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“Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.”

May Poetry Purpose Air Tree Bees Verses

Book:At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems

Source: At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems

“You panic button collector. You clock of beautiful ticks. You run out the door if you need to. You flock to the front row of your own class. You feather everything until you know you can always, always shake like a leaf on my family tree and know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay. Everything you feel is okay.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational Needs Feels Running Beautiful Poetry Class Doors Tree Fronts My Family Okay Clock Shakes Panic Buttons Leafs Feathers Flocks Collectors Tick

Author:Andrea Gibson

“Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare.”

World Poetry Literature Sun Growing Tree Color Flower Honor Shapes Deserve England Rose Plant Come Up Seeds Soil Offspring Sowing Eldest Persia Fruitfulness Hafiz Plants Growing

Author:Robert Aris Willmott

“When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.”

Humans Soul Poetry Artist Grows Tree Produce Divine Spring Rose Plant Human Soul Germs

Author:James A. Garfield

“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.”

Source: Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

“I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”

“Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.”

Inspirational May Poetry Grows Alive Tree Forests Gorgeous Cemetery

Author:Andrea Gibson

“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.”

“One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.”

Way Looks Poetry Tree Poetic Frost Birch Trees

Author:Paul Muldoon

“Starry Starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch the breeze and the winter chills In colors on the snowy linen land.”

Knows Looks Soul Eye Poetry Night Song Darkness Tree Land Color Summer Shadow Blue Paint Winter My Soul Hills Gray Breeze Chill Popular Song Palette Snowy Daffodil Linen Starry Night

Author:Don McLean

“If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.”

Ifs Ends Country Poetry Tree Boat Greece Olives Deconstruction Olive Trees Reconstructing Grapevine

Author:Odysseas Elytis

“Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!”

Poetry Justice Tree Seats Poetic Brooks Sparkling

Book:The Feast of the Poets: With Other Pieces in Verse

Source: The Feast of the Poets: With Other Pieces in Verse

“Girl with the burning golden eyes, And red-bird song, and snowy throat: I bring you gold and silver moons, And diamond stars, and mists that float. I bring you moons and snowy clouds, I bring you prarie skies to-night To feebly praise your golden eyes And red-bird song, and throat so white. ~Vachel Lindsay "To Gloriana" God wrote His loveliest poem on the day He made the first silver poplar tree, And set it high upon a pale-gold hill For all the new enchanted earth to see.”

“Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.”

Poetry Grows Sun Greater Tree Fairs England Ashes Oaks Old England

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie.”

Poetry Turns Tree Cry Edges Teeth Dry Kitten Ballads Brazen Grate

Book:Renaissance Acting Editions: The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of HENRY Sirnamed HOT-SPURRE [King Henry IV, Part 1]

Source: Renaissance Acting Editions: The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of HENRY Sirnamed HOT-SPURRE [King Henry IV, Part 1]

“The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.”

Ends Earth Mother Poetry Father Tree Wind Roots Paint Forests Rainbow Sigh Our Father

Author:John Denver

“We grew up on the same street, You and me. We went to the same schools, Rode the same bus, Had the same friends, And even shared spaghetti With each other's families. And though our roots belong to The same tree, Our branches have grown In different directions. Our tree, Now resembles a thousand Other trees In a sea of a trillion Other trees With parallel destinies And similar dreams. You cannot envy the branch That grows bigger From the same seed, And you cannot Blame it on the sun's direction. But you still compare us, As if we're still those two Kids at the park Slurping down slushies and Eating ice cream. Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010)”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem