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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MIGRATION Matches Found: 46 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 27,000 MILES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These two asleep...So indrawn and compact Subject(s): Arctic; Birds; Migration A RICHER FREIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: You nightingales, that came so far Last Line: To learn -- next spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Migration; Nightingales AT THE COMING OF THE WILD SWANS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By loch and darkening river Last Line: Honk! Honk! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Migration; Swans AUTUMN SONG, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn has emptied heaven of its birds Last Line: And crows talk hoarsely in the frozen wood Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Migration; Nature; Seasons; Fall CONSUMPTION OF GRAIN, by FIAMA HASSE PAIS BRANDAO Poem Source First Line: Close to the bank %of the river the image is true, it rises Last Line: The measured grain, the chaff and straw that in a final breeze %are further birds arriving Subject(s): Birds; Migration CONTINENT'S END, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the equinox when the earth was veiled in a late rain, Last Line: The older fountain. Subject(s): Sea; Children; Migration; Mothers; Ocean; Childhood CONTINENT'S END, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the equinox when the earth was veiled in a late rain Last Line: The older fountain. Subject(s): Children; Migration; Mothers; Childhood CYPRUS, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cyprus / the strangled Last Line: Malta: the fat lady Subject(s): Migration EARLY MIGRATING GEESE, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mid-autumn by golden river Last Line: Sesame seeds fill the waters, %and the shores are rich in moss Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Geese; Migration ELEGY, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fled is the swiftness of all the white-footed ones Last Line: And the geese honk north again and the heron's going. Subject(s): Ducks; Geese; Migration; Mallards; Drakes GOING SOUTH, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little grey swallow Last Line: Or watch the wrens build in our hazel bower. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Migration GREY GHOSTS, by LILIAN C. B. MCA. MAYER Poem Text First Line: The grey ghosts have come back! Last Line: But the grey ghosts shriek with laughter! Subject(s): Birds; Migration HEARING GEESE ON AN AUTUMN DAY, by DUAN SHUQING Poem Source First Line: Northern geese fly to the south - for what do they hurry> Last Line: My heart is set on returning home - hopelessly I grieve Subject(s): Geese; Homesickness; Migration HONEYMOON FLIGHT, by J. E. NELSON Poem Text First Line: They're flying north to the arctic seas Last Line: To the bridal shores on hudson's bay. Subject(s): Ducks; Geese; Migration; Mallards; Drakes IN 62 THE STARVING SEABIRDS REACHED THE CENTER OF LIMA, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: All night the birds have travelled form the coast -- the spring Last Line: While herds of walrus have their flanks pecked open by the birds Subject(s): Migration; Peru; Travel LAST OF ENGLAND, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's quiet here among the haunted tenses Last Line: A planet majestically in the mind Subject(s): Art And Artists; Great Britain; Migration MIGRATION, by JEAN ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: Wings at the twilight hour Last Line: Against an amber moon. Subject(s): Migration MIGRATION, by HANNAH EKBERG Poem Source First Line: Every summer they bundled us Last Line: Thick and sure between our fingers Subject(s): Appalachia; Illinois; Migration; Mountains; Travel MIGRATION, by PHILIP HELDRICH Poem Source First Line: Beyond the safety of last year's cattails, two wintering Last Line: To head due north, the way it's always been Subject(s): Migration MIGRATION, by PINKIE GORDON LANE Poet's Biography First Line: The winter birds / are flying from the north Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Birds; Migration MIGRATION, by PINKIE GORDON LANE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The winter birds %are flying from the north Last Line: Land, and time a revolving %flame Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Birds; Migration MIGRATION, by GEORGE W. PEACE Poem Text First Line: Its watchful eye observes the passing time Last Line: But when we ask, we find the bird has flown. Subject(s): Birds; Migration MIGRATION, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When autumn scatters his departing gleams Subject(s): Birds; Migration MIGRATION, by ANNE REYNOLDS VOEGTLEN Poem Source First Line: As flocks lift up from a low-tide shore Last Line: Beyond