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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WINGS Matches Found: 123 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MOTH FOUND ON THE FLOOR, by EDNA M. BECKER Poem Text First Line: Were I an entomologist Last Line: Your loveliness from casual eyes? Subject(s): Wings A WOUNDED PTARMIGAN, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haunter of the herbless peak Last Line: Painted but—in air. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Hunting; Wilderness; Wings; Hunters 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 ANGELS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two shinning women. %I will not betray you with Last Line: And your meticulous absence %of wing Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Heaven; Wings ARCTIC SEAS, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO Poem Source First Line: The arctic seas %hanging from the sunset Last Line: I search for the lark which flew from my breast Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Arctic; Aviation And Aviators; Birds; Flight; Wings BALTIMORE ORIOLE, by SARA V. PRUESER Poem Text First Line: An oriole made / his flaming flight Last Line: In the dusky pine. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Orioles; Wings BATHERS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They make in the twining tide the motions of birds Last Line: And their only sun is swallowed up like a voice Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Birds; Feathers; Wings BATS, by ROBERT DE MONTESQUIOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O bats! / gnats Last Line: Syntheses! Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Wings BIRD, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Why do clear, clean sky Last Line: But my heart is still bound Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Grief; Tears; Wings BIRD, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: There are south-facing studios Last Line: Where the dried bird %itself built its dead nest Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Wings BIRD OF SOME KIND, by RICHARD FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There, through my new glass door, the moon heads to the trees. For Last Line: Place, my dog. There's nothing to do Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Birds; Wings BIRDS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I dreamed that blood flowed from his mouth Last Line: Gather in flocks and come near Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Feathers; Wings BIRDS WAKING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went out at daybreak and stood on primrose hill Last Line: With the bursting roar and uprush of song! Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Birds; Singing And Singers; Wings BLACKBIRDS, by CLARA EXLINE BOCKOVEN Poem Text First Line: The giant that lives in the hill Last Line: With the sounds of a spring that is dead! Subject(s): Blackbirds; Death; Wings; Dead, The BLUE COCKEREL, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning was never here, nor more dark ever Last Line: Or what wakening does he herald with all terror? Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Birds; Chickens; Wings BRIGHT BIRD OF WEATHER, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Ice from a glacier melts in a glass Last Line: C-flat across the flat sea %where no birds fly tonight Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Wings BUTTERFLIES, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Butterflies have no wings Last Line: So that the butterfly shall be harder to swallow Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Survival; Wings BUTTERFLY PARADE, by EDWIN C. GRABER Poem Text First Line: Butterflies with filmy, fantastic Last Line: Let's decorate day with the color of singing. Subject(s): Wings CARDINAL, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: Early when the cold light mirrors off Last Line: Of april consuming us, even %as we half sleep, flying out to meet them Subject(s): Cardinals (birds); Wings CARTOGRAPHY, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out on the border a howl goes up, skinning the cold air Last Line: It's real, it doesn't exist, it's on all the black maps Subject(s): Boundaries; Maps; Wings; Borders CONDORS' EYES, by ROBERTO BRENES MESEN Poem Source First Line: A dream is into lily-water pouring Last Line: For some new caesar bold, lord of our western world! Subject(s): America - Exploration; Birds; Latin America - History; Wings DADDY LONG-LEGS AND THE FLY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once mr daddy long-legs, %dressed in brown and gray Last Line: At battlecock and shuttledore Subject(s): Flies; Insects; Wings DOULEUR, by LULU BRUNT DAWSON Poem Text First Line: Batter the doors of heaven Last Line: You will find a broken heart. Subject(s): Wings 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 EAGLES, by VASILY BASHKIN Poem Text First Line: Upon the black brow of a cliff where no life ever stirred Last Line: "hail, comrade! Delay not! The days we have longed for are near." Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Wings EASTER WINGS, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store Last Line: Affliction shall advance the flight in me. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Easter; God; Holidays; Religion; Wings; The Resurrection; Theology ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE BAT, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Bats have not heard a word of their literary reputation Last Line: Will cause its cave to be burned to ashes Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Blood; Caves; Vampires; Wings ENVYING A LITTLE BIRD, by GREGORIA FRANCISCA Poem Source First Line: Envying a little bird Last Line: As brighter its far object shows! Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Wings ESTATE SALE: THE SCRABBLE GAME OF A DEAD WOMAN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A crowd of strangers flies over your life Last Line: To stand on. Subject(s): Angels; Cemeteries; Coffins; Death; Wings; Graveyards; Dead, The EXHORTING OTHERS, by LIAO HSING Poem Source First Line: A pair of white birds soars into the sky Last Line: Straight is the way, beyond this orb Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Wings; Zen Buddhism FINE FEATHERS, by HENRY T. PRAED Poem Text First Line: Cocky, self-pleased, barnyard king Last Line: And barnyard glories never last. Subject(s): Birds; Feathers; Wings FIVE WHITE BIRDS, by CATHARINE SAVAGE BROSMAN Poem Source First Line: Having seared the sky, the sun-a brazier Last Line: A gesture's meaning as the shaken air resounds Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Spring; Wings 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 FLYING BLOSSOMS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: These butterflies, in twos and threes Last Line: Another crop of golden corn! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Wings; Bugs FREED FROM ANOTHER CONTEXT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, the foreground of the other Last Line: The other side. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Birds; Eyes; Owls; Sight; Vision; Wings GLORY OF THE PLAINS (ON HORSEBACK), by SARAH DELLA ULMER Poem Text First Line: The sky is steeped in blue and gold Last Line: You love it ... Same as I! Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Wings GOUT AND WINGS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pigeons fluttered fieldward, one and all Last Line: A wing was open'd at me everywhere! Subject(s): Birds; Flight; Gout; Insects; Wings; Flying; Bugs GREAT JEHOVAH THOU ART; AN AVIATION HYMN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Great jehovah thou art, god of heaven above Last Line: In that land of the endless day. Subject(s): Air; Aviation & Aviators; Flight; Sky; Wings; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Flying GULL'S WINGS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Across my prison window they have flashed Last Line: I shall fling away. The gull may pass my window again. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Wings; Seagulls HEARD, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: Heard in the middle of the night Last Line: But it was not the lark %and not the icy swan Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Feathers; Singing And Singers; Wings HERE IS MUSIC; VILLANELLE (FOR NORMAN WHATLEY), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A cloud of bombers, riding high Last Line: Crusading birds in summer sky. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Sky; Wings HUGE WINGS FOR A FRAIL BODY, by EVA STROM Poem Source First Line: When day approached evening the dusk gathered round a pink doll's Last Line: What did it resemble? Huge wings for a frail body Subject(s): Growth; Maturity; Wings HUNTING SEASON, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A bird in the wildwood is singing Last Line: Life redeemed shall abide in his love. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Birds; Forests; Hunting; Wings; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Woods; Hunters LINDY-GRAMS: 2. LINDY FLEW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When lindy flew across the sea Last Line: "and brought back home our colonel ""slim." Subject(s): Air; Aviation & Aviators; Flight; Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974); Travel; Wings; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Flying; Journeys; Trips LINDY-GRAMS: 3. OUR LINDY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Who is great among the great? Last Line: Our lindy! Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Heroism; Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974); Sky; Wings; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Heroes; Heroines LITTLE BROWN BIRD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little brown bird in the rain Last Line: In the bend of your wing! Subject(s): Birds; Spring; Wings LOS ANGELES NOCTURNE, by XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA Poem Source First Line: You could say that the streets flow softly in the night Last Line: And when they sleep they dream, not of angels, but %of mortals Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Wings LOST WINE, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day I cast into the sea Last Line: Figures of greatest profundity. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wings; Wine MESSENGERS OF LOVE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Through the sky are angels winging Last Line: When revealed in glory there. Subject(s): Angels; Bethlehem, Palestine; Heaven; Messages & Messengers; Wings; Paradise MOSS, RUST, AND MOTHS, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Moss rises from the ground Last Line: And stare %and stare at the city lights Subject(s): Insects; Moths; Nature; Wings MOTH, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A larval tunneling between pages Last Line: The hunger, the gray dream of with, and, the Subject(s): Insects; Moths; Wings MRS BLUE DICKEY-BIRD, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the sixth little chickey bird walked on his head, to save his feet Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Wings NEW WINGS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When heaven opens its pincer jaws Last Line: And flies cleanthrough the human Subject(s): Heaven; Humanity; Wings OF ALL THE BRAVE BIRDS THAT ERE I DID SEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Nutmegs and cloves; and who gave thee that jolly red nose? Subject(s): Animals;birds;singing & Singers;wings ON FINDING A DEAD BIRD UNDER MY WINDOW, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Here you lie, with feathers cold and wet Last Line: And be the first to wish a friend 'good morning'. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Feathers; Wings OUT FROM ITS FINE CAGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Out from its fine cage flies the nightingale Last Line: Come back to my garden, oh, sweet nightingale Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Nightingales; Singing And Singers; Wings PASSING ON, by AIMEE PAUL THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Give me, not folded wings Last Line: Give me, not folded wings! Subject(s): Birds; Wings PODAGER BEGS PARDON OF BIRDS, BEES, AND WINGS IN GENERAL, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon me, all ye birds that float at ease Last Line: A chiding angel, of the smallest wing. Subject(s): Angels; Bees; Birds; Flight; Insects; Wings; Beekeeping; Flying; Bugs PORTRAIT OF S.B., WITH A STEEL WING, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Sterling wears a steel wing Last Line: Ecstatic in the ultra-violet clouds! [or, light] Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Portraits; Wings POTATO BUG, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rumors of it kept my doors sealed Last Line: Nina de la tierra: child of the earth, %as we all can't help but be Subject(s): Animals; Insects; Mosquitoes; Wings PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUE TO A BIRD MASQUE: EPILOGUE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gentles, if you have followed me Last Line: And tacita her dreams! — our masque is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Robins; Wings QUEST, by CHARLOTTE KELTON Poem Text First Line: When april brings the chimney swift, her nest Last Line: The swifts, deserting home, row out of sight. Subject(s): Weariness; Wings; Fatigue RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD, by VALERIE WOHLFELD Poem Source First Line: Red stripe of valor, of war Last Line: And knows the world all the same Subject(s): Blackbirds; Red (color); Wings REDSTART, by SARA V. PRUESER Poem Text First Line: You fly with the fire of dawn Last Line: Lighting their greatest reach. Subject(s): Birds; Wings RILKE'S ANGELS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: At times it must be sad to be one of them Last Line: A terribly astonished breath Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Prayer; Wings ROBIN REDBREAST, by JOHANNA A. REISWITZ SAINT-VINCENT Poem Text First Line: Robin redbreast in the tree / sing a song Last Line: "do you know that ""god is love""?" Subject(s): Birds; Robins; Wings SILVER WINGS, by PHYLLIS A. LORING Poem Text First Line: O swift and graceful wings that boldly fly Last Line: Will raise courageous wings and fly today. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Wings SNOW GEESE AT DESOTO BEND, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: The missouri twists below them Last Line: A tolling of bells, a benediction Subject(s): Geese; Memory; Missouri; Wings SWAN, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: Nothing more serene that the fluid neck Last Line: And terror swirls the surface of the lake Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Swans; Wings THE AIRPLANE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I like to see the airplane and hear the buzzing sound Last Line: You'd think perhaps 'twould find a star to light on in the sky. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Birds; May (month); Wings THE BARBAROUS BIRD-GODS: A SAVAGE PARABASIS, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We would have you to wit, that on eggs Last Line: The sight of the sun! Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Hawks; Wings THE BIRD IN THE LAUREL'S SONG, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long have I been here? I can't recall Last Line: My wings, and nested here out of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Birds; Love; Wings THE BLUE-BIRD, by MARION THORNTON EGBERT Poem Text First Line: Sunshine, the bird, and the bended bough Last Line: How I envy you! Subject(s): Birds; Wings THE BUTTERFLIES OF TAIWAN, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: I said: because it is the case that Last Line: Or curious, like the butterflies of taiwan? Subject(s): Butterflies; Happiness; Insects; Taiwan; Wings; Joy; Delight; Bugs; Formosa THE BUTTERFLY, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: He loitered on from flower to flower Last Line: The monarch of a peaceful breast. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature; Wings; Bugs THE CAGED EAGLE, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: One thrilling sweep from out the fastness Last Line: And walked back to his cage. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Grief; Prisons & Prisoners; Wings; Sorrow; Sadness; Convicts THE COCK OF THE CHARCOAL BURNER, by ANDRE SALMON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thin black cock of the charcoal burner Last Line: Go tell it to the birds. Subject(s): Birds; Roosters; Wings; Cocks THE EAGLE AND THE DOVE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Intent on prey, an eagle spread Last Line: "o wisdom! Thou speakest like a dove!" Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Birds; Eagles; Hunting; Rifles; Wings; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Hunters THE EAGLE OF FREEDOM, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: O, land of our glory, our boast, and our pride! Last Line: Hurrah for the eagle, the bird of the free! Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Freedom; Wings; Liberty THE FAN, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is I control the air Last Line: Or your tears that tremble. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Air; Fans; Wings THE FIERCE BIRDS, by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kindling the air, fierce birds with feathers of fire Last Line: Angels exulted in fruits that are secret and sweet and forbidden. Alternate Author Name(s): Brusov, Valery Yakovlevich Subject(s): Angels; Birds; Feathers; Wings THE FOWLER, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have an old remembrance - 'tis as old Last Line: Yea, loathed the purpose and the power to kill. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Ducks; Hunting; Wings; Mallards; Drakes; Hunters THE HUMMING-BIRD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a monster bee Last Line: Into a murmurous sound of wings too swift for sight! Subject(s): Flowers; Hummingbirds; Marigolds; Summer; Wings THE LITERAL = THE ABSTRACT: A DEMONSTRATION, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After all those swerving arcs in air Last Line: Of what is absolutely there. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Birds; Feathers; Hunting; Literary Form; Wings; Hunters THE NATURALIST'S SUMMER-EVENING WALK, by GILBERT WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When day declining sheds a milder gleam Last Line: Leander hastened to his hero's bed. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Crickets; Nature; Owls; Wings THE NIGHT HAWK, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds are pillow'd on the waveless deep Last Line: In viewless robe, shall sit enthroned on smoking hills. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Hawks; Sky; Wings THE OPEN DOOR, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, little bird, I open wide Last Line: Awaits my song Subject(s): Air; Birds; Freedom; Wings; Liberty THE SPIDER, by EDWARD LITTLETON Poem Text First Line: Artist, that underneath my table / thy curious feature hast displayed Last Line: Ends both the spider and the poet. Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Spiders; Wings; Bugs THE WHITE EAGLE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: That white eagle which goes by Last Line: After a cycle's ceaseless strife. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Wings TO A BAT, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: Bat - %I want to praise you for your beauty Last Line: And what you know about the longest night Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Wings TO A BIRD, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bird upon the leafy tree-top Last Line: While I listen to the song. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Singing & Singers; Wings TO A FLOCK OF GEESE, by CLARK MCADAMS Poem Text First Line: Ye wild, free troopers of the skies Last Line: With your wild-ringing cries. Subject(s): Feathers; Geese; Sky; Wilderness; Wings TO A SEAMEW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I had wings, my brother Last Line: Beachy head, september, 1886. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Storms; Wings; Nightmares 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 TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. WINGS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wings, wings Last Line: And I understood the meaning of the wings. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Freedom; Speech; Wings; Liberty; Oratory; Orators TRAGEDY, by MAUDE BUTTCANE Poem Text First Line: Poor little robin with a broken wing Last Line: He'll make a delicious tidbit for kitty's greed. Subject(s): Birds; Robins; Wings URANIA, by ROBERT ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: Whence this impatience fluttering in my breast! Last Line: This cordial take.' I drank. Urania flew. Subject(s): Arabia; Heaven; Mortality; Transience; Wings; Paradise; Impermanence VISITOR, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: She was living with an angel. A fugitive, secretive angel Last Line: Haltingly describe to her the angelic geography of distant worlds Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Wings WHAT MIGHT FLY AWAY, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Perpendicular across the path %a wild turkey takes its time, head Last Line: Then it flies inside the walls of night Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Turkey; Wings WHERE THE WHITE BIRD FLIES, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: The white bird fallen? The white bird lost? Last Line: Only heroes follow where the white bird flies. Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation & Aviators; Birds; Sky; Wings WILD GEESE, by ELLA MOORE MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: At the sound of the wild geese Last Line: To the port of your heart, my dear! Subject(s): Birds; Geese; Wings WILD GEESE GO OVER, by EDWIN CARLILE LITSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along dim lanes lit only by the stars Last Line: They gently drop to rest at break of day. Alternate Author Name(s): Litsey, E. Carl Edwin Carlile Subject(s): Wings WILD GEESE SANG, by KUMHONG Poem Source First Line: Wild geese sang across a thin jade sky Last Line: Its cold glimmers faded within me Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Geese; Love - Loss Of; Wings WING, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madrid, 1934 / until a shepherd boy from orihuela Last Line: Had not heard a nightingale Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Wings; Women WING, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madrid, 1934 %until a shepherd boy from orihuela Last Line: Had not heard a nightingale Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Wings; Women WING, by PIERRE REVERDY Poem Source First Line: A dry breath coming from afar Last Line: A slight noise rises higher %a cautious dream that hides Subject(s): Birds; Wings WINGS, by DELMIRA AGUSTINI Poem Source First Line: I once had %two wings! Last Line: Exactly as if they were thawing! Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Wings WINGS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bay was bronzed with sunset and so light Last Line: We soared, upbuoyed on waters sunset-red! Subject(s): Air; Aviation & Aviators; Birds; Eagles; Sky; Wings; Airplanes; Air Pilots WINGS, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take down your golden wings now from their hook behind the door Last Line: Your golden wings, your windy wings, that leave me desolate. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Wings WINGS, by ELISE BRICE GILLESPIE Poem Text First Line: The earth is now full of such wonderful things Last Line: My arms are outstretched -- oh god! Let me fly! Subject(s): Flight; Wings; Flying WINGS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always wondered why they called them wings Last Line: People a bird is a rehearsal Subject(s): Wings; Flight WINGS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always wondered why they called them wings Subject(s): Wings WINGS, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The wind! Subject(s): Wings WINGS, by GLADYS MELVILLE INT-HOUT Poem Text First Line: On laggard wing, the butterfly Last Line: And poised my soul for flight. Subject(s): Wings WINGS, by ADELE FLORENCE CORY NICOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Was it worth it to forego our wings Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, Laurence Subject(s): Wings WINGS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the heron Last Line: They fought, they wanted %to lie down in that silky mash %ofthe swamp, the sooner %to fly Subject(s): Flight; Herons; Wings WINGS, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If you could have wings would you want them Subject(s): Wings WINGS, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you could have wings would you want them Last Line: That I might fly away where the ships of pine wood pass between %the dark cliffs Subject(s): Wings WINGS, by ANNA STREETER WOOD Poem Text First Line: The lark, whose instinct / reaches high Last Line: A pair of wings. Subject(s): Wings WINGS AT DAWN, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn is dense with twitter Last Line: And their wings are split silver as they pass. Subject(s): Dawn; Swallows; Wings; Sunrise WINGS OF A GOD, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beating of the wings Subject(s): Wings YOU, FAILED PRONOUN, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Direct address to the swans: you, whose feet Last Line: On a dark ground. Eft. Splash. Gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Birds; Spring; Swans; Wilderness; Wings YOUTH REPRESSED, by MARY N. S. WHITELEY Poem Text First Line: They have brought the bird to earth Last Line: How high a bird may go. Subject(s): Birds; Wings; Youth |
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