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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the woods my master went
Last Line: Baltimore, november, 1880.
Variant Title(s): The Cross;the Trees And The Master
Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Easter; Forests; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Nature; Religion; Trees; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; The Resurrection; Woods; Theology


A COIGN OF THE FOREST, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hills hang woods around, where green, below
Last Line: There runs a whisper as of wind-swept oats.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


A COTTAGE IN THE MIDST', by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The flight of cawing crows
Subject(s): Calm; Forests; Landscape; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Woods


A CRYSTAL FOREST, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The air is blue and keen and cold
Last Line: Each frozen fern with crystal ends.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Forests; Snow; Woods


A FAITH ON TRAIL, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the morning of may
Last Line: Him through handmaiden me.'
Subject(s): Earth; Faith; Forests; World; Belief; Creed; Woods


A FOREST GRAVEYARD, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The birds brood silent in the underbrush
Last Line: Be I thy mourner, child, and thou my care!
Subject(s): Forests; Graves; Humanity; Mourning; Nature; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement


A FOREST HYMN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The groves were god's first temples. Ere man learned
Last Line: Learn to conform the order of our lives.
Variant Title(s): God's First Temples;the Groves
Subject(s): Forests; Religion; Trees; Woods; Theology


A FOREST RENDEZVOUS, by WILLIAM GRIFFITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They said someone was waiting
Last Line: Being blind.
Subject(s): Forests; Love - Loss Of; Woods


A FOREST SYMPHONY, by EMMA WING THOMPSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The orange fringe of sunset brightly flames
Last Line: And forest symphony are antiphon.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


A HOUSEKEEPING, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Surprised by young desire, as by the dawn
Last Line: How had he waked, and stretched his arms, and smiled!
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Fantasy; Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Woods


A LESSER ODE, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little reed has been enough
Last Line: Have made the very forest sing.
Subject(s): Forests; Love; Reeds; Singing & Singers; Woods


A LONGING FOR THE WOODS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, to be away, to be away
Last Line: I long for the woodland cool and sweet.
Subject(s): Forests; Longing; Woods


A MIDSUMMER'S NOON IN THE AUSTRALIAN FOREST, by CHARLES HARPUR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not a sound disturbs the air
Last Line: Musing thus of quietness.
Subject(s): Australia; Forests; Nature; Woods


A SORCERER BEFORE MY HOUSE, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: We who beheld this sight were two, I swear, pierre lelong and I
Last Line: The better view, for nature has no fox so sly.
Subject(s): Forests; Magic; Nature; Woods


A SOUTH CAROLINA FOREST, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hush, hush, these woods are thick with shapes and voices
Subject(s): Forests; South Carolina; Woods


A TRUE STORY OF GOD, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Henry thoreau is lost in the maine woods
Last Line: Snapping from the flames like gunfire.
Subject(s): Cruelty; Forests; Maine (state); Moose; Nature; Order; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Woods


A WALK THROUGH THE WOOD, by GEORGE W. DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wandered in the solemn wood
Last Line: And mark the way so gladly gone.
Subject(s): Forests; Roads; Woods; Paths; Trails


A WATER-COLOR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Low hidden in among the forest
Last Line: Were just romantic parcels of her dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Forests; Sleep; Woods


A WOOD SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My love is a bush in bloom
Last Line: And dearer far than you.
Subject(s): Forests; Love; Singing & Singers; Woods


A WOODLAND GRAVE, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring no jarring lute this way
Last Line: Doz'd with woodland lullabies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord
Subject(s): Forests; Graves; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones


A ZEMERLY FOR RABBI NACHMAN: 1. RABBI NACHMAN GOES INTO THE WOODS, by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He would go, in his broken-heartedness, into the woods
Last Line: To open again, soothed, or even healed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, Henry Benjamin; Slavitt, David R.
Subject(s): Clergy; Forests; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Woods


ABSTRACTION, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They came that morning, in gowns of pale green and white
Last Line: Unprovisioned and naked, had fled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Escapes; Forests; News; Secrets; Soldiers; Fugitives; Woods


ADVENTURE WITH SKY, by JESSIE M. DOWLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dusk crept out from the woods to the water
Last Line: The fawn bent down and sampled sky!
Subject(s): Dusk; Forests; Sky; Water; Woods


ADVICE TO A FOREST, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O trees, to whom the darkness is a child
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


AFTER RUYSDAEL, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through briery ways, from underneath
Last Line: That over all so darkly brood!
Subject(s): Brier; Forests; Briar; Woods


AN INVOCATION, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I never prayed for dryads, to haunt the woods again
Last Line: Two minds shall flow together, the english and the greek.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


ANOTHER GRIEVING FOREST ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The blood of petals blown adorns the ground
Last Line: With nodding blue, lament the lonely trust.
Subject(s): Forests; Memory; Trees; Woods


APPLE BLOSSOMS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day in the green, sunny orchard
Last Line: The while that he dreamily spoke.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Farm Life; Forests; Fruit; Harvest; Spring; Trees; Agriculture; Farmers; Woods


ARCANA SYLVARUM, by CHARLES DE KAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hark! ... / what booming
Last Line: To touch the red lizard vile, spread on the damp white bark.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


ARRACOMBE WOOD, by CHARLOTTE MEW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some said, because he wud'n spaik
Last Line: And on the eve of christmas, fallin' snow.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


AS IN THE WOODLAND I WALK, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As in the woodland I walk, many a strange
Last Line: That the burning gold of june is the gray of december's rain.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


ASAGUMORI, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the forest path
Last Line: My sleeves wet with memory.
Subject(s): Forests; Memory; Woods


ASPECTS OF AUTUMN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the wonder of their weaving lie the forests and the fields
Last Line: Yea, utterly forgotten, every one.
Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Hearts; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Seasons; Tears; Fall; Woods


ATLAS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am used to the heft of it
Last Line: To carry everything.
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Forests; Labor & Laborers; Strength; Black Heritage; Woods; Work; Workers


AUTUMN IN THE WEALD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, for here the lazy night
Last Line: Alone with the mist I linger on.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons; Fall; Woods


AUTUMN WOODS, by ANNA M. ACKERMANN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The autumn woods in late october vie
Last Line: Of color softened by warm sunset light.
Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons; Fall; Woods


AUTUMN WOODS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ere, in the northern gale
Last Line: And waste its little hour.
Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons; Fall; Woods


BALDOVAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The scenery of baldovan
Last Line: And quacking in their innocent play.
Subject(s): Forests; Travel; Walking; Woods; Journeys; Trips


BALLADE OF THE FOREST HAUNTERS, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still do they sing, the swarm of mocking fays
Last Line: Where dian thro' the forest fareth by.
Subject(s): Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Woods


BALLADE OF THE FOREST IN SUMMER, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fra cruachan tae aberdeen
Last Line: It's summer noo in a' the hills!
Subject(s): Forests; Summer; Woods


BALLADE ON THE MIDNIGHT FOREST, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still sing the mocking fairies, as of old
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


BALLADE: 1, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Resound my voice, ye woods, that hear me plain
Last Line: But, as reward, death for to be my meed?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods


BEECHWOOD, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear me, o beeches! You
Last Line: And all around gigantic beeches rise.
Subject(s): Beech Trees; Forests; Leaves; Nature; Trees; Woods


BELLS BEYOND THE FOREST, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wild-eyed woodlands, here I rest me, underneath the gaunt and ghastly trees
Last Line: Mighty minstrels sing behind me, but the promise of my youth is past.
Subject(s): Aging; Bells; Forests; Woods


BOLLESWOOD, by FRANCES BARBER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now is bolleswood buried deep
Last Line: All is silent, all is still.
Subject(s): Death; Forests; Dead, The; Woods


BOOK OF SONGS: PREFACE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the olden fairy wood!
Last Line: "have never ceased to ponder."
Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Love; Moon; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Woods; Songs


BURIAL OF AN EMIGRANT'S CHILD IN THE FOREST, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The desolation and the agony
Last Line: Kneel, and bow submitted hearts to god!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Death - Children; Forests; Funerals; Death - Babies; Woods; Burials


BY THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lone 'bush' breaks: and the forest dips and clings
Last Line: "^2^ australia has, however, her own ""song-thrush"" and ""song-lark."
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Australia; Brooks; Desolation; Forests; Trees; Streams; Creeks; Woods


CALL OF THE WILD, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wild is calling, and we know
Last Line: Till some rube sheriff scares us home!
Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Forests; Woods


CHAMBER MUSIC: 20, by JAMES JOYCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dark pine-wood
Last Line: Sweet love, away.
Subject(s): Forests; Love; Woods


COME DOON THE HOWM, by HUGH C. WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come doon the howm and meet me by the gate o' rustic spars
Last Line: Then doon the howm, come doon the howm, and meet me by the spars.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


COME TO THE WOODS, by LYDIA JANE PEIRSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come to the woods in june
Last Line: The city of our god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Lydia Jane
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


COTTAGE IN FOREST, by GLYN MAXWELL            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The captains halt, gasping: they left
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


CRAIGIEBURN WOOD, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet closes the ev'ning on craigieburn wood
Last Line: Beyond thee, &c.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


DAVID AND BATHSHUA: SPRING SONG, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: How joyous the spring is!
Last Line: The daffodil glade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Seasons; Spring; Woods


DEAD MAN'S MORRICE, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There came a crowder to the mermaid inn
Last Line: And look in vain.
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Forests; Ghosts; Lips; May (month); Night; Supernatural; Dead, The; Woods; Bedtime


DEEP IN THE FOREST, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Deep in the forest there is a pond
Last Line: "our brothers, even the birds and deer, / who always float down to us / with alarmed and startled ey
Variant Title(s): After The Anonymous Swedish; Seventeenth Century
Subject(s): Death;forests;lakes;water; "dead, The;woods;pools;ponds;


DEER IN THE MISTY WOODLOT, by FRED LAPE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My feet were held by grasses bent with snow
Last Line: Curtains of life, running into the clear.
Subject(s): Deer; Forests; Woods


DIRGE IN WOODS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A wind sways the pines
Last Line: Even so.
Subject(s): Forests; Pine Trees; Wind; Woods


EASTERN FORESTS, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been walking in the eastern forests
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


ECSTASY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon shines now
Last Line: Hour of delight!
Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Love; Moon; Nightmares; Woods


EDITH; A TALE OF THE WOODS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The woods -oh! Solemn are the boundless woods
Last Line: That lovely sleep had melted into death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Forests; Women; Woods


EGOIST, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the night wood between the nether glow
Last Line: "is only -- ""whippoorwill! Whippoorwill!"
Subject(s): Birds; Egoism And Egotism; Forests; Life; Night; Passion; Whipporwills; Woods; Bedtime


ELK COUNTY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From lands of the elk and the pine-tree
Last Line: As wild as the runes of the fiords.
Subject(s): Elk; Forests; Trees; Woods


ENTANGLED, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood as one enchanted
Last Line: Fled down the mossy way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Forests; Birds; Voices; Fear; Escapes; Freedom; Woods; Fugitives; Liberty


EVANGENE BAKER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pore afflicted evangene
Last Line: Will smooth down her wings tomorry!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Disease; Forests; Dead, The; Woods


FAIRY FORESTS, by HEATHER MACTAVISH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fairy forests grow for me
Last Line: Where fairy forests grow for me!
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


FALLEN LEAVES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the frost-stripped forest boughs, the
Last Line: We need not grieve to lie forgot, like sere leaves 'neath the tree!
Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Leaves; Life; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Woods


FAWN OF THE FOREST, by EDITH LOMBARD SQUIRES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fawn of the forest in later spring
Last Line: The budding horns on the young oak's head.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


FIRE_FLOWERS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And only where the forest fires have sped
Last Line: And life revives, and blossoms once again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Fire; Forests; Nature; Survival; Woods


FLINT AND STEEL, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mountain / mesquite
Last Line: For the little verb that will kindle the fire!
Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; Smells; Spring; Trees; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 3. SOLDANELLA, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hermit: / what wilt thou with me, maiden? Little wins
Last Line: That snow environed blossom, woman's love.
Subject(s): Death; Forests; Hermits; Plays & Playwrights ; Soul; Spring; Dead, The; Woods; Dramatists


FOR A FOREST WALKER, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Quaff the mid-forest spring! Sink palms and knees
Last Line: Seven times repeated on the crimson air!
Subject(s): Forests; Springs (water); Woods


FOREST AND FIELD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Green, watery jets of light let through
Last Line: Its final period was a kiss.
Subject(s): Fields; Forests; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Woods


FOREST COUPLETS, by CLARENCE THOMAS URMY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath a redwood let me lie
Last Line: Of solace, peace, and calm content.
Subject(s): Calm; Forests; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Woods


FOREST HISTORY, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the vans of doom did men pass in
Last Line: Nor let the poet's awe in rapture wane.
Subject(s): Forests; History; Mythology; Woods; Historians


FOREST POOL, by ROSALIE REGEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had forgotten nature's depth of calm
Last Line: Is buried the green stillness of my pool.
Subject(s): Calm; Forests; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Woods


FOREST SONGS, by KATHERINE HUNTER COE    Poem Text                    
First Line: No words could sing your beauty which belongs
Last Line: When winter reigns with cold, bleak curtains drawn.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


FOREST VOICES, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The forest hath its voices
Last Line: Each forest-voice is sweet and true.
Subject(s): Forests; Silence; Woods


FOREST WORSHIP, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the sunlit forest
Last Line: The storm of heaven from speaking.
Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


FROM DELPHI TO CAMDEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From delphi to camden - little hoosier towns
Last Line: On this reckless road to ruin or to fame was -- dr. Smith!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Castles; Delphi; Forests; Robin Hood; Castri; Woods


FROM THE NORTH, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more without you! Sighing,dear,once more
Last Line: The amber midnight smiles in dreams of dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Dawn; Forests; Night; Sunrise; Woods; Bedtime


FUNCHEON WOODS, by BARTHOLOMEW SIMMONS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark woods of funcheon! Treading far
Last Line: When autumn-leaves are falling!
Subject(s): Funcheon Woods, Ireland


GASCOIGNE'S WOODMANSHIP, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My worthy lord, I pray you wonder not
Last Line: A tedious tale in rime, but little reason.
Subject(s): Forests; Gamekeepers; Woods


GETTING UP THE WINTER WOOD IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've heard a dozen farmers say
Last Line: You wish you owned another stove!
Subject(s): Farm Life; Forests; Lumber & Lumbering; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Woods; Woodsmen


GREEN SYMPHONY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The glittering leaves of the rhododendrons
Last Line: Sun-kindled for me.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


HARDCASTLE CRAGS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flintlike, her feet struck
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Variant Title(s): Night Walk
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


HEALING, by ETHEL GODFREY LOUD    Poem Text                    
First Line: From all the hustle, bustle, nerve-wear, noise
Last Line: If once he knows the healing woods of maine.
Subject(s): Forests; Healing; Life; Woods; Cures


HEART OF THE WOODS, by WESLEY CURTWRIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Deep in the woods we'll go
Last Line: In the heart of the woods.
Alternate Author Name(s): Curtright, Wesley
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


HENRI ROUSSEAU'S BED, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I took my bed into the forest
Subject(s): Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910); Beds; Forests; Woods


HIMMY'S OUTING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Himmy went to market
Last Line: For his breakfast food.
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Escapes; Forests; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Fugitives; Woods


HUNTING SEASON, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A bird in the wildwood is singing
Last Line: Life redeemed shall abide in his love.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Birds; Forests; Hunting; Wings; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Woods; Hunters


HYMN OF THE FORESTS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are the harps which the winds play
Last Line: While round the circling seasons swing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Earth; Forests; Sea; Singing & Singers; World; Woods; Ocean


HYND ETIN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: May margaret sits in her bower door
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;forests; Woods


I, OR SOMEONE LIKE ME, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a wilderness, in some orchestral swing
Subject(s): Forests; Music & Musicians; Vision; Woods


IMMALEE; SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I gather thyme upon the sunny hills
Last Line: And even the watchful hare stands not aloof.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods


IN A SPRING GROVE, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here the white-ray'd anemone is born
Last Line: Each and all these,—and more, and more than these!
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Leaves; Spring; Thorns; Woods


IN A WOOD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale beech and pine so blue [or, pine-tree blue]
Last Line: Life-loyalties.
Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods


IN A WOOD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hush, 'tis thy voice
Last Line: Sorrow is all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


IN A WOOD CLEARING, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All night I wearied utterly of the pillow of darkness
Last Line: And the wash of her hair that fell about me like rain.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


IN BLACKWATER WOODS, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look, the trees
Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods


IN IRELAND: 5. IN THE WOOD OF FINVARA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have grown tired of sorrow and human tears
Last Line: And the peace that is not in the world has flown to me.
Subject(s): Forests; Ireland; Woods; Irish


IN MEMORY OF A GROVE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The town about my house upon the hill
Last Line: Who fells a london grove?
Subject(s): Change; Comfort; Forests; London; Nature; Woods


IN THE DEPTHS OF A FOREST, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the depths of a forest secluded and wild
Last Line: And rejoice that a rest has been found for the weary.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


IN THE FOREST, by ELINOR PETERSON ALLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A land of softly blended night and day
Last Line: And stills the weary heart beneath its beam.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


IN THE FOREST, by ALEXANDER MCLACHLAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soon we entered in the woods
Last Line: But this stranger no one knew.
Variant Title(s): The Arrival
Subject(s): Forests; Pioneers; Woods


IN THE FOREST, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the mid-wood's twilight
Last Line: I track him in vain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


IN THE GREEN WOOD, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the green wood, by a green slope
Last Line: My heart goes crying and soaring yet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Green (color); Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Woods


IN THE PINE WOODS AT MARIENBAD, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here come we, to this temple strange and vast
Last Line: Whose help must reach us, or we helpless die?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Forests; Marienbad, Czech Republic; Woods


IN THE WOOD, by HERBERT EDWIN CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through laughing leaves the sunlight
Last Line: Let us ride on!
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


IN THE WOOD, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: A brooklet flows beneath the vaulted wood
Last Line: A brooklet flows beneath the vaulted wood.
Subject(s): Forests; Grief; Nature; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness


IN THE WOOD, by THEODORE MAYNARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here there is hardly
Last Line: As I never knew.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


IN THE WOOD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I found at the root of a tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Fairies; Forests; Time; Elves; Woods


IN THE WOOD, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Night's in the wood now, in poplars and larches
Last Line: "shouting ""good-night, now!"" in the old madcap way."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Forests; Noises; Woods


IN THE WOODS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hill-sides are dark
Last Line: And a gift in our breath.
Subject(s): Forests; Life; Nature; Woods


IN THE WOODS, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Other people - innocents or lunatics / find in the woods only pallid charms
Last Line: Sound like waiting assassins plotting to strike.
Subject(s): Fear; Forests; Night; Woods; Bedtime


IN THE WOODS OF RYDAL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wild redbreast! Hadst thou at jemima's lip
Last Line: To trust a poet in still musings bound.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT IN THE NEW FOREST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the place where william's kingly power
Last Line: Pray for the wicked rulers of mankind.
Subject(s): Canada; Courts & Courtiers; Evil; Forests; King, William Lyon Mackenzie (1874-1950); Prayer; Canadians; Woods


INSCRIPTION FOR THE ENTRANCE TO A WOOD, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs
Last Line: Ungreeted, and shall give its light embrace.
Subject(s): Forests; Holidays; Trees; Woods


INSCRIPTION: IN A FOREST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger! Whose steps have reached this solitude
Last Line: The weeds and mosses from this letter'd stone.
Subject(s): Advice; Forests; Holidays; Solitude; Strangers; Trees; Woods; Loneliness


JOURNEY TO THE INTERIOR, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He has gone into the forest
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


JOY IN THE WOODS, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is joy in the woods just now
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Forests; Slavery; Woods; Serfs


LAND O' PINES; OLD HOME WEEK IN MAINE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not least of stars thy star
Last Line: That star is dear.
Subject(s): Forests; Maine (state); Pine Trees; Woods


LAUGHING SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy
Last Line: "to sing the sweet chorus of ""ha, ha, he!"
Variant Title(s): Laughing Song
Subject(s): Bible; Forests; Laughter; Mythology; Spring; Woods


LEAF-MOULD, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What's the chief charm of woods - besides mere trees?
Last Line: "here is perennial joy fed rich on death."
Subject(s): Forests; Leaves; Trees; Woods


LEFT-HANDED POEM, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the self of my former shadow
Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; Prairies; Rivers; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains


LIFE IN THE FOREST, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On ettrick forest's mountains dun
Last Line: My blessing on the forest fair!
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


LINES COMPOSED IN PASSING THROUGH A FOREST IN GERMANY, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If, when tomorrow's sun with upward ray
Last Line: Would half rejoice, I felt that fate no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


LITTLE JOHN AND THE RED FRIAR; A LAY OF SHERWOOD, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The deer may leap within the glade
Last Line: What sherwood once hath been?
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Animals; Forests; Hunting; Robin Hood; Woods; Hunters


LOVE'S ACCOUNTING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunburnt summer less devours
Last Line: Love, for love of you.
Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Love; Pain; Seasons; Summer; Woods; Suffering; Misery


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 66, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The midnight was cold, in plaintive mood
Last Line: They shook their heads with pity deep.
Subject(s): Forests; Night; Sleep; Woods; Bedtime


MAGIC, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love a still conservatory
Last Line: And the echoing heart deceives.
Subject(s): Forests; Travel; Wilderness; Woods; Journeys; Trips