the singular, needing for completion %the briefest period of northern sun Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Migration; Seasons MIGRATIONS, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: You see everything, everything; the breath of flies, a teapot Last Line: Now you know the bell tolls for you and for us Subject(s): Migration MIGRATIONS, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: In fast hearts of birds, heads of whales, breasts Last Line: To open unconstrained like rosy paper flowers aflame Subject(s): Migration; Saint Kilda (scotland) MIGRATIONS, by NANCY MEANS WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Today we fly south: skim milky peaks Last Line: Over steep, like spinning out wind, %like flying home, staying put Subject(s): Migration MIGRATORY BIRD, by CHO BYUNG-HWA Poem Source First Line: The migratory bird is by nature forbidden attachments Last Line: It is made to inhabit the currents of air %setting solitude adrift Subject(s): Migration MONARCHS, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All morning, as I sit thinking of you Last Line: The beauty and silence of the great migrations Subject(s): Longing; Love - Erotic; Butterflies; Migration OKTOBER, by D. E. STEWARD Poem Source First Line: Tree swallows in the hudreds feed in a quarter mile of sky off the Last Line: It is the way things always are so close to italy Subject(s): Birds; Europe; Migration; Winter ON A FLOCK OF BIRDS FLYING SOUTHWARD BY NIGHT, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above the silent fields and slumbering town Last Line: Shall speed to meet the spring. Subject(s): Birds; Migration ON THE SET TOPIC: 'WILD GOOSE ON THE SANDS', by GENG WEI Poem Source First Line: Still a long road to travel to heng-yang Last Line: What thoughts as it stands alone on the beach? - %only worries that frost and sleet will come Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Geese; Migration ORDERS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gulls in wyoming, utah, follow the plows Last Line: Put wings to a stomach and all the world is reached Subject(s): Birds; Migration ORDERS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gulls in wyoming, utah, follow the plows Last Line: Put wings to a stomach and all the world is reached Subject(s): Birds; Migration SHORTAGE OF EELGRASS AND CORN, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Humanitarian efforts were, of course, extended to the geese Last Line: By volume, or won any medals for empathy, but I was sad Subject(s): Geese; Migration SNOW GEESE OVER LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, by JUDITH MINTY Poem Source First Line: All evening, they pass and keep passing overhead Last Line: They're drifting away. They're leaving us behind. Their song is %desire. Desire. Desire Subject(s): Geese; Migration SURVIVAL, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Survival, I know how this way Last Line: We shall survive this way Subject(s): Native Americans; Migration; Survival THE FLIGHT OF THE GEESE, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the low wind wash the softening snow Last Line: A boding of unknown, foreshadowed things. Subject(s): Geese; Migration THE FLOCKS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a downy feather of the dove, earth, I lie Last Line: And who is the gentle master of the homing birds? Subject(s): Birds; Migration THE GREAT MIGRATION, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The third question in spanish class is: de donde eres tu? Subject(s): Learning; Migration THEY DON'T EVEN TAKE SHELTER, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: What an endless procession towards the city Last Line: Those at the front, approaching the merciless gates %are already walking into their invisibility Subject(s): Homeless; Migration; Poverty TO A WATERFOWL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither, midst falling dew Last Line: Will lead my steps aright. Variant Title(s): The Waterfowl Subject(s): Birds; Faith; God; Migration; Nature; Religion; Soldiers; Waterfowl; Belief; Creed; Theology TRAGEDY OF THE ISLE DE SAINTE CROIX - 1605, by LEONIE M. CUMMING Poem Text First Line: Just yesterday my eyes were cast Last Line: While two great nations guard their sleep. Subject(s): Islands; Migration; Tragedy UNBEWILDERED, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Gray geese come honking from the north'...But led Last Line: A voice once spake in far off galilee. Subject(s): Geese; Migration WHAT THE SWALLOWS SAY, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Dry leaves drop silently and cover Last Line: With swallows to eternal spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Migration; Swallows; Winter WILD GEESE, by GEORGE SINGER Poem Source First Line: Out there Last Line: It is also %this unquestioning flight Subject(s): Geese; Migration |
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