Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?

-Arnold, Matthew
  Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'Parting', l.19^20.

Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  Look, Stranger, no.2.

Like Rome, Nkongsamba was built on seven hills, but there all similarity ended. Set in undulating tropical rain forest, from the air it resembled nothing so much as a giant pool of crapulous vomit on somebody's expansive unmown lawn.

-Boyd,William Andrew Murray
A Good Man in  Africa, ch.1.

A sweet disorder in the dress 400 Kindles in clothes a wantonness: A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction† A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility: Do more bewitch me, than when Art Is too precise in every part.

-Herrick, Robert
  'Delight in Disorder'.

LawnTennyson, gentleman poet.

-Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius
  Ulysses.

'Tis from high life high characters are drawn; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.

-Pope, Alexander
  Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Cobham', l.134^6.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. It combines the best features of that primitive form of cricket known asTip-and-Run with those of lawn tennis, Puss-in-the-corner and Handel's Messiah.

-Shaw, George Bernard
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, With murmuring of innumerable bees.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.7, added song, l.203^7.

How circumstantial reality is! Facts are like individual letters, with their spikes and loops and thorns, that make up words: eventually they hurt our eyes, and we long to take a bath, to rake the lawn, to look at the sea.

-Updike,John Hoyer
  Self-Consciousness, I.'A Soft Spring Night in Shillington'.