| Introductory Essay |
| | The Poetry of Nature by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) |
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| I. Nature’s Influence |
| | “The world is too much with us” by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | Earth, Ocean, Air by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
| | On a Beautiful Day by John Sterling (1806–1844) |
| | God in Nature by Robert Browning (1812–1889) |
| | “My heart leaps up” by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | Each and All by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
| | The Country Faith by Norman Gale (1862–1942) |
| | Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | “Great Nature is an army gay” by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
| | “Come to these scenes of peace” by William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) |
| | Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude by Thomas Gray (1716–1771) |
| | Nature by Jones Very (1813–1880) |
| | Influence of Natural Objects by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | An Indian Song by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) |
| | The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | Rus in Urbe by Clement Scott (1841–1904) |
| | The Faun by Richard Hovey (1864–1900) |
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| II. Light: Day: Night |
| | Invocation to Light by John Milton (1608–1674) |
| | Light by John Milton (1608–1674) |
| | Light by George MacDonald (1824–1905) |
| | The Northern Lights by Benjamin Franklin Taylor (1819–1887) |
| | From the “Hymn to Light” by Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) |
| | Daybreak by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| | Dawn by Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) |
| | Morning Song by Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) |
| | Morning by John Cunningham (1729–1773) |
| | “Pack clouds away” by Thomas Heywood (c. 1570–1641) |
| | Morning by James Beattie (1735–1803) |
| | Summer Rain by Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) |
| | The Oasis of Sidi Khaled by Wilfred Scawen Blunt (1840–1922) |
| | A Midsummer’s Noon in the Australian Forest by Charles Harpur (1813–1868) |
| | Noontide by John Leyden (1775–1811) |
| | A Summer Noon by William Howitt (1792–1879) |
| | “The midges dance aboon the burn” by Robert Tannahill (1774–1810) |
| | Sunset by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
| | Fancy in Nubibus by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
| | “Day is Dying” by George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross) (1819–1880) |
| | The End of the Day by Duncan Campbell Scott (1862–1947) |
| | Evening by Archibald Lampman (1861–1899) |
| | A Twilight Fancy by Dora Read Goodale (1866–1953) |
| | To the Evening Star by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) |
| | The Evening Wind by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| | Evening in Paradise by John Milton (1608–1674) |
| | Evening by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| | Moonlight on the Prairie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| | To Delia by Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | The Camp at Night by Homer (fl. 850 B.C.) |
| | To Night by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
| | Night by Joseph Blanco White (1775–1841) |
| | Night by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| | Night by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
| | Hymn to the Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| | “In the wide awe and wisdom of the night” by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) |
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| III. The Seasons |
| | A Hymn by James Thomson (1700–1748) |
| | March by William Morris (1834–1896) |
| | “When the hounds of spring” by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
| | March by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | “Spring, the sweet spring” by Thomas Nashe (1567–1601) |
| | Return of Spring by Pierre de Ronsard (1524–1585) |
| | Spring by Thomas Gray (1716–1771) |
| | Summer Longings by Denis Florence Mac Carthy (1817–1882) |
| | “Sweetly breathing, vernal air” by Thomas Carew (1595?–1639?) |
| | Home Thoughts from Abroad by Robert Browning (1812–1889) |
| | May Morning by Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894) |
| | Song on May Morning by John Milton (1608–1674) |
| | Spring in Carolina by Henry Timrod (1828–1867) |
| | Spring by Ebenezer Elliott (1781–1849) |
| | “Die down, O dismal day” by David Gray (1838–1861) |
| | Morning in May by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) |
| | Cuckoo Song—Anonymous |
| | Spring by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
| | Betrothed Anew by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) |
| | The Ploughman by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
| | The Plough by Richard Henry Hengist Horne (1802–1884) |
| | “They come! the merry summer months” by William Motherwell (1797–1835) |
| | Song of the Summer Winds by George Darley (1795–1846) |
| | A Drop of Dew by Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) |
| | June by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| | The Story of a Summer Day by Alexander Hume (1560?–1609) |
