There are 364 Poems about Trees & Flowers
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.“Birds small enough...” 
By Donald Revell
(“We both live in the same village...”) 
By Rabindranath Tagore
A Color of the Sky
By Tony Hoagland
A Few Days Ago
By Barbara Howes
A Forsaken Garden
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
A January Dandelion
By George Marion McClellan
A Late History
By Weldon Kees
A Literalist
By Robin Blaser
A Poison Tree
By William Blake
A Quilled Quilt, a Needle Bed
By Brad Leithauser
A Red, Red Rose
By Robert Burns
A Toast 
By Peter Balakian
Abundance
By John Ciardi
Adam After the Ice Storm
By John Engels
After Apple Picking
By Robert Frost
After the Winter
By Claude McKay
Afternoons in May
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Ah! Sun-flower
By William Blake
Alas, Kind Element!
By Léonie Adams
Almond Blossom
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
An Arbor 
By Linda Gregerson
An Introduction to My Anthology
By Marvin Bell
Another Story with a Burning Barn in It
By Lisa Olstein
Aperture 
By Jennifer Tonge
Ararat 
By Mark Doty
Ardors
By Carol Frost
At Home from Church
By Sarah Orne Jewett
Authority
By W. S. Merwin
Autumn Shade
By Edgar Bowers
“Dank fens of cedar; hemlock-branches gray”
By Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
“How oft in schoolboy-days, from the school’s sway”
By Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
“Teach Us to Number Our Days”
By Rita Dove
“The Vision of Saint Augustine” 
By Beverley Bie
Bath
By Amy Lowell
Bavarian Gentians
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Becoming a Redwood
By Dana Gioia
Beech 
By Kevin McFadden
Bees and Morning Glories
By John Ciardi
Binsey Poplars
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Birches
By Robert Frost
Blizzard
By William Carlos Williams
Blue Juniata 
By Malcolm Cowley
Breughel 
By Michael Collier
Brick
By Robert Creeley
Bright Leaf
By Ellen Bryant Voigt
Brother and Sister
By George Eliot
Cadmus and Harmonia
By Matthew Arnold
Cage
By Josephine Miles
Calendar
By Janet Loxley Lewis
Canada Anemone 
By Fleda Brown
Canned Food Drive 
By Kathleen Lynch
Carolina Journal 
By Nicole Pekarske
Childhood’s Retreat
By Robert Duncan
Christabel
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Christmas Tree
By John Frederick Nims
Clouds Gathering
By Charles Simic
Cold Turkey 
By Joshua Mehigan
Color
By Christina Rossetti
Conrad Siever
By Edgar Lee Masters
Contemplations
By Anne Bradstreet
Crown
By Kay Ryan
Cups: 1
By Robin Blaser
Daisy Time
By Marjorie Pickthall
Deaf-Mute in the Pear Tree
By P. K. Page
Dirge in Woods
By George Meredith
Discourse on Pure Virtue
By George Elliott Clarke
Doing Laundry on Sunday 
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Drifting at Midday 
By Malachi Black
Dust of Snow
By Robert Frost
Each and All
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Early Frost
By Scott Cairns
Earth's Answer
By William Blake
Elm
By Sylvia Plath
Elms
By Louise Glück
from Endymion
By John Keats
Envy
By Mary Lamb
Everything Is Free
By George Elliott Clarke
Fancy
By John Keats
Fawn
By Mary Barnard
Fæsulan Idyl
By Walter Savage Landor
Fish of the Flood 
By Emilia Stuart Lorimer
Floating Trees
By C. D. Wright
Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock
By Galway Kinnell
Flowers by the Sea
By William Carlos Williams
Four-Leaf Clover
By Ella Higginson
Fox Sleep 
By W. S. Merwin
Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December wind
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fragment 4: As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fragment 6: The Moon, how definite its orb!
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fragment 8: Thicker than rain-drops on November thorn
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fragment 9: The Netherlands
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
France: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine
By Rosanna Warren
Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Garden 
By H. D.
