The wonder of nature. Thing is the thing is green / Peggy Elizabeth Gifford
Delight song of Tsoai-talee / N. Scott Momaday
from Childe Harold's pilgrimage / George Byron
To look at anything / John Moffitt
Perserverance / Marin Sorescu
Manna / Joseph Stroud
Leisure / W. H. Davies
Four haiku / Issa Kobayashi
Tiger got to hunt / Kurt Vonnegut
Nature is what we see / Emily Dickinson
Return / Paige Towler
Four haiku / Matsuo Basho
The morns are meeker than they were / Emily Dickinson
The peace of wild things / Wendell Berry
In the sky. Changing of the guard / Charles Waters
from Night / William Blake
Welcome to the night / Joyce Sidman
Old man moon / Aileen Fisher
The man in the moon / Billy Collins
Write about a radish / Karla Kuskin
The aged sun / Anonymous
Two falling flakes / Douglas Florian
Snow / Edward Thomas
Looking through space / Aileen Fisher
Night comes... / Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
A baby-sermon / George Macdonald
Stars / A.E. Housman
When I heard the learn'd astronomer / Walt Whitman
The opposite of a cloud / Richard Wilbur
Rain / Robert Louis Stevenson
Windy nights / Robert Louis Stevenson
The wind / James Stephens
The blue between / Kristine O'Connell George
Icicles / Lee Bennett Hopkins
San Francisco
any night / Kelly Ramsdell Fineman, after Carl Sandburg
The sun and fog / Emily Dickinson
This is my rock / David McCord
In the sea. Tideline / Kate Coombs
By the sea / Liz Rosenburg
At Seacliff cottage / Sonya Sones
Haiku / Nick Virgilio
The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes, to W.E.B. DuBois
The Mississippi / Anonymous
Galapagos: Hood Island / Bobbi Katz
St. Elmo's fire / Georgia Heard
Old man ocean / Russell Hoban
Bigar Cascade Falls, Romania / Steven Withrow
Flammable ice bubbles / Richard Michelson
Lost giant / Mariel Bede
Maggie and Milly and Molly and May / e.e. cummings
Until I saw the sea / Lilian Moore
What are heavy? / Christina Rosetti
The Dead Sea / Rebecca Kai Dotlich
Like ghosts of eagles / Robert Francis
Ammonites: sculptures of the sea / Betsy Franco
Where go the boats? / Robert Louis Stevenson
The mill back home / Vern Rutsala
In the salt marsh / Nancy Willard
Take Bus 9 to the Red Sea Beach / John Barr
The red crabs of Christmas Island / B.J. Lee
The great blue hole / Donna Marie Merritt
I owe it all to water / Mary Lee Hahn
On the move. Advice for a frog (Concerning a crane) / Alice Schertle
The clown fish / David Elliott
A blessing / James Wright
The rhea / Douglas Florian
Queen Alexandra's birdwing / Avis Harley
Everything old becomes new / Jane Yolen
Gym on a rock / Sonya Sones
Electric eel / X.J. Kennedy
On the grasshopper and cricket / John Keats
The flower-fed buffaloes / Vachel Lindsay
The difference between frog and toad / Anonymous
The ways of living things / Jack Prelutsky
Quail's nest / John Clare
Self pity / D.H. Lawrence
Cardinal nest / Charle Ghigna
Whale / Mary Ann Hoberman
Sips of sea / Avis Harley
The answers / Robert Clairmont
Advice from the scorpion / J. Patrick Lewis
Centipede / Michael J. Rosen
The boa / Douglas Florian
Across the land. You ask why / Li Po
An Indian summer day on the prairie / Vachel Lindsay
To make a prairie / Emily Dickinson
Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Up on the hill / James Hayford
Adlestrop / Edward Thomas
from Bat cave / Eleanor Wilner
Desert / Marilyn Singer
At the un-national monument along the Canadian border / WIlliam Stafford
Former barn lot / Mark Van Doren
Red rides west / Mariel Bede
Sailing stone / Laura Purdie Salas
In a quiet dark place / David L. Harrison
Thank you note to the gorge / Patricia Hubbell
