An edition of National Geographic book of nature poetry
(2015)
National Geographic book of nature poetry
more than 200 poems with photographs that float, zoom, and bloom!
by J. Patrick Lewis
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When words in verse are paired with the awesomeness of nature, something magical happens! Beloved former U.S. Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis curates an exhuberant poetic celebration of the natural world in this stellar collection of nature poems. From trickling streams to deafening thrunderstorms to soaring mountains, discover majestic photography perfectly paired with contemporary (such as Billy Collins), classics (such as Robert Frost), and never-before-published works.
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National Geographic book of nature poetry: more than 200 poems with photographs that float, zoom, and bloom!
2015, National Geographic Society
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National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry: More than 200 Poems with Photographs That Float, Zoom, and Bloom!
2015, National Geographic Society
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Table of Contents
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
Who is Mother Nature?
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-182) and indexes.
1234 Childrens Plus, Inc.
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