1. Nature rarer uses Yellow - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 2506 times on American Poems.

Nature rarer uses Yellow
Than another Hue.
Saves she all of that for Sunsets
Prodigal of Blue

Spending Scarlet, like a Woman
Yellow she affords
Only scantly and selectly
Like a Lover's Words.(Read full poem)

The Lady feeds Her little Bird
At rarer intervals --
The little Bird would not dissent
But meekly recognize

The Gulf between the Hand and Her
And crumbless and afar
And fainting, on Her yellow Knee
Fall softly, and adore --(Read full poem)

3. "Nature" is what we see -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 7875 times on American Poems.

"Nature" is what we see --
The Hill -- the Afternoon --
Squirrel -- Eclipse -- the Bumble bee --
Nay -- Nature is Heaven --
Nature is what we hear --
The Bobolink -- the Sea --
Thunder -- the Cricket --
Nay -- Nature is Harmony --
Nature is what we... (Read full poem)

Of Yellow was the outer Sky
In Yellower Yellow hewn
Till Saffron in Vermilion slid
Whose seam could not be shewn.(Read full poem)

5. I thought that nature was enough - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 4122 times on American Poems.

I thought that nature was enough
Till Human nature came
But that the other did absorb
As Parallax a Flame --

Of Human nature just aware
There added the Divine
Brief struggle for capacity
The power to contain

Is always as the contents
But give a... (Read full poem)

Nature assigns the Sun --
That -- is Astronomy --
Nature cannot enact a Friend --
That -- is Astrology.(Read full poem)

7. Phoenix Lyrics - written by Delmore Schwartz
Published in 1957. Read 1467 times on American Poems.

I

If nature is life, nature is death:
It is winter as it is spring:
Confusion is variety, variety
And confusion in everything
Make experience the true conclusion
Of all desire and opulence,
All satisfaction and poverty.

II

When a hundred years... (Read full poem)

The wind drew off
Like hungry dogs
Defeated of a bone --
Through fissures in
Volcanic cloud
The yellow lightning shone --
The trees held up
Their mangled limbs
Like animals in pain --
When Nature falls upon herself
Beware an Austrian.(Read full poem)

9. The Self and the Mulberry - written by Marvin Bell
Read 665 times on American Poems.

I wanted to see the self, so I looked at the mulberry.
It had no trouble accepting its limits,
yet defining and redefining a small area
so that any shape was possible, any movement.
It stayed put, but was part of all the air.
I wanted to learn... (Read full poem)

Turn your head. Look. The light is turning yellow.
The river seems enriched thereby, not to say deepened.
Why this is, I'll never be able to tell you.

Or are Americans half in love with failure?
One used to say so, reading Fitzgerald, as it... (Read full poem)

11. Garland for Queens, may be - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 5167 times on American Poems.

Garland for Queens, may be --
Laurels -- for rare degree
Of soul or sword.
Ah -- but remembering me --
Ah -- but remembering thee --
Nature in chivalry --
Nature in charity --
Nature in equity --
This Rose ordained!(Read full poem)

I lie here thinking of you:—

the stain of love
is upon the world!
Yellow, yellow, yellow
it eats into the leaves,
smears with saffron
the horned branched the lean
heavily
against a smooth purple sky!
There is no light
only a honey-thick... (Read full poem)

13. Of Nature I shall have enough - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 2071 times on American Poems.

Of Nature I shall have enough
When I have entered these
Entitled to a Bumble bee's
Familiarities.(Read full poem)

A lane of Yellow led the eye
Unto a Purple Wood
Whose soft inhabitants to be
Surpasses solitude
If Bird the silence contradict
Or flower presume to show
In that low summer of the West
Impossible to know --(Read full poem)

15. Who is the East? - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 1353 times on American Poems.

Who is the East?
The Yellow Man
Who may be Purple if He can
That carries in the Sun.

Who is the West?
The Purple Man
Who may be Yellow if He can
That lets Him out again.(Read full poem)

The Lightning is a yellow Fork
From Tables in the sky
By inadvertent fingers dropt
The awful Cutlery

Of mansions never quite disclosed
And never quite concealed
The Apparatus of the Dark
To ignorance revealed.(Read full poem)

17. In Back Of The Real - written by Allen Ginsberg
From Howl and Other Poems. Published in 1954. Read 7310 times on American Poems.

railroad yard in San Jose 
     I wandered desolate 
in front of a tank factory 
     and sat on a bench 
near the switchman's shack. 

A flower lay on the hay on 
     the asphalt highway 
--the dread hay flower 
     I thought--It had a 
brittle... (Read full poem)

Nature can do no more
She has fulfilled her Dyes
Whatever Flower fail to come
Of other Summer days
Her crescent reimburse
If other Summers be
Nature's imposing negative
Nulls opportunity --(Read full poem)

19. I am the autumnal sun - written by Henry David Thoreau
Read 6276 times on American Poems.

Sometimes a mortal feels in himself Nature 
-- not his Father but his Mother stirs 
within him, and he becomes immortal with her
immortality. From time to time she claims 
kindredship with us, and some globule 
from her veins steals up into our... (Read full poem)

When I hoped, I recollect
Just the place I stood --
At a Window facing West --
Roughest Air -- was good --

Not a Sleet could bite me --
Not a frost could cool --
Hope it was that kept me warm --
Not Merino shawl --

When I feared -- I... (Read full poem)

21. In Tall Grass - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers. Published in 1918. Read 2852 times on American Poems.

BEES and a honeycomb in the dried head of a horse in a pasture corner—a skull in the tall grass and a buzz and a buzz of the yellow honey-hunters.
 
And I ask no better a winding sheet
            (over the earth and under the sun.)
 
Let the... (Read full poem)

Lightly stepped a yellow star
To its lofty place --
Loosed the Moon her silver hat
From her lustral Face --
All of Evening softly lit
As an Astral Hall --
Father, I observed to Heaven,
You are punctual.(Read full poem)

23. Nature and God -- I neither knew - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 2431 times on American Poems.

Nature and God -- I neither knew
Yet Both so well knew me
They startled, like Executors
Of My identity.

Yet Neither told -- that I could learn --
My Secret as secure
As Herschel's private interest
Or Mercury's affair --(Read full poem)

ALL you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages, 
You have not learn’d of Nature—of the politics of Nature, you have not
    learn’d
	the
	great amplitude, rectitude, impartiality; 
You have not seen that only such as they... (Read full poem)

25. If Nature smiles -- the Mother must - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 4621 times on American Poems.

If Nature smiles -- the Mother must
I'm sure, at many a whim
Of Her eccentric Family --
Is She so much to blame?(Read full poem)