A late walk / Robert Frost
The song of wandering Aengus / William Butler Yeats
The mountains
grow unnoticed / Emily Dickinson
In shade. Lessons in September / Tracy Vaughn Zimmer
Time to plant trees / James Hayford
Dew / Charles Ghigna
Butterfly tree / Joan Bransfield Graham
The monarch's flight to Mexico / Avis Harley
Haiku / Virgilio
General Sherman sequoia: world's largest tree / Joan Bransfield Graham
Sequoia / Leonard Nathan
The mystery / Jane Yolen
Bouquets / Robert Francis
Beside a chrysanthemum / So Chong Ju
Counting-out rhyme / Edna St. Vincent Millay
The release / Joseph Bruchac
Spanish moss / Charles Ghigna
Rainbow eucalyptus / Matt Forrest Esenwine
Blow-up / X.J. Kennedy
Bougainvillea / Ann Whitford Paul
How to bake a flower / Ralph Fletcher
Mushroom hunting / Peter Kostin
Milkweeds, November / Michael J. Rosen
I wandered lonely as a cloud / William Wordsworth
The Methuselah tree: ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest / Joan Bransfield Graham
Rose / Janet S. Wong
Mirrorment / A.R. Ammons
Pine tree in January / Michael Salinger
In distress. Avalanche / Steven Withrow
Dormant dragons / Marilyn Singer
Tsunami / Anonymous
Weather deniers / Jane Yolen
Tsunami / JonArno Lawson
Earthquake / Mariel Bede
Fire and ice / Robert Frost
Drought / Peter Kostin
Tornado season / Adrien Stoutenburg
Punishing conditions / Graham Denton
Where will we run to / X.J. Kennedy
The merry-go round song / Andrew Fusek Peters and Polly Peters
Birds have left without a song / John Barr
Wildfire / Nikki Grimes
Flood / Peter Kostin
In season. When it is snowing / Siv Cedering
Storm ending / Jean Toomer
You never hear the garden grow / Lilian Moore
Here is a poem of love and hope / Arnold Adoff
Frost / Valerie Worth
April rain song / Langston Hughes
Metamorphosis / Sara Holbrook
I so liked spring / Charlotte Mew
Why leaves change color in the fall / J. Patrick Lewis
Something told the wild geese / Rachel Field
February tale / Ronee M. LaTulippe
Sounds of winter / Anonymous
November / Mariel Bede
Autumn / T.E. Hulme
November night / Adelaide Crapsey
A crack in the clouds / Constance Levy
In just / e.e. cummings
The pasture / Robert Frost
My heard leaps up / William Wordsworth
For all / Gary Snyder
The long summer / James Hayford
In splendor. The Great Barrier Reef / Robert Schechter
Mammatus clouds / Julie Larios
Moonbow at Cumberland Falls / George Ella Lyon
Solar eclipse / Steven Withrow
Fish rain / Marilyn Nelson
Moeraki boulders / Joyce Sidman
Fossil beds at the Badlands / Naomi Shihab Nye
Glacial erratic / Helen Frost
Sun dogs / Janet S. Wong
Catatumbo lightning / Kelly Ramsdell Fineman
The Mariana Trench / X.J. Kennedy
The Grand Canyon / Bobbi Katz
Mount Everest / Deborah Chandra
Pink lake / Allan Wolf
Brinicle / Laura Purdie Salas
Antelope Canyon / Pat Mora
Rainforest / Judith Wright
Niagara Falls / Avis Harley
Yellowstone / Douglas Florian
Lake Baikal / Michael J. Rosen
Bioluminescence in the Maldives / Paige Towler
Pororoca Tidal Bore / Janet S. Wong
Wonder down under / Ted Scheu
Red tide / April Halprin Wayland
Petrified Forest / Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Aurora Borealis / Steven Withrow
Northern Lights / J. Patrick Lewis
Last thoughts. Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost
Nature / Henry David Thoreau
Swift things are beautiful / Elizabeth Coatsworth
Lessons of nature / J. Patrick Lewis, after Samuel Hazo
The earth is a living thing / Lucille Clifton
In beauty may I walk / Anonymous (Navajo Indian)
Post-it notes from the world / J. Patrick Lewis
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