THE LOVE OF NATURE by Wordsworth The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wo...

THE OAK by George Hill A glorious tree is the old gray oak; He has stood for a thousand years Has stood and frowned On the trees around, Lik...

PLANT A TREE by Lucy Larcom He who plants a tree Plants a hope. Rootlets up through fibres blindly grope; Leaves unfold into horizons free. ...

 THE FOREST TREES by Eliza Cook Up with your heads, ye sylvan lords, Wave proudly in the breeze, For our cradle bands and coffin boards Must...

  A FOREST HYMN by Bryant The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...

 PLANTING FOR THE FUTURE by Harriet Wright In youth's glad morning hour, All life a holiday doth seem; We glance adown time's vista ...

FOREST SONG by W. H. Venable A song for the beautiful trees! A song for the forest grand, The garden of God's own land, The pride of His...

 THE HEART OF THE TREE What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants a friend of sun and sky; He plants the flag of breezes free; The shaf...

 WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE by George P. Morris Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll pro...

INVITATION by Charles Sangster Oh, come away to the grave old woods Ere the skies are tinged with light, Ere the slumbering leaves of the gl...

THE IVY GREEN Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals I ween, In his cell ...

 The Good Daughter MY merry little daughter Was climbing out of bed - "Don't you think I'm a good girl,'' My little dau...