“Forest Hymn or A Song for the Trees Oh ancient pillars to the sun, Thy willful arms do raise, From shadowed depths of deep disgrace, Thy fingers whisper praise. From streams that deep and dark festoon, And floor in leaves well strewn, Oh lift thy heads, thou ancient ones, To gather morning dew. Well kept […]
Month: June 2016
Poem_David H. Wright
“If when I am gone Thou would’st honor me Then plant a tree. Some highway, bleak and bare, Make green with leaves. So radiant and fair And full of leaves my monument will be, So ever full of tuneful melody. My monument will be A sight most rare – Trees planted everywhere. A highway broad […]
Poem_Charles Villiers Stanford
“My Love’s An Arbutus My love’s an arbutus By the borders of Lene, So slender and shapely In her girdle of green. And I measure the pleasure Of her eye’s sapphire sheen By the blue skies that sparkle Through the soft branching screen. But though ruddy the berry And snowy the flower That brighten together […]
Poem_Charles DeGarmo
“The White Birch Have you seen the white birch in the spring, in the Spring? When the sunlight gleams upon her branches in the spring? When her green leaves, young and tender, Through their soft concealment render Glimpses of her outlines slender in the spring. Have you seen her wave her branches in the spring, […]
Poem_Carmen Reed
“Silver Birch Forest The evening breeze sings the forgotten songs Of ghosts of nymphs ‘tween silver birches there. And beams of moonlight fall on grassy lawns: A pearly cloak e’erywhere the eye sees fair. So many gentle dawns took care to kiss Along the flowered, verdant forest floor. In this blessed land so filled with […]
Poem_Blanch Willis Howard
“The Popular Poplar Tree When the great wind sets things whirling And rattles the window panes, And blows the dust in giants And dragons tossing their manes; When the willows have waves like water, And children are shouting with glee; When the pines are alive and the larches – Then hurrah for you and me, […]
Poem_Anonymous3
“A Tree A tree that once stood alone A tree that was unstable and not very strong A tree that didn’t have much of a chance for a tree for no one did understand A tree that was so afraid to let go for that reason that tree never learned to grow A tree that […]
Poem_Anonymous2
“Old Johnny Appleseed Grandpa stopped, and from the grass at our feet, Picked up an apple, large, juicy, and sweet; Then took out his jackknife, and, cutting a slice, Said, as we ate it, “”Isn’t it nice To have such apples to eat and enjoy? Well, there weren’t very many when I was a boy, […]
Poem_Anonymous1
“O tree, so big and stout and strong, You’ve lived for so very, very long; A hundred years or more, I’m told, And yet you’re not so very old. A hundred stories you could tell Of children whom you love so well, Who came and sat beneath your shade Or underneath your branches played. A […]
Poem by Anne Mari
“Friendship Tree On the day that we were born, There were no friends for company. For our little root had barely grown, To make our Friendship Tree. But over the years with arms spread wide, Life’s branches have been formed. And as the years go swiftly by, These friendships have been borne. We may not […]