The Reader's Atlas · Short Poems Edition · Spirit, beauty & world
Short Poems About Naturein twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about nature — short enough to take in at a glance, long enough to mean what they say. Hand-filtered to twelve lines or fewer, drawn from the public-domain canon, sequenced by date.
- Short poems
- 48
- All poems in theme
- 941
- Indexed poets
- 140
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
A Noiseless Patient Spider
Walt Whitman1868PD - 02
Dust of Snow
Robert Frost1923Excerpt - 03
If I can stop one heart from breaking
Emily Dickinson1890PD - 04
In a Station of the Metro
Ezra Pound1913Excerpt - 05
Lines for a Sun-Dial
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 06
Morning at the Window
T. S. Eliot1917Excerpt - 07
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost1923Excerpt - 08
The Rose Family
Robert Frost1928Excerpt - 09
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
Walt Whitman1865PD - 10
Aglaia
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 11
A Hymn
Horace—PD - 12
An Army Corps on the March
Walt Whitman—PD - 13
A Pastoral
James Russell Lowell—PD - 14
April
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 15
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
William Wordsworth—PD - 16
August
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 17
Banner and Pennant
Walt Whitman—PD - 18
Benedicite: An invocation of blessing. Imperative form of the
James Russell Lowell—PD - 19
Bivouac on a Mountain Side
Walt Whitman—PD - 20
Build out its piers: The beams of light are like the piers or
James Russell Lowell—PD - 21
By Gil Vicente
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 22
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Walt Whitman—PD - 23
Child
Walt Whitman—PD - 24
Chorus of Birds
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 25
Chorus of Dryades
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 26
Chorus of Reeds
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 27
Compare _Al Fresco_, lines 34-39:
James Russell Lowell—PD - 28
December
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 29
Distance
Archibald Lampman—PD - 30
Druid wood: The Druids were the aged priests of the Celts, who
James Russell Lowell—PD - 31
Elder than the Day: Elder than the first Day. "And God called
James Russell Lowell—PD - 32
Father
Walt Whitman—PD - 33
February
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 34
First Scholar
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 35
Forest-crypt: The crypt of a church is the basement, filled
James Russell Lowell—PD - 36
Four by the Clock
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 37
Fragments Supposed to Be Parts of Otho
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 38
Friar John
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 39
From the Greek
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 40
Gloyd
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 41
Green
D. H. Lawrence—PD - 42
Guide
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 43
Hangbird: The oriole, so called from its hanging nest; one of
James Russell Lowell—PD - 44
Hebe: Hebe was cup-bearer to the gods at their feasts on Olympus
James Russell Lowell—PD - 45
id'
Sappho—PD - 46
Impressions of Homer
James Russell Lowell—PD - 47
I never saw a Moor
Emily Dickinson—PD - 48
Inscription on the Shanklin Fountain
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD