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Subject: GOLDFINCHES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FOR THE SAKE OF THE SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: For the sake of the song would I sing to-day
Last Line: As the goldfinch warbles its notes awing!
Subject(s): Goldfinches; Nature; Singing & Singers


GOLDFINCH, by ODELL SHEPARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down from the sky on a sudden he drops
Subject(s): Birds; Goldfinches


GOLDFINCHES, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop
Subject(s): Birds; Goldfinches


GOLDFINCHES, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some goldfinches were having a melodious argument at the edge of a puddle
Subject(s): Goldfinches


GOLDFINCHES, by ELISABETH SCOLLARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now that the giant sunflowers rise
Subject(s): Birds; Goldfinches


ODE TO THE GOWDSPINK, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Frae fields where spring her sweets has blawn
Last Line: The essence of a paltry bubble.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Goldfinches


ON A GOLDFINCH STARVED TO DEATH IN HIS CAGE, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time was when I was free as air
Last Line: Had been your prisoner still.
Subject(s): Goldfinches


THE CAGED GOLDFINCH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within a churchyard, on a recent grave
Last Line: No one knew anything.
Subject(s): Birds; Goldfinches


THE GOLDFINCH, by RICHARD DEHMEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sunlight stabs; a thistle plot
Last Line: Our glad existence.
Subject(s): Goldfinches


THE GOLDFINCHES, by RICHARD JAGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To you, whose groves protect the feather'd quires
Last Line: And there in silent sadness inly mourned.
Subject(s): Goldfinches; Grief; Shenstone, William (1714-1763); Sorrow; Sadness