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Folliott Sandford Pierpoint (7 October 1835 – 10 March 1917) was a hymnodist and poet.. Born at Spa Villa, Bath, England, he was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. [1]
Nature offers some of the world's purest and simplest joys. While the city has its charms, nothing compares to the beauty of a tall tree, the sweet smell of flowers, or the feeling of a fresh ...
"Binsey Poplars" is a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), written in 1879. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The poem was inspired by the felling of a row of poplar trees near the village of Binsey , northwest of Oxford , England , and overlooking Port Meadow on the bank of the River Thames . [ 3 ]
The inspiration for the poem came from a walk Wordsworth took with his sister Dorothy around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, in the Lake District. [8] [4] He would draw on this to compose "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in 1804, inspired by Dorothy's journal entry describing the walk near a lake at Grasmere in England: [8]
The poem is the best known of Wordsworth's series of five works which comprise his "Lucy" series, and was a favorite amongst early readers. [1] It was composed both as a meditation on his own feelings of loneliness and loss, and as an ode to the beauty and dignity of an idealized woman who lived unnoticed by all others except by the poet himself.
Both poems explore power, sexual love, and nature but from slightly different stances. While "Hortus" stresses the opposition between sexual love and the love of nature by suggesting that nature tames love, “The Garden” deems sexual love as a threat to nature and the contemplative life sought in the Garden. [35]
Pages in category "Poems about nature" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. I. In Flanders Fields; M.
"The Rhodora" as it appeared in Poems (1847) "The Rhodora, On Being Asked, Whence Is the Flower", or simply "The Rhodora", is an 1834 poem by American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, a 19th century philosopher. The poem is about the rhodora, a common flowering shrub, and the beauty of this shrub in its natural setting.