Celebration: 'So I shake with joy' --
'The Very Leaves of the Acacia-Tree Are London' / Kathleen Raine 3 --
Fable of Fables / Nazim Hikmet 3 --
Dream Variation / Langston Hughes 5 --
from Song of Myself / Walt Whitman 6 --
from Scottish Scene / Hugh MacDiarmid 7 --
Steppe / Boris Pasternak 8 --
Low-Anchored Cloud / Henry Thoreau 10 --
from the Parliament of Fowls / Geoffrey Chaucer 10 --
Garden / 'Abd Allah ibn al-Simak 11 --
Sacrament / Alden Nowlan 12 --
My Mississippi Spring / Margaret Walker 13 --
Spring in the Lowlands / Denise Levertov 13 --
For Robbie Moore / Olga Broumas 14 --
'Most Beautiful of Things' / Praxilla 14 --
'Repeat that, Repeat' / Gerard Manley Hopkins 15 --
Pleasant Sounds / John Clare 15 --
from the Task, Book I / William Cowper 16 --
from Epipsychidion / Percy Bysshe Shelley 17 --
'Leave Krete and Come to this Holy Temple' / Sappho 18 --
from Poly-Olbion, the First Song / Michael Drayton 19 --
Mount Saint Helens/Loowit: An Indian Woman's Song / Wendy Rose 20 --
'You Firmly Built Alps' / Friedrich Holderlin 21 --
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge / William Wordsworth 23 --
from Teisa: A Descriptive Poem of the River Tees, Its Towns and Antiquities / Anne Wilson 23 --
A Paraphrase Upon the Tenth Epistle of the First Book of Horace / Abraham Cowley 25 --
Inversnaid / Gerard Manley Hopkins 26 --
from The Seasons, Winter / James Thomson 26 --
'Year's End' / Basho 27 --
A Bright Day / W. H. Davies 28 --
Loss: 'Lament for all that is purple like dusk' --
Binsey Poplars / Gerard Manley Hopkins 31 --
Song of the Wild Dove / Cassiano Ricardo 32 --
Temps Perdu / Dorothy Parker 32 --
Caption to a Landscape / Ahmad 'Abd al Mu'ti Hijazi 33 --
Dispossessed / Janice Gould 34 --
Biography for the Use of the Birds / Jorge Carrera Andrade 35 --
October Journey / Margaret Walker 36 --
from the Cambridge Songs / Anon [Medieval Latin] 39 --
Long Division: A Tribal History / Wendy Rose 40 --
Tropics in New York / Claude McKay 41 --
Enclosure / John Clare 41 --
Pastoral I / Virgil 43 --
from Pastoralls, the Fourth Eglogue / Michael Drayton 45 --
Study of History / Adrienne Rich 46 --
Concerning the Flooding of Prague After Constant Rains / Elizabeth Weston 48 --
Sea Eats the Land at Home / George Awoonor-Williams 49 --
Mountain Stream / John Ceiriog Hughes 50 --
'Far Inland' / Anon [Innuit] 50 --
Loch Thom / W. S. Graham 51 --
Anger: 'A perpetual/sour October' --
Ploughing the Roughlands / Helen Dunmore 55 --
'I Go from the Woods' / Wendell Berry 56 --
Alone in the Woods / Stevie Smith 57 --
Cutting a Track to Cardwell / Tom Murray 57 --
Trees are Down / Charlotte Mew 58 --
To a Gentleman, on His Intending to Cut Down a Grove to Enlarge His Prospect / Elizabeth Carter 59 --
Elm Decline / Norman Nicholson 61 --
from An Essay on Man / Alexander Pope 63 --
Mower Against Gardens / Andrew Marvell 63 --
'I Love the English Country Scene' / Stevie Smith 64 --
Sheltered Garden / H. D. 65 --
from Padding It / Patrick Magill 67 --
from the Wonders of the Peake / Charles Cotton 67 --
Verses on Hearing that an Airy and Pleasant Situation, Near a Populous and Commercial Town, Was Surrounded with New Buildings / Maria Logan 68 --
New Ecology / Ernesto Cardenal 68 --
from Colebrook Dale / Anna Seward 71 --
A Song of Glasgow Town / Marion Bernstein 73 --
from Satire III / Juvenal 74 --
Sorrow Home / Margaret Walker 75 --
'Honeysuckle was the Saddest Odor of All, I Think' / Thadious M. Davis 76 --
Autumn on the Land / R. S. Thomas 78 --
Green Rock, Winthrop Bay / Sylvia Plath 78 --
After I Came Back from Iceland / Sheenagh Pugh 79 --
Celebration 1982 / Terri Meyette 80 --
Mikhael at Viksjon / Martyn Crucefix 81 --
Consolation: 'Moments of an azure hue' --
Come Hither / John Clare 85 --
After the Winter / Claude McKay 86 --
Lake Isle of Innisfree / W. B. Yeats 87 --
Speak of the North / Charlotte Bronte 88 --
Plash Mill, Under the Moor / Frances Bellerby 88 --
Early Spring / Rainer Maria Rilke 89 --
Tashkent Breaks into Blossom / Anna Akhmatova 90 --
'Everything is Plundered ...' / Anna Akhmatova 91 --
Beyond Time / Mieczyslaw Jastrun 91 --
Delight in Nature / Anon [Innuit] 92 --
On the Grasshopper and Cricket / John Keats 93 --
from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage / Byron 93 --
Heirloom / Kathleen Raine 95 --
Kopis'taya / Paula Gunn Allen 96 --
Granite Call / Joyce Isabel Lee 98 --
Marl Pits / Charles Tomlinson 99 --
Stone Fish Lake / Yuan Chieh 99 --
Trees be Company / William Barnes 100 --
'Thrise Happie Hee, Who by some Shadie Grove' / William Drummond 102 --
from Paradise Lost, Book IV / John Milton 102 --
A Summer's Wish / Mary Leapor 103 --
Autumn Burns Me / Lenrie Peters 104 --
Within the Circuit of this Plodding Life / Henry Thoreau 105 --
Soaking / Ivor Gurney 106 --
Digging / Edward Thomas 107 --
Planting Bamboos / Po Chu-I 108 --
'Lounge in the Shade of the Luxuriant Laurel's' / Anyte 108 --
Contemplation: 'How can you realise the wideness of the world?' --
Rose / Theodore Roethke 111 --
Coast Range / Pat Lowther 115 --
Having Climbed to the Topmost Peak of the Incense-Burner Mountain / Po Chu-I 117 --
Above the Oxbow / Sylvia Plath 118 --
Lesson VI, Lesson X / Elizabeth Bishop 120 --
Dry River / Rosemary Dobson 121 --
So which is the Truth? / Molly Holden 122 --
Inner / Liz Lochhead 123 --
Oh Earth, wait for Me / Pablo Neruda 127 --
"'Nature" is what We See' / Emily Dickinson 128 --
Epir Rhema / Goethe 128 --
Connections / Rose Flint 129 --
A Nocturnal Reverie / Anne Finch 129 --
Wild Peaches / Elinor Wylie 131 --
Sunart / Gillian Allnut 133 --
Hamatreya / Ralph Waldo Emerson 134 --
From the Sound of the Wind that is Blowing / J. Kitchener Davies 136 --
At Stoke / Charles Tomlinson 138 --
Advice / Czeslaw Milosz 138 --
Reedbeds of the Hackensack / Amy Clampitt 139 --
Pieces of Unprofitable Land / Molly Holden 140 --
Pause / Mary Ursula Bethell 141 --
Geography 2 / Sheenagh Pugh 142 --
On Sight / Alice Walker 142 --
Black Finger / Angelina Weld Grimke 143 --
Rural Reflections / Adrienne Rich 143 --
