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There are a large body of poetic works that present a detailed description of a scene or a moment in time. Here are some particularly fine examples.

1. Meadowsweet by William Allingham
2. Sonnet on a Wet Summer by John Codrington Bampfylde
3. The rain was ending, and light by Laurence Binyon
4. The Evening Darkens Over by Robert Bridges

   a storm over the ocean at sunset

5. The Fish by Rupert Brooke
6. After a Tempest by William Cullen Bryant
7. The Haunted House by Madison Cawein
8. Rain Music by Joseph Seamans Cotter, Jr.
9. In August by Babette Deutsch
10. Morning at the Window by T. S. Eliot
11. Irradiations by John Fletcher
12. The Stars are Glittering by Charles Heavysege
13. The Snowing of the Pines by Mary Thacher Higginson
14. My Strawberry by Helen Hunt Jackson
15. Keen, Fitful Gusts by John Keats
16. The Taj by H.G. Keene
17. Among the Orchards by Archibald Lampman
18. A Rainy Day in April by Francis Ledwidge
19. A Japanese Wood-Carving by Amy Lowell
20. Cargoes by John Masefield

    seafaring has lost its romance

21. The Night Fire by Claude McKay
22. The Berg by Herman Melville

    an indifferent iceberg

23. The Coral Grove by James Gates Percival
24. Nightfall by Alexander Lawrence Posey
25. Moonlight by Victoria Sackville-West
26. The Bayadere by Francis S. Saltus
27. The Sea-Breeze at Matanzas by Epes Sargent
28. Base Details by Siegfried Sassoon
29. The Spell of the Yukon by Robert W. Service

    a desolate place made beautiful

30. Pan In Wall Street by Edmund Clarence Stedman
31. Emmy by Arthur Symons
32. Dew by Sara Teasdale
33. The Path by Edward Thomas
34. To a Snowflake by Francis Thompson
35. Mist by Henry David Thoreau
36. April by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
37. The Half-Rainbow by Charles Turner
38. The Naturalist's Summer-Evening Walk by Gilbert White
39. To a Locomotive in Winter by Walt Whitman
40. Sights and Sounds of the Night by Carlos Wilcox
41. Impression du Matin by Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde
42. Wild Peaches by Elinor Wylie