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FURTHER READING
Poems About the Natural World
Birches
by Robert Frost
Butterfly Catcher
by Tina Cane
Crossings
by Ravi Shankar
February: The Boy Breughel
by Norman Dubie
Four Poems for Robin
by Gary Snyder
God's World
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
In Michael Robins’s class minus one
by Bob Hicok
maggie and milly and molly and may
by E. E. Cummings
Naskeag
by Alfred Corn
October (section I)
by Louise Glück
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
by William Wordsworth
Of Many Worlds in This World
by Margaret Cavendish
Pastoral
by Jennifer Chang
Russian Birch
by Nathaniel Bellows
Song of Nature
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spontaneous Me
by Walt Whitman
The Darkling Thrush
by Thomas Hardy
The Leaves
by Deborah Digges
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
by Ezra Pound
Traveling through the Dark
by William Stafford
Two Butterflies went out at Noon— (533)
by Emily Dickinson
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Trees  
by Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see   
A poem lovely as a tree.   
   
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest   
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;   
   
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;   
   
A tree that may in summer wear   
A nest of robins in her hair;   
   
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;   
Who intimately lives with rain. 
   
Poems are made by fools like me,   
But only God can make a tree.
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