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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
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- Indexed poets
- 140
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
Dust of Snow
Robert Frost1923Excerpt - 02
In a Station of the Metro
Ezra Pound1913Excerpt - 03
LINES FOR A SUN-DIAL
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 04
Morning at the Window
T. S. Eliot1917Excerpt - 05
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost1923Excerpt - 06
The Rose Family
Robert Frost1928Excerpt - 07
AGLAIA.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 08
A HYMN.
Horace—PD - 09
AN ARMY CORPS ON THE MARCH.
Walt Whitman—PD - 10
A PASTORAL
James Russell Lowell—PD - 11
APRIL
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 12
AUGUST
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
BANNER AND PENNANT.
Walt Whitman—PD - 14
Benedicite: An invocation of blessing. Imperative form of the
James Russell Lowell—PD - 15
BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE.
Walt Whitman—PD - 16
Build out its piers: The beams of light are like the piers or
James Russell Lowell—PD - 17
BY GIL VICENTE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 18
CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD.
Walt Whitman—PD - 19
CHILD.
Walt Whitman—PD - 20
CHORUS OF BIRDS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 21
CHORUS OF DRYADES.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 22
CHORUS OF REEDS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 23
Compare _Al Fresco_, lines 34-39:
James Russell Lowell—PD - 24
DECEMBER
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 25
DISTANCE
Archibald Lampman—PD - 26
Druid wood: The Druids were the aged priests of the Celts, who
James Russell Lowell—PD - 27
Elder than the Day: Elder than the first Day. "And God called
James Russell Lowell—PD - 28
FATHER.
Walt Whitman—PD - 29
FEBRUARY
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 30
FIRST SCHOLAR.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 31
Forest-crypt: The crypt of a church is the basement, filled
James Russell Lowell—PD - 32
FOUR BY THE CLOCK.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 33
FRAGMENTS SUPPOSED TO BE PARTS OF OTHO.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 34
FRIAR JOHN.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 35
FROM THE GREEK.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 36
GLOYD.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 37
GUIDE.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 38
Hangbird: The oriole, so called from its hanging nest; one of
James Russell Lowell—PD - 39
Hebe: Hebe was cup-bearer to the gods at their feasts on Olympus.
James Russell Lowell—PD - 40
id'.
Sappho—PD - 41
IMPRESSIONS OF HOMER
James Russell Lowell—PD - 42
I never saw a Moor
Emily Dickinson—PD - 43
INSCRIPTION ON THE SHANKLIN FOUNTAIN
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 44
i[st]'.
Sappho—PD - 45
iz'.
Sappho—PD - 46
JANUARY
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 47
JULY
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 48
JUNE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD