I have always been a great fan of William Wordsworth's poems. May be because he was also a nature lover.:)  The following poem has been one of my favourites:
 FORESIGHT
           THAT is work of waste and ruin--
Do as Charles and I are doing!
Strawberry-blossoms, one and all, 
           We must spare them--here are many: 
           Look at it--the flower is small, 
           Small and low, though fair as any: 
           Do not touch it! summers two 
           I am older, Anne, than you. 
           Pull the primrose, sister Anne! 
           Pull as many as you can.                               
           --Here are daisies, take your fill; 
           Pansies, and the cuckoo-flower: 
           Of the lofty daffodil 
           Make your bed, or make your bower; 
           Fill your lap, and fill your bosom; 
           Only spare the strawberry-blossom! 
           Primroses, the Spring may love them-- 
           Summer knows but little of them: 
           Violets, a barren kind, 
           Withered on the ground must lie;                       
           Daisies leave no fruit behind 
           When the pretty flowerets die; 
           Pluck them, and another year 
           As many will be blowing here. 
           God has given a kindlier power 
           To the favoured strawberry-flower. 
           Hither soon as spring is fled 
           You and Charles and I will walk; 
           Lurking berries, ripe and red, 
           Then will hang on every stalk,                         
           Each within its leafy bower; 
           And for that promise spare the flower!
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nice poem:)though never could relate much to literary poetry
@me: Thanks.:)) I love literary works where simplicity and honesty comes through. There have been some works for which I had to sit with a dictionary for each word in every line and ultimately I would wonder what they really meant.:D
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