"At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a Thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years: Poor Susan has passed by the spot, and has heard In the silence of morning the song of the Bird." Wordsworth (1797) #photography #thrush #PotD #poetry #Wordsworth #bird #song

" in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing" Gerard Manley Hopkins (1877) #photography #swallow #field #PotD #poetry #Hopkins #wing #Natureπhotography #bird

"Tail like a boat, black and gold plumage, dipped in paint from the beak down— are you aware, my little goldfinch, what a goldfinch dandy you are?" Osip Mandelstam (1936) (tr Peter France) #photography #goldfinch #bird #BirdPhotography #PotD #poetry #Mandelstam #beauty #colours

"Come, Let us roam the night together Singing. I love you. Across The Harlem roof-tops Moon is shining Night sky is blue." Langston Hughes (1926) #photography #night #skyline #crescent #moon #PotD #poetry #LangstonHughes #sunset #RoofTops #twilight

"An island is one great eye gazing out, a beckoning lighthouse, searchlight, a wishbone compass, or counterweight to the stars." Yusef Komunyakaa (2012) #photography #IsleOfMay #TheForth #FishingBoat #island #lighthouse #PotD #poem #poetry #Komunyakaa #Seascape #Fife #Scotland

"even the horned ram, glowering over the bog hole, though symbol of evil, will step through the blown grass with grace." John Hewitt (1968)(tr. Gerardo Gambolini) #photography #sheep #ram #horns #PotD #poetry #JohnHewitt #grazing #grass #NaturePhotography

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth" Robert Frost (1915) #photography #path #road #divergence #PotD #poetry #Frost #woodland #LifeJourney #poem

"I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference" Robert Frost (1916) #photography #path #trees #gate #PotD #poetry #RobertFrost #road #travel #choice

"Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower—but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is." Tennyson (1863) #photography #Fleabane #PotD #poetry #wall #flower

"I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled my feet in quag-water" Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1853) #photography #honeysuckle #flower #PotD #poetry #Rossetti #Macro #FlowerPhotography #nature

"For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air" Percy Shelley (1820) #photography #clouds #sky #BlueSky #PotD #poetry #Shelley #wispy #cirrus #feathery #blue

"In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom." Thomas Hardy (1899) #photography #SongThrush #BirdPhotography #PotD #poetry #ThomasHardy #thrush #bird #nature

"I saw the dove come down, the dove with the green twig, the childish dove out of the storm and flood. It came towards me in the style of the Holy Spirit descending." Leonard Cohen (1978) #photography #dove #pigeon #PotD #twig #poetry #LeonardCohen #WoodPigeon #BirdPhotography #nature

"Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay." Robert Frost (1923) #photography #leaf #veins #green #PotD #poetry #nature #beauty #network

"I’ve seen her on quiet evenings Perch unblinking on the bird bath Staring at me as she digests her kill Her look so intense you might well Think we had a thing going" Andrew McNeillie (~2020) #photography #sparrowhawk #PotD #poetry #McNeillie #bird #hawk #BirdOfPrey #BirdPhotography

"Against the blue of the sky – the sky so clean that seems to be washed by the hands of God – How well the tree looks , softly inclined under the rosy weight of his flowering branches!" Meira Delmar (1973) #photography #CherryBlossom #tree #PotD #Cherry #BlueSky #poetry #MeiraDelmar

"In the black furrow of a field I saw an old witch-hare this night; And she cocked a lissome ear, And she eyed the moon so bright, And she nibbled of the green" Walter de la Mare (1901) #photography #hare #wildlife #PotD #poetry #WalterDeLaMare #March #grass #NaturePhotography #field

"A seagull stood on my window-ledge today, said nothing, but had a good look inside. That was a cold inspection I can tell you!" Edwin Morgan (2002) #photography #gull #seagull #portrait #PotD #poetry #EdwinMorgan #BirdPhotography #birds #white #beak

"And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home, In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play and be Golden in the mercy of his means" Dylan Thomas (1945) #photography #sunlight #golden #PotD #poetry #FernHill #sunset #tree

"No, he's not. He’s just a crow, doing his crow thing: black garb, harsh cry, stiff strut. Yet it’s his lot to appear less bird than myth." Christopher Reid (2013) #photography #crow #BirdPhotography #PotD #poetry #ChristopherReid #portrait #Corvid #ModernPoetry #TheCrow

"Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying, Waves, undulating waves--liquid, uneven, emulous waves, Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves" Walt Whitman (1874) #photography #sea #waves #PotD #ocean #water #poetry #WaltWhitman #liquid #foam #current

"Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets " T S Eliot (1911) #photography #street #SignPost #cobbles #PotD #StAndrews #poetry #TSEliot #ChimneyPots #SkyLine #silhouette

"I HEARD you, solemn-sweet pipes of the organ, as last Sunday morn I pass'd the church;" Walt Whitman (1871) #photography #organ #Marylebone #London #RiegerOrgan #chandelier #PotD #poetry #WaltWhitman #MaryleboneParishChurch #symmetry #church

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds," John Magee Jr (1941) #photography #moon #aeroplane #tree #silhouette #BlueSky #PotD #poetry #Magee #CrescentMoon

"Behold, at last, Each tall and tapering mast Is swung into its place; Shrouds and stays Holding it firm and fast!" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849) #photography #masts #rigging #TallSh #BlueSky #PotD #poetry #Longfellow #spars #ships #schooner #Glenlee #Glasgow

"The wall must be crumbled, the stone decayed, To pleasure his dainty whim: And the mouldering dust that years have made Is a merry meal for him. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the Ivy green." Charles Dickens (1837) #photography #wall #PotD #poetry #Dickens #roots #ivy #ruins

"Oh give me before I die The grace to see With eternal, ultimate eye, The Bird and the Tree. The song in the living Green, The Tree and the Bird – Oh have they ever been seen, Ever been heard?" Ruth Pitter (~1943) #photography #silhouette #bird #PotD #poetry #Pitter #tree #BirdPhotography

"Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth ; Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands for ever I love." Robert Burns (1789) #photography #LochLeven #Highlands #Scotland #PotD #poetry #RobertBurns #silhouette #sunset

"Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite Scotland small? Only as a patch of hillside may be a cliché corner To a fool who cries ‘Nothing but heather!’ " Hugh MacDiarmid (1943) #photography #LandscapePhotography #LochLinnhe #sunset #golden #PotD #poetry #MacDiarmid #Scotland #Loch

"red, yellow, orange, brown, russet, ocher, vermilion, gold. Flame and rust. Flame and rust, the permutations of burning. You’re on fire. Your eyes are on fire." Lloyd Schwartz (1992) #photography #leaves #autumn #patterns #NatureArt #PotD #poetry #LloydSchwartz #Nature #Macro