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Nature in Literature

Jun 04, 2010, 15:14 PM IST

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I trace in leaves and flowers that round me lie, lessons of love and earnest piety.

I trace in leaves and flowers that round me lie, lessons of love and earnest piety.

2/15

Grant me some smaller grace than come to these – but so much patience as a blade of grass grows by, contended through the heat and cold.

Grant me some smaller grace than come to these – but so much patience as a blade of grass grows by, contended through the heat and cold.

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To some whom fields and woods are closest friends; to them the city is a prison house.

To some whom fields and woods are closest friends; to them the city is a prison house.

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O sylvan wye! Thou wanderer through the wood, how often has my spirit turned to thee!

O sylvan wye! Thou wanderer through the wood, how often has my spirit turned to thee!

5/15

The sun, sieves through pitched woods, and warms us like the still glowing embers which the summer, like a departed hunter, has left behind.

The sun, sieves through pitched woods, and warms us like the still glowing embers which the summer, like a departed hunter, has left behind.

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O dreary life,’ we cry, ‘O dreary life!’ And still generations of birds sing through our sighing, and the flocks serenely live while we are keeping strife.

O dreary life,’ we cry, ‘O dreary life!’ And still generations of birds sing through our sighing, and the flocks serenely live while we are keeping strife.

7/15

All earth’s full rivers cannot fill the sea, that drinking thirsteth still…Where sheer miracles of loveliness lie hid in its unlooked-on bed.

All earth’s full rivers cannot fill the sea, that drinking thirsteth still…Where sheer miracles of loveliness lie hid in its unlooked-on bed.

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It may indeed be fantasy when I essay to draw from all created things; deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely clings.

It may indeed be fantasy when I essay to draw from all created things; deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely clings.

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Some men there are who find in nature all, their inspiration, hers the sympathy.

Some men there are who find in nature all, their inspiration, hers the sympathy.

10/15

Spirit that lurks each form within beckons to spirit of its kin; self-kindled every atom glows, and hints the future which it owes.

Spirit that lurks each form within beckons to spirit of its kin; self-kindled every atom glows, and hints the future which it owes.

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The voice of waters soothes them with its fall, and the great winds bring healing in their sound…

The voice of waters soothes them with its fall, and the great winds bring healing in their sound…

12/15

Why does the sea moan evermore? Shut out from heaven it makes its moan, It frets against the boundary shore…

Why does the sea moan evermore? Shut out from heaven it makes its moan, It frets against the boundary shore…

13/15

Looking at the Sun’s eye, the beholder measures the brilliance of his own soul.

Looking at the Sun’s eye, the beholder measures the brilliance of his own soul.

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Nature leads us to rest so gently, that we go scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, unable even to understand how far the unknown transcends the what we know.

Nature leads us to rest so gently, that we go scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, unable even to understand how far the unknown transcends the what we know.

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To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.

To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.

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