Poetry About Trees    Edward Frank
   Mar 26, 2006 20:46 PST 

ENTS,

There is an extremely large number of poems available on the interenet
dealing with trees and woods. Below is an initial selection. Many were
listed by www.spiritoftrees.org and edited down by me. Others are from
Matt Wolf Adventures (see link below - the interactive web book is
interesting). Others are a handful from other sources. I will expand on the
theme later.

Ed Frank


Spirit of Trees: Poetry
http://www.spiritoftrees.org/poetry/tree_poems.html

Links to Tree Poetry
http://www.spiritoftrees.org/poetry/tree_poem_links.html

"Some Trees", by John Ashberry
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/some-trees.html

"The Poison Tree" by William Blake
http://www.pddoc.com/poems/a_poison_tree_william_blake.htm

"i thank you God", by e.e. cummings
http://www.nascitur.com/cummings/poems/day.html

"Birches", by Robert Frost
http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/Frost/Birches.htm

"The Sound of Trees", by Robert Frost
http://www.poemtree.com/poems/SoundOfTrees.htm

"On A Tree Fallen Across the Road" by Robert Frost
http://www.ketzle.com/frost/oneatree.htm

"Tree At My Window" by Robert Frost
http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=151

"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost
http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=107

"Where the Beeches", by Judy Gahagan
http://www.versedaily.org/wherebeeches.shtml

"Tree", by Jane Hirshfield
http://www.ordinarymind.com/dharma_tree.html

"The Live Oak Chronicles", by Alan Keitt
http://www.ecopsychology.org/journal/gatherings7/liveoak.htm

"In the Night We Shall Go In", by Pablo Neruda
http://www.vencolibrary.org/weber/quotes_12.htm

"My Father and the Fig Tree", by Naomi Shihab Nye
http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/nyepoems1.html

"Woods", by Noelle Oxenhandler
http://gratefulness.org/poetry/woods.htm

"Advice from a Tree", by I Shamir
http://www.treelink.org/woodnotes/vol1/no1/advice.htm

"Lost", by David Wagoner
http://www.seishindo.org/david_wagoner.html

"Two Trees", by William Butler Yeats
http://frontpage.dallas.net/~tobias/WBY-LM_Parallel.htm

NOTE: A source for an extensive collection of tree-related quotes, poems and
haiku is "The Spirit of Gardening" website at
http://www.gardendigest.com


Poet-Trees - from Matt Wolf Adventures: a Dynamic-HTML, animated book of
poetry about trees. Includes a spectacular gallery of 50 beautiful images of
trees http://www.mattwolf.com/trees1.htm

Write a Tree Poem
Look at poetry patterns below. Which style would you like to use to write
your own peom about trees! Use the patern for the style you?ve selected to
write a http://www.dnr.state.md.us/forests/education/poem.html

Henry Cuyler Bunner:   The Heart of a Tree
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/bunner01.html

Laurable's Poetry Audio Links: Poets Reading Other Poets
http://www.laurable.com/others.html

American Poetry Review, The: Elegy for the Ancient Tree
Full text of the article, 'Elegy for the Ancient Tree' from American Poetry
Review, The, a publication in the field of Arts & Entertainment
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3692/is_200509/ai_n15329175

Joyce Kilmer: Trees http://www.bartleby.com/104/119.html

Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/fqintro.html --
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high,
The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall,
The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,
The builder oak, sole king of forests all,
The aspin good for staves, the cypress funeral,
The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors
And poets sage, the fir that weepest still,
The yew obedient to the bender's will,
The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill,
The myrrh sweet-bleeding in the bitter wound,
The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill,
The fruitful olive, and the platane round,
The carver holm, the maple seldom inward sound.

Edgar Alan Poe: Dreamland http://www.literatureclassics.com/etexts/105/227/

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Evangeline: Tales of Acadie
http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19204

Chief Dan George http://thegoldweb.com/voices/chiefgeorge.htm

A Walk with Robert Frost by Reginald L. Cook http://www.frostfriends.org/cookpage.html