Lachesis Lapponica / Hans Magnus Enzensberger 144 --
Two Campers in Cloud Country / Sylvia Plath 147 --
This Solitude of Cataracts / Wallace Stevens 148 --
Observation: 'Sensitive to the millionth of a flicker' --
Waters of Lung-T'ou / Hsu Ling 151 --
Signs and Signals / Norman MacCaig 151 --
Gum Forest, from Four Gaelic Poems / Les A. Murray 152 --
'Blazing in Gold' / Emily Dickinson 153 --
Ibadan / John Pepper Clark 154 --
Morning Sea / C. P. Cavafy 154 --
Land-Schap Between Two Hills / Eldred Revett 154 --
Concrete Poem 240663 / dsh 156 --
Bight / Elizabeth Bishop 157 --
Whale at Twilight / Elizabeth Coatsworth 158 --
Night and Morning / R. S. Thomas 158 --
Night in Isla Negra / Pablo Neruda 159 --
from March '79 / Tomas Transtromer 159 --
What Frank, Martha and I know about the Desert / Alice Sadongei 160 --
Riddles / Anon [Yoruba] 161 --
'The Day Breaks' / Anon [Mudbara] 162 --
Robles, M'Hija, Robles! / Rosario Morales 162 --
Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River / Robert Bly 163 --
Trail is not a Trail / Gary Snyder 164 --
Roadside / Olga Broumas 165 --
Road at Frosses / Seamus Heaney 165 --
'As Imper Ceptibly as Grief' / Emily Dickinson 166 --
Nomads / Laury Wells 167 --
Nocturne / Edith Sodergran 167 --
Disquiet: 'Something warns me everywhere' --
Power Source / Ruth Fainlight 171 --
Neighbours / Gillian Clarke 172 --
Permafrost / Helen Dunmore 173 --
'Distance Collapsed in Rubble' / Anna Akhmatova 175 --
Augury / Seamus Heaney 175 --
St John River / Alden Nowlan 176 --
A Dream of Water / Michael Hamburger 176 --
What the Pool Said, on Midsummer's Day / Liz Lochhead 178 --
River God / Stevie Smith 180 --
Rising Damp / U. A. Fanthorpe 181 --
Reason Why I am Afraid Even Though I am a Fisherman / Ray A. Young Bear 183 --
River / Raymond Carver 184 --
Fear / Andrew Young 185 --
Winter Woods / Frances Horovitz 185 --
Walking in Autumn / Frances Horovitz 186 --
Out of Time / Stevie Smith 187 --
'There's A Certain Slant of Light' / Emily Dickinson 188 --
Over Heard Over S. E. Asia / Denise Levertov 189 --
Open Spaces / Antoni Malczewski 189 --
Twilight View / W. S. Rendra 190 --
From in Parenthesis / David Jones 191 --
Field / Ruth Fainlight 192 --
We Are Entitled to Love Autumn / Mahmud Darwish 193 --
Today's Meditation / Antonio Machado 194 --
One of These Days / Hugh MacDiarmid 195 --
Recital of Lost Cities / Lavinia Greenlaw 195 --
Domus Caedet Arborem / Charlotte Mew 196 --
From the City of Dreadful Night / James Thomson 197 --
Men in the City / Alfonsina Storni 198 --
A Holiday / Margaret Atwood 199 --
'Never Forget' / Issa 200 --
By the Cam / Elaine Feinstein 200 --
from The Poor of the Borough, Letter XXII, Peter Grimes / George Crabbe 201 --
Night-Time in Mid-Fall / Thomas Hardy 202 --
from Paradise Lost, Book II / John Milton 203 --
from the Seasons, Summer / James Thomson 205 --
Dry Season / Kwesi Brew 205 --
Summer Storm (Circa 1916), and God's Grace / Robert Penn Warren 206 --
Jeremiah 4, 23-28 / King James Bible 207 --
And When Summer Comes to an End ... / Nina Cassian 208.
