Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

The final four stanzas pay tribute to 'honest' Allan Ramsay's revival of Scottish poetry and his influence on pastoral. poetry nationalism nature Skip to top ...

Ask students what these paintings suggest about the relationship between humans and nature. How do the paintings reflect what they know about Daoist attitudes? How might Chinese artists have ...

This poem, inspired by the song of the Lapland longspur, is no exception. Even the song of a new bird did not stop the nature writer from thinking about his home in the Hudson Valley of New York.

self-reflecting first person infuses the poem with a fresh sentiment, carried by the memorable refrain, 'Man was made to mourn': 'If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave, / By Nature's law design'd ...

Johnson’s poem—in truth, verses as regional and provincial as Ives’s setting is elemental and universal—begins quietly: “Contented river! in thy dreamy realm / The cloudy willow and the ...

In its intimacy, its revelation not just of nature but also of the perceiving self, nature poems offer one of the few paths we have to consider the risks to the natural world in a way that is free ...

Previous work: Poem addressed to Mr Mitchell ... To put us daft; Syne weave, unseen, thy spider snare O hell's damned waft. Poor man the flie, aft bizzes bye, And aft as chance he comes thee ...