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Subject: BIRDCAGES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CAGED BIRD, by SARAH ORNE JEWETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High at the window in her cage
Last Line: And understand our wistful speech!
Subject(s): Birdcages; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts


ABDUL ALI AND THE GOLDEN BIRD: 1, by JOHN GREENING    Poem Source                    
First Line: He tell me I have honest face, and say
Last Line: Canary in a cage. I say, 'mabrook- %this bird of gold-it buy us both good luck!
Subject(s): Birdcages


ALL DAY / THE BIRD SITS IN HIS CAGE, by KOBAYASHI ISSA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa
Subject(s): Birdcages


AND 'I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS': A VILLANELLE, by JR. GEORGE MOSBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lawd, tis harder by the day
Subject(s): Birdcages; Prisons And Prisoners


BALLADE: 12, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like as the bird in the cage enclosed
Last Line: By loss of life liberty, or life by prison?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Birdcages; Freedom; Liberty


BIRD CAGE BUNCH, by CHARLIE R. BRAXTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: And if you still
Subject(s): Birdcages


BIRD IN A CAGE, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Who would keep a little bird confied?
Subject(s): Birdcages


BIRD IN A CAGE, by JERRY R. JAX    Poem Source                    
First Line: A prisoner is like a caged bird with cliped wing
Last Line: In his presence at last, love and care I would find, %and joy, happiness and freedom of wing and min
Subject(s): Birdcages; Freedom


BIRD IN SEARCH OF A CAGE, by ROBERT PACK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Said the bird in search of a cage
Subject(s): Birdcages


BIRD-FEAR, by GERALD JONAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bird-fear, fear of the fall, of the season's fall, the feather's fall
Last Line: Bird-fear, bird-fear, fear of the cage, fear of the air, the price of flight
Subject(s): Birdcages; Fear


BIRD-SHOP, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: See where the cages, packed in the gas-lit window
Subject(s): Birdcages


BIRDCAGE, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wrapped in blankets, it looks like a body humped in the bed
Last Line: I drop a ring into a birdcage with a clink that wakes me as I say, % I do.
Subject(s): Birdcages; Courthouses; Crime And Criminals; Judges; Prisons And Prisoners


CAGED, by CAROLINE ATHERTON BRIGGS MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poor prisoned bird, that sings and sings
Alternate Author Name(s): Caro
Subject(s): Birdcages


CAGED BIRD, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A free bird leaps
Last Line: Sings of freedom
Subject(s): Birdcages; Freedom; Liberty


CAGED BIRD, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A free bird leaps
Last Line: For the caged bird %sings of freedom
Subject(s): Birdcages; Freedom


CAGED BIRD, by JEANNETTE MAINO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bird beat against its cage
Last Line: Of great wings flying
Subject(s): Birdcages


CAGED BIRD, by MAIMIE A. RICHARDSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sing, little bird, to keep your heart from breaking
Subject(s): Birdcages


CAGED BIRD, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: He was there in my room
Last Line: I wept hot tears like blood
Subject(s): Birdcages


CAGED BIRD, by LUCI SHAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whose eye
Last Line: Strong, %ascending, %airborne, sun- %colored wing %of song
Subject(s): Birdcages


CAGED BIRDS, by IGNACY KRASICKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The young finch asked the old one why he wept
Last Line: But I knew freedom once, and weep to know
Subject(s): Birdcages; Freedom


CANARIES IN UNCLE ARTHUR'S BASEMENT, by ED OCHESTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the white house in rutherford
Last Line: Loved me or loved his skill or both he slowly removed the cover %from a cage and a brilliant gold bi
Subject(s): Birdcages; Canaries


CAPTURED BIRD, by EDITH SODERGRAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A bird sat captured in a golden cage
Last Line: Witness to life that defies and persists
Subject(s): Birdcages


DISPLACED PERSON LOOKS AT A CAGE-BIRD, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Every single day, going to where I stay
Last Line: On that poor wee bird, its feet in the air, %an innocent victim of something. Just like me
Subject(s): Birdcages


HEART OF A BIRD, by DOROTHEA MACKELLAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a bird in a cage of gold, a small red bird
Subject(s): Birdcages


MILAN BIRD-CAGES, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just four hundred years ago
Subject(s): Birdcages


MY CAPTIVE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I caught a little bird, and I shut him in a cage
Last Line: "throw wide the door, to keep a heart from roaming."
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Birdcages


OF A BIRD-CAGE, by CAROLINE LINDSAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A tiny prison built by prisoned hands
Last Line: Bend down the latch, and firmly bolt the door!
Alternate Author Name(s): Fitzroy, Caroline
Subject(s): Birdcages; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts


RAMADA INN BIRD CAGE SCARE, by MICHAEL CATHERWOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Insurgents scheme in the bathroom, tug
Last Line: The apostrophe, then invent the dance called red
Subject(s): Birdcages; Hotels


RESPONDING TO (T'AO) YUAN-MING'S DRINKING WINE POEMS, by CHENG CHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sad, sad is the bird in a cage
Last Line: And watch you climb to the pinnacle
Subject(s): Birdcages


SPARROW'S FEATHER, by GEORGE BARKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was this empty bird cage in the garden
Last Line: I hope the whole unimportant affair is %soon forgotten. The analogies are too trite
Subject(s): Birdcages; Sparrows


SYMPATHY (2), by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
Last Line: I know why the caged bird sings!
Subject(s): African Americans; Birdcages; Freedom; Sympathy; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty; Empathy


THE SHINING LITTLE HOUSE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "it hung in the sun, the little house"
Last Line: And make the best of our life
Subject(s): Birdcages;reconciliation


THE VACANT CAGE (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our little bird in his full day of health
Last Line: But where's the spray and flutter that we loved?
Subject(s): Birdcages; Birds


THE VACANT CAGE (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He shall not be cast out like wild-wood things!
Last Line: The filming eye, and beak that gasped with pain.
Subject(s): Birdcages; Birds