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1. Chemin De Fer - written by Elizabeth Bishop
From North & South. Published in 1946. Read 1953 times on Poetry Connection.

Alone on the railroad track
  I walked with pounding heart.
The ties were too close together
  or maybe too far apart.

The scenery was impoverished:
  scrub-pine and oak; beyond
its mingled gray-green foliage
  I saw the little pond

where the... (Read full poem)

Some poets sing of scenery;
Some to fair maids make sonnets sweet.
A fig for love and greenery,
Be mine a song of things to eat.
Let brother bards divinely dream,
I'm just plain human, as you see;
And choose to carol such a theme
           As ham... (Read full poem)

3. The Milkmaid - written by Thomas Hardy
Read 890 times on Poetry Connection.

Under a daisied bank 
There stands a rich red ruminating cow, 
   And hard against her flank 
A cotton-hooded milkmaid bends her brow. 

   The flowery river-ooze 
Upheaves and falls; the milk purrs in the pail; 
   Few pilgrims but would... (Read full poem)

For Linda Foster


I
Because we used to have leaves
and on damp days
our muscles feel a tug,
painful now, from when roots
pulled us into the ground

and because our children believe
they can fly, an instinct retained
from when the bones in our... (Read full poem)

5. Inexpensive Progress - written by John Betjeman
Read 1949 times on Poetry Connection.

Encase your legs in nylons,
Bestride your hills with pylons
O age without a soul;
Away with gentle willows
And all the elmy billows
That through your valleys roll.

Let's say goodbye to hedges
And roads with grassy edges
And winding... (Read full poem)

'What have I earned for all that work,' I said,
'For all that I have done at my own charge?
The daily spite of this unmannerly town,
Where who has served the most is most defaned,
The reputation of his lifetime lost
Between the night and morning.  I... (Read full poem)

7. Australian Scenery - written by Andrew Barton Paterson
Read 777 times on Poetry Connection.

The Mountains 
A land of sombre, silent hills, where mountain cattle go 
By twisted tracks, on sidelings deep, where giant gum trees grow 
And the wind replies, in the river oaks, to the song of the stream below. 
A land where the hills keep... (Read full poem)

Here is a coast; here is a harbor; 
here, after a meager diet of horizon, is some scenery: 
impractically shaped and--who knows?--self-pitying mountains, 
sad and harsh beneath their frivolous greenery,

with a little church on top of one. And... (Read full poem)

9. The Monument - written by Elizabeth Bishop
Read 3187 times on Poetry Connection.

Now can you see the monument? It is of wood
built somewhat like a box. No. Built
like several boxes in descending sizes
one above the other.
Each is turned half-way round so that
its corners point toward the sides
of the one below and the angles... (Read full poem)

'Twixt the coastline and the border lay the town of Grog-an'-Grumble 
In the days before the bushman was a dull 'n' heartless drudge, 
An' they say the local meeting was a drunken rough-and-tumble, 
Which was ended pretty often by an inquest... (Read full poem)

11. Duino Elegies: The Fourth Elegy - written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Read 1931 times on Poetry Connection.

O trees of life, oh, what when winter comes?
We are not of one mind. Are not like birds
in unison migrating. And overtaken,
overdue, we thrust ourselves into the wind
and fall to earth into indifferent ponds.
Blossoming and withering we comprehend... (Read full poem)