A simple famous poem about nature or one that teaches a moral…or any impressive but simple poem?

Question

I want to introduce some ESL students to English/American poetry… thanks in advance … wish u all the best!

Answer 1

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;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

~Rob Frost "The Road Not Taken"

Answer 2

The More Loving One by WH Auden

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well

That, for all they care, I can go to h**l,

But on earth indifference is the least

We have to dread from man or beast.

How should we like it were stars to burn

With a passion for us we could not return?

If equal affection cannot be,

Let the more loving one be me.

Admirer as I am

Of stars that do not give a d**n,

I cannot, now I see them, say

I missed one terribly all day.

Were all stars to disappear or die,

I should learn to look at an empty sky

And feel its total dark sublime,

Though this might take me a little time.

Answer 3

you can try- Leisure

Answer 4

I am the Earth

And the Earth is me.

Each blade of grass,

Each honey tree,

Each bit of mud,

And stick and stone

Is blood and muscle,

Skin and bone.

And just as I

Need every bit

Of me to make

My body fit,

So Earth needs

Grass and stone and tree

And things that grow here

Naturally.

That's why we

Celebrate this day.

That's why across

The world we say:

As long as life,

As dear, as free,

I am the Earth

And the Earth is me.

Jane Yolen

Answer 5

This is one of my favourite Welsh poems about a local area which has a country lane, overhung with trees.

Eifionydd...R Williams-Parry.. (I'll only give 2 verses)

O olwg hagrwch cynnydd,

Ar wyneb trist y gwaith,

Mae bro rhwng môr a mynydd,

Heb arni staen na chraith;

Ond lle bu'r aradr ar y ffridd

Yn rhwygo'r gwanwyn pêr o'r pridd.

A llonydd gorffenedig,

Yw llonydd y lôn goed,

O fwa'i thô plethedig,

I'r glaslawr dan fy nhroed.

I lan na thref nid arwain ddim..

Ond hynny nid yw ofid im.