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The Botanic Garden (1791) is a set of two poems, The Economy of Vegetation and The Loves of the Plants, by the British poet and naturalist Erasmus Darwin. The Economy of Vegetation celebrates technological innovation and scientific discovery and offers theories concerning contemporary scientific questions, such as the history of the cosmos.
"Birches" is a poem by American poet Robert Frost. First published in the August 1915 issue of The Atlantic Monthly together with "The Road Not Taken" and "The Sound of Trees" as "A Group of Poems". It was included in Frost's third collection of poetry Mountain Interval, which was published in 1916.
A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can ...
Pages in category "Poems about trees" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Binsey Poplars;
The rose tree showing her thorns of jealousy only entices the man more, much like it would any other human. The jealousy is also an acknowledgement (of sorts) of the tree's love for the man. Jealousy is perhaps the last remaining obvious proof of the tree's reciprocal desire for him; proof which simultaneously bestows upon him the power to ...
But in the 3rd stanza, the poem’s pastoralism begins to work against convention. Alluding to a moment in Virgil’s Eclogues 10 when a pastoral lover carves his mistresses’ name into the bark of a tree, Marvell’s speaker denounces such "Fond lovers, cruel as their flame," preferring instead to "wound" his trees only with their own names. [8]
Left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, which stands near the Lake of Esthwaite, on a desolate part of the shore, commanding a beautiful prospect. "Nay, Traveller! rest. This lonely Yew-tree stands" Poems of Sentiment and Reflection.(1815–43); Poems written in Youth(1845) 1798 The Reverie of Poor Susan 1797
In Blackwater Woods is a free verse poem written by Mary Oliver (1935–2019). The poem was first published in 1983 in her collection American Primitive , which won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize . [ 1 ] The poem, like much of Oliver's work, uses imagery of nature to make a statement about human experience.