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    The Poetry Of Trees
    The Poetry Of Trees
    The Poetry Of Trees
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    The Poetry Of Trees

    By William Blake

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    Although there is no definitive definition we all know what they are. At their most magisterial they can reach hundreds of feet into the air and be thousands of years old. But for many the visual structure they bring to our landscape in all their various heights and colours; their contribution to the seasons – stark branches, vivid leaves at birth and death is how we relate to them. For the poets here in this collection trees are a source of inspiration and give us much to contemplate

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateJan 17, 2014
    ISBN9781783948208
    The Poetry Of Trees
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    William Blake

    William Blake was born in London in 1757. He was apprenticed to a master engraver and then studied at the Royal Academy under the guidance of Joshua Reynolds. In 1789 he engraved and published Songs of Innocence and the contrasting Songs of Experience came later in 1794. A poet, painter and printmaker of great originality and imagination, his work was largely unrecognized during his lifetime and he struggled to make a living. Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. He died in 1827.

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      The Poetry Of Trees - William Blake

      THE POETRY OF TREES

      Although there is no definitive definition we all know what they are.  At their most magisterial they can reach hundreds of feet into the air and be thousands of years old.  But for many the visual structure they bring to our landscape in all their various heights and colours; their contribution to the seasons – stark branches, vivid leaves at birth and death is how we relate to them.   For the poets here in this collection trees are a source of inspiration and give us much to contemplate

      Many of these poems have also been recorded and produced for an audiobook version which can be sampled and purchased at iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.

      Index Of Poems

      Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Oak

      Mary Barber - The Oak And Its Branches

      Paul Laurence Dunbar - The Haunted Oak

      William Morris - The Forest

      Ben Jonson - The Forest Song To Celia

      Edgar Allan Poe - The Forest Reverie

      Rudyard Kipling - The Way Through The Woods

      Lucy Maud Montgomery - The Forest Path

      Robert Louis Stevenson - Dedicatory Poem For 'Underwoods'

      Christina Georgina Rossetti - In The Willow Shade

      James Whitcomb Riley - The Willow

      James Whitcomb Riley  - June At Woodruff

      Oscar Wilde - In The Forest

      Alfred Austin - In Sutton Woods

      Charles Sangster - 'Tis Summer Still Yet Now And Then A Leaf

      Charlotte Bronte - The Wood

      John Keats - Ode To Autumn

      Emily Bronte - Fall Leaves Fall

      William Wordsworth - The Kitten & The Falling Leaves

      Ella Wheeler Wilcox - A Fallen Leaf

      WB Yeats - The Falling Of Leaves

      William Bell Scott - The Fallen Leaf

      Walt Whitman - Roots And Leaves Themselves Alone

      Madison Julius Cawein - A Fallen Beech

      Anne Bronte - Lines Composed In A Wood On A Windy Day

      Daniel Sheehan - Winters Naked Wood

      Woods In Winter By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

      Joyce Kilmer - Trees

      Gerald Manley Hopkins - Ash Boughs

      Vachel Lindsay - The Doll Upon The Topmost Bough

      AE Houseman -  Farewell To Barn And Stack And Tree

      Emily Bronte - At Castle Wood

      Edith Nesbit - The Tree Of Knowledge

      Daniel Sheehan - Amongst The Redwoods Giant And Still

      Robert Laurence Binyon - The Chestnut Tree

      Charles Mackay - The Sycamore Tree

      Henry Van Dyke - The Foolish Fir Tree

      Helen Hunt Jackson - The Fir Tree And The Brook

      William Makepeace Thackeray - The Mahogany Tree

      William Henry Drummond - The Old Pine Tree

      Rupert Brooke - Pine-Trees And The Sky

      AE Houseman - Loveliest Of Trees, The Cherry Tree

      William Butler Yeats - The Withering Of The Boughs

      Emily Dickinson - Nature—sometimes Sears a Sapling

      Thomas Campbell - The Beech Tree's Petition

      William Blake - A Poison Tree

      Edward Thomas - The Cherry Trees

      William Shakespeare - Under the Greenwood Tree

      Emily Dickinson - A drop fell on the apple tree

      Rabindranath Tagore - The Banyan Tree

      William Shakespeare - Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees

      Eugene Field - The Sugar-Plum Tree

      Sidney Lanier - A Ballad Of The Trees And The Master

      Sir Edward Dyer - The lowest trees have tops

      John Clare - The Maple Tree

      Thomas Hardy - Throwing a Tree

      Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Blossing Of The Solitary Date-Tree

      Edward Lear - There Was an Old Man in a Tree

      Sara Teasdale - The Tree

      Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin - The Upas Tree

      John Bunyan - Upon The Barren Fig-Tree In God's Vineyard

      GK Chesterton - The Human Tree

      Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Go Plant a Tree

      Stephen Crane - The Trees in the Garden Rained Flowers

      WS Gilbert - The Great Oak Tree

      Amy Levy - The Birch-Tree at Loschwitz

      Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - The Tree

      Robert Herrick - To The Willow Tree

      Amy Levy - A London Plane-Tree

      Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Oak

      Live thy Life,

      Young and old,

      Like yon oak,

      Bright in spring,

      Living gold;

      Summer-rich

      Then; and then

      Autumn-changed

      Soberer-hued

      Gold again.

      All his leaves

      Fall'n at length,

      Look, he stands,

      Trunk and bough

      Naked

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