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National Geographic book of nature poetry : more than 200 poems with photographs that float, zoom, and bloom! / edited by J. Patrick Lewis.

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National Geographic, c2015.

808.81936 N2771

Nature -- Juvenile poetry.

9781426320958 (reinforced library binding)

1426320957 (reinforced library binding)

9781426320941 (hardcover)

1426320949 (hardcover)

192 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-182) and indexes.

The wonder of nature. Thing is the thing is green / Peggy Elizabeth Gifford -- Delight song of Tsoai-talee / N. Scott Momaday -- from Childe Harold's pilgrimage / George Byron -- To look at anything / John Moffitt -- Perserverance / Marin Sorescu -- Manna / Joseph Stroud -- Leisure / W. H. Davies -- Four haiku / Issa Kobayashi -- Tiger got to hunt / Kurt Vonnegut -- Nature is what we see / Emily Dickinson -- Return / Paige Towler -- Four haiku / Matsuo Basho -- The morns are meeker than they were / Emily Dickinson -- The peace of wild things / Wendell Berry --

In the sky. Changing of the guard / Charles Waters -- from Night / William Blake -- Welcome to the night / Joyce Sidman -- Old man moon / Aileen Fisher -- The man in the moon / Billy Collins -- Write about a radish / Karla Kuskin -- The aged sun / Anonymous -- Two falling flakes / Douglas Florian -- Snow / Edward Thomas -- Looking through space / Aileen Fisher -- Night comes... / Beatrice Schenk de Regniers -- A baby-sermon / George Macdonald -- Stars / A.E. Housman -- When I heard the learn'd astronomer / Walt Whitman -- The opposite of a cloud / Richard Wilbur -- Rain / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Windy nights / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The wind / James Stephens -- The blue between / Kristine O'Connell George -- Icicles / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- San Francisco-- any night / Kelly Ramsdell Fineman, after Carl Sandburg -- The sun and fog / Emily Dickinson -- This is my rock / David McCord --

In the sea. Tideline / Kate Coombs -- By the sea / Liz Rosenburg -- At Seacliff cottage / Sonya Sones -- Haiku / Nick Virgilio -- The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes, to W.E.B. DuBois -- The Mississippi / Anonymous -- Galapagos: Hood Island / Bobbi Katz -- St. Elmo's fire / Georgia Heard -- Old man ocean / Russell Hoban -- Bigar Cascade Falls, Romania / Steven Withrow -- Flammable ice bubbles / Richard Michelson -- Lost giant / Mariel Bede -- Maggie and Milly and Molly and May / e.e. cummings -- Until I saw the sea / Lilian Moore -- What are heavy? / Christina Rosetti -- The Dead Sea / Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- Like ghosts of eagles / Robert Francis -- Ammonites: sculptures of the sea / Betsy Franco -- Where go the boats? / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The mill back home / Vern Rutsala -- In the salt marsh / Nancy Willard -- Take Bus 9 to the Red Sea Beach / John Barr -- The red crabs of Christmas Island / B.J. Lee -- The great blue hole / Donna Marie Merritt -- I owe it all to water / Mary Lee Hahn --

On the move. Advice for a frog (Concerning a crane) / Alice Schertle -- The clown fish / David Elliott -- A blessing / James Wright -- The rhea / Douglas Florian -- Queen Alexandra's birdwing / Avis Harley -- Everything old becomes new / Jane Yolen -- Gym on a rock / Sonya Sones -- Electric eel / X.J. Kennedy -- On the grasshopper and cricket / John Keats -- The flower-fed buffaloes / Vachel Lindsay -- The difference between frog and toad / Anonymous -- The ways of living things / Jack Prelutsky -- Quail's nest / John Clare -- Self pity / D.H. Lawrence -- Cardinal nest / Charle Ghigna -- Whale / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Sips of sea / Avis Harley -- The answers / Robert Clairmont -- Advice from the scorpion / J. Patrick Lewis -- Centipede / Michael J. Rosen -- The boa / Douglas Florian --

Across the land. You ask why / Li Po -- An Indian summer day on the prairie / Vachel Lindsay -- To make a prairie / Emily Dickinson -- Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Up on the hill / James Hayford -- Adlestrop / Edward Thomas -- from Bat cave / Eleanor Wilner -- Desert / Marilyn Singer -- At the un-national monument along the Canadian border / WIlliam Stafford -- Former barn lot / Mark Van Doren -- Red rides west / Mariel Bede -- Sailing stone / Laura Purdie Salas -- In a quiet dark place / David L. Harrison -- Thank you note to the gorge / Patricia Hubbell -- A late walk / Robert Frost -- The song of wandering Aengus / William Butler Yeats -- The mountains-- grow unnoticed / Emily Dickinson --

