1. "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)

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)

3. Nature assigns the Sun -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 3522 times on American Poems.

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

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

5. 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)

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)

7. Child - written by Sylvia Plath
From The Collected Poems. Published in 1963. Read 11003 times on American Poems.

Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing.
I want to fill it with color and ducks,
The zoo of the new

Whose name you meditate --
April snowdrop, Indian pipe,
Little

Stalk without wrinkle,
Pool in which images
Should be grand and... (Read full poem)

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)

9. When I hoped, I recollect - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 1731 times on American Poems.

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)

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)

11. Nature -- sometimes sears a Sapling - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 2627 times on American Poems.

Nature -- sometimes sears a Sapling --
Sometimes -- scalps a Tree --
Her Green People recollect it
When they do not die --

Fainter Leaves -- to Further Seasons --
Dumbly testify --
We -- who have the Souls --
Die oftener -- Not so vitally --(Read full poem)

Lain in Nature -- so suffice us
The enchantless Pod
When we advertise existence
For the missing Seed --

Maddest Heart that God created
Cannot move a sod
Pasted by the simple summer
On the Longed for Dead(Read full poem)

13. Nature affects to be sedate - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 1404 times on American Poems.

Nature affects to be sedate
Upon occasion, grand
But let our observation shut
Her practices extend

To Necromancy and the Trades
Remote to understand
Behold our spacious Citizen
Unto a Juggler turned --(Read full poem)

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)

15. 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 reticent volcano keeps
His never slumbering plan --
Confided are his projects pink
To no precarious man.

If nature will not tell the tale
Jehovah told to her
Can human nature not survive
Without a listener?

Admonished by her buckled lips
Let... (Read full poem)

17. Rest at Night - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 2396 times on American Poems.

Rest at Night
The Sun from shining,
Nature -- and some Men --
Rest at Noon -- some Men --
While Nature
And the Sun -- go on --(Read full poem)

How Human Nature dotes
On what it can't detect.
The moment that a Plot is plumbed
Prospective is extinct --

Prospective is the friend
Reserved for us to know
When Constancy is clarified
Of Curiosity --

Of subjects that resist
Redoubtablest is... (Read full poem)

19. 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)

Growth of Man -- like Growth of Nature --
Gravitates within --
Atmosphere, and Sun endorse it --
Bit it stir -- alone --

Each -- its difficult Ideal
Must achieve -- Itself --
Through the solitary prowess
Of a Silent Life --

Effort -- is the sole... (Read full poem)

21. The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 2404 times on American Poems.

The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants --
At Evening, it is not --
At Morning, in a Truffled Hut
It stop upon a Spot

As if it tarried always
And yet its whole Career
Is shorter than a Snake's Delay
And fleeter than a Tare --

'Tis Vegetation's Juggler... (Read full poem)

I stood upon a highway,
And, behold, there came
Many strange peddlers.
To me each one made gestures,
Holding forth little images, saying,
"This is my pattern of God.
Now this is the God I prefer."

But I said, "Hence!
Leave me with mine own,
And... (Read full poem)

23. Marie Bateson - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 1195 times on American Poems.

You observe the carven hand
With the index finger pointing heavenward.
That is the direction, no doubt.
But how shall one follow it?
It is well to abstain from murder and lust,
To forgive, do good to others, worship God
Without graven... (Read full poem)

Nature -- the Gentlest Mother is,
Impatient of no Child --
The feeblest -- or the waywardest --
Her Admonition mild --

In Forest -- and the Hill --
By Traveller -- be heard --
Restraining Rampant Squirrel --
Or too impetuous Bird --

How fair Her... (Read full poem)

25. To a President. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass. Published in 1900. Read 4012 times on American Poems.

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)