Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems
26 PA RT O N E When thou hidest thy face they are troubled: when thou takest away their breath they die, and are turned again to ...
SINGING ECOLOGY UNTO THE LORD 27 other formula for Creation—“the Lord shall rejoice in his works”—by plunging back into nature w ...
28 ust hearing and speaking these honest lines is enough. Or better, singing them from this poem’s early manuscript. You can hea ...
ANON WAS AN ENVIRONMENTALIST 29 Elemental as it is, “Western Wind” opens a way to endure time and circum- stance, aloneness and ...
30 PA RT O N E Mary had a little lamb Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go. A pri ...
ANON WAS AN ENVIRONMENTALIST 31 i-sounds reverberate in Keats’s Grecian urn, a “bride of quietness, / Thou foster-child of silen ...
32 PA RT O N E We make it, that is, with a little help from the verse: two halves sharing the same meter, and breathing in and o ...
ANON WAS AN ENVIRONMENTALIST 33 people long to go on pilgrimage.” From Chaucer to Bob Dylan, a wind promises change: “The answer ...
34 “The stationary blasts of waterfalls” Blake, the Wordsworths, and the Dung “ Would to God that all the Lord ’s people were Pr ...
BLAKE, THE WORDSWORTHS, AND THE DUNG 35 None of the Romantics matched Blake for fervor. Coming on Wordsworth’s perceptive but pe ...
36 PA RT O N E William used to read her journal in the evenings, so his vision— I wandered lonely as a Cloud That floats on high ...
BLAKE, THE WORDSWORTHS, AND THE DUNG 37 diamond drops; the hollies shining with broader patches of light. The road to the villag ...
38 PA RT O N E Coming down from Simplon Pass (Dorothy was back home), Wordsworth runs for twelve lines without a main verb, the ...
39 “The white Eddy-rose... obstinate in resurrection” Coleridge Imagining O Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life a ...
40 PA RT O N E Living miles apart, these two souls thought nothing of walking over for a visit, Dorothy Wordsworth usually joini ...
COLERIDGE IMAGINING 41 while the nigh thatch Smokes in the sun-thaw —gathers th- and s-alliterations, resonates in “while” and “ ...
42 PA RT O N E a sight as a Father’s eyes could well see—Hartley & little Derwent running in the Green where the Gusts blow ...
COLERIDGE IMAGINING 43 To hear this poem in time, like music, we can let questions unscroll it line by line. First, What sort of ...
44 PA RT O N E A soft seat, and a deep and ample shade. Thou may’st toil far and find no second tree. Drink, Pilgrim, here; here ...
COLERIDGE IMAGINING 45 ever overpowered by the Stream rushing down in upon it, and still obstinate in resurrection it spread up ...
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