MAGIC, by ELISE FELLOWS WHITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Waiting, listening, long I stood
Last Line: Held secrets I could never share.
Subject(s): Forests; Secrets; Waiting; Woods


MAKING THE WOOD, by LOIS CANFIL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The blade of grass lifts clod beyond its weight
Last Line: To make the fibered wood which builders use.
Subject(s): Forests; Grass; Mankind; Nature; Woods; Human Race


MAROUF, by DUDLEY POORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Was it marouf who found at the roots of the mountain
Last Line: Of children's voices.
Subject(s): Feasts; Forests; Woods


MEMORIAL, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: The forest rears no tombstone for its dead
Last Line: Out of its crumbled heart.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The woods are thick today
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


NATURE AND LIFE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave the uproar: at a leap
Last Line: Give we it, and good the kiss.
Subject(s): Forests; Life; Nature; Soul; Woods


NEGLECTED WOODS, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Neglected woods, all overgrown
Last Line: Green shelters to an errant soul!
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


NEW ENGLAND WOODS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: New england woods are fair of face
Last Line: A pine, communing with the skies.
Subject(s): Forests; New England; Woods


NIGHT BURIAL IN THE FOREST, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay him down where the fern is thick and fair
Last Line: The wings of the angel who gathers the souls from the wastes of the world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C.
Subject(s): Forests; Funerals; Night; Woods; Burials; Bedtime


NIGHT IN CAMP, by SARAH SPENCER ROE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sparks ascending from the fire
Last Line: Presently to die.
Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Fireplaces; Forests; Wood; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods


NO-MAN'S WOOD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Shall I have jealous thoughts to nurse
Last Line: Clean through the heart of no-man's wood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods


NOONDAY WOODS - NIPIGON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Between thin fingers of the pine
Last Line: No more shall know his joyous tread.
Subject(s): Forests; Trees; Wind; Woods


NOT BY HANDS CREATED, by PIOTR ORESHIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fall on your face
Last Line: Hosannah in the highest!
Subject(s): Forests; Future Life; Russia; Woods; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Soviet Union; Russians


NOVEMBER, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who said november's face was grim
Last Line: Knows she has sweetness all her own.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Forests; Life; November; Woods


NUTTING, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems a day
Last Line: Touch -- for there is a spirit in the woods.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


OBSEQUIES, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The spirits of the twilight go sighing on these slopes
Last Line: To a forest funeral.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Forests; Funerals; Woods; Burials


OCTOBER, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: October woods, wherein
Last Line: Beyond the best conceit of pomp or power
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


OH SELVA!, by MAXIMIANO GRILLO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bajo tu dombo immenso
Last Line: Entre las hojas secas
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 1, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An aging pilgrim on a
Last Line: In the streets of thhazy city
Subject(s): Forests; Introspection; Nature; Self; Thought; Woods; Thinking


ON GOING UNNOTICED, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As vain to raise a voice as a sigh
Last Line: You took as a trophy of the hour.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


ON MAY MORNING, TO A LADY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Winter no more the weeping fields deforms
Last Line: And in their bosoms feel another spring.
Subject(s): Forests; May (month); Morning; Nature; Nymphs; Praise; Solitude; Spring; Woods; Loneliness


OUR FATHER'S CARE, by IVA TEMPLE CARTWRIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wandered in a woodland
Last Line: Safe, safe to the other side.
Subject(s): Children; Forests; God; Religion; Childhood; Woods; Theology


OUR HOME IN THE WOODS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where the birds in the spring of the year sweetly sing
Last Line: For all nature's great world is our own.
Subject(s): Forests; Home; Nature - Religious Aspects; Woods


OUTER AND INNER, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From twig to twig the spider weaves
Last Line: The soul through blood and tears.
Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods


OVER THE HILLS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old hound wags his shaggy tail
Last Line: Over the hills and away.
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Forests; Hunting; Woods; Hunters


PAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This pan is but an idle god, I guess
Last Line: Whether to fan his wings or fly without.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Brooks; Fantasy; Forests; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Streams; Creeks; Woods


PAN AND THALASSIUS: A LYRICAL IDYL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pan!
Last Line: Mine.
Subject(s): Fantasy; Forests; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Woods


PANAMA: THREE PICTURES, by HAROLD WILLARD GLEASON    Poem Text                    
First Line: From out of the sultry sky the great moon / beams
Last Line: And rest, refreshing rest, hangs over all.
Subject(s): Forests; Panama; Pioneers; Travel; Woods; Journeys; Trips


PASTORAL: 1, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweet on sunny afternoons
Last Line: That taught us to endure.
Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods


PASTORAL: 3, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now standing on this hedgeside path
Last Line: And sings with wood and field.
Subject(s): Fields; Forests; Nature; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Woods


PENNYROYAL, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heavy with cares no winnowing hand could sift
Last Line: Safe 'mid the unblighted treasures of the past.
Subject(s): Children; Forests; Memory; Past; Childhood; Woods


PINE WOODS IN WINTER, by INEZ CULVER CORBIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, little wood, knee - deep in snow
Last Line: Just one more look before I go!
Subject(s): Forests; Winter; Woods


PLAINT, by LUCIEN PATE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have told my pain to the wood
Last Line: My heart so a-fevered with woe?
Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Grief; Nature; Pain; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


POSSESSION, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When soft I lay in the mossy bed
Last Line: "we all belong to the sweet, green woods!"
Subject(s): Animals; Forests; Love; New York City - Dutch Period; Woods


QUAIL AND THRUSH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The quail's staccato call from out the wood
Last Line: Blent in with memories, borne on last year's wind.
Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Memory; Thrushes; Woods


RAIN, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All afternoon it rained, then
Subject(s): Rain; Barbed Wire; Swamps; Fathers; Gardens & Gardening; Forests; Life; Bogs; Fens; Marshes; Woods


REACTION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh heart, sink into yourself and rally
Last Line: Return to your solitude, oh heart!
Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Love; Night; Railroads; Woods; Bedtime; Railways; Trains


RED RIDING-HOOD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet little myth of the nursery story
Last Line: For the meal have he must, -- red riding-hood!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Forests; Life; Woods


REFUGE, by RANDY BLASING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A stand of paper birches years and years
Subject(s): Love; Forests; Woods


REMEMBERED SCENES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the wood my holy angel-child
Last Line: Love weaves my web of life, both warp and woof.
Subject(s): Eyes; Flowers; Forests; Life; Woods


REMEMBRANCE, by ALFRED DE MUSSET    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O sacred ground, in wandering back to thee
Last Line: "while life and thought remain."
Subject(s): Forests; France; Graves; Sand, George (1804-1876); Time; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones; Dupin, Amanda. Baronne Dudevant


REMEMBRANCE: GREEK FOLK-SONG, by MARGARET WIDDEMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not unto the forest - not unto the forest, o my lover!
Last Line: There is memory in the forest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H.
Subject(s): Forests; Greece; Honor; Love; Memory; Singing & Singers; Woods; Greeks


REPOSE OF THE SOUL IN THE WOOD OF L'HAUTIL: DREAM OF THE FIRST DAY, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rest in the wood, my soul, on the past no longer brood, on that van
Last Line: Proud. Rejoice, rejoice, my soul, one sees pissefontaine . . .
Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Soul; Nightmares; Woods