Glanmore Sonnets
By Seamus Heaney
Gloire de Dijon
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Good-bye, and Keep Cold
By Robert Frost
Grain Field
By Adelaide Crapsey
Gravelly Run 
By A. R. Ammons
Harp Trees
By Robin Blaser
Hearing
By W. S. Merwin
Heaven for Stanley
By Mark Doty
Her Garden
By Donald Hall
Himalayan Balsam
By Anne Stevenson
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
By Robert Browning
Horses on the Grass
By Grace Schulman
Hyacinth
By Louise Glück
Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hymn to Life 
By James Schuyler
I Am a Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied
By Henry David Thoreau
I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing
By Walt Whitman
I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move
By Louise Erdrich
Ikebana
By Cathy Song
In a Garden
By Amy Lowell
In Kona, Thinking of the Elements 
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 2
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 72
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 83
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In the Tree House at Night
By James L. Dickey
Information
By David Ignatow
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Inside My Head
By Robert Creeley
Introduction to the Songs of Experience
By William Blake
Itinerary
By James McMichael
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
By Stephen C. Foster
King Bee Blues
By George Elliott Clarke
Korean mums 
By James Schuyler
Learning the Trees 
By Howard Nemerov
Leaving
By Cathy Song
Letter to the Local Police
By June Jordan
Letters to Walt Whitman 
By Ronald Johnson
Lightness in Autumn
By Robert Fitzgerald
Lilacs
By Amy Lowell
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
By Matthew Arnold
little tree
By E. E. Cummings
Long Finger Poem 
By Jin Eun-Young
Looking into History
By Richard Wilbur
Maud; A Monodrama (from Part I)
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
May
By Jonathan Galassi
Measure
By Robert Hass
Memorial Day
By Michael Anania
Messenger
By Dave Smith
Mock Orange
By Louise Glück
Monet: “Les Nymphéas”
By W. D. Snodgrass
Moonflowers
By Karma Larsen
More Than Enough
By Marge Piercy
Mowing
By Robert Frost
Mr. Luna’s Plum Tree
By Alberto Ríos
Much in Little
By Yvor Winters
Mushrooms
By Charles Tomlinson
Music when Soft Voices Die (To --)
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mycerinus
By Matthew Arnold
Native Trees
By W. S. Merwin
Nine-Panel Yaak River Screen 
By Charles Wright
Notes for an Elegy
By William Meredith
November Night
By Adelaide Crapsey
Obermann Once More
By Matthew Arnold
October 
By Jacob Polley
October
By Robert Frost
October 10
By Wendell Berry
October Arriving
By Charles Simic
Ode on Melancholy
By John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats
Ode to Psyche
By John Keats
Odes 
By Fernando Pessoa
Of Forced Sightes and Trusty Ferefulness
By Jorie Graham
On Quaking Bog
By Ben Belitt
On the Screened Porch 
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman
One Perfect Rose
By Dorothy Parker
One With The Sun
By A. F. Moritz
Oread
By H. D.
Original Pain
By George Elliott Clarke
Over and Over Stitch
By Jorie Graham
Pass It On, III
By Rachel Hadas
Patterns
By Amy Lowell
Planting a Dogwood
By Roy Scheele
Poppies in July
By Sylvia Plath
Poppies in October
By Sylvia Plath
Pura Vida 
By John Updike
Putting in the Seed
By Robert Frost
Queen-Anne’s Lace
By William Carlos Williams
Rainbow’s End
By Louis Untermeyer
Raking Near the Great Works 
By Megan Grumbling
Range-finding
By Robert Frost
Reading Titus Andronicus In Three Mile Plains, N.S.
