the rush of rain over a thousand hills Subject(s): Landscape WESTERN GARDEN, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dipping sun knocks at the rivulet gate Last Line: For whom does the music speak? %a man today still cherishes the past Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape WHEN I FIRST CAME TO WEST LAKE AT YING-CHOU ..., by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The vast flat lake is like green glazed glass Last Line: I think of you and wish we were draining goblets together Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape WHEN YOU SPEAK, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: When you speak Last Line: Never flew Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape WHERE I WRITE, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: It is this moment Last Line: Leaving a thin blue line Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape WHILE STROLLING .. WROTE THIS POEM ON CH'UNG-SHOU MONASTERY, by SU CH'E Poem Source First Line: Morning glow below the mountain is no longer there Last Line: Leaning on your pommel you should dream of me; %in the past we two rode one horse together Subject(s): Landscape WHITE HERON PAVILION, by SU CH'E Poem Source First Line: The water in front of white heron island Last Line: Bright moon will shine full over the city Subject(s): Landscape WHY I AM NOT A PAINTER, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No ideas / but in things? But then Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Landscape WILD DUCK AND HER BROOD, by JAMES GRAHAME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How calm that little lake! No breath of wind Subject(s): Landscape WILDERNESS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On lonely kinton green all day Last Line: Down to the bull for pipe and glass. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English WILL O' THE WISP, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From choked morass I leap and run Last Line: Content in swamps despised to dwell! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; English WILLOWS, by SSU-MA KUANG Poem Source First Line: Highroads are clogged with carts and horses Last Line: Sir, what I wish is a heart like yours, %preserving trees islike preserving human life Subject(s): Landscape; Trees WIND OF SPRING, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: The spring wind passes over the willows Last Line: Amidst all this the pavilion by the river %bursts like a bubble on limpid waters Subject(s): Landscape WINDSOR FOREST, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Thy forests, windsor! And thy green retreats Last Line: First in these fields I sung the sylvan strains. Subject(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667); Denham, Sir John (1615-1669); Freedom; Great Britain - History; Howard, Henry, Earl Of Surrey (1517-47); Landscape; Windsor Forest, England; Liberty; English History WINTER EVENING IN A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE, by LIN PU Poem Source First Line: Grasses grown bent below the sloping forest Last Line: Egrets somestimes rise two by two %and fly wildly across the pond Subject(s): Landscape WINTER MORNING, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night the wind swept over the house Subject(s): Winter; Nature; Landscape WINTER NIGHTS; A BACKWARD LOOK, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange chord! The weir-pool's tussling dance Last Line: Are the heart's invincible law. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Winter; English WINTER: EAST ANGLIA, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a frosty sunset Last Line: And hard as winter dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Winter; English WISDOM, by GIOVANNI PASCOLI Poem Source First Line: Climb with your thoughts up to the lonely height Last Line: The closer comes the thing you're staring into: %mystery, shadow Subject(s): Landscape WITH CH'EN AT CHUANG-HSIN SPRING IN THE HSI-MA MOUNTAINS, by HSU HSUAN Poem Source First Line: The door of the mountain lodge is open already; we wait to remove our caps Last Line: On the sandy ridge we hear the giggling of the night apes Subject(s): Landscape WITH EACH CLOUDED PEAK, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: What a conflict, he said Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Farm Life; Landscape WORLD OF NOISE, by NICK MOUDRY Poem Source First Line: The landscape was full of newsreels Last Line: Told us we could no longer sleep & we lay always awake Subject(s): Landscape; Noises; Reality; Waking WRITING AT 'PAVILION OF THE DRUNKEN OLD MAN' AT CH'U-CHOU, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Forty is not really old Last Line: Only the wind from the cliff comes down %to breathe me into consciousness Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape WRITING AT THE NORTHERN COVE OF THE FU-KUEI MOUNTAINS, by HSU HSUAN Poem Source First Line: This is truly a lonely mountain Last Line: I cannot think of going back, %let me at last live in quiet and peace Subject(s): Landscape WRITING ON THE WALL OF HSI-LIN MONASTERY, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With a sidelong glance I see the never-ending peaks lying crosswise Last Line: I cannot even recognize lu mountain directly before my eyes,%because my body is still in the mountai Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Landscape WRITING POEMS ON DUCKWEED FLOWERS WHILE BOATING AUTUMN DAY, by HSU HSUAN Poem Source First Line: Natural beauty crowds round the moving boat Last Line: This dawn, the current sings of places, %here is the isle of white duckweed Subject(s): Landscape WRITTEN WHILE VIEWING THE RIVER IN AUTUMN, by LIN PU Poem Source First Line: Egrets asleep on the vast sand-drift Last Line: They are cooking food in the fishing boat Subject(s): Landscape YI VALLEY, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Mountain gorge - the yi flows Last Line: Who can see the boy fishing %wet and cold under a leafy cloak in this rain? Subject(s): Landscape YI-YUAN BRIDGE, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Red railings brighten the green water Last Line: The ch'ing-lien pavilionb looks like a pair of girls Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Landscape YOUNG JENNY, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cockchafer hums down the rut-rifted land Last Line: Tis her footsteps I hear coming down the green lane Subject(s): Landscape |
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