REPOSE OF THE SOUL IN THE WOOD OF L'HAUTIL: THE GOD OF SUNNY DAYS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Proud yearning of the wind above the forest deeps, of a wind that
Last Line: Pair of horns from out my forehead grow.
Subject(s): Forests; Trees; Wind; Woods


REVERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dim grows the wood; the amber evening tints
Last Line: Now tell me, is this heaven, or is it dawn?
Subject(s): Bells; Day; Evening; Forests; Stars; Wind; Sunset; Twilight; Woods


REVISITATION, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is here-the lime tree in the garden path
Last Line: The harsh gate jars upon its hinges still.
Subject(s): Forests; Gardens & Gardening; Lime Trees; Nature; Woods


RIOLAMA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a land beyond the lands you know
Last Line: My native land that I shall never know.
Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Love; Moon; Nightmares; Woods


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: KING RICHARD, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the silent glades of the forest there springs
Last Line: And his spurs to his proud horse gives he.
Subject(s): Forests; Prisons & Prisoners; Richard I, King Of England (1157-1199); Woods; Convicts


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: AN OLD SONG, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou now art dead, and thou knowest it not
Last Line: While in the distance the bells were tolling.
Subject(s): Death; Forests; Graves; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones; Songs


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: WOOD SOLITUDE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In former days, in my life's young morning
Last Line: As if she some fearful spectre had seen.
Subject(s): Beauty; Fairies; Forests; Life; Solitude; Elves; Woods; Loneliness


RONDEL - THE WOOD-THRUSH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the twilight of the trees
Last Line: In the twilight!
Subject(s): Birds; Evening; Forests; Singing & Singers; Thrushes; Sunset; Twilight; Woods


RONDEL: 1, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far have you come, my lady, from the town
Last Line: Since I am sworn to live my life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Forests; Life; Love; Sea; Woods; Ocean


RUBAIYAT OF DOC SIFERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you don't know doc sifers I'll jes' argy, here and now
Last Line: Tamam
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Country Life; Forests; Physicians; Sickness; Woods; Doctors; Illness


RUBBER ANGEL, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is not
Last Line: I dare you
Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Forests; Owls; Philosophy & Philosophers; Woods


SACRISTY, by MAY GIBSON SHERBAKOFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: I must go to the woods at break of april
Last Line: We'll yet find solace in her healing tears.
Subject(s): April; Forests; Woods


SANCTUARIES, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou givest me greenest sanctuaries
Last Line: With me and talk.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Comfort; Forests; Gardens & Gardening; God; Hearts; Sanctuaries; Woods


SERENA, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In paraguayan forests there's a flower
Last Line: And thee than autumn roses!
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Forests; Paraguay; Plants; Woods; Planting; Planters


SHADE OF THE WOODS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I yearn with the weariness of my life, laid waste and lost in the woods
Last Line: I say it. Joy doth brood for me in the tufted wood that by no path is crossed.
Subject(s): Forests; Ghosts; Life; Supernatural; Woods


SIR BRUIN, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir bruin was a gallant lad
Last Line: "all in ""our best society."
Subject(s): Forests; Hunting; Railroads; Woods; Hunters; Railways; Trains


SLEEPY HOLLOW, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the drowsy moon of falling leaves
Last Line: That hears the murmur of pocantico.
Subject(s): Forests; Magic; New England; New York City - Dutch Period; Woods


SOLITUDE, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How still it is here in the woods. The trees
Last Line: His five pure notes succeeding pensively.
Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Quiet Life; Solitude; Woods; Loneliness


SONG, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You're as lovely as a dawn of winds
Last Line: In the passionate, silent forest way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Beauty; Forests; Nature; Woods


SONG, by GEORGE LUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Darling eyes, where smiles are waking
Last Line: And the word we say is, love.
Subject(s): Forests; Hunting; Woods; Hunters


SONG OF THE EVENING, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: How does it reach me, the forest wind that lulls the palms at night?
Last Line: What, to me, is the forest wind, in sum, that so many tears I shed?
Subject(s): Evening; Forests; Singing & Singers; Wind; Sunset; Twilight; Woods; Songs


SONG OF THE EVIL SPIRIT OF THE WOODS, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the vapour hot and damp
Last Line: Rankling all, the wretch expires!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Forests; Native Americans; New York State; Travel; Woods; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips


SONG: 110, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I must go walk the woods so wild
Last Line: And all for your love, my dear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Forests; Life; Love; Nature; Trust; Woods


SONNET: 9, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not undelightful, friend, our rustic ease
Last Line: Stands, coolly buried, to the neck in green.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Forests; Spring; Woods


SONNET: A FOREST IN BOSNIA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirit of trajan! What a world is here
Subject(s): Forests; Bosnia; Woods


SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 17, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So hither you return, only to haste
Last Line: And hearts of men, and those calm heights of mind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Woods


SOUNDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The multitudinous murmurings of day!
Last Line: As myrmidons of night and parts of her.
Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Night; Sound; Woods; Bedtime


SOUTH-WEST WIND IN THE WOODLAND, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The silence of preluded song
Last Line: The union is eternal.
Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Wind; Woods


SPRING IN THE WOODS, by NINA GAIL STONG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Away to the woods!
Last Line: We miss those at our feet.
Subject(s): Forests; Spring; Woods


SPRING THOUGHTS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man grows sick of the walls of brick, and
Last Line: "toil, when the woodland's calling me!"
Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Spring; Woods


SPRING WOODS, by ELIZABETH ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I walked in a spring woods
Last Line: He starts his work?
Subject(s): Forests; Meditation; Woods


STAYING ALIVE, by DAVID WAGONER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Staying alive in the woods is a matter of calming down
Subject(s): Forests; Survival; Wilderness; Woods


STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose woods these are I think I know
Last Line: And miles to go before I sleep.
Subject(s): Duty; Evening; Forests; Religion; Snow; Solitude; Winter; Sunset; Twilight; Woods; Theology; Loneliness


STORY OF MONGREL GREY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the story the stockman told
Last Line: The purchase money of mongrel grey.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Dogs; Forests; Moon; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods


SUGGESTED BY A VIEW FROM AN EMINENCE IN INGLEWOOD FOREST, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The forest huge of ancient caledon
Last Line: Of power that perishes, and rights that fade.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


SUMMER FRUITS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When scarlet strawberries first were seen
Last Line: "chant ""praise the lord, for he is good."
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Forests; Fruit; Nature; Strawberries; Woods


SUNDOWN, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sounds of the day come out distinct and clear
Last Line: And leaves the hills more silent than they were.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


SUNSET IN THE FOREST, by LYDIA JANE PEIRSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come now unto the forest, and enjoy
Last Line: Are hymning gratitude and love to god?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Lydia Jane
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


SYLVAN APOLOGY, by MAURICE DU PLESSYS    Poem Text                    
First Line: You lie who say the gods have left the woods!
Last Line: Still drinks.
Alternate Author Name(s): Flandre-noblesse, Sylvan Francois Maurice
Subject(s): Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Woods


TH INN BY THE WOOD, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rank raw mist clung close like a hood
Last Line: And I supped like a king at the inn by the wood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Forests; Hotels; Woods; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE ALL-GOLDEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through every happy line I sing
Last Line: Of time's all-golden yesterdays!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Forests; Singing & Singers; Spring; Woods


THE AMERICAN FOREST GIRL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wildly and mournfully the indian drum
Last Line: "away,"" they cried, ""young stranger, thou art free!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Forests; Women; Woods