By George Elliott Clarke
Recollection of the Wood
By Léonie Adams
Religio Medici
By Arthur Conan Doyle
Requests for Toy Piano 
By Tony Hoagland
Requiescat
By Matthew Arnold
River Road
By Stanley Kunitz
Rogue Russets 
By R. T. Smith
Roses
By Barbara Guest
Rugby Chapel
By Matthew Arnold
Running Away Together
By Maxine W. Kumin
Saint Francis and the Sow
By Galway Kinnell
Sanoe
By Lydia Kamakaeha Lili’uokalani
Sea Iris
By H. D.
Sea Poppies
By H. D.
Sea Rose
By H. D.
Seasons 
By John Haag
Sent with a Flower-Pot Begging a Slip of Geranium
By Christian Milne
Sheltered Garden
By H. D.
Shoreline 
By Mary Barnard
Song: How sweet I roam'd from field to field
By William Blake
Song: My silks and fine array
By William Blake
Sonnet
By Robert Hass
Sonnet
By Frances Anne Kemble
Sonnets for Five Seasons
By Anne Stevenson
Spring Snow 
By Linda Gregerson
Spring, the sweet spring
By Thomas Nashe
Study/Trees
By Leonard Gontarek
Stump 
By Donald Hall
Summer
By Ronald Johnson
Sundown
By Léonie Adams
Symphony of a Mexican Garden 
By Grace Hazard Conkling
Tall Ambrosia
By Henry David Thoreau
Tangerine
By Ruth L. Schwartz
The Air Plant
By Hart Crane
The Apple Tree 
By Wendell Berry
The Arrow and the Song
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
By George Elliott Clarke
The Barrel-Organ
By Alfred Noyes
The Bearer 
By Hayden Carruth
The Beautiful Animal
By Geoffrey Brock
The Blessed Damozel
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Bluet
By James Schuyler
The Book of Thel
By William Blake
from The Botanic Garden, “The Economy of Vegetation”: Canto I
By Erasmus Darwin
The Bumblebee
By James Whitcomb Riley
The Catalpa
By John Ciardi
The Children
By Mark Jarman
The China Painters
By Ted Kooser
The Clote (Water-Lily)
By William Barnes
The Cloud
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Copper Beech
By Marie Howe
The Cypress Broke
By Mahmoud Darwish
The Dead 
By Don Paterson
The Difficulty with a Tree
By Russell Edson
The Doubt of Future Foes
By Elizabeth I
The Dying Child
By John Clare
The End of Summer
By Rachel Hadas
The Fact of the Garden
By Minnie Bruce Pratt
The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
By Dylan Thomas
The Four Ages of Man
By Anne Bradstreet
The Four Seasons
By Henry Carlile
The Garden
By Andrew Marvell
The Green Linnet
By William Wordsworth
The Haunted Oak
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Hills of Youth
By Alfred Noyes
The Hitchhikers 
By Diane Wakoski
The Ivy Green
By Charles Dickens
The Knight's Tomb
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Laurel Tree
By Louis Simpson
The Living Temple
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Long Voyage 
By Malcolm Cowley
The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak
By Galway Kinnell
The Marriage in the Trees
By Stanley Plumly
The May Apple
By Cynthia Zarin
The Menage
By Carl Rakosi
The Moon and the Yew Tree
By Sylvia Plath
The Most Extraordinary Women in the World
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
The Mountain Cemetery
By Edgar Bowers
The Mower
By Andrew Marvell
The night is darkening round me
By Emily Jane Brontë
The One-Year-Old Lemon Tree
By W. S. Di Piero
The Origin of Order 
By Pattiann Rogers
The Oven Bird
By Robert Frost
The Petition for an Absolute Retreat
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
The Poppy
By Jane Taylor
The Portrait
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Possible Advantages of the Expendable Multitudes
By Pattiann Rogers
The Primrose of the Rock
By William Wordsworth
The Prince's Progress
By Christina Rossetti
The Princess: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Quangle Wangle's Hat
By Edward Lear
The Question
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Question
By Ruth Stone
The Rhodora
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Room
By Conrad Aiken
The Sauchs in the Reuch Heuch Hauch
By Hugh MacDiarmid
The Scholar-Gipsy
By Matthew Arnold
The Search for Lost Lives
By James Tate
The Secret Garden
By Rita Dove
The Shrubbery
By William Cowper
The Sick Rose
By William Blake
The Small Vases from Hebron
By Naomi Shihab Nye
The Snow Man
By Wallace Stevens
The Song of the Bow
By Arthur Conan Doyle
The Song of the Nightingale is Like the Scent of Syringa
By Mina Loy
The Sound of Trees
By Robert Frost
The Spire
By Ellen Bryant Voigt
The Strangers Who Find Me in the Woods
By Rigoberto González
The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith
By Gwendolyn Brooks
The Swing
By Robert Louis Stevenson
The Tables Turned
By William Wordsworth
from The Task, Book I: The Sofa
By William Cowper
The Tree
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
The Trees are Down
By Charlotte Mew
The Trespasser
By Ben Belitt
The Tuft of Flowers
By Robert Frost
The Untamed
By R. S. Thomas
The Vegetable Air
By Cathy Song
The View from an Attic Window
By Howard Nemerov
The Violet
By Jane Taylor
The Washingtonian
By May Miller
The White Porch
By Cathy Song
The Widow’s Lament in Springtime 
By William Carlos Williams
The Wood-Pile
By Robert Frost
Things
By Louis Simpson
This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This Little Glade, Remember
By Pattiann Rogers
Thread
By Jonathan Galassi
Thyrsis: A Monody, to Commemorate the Author's Friend, Arthur Hugh Clough
By Matthew Arnold
Time and the Garden
By Yvor Winters
To a Mountain Daisy
By Robert Burns
To Autumn
By John Keats
To Bessie Drennan 
By Mark Doty
To Daffodils
By Robert Herrick
To Margaret W------
By Charles Lamb
To the Nightingale
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
To the Reader
By Jorie Graham
Tom O’ Bedlam among the Sunflowers
By Thomas James
Too Much has Resisted Us
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Touch Me
By Stanley Kunitz
Toward an Organic Philosophy
By Kenneth Rexroth
Tree
By Jane Hirshfield
Tree
By Nikki Grimes
Tree Ferns
By Stanley Plumly
Tree Marriage
By William Meredith
Trees
By Joyce Kilmer
Trillium
By Louise Glück
Tropics
By Ellen Bryant Voigt
Tulips
By Sylvia Plath
Tulips 
By A.E. Stallings
Turkish Bath 
By Sidney Wade
Two in the Campagna
By Robert Browning
Under the Greenwood Tree
By William Shakespeare
Understanding the Past, Present, and Future
By Cole Swensen
Upon the Hill and Grove at Bilbrough
By Andrew Marvell
Upon the Vine-tree
By John Bunyan
Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
By Edward Taylor
Valentine
By Lorna Dee Cervantes
Vaunting Oak
By John Crowe Ransom
Verities 
By Kim Addonizio
Vespers ["Once I believed in you..."]
By Louise Glück
Virtue
By George Herbert
Wash of Cold River
By H. D.
What Kind of Times Are These
By Adrienne Rich
What the Leaf Told Me
By Ronald Johnson
What to Eat, What to Drink, and What to Leave for Poison
By Camille T. Dungy
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
By Walt Whitman
When the Frost is on the Punkin
By James Whitcomb Riley
Who Has Seen the Wind?
By Christina Rossetti
Wildflowers
By Reginald Gibbons
Winesaps
By Dave Smith
Winter Journal: Threshed Blue, Cardings, Dim Tonsils
By Emily Wilson
Winter Journal: Wind Thumbs through Woods
By Emily Wilson
Winter Trees
By William Carlos Williams
Wood
By Reginald Gibbons
Work without Hope
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Yellow from a Distance
By Karen Whalley
Youth and Age
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[morning green through ivy]
By Dan Beachy-Quick
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