… What plant we in this apple-tree! Fruits that shall swell in sunny June, And redden in the August noon, … – from The Planting of the Apple-Tree by William […]
What matter that it is not May, That birds have flown, and trees are bare, That darker grows the shortening day, And colder blows the wintry air! – from Burning […]
It wav’d not thro’ an Eastern sky, Beside a fount of Araby; It was not fann’d by southern breeze In some green isle of Indian seas, … But fair the exil’d […]
“Nature” is what we see— …. Nature is what we hear— …. Nature is what we know— Yet have no art to say— So impotent Our Wisdom is To her Simplicity. – […]
They lift you high above the earth tough, beautiful Araucaria from the southern heights,.. tower of Chile, crown of the green domain; pavilion of winter; ship of fragrance …. – […]
‘Maybe a breath of politic words Has withered our Rose Tree; Or maybe but a wind that blows Across the bitter sea.’ – from The Rose Tree by William Butler […]
Green is the plane-tree in the square, The other trees are brown; They droop and pine for country air; The plane-tree loves the town. – from A London Plane-Tree by […]
Overhead the tree-tops meet, Flowers and grass spring ‘neath one’s feet; There was nought above me, and nought below – from Overhead the tree-tops meet by Robert Browning read more […]
Four Trees — upon a solitary Acre — Without Design Or Order, or Apparent Action — Maintain — – from Four Trees upon a solitary acre by Emily Dickinson read […]
And the voice of the peaceful valley Mixed with the billow’s song! “Stay in the wood’s embraces! Stay in the dell’s repose!” – from Down in the dell I wandered […]
My friend tree I sawed you down but I must attend an older friend the sun – My Friend Tree by Lorine Niedecker read more Park Wood, St Albans, November 2020 […]