Nature and the Divine

Natural imagery—seasons, flowers, storms—is used to reflect divine presence and moral lessons, as in 'The Trance of Time' and 'The Winter Flower'.

Nature is portrayed as a living spirit that reveals divine energy, contrasting with lifeless human art, and as a source of spiritual renewal.

Nature is portrayed as a living, divine spirit that contrasts with dead human art, and the speaker seeks to align his heart with nature's rule as an expression of God's will.

The snapdragon's sudden fragrance is a divine gift, revealing the unseen Hand Divine in the natural world.

Nature's beauty once promised constancy, but now the speaker hears only the 'still voice divine' beyond earthly change.