The Tree of Scarlet Berries by AMY LOWELL The rain gullies the garden paths And tinkles on the broad sides of grass blades. A tree, at the end of my arm, is hazy with mist. Even so, I can see that it has red berries, A scarlet fruit, Filmed over with moisture. It seems as … Read more
Inspired by my trip to the Far Hills Steeplechase. Bivouac on a Mountain Side By WALT WHITMAN I SEE before me now, a traveling army halting; Below, a fertile valley spread, with barns, and the orchards of summer; Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt in places, rising high; Broken, with rocks, with clinging … Read more
Behind a Wall by AMY LOWELL I own a solace shut within my heart, A garden full of many a quaint delight And warm with drowsy, poppied sunshine; bright, Flaming with lilies out of whose cups dart Shining things With powdered wings. Here terrace sinks to terrace, arbors close The ends of dreaming paths; a … Read more
Dillard Sissman by EDGAR LEE MASTERS The buzzards wheel slowly In wide circles, in a sky Faintly hazed as from dust from the road. And a wind sweeps through the pasture where I lie Beating the grass into long waves. My kite is above the wind, Though now and then it wobbles, Like a man shaking his shoulders; And … Read more
Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight by ROBERT FROST When I spread out my hand here today, I catch no more than a ray To feel of between thumb and fingers; No lasting effect of it lingers. There was one time and only the one When dust really took in the sun; And from … Read more
“Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.” – Thomas Edison Damselfly on a blade of grass. Dose of Beauty Archives
Evening Waterfall
By CARL SANDBURG
As Imperceptibly as Grief
By EMILY DICKINSON
Chopin’s Fantasie Impromptu for piano in C Sharp Minor, Op. 66
Played by Russian classical pianist Valentina Igoshina.