| | “Knee-deep in June” by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
| | Ballade of Midsummer Days and Nights by William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) |
| | Invocation to Rain in Summer by William Cox Bennett (1820–1895) |
| | Rain in Summer by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| | Before the Rain by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
| | Signs of Rain by Dr. Edward Jenner |
| | Summer Storm by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| | After the Rain by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) |
| | A Storm in the Distance by Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) |
| | Rain by Ebenezer Jones (1820–1860) |
| | The Dancing of the Air by Sir John Davies (1570–1626) |
| | Wicklow Winds by George Francis Savage-Armstrong (1845–1906) |
| | Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
| | The Cloud Chorus by Aristophanes (c. 448–c. 388 B.C.) |
| | The Cloud by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
| | Summer Moods by John Clare (1793–1864) |
| | In Praise of Angling by Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639) |
| | The Angler’s Wish by Izaak Walton (1593–1683) |
| | The Angler by John Chalkhill (fl. 1600?) |
| | Swimming by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| | The Pleasure-Boat by Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787–1879) |
| | The Solitary Woodsman by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) |
| | September by George Arnold (1834–1865) |
| | The Latter Rain by Jones Very (1813–1880) |
| | To Autumn by John Keats (1795–1821) |
| | Harvest Song by Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty (1748–1776) |
| | Life in the Autumn Woods by Philip Pendleton Cooke (1816–1850) |
| | Hunting Song by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| | The Hunter’s Song by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) |
| | The Hunted Squirrel by William Browne (c. 1590–c. 1645) |
| | “A hunting we will go” by Henry Fielding (1707–1754) |
| | The Stag Hunt by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| | The Stag Hunt by James Thomson (1700–1748) |
| | The Old Squire by Wilfred Scawen Blunt (1840–1922) |
| | Indian Summer by John Banister Tabb (1845–1909) |
| | No! by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) |
| | “When the frost is on the punkin” by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
| | Autumn: A Dirge by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
| | “When icicles hang by the wall” by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| | Winter by Matthias Claudius (1740–1815) |
| | Frost by Edith Matilda Thomas (1854–1925) |
| | Snow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| | December by Joel Benton (1832–1911) |
| | Snow-Flakes by Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905) |
| | The Snow-Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
| | The Snow-Storm by Ethelwyn Wetherald (1857–1940) |
| | The Snow-Shower by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| | “The Snowing of the Pines” by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911) |
| | A Snow-Storm by Charles Gamage Eastman (1816–1860) |
| | Winter by John Howard Bryant (1807–1902) |
| | Winter Scenes by James Thomson (1700–1748) |
| | Winter Song by Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty (1748–1776) |
| | Winter Morning by William Cowper (1731–1800) |
| | Sleigh Song by G. W. Pettee |
| | Our Skater Belle—Anonymous |
| | “O winter! wilt thou never, never go?” by David Gray (1838–1861) |
| | A Song of Seasons by Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (1864–1922) |
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| IV. Inland Waters: Highlands |
| | The Valley Brook by John Howard Bryant (1807–1902) |
| | Song of the Brook by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
| | The Shaded Water by William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) |
| | A Farewell by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
| | The Birch Stream by Anna Boynton Averill (1843–1915) |
| | Song of the River by Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) |
| | Afton Water by Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
| | The Snows by Charles Sangster (1822–1893) |
| | My River by Eduard Mörike (1804–1875) |
| | On the Rhine by William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) |
| | Oxus by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
| | The Fall of Niagara by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (1795–1828) |
| | To Seneca Lake by James Gates Percival (1795–1856) |
| | The Bugle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
| | The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) |
| | Calm on Lake Leman by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| | The Silence of the Hills by William Prescott Foster (b. 1856) |
| | Storm in the Alps by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| | Dover Cliff by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| | Choral Song by Euripides (c. 480–406 B.C.) |
| | An Alpine Descent by Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) |
| | “Mont Blanc yet gleams on high” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
