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Fifty Shades of Nature - 50 of the best poems about all things nature

John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Blake, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, WB Yeats, William Shakespeare, Stephen Crane, Katherine Mansfield, Henry David Thoreau, Sara Teasdale, George Eliot, Tagore

Narrator Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Nigel Planer

Publisher: The Copyright Group

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Summary

Our senses revel in the incomparable majesty of the work of Mother Nature.  The structure of the landscape, the multi-coloured mantle of trees and fauna, the myriad animals that wander and inhabit this glorious Earth. Nature conducts symphonies of sound as her world goes from day into the inky embrace of night. 
 
Our ears and eyes are constantly bathed in the wonder of her ways; the soft drizzle of rain from soft grey clouds, a wave caressing the shore and the ravenous colours of a departing sunset.  
 
Her invisible heartbeat is everywhere and for everyone.  Indeed, whenever we look and listen to the vastness of Nature’s beauty she can placate our anger and soothe our pain, despite our knowledge of her destructive forces that create myriad tragedies.  Still her vistas can energise us, feed our hearts and souls and prompt us to muse on the mysteries of life and death. 
 
1 - Fifty Shades of Nature - An Introduction 
2 - from Song Of Myself by Walt Whitman 
3 - Nature's Hymn to the Deity by John Clare 
4 - On a Lane in Spring by John Clare 
5 - Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth 
6 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
7 - An April Afternoon by Alexander Anderson 
8 - A Rainy Day in April by Francis Ledwidge 
9 - In May by William Henry Davies 
10 - The Darkling Thrush By Thomas Hardy 
11 - The Thrush's Nest by John Clare 
12 - To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
13 - Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats 
14 - Sonnet LVII - Summit of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838 by Henry Alford 
15 - Nature, The Gentlest Mother by Emily Dickinson 
16 - A July Afternoon by the Pond by Walt Whitman 
17 - An August Evening, 1865 by Carolyn Clive 
18 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau 
19 - August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale 
20 - In Autumn Moonlight by Robert Seymour Bridges 
21 - Daylight and Moonlight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
22 - At the Sunrise, 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
23 - After Sunset by William Allingham 
24 - Across the Red Sky by Katherine Mansfield 
25 - In the Fields by Charlotte Mew 
26 - Evening by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
27 - I Have Heard the Sunset Song of the Birches by Stephen Crane 
28 - Trees by Joyce Kilmer 
29 - Binsey Poplars by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
30 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth 
31 - Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
32 - Nature's Lady by George Eliot 
33 - Seashore by Tagore 
34 - The Dark Blue Sea by Byron 
35 - By the Sea by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
36 - The Little Waves of Breffney by Eva Gore-Booth 
37 - The Awakening River by Katherine Mansfield 
38 - The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W B Yeats 
39 - The Cloud on the Mountain by Alama Iqbal 
40 - Sonnet 33 - Full  Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen by William Shakespeare 
41 - Tell Me Not Here, It Needs Not Saying by A E Housman 
42 - The Autumn by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
43 - Ode Written on the First of December by Robert Southey 
44 - Winters Naked Wood by Daniel Sheehan 
45 - Frost At Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
46 - The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
47 - from The Happy Farmer by Iolo Morganwg 
48 - The Calf by Thomas Hardy 
49 - To A Mouse by Robert Burns 
50 - Snake by D H Lawrence 
51 - The Tyger by William Blake
Duration: about 1 hour (01:24:38)
Publishing date: 2019-01-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —