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Subject: PETRELS
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First Line: The lark sings for joy in her own loved land
Last Line: "we sport the gale, / and merrily over the ocean we sail"
Subject(s): Birds;petrels


ODE TO MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKEN, by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gaze not at me, my poor unhappy bird
Last Line: Sings to my bird the song!
Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore
Subject(s): Chickens; Petrels


PETREL, by HENRIK JOHAN IBSEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The storm-petrel broods where soundings fail
Alternate Author Name(s): Bjarme, Brynjolf
Subject(s): Petrels


RIDERS OF THE STORM, by DORYS CROW GROVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Petrels are small sea birds
Subject(s): Petrels


THE PETREL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A wanderer o'er the sea-graves ever green
Last Line: Returning, ghost-like, to the restless sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Petrels


THE STORMY PETREL, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A thousand miles from land are we
Last Line: Once more o'er the waves on thy stormy wing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Petrels