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| V. Trees: Flowers: Plants |
| | The Primeval Forest by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| | The Greenwood Tree by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| | The Wind and the Pine-Tree by Sir Henry Taylor (1800–1886) |
| | The Brave Old Oak by Henry Fothergill Chorley (1808–1872) |
| | The Holly-Tree by Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
| | A Forest Hymn by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| | The Arab to the Palm by Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) |
| | The Palm-Tree by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| | The Grape-Vine Swing by William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) |
| | The Planting of the Apple-Tree by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| | Among the Redwoods by Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887) |
| | The Voice of the Grass by Sarah Roberts Boyle (1812–1869) |
| | Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| | The Use of Flowers by Mary Howitt (1799–1888) |
| | Hymn to the Flowers by Horace Smith (1779–1849) |
| | The Life of Flowers by Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
| | The Early Primrose by Henry Kirke White (1785–1806) |
| | To Daffodils by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
| | Daffodils by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | To the Dandelion by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) |
| | Trailing Arbutus by Rose Terry Cooke (1827–1892) |
| | The Woodspurge by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) |
| | The Rhodora by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
| | Early June by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
| | To Violets by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
| | A September Violet by Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937) |
| | The Wreath by Meleager of Gadara (1st Century B.C.) |
| | The Death of the Flowers by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| | Sunrise: A Hymn of the Marshes by Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) |
| | The Ivy Green by Charles Dickens (1812–1870) |
| | The Mountain Fern by Authur Gerald Geoghegan (1810–1889) |
| | The Maize by William Whiteman Fosdick (1825–1862) |
| | The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| | The Question by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
| | Sassafras by Samuel Minturn Peck (1854–1938) |
| | The Daisy by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) |
| | To a Mountain Daisy by Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
| | To Blossoms by Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
| | The Mariposa Lily by Ina Donna Coolbrith (1841–1928) |
| | The Water-Lily by John Banister Tabb (1845–1909) |
| | Copa de Oro by Ina Donna Coolbrith (1841–1928) |
| | The Moss Rose by Friedrich Adolf Krummacher (1767–1845) |
| | Flowers by Thomas Hood (1799–1845) |
| | “’T is the last rose of summer” by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
| | To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| | The Sea-Poppy by Robert Bridges (1844–1930) |
| | Goldenrod by Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) |
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| VI. Animate Nature |
| | The First Blue-Bird by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
| | Birds by James Montgomery (1771–1854) |
| | To the Cuckoo by John Logan (1748–1788) |
| | To the Cuckoo by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | “Hark, hark! the lark” by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| | The Lark Ascending by George Meredith (1828–1909) |
| | To the Skylark by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | To the Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
| | The Skylark by James Hogg (1770–1835) |
| | The Little Beach Bird by Richard Henry Dana, Sr. (1787–1879) |
| | The Sandpiper by Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835–1894) |
| | To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| | To the Nightingale by John Milton (1608–1674) |
| | The Nightingale’s Song by Richard Crashaw (c. 1613–1649) |
| | Philomena by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
| | Unmusical Birds by William Cowper (1731–1800) |
| | Robert of Lincoln by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) |
| | The O’Lincoln Family by Wilson Flagg (1805–1884) |
| | To the Lapland Longspur by John Burroughs (1837–1921) |
| | The Bobolinks by Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813–1892) |
| | The Mocking-Bird by Frank Lebby Stanton (1857–1927) |
| | The Blackbird by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
| | The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
| | The Owl by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) |
| | The Dying Swan by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
| | The Heath-Cock by Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) |
| | The Belfry Pigeon by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) |
| | The English Robin by Harrison Weir (1824–1906) |
| | Asian Birds by Robert Bridges (1844–1930) |
| | The Scarlet Tanager by Joel Benton (1832–1911) |
| | The Winged Worshippers by Charles Sprague (1791–1875) |
