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I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, illustrator and naturalist, and an affiliated research scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of the bestselling H is for Hawk, as well as a cultural history of falcons, titled Falcon, and three collections of poetry, including Shaler’s Fish. Macdonald was a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge, has worked as a professional falconer, and has assisted with the management of raptor research and conservation projects across Eurasia. She now writes for the New York Times Magazine. Introduction – i: Introduction Unit – 1: Spring Poem – 1: ‘The year’s at the spring’ – Robert Browning Poem – 2: I so liked Spring – Charlotte Mew Poem – 3: There Will Come Soft Rains – Sara Teasdale Poem – 4: To a Snowdrop – William Wordsworth Poem – 5: February Twilight – Sara Teasdale Poem – 6: Spring – William Blake Poem – 7: Thaw – Edward Thomas Poem – 8: Spring – Christina Rossetti Poem – 9: Her Anxiety – W. B. Yeats Poem – 10: Invitation to the Country – George Meredith Poem – 11: To my Sister – William Wordsworth Poem – 12: ‘Dear March – Come In -‘ – Emily Dickinson Poem – 13: The Lamb – William Blake Poem – 14: March – Anon Poem – 15: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud – William Wordsworth Poem – 16: To Daffodils – Robert Herrick Poem – 17: Mothering Sunday – George Hare Leonard Poem – 18: I Watched a Blackbird – Thomas Hardy Poem – 19: Loveliest of trees – A. E. Houseman Poem – 20: The Cuckoo – Anon Poem – 21: The Cuckoo – Anon Poem – 22: The Woods and Banks – W. H. Davies Poem – 23: Little Trotty Wagtail – John Clare Poem – 24: Home Thoughts from Abroad – Robert Browning Poem – 25: On a Lane in Spring John Clare Poem – 26: Spring – Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem – 27: The Starlight Night – Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem – 28: Tall Nettles – Edward Thomas Poem – 29: ‘When that I was and a little tiny boy’ – William Shakespeare Poem – 30: Sonnet 98 – William Shakespeare Poem – 31: But These Things Also – Edward Thomas Poem – 32: The Argument of His Book Robert Herrick Poem – 33: The Song of Wandering Aengus – W. B. Yeats Poem – 34: A Brilliant Day – Charles Tennyson Turner Unit – 2: Summer Poem – 1: Summer – Christina Rossetti Poem – 2: The Happy Countryman – Nicholas Breton Poem – 3: A Day – Emily Dickinson Poem – 4: My Heart Leaps Up – William Wordsworth Poem – 5: The Merry Month of May – Thomas Dekker Poem – 6: ‘Sumer is icumen in’ – Anon Poem – 7: The Throstle – Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem – 8: The Landrail – John Clare Poem – 9: The Lake Isle of Innisfree – W. B. Yeats Poem – 10: Seven Times One: Exultation – Jean Ingelow Poem – 11: This Lime-tree Bower my Prison – Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poem – 12: The Cow – Robert Louis Stevenson Poem – 13: The Frog – Anon. Poem – 14: Little Fish – D. H. Lawrence Poem – 15: Heaven – Rupert Brooke Poem – 16: To Make a Prairie – Emily Dickinson Poem – 17: The Unknown Bird – Edward Thomas Poem – 18: To a Skylark – Percy Bysshe Shelley Poem – 19: Trees – Joyce Kilmer Poem – 20: The Sweet o’ the Year – George Meredith Poem – 21: Ladybird! Ladybird! – Emily Bront Poem – 22: Daisies – Christina Rossetti Poem – 23: Where the Bee Sucks – William Shakespeare Poem – 24: The Gardener – Anon Poem – 25: The Cries of London – Anon Poem – 26: Scarborough Fair – Anon Poem – 27: from A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare Poem – 28: Summer Dawn – William Morris Poem – 29: Careless Rambles – John Clare Poem – 30: A Green Cornfield – Christina Rossetti Poem – 31: The Caterpillar – Christina Rossetti Poem – 32: To a Butterfly – William Wordsworth Poem – 33: Adlestrop – Edward Thomas Poem – 34: Fly Away, Fly Away Over the Sea – Christina Rossetti Poem – 35: Epitaph on a Hare – William Cowper Poem – 36: A London Plane-Tree – Amy Levy Poem – 37: In the Fields – Charlotte Mew Poem – 38: Meeting at Night – Robert Browning Unit – 3: Autumn Poem – 1: To Autumn – John Keats Poem – 2: Leisure – W. H. Davies Poem – 3: from Give me the Splendid, Silent Sun – Walt Whitman Poem – 4: Pied Beauty – Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem – 5: The Glory – Edward Thomas Poem – 6: The Rainy Day – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem – 7: Autumn Rain – D. H. Lawrence Poem – 8: Digging – Edward Thomas Poem – 9: Autumn Fires – Robert Louis Stevenson Poem – 10: Now is the Time for the Burning of the Leaves – Laurence Binyon Poem – 11: Moonlit Apples – John Drinkwater Poem – 12: The Lane – Edward Thomas Poem – 13: The Wild Swans at Coole – W. B. Yeats Poem – 14: ‘Western wind, when wilt thou blow?’ – Anon. Poem – 15: Who Has Seen the Wind? – Christina Rossetti Poem – 16: from The Garden – Andrew Marvell Poem – 17: Autumn Birds – John Clare Poem – 18: The Windhover – Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem – 19: The Owl – Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem – 20: Sweet Suffolke Owle – Anon Poem – 21: Rural Evening – Lord De Tabley Poem – 22: The Hayloft – Robert Louis Stevenson Poem – 23: The Solitary Reaper – William Wordsworth Poem – 24: To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-No- W. B. Yeats Poem – 25: The Way through the Woods – Rudyard Kipling Poem – 26: The Fisherman’s Wife – Amy Lowell Poem – 27: Sign of the Times – Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem – 28: Fall, Leaves, Fall – Emily Bront Poem – 29: Pleasant Sounds – John Clare Poem – 30: A Noiseless, Patient Spider – Walt Whitman Poem – 31: Something Told the Wild Geese – Rachel Field Unit – 4: Winter Poem – 1: To a Mouse – Robert Burns Poem – 2: Spellbound – Emily Bront Poem – 3: Winter-Time – Robert Louis Stevenson Poem – 4: Winter – Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem – 5: A Winter Night – William Barnes Poem – 6: Snow Storm – John Clare Poem – 7: No! – Thomas Hood Poem – 8: Sheep in Winter – John Clare Poem – 9: Snow – Edward Thomas Poem – 10: Out in the Dark – Edward Thomas Poem – 11: The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House – Thomas Hardy Poem – 12: from As You Like It – William Shakespeare Poem – 13: A Winter Bluejay – Sara Teasdale Poem – 14: Birds at Winter Nightfall – Thomas Hardy Poem – 15: The Darkling Thrush – Thomas Hardy Poem – 16: Little Robin Redbreast – Anon. Poem – 17: Frost at Midnight – Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poem – 18: Up in the Morning Early – Robert Burns Poem – 19: In Tenebris – Ford Madox Ford Poem – 20: The Holly and the Ivy – Anon. Poem – 21: The First Tree in the Greenwood – Anon. Poem – 22: The Oxen – Thomas Hardy Index – ii: Index of Poets Index – iii: Index of Titles Index – iv: Index of First Lines
