1. Christmas Bells - written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From Tales of a Wayside Inn. Read 3251 times on American Poems.

"I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!


And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along
The... (Read full poem)

Why make so much of fragmentary blue
In here and there a bird, or butterfly,
Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,
When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)--
Though some savants make... (Read full poem)

3. The Plough Of Time - written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Read 2228 times on American Poems.

Night closed my windows and
The sky became a crystal house
The crystal windows glowed
The moon
shown through them
through the whole house of crystal
A single star beamed down
its crystal cable
and drew a plough through the earth
unearthing bodies... (Read full poem)

A Letter is a joy of Earth --
It is denied the Gods --(Read full poem)

5. Kosmos. - written by Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass. Published in 1900. Read 4216 times on American Poems.

WHO includes diversity, and is Nature, 
Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the
    great
	charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also, 
Who has not look’d forth from the windows, the eyes,... (Read full poem)

Torn into light, you woke wriggling 
on a woman's palm. Halved, quartered, 
shredded to the wind, you were the life 
that thrilled along the underbelly 
of a stone. Stilled in the frozen pond 
you rinsed heaven with a sigh. 

How much earth is a... (Read full poem)

7. Gathered into the Earth, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 1313 times on American Poems.

Gathered into the Earth,
And out of story --
Gathered so that strange Fame --
That lonesome Glory
That hath no omen here -- but Awe --(Read full poem)

The Sun went down -- no Man looked on --
The Earth and I, alone,
Were present at the Majesty --
He triumphed, and went on --

The Sun went up -- no Man looked on --
The Earth and I and One
A nameless Bird -- a Stranger
Were Witness for the Crown --(Read full poem)

9. Peace on Earth - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 1099 times on American Poems.

He took a frayed hat from his head, 
And “Peace on Earth” was what he said. 
“A morsel out of what you’re worth, 
And there we have it: Peace on Earth. 
Not much, although a little more
Than what there was on earth before 
I’m as you see, I’m... (Read full poem)

There is no Silence in the Earth -- so silent
As that endured
Which uttered, would discourage Nature
And haunt the World.(Read full poem)

11. The earth has many keys, - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 19474 times on American Poems.

The earth has many keys,
Where melody is not
Is the unknown peninsula.
Beauty is nature's fact.

But witness for her land,
And witness for her sea,
The cricket is her utmost
Of elegy to me.(Read full poem)

It was a quiet seeming Day --
There was no harm in earth or sky --
Till with the closing sun
There strayed an accidental Red
A Strolling Hue, one would have said
To westward of the Town --

But when the Earth began to jar
And Houses vanished with a... (Read full poem)

13. As from the earth the light Balloon - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 1532 times on American Poems.

As from the earth the light Balloon
Asks nothing but release --
Ascension that for which it was,
Its soaring Residence.
The spirit looks upon the Dust
That fastened it so long
With indignation,
As a Bird
Defrauded of its song.(Read full poem)

Somewhere upon the general Earth
Itself exist Today --
The Magic passive but extant
That consecrated me --

Indifferent Seasons doubtless play
Where I for right to be --
Would pay each Atom that I am
But Immortality --

Reserving that but just to... (Read full poem)

15. So much of Heaven has gone from Earth - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 1443 times on American Poems.

So much of Heaven has gone from Earth
That there must be a Heaven
If only to enclose the Saints
To Affidavit given.

The Missionary to the Mole
Must prove there is a Sky
Location doubtless he would plead
But what excuse have I?

Too much of Proof... (Read full poem)

HOW they are provided for upon the earth, (appearing at intervals;) 
How dear and dreadful they are to the earth; 
How they inure to themselves as much as to any—What a paradox appears their age; 
How people respond to them, yet know them not;... (Read full poem)

17. End Of The World - written by Robinson Jeffers
From The Beginning and the End & Other Poems. Read 3312 times on American Poems.

When I was young in school in Switzerland, about the time of the Boer War,
We used to take it for known that the human race
Would last the earth out, not dying till the planet died. I wrote a schoolboy poem
About the last man walking in stoic... (Read full poem)

I reason, Earth is short --
And Anguish -- absolute --
And many hurt,
But, what of that?

I reason, we could die --
The best Vitality
Cannot excel Decay,
But, what of that?

I reason, that in Heaven --
Somehow, it will be even --
Some new Equation,... (Read full poem)

19. The Fact that Earth is Heaven -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Published in 1955. Read 1603 times on American Poems.

The Fact that Earth is Heaven --
Whether Heaven is Heaven or not
If not an Affidavit
Of that specific Spot
Not only must confirm us
That it is not for us
But that it would affront us
To dwell in such a place --(Read full poem)

Do you know what I was, how I lived?  You know
what despair is; then
winter should have meaning for you.

I did not expect to survive,
earth suppressing me. I didn't expect
to waken again, to feel
in damp earth my body
able to respond... (Read full poem)

21. The Fury Of Earth - written by Anne Sexton
From The Death Notebooks. Published in 1974. Read 1373 times on American Poems.

The day of fire is coming, the thrush, 
will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket, 
the beetle will sink like a giant bulldozer, 
and at the breaking of the morning the houses 
will turn into oil and will in their tides 
of fire be a becoming and an... (Read full poem)

Living in the earth-deposits of our history

Today a backhoe divulged out of a crumbling flank of earth
one bottle amber perfect a hundred-year-old
cure for fever or melancholy a tonic
for living on this earth in the winters of this... (Read full poem)

23. Russell Kincaid - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 328 times on American Poems.

In the last spring I ever knew,
In those last days,
I sat in the forsaken orchard
Where beyond fields of greenery shimmered
The hills at Miller's Ford;
Just to muse on the apple tree
With its ruined trunk and blasted branches,
And shoots of... (Read full poem)

EARTH! my likeness! 
Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there, 
I now suspect that is not all; 
I now suspect there is something fierce in you, eligible to burst forth; 
For an athlete is enamour’d of me—and I of him;
But... (Read full poem)

25. The Wish to be Generous - written by Wendell Berry
Read 1494 times on American Poems.

ALL that I serve will die, all my delights,
the flesh kindled from my flesh, garden and field,
the silent lilies standing in the woods,
the woods, the hill, the whole earth, all
will burn in man's evil, or dwindle
in its own age. Let the world... (Read full poem)