Poetry of Nature Author:Henry Van Dyke "The sixty Nature poems which I have chosen are full of various music. They utter the changing thoughts and feelings which are awakened in the heart of man by the procession of the seasons, the alternations of day and night, the balancing of the clouds and the journeying of the winds, the vision of the sea and the stars, the silent blossoming an... more »d fading of the flowers, the fleeting masonry of the snow, the flight and the return of our little brothers in the air. In all this wondrous pageant that passes before us we dimly perceive a meaning that corresponds to something within us..."« less