rECOgnisance - Friday, July 17, 2009 14:56

“I think I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree” and other favourites

Poetry favourites compiled by our guest editor Asitha Jayawardena.

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Nature, with equal mind,

Sees all her sons at play;

Sees man control the wind,

The wind sweep man away.

Matthew Arnold

I think I shall never see,

A poem lovely as a tree.

Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)

In a mountain greenery

Where gods paint scenery.

Lorenz Hart (1895-1943)

To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour.

William Blake

Nature never did betray

The heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

There is a rupture on the lonely shore,

There is society, where none intrudes,

By the deep sea, and music in its roar:

I love not man the less, but nature more.

Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Nature, who makes the perfect rose and bird,

Has never made the full and perfect man.

Alexander Smith (1830-1867)

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