The Poetry of Nature - Volume 2

By William Wordsworth, Sara Teasdale and Thomas Hardy

Silence is rare in Nature.

When we really listen, Nature is conducting symphonies of sound as her world goes about the day and night. Her invisible heartbeat is everywhere, for everyone.

Our eyes are constantly bathed in the wonder of her ways, the soft drizzle of rain from soft grey clouds, the bleached harsh desert sand of a noon day, a wave caressing the shore, to the ravenous colours of a departing sunset.

Indeed, whenever we look and listen to the vastness of our world Nature’s beauty is always there for us. She placates our anger, soothes our pain. Her vistas feed our hearts and souls; the world of a single flower brings a smile.

In these pages nature takes us through her world of wonder.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Portable Poetry
• Release date: Nov 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9781835470336

William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 at Cockermouth, in the English Lake District, the son of a lawyer. He was one of five children and developed a close bond with his only sister, Dorothy, whom he lived with for most of his life. At the age of seventeen, shortly after the deaths of his parents, Wordsworth went to St John’s College, Cambridge, and after graduating visited Revolutionary France. Upon returning to England he published his first poem and devoted himself wholly to writing. He became great friends with other Romantic poets and collaborated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads. In 1843, he succeeded Robert Southey as Poet Laureate and died in the year ‘Prelude’ was finally published, 1850.

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The Poetry of Nature

Volume 2 – An Introduction

Silence is rare in Nature.

When we really listen, Nature is conducting symphonies of sound as her world goes about the day and night.  Her invisible heartbeat is everywhere, for everyone.

Our eyes are constantly bathed in the wonder of her ways, the soft drizzle of rain from soft grey clouds, the bleached harsh desert sand of a noon day, a wave caressing the shore, to the ravenous colours of a departing sunset. 

Indeed, whenever we look and listen to the vastness of our world Nature’s beauty is always there for us.  She placates our anger, soothes our pain.  Her vistas feed our hearts and souls; the world of a single flower brings a smile.

In these pages nature takes us through her world of wonder.

Index of Contents

All Nature Has a Feeling by John Clare

An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Daylight and Moonlight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It Was An April Morning Fresh And Clear by William Wordsworth

Loveliest of Trees, The Cherry Tree by A E Housman

Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats

Sail Away by Rabdranath Tagore

Summer Dawn by William Morris

Snake by D H Lawrence

My Hearts Leaps Up by William Wordsworth

The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

The Oxen by Thomas Hardy

At Castle Wood by Emily Bronte

The Dark Blue Sea by Byron

The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W B Yeats

Sailing Beyond Seas by Jean Ingelow

Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth

To A Mouse by Robert Burns

Trees by Joyce Kilmer

On the Sea by John Keats

At the Sunrise, 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone by Walt Whitman

An Autumn Sunset by Edith Wharton

Bee by Emily Dickinson

Snow Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spring Rain by Sara Teasdale

The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau

To the Snow Drop by Charlotte Smith

The Cow by Robert Louis Stevenson

Spring Wind in London by Katherine Mansfield

The Lamb by William Blake

The Calf by Thomas Hardy

White Butterflies by Algernon Charles Swinburne

All Nature Has a Feeling by John Clare

All nature has a feeling: woods, fields, brooks

Are life eternal; and in silence they

Speak happiness beyond the reach of books;

There's nothing mortal in them; their decay