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First Line: With the dove we good customs find
Last Line: In christ's mercy our hope should rest
Subject(s): Doves


A CHILD SCREENING A DOVE FROM A HAWK, BY STEWARDSON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, screen thy favourite dove, fair child
Last Line: A hawk for every dove!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Doves; Paintings & Painters


ALAS, ALL FOR A SPARROWHAWK I SIGH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: When once you were contented at my side
Subject(s): Doves; Sparrows; Wings


ANACREON'S DOVE, by ANACREON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lovely courier of the sky
Last Line: "I have chatter'd like a pye."
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Doves


AS THE DOVE, WHICH FOUND NO REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In a grave
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Noah (bible); Doves; Heaven


BEAK OF THE DOVE, by JUAN GONZALO ROSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the next century
Last Line: Left upon the tables
Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Peace


BELOVED, LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Beloved, let us love
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Love; Eagles; Doves


COME ON YOUR SKY-BLUE WINGS, YE PAPHIAN DOVES, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And scornful bound away
Subject(s): Dawn; Doves


DAMNATION OF DOVES, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where did doves perch before there were telephone wires
Last Line: Or whatever does for ritual in a.D.
Subject(s): Doves


DISTANT DOVE, by YEHUDA HALEVI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A distant dove flutters
Last Line: And not stay silent
Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan
Subject(s): Doves; Love


DOVE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How often, these hours, have I heard the monotonous crool %of a dove
Last Line: So dark with disquietude seem? And what is it sorowing of?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Birds; Doves


DOVE, by ANNE SZUMIGALSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: It troubles the boy that, if you want to draw a white bird, you
Last Line: Will never be able to escape again
Subject(s): Animals; Children; Doves; Drawing; Feathers; Wings


DOVE AND THE WREN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Coo, coo, coo
Subject(s): Doves


DOVE IN SPRING, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brooder, brooder, deep beneath its walls
Last Line: This howling at one's ear, too far %for daylight and too near for sleep
Subject(s): Doves


DOVE NOTES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The soft, strange note of the doves, to what
Last Line: Like melody heard under water, or music dimmed by a dream.
Subject(s): Doves; Memory; Music & Musicians


DOVE'S NECK, by GERALD STERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dove's neck is so thin
Last Line: My bitter personal heavens
Subject(s): Doves


DOVE'S WEATHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The day is a dove: she is preening an ashgrey feather
Last Line: Under her wings and her eyes, the colour of doves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Day; Doves


DOVE-LOVE', by JUDITH WRIGHT    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dove purrs - over and over the dove
Subject(s): Doves; Love


DOVE-LOVE', by JUDITH WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dove purrs - over and over the dove
Last Line: I could eat you
Subject(s): Doves; Love


DOVES, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roaming the little path 'neath dotterel trees
Last Line: Then they in bolder crowds will sweep and fly %and brave the desert of a winter sky
Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Doves


DOVES, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, if man's boast and man's advance be vain
Last Line: "god keeps,"" I said, ""our little flock of years."
Subject(s): Doves; London


EIGHT DOVES, by JANE DRANSFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above the housetops eight dives fly
Subject(s): Doves


FLOCKS OF DOVES, by CARLOS PELLICER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The flocks of doves
Last Line: And for 20 cents-small change-they sing themselves %the songs
Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Photography And Photographers; Wings


GABRIELLE, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A griffin crouches on an oriel plinth
Last Line: The lady couch'd thereby.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Doves; Grief; Kisses; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


IF I HAD WINGS, MY LADY, LIKE A DOVE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: If I could die, my lady, with my love
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Love; Doves


JESUS AND THE DOVE, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mary, the mother good and mild
Last Line: And kneel'd before her child.
Subject(s): Doves; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth


LETTING THE DOVES OUT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The imaginary lover, form in the mind
Last Line: And draws more iridescent scarves from his sleeve
Subject(s): Doves; Freedom; Liberty


LETTING THE DOVES OUT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The imaginary lover, form in the mind
Last Line: Lets his doves out, murmurs them home again %and draws more iridescent scarves from his sleeve
Subject(s): Doves; Freedom


LISTENING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She listened like a cushat dove
Last Line: To hear him speak.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Doves; Love


MARTYRDOM OF SAINT SEBASTIAN, by EUGENIO FLORIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yes, come to my arms, little doves of iron
Last Line: Lodged within the contents of my heart
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Doves; Love - Loss Of


MINNIE AND HER DOVE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two days she miss'd her dove, and then alas
Last Line: Eclipse thy memory of the kite and dove.
Subject(s): Doves; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


MOURNING DOVE, by W. W. CHRISTMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sweet is the hermit's evening bell
Subject(s): Birds; Doves


MY DOVES, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My little doves have left a nest
Last Line: My seaward hill, my boundless sea.
Subject(s): Doves


NEAR ANIO'S STREAM I SPIED A GENTLE DOVE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In what alone is ours, the living now
Subject(s): Hope; Doves


NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: 14. RING-DOVE SONG, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Softly I sing you, sweet
Last Line: Sweet.
Subject(s): Doves


NOW THEY DESIRE', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a sleep we have not slept
Last Line: In sevenfold day of days
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Jerusalem; Doves; Sleep; Dreams; Love


ODE, by ANACREON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, why, my sweetest dove
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Love; Doves; Drinks & Drinking; Wine


OF MOIRA UP THE GLEN, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's little that I'd care for the glories of ireland
Last Line: The lovely unfolding of dream-purged desire.
Subject(s): Doves; Ireland; Irish


ON A FERRY BOAT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The river widens to a pathless sea
Last Line: From all that fondles life and feeds the heart.
Subject(s): Doves; Ferry Boats; Rain; Rivers; Sea; Ocean


ROCK DOVES, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three years I commuted across the tappan zee,
Last Line: The answer rang out sharp and shrapnel-sudden
Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Relationships


SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE HOLY DOVE SITTING NEAR CHRIST'S HEAD, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over whom does the sacred bird hover on starry wing?
Last Line: This bird alone is not unworthy to sleep in this nest: %thisnest alone is quite worthy of this bird
Subject(s): Doves


SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE HOLY DOVE SITTING NEAR CHRIST'S HEAD, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over whom does the sacred bird hover on starry wing?
Last Line: This bird alone is not unworthy to sleep in this nest: %thisnest alone is quite worthy of this bird
Subject(s): Doves


SEALED, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The doves call down the long arcades of
Last Line: I shall be striving towards you till the end.
Subject(s): Birds; Boredom; Doves; Love; Ennui


SONG (1), by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a dove and the sweet dove died
Last Line: Why not live sweetly, as in the green trees?
Variant Title(s): The Dove;song: I Had A Dove And The Sweet Dove Died
Subject(s): Doves


SONG (9), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two doves upon the selfsame branch
Last Line: And never give a thought to night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Doves; Happiness; Joy; Delight


SONG OF FIXED ACCORD, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rou-cou spoke the dove
Subject(s): Doves


SONG OF THE WILD DOVE, by CASSIANO RICARDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Deep within the backlands I walked along the road
Last Line: The weeping of all that weeps because it is far away... %very far away
Subject(s): Doves; Nature


SONNET: 15. UPON THE DEVICE OF A SEELED DOVE, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like as the dove, which seeled up doth fly
Last Line: More happy I, might I in bondage bide.
Subject(s): Doves


SONNETS: 8. BELOVED EYES, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dearest, beneath your lashes' shadow bides
Last Line: With wings of pity once more wash them clean.
Subject(s): Beauty; Doves; Eyes; Love


SURELY SOMEONE WILL HELP, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But who, but who?
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Doves; Mourning; Nature


THE CAPTIVE DOVE, by ANNE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor restless dove, I pity thee
Last Line: Must pine, neglected, and alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton
Subject(s): Doves


THE CHILD AND DOVE; SUGGESTED BY CHANTREY'S STATUE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art a thing on our dreams to rise
Last Line: One vision away of the cloudless morn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Chantrey, Sir Francis Legatt (1781-1841); Doves; Sculpture & Sculptors


THE DOVE, by ABUL HASAN OF SEVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Naught disturbed my tranquil mood
Last Line: Whither? Ah, I do not know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Abu L-hasan Ali Ibn Hisn
Subject(s): Doves


THE DOVE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the sunshine and out of the heat
Last Line: Since the dove fluttered down to its home in my breast!
Subject(s): Doves


THE DOVE, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If haply thou, o desdemona morn
Last Line: Chadd's ford, pennsylvania, 1877.
Subject(s): Doves


THE DOVE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: In virgil's sacred verse we find
Last Line: Says he; for sure I touch his feather.
Subject(s): Cupid; Doves; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Eros; Vergil


THE DOVE (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O bird that seem'st in solitude
Last Line: And ne'er to come again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Doves


THE DOVE (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A tuneful mist above a silent sea
Last Line: Melt into twilight tenderness divine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Doves


THE DOVE (3), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lone horizon listening seems to thee
Last Line: Forever far removed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Doves


THE DOVE IN SPRING, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brooder, brooder, deep beneath its walls
Subject(s): Doves


THE DOVE'S NECK, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dove's neck is so thin
Subject(s): Doves


THE DOVES, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reasoning at every step he treads
Last Line: A lesson for mankind.
Subject(s): Doves; Love


THE DOVES, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: On yonder hillside, white with tombs
Last Line: But vanish at the break of day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Doves; Dreams; Palm Trees; Nightmares


THE DOVES, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The house where I was born
Last Line: But two keep house together.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Doves; Home


THE EAGLE AND THE DOVE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shade of caractacus, if spirits love
Last Line: From heaven, gigantic force to beardless boys.
Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Eagles


THE MESSAGE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you not feel the white glow in your breast, my bird?
Last Line: With no death after, no arrow with stinging pains.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Dover, England; Doves; Love; Messengers


THE MILK-WHITE DOVE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "pew, pew"
Last Line: And away I flew
Subject(s): Doves


THE MOURNING DOVE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What art thou saying, doing, pensive dove
Last Line: "to die or live unchanging lovers true."
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Doves; Life; Love; Nature; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The


THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the bird of loudest lay
Last Line: For these dead birds, sigh a prayer.
Subject(s): Doves; Legends; Love; Phoenix (mythical Bird); Wedding Song; Epithalamium


THE SPARROW AND THE DOVE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was, as learn'd traditions say
Last Line: And, sighing to himself, withdrew.
Subject(s): Doves; Fables; Sparrows; Women; Allegories


THE TURTLE DOVES, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye happy pair of turtle doves
Subject(s): Doves; Love; Turtledoves


THE TWO VOICES, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night darkens fast and the shadows darken
Last Line: Lest they should wake to weep, should wake to weep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Morning; Night; Tears; Voices; Bedtime


THE VOICE OF THE DOVE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come listen, o love, to the voice of the dove
Last Line: "there is only one to-day."
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Doves


THE VOICE OF THE DOVE, by GEORGE STERLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear I the mourning-dove
Last Line: So seas remember, tho our souls forget.
Subject(s): Doves


THE WILD DOVES, by GEORGES BOUTELLEAU    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over gray skies or shining
Last Line: Our haven of desire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cognac Merchant; Novelist
Subject(s): Doves


THE WINGS OF THE DOVE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! For thy wings, thou dove!
Last Line: Would draw me earthwards -- homewards -- yet once more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Doves; Flight; Flying


TO A WOOD-PIGEON, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have I scared thee from thy bough
Last Line: Murmurs night and day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Forests; Hunting; Wings; Woods; Hunters


VIOLIN AND VIOLA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At times, when, with an anguish all too keen
Last Line: The grave viola plaining of old loves.
Subject(s): Doves; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Music & Musicians; Violins; Sorrow; Sadness


VIOLIN SONGS: TWO IN ONE, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Were thou and I the white pinions
Last Line: Two thoughts in the heart of one lord.
Subject(s): Doves; God; Love; Music & Musicians; Sky


WHAT THE DOVE SINGS, by CAROL FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mourning dove
Subject(s): Doves


WINGS OF A DOVE, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At sunset, when the rosy light was dying
Last Line: Come home and rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Birds; Doves