THE AXE, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: To the soul there is no sound that chimes more dolorously, no sound
Last Line: To the old chopper of oaks the robin blithely sings.
Subject(s): Axes; Forests; Soul; Hatchets; Woods


THE AZURE FROG: 1. PRAYER TO THE GOOD FORESTER, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good forester, upon our knees we pray you, tell us, if you please, how,
Last Line: "man replied to me, ""by this, because he's never seen."
Subject(s): Animals; Forests; Frogs; Prayer; Woods


THE AZURE FROG: 2. RESPONSE TO THE FORESTER, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good forester, you lied! Thus is my joy betrayed. This very morn I
Last Line: Hue, its glossy form was green, but mirrored stainless blue.
Subject(s): Forests; Lies; Woods


THE AZURE FROG: 3. REMORSE, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I erred! The thing exists. Its little heart doth beat. But it dies be
Last Line: Done? I would have tossed thee back. Imperfect is the heart.
Subject(s): Fairies; Forests; Remorse; Soul; Elves; Woods


THE BEAR STORY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: W'y, wunst they wuz a little boy
Last Line: -- an' that's all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Variant Title(s): Boy's Bear Story
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Boys; Forests; Woods


THE CHILD IN THE GREAT WOOD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is all much worse than I dreamed
Subject(s): Forests; Dreams; War; Woods; Nightmares


THE CHILD OF THE FORESTS; WRITTEN AFTER READING JOHN HUNTER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is not thy heart far off amidst the wood
Last Line: Seek not the deserts and the woods again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Forests; Native Americans; Woods; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE CHILD'S RETURN FROM THE WOODLANDS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hast thou been in the woods with the honey-bee?
Last Line: God in earth's garden -- and not to fear!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Forests; Innocence; Lawrence, Sir Thomas (1769-1830); Woods


THE COMFORT OF THE WOODS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I understand my comrades of the woods
Last Line: The peaceful benediction of the trees.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE CONSECRATION, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lonely in the forest chapel
Last Line: Where the myrtle blooms for ever.
Subject(s): Forests; Life; Love; Smiles; Woods


THE CRACKLING DEATH, by STEWART VAN DER VEER    Poem Text                    
First Line: And then dawn came, night's curtains were furled
Last Line: And a match.
Subject(s): Fire; Forests; Woods


THE CRY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you not hear her crying
Last Line: To find her before I die!
Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; God; Grass; Lakes; Lilies; Woods; Pools; Ponds


THE DARK FOREST, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark is the forest and deep, and overhead
Last Line: The others, day or night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE DAY OF FLOWERS; A MOTHER'S WALK WITH HER CHILD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to the woods, my boy!
Last Line: O'er one rich day of flowers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Forests; Mothers & Sons; Woods


THE DEAD CITY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I rambled in a wood
Last Line: And I straightway knelt and prayed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Cities; Death; Fear; Forests; Grief; Urban Life; Dead, The; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DEAD FOREST, by MAIDI PAYNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: From the living slopes we went
Last Line: And wearing birds that chipper in their sleep.
Subject(s): Decay; Forests; Rot; Decadence; Woods


THE DESERTED BARN, by ARTHUR CREW INMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind the barn, the sunlight seems
Last Line: Which he has surveyed so long -- was man's
Subject(s): Barns; Forests; Woods


THE FAIRY WOOD, by ROBIN ERNEST WILLIAM FLOWER    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was the fairy wood
Last Line: Song seemed no less than color on the wing.
Subject(s): Fairies; Forests; Elves; Woods


THE FIDDLING WOOD, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gods, what a black, fierce day! The clouds were iron
Last Line: Black, dragon branches whipped below a moon!
Subject(s): Forests; Music & Musicians; Woods


THE FOREST, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the golden groves when june walketh there
Last Line: But not till now was I with the woods again alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Forests; Memory; Woods


THE FOREST, by ANN HAWLEY DELONG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I walked in the forest at morning
Last Line: That god gave to you and to me.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE FOREST, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By woodman's edge I faint and fail
Last Line: Swift, swift before the wind I go.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE FOREST, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heroic forest of legend and of dream
Last Line: Of red-haired centaur and white unicorn.
Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Life; Love; Nymphs; Seasons; Fall; Woods


THE FOREST, by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: You should lie down now and remember the forest,
Subject(s): Forests; Deforestation; Loss; Woods


THE FOREST BRAKE, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The forest brake - the forest brake
Last Line: That lay amid the forest brake.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE FOREST OF CRECY, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: At a pace to reawake my dreaming fantasy, I started then, my mind
Last Line: For a sapphire, fare thee well, my forest of crecy!
Subject(s): Forests; Life; Love; Woods


THE FOREST PINE, by LAURENCE BINYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A hundred autumns fallen in fire
Last Line: Still their wild wings.
Subject(s): Forests; Pine Trees; Woods


THE FOREST RANGERS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Red is the arch of the nightmare sky
Last Line: Fight! For it is not ours.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Forests; Ranch Life; Woods


THE FOREST SANCTUARY: PART ONE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The voices of my home! - I hear them still!
Last Line: Earth in her holy pomp, decked for her god alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Forests; Inquisition; Sanctuaries; Spain; Woods


THE FOREST SANCTUARY: PART TWO, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring me the sounding of the torrent-water
Last Line: But for his presence felt, whom here my soul hath sought.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Forests; Inquisition; Sanctuaries; Spain; Woods


THE FOREST SPRING, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Push back the brambles, berry-blue
Last Line: That lone star as a coronet.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE FORESTER'S CAROL, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lusty hearts! To the wood, to the merry green wood
Last Line: Shall be borne by the hands of the free!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE FORESTS OF THE WHITE HILLS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O lone waumbek methna! Who dares to profane
Last Line: What the red man has hallowed the white man will keep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Forests; Mountains; New Hampshire; Woods; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE GREEN INN, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sicken of men's company
Last Line: To sit in god's green inn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE GREENWOOD, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, when 'tis summer weather
Last Line: We roamed through the greenwood together.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE HEART O' THE WOODS, by JOHN BURROUGHS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear it beat in morning still
Last Line: Thy flight is music every hour.
Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Woods


THE HEART OF THE WOODS, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I like the leafy-murmuring solemn hush
Last Line: Wild, labyrinthine, dim and fancy-haunted.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): Forests; Wellesley College; Woods


THE HIDDEN ONES, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A panic in the woods - when a bewildered
Last Line: Lost fields, or to hang in their churning sky
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE HONEY-BIRD, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The honey-bird, my children
Last Line: Are neighbors to the bees.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Birds; Children; Forests; Hunting; Childhood; Woods; Hunters


THE HOPE, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the woods as the trees fade in the dusk
Last Line: And the cold dark
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE HUNGER BOY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hunter boy of hazelwood
Last Line: Hunter boy of hazelwood!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Forests; Happiness; Hunting; Youth; Woods; Joy; Delight; Hunters


THE JOURNEY, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I went through the forest without a tree
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE LAURELS ARE FELLED, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We shall go no more to the woods, the laurels are felled
Last Line: We shall go no more to the woods, the laurels are felled.
Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Grass; Laurels; Lilies; Woods


THE LITTLE FIRE IN THE WOODS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even these stones I placed crudely once
Last Line: Good night / good night
Subject(s): Fire; Forests; Woods


