“The Planting of the Apple-Tree Come, let us plant the apple-tree. Cleave the tough greensward with the spade; Wide let its hollow bed be made; There gently lay the roots, and there Sift the dark mould with kindly care, And press it o’er them tenderly, As, round the sleeping infant’s feet, We softly fold the […]
Month: June 2016
Poem_William Makepeace Thackeray
“The Mahogany Tree Christmas is here: Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill, Little care we: Little we fear Weather without, Shelter about The Mahogany Tree. Once on the boughs Birds of rare plume Sang, in its bloom; Night-birds are we: Here we carouse, Singing like them, Perched round the stem Of the jolly old tree. […]
Poem_William Cullen Bryant
“The Planting of the Apple-Tree Come, let us plant the apple-tree. Cleave the tough greensward with the spade; Wide let its hollow bed be made; There gently lay the roots, and there Sift the dark mould with kindly care, And press it o’er them tenderly, As, round the sleeping infant’s feet, We softly fold the […]
Poem_Tom Splitt
“The Tree The calm quiet strength of a tree Anchored deep in the earth Reaching high in the sky The calm quiet strength of a tree The calm quiet strength of a tree Full of life from its roots To the tiniest branch The calm quiet strength of a tree And oh, how it comforts […]
Poem_Tina Mcintosh
“The Tree There once was a tree much smaller than me. It’s now older than me that little tree. There it goes reaching above me up to the sky there once was a tree much taller than me reaching up very high. Above me reaching the sky there once was a tree poor old tree […]
Poem_Samuel N. Baxter
“I Love a Tree When I pass to my reward. Whatever that may be, I’d like my friends to think of me As one who loved a tree. I may not have a statesman’s poise Nor thrill a throng with speech But I may benefit mankind If I set out a beech. If I transport […]
Poem_Robert William Service
” Trees Against The Sky Palms against the sky, Failing the hot, hard blue; Stark on the beach I lie, Dreaming horizons new; Heart of my youth elate, Scorning a humdrum fate, Keyed to adventure high – Palms against the sky. Cypresses glooming the sky, Stark at the end of the road; Failing and faint […]
Poem_Robert William
“Trees Against The Sky Pines against the sky, Pluming the purple hill; Pines . . . and I wonder why, Heart, you quicken and thrill? Wistful heart of a boy, Fills with a strange sweet joy, Lifting to Heaven nigh – Pines against the sky. Oaks against the sky, Ramparts of leaves high-hurled, Staunch to […]
Poem_Richard Pemberton
“The Old Tree The old beech tree, so green and gray! How oft I’ve heard thee, whispering say, With beckoning branches waving low, “”Rest here, where cooling breezes blow!”” And in thy shadows deep and dark, How oft I’ve touched thy cool gray bark; And still I bless thee, old beech tree, For old sweet […]
Poem_Rainey Birthwright
“Craggy Tree You are so monumental to me, With sun behind you truly shine, Scraggy tree, birds love to nest In your knobby boughs, so blest, The winds that roar in open fields Blasting no fright under your yields. How spry you be my gracious one, Good stay for wings in burning sun, I love […]