Source: Best Earth Day Poems

Earth Day Poems: Earth Day is here and if you want to conduct some Earth Day
activities on this Earth Day 2017 then we have some really good and amazing Earth Day
poems for you in this post.

23+ Earth Day Poems for Kids, Schools

& Adults
We have included many poems on earth by famous peoples as well as famous nature
poems. In this collection of Earth Day poems, we have included short earth poems, earth
day poems for kids, clean and green earth poems in English and much more.
In the first section, you can read long poems about nature and go green poems in English.
Starting from the Emily Dickinson we have included many earth day poems by famous
poets including Ralph Waldo Emerson.

23+ Earth Day Poems for Kids, Schools & Adults

Earth Day Poems by Famous Poets

Earth Day Poems 1

1. A Bird Came Down the Walk by Emily Dickinson

A bird came down the walk:

He did not know I saw;

He bit an angle-worm in halves

And ate the fellow, raw.
And then he drank a dew
From a convenient grass,
And then hopped sidewise to the wall
To let a beetle pass.
He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all abroad,
They looked like frightened beads, I thought;
He stirred his velvet head
Like one in danger; cautious,
I offered him a crumb,
And he unrolled his feathers
 And rowed him softer home
Than oars divide the ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
Or butterflies, off banks of noon,
Leap, splashless, as they swim.

Emily Dickinson, A Bird Came Down the Walk

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Earth Day Poems 2

2. The Way Through The Woods by Rudyard Kipling
They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know There was once a path through the woods Before they
planted the trees: It is underneath the coppice and heath,
And the thin anemones.
Only the keeper sees That, where the ring-dove broods And the badgers roll at ease, There
was once a road through the woods. Yet, if you enter the woods Of a summer evening late,
When the night-air cools on the trout-ringd pools Where the otter whistles his mate (They
fear not men in the woods Because they see so few), You will hear the beat of a horses feet
And the swish of a skirt in the dew,
Steadily cantering through The misty solitudes, As though they perfectly knew The old lost
road through the woods But there is no road through the woods.
Rudyard Kipling, The Way Through The Woods

Earth Day Poems 3

3. A Minor Bird by Robert Frost
I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.
Robert Frost, A Minor Bird

Earth Day Poems 4

4. October by Louise Glck
Is it winter again, is it cold again,
didnt Frank just slip on the ice,
didnt he heal, werent the spring seeds planted
didnt the night end,
didnt the melting ice
flood the narrow gutters
wasnt my body
rescued, wasnt it safe
didnt the scar form, invisible
above the injury
terror and cold,
didnt they just end, wasnt the back garden
harrowed and planted
I remember how the earth felt, red and dense,
in stiff rows, werent the seeds planted,
didnt vines climb the south wall
I cant hear your voice
for the winds cries, whistling over the bare ground
I no longer care
what sound it makes
when was I silenced, when did it first seem
pointless to describe that sound
what it sounds like cant change what it is
didnt the night end, wasnt the earth
safe when it was planted
didnt we plant the seeds,
 werent we necessary to the earth,
the vines, were they harvested?
Louise Glck, October

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Earth Day Poems 5

Earth Day Poems by Famous Poets
In this collection we have many amazing earth poems by famoush poets. These clean and
green earth poems are perfect for reciting in your schools or teaching your students on this
Earth Day 2017.
5. Of Many Worlds in This World by Margaret Cavendish
Just like as in a nest of boxes round,
Degrees of sizes in each box are found:
So, in this world, may many others be
Thinner and less, and less still by degree:
Although they are not subject to our sense,
A world may be no bigger than two-pence.
Nature is curious, and such works may shape,
Which our dull senses easily escape:
For creatures, small as atoms, may there be,
If every one a creatures figure bear.
If atoms four, a world can make, then see
What several worlds might in an ear-ring be:
For, millions of those atoms may be in
The head of one small, little, single pin.
And if thus small, then ladies may well wear
A world of worlds, as pendents in each ear.
Margaret Cavendish, Of Many Worlds in This World

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6. The Humble-bee by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Burly dozing humblebee!
Where thou art is clime for me.
Let them sail for Porto Rique,
Far-off heats through seas to seek,
I will follow thee alone,
Thou animated torrid zone!
Zig-zag steerer, desert-cheerer,
Let me chase thy waving lines,
Keep me nearer, me thy hearer,
Singing over shrubs and vines.
Insect lover of the sun,
Joy of thy dominion!
Sailor of the atmosphere,
Swimmer through the waves of air,
Voyager of light and noon,
Epicurean of June,
Wait I prithee, till I come
Within ear-shot of thy hum,
All without is martyrdom.
When the south wind, in May days,
With a net of shining haze,
Silvers the horizon wall,
And, with softness touching all,
Tints the human countenance
With a color of romance,
And, infusing subtle heats,
Turns the sod to violets,
Thou in sunny solitudes,
Rover of the underwoods,
The green silence dost displace,
With thy mellow breezy bass.
Hot midsummers petted crone,
Sweet to me thy drowsy tune,
Telling of countless sunny hours,
Long days, and solid banks of flowers,
Of gulfs of sweetness without bound
In Indian wildernesses found,
Of Syrian peace, immortal leisure,
Firmest cheer and bird-like pleasure.
Aught unsavory or unclean,
Hath my insect never seen,
But violets and bilberry bells,
Maple sap and daffodels,
Grass with green flag half-mast high,
Succory to match the sky,
Columbine with horn of honey,
Scented fern, and agrimony,
Clover, catch fly, adders-tongue,
And brier-roses dwelt among;
All beside was unknown waste,
All was picture as he passed.
Wiser far than human seer,
Yellow-breeched philosopher!
Seeing only what is fair,
Sipping only what is sweet,
Thou dost mock at fate and care,
Leave the chaff and take the wheat,
When the fierce north-western blast
Cools sea and land so far and fast,
Thou already slumberest deep,
Woe and want thou canst out-sleep,
Want and woe which torture us,
Thy sleep makes ridiculous.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Humble-bee