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Subject: PEACOCKS
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First Line: The bird of juno glories in his plumes
Last Line: Makes beauty wreck against an ebbing tide.
Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Peacocks; Self-love


COLD BEFORE DAWN', by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As if in pain
Subject(s): Birds; Cold; Dawn; Night; Peacocks; Sunrise; Bedtime


COLD BEFORE DAWN', by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The peacocks cry to each other, %as if in pain
Subject(s): Birds; Cold; Dawn; Night; Peacocks


NOT THE BIRD, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He's not the bird I took him for
Last Line: And not a peacock, in the bragger!
Subject(s): Birds; Peacocks; Voices


PEACOCK, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Think how a peacock in a forest of high trees
Last Line: And women even cut their shimmery hair!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Birds; Peacocks


PEACOCK AND THE PEAHEN, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: That hotshot strut of the peacock
Last Line: Decides if the dance he %is doing is fancy %enough, then she shouts, 'yoohoo!'
Subject(s): Birds; Peacocks; Peahens


PEACOCK OF JAVA, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought of the mariners of solomon
Last Line: For home, the peacock's tail %committed to the legends of the sea
Subject(s): Birds; Peacocks


PEACOCKS, by PAULINE CLARKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A muster of peacocks
Last Line: Staring with surprise
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Peacocks


POEM ABOUT A BALL IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Feather, feather, if it was a feather, feathers for the fair, or to be fair
Last Line: Only a feathered peacock on the stair
Subject(s): Birds; Peacocks


SPUMA DAL MARE (ON THE LATIN COAST), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flower o' the wave
Last Line: The many-coloured.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Birds; Italy; Peacocks; Sea; Italians; Ocean


SUCH A DUCK, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "once venus, deeming love too fat"
Last Line: "but then -- you're such a duck, my darling!"
Subject(s): Birds;cupid;ducks;juno (goddess);minerva;mythology - Classical;peacocks;venus (goddess); Eros;mallards;drakes


SWELL PEOPLE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There will always be monkeys and peacocks
Subject(s): Monkeys; Peacocks


THE PEACOCK, by SCOTTIE MCKENZIE FRASIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the cold blue haze of a january day
Last Line: In the cold blue haze of a january day?
Subject(s): Birds; Peacocks


THE PEACOCK FEATHERS, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I went forth in the morning
Last Line: All of the peacock's tail.
Subject(s): Birds; Feathers; Peacocks


THE PEACOCK OF JAVA, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought of the mariners of solomon
Subject(s): Birds; Peacocks


THE SWAN AND THE PEACOCK, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Proud of his hundred eyes of glossy grain
Last Line: On cydnus rigg'd to meet mark antony.
Subject(s): Birds; Peacocks; Swans


THE WHITE PEACOCK, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go away!
Last Line: And spreads to a pool on the floor.
Subject(s): Birds; France; Peacocks


THE WHITE PEACOCK, by STUART MERRILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The white peacock in the blue night crying
Last Line: To the white peacock in the azure night.
Subject(s): Birds; Peacocks


WHITE PEACOCK, by STUART MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The white peacock crying in the blue night
Last Line: At the white peacock crying in the blue night
Subject(s): Birds; Peacocks


WHITE PEACOCK, by MARY MILLS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On broad plains of bright sound
Last Line: But nobody sees, nobody hears
Subject(s): Birds; Peacocks