| | The Departure of the Swallow by William Howitt (1792–1879) |
| | The Flight of the Geese by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) |
| | Lines to the Stormy Petrel—Anonymous |
| | Ode to Mother Carey’s Chicken by Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832–1914) |
| | The Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats (1795–1821) |
| | To the Grasshopper and Cricket by Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) |
| | A Soliloquy by Walter Harte (1709–1774) |
| | To an Insect by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
| | The Fly by William Oldys (1696–1761) |
| | To the Humblebee by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
| | Wild Honey by Maurice Thompson (1844–1901) |
| | A More Ancient Mariner by Bliss Carman (1861–1929) |
| | To a Louse by Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
| | To a Mouse by Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
| | The Housekeeper by Charles Lamb (1775–1834) |
| | Remonstrance with the Snails—Anonymous |
| | The Tiger by William Blake (1757–1827) |
| | The Lion’s Ride by Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810–1876) |
| | Fodder-Time by Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva) (1843–1916) |
| | The Ox by Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907) |
| | Folding the Flocks by Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) and John Fletcher (1579–1625) |
| | Beth Gêlert by William Robert Spencer (1770–1834) |
| | To a Dog’s Memory by Louise Imogen Guiney (1861–1920) |
| | Helvellyn by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| | The Arab to his Favorite Steed by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan) Norton (1808–1877) |
| | The Blood Horse by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) |
| | The Chariot of Cuchullin—Anonymous |
| | Chiquita by Bret Harte (1836–1902) |
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| VII. The Sea |
| | The Sea by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
| | The Sea by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| | The Sea by Bernard Barton (1784–1849) |
| | The Disappointed Lover by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
| | Ocean by Robert Pollok (c. 1798–1827) |
| | The Sea by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) |
| | Address to the Ocean by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) |
| | The Gravedigger by Bliss Carman (1861–1929) |
| | The Treasures of the Deep by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793–1835) |
| | Flotsam and Jetsam—Anonymous |
| | A Forsaken Garden by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
| | Gulf-Weed by Cornelius George Fenner (1822–1847) |
| | Sea-Weed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) |
| | The Coral Insect by Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865) |
| | The Coral Reef by James Montgomery (1771–1854) |
| | The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) |
| | “A wet sheet and a flowing sea” by Allan Cunningham (1784–1842) |
| | Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda by Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) |
| | My Brigantine by James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) |
| | The Heaving of the Lead by Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) |
| | The Minute-Gun by R. S. Sharpe (1759–1835) |
| | All ’s Well by Thomas Dibdin (1771–1841) |
| | The Bay of Biscay by Andrew Cherry (1762–1812) |
| | Tom Bowling by Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) |
| | “Ye Mariners of England” by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) |
| | The White Squall by Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) |
| | “Our boat to the waves” by William Ellery Channing (1818–1901) |
| | “A life on the ocean wave” by Epes Sargent (1813–1880) |
| | To Sea! by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) |
| | Twilight at Sea by Amelia B. Welby (1819–1852) |
| | Tacking Ship Off-Shore by Walter Mitchell (b. c. 1825) |
| | The Storm by George Alexander Stevens (1710–1784) |
| | The Wreck by Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| | The Shipwreck by William Falconer (1732–1769) |
| | The Rock and the Sea by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) |
| | The Polar Quest by Richard Burton (1861–1940) |
| | The Shore by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) |
| | The Kearsarge by James Jeffrey Roche (1847–1908) |
| | The Buoy-Bell by Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879) |
| | Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
| | With a Nantucket Shell by Charles Henry Webb (1834–1905) |
| | The Sea Shell by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | The Shell by Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
| | Hampton Beach by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| | Among the Rocks by Robert Browning (1812–1889) |
| | The Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
| | “How ’s my boy?” by Sydney Dobell (1824–1874) |
| | The Sailor’s Consolation by William Pitt (d. 1840) |
| | Poor Jack by Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) |
| | The Mariner’s Dream by William Dimond (fl. 1800–1830) |
| | The Sea-Limits by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) |
