Fifty Shades of Nature: 50 of the best poems about all things nature

Written by John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Blake and 9 more

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe and Nigel Planer

Our senses revel in the incomparable majesty of the work of Mother Nature. The structure of the landscape, the multi-coloured mantle of trees and fauna, the myriad animals that wander and inhabit this glorious Earth. Nature conducts symphonies of sound as her world goes from day into the inky embrace of night.

Our ears and eyes are constantly bathed in the wonder of her ways; the soft drizzle of rain from soft grey clouds, a wave caressing the shore and the ravenous colours of a departing sunset.

Her invisible heartbeat is everywhere and for everyone. Indeed, whenever we look and listen to the vastness of Nature’s beauty she can placate our anger and soothe our pain, despite our knowledge of her destructive forces that create myriad tragedies. Still her vistas can energise us, feed our hearts and souls and prompt us to muse on the mysteries of life and death.

1 - Fifty Shades of Nature - An Introduction

2 - from Song Of Myself by Walt Whitman

3 - Nature's Hymn to the Deity by John Clare

4 - On a Lane in Spring by John Clare

5 - Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth

6 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

7 - An April Afternoon by Alexander Anderson

8 - A Rainy Day in April by Francis Ledwidge

9 - In May by William Henry Davies

10 - The Darkling Thrush By Thomas Hardy

11 - The Thrush's Nest by John Clare

12 - To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley

13 - Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats

14 - Sonnet LVII - Summit of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838 by Henry Alford

15 - Nature, The Gentlest Mother by Emily Dickinson

16 - A July Afternoon by the Pond by Walt Whitman

17 - An August Evening, 1865 by Carolyn Clive

18 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau

19 - August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale

20 - In Autumn Moonlight by Robert Seymour Bridges

21 - Daylight and Moonlight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

22 - At the Sunrise, 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

23 - After Sunset by William Allingham

24 - Across the Red Sky by Katherine Mansfield

25 - In the Fields by Charlotte Mew

26 - Evening by Paul Laurence Dunbar

27 - I Have Heard the Sunset Song of the Birches by Stephen Crane

28 - Trees by Joyce Kilmer

29 - Binsey Poplars by Gerard Manley Hopkins

30 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth

31 - Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins

32 - Nature's Lady by George Eliot

33 - Seashore by Tagore

34 - The Dark Blue Sea by Byron

35 - By the Sea by Christina Georgina Rossetti

36 - The Little Waves of Breffney by Eva Gore-Booth

37 - The Awakening River by Katherine Mansfield

38 - The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W B Yeats

39 - The Cloud on the Mountain by Alama Iqbal

40 - Sonnet 33 - Full Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen by William Shakespeare

41 - Tell Me Not Here, It Needs Not Saying by A E Housman

42 - The Autumn by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

43 - Ode Written on the First of December by Robert Southey

44 - Winters Naked Wood by Daniel Sheehan

45 - Frost At Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

46 - The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson

47 - from The Happy Farmer by Iolo Morganwg

48 - The Calf by Thomas Hardy

49 - To A Mouse by Robert Burns

50 - Snake by D H Lawrence

51 - The Tyger by William Blake

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781839678875