THE LITTLE ROADS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The great roads are all grown over
Last Line: And lead us by a wandering way.
Subject(s): April; Forests; Hearts; Roads; Woods; Paths; Trails


THE MEISTERSINGER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The magic moment of the eve has come
Last Line: So long as men have ears and time a tongue.
Subject(s): Forests; Singing & Singers; Time; Woods; Songs


THE MILL-HOUSE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An alley ran across the pleasant wood
Last Line: And grapple with grim questionings of heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Forests; Mills And Millers; Nature; Woods


THE NATURALIST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In gentlest worship has he bowed
Last Line: Lifts will he hear and comprehend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Peace; Woods


THE OLD FOOL IN THE WOOD, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I could whisper you all I know
Last Line: "that's what you'd say."
Subject(s): Eyes; Fools; Forests; Grief; Hearts; Idiots; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness


THE OUTLAW MURRAY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ettrick forest is a fair forest
Last Line: As did outlaw murray of the forest frie?
Variant Title(s): The Song Of The Outlaw Murray
Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;forests; Woods


THE PAGEANT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sound as if from bells of silver
Last Line: The living jewels of the spring!
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE PASSING OF A ZEPHYR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from, and out of, and over the
Last Line: Of amiable calm.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Forests; Spring; Wind; Woods


THE PATH, by CLEMENT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I had a path, I'd keep it open
Last Line: Always wider, for people to pass.
Subject(s): Forests; Life; Roads; Wandering & Wanderers; Woods; Paths; Trails


THE PATH-FLOWER, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A red-cap sang in bishop's wood
Last Line: I watched her vanishing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Forests; Gifts & Giving; Spring; Strangers; Woods


THE PATHS OF PEACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He would have holiday - outworn
Last Line: Of all his loveliest dreams!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Peace; Spring; Youth; Nightmares; Woods


THE PETRIFIED FOREST, by MINNIE T. WEIR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Great fallen monarchs of the forest lie
Last Line: And gaze with thoughtful, wondering eyes?
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE PINE WOODS, by JOHN HANMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: We stand upon the moorish mountain side
Last Line: And silence as in temples dwelleth there.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE PLACE I WANT TO GET BACK TO, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is where / in the pinewoods
Subject(s): Forests; Deer; Gratitude; Woods


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 130, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Painted beams aren't for me
Last Line: You'll never see a bud
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Forests; Home; Nature; Woods


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 49, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Woods and springs make me smile
Last Line: All I hear is noise
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Forests; Happiness; Nature; Springs (water); Woods; Joy; Delight


THE POET'S JOURNAL: CHURCHYARD ROSES, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The woodlands wore a gloomy green
Last Line: Of love, that death has sanctified!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Flowers; Forests; Love; Roses; Dead, The; Woods


THE POET'S JOURNAL: SYLVAN SPIRITS, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gray stems rise, the branches braid
Last Line: She is not purer than her child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Life; Nature; Soul; Woods


THE PRINCESS WAKES IN THE WOOD, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It darkened; I was cold
Last Line: In thee all these – all these, and I, are one
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE RAVENNA PINE FOREST, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A heavy spot the forest looks at first
Last Line: Or startled gull up-screaming toward the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Forests; Pine Trees; Ravenna, Italy; Trees; Woods


THE RECLUSE: L'ENVOI, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Songs of the woods, verses of those dear days
Last Line: Songs of the woods, from out my heart ye sprang!
Subject(s): Forests; Singing & Singers; Woods


THE RECLUSE: PRELUDE. THE WOOD, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beloved wood! Thou barrier green!
Last Line: "share with us our serener life."
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE RURAL PIPE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, chide me not because my pipe oft sings
Last Line: His airs sicilian and his message clear.
Subject(s): Country Life; Forests; Love; Singing & Singers; Woods; Songs


THE SATYR, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There came a satyr creeping through the wood
Last Line: And disappeared among the greenery!
Variant Title(s): The Crackling Twig
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE SAVAGE OF AVEYRON, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the mazes of a wood
Subject(s): Forests; Melancholy; Woods; Dejection


THE SINGER IN THE WOODS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where moongrey-thistled dunes divide the woods from the sea
Last Line: In the silence I hear my heart sobbing its old woe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Forests; Grief; Lament; Singing & Singers; Strangers; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SOLITARY WOODSMAN, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the gray lake-water rushes
Last Line: Fellow to the falling leaves.
Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods


THE SONG OF THE THRUSH, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the beech-trees are green in the woodlands
Last Line: Air!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Forests; Singing & Singers; Voices; Woods


THE SOU'WESTER (BLOWING OVER THE OVERTON HILLS, CHESHIRE), by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blustering, boisterous wind, that bloweth over the / bracken
Last Line: I am the breath of a spirit that wandereth ever free!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Forests; Weather; Wind; Woods


THE SUITOR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My automobile loves the saintly wood
Last Line: Against the woodland's closed, inviolate shrine?
Subject(s): Automobiles; Forests; Cars; Woods


THE SUMMER CAMP, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here slacken rein; here let the dusty mules
Last Line: And gird our loins for action. Let us go!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Camping; Forests; Life; Past; Travel; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods; Journeys; Trips


THE SYLVAN LIFE, by EDWARD HOVELL-THURLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When in the woods I wander all alone
Last Line: I with the deer, and with the nightingale!
Alternate Author Name(s): Thurlow, 2d Baron
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE THREE WREATHS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three wreaths make I in the wood
Last Line: Down the wind of hallowmas!
Subject(s): Forests; Herbs; Woods


THE THRILL OF THE FOREST, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the green-lit solitudes of the road beneath the woods as clear,
Last Line: Forest leaves, pierced by the scent of smoke from distant villages!
Subject(s): Fear; Forests; Soul; Woods


THE WAIL IN THE NATIVE OAK, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the lone creek, chafing nightly in the cold and sad moonshine
Last Line: Like the voice of some fell demon harrowed by a mad despair.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE WATCHER IN THE WOOD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep in the wood's recesses cool
Last Line: My lord and lady side by side.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE WAY THE TREES BREAK THE SKYLINE, by KATHARINE TONKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The shoreline of infinities
Last Line: Of dream blows me thither like dust.
Subject(s): Forests; Trees; Woods


THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They shut the road through the woods
Last Line: But there is no road through the woods.
Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Roads; Time; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods; Paths; Trails


THE WOOD, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked a nut-wood's gloom. And overhead
Last Line: Beating along my undiscovered mind.
Subject(s): Forests; Traffic; Woods


THE WOOD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a knight once rode from out the sun
Last Line: Or came unto the marsh, I never knew.
Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Forests; Knights & Knighthood; Nightmares; Woods


THE WOOD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come with me to the mossy places
Last Line: If I kissed you, the wood-gods would not tell!
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Forests; Kisses; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Nightmares; Woods


THE WOOD OF CRAIGIE LEA, by ROBERT TANNAHILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou bonny wood of craigie lea!
Last Line: That I, in youth, hae spent in thee.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE WOOD OF FLOWERS, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I went to the wood of flowers
Last Line: In the wood of flowers!
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE WOOD-VOICE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Would you learn of the forest?
Last Line: And the shadows creep after!
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE WOODLANDS, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O spread agen your leaves an' flow'rs
Last Line: Though you've a-lost em, zunny woodlands.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THE WOODMAN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The woodman in clearing the forest
Last Line: Hewing our way to the light.
Subject(s): Forests; Labor & Laborers; Woods; Work; Workers


