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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 jade—the 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