In shade. Lessons in September / Tracy Vaughn Zimmer -- Time to plant trees / James Hayford -- Dew / Charles Ghigna -- Butterfly tree / Joan Bransfield Graham -- The monarch's flight to Mexico / Avis Harley -- Haiku / Virgilio -- General Sherman sequoia: world's largest tree / Joan Bransfield Graham -- Sequoia / Leonard Nathan -- The mystery / Jane Yolen -- Bouquets / Robert Francis -- Beside a chrysanthemum / So Chong Ju -- Counting-out rhyme / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The release / Joseph Bruchac -- Spanish moss / Charles Ghigna -- Rainbow eucalyptus / Matt Forrest Esenwine -- Blow-up / X.J. Kennedy -- Bougainvillea / Ann Whitford Paul -- How to bake a flower / Ralph Fletcher -- Mushroom hunting / Peter Kostin -- Milkweeds, November / Michael J. Rosen -- I wandered lonely as a cloud / William Wordsworth -- The Methuselah tree: ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest / Joan Bransfield Graham -- Rose / Janet S. Wong -- Mirrorment / A.R. Ammons -- Pine tree in January / Michael Salinger --

In distress. Avalanche / Steven Withrow -- Dormant dragons / Marilyn Singer -- Tsunami / Anonymous -- Weather deniers / Jane Yolen -- Tsunami / JonArno Lawson -- Earthquake / Mariel Bede -- Fire and ice / Robert Frost -- Drought / Peter Kostin -- Tornado season / Adrien Stoutenburg -- Punishing conditions / Graham Denton -- Where will we run to / X.J. Kennedy -- The merry-go round song / Andrew Fusek Peters and Polly Peters -- Birds have left without a song / John Barr -- Wildfire / Nikki Grimes -- Flood / Peter Kostin --

In season. When it is snowing / Siv Cedering -- Storm ending / Jean Toomer -- You never hear the garden grow / Lilian Moore -- Here is a poem of love and hope / Arnold Adoff -- Frost / Valerie Worth -- April rain song / Langston Hughes -- Metamorphosis / Sara Holbrook -- I so liked spring / Charlotte Mew -- Why leaves change color in the fall / J. Patrick Lewis -- Something told the wild geese / Rachel Field -- February tale / Ronee M. LaTulippe -- Sounds of winter / Anonymous -- November / Mariel Bede -- Autumn / T.E. Hulme -- November night / Adelaide Crapsey -- A crack in the clouds / Constance Levy -- In just / e.e. cummings -- The pasture / Robert Frost -- My heard leaps up / William Wordsworth -- For all / Gary Snyder -- The long summer / James Hayford --

In splendor. The Great Barrier Reef / Robert Schechter -- Mammatus clouds / Julie Larios -- Moonbow at Cumberland Falls / George Ella Lyon -- Solar eclipse / Steven Withrow -- Fish rain / Marilyn Nelson -- Moeraki boulders / Joyce Sidman -- Fossil beds at the Badlands / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Glacial erratic / Helen Frost -- Sun dogs / Janet S. Wong -- Catatumbo lightning / Kelly Ramsdell Fineman -- The Mariana Trench / X.J. Kennedy -- The Grand Canyon / Bobbi Katz -- Mount Everest / Deborah Chandra -- Pink lake / Allan Wolf -- Brinicle / Laura Purdie Salas -- Antelope Canyon / Pat Mora -- Rainforest / Judith Wright -- Niagara Falls / Avis Harley -- Yellowstone / Douglas Florian -- Lake Baikal / Michael J. Rosen -- Bioluminescence in the Maldives / Paige Towler -- Pororoca Tidal Bore / Janet S. Wong -- Wonder down under / Ted Scheu -- Red tide / April Halprin Wayland -- Petrified Forest / Amy Ludwig VanDerwater -- Aurora Borealis / Steven Withrow -- Northern Lights / J. Patrick Lewis --

Last thoughts. Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost -- Nature / Henry David Thoreau -- Swift things are beautiful / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Lessons of nature / J. Patrick Lewis, after Samuel Hazo -- The earth is a living thing / Lucille Clifton -- In beauty may I walk / Anonymous (Navajo Indian) -- Post-it notes from the world / J. Patrick Lewis -- Who is Mother Nature?

When words in verse are paired with the awesomeness of nature, something magical happens! Beloved former U.S. Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis curates an exhuberant poetic celebration of the natural world in this stellar collection of nature poems. From trickling streams to deafening thrunderstorms to soaring mountains, discover majestic photography perfectly paired with contemporary (such as Billy Collins), classics (such as Robert Frost), and never-before-published works.

Children's poetry.

Lewis, J. Patrick.

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