THE WOODS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Finally the woods / are stripped down
Last Line: Glades for the deer.
Subject(s): Change; Forests; Nature; Simplicity; Woods


THE WOODS OF WESTERMAIN, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter these enchanted woods
Last Line: You who dare.
Subject(s): Courage; Environment; Forests; Magic; Mythology; Trees; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods


THE WOODTICKS, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's things out in the forest
Last Line: A-crawlin' thro' yer hair.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Forests; Insects; Spiders; Trees; Worms; Woods; Bugs


THE YOUNG HUNTER AND THE FAWN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far in a wide and silent forest's shade
Last Line: "and every wind doth whisper 'murderer!' "
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Deer; Forests; Hunting; Murder; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Woods; Hunters


THE YOUTHFUL QUEST, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His lady queen of woods to meet
Last Line: To ash at look of eyes.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Desire; Forests; Woods


THIEPVAL WOOD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tired air groans as the heavies swing over, the river-hollows
Last Line: Nor the blue javelin-flame of thunderous noons strike fear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


THROUGH MELANCHOLY, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: When in forest depths I hear the mourning of the mere, red with the
Last Line: World . . . 'tis I.
Subject(s): Death; Forests; Grief; Soul; Dead, The; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness


THROUGH THE WOOD, by ELIZA KEARY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside, / a world in sunshine
Last Line: By the side of nellie.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


TO A WOOD-PIGEON, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have I scared thee from thy bough
Last Line: Murmurs night and day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Forests; Hunting; Wings; Woods; Hunters


TO JANE, by JOHN COULTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Against a sloping wood it stands
Last Line: Is this the house our dead love built?
Subject(s): Forests; Houses; Wind; Woods


TO MY CHILDREN: 7. IN THE WOODS, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Are your grave eyes graver growing?
Last Line: Where I find my flowers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


TO MY WIFE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long must elapse ere you behold again
Last Line: Schooner equator.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods


TO THE SOLITUDE OF FONTENAY, by GUILLAUME AMFRYE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mid these hamlets and these woods
Last Line: Cypress only to my grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Anacreon Of The Temple; Chaulieu, Abbe De
Subject(s): Death; Forests; Dead, The; Woods


TO THE SUPERIOR NATIONAL FOREST, by KARL E. MUNDT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are the last great wilderness
Last Line: I'd find you glorified.
Subject(s): Forests; National Parks; Woods


TO THE WOODSMAN OF GASTINE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay, woodsman, stay thy hand awhile, and hark
Last Line: Matter abides forever, form is lost.
Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nymphs; Woods


TOTEM, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Riding a '23 farmall round and round on a hot afternoon, I always
Last Line: Didn't try to find the snag. This year. Everything that died, died twice
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


TOWN AND COUNTRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They's a predjudice allus 'twixt country and town
Last Line: Fer theyr gran'pap to waller 'em round!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Forests; Prejudice; Urban Life; Woods; Bias; Intolerance


TWO PATHS, by MRS. EDGAR A. PERKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The flaming sun sank down the western sky
Last Line: But I was not afraid.
Subject(s): Fear; Forests; Travel; Woods; Journeys; Trips


TWO SONGS, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through the long dusk my spirit sings
Last Line: Or day or night be there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E.
Subject(s): Dusk; Forests; Singing & Singers; Sun; Woods; Songs


TWO WORLDS, by VIRGINIA STACY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across the vale the long day pales
Last Line: Starve feebly for an hour more gay.
Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Night; Woods; Bedtime


UNDER THE WOODS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the old woods were young
Last Line: On this shed wall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


VALUE IN MOUNTAINS: 11, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And now surprised by lunar mountain avatars
Last Line: And green over them the nova grows above the grass
Subject(s): Mountains; Woods


VERSES ON THE DESTRUCTION OF DRUMLANRIG WOODS, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As on the banks o' wandering nith
Last Line: "that reptile wears a ducal crown."
Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods


VESPER SONG, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the forest shadows dim
Last Line: Along the roadside fire-flies glow.
Subject(s): Forests; Singing & Singers; Woods


VICISSITUDE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O blithe and bonny! When woods are green
Last Line: Unto no earthly spring!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Forests; Love - Nature Of; Spring; Woods


VOLUNTARY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in the quiet eve
Last Line: The hostel door.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Forests; Night; Rest; Woods; Bedtime


WALDEINSAMKEIT, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not count the hours I spend
Last Line: Crowns all thy mean affairs.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


WE'LL GO NO MORE THE WOODLAND WAY, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: We'll go no more the woodland way, the laurel-leaves are clipt.
Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods


WHEN SHADOWS ARE CREEPING, by JENNIE E. HUSSEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: When over the woods and the river
Last Line: The red and white clovers are sleeping.
Subject(s): Clover; Evening; Forests; Shadows; Sunset; Twilight; Woods


WHO HAS GONE THROUGH THE WOOD, by FLORIS CLARK MCLAREN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is there no landmark: no north-growing moss
Last Line: To hear the slow rings growing.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


WIND IN THE BEECHWOOD, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The glorying forest shakes and swings with glancing
Last Line: Moves with the chant and whisper of the glade.
Subject(s): Forests; Soldiers' Writings; Wind; Woods


WINTER, by ANNE HINCHMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Have you seen a blue jay flash through a snowstorm?
Last Line: And I could see nothing but snow.
Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Snow; Winter; Woods


WINTER TREES, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the sky, across the snow
Last Line: And winter trees are beautiful.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Beauty; Forests; Nature; Trees; Winter; Woods


WINTERGREEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: New england woods are softly fair
Last Line: A grace that shines in deepest snows!
Subject(s): Forests; New England; Woods


WITH THE HUNTRESS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the water-eye of night
Last Line: Maid-preserver, man-maker.
Subject(s): Forests; Goddesses & Gods; Hunting; Mythology; Woods; Hunters


WOOD FLOWER, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I found a flower in the wood
Last Line: And now, alas, what voice shall wake her!
Subject(s): Fantasy; Flowers; Forests; Woods


WOOD WALK AND HYMN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are the aspens, with their silvery leaves
Last Line: To walk the woods with thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Forests; Woods


WOODCRAFT, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their past is sure
Last Line: To vex the pigeon and to scare the jay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita
Subject(s): Autumn; Forests; Seasons; Fall; Woods


WOODLAND JUNE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yes, june is quite an idle elf, I think
Last Line: A twinkling brook where pan is piping low.
Subject(s): Forests; June; Woods


WOODLAND PEACE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet as eden is the air
Last Line: And eden-sweet the ray.
Subject(s): Eden; Forests; Nature; Woods


WOODMAN AND ECHO, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Close echo hears the woodman's axe
Last Line: An echo clapping harmony.
Subject(s): Forests; Lumber And Lumbering; Trees; Woods


WOODS IN WINTER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When winter winds are piercing chill
Last Line: I listen, and it cheers me long.
Subject(s): Forests; Winter; Woods


WOODS; A PROSE SONNET, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wise are ye, o ancient woods!
Last Line: Always new, like time itself, or like love.
Subject(s): Forests; Woods