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| Searching... Subject: BIRDS Matches Found: 2468 "ANSWER TO 'THE MESSENGER BIRD,' BY AN AMERICAN QUAKER LADY", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Yes! I came from the spirits' land Last Line: Prounounced by the voice of god Subject(s): "birds;hemans, Felicia (1793-1835); "SWEET SUFFOLK OWL, SO TRIMLY DIGHT", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "and sings a dirge for dying souls, / 'te whit, te whoo!'" Subject(s): Birds;death;owls; "dead, The; 27,000 MILES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These two asleep...So indrawn and compact Subject(s): Arctic; Birds; Migration A BESTIARY: THE EAGLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Of the eagle I'll speak this stead Last Line: Thro' god's grace alway Subject(s): Birds;eagles A BIRD AT SUNSET, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild bird, that wingest wide the glimmering moors Last Line: At night upon her breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Birds; Love - Loss Of A BIRD FROM THE WEST, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the grey dawn, amongst the falling leaves Last Line: Oh! Fair the breaking day in ireland now. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Birds; Homecoming; Ireland; Irish A BIRD IN HAND, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look at this ball of intractable fluff Last Line: Not to be plundered, delight of the air! Variant Title(s): A Bird In The Hand Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Nature A BIRD MAY SIT AND SING, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: As well as play Subject(s): Birds A BIRD SINGS AT NIGHT, by HILDEGARDE FLANNER Poem Text First Line: Who sings upon the pinnacle of night? Last Line: Time's sinister profile on the wall of night. Subject(s): Birds A BIRD'S ANGER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A summer's morning that has but one voice Last Line: "before it makes a coffin of your nest." Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds A BIRD'S CRADLE-SONG, by EVELYN M. WORTHLEY Poem Text First Line: Weary, weary loves! Last Line: To the tinkle, tinkle, tinkle of the rivulet below. Subject(s): Birds A BIRD'S SONG, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow of a bird Last Line: But the soul-love is soaring out of reach forevermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Birds; Shadows; Hope A BLACK NOVEMBER TURKEY, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nine white chickens come Last Line: Acclaim the sun Subject(s): Birds A BOOK OF DREAMS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay and dreamed. The master came Last Line: And all but me asleep! Subject(s): Birds; Children; Churches; Crucifixion; Death; Desolation; Despair; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; God; Hope; Lilies; Memory; Prodigal Son; Sleep; Swans; Youth; Childhood; Cathedrals; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism A COLONY OF NIGHTINGALES, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I placed the mute eggs of the nightingale Last Line: Nor knows the rival choir she settled here! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales A COUNTRY LIFE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bird that I don't know, Last Line: Sees, in the moonlight, graves Subject(s): Birds; Country Life A CUCKOO SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crowns are for kings to wear, sad crowns of gold Last Line: Run to thy marriage bells, birds of the day-time. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Spring A CURLEW'S CALL, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whethen is it yourself, mister hagan? Last Line: And the crathur went slow-fut and heavy; you might think that she understood. Subject(s): Birds; Curlews A DAWN IN A TREE OF BIRDS', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And then another Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Trees; Sunrise A DEAD BIRD IN WINTER, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cold, hard sky and hidden sun Last Line: From nestled blossoms round my grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Birds; Winter A DEAD SINGER, by JOHN EDWARD LOGAN Poem Text First Line: Fair little spirit of the woodland mazes Last Line: Of unbegotten rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Dane, Barry Subject(s): Birds A DUET, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little yellow bird above Last Line: But breathes the love he cannot sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds A FABLE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some cawing crows, a hooting owl Last Line: Useless and unavailing. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Fables; Soul; Allegories A FEATHER FOR VOLTAIRE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bird is an alphabet, it flies Last Line: And this is the key to the kingdom Subject(s): Birds; Feathers A FEW OF THE BIRD-FAMILY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old bob-white and chipbird Last Line: And our old settin'-hen! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Rivers A FORETASTE OF SPRING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Sweet and golden afternoon Last Line: Night is nigh! Subject(s): Afternoon; Birds; Flowers; Laughter; Spring A FRAGMENT, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yon bird is strong to fly Last Line: Print their sad cypher on the polished sky! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Birds A FRAGMENT, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: And then it seem'd I was a bird Last Line: Twas then I knew it was a dream! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Singing & Singers; Streets; Nightmares; Avenues A GULL GOES UP, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gulls when they fly move in a liquid arc Last Line: That only bear the feathered heart no weight. Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls A HAPPENING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two birds, flying east, hit the night Subject(s): Birds; Shapeshifting A HOUSE IN THE HEDGE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All architecture done, / and housekeeping begun Last Line: God's smile come radiant through. Subject(s): Birds; Family Life; Home; Relatives A LARK SINGING IN THE CITY, by GEORGE ROBERTS (19TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: Earth-nested bird, when you were free Last Line: Of earth and sun our joy we keep. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks A LEGEND OF THE NORTHLAND, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away, away in the northland Last Line: A mean and selfish man. Subject(s): Birds; Selfishness; Woodpeckers A LITTLE GIRL ON HER WAY TO SCHOOL, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the dark dawn humped off to die Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Morning; Birds; Walking A LITTLE MORNING MUSIC, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birds in the first light twitter and whistle Subject(s): Birds; Morning A LITTLE WREN, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wren dropped down on my window sill Last Line: Which does god deems wisest, the sage or the wren? Subject(s): Birds; Wrens A MAN AND A WOMAN AND A BLACKBIRD , by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the two rivers Last Line: And the blackbird are one Subject(s): Birds; Man-woman Relationships A MARCH GLEE, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the wild geese honking Last Line: Her foot is on the stair. Subject(s): Birds; Spring A MAY MONODY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside my opened window pane Last Line: "come again! Come again!" Subject(s): Birds; Faith; May (month); Memory; Youth; Belief; Creed A MEADOW TRAGEDY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a meadow full of sunshine Last Line: And a song up in the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Harvest; Pastures; Meadows; Leas A MEETING OF THE BIRDS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of a thousand queer meetings, both great, sir, and small Last Line: Even truth's egg is marred if hatched out by a rogue! Subject(s): Birds A METRICAL ADAGE; COMMON IN CHESHIRE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The robin and the wren / are god's cock and hen Last Line: "the martin and the swallow, / are god's mate and marrow" Variant Title(s): The Robin And The Wren (2) Subject(s): Birds A MIGRANT THRUSH, by MARY RUSSELL BARTLETT Poem Text First Line: For one rare moment on a naked spray Last Line: Which stranger keeps a holy song within. Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes; Wellesley College A MILE DOWN THE ROAD FROM HOME, by BRENDAN GALVIN Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I've caught myself Subject(s): Birds A MINOR BIRD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I have wished a bird would fly away Last Line: In wanting to silence any song Subject(s): Birds A MORNING WALK, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lie there,' I said, 'my sorrow! Lie thou there Last Line: And god was in that bird, believe it as ye may. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Birds; Faith; God; Belief; Creed A NATURE NOTE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four or five whippoorwills Last Line: September the twenty-third Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills A NIGHT-CHARGE AGAINST A SWAN BY A LOVER, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The swan, wild-clanging, scoured the midnight lake Last Line: Thy silence will be annie's voice to me. Subject(s): Birds; Swans A NIGHTINGALE AT FRESNOY, by JESSIE BELL RITTENHOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never, they say, were guns so loud Last Line: To sing the song of life! Alternate Author Name(s): Scollard, Clinton, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Life; Nightingales; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War A NIGHTINGALE IN KENSINGTON GARDENS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They paused, the cripple in the chair Last Line: And praise and audience fail.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Birds; Kensington Gardens; Nightingales A PAINTING OF MA-LIN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just because you painted it so, ma-lin Last Line: Give wings to the heart! Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Death; Life; Paintings And Painters; Dead, The A PARAPHRASE ON...LEVITICUS: 11; CONTAINING REASONS OF PROHIBITIONS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of feathred foules, that fanne the bucksom aire Last Line: Flittyng, with littel leathren sailes dispredde. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Food & Eating; Religion; Theology A PASTORAL, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Flower of the medlar Last Line: To wake our wedding-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Marriage; Nymphs; Roses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A POEM BY GARNIE BRAXTON, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Garnie, I wish I was a sea gull Last Line: I been there once Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Gulls; Labor & Laborers; Childhood; Seagulls; Work; Workers A POEM TO MY NOTEBOOK, ACROSS WINTER, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The flock of birds takes shape Last Line: I hope Subject(s): Birds; Slavery; Serfs A PRESENTATION OF TWO BIRDS TO MY SON, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chicken. How shall I tell you what it is Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Birds A QUESTION, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O bird with heart of wassail Last Line: Here's my thought of you. Subject(s): Birds A RECOLLECTION, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once there in my garden fair Last Line: We would love and prize and cheer. Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening; Memory A REMONSTRANCE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing me no more, sweet warbler, for the dart Last Line: Together with the silence breaks my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers A RICHER FREIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text 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 A SEA-BIRD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cry, I cry Last Line: And my heart that is mad. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Hearts; Night; Sea; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean A SEA-BIRD; OFF PERU, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O to be a sea-bird one celestial day Last Line: In god's azure only sun and sea and I! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Nature - Religious Aspects; South America; Seagulls A SHILLING EACH, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall a man or woman pass unstirred? Last Line: A shilling, these! One shilling, cage and bird! Subject(s): Birds; Love A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 7, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When smoke stood up from ludlow Last Line: And that will be the best.' Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): The Blackbird Subject(s): Birds A SINGING BIRD, by SARA V. PRUESER Poem Text First Line: The family tree from which you came Last Line: The musical notes of a singing bird. Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers A SINGING BIRD IN THE CITY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Golden-throated, hath god sent thee for our comfort in the city? Last Line: He goes singing, singing, singing all the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Birds A SLEEPING-PLACE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When into the rose Last Line: For lids in maiden slumber wed? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Roses A SONG, by ALLAN DAVIS Poem Text First Line: The water-thrushes play Last Line: Shining like a rose.) Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Singing & Singers; Swamps; Songs; Bogs; Fens; Marshes A SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is ever a song somewhere, my dear Last Line: There is ever a song somewhere! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Sky A SONG OF A GARDEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a thing a garden is Last Line: To bid grow, to increase! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Birds; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Herbs; Insects; Medicine; Quiet Life; Beekeeping; Nightmares; Bugs; Drugs, Prescription A SONG OF SINGING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing! Gangling lad, along the brink Last Line: But sing! Sing! Sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers A SPRING THOUGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the spring I have leaned me full close to the bark of a tree Last Line: In the secrets the bird and the rose and the tree have confessed. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Secrets; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs A SPRINGTIME WISH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, to be a robin Last Line: Through the spring. Subject(s): Birds; Robins; Spring A TALISMAN, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under a splintered mast Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls A THRUSH BEFORE DAWN, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A voice peals in this end of night Last Line: O innocent throat! O human ear! Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes A THRUSH IN SEVEN DIALS (A FACT OF NATURE IS HERE DISREGARDED), by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this den of smoke and filth Last Line: To stir your hearts and dim your eyes. Subject(s): Birds; Cages; Thrushes A THRUSH IN THE MONLIGHT, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In came the moon and covered me with wonder Last Line: And the moon came in, and silence, on my window-sill. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes A VERY NICE PAIR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Two magpies sat on a garden wall Last Line: And the other little magpie's tail Subject(s): Birds;magpies;tails A VIOLINIST, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lark above our heads doth know Last Line: List raptured, and thank god for thee. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Violins; Skylarks A WAR SONG OF TYROL, by JOHANN CHRYSOSTOMOS SENN Poem Text First Line: Wild eagle of the tyrol Last Line: "I've been among the dead!" Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Singing & Singers; Tyrol, Austria; Victory; War A WARNING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The robin and the redbreast Last Line: "bad [or, ill] luck will surely follow" Variant Title(s): The Robin And The Wren (1);a Rule For Birds' Nesters Subject(s): Birds;birds' Nests A WHIPPOORWILL IN THE WOODS, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night after night, it was very nearly enough Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills 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 A WREN'S NEST, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among the dwellings framed by birds Last Line: In foresight, or in love. Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Wrens A YOUNG THRUSH, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: What power of will - to follow now Last Line: Am happy to be gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Thrushes; Dead, The ABOVE, by HAROLD STRONG GULLIVER Poem Text First Line: A red bird flew across the suwanee river Last Line: To what was true. Subject(s): Birds ABSENCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The mock-bird sings in the dusky morn Last Line: And know love broods in your home-nest too. Subject(s): Birds; Longing; Love; Mockingbirds ACCOUNT OF THE PAVILION FOR SETTING THE CRANES FREE: SONG, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cranes go off in flight Last Line: In the western hills you cannot linger longer Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Cranes (birds) ACROSS THE RED SKY, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the red sky two birds flying Last Line: And the restlessly seeking birds. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Birds ADAGIO MA NON TROPPO, by V. PENELOPE PELIZZON Poem Source First Line: Golden-throated birds, their ripe warbling Last Line: Warbles nightly, proving me wrong Variant Title(s): Adagio, Ma Non Tropp Subject(s): Birds ADDRESS TO THE WOODLARK, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay Last Line: Or my poor heart is broken. Variant Title(s): To The Woodlark Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks ADVICE TO A BLUE-BIRD, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who can make a delicate adventure Last Line: Within a sky, and rob it of its blue! Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds ADVICE TO THE WOOD PEWEE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O bird with the mournful throat Last Line: It might be adopted -- by man! Subject(s): Birds; Pewees (birds) AFFLATIOUS, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: That cinnamon nankeen night heron Last Line: On an upland when I was younger Subject(s): Birds AFTER BOCCACCIO, by MAX LICHT SONIN Poem Text First Line: The maiden is a swan Last Line: A maiden and a swan. Subject(s): Birds; Swans AFTER RAINFALL, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: The thrush starts singing down the road Last Line: I jotting down this laughing song. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Birds; Rain; Thrushes AFTER THE WOODPECKER, by D. W. ASHBEE Poem Source First Line: Mosquitoes dart and nip Last Line: The woodpecker can make up for everything Subject(s): Birds AFTERNOON IN A TREE, by SISTER MARIS STELLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you have climbed a laden apple tree Last Line: The tribe of those who neither reap nor sow. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Alice Gustava Subject(s): Birds AGAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The blackbird in the april grass Last Line: When it sings again Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Singing And Singers AH, SWEET THE BIRDS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, sweet the birds are singing, and mead Last Line: And laughs, and knows no reason. ... God, how I hate it all! Subject(s): Birds; Hate AIRMAN, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He will watch the hawk with an indifferent eye Last Line: Hands, wings, are found. Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Aviation & Aviators; Birds; Hawks; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.) AKIN, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who that has marked the white owl's flight Last Line: Bird music on the hill! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Birds AL FAR DELLA NOTTE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! / as a bubbling fount Last Line: On the flower of the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales; Rome, Italy; Singing & Singers ALBATROSS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Often the idle mariners at sea Last Line: He cannot walk, for he has giant's wings Subject(s): Albatrosses; Birds ALBATROSS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Often, for pastime, mariners will ensnare Last Line: He cannot walk, borne down by giant wings Subject(s): Albatrosses; Birds ALBATROSS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Often for amusement, a sailing crew will trap Subject(s): Albatrosses; Birds ALBATROSS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, to entertain themselves, the men of the crew Subject(s): Albatrosses; Birds ALBATROSS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Often, for their amusement, crewmen seize Last Line: Is exiled on earth amid the crowd's scornful squawking, %hiswings of a giant prevent him from walkin Subject(s): Albatrosses; Birds ALBATROSS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, for sport, the men of the crew Last Line: His giant wings will not let him walk Subject(s): Albatrosses; Birds ALBATROSS, by J. E. SCRUGGS Poem Source First Line: See where it soars, this thing by man created Subject(s): Albatrosses; Birds ALBATROSS, by CHARLES WARREN STODDARD Poem Text First Line: Time cannot age thy sinews, nor the gale Last Line: Defiant to the last! Subject(s): Albatrosses; Birds ALBERTO, by WARREN WOESSNER Poem Source First Line: When the wind clipped %the whitecaps, and the flags Last Line: That for days might tip and sway %and cast us back to sea Subject(s): Birds ALCIDA: VERSES, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography 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 ALL DAY: WINDOW-BARS, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now I lie still Last Line: From dawn to dark! Subject(s): Birds; Insects; Windows; Bugs ALL EYES, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Silly bird is mr. Owl Last Line: When he swifels left and right %eyes surround the mouse-mad night Subject(s): Birds; Owls ALL IS SAFE ..., by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flow, water, the blue water Subject(s): Birds ALL PASSES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, sweet, the lusty thrush Last Line: Alack, that songs have wings! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Summer; Thrushes ALL THE THINGS A BIRD IS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: All the things a bird is, swinging in a tree Last Line: And find the good in everything Subject(s): Birds ALL THESE BIRDS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Agreed that all these birds Subject(s): Birds ALL THESE BIRDS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Agreed that all these birds Last Line: Come, stranger, sister, dove: %put on the reins of love Subject(s): Birds ALLELUIA!, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With windflower now and daffodil Last Line: Alleluia! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Jesus Christ; Praise; Resurrection, The ALLOUETTE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Singing larks I saw for sale Last Line: It's gratitude to god Subject(s): Birds; Larks ALMOST, NEVER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He says one thing -- she says everything else Last Line: Knotted with cries Subject(s): Birds; Change; Discontent; Life; Dissatisfaction ALTER EGO, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: At times, I wish I had been able %to stay on in the home place Last Line: On winter nights, my outside light %would perforate the dark Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Nature; Summer AMORETTI: 19, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The merry cuckoo, messenger of spring Last Line: Ere cuckow end, let her a rebell be. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): The Merry Cuckoo Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos AN ADDRESS TO THE NIGHTINGALE (FROM ARISTOPHANES), by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dear one, with tawny wings Last Line: Even the throne-room of god it shall fill! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Aristophanes (450-388 B.c.); Birds; Dramatists; Nightingales; Plays & Playwrights AN APRIL DAY, by ROSS LAWRENCE Poem Text First Line: In from the blue a galaxy of sound Last Line: God minds us all upon an april day. Subject(s): April; Birds; Fields; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas AN AUK IN FLIGHT, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birds AN AUTUMN FLITTING, by GEORGE COTTERELL Poem Text First Line: My roof is hardly picturesque Last Line: And the summer will be gone. Subject(s): Birds AN EARLY CARDINAL SINGS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Oh, gay little bird in the sycamore tree Last Line: You opened the gates of spring for me! Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight AN ECHO, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Keats! Keats! Last Line: His brother-bird. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Echoes; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Thrushes AN EPITOME, by KATE ROBERTSON KNAUER Poem Text First Line: God's winds lift high to barren rock Last Line: The owlet or the cooing dove. Subject(s): Birds AN EVENING ADDRESS TO A NIGHTINGALE, SELECTION, by CUTHBERT SHAW Poem Text First Line: Sweet bird! That, kindly perching near Last Line: "and opes a glorious passage to the skies.'" Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales AN EVENING WALK BY THE SEA-SIDE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis pleasant to wander along on the sand Last Line: Alike of the universe speak him the lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Birds; Seashore; Seaweed; Beach; Coast; Shore AN INCIDENT, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A simple thing, yet chancing as it did Last Line: I would not soar like thee, in loneliness to pine! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Flight; Life; Flying AN INVITATION TO THE FEATHERED RACE, by RICHARD GRAVES Poem Text First Line: Again the balmy zephyr blows Last Line: Your songs be my reward. Subject(s): Birds AN OFFERING FOR DUNGENESS BAY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tern, his lean, slant wings Subject(s): Birds; Dungeness Bay, Washington AN OMEN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the bird that appears Last Line: From its regularity Subject(s): Birds AND NOW THERE CAME BOTH MIST AND SNOW FR. THE ANCIENT MARINER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birds AND THERE WAS NO MORE SEA, by KATHARINE WASHBURN HARDING Poem Text First Line: Beyond and yet beyond new beauty calls Last Line: But oh, unsatisfied, there is no sea. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Mountains; Sea; Seagulls; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean ANDEAN COCK-OF-THE-ROCK, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source Last Line: This vivid bird can't be ignored Subject(s): Birds ANGEL, by WARREN WOESSNER Poem Source First Line: Cold air rams into hot, %pushes up big clouds that flatten Last Line: It's clear all the rest of the way Subject(s): Birds ANHINGA AT REST, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Neck a slack snare, each naked feather soaked Last Line: As the sun retouches each of the lake's glittering scales Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Birds; Rest ANSWER TO A CHILD'S QUESTION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you ask what the birds say? The sparrow, the dove Last Line: "I love my love, and my love loves me!" Variant Title(s): What The Birds Say;birds;the Language Of Birds Subject(s): Birds; Love; Spring ANTHEM, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These birds pursue their errands Last Line: And airs of william byrd Subject(s): Birds ANTHILL, by SVETLANA MAKAROVIC Poem Source First Line: All the same. I am the same Last Line: They don't know about the golden beak- %opening above their roof Subject(s): Birds; Feathers; Strangers ANTIPODAL, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk that brings the whippoorwill Last Line: Here and now? Subject(s): Birds; Stones; Trees; Whipporwills; Granite; Rocks ANY BIRD, by ILO ORLEANS Poem Source First Line: I haven't a palace Subject(s): Birds APRIL, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lessons sweet of spring returning Last Line: Trust entire, and ceaseless praise. Variant Title(s): First Sunday After Epiphany;the Nightingale;influences Of Spring Subject(s): April; Birds; Nightingales 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 ARIA, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One crow comes now every morning Last Line: And I bowed my head as she sang Subject(s): Birds; Crows ARMADILLO; FOR ROBERT LOWELL, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the time of year Last Line: And a weak mailed fist %clenched ignorant against the sky Subject(s): Animals; Armadillos; Birds; Brazil; Owls ARMONY OF BYRDES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When dame flora %in die aurora Subject(s): Birds ARTICULATE THRUSH, by LEW SARETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, you and I, wild thrush - we share Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes AS A GLEAMING MALLARD ALIGHTING IN A POOL, FR. WINGS, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birds AS FALLING FROST, by LIONEL WIGGAM Poem Source First Line: A man is fortunate indeed Subject(s): Birds AS LONG AS THE WOODPECKER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A little life left in the shell Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Woodpeckers AS WHEN SOME HUNTER IN TH SPRING HATH FOUND, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birds ASIAN BIRDS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this may-month, by grace Last Line: The poem that I sing would be the voice of spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Asia; Birds; Far East; East Asia; Orient AT 7, by W. B. THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: The boy making an angel Last Line: The snow smears across the grass. %the redbird sings tyoo! Tyoo! Subject(s): Birds; Boys; Snow AT BRANDON, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the ivied house the starling Last Line: Made a lover of the night. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Night; Bedtime AT HALF-PAST THREE A SINGLE BIRD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Not so, said cunning jacob! Subject(s): Birds; Time; Creative Ability AT MEMORY'S CASEMENT, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Upon the blossom branch in spring Last Line: At memory's casement sings alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Birds; Memory AT NIGHT, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Home, home from the horizon far and clear Last Line: Your words to me, your words! Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Variant Title(s): To W.m.; Thoughts At Evening Subject(s): Birds; Language; Night; Words; Vocabulary; Bedtime AT PELEE POINT, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: It was decorous that day, johnston, my friend, to slosh out the vintage Last Line: And commit ourselves to the onset of the autumn migration Subject(s): Birds; Friendship AT REEVEY'S PRAIRIE, by ROBERT KING Poem Source First Line: Black-winged grasshoppers crackle up Last Line: For a moment, for a moment stopping Subject(s): Birds; Death; Gulls; Prairies; Sailors And Sailing; Travel 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 AT THE MUSEUM, 1938, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the native bird exhibit, the whip-poor-will, stuffed with sawdust Last Line: Canopies; the continuous singing of birds among their breathing branches Subject(s): Birds; Museums AT THE TOUCH OF A BIRD, by LILLIAN IONE OLSEN Poem Text First Line: I sought adventure's path when twilight came Last Line: A whistling bird had taught me brotherhood! Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 27, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where in heaven, master louis Last Line: Had I only other ears! Subject(s): Birds; Poetry & Poets; Wisdom ATTUNED, by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shriek seagulls, while the gale doth billows roll Last Line: To every wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Brizeux, Auguste Subject(s): Birds AUBADE FROM INSIDE THE WATER, by CHRISTIAN HAWKEY Poem Source First Line: Here is an atlas of your memory Last Line: A bird that moves through the forest %breaking everything in sight Subject(s): Birds; Children; Memory; Water AUBADE [OR, A MORNING SONG FOR IMOGEN], FR. CYMBELINE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Hark! The lark at heaven's gate sings Last Line: Arise, arise! Variant Title(s): Song At Sunrise;song To Imogen Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Larks; Morning; Spring; Sunrise; Skylarks AUDUBON EXAMINES A BITTERN, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lady brought me a least bittern Last Line: Bedamned if I know what to make of it Subject(s): Birds AUGURY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What sweeter sight will ever charm the eye Last Line: Could steal one mothering wing for folly's bait? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Birds; England; Landscape; Spring; English AUSPEX, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart, I cannot still it Last Line: The poet and his song. Subject(s): Birds; Old Age AUTHOR OF AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY SKETCHES A BIRD, NOW EXTINCT, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When he walked through town, the wing-shot bird he'd hidden Last Line: He watched it die, he said, with great regret Subject(s): Birds AUTUMN BIRDS, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild duck startles like a sudden thought Last Line: While small birds nestle in the hedge below. Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN MEADOWLARK, by LOTUS J. COSTIGAN Poem Text First Line: Have you heard the vagrant lark Last Line: Leaves one sighing in the fall! Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks AWAKENING, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the fringes of the upper lake Last Line: The steady-winging shadow of a bird. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds BAB-LOCK-HYTHE, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the time of wild roses Last Line: Our hearts sang together. Subject(s): Birds; Thames (river) BABY-BIRD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Baby-bird, baby-bird Last Line: Known of one sweet bird. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Singing & Singers BALD EAGLE, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a long cloud-patch fall toward the river Last Line: Otherwise, how can his shriek greet your bones? Subject(s): Birds; Eagles BALLAD OF THE BIRD-BRIDE (ESKIMO), by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They never come back, though I loved them well Last Line: And the skies are blear and grey Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Birds; Eskimos; Native Americans BALLAD OF THE PAINTED EAGLE, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: High in the hall I saw a live bird Last Line: Why now do my thoughts feel such pain, %as I walk, looking back, feelings twisted within? Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Birds; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Eagles; Paintings And Painters BALLAD OF THE THRUSH, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the noisy street Last Line: Sing on, sing on, o thrush! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes BALLADE OF HIS CHOICE OF A SEPULCHRE, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here I'd come when weariest! Last Line: Where the wide-winged hawk doth hover! Subject(s): Birds BALLIOL ROOKS, by FREDERICK SAMUEL BOAS Poem Source First Line: The winter is dead, and the spring is a-dying Subject(s): Balliol College, Oxford; Birds 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 BARN OWL, by SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: While moonlight, silvering all the walls Subject(s): Birds BARN OWL, by EUGENE EDMUND MURPHEY Poem Source First Line: Reading far into the night Subject(s): Birds; Owls BARN OWL, by LESLIE NORRIS Poem Source First Line: Ernie morgan found him, a small Last Line: Emblematic messenger, that I should know %the meaning of, the dead barn owl Subject(s): Birds BARN OWL, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly it is a pale Last Line: Over their bleached bones %of its night-strangled cry Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Birds; Owls BARN OWL (FROM: FATHER AND CHILD), by GWEN HARWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Daybreak: the household slept Last Line: For what I had begun Alternate Author Name(s): Foster, Gwendoline Subject(s): Birds; Cruelty; Human Rights; Hunting; Night; Owls BARN-OWL, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: They say that the barn-owl Last Line: With the virgin light-giving oil Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Owls BARTIMEUS TO THE BIRD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had I no revelation but thy voice Last Line: To waken mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds BATHERS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source 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 BE HOPEFUL: 1. THE LARK, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Morning is doffing her mantle of grey Last Line: On high, and thy song be poured not in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Birds; Hope; Larks; Optimism; Skylarks BE THOU A BIRD, MY SOUL, by A. G. C. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be thou a bird, my soul, and mount and soar Last Line: Unerring, home. Subject(s): Birds; Soul BEAK OF THE DOVE, by JUAN GONZALO ROSE Poem Source First Line: In the next century Last Line: Left upon the tables Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Peace BEAK OF THE PELICAN, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: She looks for wiggly fishes Last Line: How does she get that faceful %of luggage off the ground? Subject(s): Birds; Pelicans BEAKS OF EAGLES, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An eagle's nest on the head of an old redwood on one of the Last Line: Ten thousand years than the beaks of eagles Subject(s): Birds; Eagles BEAUTY, by MICHAEL DAVID MADONICK Poem Source First Line: It's time to put a swan on a lake, a few Last Line: Wings. Bring on the damn swans, anything that's beautiful %deserves its day Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Swans BEAUTY AND SONG, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: The peacock, that fine-feathered bird Last Line: To keep it sweet and kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Love; Robins; Singing & Singers; Songs BEAUTY STILL WAITS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blent delight of summer! Far and faint Last Line: To show her forth, for man's most fond regard. Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Summer BEETHOVENSTRAAT, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: Outside the fidelio bar %sipping a gelid beer Last Line: Epiphanic event, %een ander amstel, alstublieft Subject(s): Birds; Music And Musicians BEIJING, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mao wanted to get rid of birds Last Line: A watery eye is its only home Subject(s): Beijing, China; Birds BELIEVING THE WREN, by JOHN D. BARGOWSKI Poem Source First Line: I wish there had been blood Last Line: Turning the color of the sound %horned owls make at night Subject(s): Birds; Wrens BERCEUSE FOR BIRDS, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the twilight slants the curled edges of wheat Subject(s): Birds BEREAVED SWAN, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wan %swan Last Line: The swan saith Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Birds; Swans BEWARE THE HAWK, by FRANCES B. HUSTON Poem Text First Line: My heart, forbear, and do not leave Last Line: The fierce and sudden hawk of love. Subject(s): Birds; Hawks BEYOND (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many larks are soaring Last Line: Were earth's divinest melody. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks BIANCA AMONG THE NIGHTINGALES, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cypress stood up like a church Last Line: The nightingales, the nightingales! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales BIG SUR 6/23/97, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The birds slept-in this morning Last Line: In single syllables %before breakfast Subject(s): Birds; Mountains BIG SUR LIGHT: 4, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birds slept-in this morning Last Line: Before breakfast Subject(s): Birds; Mountains; Hills BIRD, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Birdie, birdie, will you pet? Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Birds BIRD, by CH'ON SANGBYONG Poem Source First Line: Flitting onto the vacant site in my soul Last Line: That he has seen better days %and had bad luck too Subject(s): Birds BIRD, by CHUNG HAN-MO Poem Source First Line: O bird that flies about Last Line: Glimmering in %and out of sight Subject(s): Birds BIRD, by JOHN DICKSON Poem Source First Line: Once on a day like any other Last Line: Beyond the forsthia fragments of spring %and off to the green of its lindens Subject(s): Birds BIRD, by ANNE FINCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Kind bird, thy praises I design Last Line: Lest to that breast by craft he get %which has defied and braved him yet Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Birds BIRD, by KIM CHONGSAM Poem Source First Line: Every day almost at the same hour Last Line: Just one little bird was chirping %in the same old tree Subject(s): Birds 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 MARIE RENE AUGUSTE ALEXIS SAINT-LEGER LEGER Poem Source First Line: The bird, most ardent for life of all our blood kin Last Line: This evening on other shores! Subject(s): Birds 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, by ROBERT STEWART Poem Source First Line: Be careful of that fence Last Line: So this is what you grew up to be Subject(s): Birds BIRD CAUGHT IN MY DEER NETTING, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hedge must have seemed as eve Last Line: Nor gravity-defying bird bones break. Subject(s): Birds BIRD COACH, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: Was it chickens children lapwings letterings Last Line: I. E. Broke off the tree that it %formed the poet's initial Subject(s): Birds; Chickens; Food And Eating; Poetry And Poets; Restaurants BIRD COMMITTEE, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cushat crouds, the corbie cries Alternate Author Name(s): Montgomery, Alexander+(1) Variant Title(s): The Cusha Subject(s): Birds BIRD CONVERSATIONS, SELECTION, by FARID OD-DIN MOHAMMAD EBN EBRAHIM ATTAR Poem Text First Line: The bird-soul was ashamed Last Line: "as shadows in the sun. Farewell!" Alternate Author Name(s): Attar, Ferideddin; Attar, Farid-uddin Subject(s): Birds; Sufism BIRD CRIES FROM THE NEST IN THE EAVES AT MORNING: SELF-PORTRAIT, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: When the mother's gone the young sparrows cry Last Line: Calculating the progress of the cat's claw Subject(s): Absence; Birds; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Portraits BIRD EGOTISM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A vireo sings in the top of the tree Last Line: "see me! Look at me! See me!" Subject(s): Birds; Vireos BIRD GUIDE, by NAN COHEN Poem Source First Line: On the lower outer corner of every page Last Line: It grips the east - or westernmost branch in its claws %and calls without pause Subject(s): Birds BIRD IN THE NEST, by SALOME URENA DE HENRIQUEZ Poem Source First Line: Why are you terrified, innocent bird? Why do you Last Line: And leaves from the plain! Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Children; Innocence; Solitude BIRD JAZZ, by WARREN WOESSNER Poem Source First Line: Warblers blowing through central park Last Line: I want to talk about you Subject(s): Birds BIRD LADY, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: Under a pine in vondelpark Last Line: And we would be undernourished Subject(s): Birds BIRD MINSTRELS, by GRACE E. BUSH Poem Text First Line: Within the dark and silent void of night Last Line: Up the glad hills of morning, came the light! Subject(s): Birds BIRD MUSIC, by JAMES RORTY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The singing of birds is as certain as the long Subject(s): Birds BIRD O'ER THE BATTLEFIELD, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: Bird o'er the battlefield, singing in the lull of thunder Last Line: Is it that christ, walking storm-waves of trenches, comes near? Subject(s): Birds; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War BIRD OF PARADISE, by LAURA BENET Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fiery bitter blue it burns Subject(s): Birds 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 BIRD OF THE SKY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: How does it feel – bird of the sky? Subject(s): Birds BIRD RAPTURES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunrise wakes the lark to sing Last Line: Leave us to-night the nightingale. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Sunrise BIRD SONG IN BLIZZARD, by TERENCE MCGUIRE Poem Source First Line: He wanted to walk the small field Last Line: World spinning out of control Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Storms; Weather BIRD SONGS, by MARGUERITE SCRIBNER FROST Poem Text First Line: How straight and swift a bird's song finds the heart Last Line: Chanting their creeds of faith against earth's fears! Subject(s): Birds BIRD SPEAKS, by MARY FRANCES MARSHALL BUTTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A ribbon, a ribbon, a ribbon in the sky! Subject(s): Birds BIRD THAT BEARS THE BELL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The nightingale, the organ of delight Subject(s): Birds BIRD THAT EATS EVERYTHING, by YASUMIZU TOSHIKAZU Poem Source First Line: It eats anything. It eats everything Last Line: Should this bird eat next? What on earth %did it eat next? Subject(s): Birds; Food And Eating BIRD TRADES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The swallow is a mason Last Line: "and busy little tailors too, / among the birds are found" Subject(s): Birds;holidays;trees BIRD WATCHER, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Across the earless Last Line: Then answer %only with my eyes Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Birds; Poetry And Poets BIRD'S SONG AT MORNING, by WILLIAM JAMES DAWSON Poem Text First Line: O thou that cleavest heaven Last Line: Thou only hast the now. Subject(s): Birds; Morning; Time BIRD-LANGUAGE, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Trying to understand the words Last Line: Sound like synonyms for joy Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Birds BIRD-NESTING, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! That half bashful and half eager face! Last Line: The little birds that owed their life to thee. Subject(s): Birds' Nests BIRDCALL, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tuwee, calls a bird near the house, Subject(s): Birds BIRDCATCHER, by MILDRED J. NASH Poem Source First Line: Becca sits with a string Subject(s): Birds BIRDELLO, by LAUREN SMITH Poem Source First Line: There were ten birds, each of which hated us differently Last Line: And all the others accountrements of love Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Dreams; Imagination BIRDIES, DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once there was a poem, and it was serious and not in jest Last Line: That nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it Subject(s): Birds BIRDING, by JOHN+(5) SMITH Poem Source First Line: Do you remember your first bird Last Line: Isn't that what we call praying? Subject(s): Birds; Nature BIRDLIP, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the cotswolds is a nest Last Line: In your arms, my love, to-night! Subject(s): Birds BIRDNOTES, by JENNIFER CLARVOE Poem Source First Line: In the village, a single bird can be an event Last Line: To my sweetheart, in the village, if I had one Subject(s): Birds BIRDS, by MAIREAD BYRNE Poem Source First Line: Impossible to be a poet not knowing the meaning of phlox Last Line: Lists of homes. Or a hummock in the yard or its own huruburu bird Subject(s): Birds; Language BIRDS, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds! Birds! Ye are beautiful things Last Line: Is the eloquent hymn of the beautiful bird. Subject(s): Birds BIRDS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: When our two souls have left this mortal clay Last Line: Snow on my doorstep, printed by their feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Spring BIRDS, by LARRY EIGNER Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birds BIRDS, by HERBERT S. GORMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I thought to shoulder time Subject(s): Birds BIRDS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Think it's evening Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Rain BIRDS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That's the dove, my darling! Last Line: In the sunshine, fresh and golden! Subject(s): Birds BIRDS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poet's Biography First Line: The fierce musical cries of a couple of sparrow hawks hunting on the headland Subject(s): Birds; Hawks BIRDS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fierce musical cries of a couple of sparrow hawks hunting on the headland Last Line: From the sharp %rock-shores of the world and the secret waters Subject(s): Birds; Hawks BIRDS, by PARK NAMSU Poem Source First Line: In the shoal of the wind Last Line: A fallen body smeared with blood Subject(s): Birds BIRDS, by DAVID POSNER Poem Source First Line: It is difficult to imagine how vulnerable they are Last Line: And the bones of sparrows Subject(s): Birds BIRDS, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mount! Mount! Ye birds who scorn the clods Last Line: Wings, whence a voice high as the thrilled heart soar. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Birds 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, by VERONICA SCHUDER Poem Source First Line: Let me tell you honey divorce is the best thing Last Line: I can still see it though, the yellow and blue of them Subject(s): Birds; Divorce BIRDS, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Within mankind's duration, so they say Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Subject(s): Birds BIRDS, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds are singing round my window Last Line: In the little cage of song! Subject(s): Birds BIRDS AND BUGS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: What to do next? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Flight; Insects; Nature BIRDS AND COLUMBUS, by ANN STANFORD Poem Source First Line: It was the birds that did it Last Line: But here, a crown of islands, %a world for taking Subject(s): Birds; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers BIRDS AND FISHES, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Every october millions of little fish come along the shore Subject(s): Birds; Fish & Fishing; Anglers BIRDS AND FISHES, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every october millions of little fish come along the shore Last Line: That is their quality: not mercy, not mind, not goodness, but the beauty of god Subject(s): Birds; Fishing And Fishermen BIRDS ARE SEEN APPROACHING IN THE AIR CARRYING NESTS, by WILLIAM JOHN COURTHOPE Poem Source First Line: The birds in kind have each obeyed Subject(s): Birds BIRDS AT NIGHT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft little hush songs heard in the night Last Line: Hear, swe-e-et, hear! Subject(s): Birds BIRDS AT WINTER NIGHTFALL; TRIOLET, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Around the house the flakes fly faster Last Line: And all the berries now are gone! Subject(s): Birds; Winter BIRDS IN SUMMER, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How pleasant the life of a bird must be Last Line: How pleasant the life of a bird must be! Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Birds; Holidays; Trees BIRDS IN SUMMER, SELS., by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How pleasant the life of a bird must be Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Holidays; Trees BIRDS OF PARADISE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Golden-winged, silver-winged Last Line: The paradise of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Paradise: In A Symbol Subject(s): Birds; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Paradise BIRDS OF PASSAGE, by DOROTHY FERN SEIBEL Poem Text First Line: Wild birds they were; and how we envied them Last Line: White clouds and spindrift, wind, and white gulls flying. Subject(s): Birds; Time BIRDS OF PREY, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their shadow dims the sunshine of our day Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Birds BIRDS SMALL ENOUGH, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds small enough to nest in our young cypress Subject(s): Birds; Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery BIRDS WAKING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source 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 BIRDS' LAMENT, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, says the linnet, if I sing Last Line: But after her I'll whoop and hollo. Subject(s): Birds; Love - Loss Of BIRDS' NESTS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The summer nests uncovered by autumn wind Last Line: And grass and goose-grass seeds found soil and grew Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests BIRDS' NESTS (1), by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tis spring, warm glows the south Last Line: Where the old cow at her leisure chews her cud Subject(s): Birds' Nests BIRDS' NESTS (2), by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How fresh the air, the birds how busy now! Last Line: The lanes and hedges where their homes abide. Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests BIRDS, WHY ARE YE SILENT?, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why are ye silent, %birds? Where do ye fly? Subject(s): Birds BIRDS: COSMOGONY ACCORDING TO THE BIRDS, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ye children of man! Whose life is a span Last Line: Of ease and abundance and happiness Variant Title(s): Life Of Me Subject(s): Birds BITTERNS, HERONRIES, by OLENA KALYTIAK DAVIS Poem Source First Line: It's not about how mottled or how distilled Last Line: The mating of birds Subject(s): Birds BLACK COCKATOOS, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Each certain kind of weather or of light Last Line: Of their high trees, crying the world's unrest Subject(s): Birds BLACK NOVEMBER TURKEY, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nine white chickens come Last Line: Dawn after mortal dawn, with vulgar joy %acclaim the sun Subject(s): Birds BLACK SWAN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the swans turned my sister into a swan Last Line: And stroked all night, with a black wing, my wings Subject(s): Birds; Swans BLACK SWANS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I lie at rest on a patch of clover Last Line: By a mighty power with a purpose dread. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Birds; Death; Fate; Grief; Life; Swans; Dead, The; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness BLACK SWANS, by COUNT CARL SNOILSKY Poem Source First Line: Black swans, like a sad procession Subject(s): Birds; Swans BLACK SWANS ON THE MURRAY LAGOONS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The long lagoons lie white and still Last Line: Moves as in sleep some bodeful dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Birds; Death; Dreams; Lagoons; Life; Swans; Dead, The; Nightmares BLACKBIRD, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O blackbird, who hath taught thee Subject(s): Birds BLACKBIRD, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He comes on chosen evenings Last Line: Those are celestial chimney-pots. Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds BLACKBIRD, by CHRISTOPHER LEACH Poem Source First Line: My wife saw it first Last Line: On the paper, the news %of another cosmonaut Subject(s): Birds BLACKBIRD, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the far corner Last Line: Ann, my daughter %thinks, that he %sings for us two %especially Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds BLACKBIRDS: AN ELEGY, by RICHARD JAGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun had chased the mountain snow Subject(s): Birds BLACKCAP, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The blackcap is a singing bird Last Line: But whether they finjd food in these %I've never seen or known as yet Subject(s): Birds BLIZZARD BIRDS, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: The crested newt creep up the trees Last Line: Wakes up the snowy owls who hoot %and dance upon the heads of newt Subject(s): Birds; Lizards; Owls BLUE BIRD, by HAN HA-WOON Poem Source First Line: When I shall die Last Line: A blue cry Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds BLUE BOOBY, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The blue booby lives %on the bare rocks Last Line: Like the eyes of a mild savior Subject(s): Birds; Galapagos Islands BLUE COCKEREL, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source 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 BLUE HERON, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: Great blue heron with configurated throat Last Line: And you swallow your silver thought at last Subject(s): Birds; Herons BLUE HERON, by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where water-grass grows overgreen Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice Subject(s): Birds; Herons BLUE JAY, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Villon among the birds is he Subject(s): Birds; Bluejays BLUE JAY, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the world is all against you, blue jay Last Line: And sees himself to-day. Subject(s): Birds; Hunting; Hunters BLUE JAY, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a savage tale of you Subject(s): Birds; Bluejays BLUE SWALLOWS, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across the millstream below the bridge Last Line: Adorns intelligible things %because the mind's eye lit the sun Subject(s): Birds; Swallows BLUEBIRD, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! 'tis the bluebird's venturous strain Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds BLUEBIRD, by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh bluebird with light red breast Last Line: Then . . . Good-by! Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds BLUEBIRD, by EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know the song that the bluebird is singing Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds BLUEBIRD, by EBEN EUGENE REXFORD Poem Source First Line: Listen a moment, I pray you, what was that sound that Variant Title(s): A Sign Of Sprin Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds BLUEBIRD, by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When ice is thawed Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice Subject(s): Birds BLUEBIRD, by CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD Poem Source First Line: Sactuary: bathroom locked Last Line: Cried, the blues ran cold and deep Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds BLUEBIRDS, by HELEN MERRILL EGERTON Poem Text First Line: O magic music of the spring Last Line: I hear the golden bluebirds sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Merrill, Helen M. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds BLUEBIRDS, by BOB MCKENTY Poem Source First Line: One thing makes the english tinglish Last Line: Keeping white cliffs white Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Dover, England BOB WHITE, by DORA READ GOODALE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look! The valleys are thick with grain Subject(s): Birds BOBOLINK, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Anacreon of the meadow Subject(s): Birds BOBOLINK, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black bird scudding Last Line: I shall never be sad again. %ah, sweet, absurd, %beloved, bedraggled bird! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds BOBOLINKS RALLIED...UP FROM THE DELL, FR. THE DAISIES, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birds BONNER PLAYERS, by WARREN WOESSNER Poem Source First Line: On the second try, the spot goes on Last Line: The only descent star in town Subject(s): Birds BOOK OF SONGS: PREFACE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the olden fairy wood! Last Line: "have never ceased to ponder." Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Love; Moon; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Woods; Songs BOOK OF VISIONS: PHILOMEL, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: To the heart of silence sing, shy bird that none may see! The garden Last Line: Listens to philomel. Subject(s): Birds; Silence BOUND, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Negative tree, you are belief Subject(s): Birds; Inertia BOY AND EGG, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every few minutes, he wants Last Line: Or the rest of the day. Subject(s): Birds; Chickens; Eggs; Hens 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 BROBDINGNAG, by ADRIEN STOUTENBURG Poem Source First Line: The owls roost like gray lamps up there Last Line: For what they can light upon and keep Subject(s): Birds; Owls BROKEN SONNET, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May the weather next week be good to us Subject(s): Weather; Birds BROWN OWLS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Brown owls come here in the blue evening Last Line: They are shaking their wings and hooting Subject(s): Birds; Owls BURD AILIE, by JAMES SMITH (1824-) Poem Text First Line: Burd ailie sat doon by the wimplin' burn Last Line: And the ship that wad ne'er come hame! Subject(s): Birds BUZZARD, by LESLIE NORRIS Poem Source First Line: With infinitely confident little variations of his finger-ends Last Line: Even when we see it clear %have too many words to kill it Subject(s): Birds BUZZARDS, by MARTIN DONISTHORPE ARMSTRONG Poem Source First Line: When evening came and the warm glow grew Subject(s): Birds; Buzzards BY THE GREY STONE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is quiet here: the wet hill-wind's sigh Last Line: Is it love's lordly vow or mine own bitter shame? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Love; Sighs; Silence; Stones; Waiting; Granite; Rocks BY THE WELL OF LIVING AND SEEING (1 - 12), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dying gull %alone on a rock Last Line: Now and then - %with a sharp cry Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Gulls BYZANTINE BIRD, by RANDY BLASING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back in the ruins of byzantium Subject(s): Birds CAGE, by JENNY BENJAMIN Poem Source First Line: I have decided the bird must die. He has been picking off all of his Last Line: This room is very nice. I have decided to decorate the walls with %yellow Subject(s): Birds; Death CAGED EAGLE, by PHOEBE SMITH Poem Text First Line: So this, then, is the end Last Line: Holding broken, quiet claws. Subject(s): Birds; Cages; Eagles CALIFORNIA DISSONANCE, by JAMES RORTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a peewee bird that cries Last Line: Which helps to make the country grow. Subject(s): Birds; California CALL OF TWO BIRDS, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea dark Last Line: Its call stretching %over the water Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Birds CALLIGRAPHY, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Duck Last Line: A salutation to spring Subject(s): Animals; Birds CALLING THE BIRDS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who close beside our window-pane Last Line: Toujours gai. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Joy; Delight CALLIOPE TO HER SKYLARK, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, my little tuneful dear! Subject(s): Birds; Calliope (goddess); Larks CALLS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because I have called to you Subject(s): Waiting; Birds CANADIAN ROSSIGNOL (IN MAY), by EDWARD WILLIAM THOMSON Poem Source First Line: When furrowed fields of shaded brown Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales CANADIAN WARBLER, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The canadian warbler on his limb Last Line: Only, you were like a harp, at my thought's touch Subject(s): Birds CARDINAL, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For a week of mornings, the cardinal came Last Line: The mirror of themselves and begin, here, now Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Cardinals (birds); Death; Grief 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 CARDINAL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That great tree covered with snow Last Line: In a cloud of snow he pushed aside. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cardinals (birds); Snow; Winter CARDINAL, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Against the green the line in red Subject(s): Cardinals (birds) CARDINAL, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Against the green the line in red Last Line: Breaking and rising. Then the sun Subject(s): Cardinals (birds) CARDINAL, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: A showy gesture %on autumn's stage Last Line: And summer's own %bright darling Subject(s): Birds CARDINAL, by HOWARD ZIMMON Poem Source First Line: When I come back Last Line: As a cardinal Subject(s): Cardinals (birds) CARNEGIE HILL BIRDLORE, by GRACE SCHULMAN Poem Source First Line: Today a robin hopped between stalled cars Last Line: From scant but lustrous rooms, our residence Subject(s): Birds; New York City CAROL FOR MAY-DAY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of fresh flowers Last Line: Thou merry month of may! Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; May (month); Spring CAROL OF THE BIRDS, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birds CAROLINA GHOST WOODS, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A crow calls and the sunset is smeared into questions Subject(s): Birds CAROLINA GHOST WOODS, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A crow calls and the sunset is smeared into questions Last Line: Because somewhere a bird clutches the scrap of my name Subject(s): Birds CARRIER-DOVE, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you have a carrier-dove Subject(s): Birds CASIDA OF THE DARK DOVES, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source First Line: In the laurel boughs %I saw two dark doves Last Line: One was the other %and the two were none Subject(s): Birds CASIDA OF THE SHADOWY PIGEONS, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source First Line: I saw two shadowy pigeons Last Line: And both were neither Subject(s): Birds; Pigeons; Sisters CASUALTIES: 3. VULTURE'S CHOICE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The vulture wanted a child Last Line: To be married and no child! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Death; Food And Eating; Vultures CATBIRD, by STEPHEN CROMBIE Poem Source First Line: Who can be that somber fellow Subject(s): Birds; Catbirds CHAFFINCH, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wet! Wet! Hear chaffinch! He cries and calls Last Line: Will drench the orchard to-night and the cherry-bloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Finches; Rain; Singing & Singers CHANT BIRDS IN EVERY BUSH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "o how thy do begin: hark, hark!" Subject(s): Birds;singing & Singers CHANTICLEER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the birds from east to west Last Line: He summons back the light! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Morning; Roosters; Cocks CHARADE: 13, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My first has spread her darksome wing Last Line: Tis but a tiny preposition. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales CHARON AND PHILOMEL [PHYLOMEL], A DIALOGUE SUNG, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Charon! O gentle charon! Let me woo thee Last Line: Who els with tears wo'd doubtles drown my ferry. Subject(s): Birds; Charon; Styx (river) CHEER, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the waxwings in the juniper, Subject(s): Birds CHESTNUT IN MAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chestnut builds the loveliest house, the Last Line: Chestnut builds the loveliest house for wooing and for wedding. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Chestnut Trees; Home; Love; Marriage; May (month); Weddings; Husbands; Wives CHEWINK, by AMANDA THEODOSIA JONES Poem Source First Line: Sing me another solo, sweet Subject(s): Birds; Towhees (birds) CHICKADEE, by MARTHA HASKELL CLARK Poem Source First Line: There's a hush on the frosty furrow where the frozen Subject(s): Birds; Chickadees CHICKADEES, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, swiftly answered! Yonder flew Subject(s): Birds CHICKADEES, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was no covert for the birds Subject(s): Birds; Chickadees CHICKEN HAWK, by THOMAS CASEY Poem Text First Line: Observe the high and circling wing Last Line: And stop the hawk from growing bolder. Subject(s): Birds; Hawks CHILD'S TALK IN APRIL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish you were a pleasant wren Last Line: And build our happy nest again. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Wrens CHIMNEY STACKS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In winter's cold and summer's heat Last Line: To build their neighboring nests. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds' Nests CHOP, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bird / walks down Subject(s): Birds CHORISTERS, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When earth was finished and fashioned well Subject(s): Birds CHOUGH, by REX WARNER Poem Source First Line: Desolate that cry as though world were unworthy Last Line: Goes delicate indifferent the doomed birds Subject(s): Birds CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 27. THE BIRDS OF WHITBY, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: Sea-mosses hide the massive architrave Last Line: Between the moonrise and the morning star. Subject(s): Birds; Hilda, Saint (614-680); Whitby (monastery), England; Hild, Saint; Whitby, Abbess Of CIGNUS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Persons reminded me of birds, a boy Subject(s): Birds CIVIL WAR, by HETTIE JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into my sister's kitchen Last Line: I am forever / committed Subject(s): Birds; Sisters CLARITY LOOMS, by KATHY MARTIN Poem Source First Line: I'm a loon, you said, a wonderful loon! Last Line: Founderer on land. %'more at lament.' Subject(s): Birds; Language CLASSIC OF POETRY: 1, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The fishhawks sing gwan gwan Last Line: Gentle maiden, pure and fair, %with bells and dfrums do her delight Subject(s): Birds; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Hawks CLASSIC OF POETRY: 184, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The crane cries out in deepest marsh Last Line: The stones of other mountains %we can use to work our jade Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Cranes (birds) CLAY, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: Beasts of clay. Birds of salt. Humans of iron Last Line: Hollowing out each other's cheeks Subject(s): Birds; Roosters; Survival CLEARING, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Always in that clearing Last Line: And something like a name Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Nature COCK'S NEST, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The spring my father died - it was winter, really Last Line: The cock's nest with never an egg in, %and my father dead Subject(s): Birds COCK-A-DOO, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love to hear the cock crow in Last Line: Coming this hot day with a butcher's edge %it would spell death Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Birds COCK-PHEASANT, by LAURIE LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gilded with leaf-thick paint; a stead Last Line: Each dropped leaf shows the winter's skull Subject(s): Birds COCKY AND WEESHY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Cocky robin hops out through the black bars Last Line: Hops back in again Subject(s): Birds; Flies; Ireland CODEX RESCRIPTUS, by PRISCILLA ATKINS Poem Source First Line: The cranes arrive Last Line: An arrangement of glyphs %there is no voice for Subject(s): Cranes (birds) COLD AUGUST, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun had shrunk to a dime Last Line: Them disappear in southward course. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): August; Birds; Cold; Hawks; Summer COLD BEFORE DAWN', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text 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's Biography Last Line: The peacocks cry to each other, %as if in pain Subject(s): Birds; Cold; Dawn; Night; Peacocks COLLISION, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In wind and change Last Line: A hand of leaves into dawn. Subject(s): Birds; Healing; Marriage; Cures; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COME, LOOK QUIETLY, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bird on the terrace has his own name in french, but I don't Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Birds; French Langauge COMMON CORMORANT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The common cormorant or shag Last Line: Of wandering bears may come with buns %and steal the bags to hold the crumbs Subject(s): Birds; Cormorants COMMON CROW, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Frightening feet. %likes to eat Last Line: Common crow. %go! Go! Subject(s): Birds COMMON TERNS, by PATRIC DICKINSON Poem Source First Line: Quiet as conscience on the stock exchange Last Line: Bright sediment down the blue grass of air Subject(s): Birds COMPANIONSHIP AT NIGHT, by AGNES STEWART BECK Poem Text First Line: An owl's weird cry comes across the hill Last Line: Keeps coming across the hill all night. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats; Night; Owls; Trees; Bedtime CONCERNING KINSHIP OF CAT AND BIRD, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cat's on the windowsill Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats CONCERNING KINSHIP OF CAT AND BIRD, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cat's on the windowsill Last Line: Both protest and accusation as old as the elements Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats CONCERT, by RAY CLARK DICKSON Poem Source First Line: There are no metaphors %to simplify Last Line: I adore your nest, he says, %--where the birds %--of flesh %--sing freely Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Symphonies CONCORDANCE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brown bird, irresolute as a dry Last Line: Till then attended to Subject(s): Birds; Thought CONDOR'S DREAM, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: When in the sky the starry choir awakes Last Line: Sinks into meditation when alone Subject(s): Birds; Dreams 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 CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS, SELS., by FARID OD-DIN MOHAMMAD EBN EBRAHIM ATTAR Poem Source First Line: The world's birds gathered for their conference Last Line: To hear his invitation and hide Alternate Author Name(s): Attar, Ferideddin; Attar, Farid-uddin Subject(s): Birds; Sufism CONQUERING EAGLES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read the classic book -- and raised mine eyes Last Line: The conquering eagles of imperial rome! Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Rhyme; Rome, Italy; Sea; War; Ocean 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 COOKERY: TO TRUSS SMALL BIRDS, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: Thread wheatears, ruffs, or quails Last Line: How they would fly otherwise, on this ecstatic wind! Subject(s): Birds; Cooking And Cooks CORDELL BANKS, by WARREN WOESSNER Poem Source First Line: Ten miles offshore, %in between seabirds Last Line: Solid land %one mile straight down Subject(s): Birds CORMORANT, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up through the buttercup meadow the children lead Last Line: And, beyond the cove, the channel bells Subject(s): Birds; Cormorants CORMORANT IN ITS ELEMENT, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That bony potbellied arrow, wing-pumping along Last Line: To do with ego, guilt, ambition, or even money Subject(s): Birds; Cormorants CORMORANTS, by JOHN KINSELLA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those perennial apparitions Last Line: The faded sails of anchored boats Subject(s): Birds CORN-CRAKE, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've listened now a full half-hour Subject(s): Birds; Corncrakes COST, by PEARL COUNCIL HIATT Poem Text First Line: Not when the songbird soaring finds Last Line: Earth hears its sweetest singing. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales COUNTING BIRDS; FOR GERALD VIZENOR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a child, fresh out of the hospital Last Line: Into the marvel of this final night. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Birds COUNTING HAWKS, by BRUCE MACKINNON Poem Source First Line: They glide in slow circles above the fields Last Line: Of the randomly flying birds Subject(s): Birds; Hawks COUPLET ABOUT BIRDS, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there Last Line: Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air. Subject(s): Birds COURAGE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into a brown wood flew a brown bird Last Line: And whistled merrily. Subject(s): Birds COURTYARD, by EDDY VAN VLIET Poem Source First Line: In the courtyard where the cooing of pigeons Last Line: His singing had delayed our parting for a while Subject(s): Birds CRANE, by J. REDWOOD ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: It stuns %the rapt attention, and it lifts Last Line: The faith, the hope, the fortitude, the love %and tragic splendour of the human race Subject(s): Cranes (birds) CRANE, by CHARLES EDWARD EATON Poem Source First Line: You may have the egret if you will let me have the crane Last Line: The splash, the long, slow steps in the water, until the crane takes flight? Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Egrets CRANE, by JOSEPH LANGLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One day when childhood tumbled the spongy tufts Last Line: I gasped like a fish %hung out in the harsh and sudden air %and flipped, past sparkling regions, und Subject(s): Cranes (birds) CRANE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Go away, crane! Leave the garden Last Line: Go away, crane! Leave the garden Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Love; Pentastichs CRANE, by MARUYAMA KAORU Poem Source First Line: What else does a crane spreading its torn wings have Subject(s): Cranes (birds) CRANE, by GERRYE PAYNE Poem Source First Line: The crane %wearing his black feathers %and his white feathers Last Line: Who disappears at dawn %and returns whenever %there is darkness Subject(s): Cranes (birds) CRANE, by KATHLEEN PEIRCE Poem Source First Line: Here, into this place, in this matter, detail Last Line: He, I say. Her hero heron %this bird in this tree. Until the minute it leaves Subject(s): Cranes (birds) CRANE, by ROBERT PETERS Poem Source First Line: A gray crane on a rock glares Last Line: A red eye swims. %feathers fly in the wind Subject(s): Cranes (birds) CRANE, by HOVHANNES TOUMANIAN Poem Source First Line: The crane has lost his way across the heaven Subject(s): Cranes (birds) CRANE CALLS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Crane calls in nine marshes Last Line: It could be worked %into jade Subject(s): Cranes (birds) CRANES, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The western wind has blown but a few days Last Line: The garden-boy is leading the cranes home Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Birds CRANES IN AUGUST, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: They clutter the house Last Line: From many throats, repeated Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Politics; War CRANES IN KANSAS, by NORA B. CUNNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: Fog in august is strange, far inland as we are Last Line: But I have seen cranes flying ... Crying in the foggy dawn. Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Kansas CREATION OF BIRDS, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There the eagle and the stork Subject(s): Birds CRISS-CROSS PATTERN, by ETHEL BRODT WILSON Poem Text First Line: The birds stitch / back and forth Last Line: Upon the mountain. Subject(s): Birds CRITIC AND POET, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No man had ever heard a nightingale Last Line: Were it a bird, 'twould answer to my law. Subject(s): Birds; Critics & Criticism; Poetry & Poets CROSSING, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The stream %piles out of the pile-up Last Line: By all those migrations %of thousands and thousands of birds Subject(s): Birds CROW, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How peaceable it seems for lonely men Last Line: While fields, and woods and waters spread below Subject(s): Birds; Crows CROW, by NEIL MEILI Poem Source First Line: Two boys - and crow - at 50 yards Last Line: Too far from death to understand a kill Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Ranch Life CROW AT MORNING, by ERIC ORMSBY Poem Source First Line: He paces toward our trash pile with a squire's Last Line: The mishnah of your gabardine Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Morning CROW CALL, by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: When a child who eavesdrops on the crows Last Line: After his grave has been forgotten Subject(s): Birds; Crows CROW CALL, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I eavesdropped once Last Line: Was my human ear Subject(s): Birds CROW IS AFRAID, by LARRY EVERS Poem Source First Line: Crow %what are you afraid of? Last Line: Lying %lying %lying Subject(s): Birds; Crows CROW IS WALKING, by GRACE BUTCHER Poem Source Last Line: His beak opens. %he tries a world Subject(s): Birds; Conversation; Crows CROW SHOOTER, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Because he despises their squawking, hell-sent selves Last Line: Heads nodding yes; and the way they'll risk everything Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Feathers; Hunting CROW WITH A RED BEAK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Looks over his shoulder Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Nature CROWS, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hunch in the trees %to gossip Last Line: And snow sifts %down from the tree Subject(s): Aging; Birds; Crows; Night; Trees; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Winter CROWS, by MARLON OHNESORGE-FICK Poem Source First Line: Crows love midwitner mornings Last Line: So deep in me. The bitterness. %it's staggering Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Winter CROWS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth is raw with this one note Last Line: Starts for a moment from its dust. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Earth; World CROWS, by ZUELLA STERLING Poem Text First Line: The february crows have come Last Line: And in the fall, the last. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; February; Seasons CROWS, by D. FRANKE TOMSA Poem Source First Line: In the fall of the year Last Line: Even van gogh with all his corfields %did not capture this glory Subject(s): Birds; Crows CROWS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On the first of march, %the craws begin to Subject(s): Birds CROWS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: I love crows Last Line: And the wit of his sharp eye Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Likes And Dislikes CROWS CRY AT NIGHT, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the walls in yellow clouds Last Line: And stays in her chamber all alone %where her tears fall like the rain Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Absence; Birds; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Crows CROWS IN SPRING, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crow will tumble up and down Last Line: Proclaims the winter by. Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Crows CROWS REWRITE THE GOSPELS IN MAYNOOTH, by MARY O'DONNELL Poem Source First Line: By late october, crows write poems Last Line: Do not repent- %the lines are scattered, %freeform subversions lost to the eye Subject(s): Birds; Crows CROWS, JUST BEFORE FLIGHT, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: The flock exceeds the tree Last Line: All of this seemed important to say before I said it Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Farm Life CRUMBS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You little birds, I bring my crumbs Last Line: And every pool lies still as stone Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Birds CRUMBS TO THE BIRDS, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A bird appears a thoughtless thing Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Birds CUCKOO, by CHIYO NI Poem Source Last Line: Again the daylight too! Alternate Author Name(s): Kaga No Chiyo; Chiyo-ni; Chiyojo Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poet's Biography First Line: The cuckoo is a tell-tale Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O cuckoo troubling yonder hill Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We heard it calling, clear and low Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The voice of spring is heard in the forest Last Line: Soon he will board out his son Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cuckoos lead bohemian lives Last Line: Everybody else's marriage Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That's the cuckoo, you say. I cannot hear it Last Line: The cuckoo's note would be drowned by the voice of my dead Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His voice runs before me; I follow, it flies Last Line: But when he calls cuckoo, the summer is here. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The cuckoo's a bonny bird, he whistles as he flies Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO - / ITS CALL STRETCHING, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Over the water Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO LORE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In april %he shows his bill Subject(s): Birds CUCKOO ON MT. CHIRI, by SONG SUGWON Poem Source First Line: Many a cuckoo in many a mountain peak Last Line: In which glow the azaleas on the pebbles Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Summer is I-cumen [or a-coming or y-comen] in Last Line: "sing cuckoo. Sing, cuckoo, now!" Variant Title(s): The Cuckoo Song Subject(s): Birds;cuckoos;nature;spring;summer CUCKOO SONG, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, bird Last Line: When all her hope was dead. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO SONG (FROM THE PERSIAN), by PHILIP GUEDALLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sumurun's a coming in Last Line: Loudly sing, cuckoo! Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Oxford University CUCKOO: TUSCANY, by DAVID SWANGER Poem Source First Line: He thought there were no birds to sing Last Line: Bears witness, a braggart sound at a distance Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOOS, LARKS, AND SPARROWS, by CAMILLA DOYLE Poem Source First Line: The cuckoo is a heartless bird Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Larks; Sparrows CURLEW, by LESLIE NORRIS Poem Source First Line: Dropped from the air at evening, this desolate call Last Line: Whose mouth lets fly the appalling cry we heard? Subject(s): Birds CURLEWS LIFT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the maternal watery blue lines Last Line: Through trembling bills Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Birds CYGNET; A SONG OF THE THAMES, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sails alone, rocking on turbid water Last Line: Until our spirit flowers, and we follow Subject(s): Birds; Swans; Thames (river) CYGNUS, by TOM SEXTON Poem Source First Line: Long past sunset while I split green wood Last Line: Recall what was once so wonderful and wild Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Swans DAEDALUS, by ALASTAIR REID Poem Source First Line: My son has birds in his head Last Line: My son has birds in his head Subject(s): Birds; Daedalus; Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Youth DAMASCUS NIGHTINGALE, by STEPHEN CROMBIE Poem Source First Line: On the crimson edge of the eve Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales DARK MAGUS: 4. NNE, by RICHARD STEVENSON Poem Source First Line: Grow-11-11. Moan. Pick up the phone. Some lonely creature's Last Line: Pick up please. The wind is whistling through the trees Subject(s): Birds; Noises DARK NIGHT, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was in such a night Last Line: Like that night of the mind. Subject(s): Birds; Night; Sleep; Bedtime DARK-WINGED SWALLOWS WILL RETURN, by GUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: They will not love you so! Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Swallows DAWN, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the dark linked loveliness of lakes Last Line: Shake off the dew that moment when he sings. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Thrushes; Sunrise DAWN, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night the wind wove evil in the hills Last Line: And christ walked clear-eyed, radiant through the dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Thrushes; Sunrise DAWN IN A TREE OF BIRDS', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And then another Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Trees DAWN IN THE EVERGLADES, by HALLE W. WARLOW Poem Source First Line: One day, while still the dawn denied the call Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Everglades, Florida DAWN'S FIRST VOICE, by VIOLA MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I awoke - perhaps too late? Last Line: Of hope to a heart that breaks. Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Hope; Waking; Sunrise; Optimism DAWN, NOON AND DEWFALL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn, noon and dewfall! Bluebird and robin Last Line: And fiddle on the kitchen wall a-jes' a-eechin' fer me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Dawn; Fish & Fishing; Noon; Robins; Sunrise DAY'S BLACK STAR, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Is it that small black star Last Line: To me thy joy to live. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Stars DAYBREAK, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Sun! Sun! Sun! Sun! Last Line: Sun! Sun! Sun! Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sun; Sunrise DE HISTRICE. EX CLAUDIANO, by CLAUDIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fam'd stymphal, I have heard, thy birds in flight Last Line: Taught by this bird their skilful archery. Alternate Author Name(s): Claudius Claudianus Subject(s): Arcadians; Birds; Arcadia DEAD BIRD, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: It flew up from the dried grass Last Line: From air to ground, buried, then gone Subject(s): Birds DEAD BLACKBIRD, by PHOEBE HESKETH Poem Source First Line: The blackbird used to come each day Last Line: Are only rags of him, not he %with his crocus-yellow bill Subject(s): Birds DEAD END, by WARREN WOESSNER Poem Source First Line: 89th street north was not wilderness Last Line: I'll never see them here again Subject(s): Birds DEAD HAWKS, by STANLEY HANKS Poem Source First Line: I was not after quail, on a dry log Last Line: Seeing and hearing satified myself %hawks may do good but this one wasn't about to Subject(s): Birds; Hawks DEATH AND BURIAL OF COCK ROBBIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here lies cock robbin dead and cold Last Line: For poor cock robbin Subject(s): Birds DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF THE BIRDS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Falling asleep, the birds are falling Last Line: Dust spun loose on the wind from the end to the beginning Subject(s): Birds DEATH IN SPRING, by LILIANA URSU Poem Source First Line: Just like me they try Last Line: Forever marooned on its nest - %a bird of ice Subject(s): Birds; Spring DECEPTION, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: O bird / sweet, sorrowful swallow speeding Last Line: And spring comes never here. Subject(s): Birds DEDIKATION: PREFACE, by EGITO GONCALVES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They were flying along the beach, heading north Last Line: They paint that lightning bolt perennial Subject(s): Birds DEEP IN BRAMBLY HEDGES DANK, FR. THE HILLS, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birds DEMONOLOGUE (4), by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: This morning from his bed sir Last Line: Than to the thing itself would suckle him Subject(s): Birds; Old Age DESIRING DESIRE, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: Now in the early morning I lie awake Last Line: To watching, its wings taking it - where %else? - where it has to go Subject(s): Birds; Desire DESOLATED GARDENS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trampling armies leave discomforted Last Line: O desolated gardens, with your graves! Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Graves; Love; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones DESOLATION, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the forest bleak and lonely Last Line: Come and sing above my tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Birds; Death; Desolation; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADULT NIGHTMARE, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It starts when gathering mynas Subject(s): Birds; Dreams DICTATORIAL OWL, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Within a hollow elm, whose scanty shade Last Line: Who think themselves much wiser than their neighbours Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Birds; Fables; Owls DID A CUCKOO CRY?, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Perishing! Perishing! Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Moon; Night DIPPER, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once I saw %in a quick-falling, white-veined stream Last Line: Like a dark bird dipping in and out, tasting and singing Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Pleasure DIPPERS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Through splash and spray Last Line: Who think that they are fish Subject(s): Birds DIRGE TO A DEAD OWL, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Silent, mysterious, on wings of down Last Line: You for the sweepstakes woodcock. Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Owls DISCOVERY, by STANLEY SNAITH Poem Source First Line: Once I found riches here Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Love DISPATCHES FROM DEVEREUX SLOUGH, by MARK JARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Highwayman of the air, coal-headed, darting Last Line: And our paired silhouettes are waiting for us Subject(s): Birds DIVING BIRDS, by JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today, a monday, I sit down with our daughter who can count Last Line: The night, a dot. The house: still here. Worn but not yet broken Subject(s): Birds; Night DOLLAR BILL, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The feathered thing of silver-grey and jade Subject(s): Birds DOMINATION OF BLACK, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: At night, by the fire Subject(s): Birds DOMINATION OF BLACK, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night, by the fire Last Line: Came striding like the color of the heavy hemlocks. %I felt afraid. %and I remembered the cry of the Subject(s): Birds DOVE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How often, these hours, have I heard the monotonous crool %of a dove Last Line: So dark with disquietude seem? And what is it sorowing of? Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Birds; Doves DOVES, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Roaming the little path 'neath dotterel trees Last Line: Then they in bolder crowds will sweep and fly %and brave the desert of a winter sky Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Doves DOWNY OWL, GRAY BANSHEE OF THE NIGHT, by EDITH WILLIS LINN Poem Source Subject(s): Birds; Owls DRAMA IN THE PORT, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: Slosh of ocean Last Line: Beyond the harbor the seagulls rest Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Immigrants; Sea Voyages; Thunder; Waves DUCKS, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HARVEY Poem Source First Line: From troubles of the world Last Line: And he's probably laughing still at the sound that came out of its bill! Subject(s): Birds; Religion DUKE OF MECHANICSVILLE, by WARREN WOESSNER Poem Source First Line: Two ways out of town %and I pick the wrong one Last Line: The son of the king of the road Subject(s): Birds DUSK, by WARREN WOESSNER Poem Source First Line: The elms are tall funnels, %leaves filter night %slowly to earth Last Line: Sink into the warm tar %without a struggle Subject(s): Birds DUSK: ASSUAN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Serene, he mounts the minaret of day Last Line: But faithful come those worshipers, the stars. Subject(s): Birds; Dusk; Silence DUST OF SNOW, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The way a crow Last Line: Of a day I had rued. Variant Title(s): A Favour;snow Dust Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Hope; Snow; Optimism DYING SWAN, by JAMES J. MCAULEY Poem Source First Line: The piano ripples a delicat Subject(s): Birds; Swans DYING SWAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The white delightful swan Subject(s): Birds; Swans EAGLE, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the savage, alien dust we go out in the evening to fly our Last Line: It immediately dives onto the dust and chases us, raging: not %an eagle, but a zigzagging snake Subject(s): Birds; Eagles EAGLE, by JAMES B. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: The grim eagle Subject(s): Birds; Eagles EAGLE, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He hangs between his wings outspread Last Line: He looks as though from his own wings %he hung down crucified Subject(s): Birds EAGLE ABOVE US, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He lives in the sky Subject(s): Birds; Eagles EAGLE ABOVE US, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the sky the eagle, there is his place, there far above us Last Line: There very far off they die away Subject(s): Birds; Eagles EAGLE AND THE DRY LEAF, by SANTIAGO H. ARGUELLO Poem Source First Line: One day the eagle said, with pride: 'none can soar up %like me! Last Line: Then higher than the eagles the dry leaves rise and soar! Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Irony; Self-gratification EAGLE IN NEW MEXICO (1), by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Towards the sun, towards the south-west Last Line: Can be put out of office as sacrifice bringer Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles EAGLE IN NEW MEXICO (2), by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On a low cedar-bush Last Line: Oh eagle of kings and emperors %what next Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles EAGLE TRAIL, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From rock-built nest Subject(s): Birds; Eagles EAGLE'S JOURNEY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From this grey crag in ether islanded Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Birds EAGLE'S SONG, by MARY HUNTER AUSTIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Said the eagle Subject(s): Birds; Eagles 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 EAGLES, by ELIZABETH A. WOODY Poem Text First Line: Yellow paper planes fly Last Line: As an edge in the sky. Variant Title(s): Eagles; For The Taos Journey Subject(s): Birds; Eagles EAGLES AND SPARROWS, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Without avail the flocks of sparrows try Last Line: While the great eagles take their flight alone Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Selfishness EAGLES: COMPOSED AT DUNOLLY CASTLE IN THE BAY OF OBAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dishonored rock and ruin! That, by law Last Line: His power, his beauty, and his majesty. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Scotland EARLY MAY STANZAS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A may wood. The invisible removal load Last Line: The load is burning with chilly flames Subject(s): Birds; May (month); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers EARLY MAY STANZAS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A may wood. The invisible removal load Last Line: The load is burning with chilly flames Subject(s): Birds; May (month); Poetry And Poets; Singing And Singers EARLY NIGHTINGALE, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When first we hear the shy-come nightingale Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 16. PERSUASION, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man's life is like a sparrow, mighty king Last Line: "his be a welcome cordially bestowed!" Subject(s): Birds ECHOES: 45, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the brake the nightingale Last Line: Love a last year's rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Nightingales; Roses ECLOGUE: THE TIMES, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, tom, how be'st? Zoo thou'st a-got thy neame Last Line: You'll goo vor wool, an' then come hwome a-sheär'd. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Economics; Fables; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Pigs; Politics & Government; Social Protest; Wages; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Boars; Hogs; Salaries ECSTATIC, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lark, skylark, spilling your rubbed and round Last Line: That estuary drop down to peace Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Birds EDGE, by WARREN WOESSNER Poem Source First Line: Hard rattle of granite %shaken by waves Last Line: To trace the edge %of just enough again Subject(s): Birds EGOIST, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the night wood between the nether glow Last Line: "is only -- ""whippoorwill! Whippoorwill!" Subject(s): Birds; Egoism And Egotism; Forests; Life; Night; Passion; Whipporwills; Woods; Bedtime EGRET, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: On morning tide Last Line: A feathered hat Subject(s): Birds EGYPTIAN KITES, by REX WARNER Poem Source First Line: Verminous aeronaut, leaflight turkey, kite Last Line: Feeling the air with feathers, poised in the plunge %of the sun Subject(s): Birds ELEGIAC SONNET: 3. TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor melancholy bird - that all night long Last Line: To sigh, and sing at liberty -- like thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales ELEGIAC SONNET: 55. THE RETURN OF THE NIGHTINGALE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Borne on the warm wing of the western gale Last Line: As shut my languid sense -- to hope's dear voice and thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales ELEGIAC SONNET: 7. ON THE DEPARTURE OF THE NIGHTINGALE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet poet of the woods - a long adieu! Last Line: And still be dear to sorrow, and to love! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales ELEGY ASKING THAT IT BE THE LAST; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a bird the color of mustard. The bird Last Line: This is a world set apart from ours. It is not! Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Horses; Lament; Scotland; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ELEGY FOR A SUICIDE, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, these flowers of the field Subject(s): Children; Food & Eating; Birds; Childhood ELEGY ON A YOUNG THRUSH, WHICH ESAPED ... COULD NOT BE FOUND, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mistaken bird, ah whither hast thou strayed? Last Line: The good he well discerns through folly miss? Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes EMPEROR PENGUINS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: The life of these penguins Last Line: Without an election Subject(s): Birds ENDANGERED, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: Down on the gulf coast of texas, in the aransas wetland Last Line: And we knew, we knew we would die without seeing the species again Subject(s): Birds; Environment; Nature ENDING WITH OPEN HANDS, by PATRICIA BARONE Poem Source First Line: Five bluebirds come to the feeder Last Line: Alighting. They stay Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Colors; Crayons; Paintings And Painters ENTANGLED, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood as one enchanted Last Line: Fled down the mossy way. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Forests; Birds; Voices; Fear; Escapes; Freedom; Woods; Fugitives; Liberty ENVY, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Icarus imitated the golden plover Last Line: & dares but he couldn't stop %counting feathers against salty sky Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Birds; Flight 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 EPIGRAM: 30, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lucks, my fair falcon, and your fellows all Last Line: Ye be my friends, and so be but few else. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Lux, My Fair Falcon;of Such As Had Forsaken Him;lucks, My Fair Falcon Subject(s): Bells; Birds; Freedom; Liberty EPIGRAM: SPIRIT OF PLATO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Eagle! Why soarest thou above that tomb? Last Line: Ascending heaven; athens doth inherit / his corpse below Variant Title(s): Plato's Tomb Subject(s): Birds;death;eagles;plato (428-348 B.c.);soul; "dead, The; ESCAPE, by JOSEPHINE INGRAM Poem Text First Line: I was born to wildness, free and light of wing Last Line: Hush! In the distance, hear the wild-bird sing ... Subject(s): Birds; Cages; Freedom; Liberty ESSAY: DUCKS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Break what is the / nectarine - word Last Line: Of the thought: dusks reflect you Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Ducks; Lakes; Mallards; Drakes; Pools; Ponds ETCHING AT DUSK, by FREDERIC PROKOSCH Poem Source First Line: I have just seen three ducks rise up from the rushes Subject(s): Birds EUTERPE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Muse of the mystic flute and purling stream Last Line: That speaks the tempest or the lisping flower. Subject(s): Birds; Euterpe (goddess); Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature EVENING, by ELIZABETH BEMIS DUNN Poem Text First Line: The sun sinks to rest Last Line: A silence tremulous and tender. Subject(s): Birds EVENING AT BIRD ISLAND, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I travel to bird island Subject(s): Birds EVENING BIRDS ARE RETURNING TO ROOST, by SONG CHONG'WON Poem Source Last Line: There boy, pour some wine into that earthen jar; %I'll play some music now Subject(s): Birds EVENING HAWK, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From plane of light to plane, wings dipping through Subject(s): Birds; Hawks EVENING HAWK, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From plane of light to plane, wings dipping through Last Line: Drip in darkness like a leaking pipe in the cellar Subject(s): Birds; Hawks EVENING IN MAY, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is nought tragic here, tho' night Last Line: Has all in one short plagiarised rhyme. Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Love; May (month); Plagiarism EVENING SONG: 2, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And over the pond are sailing Last Line: They presently must die. Subject(s): Birds; Swans EVENING SONG: 3, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in sorrow, they dare not show it Last Line: They sing now, while sailing along. Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Swans; Sorrow; Sadness EVERY HUNGRY SPARROW, by LUANN LANDON Poem Source First Line: There was a woman lovely and unkind Last Line: And every hungry sparrow to be her friend Subject(s): Birds; Women EVOLUTION OF THE FLIGHTLESS BIRD, by RICHARD KENNEY Poem Source First Line: Awkward as evolution of flight itself taxis Last Line: Genie of the thing's escaped, as all errata %do, in cursive gyres, high rings, high rings-- Subject(s): Birds; Flight 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 EXOLUTION BIRDWARD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the guerdon high Last Line: With our clumsy human race! Subject(s): Birds EXPRESSING HIS DELIGHT ON DREAMING OF HIS STRAY HAWK, by OTOMO NO YAKAMOCHI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the far realm of our lord Last Line: The hawk I waited for %was told me in a dream Alternate Author Name(s): Chunagon Yakamochi; Otomo Yakamochi; Yakamochi Subject(s): Birds; Hawks FABLE: THE OWL, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It seems, an owl, in days of yore Last Line: And fills his purse, and thins the town. Subject(s): Birds; Fables; Owls; Allegories FABLE; ROME, 1875, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A certain bird in a certain wood Last Line: I brought this english daisy away. Subject(s): Birds FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE EAGLE AND THE ASSEMBLY OF BIRDS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moral lay to beauty due Last Line: Are startled at the passing air.' Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Fables; Allegories FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE GOOSE AND THE SWANS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the face, however fair Last Line: You only her defects reveal. Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Fables; Faces; Geese; Nature; Swans; Women; Allegories FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE NIGHTINGALE AND GLOW-WORM, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prudent nymph, whose cheeks disclose Last Line: And beauty wrecks whom she adorns.' Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Nature; Nightingales FABLES: 1ST SER. 32. THE TWO OWLS AND THE SPARROW, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two formal owls together sate Last Line: And no keen cat find more regard. Subject(s): Birds; Owls FABLES: 1ST SER. 41. THE OWL AND THE FARMER, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An owl of grave deport and mien Last Line: Fools in derision follow fools. Subject(s): Birds; Owls; Wisdom FABLES: 2ND SER. 2. THE VULTUR, THE SPARROW, AND OTHER BIRDS, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: E'er I begin, I must premise Last Line: (what these ne'er feel) true peace of mind. Subject(s): Birds; Vultures FACADE: 21. THE OWL, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The currants, moonlit as mother bunch Last Line: As poor mrs. Bunch arranged her bustle. Subject(s): Birds; Owls FACT OR FANCY?, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In town I hear, scarce wakened yet Last Line: Unbodied, like the cuckoo's song. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Time FAIRFORD NIGHTINGALES, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The nightingales at fairford sing Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales FAITH, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the thrush and blackbird sing Last Line: I must believe, I will believe. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Birds; Faith; Grief; Pain; Spring; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery FALLING, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Life; Nature; Birds FANCY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fancy, if thou flyest, come back anon Last Line: A netted halcyon bird to sing of rest. Subject(s): Birds; Fate; Love; Rest; Destiny FANNY, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dying swan by northern lakes Last Line: By witching eyes which looked disdain. Subject(s): Birds; Swans FEATHER, by DZVINIA ORLOWSKY Poem Source First Line: A feather, its bird, the color red Last Line: Which world, trembling, did it finally choose Subject(s): Birds; Feathers FEATHERED BIRD OF THE HARBOR OF GLOUCESTER, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was here, 1817 august 23rd Last Line: Rounded like a dog's Subject(s): Birds FEATHERS, by ANTOINETTE ALBERTSON Poem Source First Line: Curious crows - scolding Last Line: Not one sparrow shall fall...' Subject(s): Birds; Feathers FEATHERS AND MOSS, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The marten flew to the finch's nest Last Line: Say 'good-by' Subject(s): Birds; Moss FEBRUARY SWANS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of the hundred swans in west bay Last Line: Has glazed the window with frost. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; February; Love; Solitude; Swans; Loneliness FEEDER, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: In the wind it swings Last Line: At last abided, %its time Subject(s): Birds; Nature FERN-OWL'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The weary woodman, rocking home beneath Last Line: And the heath's echoes mock the herding boys Subject(s): Birds FIELD NOTE (EVERGLADES), by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: As elevated nostrils Last Line: With the choreographed dexterity %of a survivor Subject(s): Alligators; Birds; Nature FIELD-GLASSES, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though buds still speak in hints Subject(s): Birds FIELD-GLASSES, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though buds still speak in hints Last Line: My shoulders prick, as though they were half-fledged Subject(s): Birds FILLING IN THE BLANKS; FOR CONSTANCE MERRITT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blank verse, as good as marlowe's mighty line Last Line: Overhead, the circling, screaming birds. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Birds; Crossword Puzzles; Games; Messengers; Writing & Writers; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements 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 FIRETAIL'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tweet,' pipes the robin as the cat ... Subject(s): Birds FIRST APPOINTMENT, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Intoxication of spring! The plot of grass is whirling round the statue Last Line: * * * * * * * Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs FIRST CORNCRAKE, by JOHN HEWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We heard the corncrake's call from close at hand Last Line: Without one glimpse of him that made the cry. %the heart still hankers for the rounded shape Subject(s): Birds; Corncrakes FIRST ROBIN, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: As puffed up %as a tag-team wrestler Last Line: Before the crowds %have moved on Subject(s): Birds 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 FLAMINGOES, by HARRIET SENNETT Poem Source First Line: Over the wide reach of emerald rushes Subject(s): Birds; Flamingos FLAMINGOS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With all the subtle paints of fragonard Last Line: Stride into their imaginary world Subject(s): Birds FLAW, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To give me its bright plumes, they shot a jay Last Line: The universe, so whole within my mind Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Birds FLEETING: THE OWL, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The door-bell jangled in evening's peace Last Line: A-hoo! A-hoo! %a-hoo! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Birds; Owls FLIGHT, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The song-birds? Are they flown away? Last Line: Lies dead beneath the death-white moon. Subject(s): Birds; Flight; Flying FLIGHT, by HAZEL HALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A bird may curve across the sky Subject(s): Birds; Flight FLIGHT, by PETER HUGGINS Poem Source First Line: Keats knew birds. From his room Last Line: An airshow in texas, somewhere %east of san angelo. I think %keats would have liked that too Subject(s): Birds; Flight; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry And Poets FLIGHT, by EDNA BACON MORRISON Poem Text First Line: The birds are flying south, today I saw Last Line: Tomorrow's dawn will break across the skies. Subject(s): Birds FLIGHT, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All morning I have watched the robins Last Line: And slanted and coasted down the same long breezes %as any birds, swallowed by the air, and believin Subject(s): Birds; Flight 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 FLOODGATE, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low, when the western flock is folded Last Line: And the owl begins his flight. Subject(s): Birds; Floods; Insects; Owls; Bugs FLOWER HERDING ON MOUNT MONADNOCK, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I can support it no longer Last Line: It is a flower. On this mountainside it is dying. Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Mount Monadnock, New Hampshire FLUTE OF KRISHNA, by JAMES B. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: No human lips caress Subject(s): Birds FLY, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have been cruel to a fat pigeon Last Line: I who have always believed too much in words Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Birds FOR BLITHER FIELDS AND BRAVER BOWERS, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: This bosom will be cold! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Birds; Love - Complaints; Home; Farewell FOR SATURDAY, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now's the time for mirth and play, / saturday's an holiday! Last Line: Your praises to th' eternal king. Variant Title(s): Hymns For Saturday Subject(s): Birds; Eggs; Larks; Saturday Club; Skylarks FOR THE BIRDS, by MARK JARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you wake up, raising the film over your eyes, in a hollow of boughs or bark, Last Line: Letters like this one are written, it is because we are Subject(s): Birds FOREVER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do know that birds continue to live and procreate as long as Last Line: For the sake of living with questions Subject(s): Birds; Life FOSSIL OF A BIRD HITTING GLASS, by ALLISON BENNIS Poem Source First Line: Between toward and shock there is a window Last Line: Is made the moment air turns to glass Subject(s): Birds; Fossils; Glass And Glassblowers FOUR IN THE MORNING COURAGE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birds this morning wakened me so early it was hardly day Last Line: The starling waked me ere the day aping the thrush's sober tune). Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Birds; Morning; Summer FOX SPARROW, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: The geese drive northward Subject(s): Birds; Sparrows FREAKS OF FASHION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Such a hubbub in the nests Last Line: "anything, everything!" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds FREED FROM ANOTHER CONTEXT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text 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 FRIENDLY BLUE SKY PILOT (MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD), by LOLA GREENFIELD LAWRENCE Poem Text First Line: A cerulean flash! Your sure course you take Last Line: Earth-children are awed by the joy in your soul! Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds FRIGATE PELICAN, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rapidly cruising or lying on the air there is a bird Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Birds; Pelicans FRIGATEBIRDS, by WARREN WOESSNER Poem Source First Line: They hang above the beach Last Line: And the air holds you, %takes you up Subject(s): Birds FROM FRANCE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: What little bird is this that sings? Last Line: Sing till our leaves in england dance. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; France FROM HAWK AND KITE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor fluttered, frightened, silent one! Last Line: Guard the poor from treachery! Subject(s): Birds; Hawks; Kites FROM THE SHORE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lone gray bird Last Line: On the tides that plunge and rear and crumble. Subject(s): Birds FUEL FOR J.S., by DEREK SHEFFIELD Poem Source First Line: A hawk's shadow drove the family Last Line: Pink babies with bulging eyes %until the grimy hands come down Subject(s): Birds; Fear; Hawks; Mice GALLERY OF PIGEONS, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Dame fancy has a gallery Last Line: "and rhyme sweet fantasy -- ""good morrow." Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Fear; Pigeons; Soul; Women GARDEN DAYS: 2. NEST EGGS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds all the summer [or, sunny] day Last Line: Plodding and walking. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Birds GENERATIONS OF SWAN, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sex, the invisible treasure Last Line: That ancestrally curved neck, %and the legendary blue eyes? Subject(s): Birds; Daughters; Swans GEO-BESTIARY: 25, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The resplendent female 'elegant trogon.' Last Line: This all took three seconds by my geologic watch. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Introspection GEO-BESTIARY: 34, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not how many different birds I've seen Last Line: They sing what and where they are. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Songs GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 21, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They bit by bit are building again Last Line: "is stirr'd with indignation." Subject(s): Birds; Hamburg Fire (1842); Kisses; Love GESTURE, by ELIZABETH ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: Clouds overhead Last Line: Whose sparrows posed from a distance Subject(s): Birds; Sparrows GETTING ALONG, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We trudge on together, my good man and I Subject(s): Aging; Birds; Life; Walking; Women GIFT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You heavens proud above this earth Subject(s): Birds GLIMPSES OF THE BIRDS, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ringed with a rainbow Last Line: Of pain, but of night Subject(s): Birds; Birds GLIMPSES OF THE BIRDS, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ringed with a rainbow Last Line: The author. Subject(s): Birds GO, WINTER!, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, winter! Go thy ways! We Last Line: In her first marigold. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Summer; Winter GOATSUCKER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old goatherds swear how all night long they hear Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Goats; Birds GOD GIVES TO EVERY BIRD ITS PROPER FOOD BUT THEY MUST ALL FLY FOR IT', by DICK ALLEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My aunt, drowning in birdcalls, telephones Last Line: The evening grosbeak, and the rapt bluejays Subject(s): Birds; Survival GOING HOME IN THE MORNING, by WAYNE DOUGLAS Poem Text First Line: A poor little bird trilled a song in the west Last Line: Where we all should rejoice in the morning. Subject(s): Birds; Morning GOLD BIRD, by DIANN BLAKELY Poem Source First Line: I fear nothing from winter Last Line: It is my song that trembles gold leaves Subject(s): Birds GOLDEN EAGLE, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: When we were kids Last Line: Something priceless %& we had Subject(s): Birds; Eagles GOLDEN FALCON, by ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN Poem Source First Line: He sees the circle of the world Subject(s): Birds; Death; Falcons GOLDFINCH, by ODELL SHEPARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down from the sky on a sudden he drops Subject(s): Birds; Goldfinches GOLDFINCHES, by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop Subject(s): Birds; Goldfinches GOLDFINCHES, by ELISABETH SCOLLARD Poem Source First Line: Now that the giant sunflowers rise Subject(s): Birds; Goldfinches GOLDIE SAPIENS, by PATRICK JOSEPH GREGORY KAVANAGH Poem Source First Line: When goldie the golden eagle escaped from the zoo Last Line: With tail between talons, had lolloped back to the cage Subject(s): Birds; Eagles GONE TO HIS REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Would have it so Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Mortality; Death – Animals GOOD LUCK, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Birdshit on the window Last Line: But never get stuck Subject(s): Birds; Excrement; Luck GOOD-NIGHT, by DOROTHEA KENNEDY Poem Text First Line: I like to think the last sleep Last Line: And closed his eyes. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Sleep; Childhood GOOFY YOUNG BALD EAGLE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A barrel of fish heads and guts Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Eagles; Gulls; Nature; Ravens GORCOCK, by JAMES GRAHAM (1612-1650) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With earliest spring, while yet in Alternate Author Name(s): Montrose, 1st Marquis Of Subject(s): Birds 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 GOWK, by VIOLET JACOB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tib, my auntie's a deil to wark Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy Erskine, Violet Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos GRATITUDE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take hold, my bird, of the cherry bough Last Line: For this beautiful ballad's sake! Subject(s): Birds; Gratitude GRAY FOREST EAGLE, by ALFRED BILLINGS STREET Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With storm-daring pinion, and sun-gazing eye Subject(s): Birds; Eagles GRAY GEESE FLYING, by FREDERIC PROKOSCH Poem Source First Line: Gray geese over the rock-ribbed hill, solemnly Subject(s): Birds; Geese GRAY HERON, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It held its head still Last Line: Or change into something else Subject(s): Birds GREAT BLUE HERON, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Motionless, %a painted hunter Last Line: A painted hunter %upon a painted pond Subject(s): Birds GREAT BROWN OWL, by ANN HAWKSHAW Poem Source First Line: The brown owl sits in the ivy bush Alternate Author Name(s): Aunt Effie; Hawkshawe, Ann; Jackson, Ann Subject(s): Birds; Owls GREAT GRAY OWL-WATCH IN DECEMBER TWILIGHT, by DEBORAH LARSEN Poem Source First Line: And I, under the shagbark hickory Last Line: Snapped back -- one, and one -- its slanted eyecups Subject(s): Birds; Owls GREAT GULL, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Restless, rising at dawn Last Line: A strange tongue but the tone clear Subject(s): Birds; Gulls GREAT NOISE THE WORLD MAKES, by BIN RAMKE Poem Source First Line: Ardea candidissima, snowy %heron or white Last Line: How the sound continues a bell a voice crying in the widerness Subject(s): Birds GREAT SCARF OF BIRDS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ripe apples were caught like red fish in the nets Last Line: Melting all thought, the southward cloud withdrew into the air Subject(s): Birds GREEN CATBIRD, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: With feathers of a greenish hue Last Line: Ain't that %ridiculous Subject(s): Birds GREEN FLASH, by WARREN WOESSNER Poem Source First Line: The yacht swung easy at anchor %off the dry tortugas Last Line: Of the great sea dragon %lifted flashing from the deep Subject(s): Birds GREENSHANK, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His single note - one can't help calling it Last Line: In a semitone %of desolate octaves Subject(s): Birds 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 GREY OWL, by JOSEPH PAYNE BRENNAN Poem Source First Line: When fireflies begin to wink Last Line: Like a grey thought %fanning the margins of the mind Subject(s): Birds GROUND BIRDS IN OPEN COUNTRY, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They fly up in front of you so suddenly Subject(s): Birds 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 GULLS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My townspeople, beyond in the great world Last Line: The gulls moved seaward very quietly. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls GULLS OVER GREAT SALT LAKE, by ROSS SUTPHEN Poem Source First Line: What do they here, these denizens of the deep Subject(s): Birds; Great Salt Lake, Utah; Gulls GYPSY GHOST, by LUELLA STONE Poem Text First Line: Tonight you heard wild birds in flight, then sent Last Line: Swift silent ships like whispers in your eyes. Subject(s): Birds; Gypsies; Gipsies GYPSY SONG, by HELEN PRICE Poem Text First Line: What is it within me that's yearning to go Last Line: To shatter the sky like a comet at night. Subject(s): Birds; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers HABITAT: TIME AND PLACE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is out by the stand of windbreak-trees, under Last Line: It keeps me down to size Subject(s): Birds; California; Fields; Herbs; Nature HAPPY IS HE WHO LIES AWAKE, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birds HARK! HARK, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No sight of it, only the song Subject(s): Birds HARK, HARK, THE LARKS DO BITE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every schoolboy knows a wallaby from a wombat Last Line: And went off with a tone-deaf pipit Subject(s): Birds; Larks HARMONIES, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: No hammer fell, no heavy axe was heard Last Line: In soundless beauty to the sun-god's lute. Subject(s): Birds; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs HARPY EAGLE, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: Hunger's keen eye slits the green Last Line: M %e %a %l Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Eagles HAS IT FLOWN AWAY, by FUJIWARA NO SHUNZEI Poem Source Last Line: Yet its song seems %still by my window Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos HAST THOU HEARD THE NIGHTINGALE?, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I have heard the nightingale Last Line: Yes, I have heard the nightingale. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales HAWK, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hawk slipped out of the pine, and rose in the sunlit air Last Line: And over the heather drifted the down from a bleeding breast Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C. Subject(s): Birds; Hawks HAWK, by GEORGE MACKAY BROWN Poem Source First Line: On sunday the hawk fell on bigging Last Line: And jock lowered his gun %and nailed a small wing over the corn Subject(s): Birds; Hawks HAWK, by RICHARD THOMAS CHURCH Poem Source First Line: The hawk! He stands on air Last Line: Shadowing all terrestial things - %the pinpoint in the sky! Alternate Author Name(s): Eccles Subject(s): Birds HAWK, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It circled, hand, and circled. I watched it come Last Line: To keep the symbol but to shoot the bird Subject(s): Birds; Hawks HAWK, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: I stare %I glare Last Line: I don't %see %you! Subject(s): Birds; Hawks HAWK, by GEORGE ROSTREVOR HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Things motionless were left to move Last Line: Hung in one black speck, poised above the hill Alternate Author Name(s): Rostrevor, George Subject(s): Birds HAWK, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning / the hawk / rose up Subject(s): Birds HAWK, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning %the hawk %rose up Last Line: Turned into a white blade, which fell Subject(s): Birds HAWK, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I see you dart, swift pirate of the air Subject(s): Birds HAWK, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Men have tried to be kind Last Line: And the hawk sweeps down and slays Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Hawks; Life HAWK AFIELD, by EVELYN SCOTT Poem Source First Line: The quail are still Alternate Author Name(s): Metcalfe, John, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds HAWK IN A PAINTING, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From white silk -- a whiff of wind and frost Last Line: Sprinkling -- blood and feathers across the plain Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Birds; Hawks HAWK IN THE TWILIGHT, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Text First Line: He drifts from dusts of twilight sifted there Last Line: Deep into darkness where all flesh is kin! Subject(s): Birds; Hawks HAWK NAILED TO A BARN DOOR, by PETER BLUE CLOUD Poem Source Last Line: I look at your beautiful wings %and sense your flight Subject(s): Birds; Hawks HAWK ROOSTING, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Birds HAWK ROOSTING, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed Last Line: My eye has permitted no change. %I am going to keep things like this Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Birds HAWK WING, by LUCILE BLANCHARD Poem Source First Line: Dawn slips past the blinds to touch Last Line: To lighted room, unwilling to be born Subject(s): Birds; Birth; Hawks HAWKING FOR PARTRIDGES, by LORENZO DE' MEDICI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was already pink across the east Last Line: And so, my friend, we passed our happy time %with rhymes, sweet rhymes in sugar, keeping time Alternate Author Name(s): Lorenzo The Magnificent Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Dogs; Hawks; Hunting; Landscape HE 'DIGESTETH HARDE YRON', by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Although the aepyornis Subject(s): Birds HE 'DIGESTETH HARDE YRON', by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Although the aepyornis Last Line: Is the sparrow-camel Subject(s): Birds HEALTH TO THE BIRDS, by SEUMAS MACMANUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a health to the birds one and all Subject(s): Birds 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 HEART, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: In the heart of dublin, not even the long Last Line: Can undo the blackbird's song Subject(s): Ambulances; Birds; Dublin, Ireland; Fire HEART OF OWL COUNTRY, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: Whatever blossoms is rooted Last Line: In its large community, alert and perfect Subject(s): Birds; Gardens And Gardening; Owls; Solitude HEART OF YOUTH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Yellow-hammer's rat-tat-too on the orchard bough Subject(s): Birds HEAVEN SOARING LARK, by MARY ELEANOR ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: The heaven-soaring lark, its rapture spent Subject(s): Birds; Larks HEMATITE LAKE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is another kind of sleep Last Line: Not even nightfall, whose gold we are, can find us Subject(s): Birds; Lakes; Nature; Swans; Pools; Ponds HEPATICA, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When april's in her genial mood Last Line: Are greetings from the heart of spring. Subject(s): Birds; Spring HER GARDEN; IN MEMORY OF NELLIE SIDDENS BURKE, by EDITH W. L. FORBES Poem Text First Line: Now as the spring Last Line: Now in the spring. Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening; Love HER LOVE-BIRDS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I looked up at my love-birds Last Line: And smote like death on me! Subject(s): Birds HERALD CRANE, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Say you so, bold sailor Subject(s): Cranes (birds) HERE LIES PIERROT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon's ashine; by many a lane Last Line: The moon's ashine; here lies pierrot. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Love; Moon; Nightingales; Dead, The HERMIT THRUSH, by NELLY HART WOODWORTH Poem Source First Line: Who rings new england's angelus? Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Thrushes HERMIT THRUSH IN THE CATSKILLS, by WILLIAM GRIFFITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Harken the song of the thrush Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes HERMIT-THRUSH SEXTONS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the hushed and reverent woodland Last Line: When we hear the hermit's call. Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes HERON, by PHOEBE HESKETH Poem Source First Line: On lonely river-mud a heron alone Last Line: Shadow that seems to bear the light away Subject(s): Birds HERON, by LISA LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Now another consideration emerges Last Line: On the bank all they see is a bird %drowning there's nothing they can do Subject(s): Birds; Food And Eating; Herons HERON, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It stands in water, wrapped in heron. It makes Last Line: Stand in the sea; wind from a brown sail spills Subject(s): Birds HERON, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The heron stands in water where the swamp Last Line: A single ripple starts from where he stood Subject(s): Birds; Herons HERONS ON BO ISLAND, by ELIZABETH SHANE Poem Source Subject(s): Birds; Herons HIGH FROM THE EARTH I HEARD A BIRD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: How different we are! Subject(s): Birds HIGH SUMMER, by WARREN WOESSNER Poem Source First Line: Slow sun pulls long days %over july Last Line: Overhead, swallows mow down %a new crop of insects Subject(s): Birds HILL MYNAB, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: I squawk %I talk Last Line: (a tape recorder's in my head Subject(s): Birds HIS BILL AN AUGER IS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: A worm, his utmost goal Subject(s): Birds HOLLOW WOOD, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the sun the goldfinch flits Last Line: Down there as he flits on thistle-tops Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Birds; Forests HOLY GROUND, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pause where apart the fallen sparrow lies Last Line: Enshrines the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Religion; Theology HOME RULE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be glad as a bird! Last Line: At home, not foreign parts. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Birds; Serenity HOME-MAKING, by JAMES HURDIS Poem Source First Line: Now ev'ry feather'd tenant of the grove Subject(s): Birds HOOPOE, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Solitary wayfarer! %minstrel winged of the Subject(s): Birds HOPE, by THOMAS DEL VECCHIO Poem Text First Line: Hope in this day of ruin Last Line: Grown cold beyond entreaty. Subject(s): Birds; Hope; Optimism HORIZONS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: On the way to paris, but toward nemours the Last Line: Hours of night chanted the nightingale. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Paris, France; Singing & Singers; Songs HOUSE MARTINS, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: Pines I remember, the air crisp Last Line: Warm with their own blood, the cold mud walls Subject(s): Birds HOUSE MARTINS 2, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: Fifteen years later. From under an older roof Last Line: Nor mouth the metaphors that will damn my kind %the summer I see empty nests Subject(s): Birds HOW TO CARE FOR A SMALL BIRD, by PETER GIZZI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Given the baby bird crisis, what if Subject(s): Birds HUMMINGBIRD, by ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN Poem Source First Line: It would take an angel's eye Subject(s): Birds HUMMINGBIRD, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Barely bigger than your thumb Last Line: This helicopter of a bird Subject(s): Birds HUMMINGBIRD, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I can imagine, in some otherworld Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Variant Title(s): Humming-bird Subject(s): Birds; Hummingbirds; Time HUMMINGBIRD, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I can imagine, in some otherworld Last Line: We look at him through the wrong end of the long telescope of time, %luckily for us Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Variant Title(s): Humming-bir Subject(s): Birds; Hummingbirds; Time HUMMINGBIRD EXHIBIT [SAN DIEGO ANIMAL PARK], by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Adjusting each time to their junglized air Last Line: From time to time among them till I find my way again %to an exit and the first thinning blast of ca Subject(s): Birds; Exhibitions 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 HURT HAWKS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder Last Line: Before it was quite unsheathed from reality Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Euthanasia; Hawks HURT HAWKS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder Last Line: Fear at its rising %before it was quite unsheathed from reality Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Euthanasia; Hawks HYMN TO MOLOCH, by RALPH HODGSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who didst furnish %the fowls of the air Last Line: An plant thy strong sword %in their livers at last Subject(s): Birds I AM BLACK-BROWED, by PAULINE STAINER Poem Source Last Line: Hang me round your neck Subject(s): Albatrosses; Birds; Riddles I AWAKE FEATHERED, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I awake covered in feathers Subject(s): Birds I HAVE A BIRD IN SPRING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: Bright melody for me %return Variant Title(s): Poem: 4; Poem: Subject(s): Birds I HAVE HEARD WHIPPOORWILLS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You say that I have grown so strange Last Line: That sing in kelser park. Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Love; Whipporwills I SAW A PEACOCK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I saw a peacock with a fiery tail Last Line: I saw the man that saw this wondrous sight Subject(s): Birds I SHALL FASHION SONGS, by LOIS R. CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: I shall fashion songs for you Last Line: And sing them to you. Subject(s): Birds; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs I TOO MANY AND MANY A TIME CROSS'D THE RIVER OF OLD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birds I WANT TO GO WANDERING, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want to go wandering. Who shall declare Last Line: Wandering. ... Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Mountain Climbing; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes I'M A BLUEJAY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a bluejay, 'nd never mind Last Line: F I am a jay. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Birds; Bluejays I, MAXIMUS OF GLOUCESTER, TO YOU, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Off-shore, by islands hidden in the blood Last Line: Than that which you %can do Subject(s): Birds; Gloucester, Massachusetts IBIS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Why were you hailed a sacred thing Subject(s): Birds IBIS; FOR LORI GOLDENSOHN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is the long dream in the afternoon Last Line: All of his new body away from me. Subject(s): Birds; Household Employees; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Rain; Sleep; Servants; Domestics; Maids ICE STORM, by CHARLOTTE BLAKE LORING Poem Text First Line: Above my head the branch no longer green Last Line: Whose shadow had pressed heavy on my heart. Subject(s): Birds; Snow; Trees ICEBOUND SWANS, by SEAN O'FAOLAIN Poem Source First Line: Pitiful these crying swans tonight Subject(s): Birds; Swans IDEA: 56, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When like an eaglet I first found my love Last Line: It after thee is, like an eaglet, flown. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Love - Beginnings; Love - Nature Of IF A BIRD CAN SING, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If a bird in a cage can sing, my dear Last Line: If a bird in a cage can sing, my dear! Subject(s): Birds IF A BIRD MAY THINK, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: If a bird may think, its thoughts are not so small Last Line: It's good for birds and children, thoughts need not fit inside Subject(s): Birds; Thought; Children IF HE WERE NOT ENTHRALLED ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her parasol's a mushroom turned a bowl Last Line: And leave releasing to the nightingale. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Shadows IF ONE WERE TO KEEP...., by CHARLES VILDRAC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If one were to keep for many years and days Last Line: That I would call for death -- with a great cry! . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Messager, Charle Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Death; Kisses; Sea; Seasons; Women; Fall; Dead, The; Ocean IF THE OWL CALLS AGAIN, by JOHN HAINES Poem Text First Line: At dusk / from the island Last Line: Cold world awakens. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Environment; Owls; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation IMPROMPTU, by SAMUEL WILBERFORCE Poem Text First Line: If I were a cassowary Last Line: Cassock, bands and hymn-book too. Subject(s): Birds; Cannibals IN ARMIDA'S GARDEN (FROM JERUSALEM DELIVERED), by TORQUATO TASSO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The joyous birds, hid under greenewood shade Last Line: Loving, belov'd, embrasing, be embrast Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening IN EXCELSIS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To highest heaven the lark alone Last Line: He chants the litany of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks IN GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS; ON HEARING A SKYLARK SING, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too late, thou tender songster of the sky Last Line: Or any true unhappy human thing. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks IN MEMORIAM, JOHN BURROUGHS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His little friends, the birds, will miss him sore Last Line: Some meadow-lark seek out the comrade's face? Subject(s): Absence; Birds; Death; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The IN MONMOUTH, by EVE GILBERT SWIFT Poem Text First Line: In monmouth, in monmouth Last Line: "cuckoo, cuckoo." Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Spring IN NEW YORK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I heard a crow from home Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Nature; New York City IN REFERENCE TO HER CHILDREN, 23 JUNE, 1659, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had eight birds hatched in one nest Last Line: I happy am, if well with you. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness IN SHADOW, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heeds yonder star thy song Last Line: "appears a star." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds IN SPRING, by AVA F. COLLINGWOOD Poem Text First Line: The time in school is twice as long Last Line: On every single sunny day? Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs IN THE BACKYARD, by PATRICIA HOOPER Poem Source First Line: This morning a hawk plunges Last Line: Flying across it, farther %and farther below Subject(s): Birds; Hawks IN THE DARK (1), by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Has the spring come back, my darling Last Line: With their eyes so bright and brown! Subject(s): Birds IN THE GARDEN (1), by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A bird came down the walk Last Line: Leap, splashless, as they swim. Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening IN THE GREAT FLUX, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two gulls, a gray and a brown, veterans both Last Line: May fold them from all food and flight forever. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Gulls; Life; Sea; Dead, The; Seagulls; Ocean IN THE GREEN WOOD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the green wood, by a green slope Last Line: My heart goes crying and soaring yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Green (color); Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Woods IN THE LODI GARDENS, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The black, pensive, dense Last Line: Into the unanimous blue Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Cemeteries; Birds IN THE NEST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O world beneath the mother's wing Last Line: Of deeper love. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds' Nests IN THE NEST OF THE LARK, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here the silentest of things Last Line: From the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks IN THE WOODS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was in the woods today Last Line: And, hearing, are beatified? Subject(s): Birds; Tides IN WIRY WINTER, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow of a bird Subject(s): Winter; Birds INDIGO BIRD, by STEPHEN CROMBIE Poem Source First Line: I will fare up white creek water Subject(s): Birds INSCRIPTION: UNDER AN OAK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, traveller! Pause awhile. This ancient oak Last Line: Of all that softens or ennobles man. Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Nature; Oak Trees; Rest; Travel; Journeys; Trips INVENTING THE HAWK, by LORNA CROZIER Poem Source First Line: She didn't believe the words Last Line: When she was a child, %the radiant, uninvented blades of grass Subject(s): Birds; Hawks INVENTORY OF REEFS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So comely / so comely / caribbees Last Line: Adieu aviary / cagelings adieu Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Birds INVITATION, by HARRY BEHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bluejay, fly to my windowsill! Last Line: So come have your breakfast, and fly away! Subject(s): Birds INVOCATION TO THE CUCKOO, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, pursuivant and herald of the spring! Last Line: I laugh at fortune, and defy old time. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Fortune; Muses; Time INVOCATION TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by MARY HAYS Poem Text First Line: Wand'ring o'er the dewy meadow Last Line: To avoid the coming rain. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales IRIS RISING, by WARREN WOESSNER Poem Source First Line: She sleeps, quiet, %safe from mail, meetings %and memos Last Line: The only messages to see %sent light years ago Subject(s): Birds IRISES: 1. SONOITA CREEK, by WARREN WOESSNER Poem Source First Line: Keeping still, listening %for owls, we spot Last Line: That must be moved for help to come Subject(s): Birds IRISES: 2. CHIRICHAHUA MOUNTAINS, by WARREN WOESSNER Poem Source First Line: Once I waited hours %between shrinking snowbanks Last Line: They were the only blue %on earth Subject(s): Birds JAY AND THE DOVE, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where do you come from, mr. Jay? Subject(s): Birds JENNY WREN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Her sight is short, she comes quite near Last Line: Had starlings singing without stop.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Wrens JENNY WREN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the birds that rove and sing Last Line: A tiny, inch-long, eager, ardent, %feathered mouse Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Birds JEREMIAH 8, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth Subject(s): Birds JOB 39: 13-18, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: The wing of the ostrich rejoiceth Last Line: She scorneth the horse and his rider Subject(s): Birds JUDGE IS LIKE THE OWL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: His favorite refrain Variant Title(s): Poem: 699; Poem: 72 Subject(s): Birds; Owls JULY MEETING, by PETER DAVISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crow hollered, barking darkness like a trumpet Subject(s): Birds; Summer JUNCOES, by FRANCES HATHAWAY Poem Text First Line: Dark-cowled, gray of habit Last Line: Who your birds have fed! Subject(s): Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Juncoes (birds); Saints JUNCOS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They operate from elsewhere Last Line: Clean little coveralls Subject(s): Birds JUNE VAGARIES, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the mouirning dove vows a doubtful vow Subject(s): Birds JUST AS MORNING TWILIGHT AND THE GULLS, GLOUCESTER, MAY 1966, by CHARLES OLSON Poet's Biography First Line: Just as moving twilight and the gulls start talking the cinnamon moon Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Moon; Seagulls JUST AS MORNING TWILIGHT AND THE GULLS, GLOUCESTER, MAY 1966, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just as moving twilight and the gulls start talking the cinnamon moon Last Line: As much condition as the purchase of my soul by love as they Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Moon KEEPER OF SHEEP: 43, by FERNANDO ANTONIO NOGUEIRA PESSOA Poem Source First Line: Rather the flight of the bird passing and leaving no trace Last Line: Fly, bird, fly away; teach me to disappear! Subject(s): Birds KEEPING IT SIMPLE, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I take the bird on the woodpile, Subject(s): Birds KEEPING UP WITH THE SIGNS, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Meadowlarks nesting march to august yield Last Line: Three clear notes do not. Walk in open field. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Variant Title(s): Keeping Up With Sings Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Signs & Signboards; Skylarks KICKING UP, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I don't know what bugs Last Line: My kicked-up meals Subject(s): Birds KILLDEE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Killdee! Killdee! Far o'er the lea Last Line: At twilight meet again! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds KINGFISHER, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a year the nightingales were said to be so loud Last Line: But, down on down, the uninhabitable sorrow Subject(s): Birds KINGFISHER, by PHOEBE HESKETH Poem Source First Line: Brown as nettle-beer, the stream Last Line: The image blazes on Subject(s): Birds; Rivers KNOWLEDGE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild swan over the marshes knows Last Line: Across the glaciers of eternity! Subject(s): Birds; Future Life; Happiness; Hawks; Hope; Knowledge; Owls; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Joy; Delight; Optimism L'OISEAU BLEU (AFTER CHARLES CONDER), by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A parting golden haze Last Line: The bird drops home. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To be sure the cantonal seagulls Last Line: Is no more than the flash of a lighter Subject(s): Birds; Gulls LADY SUMMER, by WILLIAM MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birdie, birdie, weet your whistle! Last Line: "I'll toot on anither horn." Alternate Author Name(s): Laureate Of The Nursery Subject(s): Birds; Summer LAMENT, by IRA SADOFF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While I was gone, I lost my finches. Subject(s): Birds; Lament LANDSCAPE IS LANGUAGE, by DAVID SMITH-FERRI Poem Source First Line: At the hour of owl flight Last Line: At breakfast %still dripping Subject(s): Birds; Language; Nature; Owls LAPWING, by REX WARNER Poem Source First Line: Leaves, summer's coinage spent, golden are all together whirled Last Line: In their elbowing of the air and in their lamentable cal Subject(s): Birds LARK, by BERNART DE VENTADORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I see the lark a-moving Last Line: Save desiring and a yearning heart Alternate Author Name(s): Bernard De Ventadour Subject(s): Birds; Larks LARK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Swift through the yielding air I glide Last Line: Rock him again, and his fair queen to sleep Subject(s): Birds LARK'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From yon black clump of wheat that grows Last Line: Throws off the frequent falling shower %- and here's an egg this morning laid! Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Larks LARKS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day in exquisite air Last Line: The song went up the stair. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Singing & Singers; Stairs; Skylarks LAST BOB WHITE, by WHITNEY MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: Oh, how they murdered poor bob white today Subject(s): Birds LATE HALF MOON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Late half moon %high over head Last Line: In the moonfilled dawn Subject(s): Birds; Moon; Owls; Space And Space Travel LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 20, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred thousand birds salute the day Last Line: And launch our hearts up with them to the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds LAUREL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the road in the month of june Last Line: Than any mood of roses! Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; June; Roads; Roses; Paths; Trails LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 6. SPRING, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But haste we! - 'tis that merry time of year Last Line: Untiring sing their olden songs anew. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Flowers; Primroses; Singing & Singers; Spring; Violets; Songs LEARNING TO TALK, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On magnolia avenue there are no magnolias. Someone bought Subject(s): Neighbors; Birds; Mothers; Babies; Infants LEDA, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the slow river Last Line: Of the red swan's breast. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Swans LEDA AND THE SWAN, by OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though her mother told her Last Line: Agamemnon murdered; %and the mighty twins? Subject(s): Birds; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Swans LEDA AND THE SWAN, by FELICIA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Zeus %he was Subject(s): Birds; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Swans; Zeus LEDA AND THE SWAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Leda Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus; Fancy LEDA AND THE SWAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still Last Line: Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Led Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus LEDA AND THE SWINE (AFTER YEATS), by DAVID SHEVIN Poem Source First Line: The snort, basso profundo: hooves come a-clopping Subject(s): Birds; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Poetry And Poets; Swans; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) LEDA RECONSIDERED, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She had a little time to think Last Line: Almost with tenderness Subject(s): Birds; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Swans LEDA RECONSIDERED, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She had a little time to think Last Line: Her hand moved into the dense plumes %on his breast to touch%the utter stranger Subject(s): Birds; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Swans LEMONADE, by WILLIAM LOPEZ Poem Source First Line: There is a wing in my mouth Last Line: Always catches %the eye Subject(s): Birds; High School Students; Teenagers LET IT BE SPRINGTIME, by NELLE LORAINE MILROY Poem Text First Line: If privilege were mine to name the time Last Line: Lull me to slumber while the day is young. Subject(s): Birds; Spring LETTER TO HILTON FROM MADISON, by WARREN WOESSNER Poem Source First Line: Dear dave, it's saturday. The light Last Line: Maybe I'll write some letters, %maybe some poems. Love, warren Subject(s): Birds LEVITICUS 7, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: And these are they in abomination Subject(s): Birds LIGHT, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The second day of eastern standard Subject(s): Birds LIKE AN EAGLE, by BIMSLEY PEABODY Poem Text First Line: The eagle sweeps and dips on broad, firm wing Last Line: "broad wing he'll spread and counsel, ""up again!" Subject(s): Birds; Eagles LIKE SOUTHERN BIRDS, by ELIZABETH LUMMIS FRIES ELLETT Poem Text First Line: Like southern birds, whose wings of light Last Line: Lights, while it spurns, the world below. Alternate Author Name(s): Ellet, Elizabth F. Subject(s): Birds LIMERICK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A wonderful bird is the pelican Last Line: I'm damned if I know how the helican Subject(s): Birds; Pelicans LINES TO A SEAGULL, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White bird of the tempest! O beautiful thing! Last Line: She smiles like a victor, serene on the world! Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls LINES TO THE STORMY PETREL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text 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 LINNET, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Within the bush, her covert nest Subject(s): Birds LISTENER'S GUIDE TO THE BIRDS, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wouldst know the lark? Last Line: And dozens of other inspired phrases Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B. Subject(s): Birds; Peterson, Roger Tory LITTLE BIRD, O WILL YOU BE A NEIGHBOR TO ME?, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: But please bird, share your songs with me Subject(s): Birds LITTLE BIRDS ARE PLAYING, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And the tale is told Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Subject(s): Birds LITTLE BLUE EGG, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day we found a little nest Last Line: I can't see why, can you? Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Eggs 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 LITTLE DID THE JUNCO KNOW, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little did the junco know who he was keeping cmpany with this christmas Subject(s): Birds LITTLE MARJORIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is little marjorie?' Last Line: "where is little marjorie?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Death; Robins; Dead, The LITTLE MORNING MUSIC, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The birds in the first light twitter and whistle Last Line: Gazing and blazing, blessing and possessing all vividness and all darkness Subject(s): Birds; Morning LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, by JOZE UDOVIC Poem Source First Line: Stars, and sky's crickets, %sang in night's meadow; as it approached Last Line: And its heart %a diving swallow Subject(s): Birds; Echoes; Melodies; Singing And Singers; Voices LITTLE ROBIN, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: Bones pinned to the cosmos. %who whistles, who calls? Subject(s): Birds; Robins LITTLE YELLOW FLOWERS, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know what they are Subject(s): Birds LONDON SEAGULLS, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pigeons of the abbey, the pigeons of saint paul's Last Line: As they did on london river two hundred years ago. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; London; Seagulls LONE HAWK OVER THE BUDDHA TOWER OF THE MONASTERY OF UNIVERSAL PURITY, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: From my newly rented lodgings Last Line: I now recall this and make it a poem %beside this autumn river Subject(s): Birds; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Hawks LONE SWAN, by ROSE MILLS POWERS Poem Source First Line: Delay your flight, delay your swift pursuit Subject(s): Birds; Swans LONELY THE SEA-BIRD LIES AT HER REST, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: God has not appeared to the birds Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Birds LONGTAILED TIT, by REX WARNER Poem Source First Line: All the spinney is active with churr and bat-squeak Last Line: The bare-tooth coming, bark-biting of the winter wind Subject(s): Birds LOOKING FOR A SUNSET BIRD IN WINTER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The west was getting out of gold Last Line: A piercing little star was through Subject(s): Birds LOOKING FOR A SUNSET BIRD IN WINTER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The west was getting out of gold Last Line: A piercing little star was through Subject(s): Birds LOON UPON THE LAKE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I looked across the water Last Line: Ah me! It is the loon alone - the loon upon the lake Subject(s): Birds LOVE AMID OWL-CRIES, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not Subject(s): Birds; Owls LOVE AMID OWL-CRIES, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is not Last Line: The fact that there is a door Subject(s): Birds; Owls LOVE BIRDS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above finespun, unruffled sheets Subject(s): Birds LOVE'S CONSTANCY, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dove shall be a hawk in kind Subject(s): Birds LOVE'S NIGHTINGALE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though now 'tis neither may nor june Last Line: Shall sitt and sing. Variant Title(s): With Some Poems Sent To A Gentlewoman (2) Subject(s): Birds; Books; Nightingales; Reading LOVE'S TOKEN, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To you, my conqueror, this ivy wound Last Line: And clasp at will your ivory and roses? Subject(s): Birds; Ivy; Love LOVER TO HIS LOVE HAVING FORSAKEN HIM AND ..., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The bird that sometime built within my breast Subject(s): Birds LOWLAND MOOD, by MEREDITH JONES Poem Text First Line: When dawn raises a crimson banner Last Line: It would beat them against the moon. Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas LULLABY, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rooks' nests do rock on the tree-top Last Line: Blest be thy rest. Subject(s): Birds LYNTON VERSES: 6. SYMPHONY, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We saw her die, and she is dead Last Line: Dove, blackbird, goldfinch, larch! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Birds; Death - Children; Jesus Christ; Sisters; Spring; Death - Babies LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 2, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out of my tears all burning Last Line: The nightingale's tuneful song. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Tears LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 30, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth had long been avaricious Last Line: "they ""madam"" entitle, with chilling formality." Subject(s): Bells; Birds; Earth; Laughter; May (month); World LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 58, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand on the brow of the mountain Last Line: And healest the bullfinch's smart. Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Singing & Singers; Songs LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 64, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A glittering star is falling Last Line: The song of the swan died away. Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Stars; Swans; Songs LYRICS FOR THE BRIDE OF GOD: 2. AMERICA: SEEN AS A BIRD, by NATHANIEL TARN Poem Source First Line: The light in the skull of the bird Last Line: Slow fall to grasses like the dying snow Subject(s): Birds; United States MAD JACK'S COCKATOO, by WILLIAN RYLAND Poem Text First Line: There's a man that went out in the floodtime and drought Last Line: Was his track-mate—the old cockatoo. Alternate Author Name(s): Bushie Bill Subject(s): Birds; Death; Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Dead, The; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness MADRIGAL, by ORLANDO GIBBONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silver swan, who living had no note Last Line: More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise. Subject(s): Birds; Swans MAGNIFICENT FRIGATE BIRDS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: It's true, %correct Last Line: Not %regard us great? Subject(s): Birds MAGPIES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One, sorrow, %two, mirth Subject(s): Birds MAGPIES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One, sorrow, %two, mirth Last Line: And ten, for the devil's ain sel Subject(s): Birds MAKING BIRDS, by JONI WALLACE Poem Source First Line: The neighbors pace the floor to Last Line: A wooden bride, and stiff. Across %every doorstep Subject(s): Birds MAKING INSTRUMENTS FROM BIRD SKELETONS, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: What better bones for wind to pass through Last Line: Jays will hear your breath stir the song of dead things %and if birds don't know anger they will inv Subject(s): Birds; Bones; Whistles And Whistling MALLARD, by PHOEBE HESKETH Poem Source First Line: Brown-checked, neat as new spring tweed Last Line: Lay crouched in wait, while the stillness there %grew ominous and bright Subject(s): Birds MALLARD, by REX WARNER Poem Source First Line: Squawking they rise from reeds into the sun Last Line: Till with few flaps, orderly as they left earth, %alighting among curlew they pad on mud Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Birds MAMA NEVER FORGETS HER BIRDS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: She 'notices' above Variant Title(s): Poem: 130; Poem: 16 Subject(s): Birds; Mothers MAN AND BEAST, by CLIFFORD DYMENT Poem Source First Line: Hugging the ground by the lilac tree Last Line: Who is it sins now, those eyes say, %you the hunter, or I the prey? Subject(s): Birds; Soldiers; World War Ii MAN AND NATURE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sad man on a summer day Last Line: Who can be bright without the sun.' Subject(s): Earth; Clouds; Mankind; Birds; Sea; World; Human Race; Ocean MARCH CARDINAL, by BEN BELITT Poem Source First Line: The one, slant bird on the dark stone Subject(s): Cardinals (birds) MARCH MAGIC, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the fickle birds return Last Line: A magic wisp of moon. Subject(s): Birds; Magic; March (month); Sea; Ocean MARCHE AUX OISEAUX, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hundreds of birds are singing in the square Last Line: And we’ll provide the water and the seed Subject(s): Birds MARCHE AUX OISEAUX, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hundreds of birds are singing in the square Last Line: And we'll provide the water and the seed Subject(s): Birds MARGARET, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, in the north, the golden-rod / covers each hill-side, margaret Last Line: Which to thy side my spirit can bring. Subject(s): Birds MARRIAGE SONG; WITH COMMENTARY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We begin with the osprey who cries, 'clang, clang!' Last Line: "snow-breasted, and transfixed in abstract love." Subject(s): Birds; China; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism MARSH BLACKBIRD, by HARRIET SENNETT Poem Source First Line: You of the crimson wing Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds MARSH HARRIER, by PETER PARTINGTON Poem Source First Line: Over the reed horizons, far left Last Line: Nor of those who tarry %to pay their homage Subject(s): Birds MASKS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loon'....'goose'....And 'vulture' Last Line: Laugh in superb contempt at folly's catalogue! Subject(s): Birds MASS OF THE BIRDS, by DAFYDD AP GWILYM Poem Source First Line: This morning, lying couched amid the grass Alternate Author Name(s): Dafydd Ab Gwilym; Dafyod Ap Gwilym; David Ap Gwilim Subject(s): Birds MATING TIME, by VIDA S. ADKINS Poem Text First Line: Past my window, brilliant crimson Last Line: In the honeysuckle vine. Subject(s): Birds; Spring MATINS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still sing the morning stars remote Last Line: The stars begin again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds MAY BURDEN, by JAMES I Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And on the smalle greene twistis sat Alternate Author Name(s): James Vi, King Of Scotland; James I Of England Subject(s): Birds MAY SONG, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds in the green of my garden Last Line: Love, like a bird, sings in tune! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Birds MAY SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The ardent woodbird seeks his mate Last Line: And heaven kiss my lips! Subject(s): Birds; Love; May (month) ME AND MARY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All my feelin's in the spring Last Line: "no more ""me and mary!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Love; Spring MEADOW LARK SANG AT THE DROOPING OF DUSK, by CHARLES COMMERFORD Poem Source Subject(s): Birds MENAPHON: MENAPHON'S ROUNDELAY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When tender ewes, brought home with evening sun Last Line: And sat safe-shadow'd with the eagle's wings. Variant Title(s): The Eagle And The Fly Subject(s): Birds; Eagles MENDED WINGS, by JEAN R. MILLER Poem Text First Line: I found you wounded, feathered mite Last Line: To freedom ... Fly! Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Liberty MERLE, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea and sky are grey Last Line: Of notes, and take our hearts along! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Birds MERRY LARK HIS MATINS SINGS ALOFT, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Birds MESSENGER NIGHTINGALE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightingale, nightingale, / guest of my bower Last Line: Lilies to roses. Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Life; Lilies; Love; Nightingales; Roses METAMORPHOSES, by DEBORAH NARIN-WELLS Poem Source First Line: My son recites the names of birds Last Line: Upward, contemplating %the hard blue sky Subject(s): Birds; Change; Children; Fathers And Sons; Growth METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 11. AESACUS TRANSFORMED INTO A CORMORANT, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These some old man sees wanton in the air Last Line: From frequent diving and emerging came. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Birds; Cormorants; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Transfiguration; Translating & Interpreting METAPHORIST, by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crossing the bog we stood together Last Line: Raven and cochineal can enliven %we moved on together Subject(s): Birds; Togetherness MEXICAN SERENADE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the little armadillo Last Line: So I guess that you had better go to sleep. Subject(s): Animals; Armadillos; Birds; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs MIDAS, by ELIZA GRISWOLD ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I guess like losing anything, I thought Last Line: Her moulting feathers proof and consequence Subject(s): Birds; Loss; Midas MIDNIGHT: EARLY SUMMER, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Text First Line: Time softens to silk now Last Line: Is wrapped in prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): Birds; Silence; Sleep; Summer; Time MIDSUMMER BIRDS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could there be aught more hushed Last Line: May be none but me and you Subject(s): Birds MIGHTY EAGLE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mighty eagle! Thou that soarest Last Line: The embattled tempests' warning! Subject(s): Birds; Eagles MIGRANTS, by DUDLEY G. DAVIES Poem Source First Line: Over the conquered countries Last Line: As they flash over, heedless %as moon and morning star Subject(s): Birds; World War Ii MIGRATING BIRDS, by K. MARGARET GROSSMAN Poem Source First Line: Wings take me, chase me Last Line: Away. It isn't horrow, only %more horrible than we thought. %birds hide in my attic Subject(s): Birds MIGRATING BIRDS, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where the rhine loses his majestic force Last Line: Infinite wings! Till all the plume-dark air %and rude resounding shore are one wild cry? Subject(s): Birds 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 EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The caged bird, that all the autumn day Last Line: To follow them where summer has no date Subject(s): Birds MIGRATION, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Source 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 MILE-OR-MORE BIRD, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: The crow is a mile-or-more bird Last Line: For some unkind thoughts %just some Subject(s): Birds MINOR BIRD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have wished a bird would fly away Last Line: And of course there must be something wrong %in wanting to silence my song Subject(s): Birds MISS ANTHROPE'S ODE TO SPRING, by MORRIS SHUMIATCHER Poem Text First Line: I've heard our poets praise the spring Last Line: But drives me batty with the heat! Subject(s): Birds MISSEL THRUSH, by RALPH HODGSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the sun burn in the blue Subject(s): Birds MISSING, by ESTHER BARSTOW HAMMAND Poem Text First Line: The thrush who owns my cottonwood Last Line: At spring's glad reveille. Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes MIXTEC CODICES, by ROGER MOORE Poem Source First Line: Two breasts one green and one yellow symbolic of the hill where the church ... Last Line: And at the end that heart will receive no mercy in its turn Subject(s): Birds; Churches; Love MO BRON! (A SONG ON THE WIND), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O come across the grey wild seas Last Line: To-day and to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Pain; Peace; Sea; Singing & Singers; Swans; Suffering; Misery; Ocean MOBILE OF BIRDS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is something / in their planetary weave that is comforting Last Line: Alone in their suspenseful world Subject(s): Birds MOBILE OF BIRDS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is something %in their planetary weave that is comforting Last Line: Alone in their suspenseful world Subject(s): Birds MOCKING BIRD, by IRVING BACHELLER Poem Source First Line: Lord of the odored alleys green! Subject(s): Birds MOCKINGBIRD, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look one way and the sun is going down Last Line: So well that, for a minute in the moonlight, %which one's the mockingbird? Which one's the world? Subject(s): Birds; Mockingbirds MOCKINGBIRD MONTH, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A pupa of pain, I sat and lay one july Last Line: Tribute to his voice. Leaving my pencils at home, %I resolved to husband my own apprentice words Subject(s): Birds MOCKINGBIRD SUITE: 3. JACK, by EDWARD BARTOK-BARATTA Poem Source First Line: Could not convince his wife Last Line: A real surprise into the night Subject(s): Birds; Marriage MOMENTS, by MARTHA BRINDLEY DARBYSHIRE Poem Text First Line: I saw a seagull Last Line: Breathless in the dawn. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Memory; Seagulls MOMENTS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A crow caws, / on the pine tops Last Line: Eternity seems to end. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Future Life; Pine Trees; Trees; Retribution; Eternity; After Life MONHEGAN GULLS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gulls on monhegan Last Line: To my remembering heart. Subject(s): Birds; Flight; Gulls; Sea; Sky; Flying; Seagulls; Ocean MONOCULAR, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I caught this morning a young hawk Last Line: As the wind sank in the bare winter woods, %perfectly encircled in glass Subject(s): Birds; Hawks; Photography And Photographers MONOLOGUE WITH CROWS, by BOB BROOKS Poem Source First Line: My program is, I said Last Line: I wouldn't want to put words %in a crow's mouth Subject(s): Birds; Conversation; Crows MOON BIRD, by V. C. VICKERS Poem Source First Line: These birds frequent the rolling plains Last Line: These curious birds, %and feed on rubbish and remains Subject(s): Birds MOOR-HEN'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I in my summer rambles love to see Last Line: They dive and dare and every gambol try %till they themselves to other scenes can fly Subject(s): Birds' Nests MORNING BIRD, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the way of a bird Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Birds MORNING COWS, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: It's the cows that wake the countryside Last Line: With heads underwing. %caw, caw, caw Subject(s): Birds; Crows MORNING IN THE ORCHARD (TO AN INVALID), by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They wake, they sing - both thrush and lass! Last Line: Than all our pears and apples are. Subject(s): Birds; Country Life; Love; Morning MOST TRIUMPHANT BIRD I EVER KNEW OR MET, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: To what delicious accident %does finest glory fit! Variant Title(s): Poem: 1265; Poem: 128 Subject(s): Birds MOTHER, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She loved redbirds and bright mornings Last Line: And god's great mercy -- because of her. Subject(s): Cardinals (birds); Mercy MOTHER GOOSE (1), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gold and silver bird Last Line: Come home! Come home! Subject(s): Birds; Homecoming MOURNING DOVE, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: Sweet is the hermit's evening bell Subject(s): Birds; Doves MOVEMENTS, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lark drives invisible pitons in the air Last Line: Quick v's and q's in the dust and rubs them out Subject(s): Birds MRS BLUE DICKEY-BIRD, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And the sixth little chickey bird walked on his head, to save his feet Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Wings MULTILINGUAL MYNAH BIRD, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Birds are known to cheep and chirp Last Line: You'll never find a finer bird %than the multilingual mynah bird Subject(s): Animals; Mynah Birds MURDER OF THE CROWS, by JENNIFER OLDS Poem Source First Line: Shots rang out and birds Last Line: He said it was the crows Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Ranch Life MUSIC'S DUEL, by FAMIANUS STRADA Poem Text First Line: Now westward sol had spent the richest beams Last Line: (that liv'd so sweetly) dead, so sweet a grave! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales MUSIC'S TRAGEDY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Had birds no season for their precious songs Last Line: Is there no quiet place to sleep or rest? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs MY AVIARY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through my north window, in the wintry weather Last Line: In fact with nothing bird-like but my quill. Subject(s): Birds; Nature MY FRIEND MUST BE A BIRD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Thou puzzlest me! Subject(s): Birds; Bees MY GARDEN GUESTS, by ROBERTA GAGE Poem Text First Line: A bluebird found a hole in my old china tree Last Line: God fits the need for them as for me. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Gardens & Gardening MY GENTLE-HEARTED CHARLES! WHEN THE LAST ROOK , FR. TIS LIME-TREE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birds MY HOME, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place that I love the best Last Line: The little brown house like a ground-bird's nest? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Home; Summer; Sun MY LITTLE BIRDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You have your water and your grain Last Line: And sing me a song, my little birds Subject(s): Birds MY LOYAL LOVE, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nightingale's sighing / mid elder leaves Last Line: My loyal love! Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales MY NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Hush! List, heart of mine Last Line: Baptize me, drown me in black swirls of bliss! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Memory; Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime MY THRUSH, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All through the sultry hours of june Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes MYRMIDONES: THE WOUNDED EAGLE, by AESCHYLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the story told in libyan tales Last Line: We're taken.' Subject(s): Birds; Eagles NAPS & PURRS OF MY CAT, TOM, by RONALD JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Stretch sublime %sunshine and me! Last Line: Leap to a snap %furred purrer! Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats NATURAL WORLD: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On hawk mountain in pennsylvania Last Line: Slaughtered for pleasure. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Death; Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania; Hawks; Dead, The NATURE NOTE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Four or five whippoorwills Last Line: Their latest that I remember, %september the twenty-third Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills NATURE RHYMES: 5, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Poor little owl Last Line: "te-hoo, te-hoo, te-hoo" Subject(s): Birds;owls NATURE RHYMES: 7, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "woodpecker, woodpecker / working hard for your bread" Last Line: But forgiveness instead Subject(s): Birds;woodpeckers NATURE'S ACCORD, by BEN JONSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How is't each bough a several music yields? Subject(s): Birds NEAR, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Two swans drift, arrogant and light Last Line: Near where the bouncer drowned last night Subject(s): Birds; Death; Drowning; Nature; Swans NEMOURS: HORIZONS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Upon the paris side, but towards nemours the white, in the boughs a Last Line: Has chanted philomel! Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Songs NEST, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A bird was making its nest Last Line: First, I love it. %then, I can use it Subject(s): Birds; Memory NESTLINGS, by F. C. A. Poem Text First Line: O little bird! Sing sweet among the leaves Last Line: Sing thou for task accomplished. Sing, heart, sing!) Subject(s): Birds NESTLINGS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: All babies %are born %ugly Last Line: And they were %beautiful %because they were mine Subject(s): Birds NESTS IN ELMS, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rooks are cawing up and down the trees! Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Birds; Life; Death; Birds; Dead, The NESTS IN ELMS, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rooks are cawing up and down the trees Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Birds NEVER AGAIN WOULD BIRDS' SONG BE THE SAME, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He would declare and could himself believe Last Line: To any watch they keep? Variant Title(s): Never Gain Would Birds' Song Be The Same Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Birds; Eve NEVER AGAIN WOULD BIRDS' SONG BE THE SAME, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He would declare and could himself believe Last Line: And to do that to birds was why she came Variant Title(s): Never Gain Would Birds' Song Be The Sam Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Birds NEW SPRING: 26, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How the pinks are breathing fragrance Last Line: And the nightingales are singing. Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Nightingales; Roses; Spring NEW SPRING: 36, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day and night alike the springtime Last Line: That before my window rustle. Subject(s): Birds; Love; Spring NEW SPRING: 8, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the trees with joy are shouting Last Line: Amor is his appellation. Subject(s): Birds NEW SPRING: 9, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nightingale appear'd the first Last Line: Pastime in studying things devout. Subject(s): Birds NEW TANAGER / NEW SONG, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: A storm last night worthy of sinai Last Line: In a couple of eons, we, too, might sprout wings Subject(s): Birds; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Tanagers NEW YEAR'S BIRDS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun on new year's morning Last Line: They will sing to you! Subject(s): Birds; Holidays; New Year NEW-COMERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: So many birds have come along Last Line: Their wings, like babies with their toes. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS (1), by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the high skies birds are falling Subject(s): Birds; Trees NIGHT IN A GARDEN, by MARY MORRIS DUANE Poem Text First Line: The night is still Last Line: And life eternal springs. Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime NIGHT WIND, by COE BOTKIN Poem Text First Line: There is a song in the night wind Last Line: In marsh nest. Subject(s): Birds; Herons NIGHT-HAWK GOES UP TO THE LIGHT, by ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN Poem Source Subject(s): Birds NIGHTINGALE, by CHRISTIAN CARSTAIRS Poem Text First Line: O! Could my sweet plaint lull to rest Last Line: With the thorn at my breast. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the month the nightingale, clod-brown Last Line: Still sings the nightingale her soft melodious song Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the mute nightingale in closest groves Variant Title(s): To The Blessed Virgin Mar Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE, by SUH JUNG-JU Poem Source First Line: Tears glinting %when azaleas raindrop their petals Last Line: O my love who has gone alone so far away %beyond the rim of the sky! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE, by NOVICA TADIC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With a drop of oil in its beak Last Line: Into some impossible appearance Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The speckled bird sings in the tree Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE, by MARIA TESSELCHADE VISSCHER Poem Source First Line: Prize thou the nightingale Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE AND CUCKOO, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O nightingale and cuckoo! It was meet Last Line: And autumn silence gathers in their stead. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE AND THE LARK, by JOSEPH ERNEST WHITNEY Poem Source First Line: When the fairies are all for their dances Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE IN BADELUNDA, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the green midnight at the nightingale's northern limit Last Line: The raw resonant notes that whet nthe night sky's gleaming scythe Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE LANE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down through the thicket, out of the hedges Last Line: The nightingale singeth under the moon! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Moon; Nightingales; Singing & Singers NIGHTINGALE THOU KNOWEST, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When the sun is rising Last Line: God of life and love? Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE UNHEARD, by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is that the much-desired, the wondrous wail Last Line: That fancy only is your philomel Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up this green woodland-ride let's softly rove Last Line: Ao here we'll leave them, still unknown to wrong, %as the old woodland's legacy of song Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Nightingales NIGHTINGALE'S SERENADE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: A song in my heart pipes ever and ever Last Line: My own! My own! Subject(s): Birds; Love; Love - Loss Of; Nightingales; Solitude; Loneliness NIGHTINGALES, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye came Last Line: Welcome the dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALES, by LESLIE NORRIS Poem Source First Line: My namesake, old bill norris, standing beneath a tree Last Line: For here I am, raising my voice, scraping my throat raw again Subject(s): Birds NIGHTINGALES, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What spirit moves the quiring nightingales Last Line: That aim to fill the intervals of love! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTINGALES IN LINCOLNSHIRE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well I remember how the nightingale Last Line: The night-bird warbled for all ears but mine? Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NIGHTJAR, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: By day this bird Last Line: And capture night %inside a jar Subject(s): Birds NIGHTS AFTER RAIN WHEN THE MOON, by KWON HOMUN Poem Source Last Line: A flock of seagulls from somewhere %follows me around Subject(s): Birds; Gulls NO MATTER WHAT, AFTER ALL, AND THAT BEAUTIFUL WORD SO, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was the time of their heaviest migration Last Line: "just to listen. ""what is it about that sound?" Subject(s): Birds NO NIGHTINGALES, OR COMPENSATION; NIGHT OF 31ST OF MAY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long time I waited for the nightingale Last Line: And tuneless night exchanged for choral morn. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales NO QUESTION, by GEORGE H. DILLON Poem Text First Line: Seeing at last how each thing here beneath Last Line: Why birds must fly, seeing the flight of birds. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Flowers; Dead, The NO RAIN YET, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Cries %countthedead %countthedead Subject(s): Arabs; Birds; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine NO SPRING, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the south come the birds that were banished Last Line: But unto a dead love there cometh no spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Love; Sea; Spring; Dead, The; Ocean NO WHITE BIRD SINGS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can white birds sing? An ornithologist Subject(s): Birds NOEL, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a single / ornament, Subject(s): Cardinals (birds); Christmas; Nativity, The NOISY, NOISY, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's noisy, noisy overhead, Subject(s): Noise; Birds NONNY, by JAMES REEVES Poem Source First Line: The nonny-bird I love particularly Last Line: She rises perpendicularly, %and if she goes too far, explodes Subject(s): Birds NOON, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What time the bittern, solitary bird Last Line: Save where the wagtail interrupts the noon. Subject(s): Birds; Noon NOON-SILENCE (AUSTRALIAN FOREST), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lyre-bird sings a low melodious song Last Line: And silence wakes and knows her dream is day. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): The Bell-birds Subject(s): Australia; Birds; Silence; Singing & Singers; Wind NORTH LEEDS, WIS, by WARREN WOESSNER Poem Source First Line: One year away and I forget they're real Last Line: The roads all working up a summer sweat again Subject(s): Birds NOT A SPARROW, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just when I think the buddhists Last Line: Keeps right on flying Subject(s): Birds; Death; Dead, The NOT ALL SWEET NIGHTINGALES, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are not all sweet nightingales Last Line: Making music for her I love Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Love; Music And Musicians; Nightingales 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 NUN'S PRIEST'S TALE: CHAUNTECLEER, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A yeerd she hadde, enclossed al aboute Last Line: Beestes and briddes koude speke and synge Subject(s): Birds NUTHATCH, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quick, at the feeder, pausing Last Line: For just one more all morning Subject(s): Birds NUTHATCH, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Quick, at the feeder, pausing Last Line: For just one more all morning Subject(s): Birds O BIRDS OF THE AIR, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: We build no house but the grave! Subject(s): Houses; Birds; Graves O LUMINOUS AFTERNOON!, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Over the bell tower! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Birds OBSERVATION, by KATHLEEN LYNCH Poem Source First Line: I saw a life enter a life, yesterday, by the water Last Line: There were still two birds: one who carries. One carried away Subject(s): Birds; Life ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: Hush! I hear the nightingale's pure notes Last Line: Dirge of life. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains Last Line: Fled is that music: -- do I wake or sleep? Subject(s): Adversity; Birds; Immortality; Life; Mortality; Nightingales ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Such claims for %this little bugger Last Line: Big ass, walks by. %some nightingale! Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales ODE TO A SINGING BIRDS, SELECTION, by WILLIAM RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: But why for thee this fond complaint? Last Line: "and oft suppress the rising tear?" Subject(s): Birds; Melancholy; Dejection ODE TO THE CUCKOO, by MICHAEL BRUCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, beauteous stranger of the grove [or, wood]! / attendant on the spring! Last Line: Companions of the spring. Variant Title(s): To The Cuckoo Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Spring ODE TO THE MISSEL THRUSH, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winter solstice scarce is past Last Line: Thy song of hope and fortitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes ODE TO THE PELICAN, by MINNIE ELIZABETH OTTO Poem Text First Line: The florida pelican / is a doleful old bird Last Line: On the mangrove limbs. Subject(s): Birds; Fish & Fishing; Pelicans ODE, FR. THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As it fell upon a day, / in the merry month of may Last Line: Faithfull friend, from flatt'ring foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Variant Title(s): To The Nightingale;philomel Subject(s): Birds; Despair; Nightingales ODES II, 20. TO MAECENAS: THE POET PROPHESIES HIS IMMORTALITY, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On no common or feeble pinions shall I be borne Last Line: Omit the superfluous honors of a tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Birds; Maecenas (70-8 B.c.); Swans; Transfiguration ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 15. TO THE EVENING STAR, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-night retir'd the queen of heaven Last Line: Till I forget my own. Variant Title(s): To The Evening Star Subject(s): Birds; Evening Star; Nightingales ODYSSEY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She trudged a long way through mucky fields to feed birds Last Line: She heard them singing afterwards. Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Walking OF A FEATHER, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: The birds I know, the robins and jays, sparrows and crows Last Line: They sing as they sing Subject(s): Birds OF ALL THE BIRDS THAT EVER I SEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And that gave me my jolly red nose Subject(s): Birds;owls 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 OF BEING IS A BIRD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: For ecstasy of it Variant Title(s): Poem: 462; Poem: 65 Subject(s): Birds; Life OF THE CHILD WITH THE BIRD AT THE BUSH, by JOHN BUNYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little bird, how canst thou sit Last Line: The bird flies yonder o'er the field. Subject(s): Birds OFF THE IRISH COAST, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gulls on the wind Last Line: Ever for love that stung? Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Gulls; Ireland; Love; Seagulls; Irish OFT HAVE I SEEN ON FIELDS THE LITTLE BIRDS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds OH! SKYLARK, FOR THY WING, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: O skylark! On thy wing! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Summer; Skylarks 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 OLD SONOITA HIGHWAY, by WARREN WOESSNER Poem Source First Line: Nothing in the dark %but headlights of pickups Last Line: But it comes in clear %all right Subject(s): Birds OLD TOM, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Across the wet glade, %where the spring green Last Line: In matters of eating, %our minds do what they can Subject(s): Birds OMEN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love the bird that appears Last Line: I can only surmise %from its regularity Subject(s): Birds ON A BIRD SINGING IN ITS SLEEP, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Last Line: Had made it much more easily a prey Subject(s): Birds ON A BIRD SINGING IN ITS SLEEP, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Last Line: Had made it much more easily a prey Subject(s): Birds ON A CAPE MAY WARBLER WHO FLEW AGAINST MY WINDOW, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She's stopped in her southern tracks Last Line: Ghosts come nest in my branches Subject(s): Birds; Death – Animals; Children; Burial; Parents ON A FLIGHT OF LADY-BIRDS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the summer sea Last Line: And we cannot answer a word. Subject(s): Birds; Faith; Belief; Creed 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 A FORSAKEN LARK'S NEST, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, where left 'mid the sheaves, cut down by the iron-fanged reaper Last Line: Withers benumbed in a world his joy might have helped to illume. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks ON A FOWLER, by ISIDORUS AEGEATES Poem Text First Line: With seeds and bird-lime from the desert air Last Line: His seeds bequeathed, his birdlime, and his snares. Subject(s): Birds ON A LAKE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet in the rushes Last Line: The life of the lake. Subject(s): Birds; Lakes; Nightingales; Water; Pools; Ponds ON A LARK WHICH HAD ESCAPED FROM HIS CAGE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cherish'd captive, ere thy tender wing Last Line: Thy voice, thy pinion, for the skies unfit? Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Birds; Escapes; Larks; Fugitives; Skylarks ON A NIGHTINGALE IN APRIL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow moon is a dancing phantom Last Line: O moon-white maid! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): April; Birds; Moon; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Theocritus (310-250 B.c.) ON A PEACOCK, by THOMAS HEYRICK Poem Source First Line: Thou foolish bird, of feathers proud Last Line: A tayl well-furnish'd, but an empty head Subject(s): Birds ON A PICTURE BY J.M. WRIGHT, ESQ, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sky-lark hath perceived his prison-door Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Larks ON A THRUSH SINGING IN AUTUMN, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet singer of the spring, when the new world Last Line: "tis sweeter to remember than forget." Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes ON AN ANCIENT LANCE, HANGING IN AN ARMOURY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in the breezy coppice didst thou dance Last Line: And with his mouldered eyes again replace. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Past; Silence ON FINDING A DEAD BIRD UNDER MY WINDOW, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text 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 ON FIRST HAVING HEARD THE SKYLARK, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not knowing he rose from earth, not having seen him rise Last Line: And wept, staining their innocent faces with fast-flowing tears Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Larks ON HAVING MISIDENTIFIED A WILD FLOWER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A thrush, because I'd been wrong Subject(s): Birds; Flowers ON RECEIVING AN EAGLE'S QUILL FROM LAKE SUPERIOR, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day the darkness and the cold Last Line: Shall glitter on thy wings! Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Quills; Superior, Lake ON REREADING CATULLUS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flutes, the silver flutes began with dawn Last Line: Or birds that brought awakening to the flutes? Subject(s): Birds; Flutes; Music & Musicians ON REVISITING DUNOLLY CASTLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The captive bird was gone - to cliff or moor Last Line: That animate my way where'er it leads! Subject(s): Birds; Castles; Eagles; Ireland; Irish ON SEEING A BIRD-CATCHER, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Health in his rags, content upon his face Last Line: The one to sing, the other break, for sport! Subject(s): Birds ON SEEING A WILD BIRD, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful symbol of a freer life Last Line: The world must swing round to her, soon or late. Subject(s): Birds ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CANARY, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Birds, companions, more unknown Subject(s): Birds ON THE DEATH OF A NIGHTINGALE, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, solitary wood, and henceforth be Last Line: Shall flock about thee, and keep time with kisses. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales ON THE DEATH OF GEORGE III; WRITTEN AT WINDSOR THE DAY AFTER FUNERAL, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him last on this terrace proud Last Line: For the people's pity and wonder. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Variant Title(s): The Contrast Subject(s): Bells; Birds; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Tears ON THE DEATH OF LITTLE MAHALA ASHCRAFT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little haly! Little haly!' cheeps the robin the tree Last Line: "and the katydids and crickets hollers ""haly!"" all the night." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bees; Birds; Death; Grief; Insects; Night; Beekeeping; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bugs; Bedtime ON THE MOOR, by ROBERT ADAMSON (1832-) Poem Text First Line: Out on the lonely moor, so quiet and still Last Line: A closet on the moor? Subject(s): Birds ON THE SUNNY SIDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hi and whoop-hooray, boys! Last Line: On the sunny side! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Pigeons; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight ON WATCHING THE FLIGHT OF A SKY-LARK, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upward and upward still! In pearly light Last Line: Save by the unswerving flight, upward and upward still! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Spring; Skylarks ONCE EACH REVOLVING YEAR, FR. ODES OF ANACREON, by ANACREON Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Birds ONCE FROM THE TOWN A STARLING FLEW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Sing of myself from morn till night Subject(s): Birds;cuckoos ONE BIRD, IF THERE IS ONLY ONE, DIES IN THE NIGHT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dropped my spoon into my yogurt Last Line: Who might warm us through a lethal night's freeze Subject(s): Birds; Compassion ONE BLACK CROW, by ANN BRADSHAW Poem Source First Line: Blacker than black of the plum-tree bough Subject(s): Birds; Crows ONE DARK HEART BEAT, by JR. HERMES ALMEIDA Poem Source First Line: And then in the wet field a chorus of birds Last Line: Like windblown leaves %and are still Subject(s): Birds; Nature ONE OF THE STRANGEST, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stuffed pink stocking, the neck Last Line: Between flocculent elbows, the soft peony wings Subject(s): Birds ONE RING AT TWO, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: One ring at two a.M. %and you sit up in darkness Last Line: To tear black silence into song Subject(s): Birds; Fear; Night; Telephones ONE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND DAYS, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Like a king on a primitive island Last Line: Kept from it by a shameful curtain Subject(s): Birds; Death; Islands; Peace; Rest; Soldiers ONE TO NOTHING, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bibulous eagle behind me at the ball game: Last Line: Shucks a'mighty. If you're an eagle, you just go. Subject(s): Baseball; Birds; Eagles; Sports; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism OPEN SEASON, by COE BOTKIN Poem Text First Line: A cock pheasant crowing in tyndall's ravine! Last Line: One undefiled moment...Alas, adieu! Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Hunting; Pheasants; Hunters ORATION: HALF-MOON IN VERMONT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A horse is shivering flies off its ribs, grazing Last Line: Doesn't poverty just fucking break your heart? Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Girls; Politics & Government; Horses; Owls; Poverty; Vermont ORDERS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text 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'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 ORNITHOPOLIS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not your least glory, many-gloried wren Last Line: With loud-tongued gossip of an age of gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Birds ORPHAN BORN, by ROBERT JONES BURDETTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a lone, unfathered chick Last Line: My incubator. Subject(s): Birds; Birth; Orphans; Child Birth; Midwifery; Foundlings OSPREY AND EAGLE, by JESSIE BELL RITTENHOUSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On a gaunt and shattered tree Alternate Author Name(s): Scollard, Clinton, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles OSTRICH, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Melancholia, pull out your sweet beak now Last Line: And bare your woman's lip! Subject(s): Birds; Food And Eating; Hearts; Melancholy; Ostriches; Pain OUR MOTHER WAS THE PUSSY-CAT, OUR FATHER WAS THE OWL, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Because we take no interest in politix of the day Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats; Owls OUR NATIVE BIRDS, by NATHAN HASKELL DOLE Poem Text First Line: Alone I sit at eventide Last Line: It is the rhyme that fails! Variant Title(s): Larks And Nightingales Subject(s): Birds 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 OVERFLOW, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! / with sudden gush Last Line: O'er grief and wrong. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes OVERTONES, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So softly sang a bird Last Line: What thrilled it yesterday. Subject(s): Birds OVERTONES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a bird at break of day Last Line: Alone, among dead trees. Subject(s): Birds; Nature OWL, by PETER KANE DUFAULT Poem Source First Line: In the unnavigable dusk, when Last Line: The indians' orenda, or the greeks' %athene, the owl? Subject(s): Birds; Owls OWL, by HILDEGARDE FLANNER Poem Source First Line: The sweet and ghostly laughter Subject(s): Birds OWL, by CRAIG HANCOCK Poem Source First Line: Twenty below again Subject(s): Birds; Cold; Owls OWL, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the owl light-in the time between Subject(s): Birds OWL, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the owl light-in the time between Last Line: Life in the fallen leaves Subject(s): Birds OWL, by FOLKE ISAKSSON Poem Source First Line: Behind his feigned blindness Last Line: Night screams with sparks Subject(s): Birds; Despair; Disappeared Persons; Owls OWL, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clocks belled twelve. Main street showed otherwise Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds OWL, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clocks belled twelve. Main street showed otherwise Last Line: Shaken by owl cry Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds OWL, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The owl is wary, the owl is wise Last Line: But mostly he sits - and he sits - and he sits Subject(s): Birds; Owls OWL, by SUH JUNG-JU Poem Source First Line: What the devil is his gripe Last Line: Long ago you built your round nest %and dwelt in the dark night of my mind Subject(s): Birds; Owls OWL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The owl hooted and told of the morning star Last Line: He hooted again and told of the dawn Subject(s): Birds; Owls OWL, by ROLAND YOUNG Poem Source First Line: The owl is very very wise Subject(s): Birds; Night; Owls; Wisdom OWL (1), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Apart, thank heaven, from all to do Last Line: Till it grow dark enough for him to see Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Birds; Owls OWL (3), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Owl of the wildwood I Last Line: Of my woodland through: %a-hooh! A-hooh! - %a-hooh! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Birds; Owls OWL AGAINST ROBIN, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Frowning, the owl in the oak complained him Last Line: Baltimore, 1880. Subject(s): Birds; Owls; Robins OWL AND MOUSE, by IAIN CRICHTON SMITH Poem Source First Line: The owl wafts home with a mouse in its beak Last Line: Which shows no waste soundlessly playing on Subject(s): Birds; Owls OWL IS A BRONZE URN OF ASHES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Till one of the round seals blinks Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Owls OWL PELLET, by STEVEN REESE Poem Source First Line: One mouse is history Last Line: He feels the planet fly its belly of bones %through the dark Subject(s): Birds; Food And Eating; Hunting; Owls OWL SINISTER, by ROSE O'NEILL Poem Source First Line: Ah, can you never still Subject(s): Birds OWL SONG, FR. KENILWORTH, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the birds on bush or tree Last Line: We'll drink to the health of the bonny, bonny owl Subject(s): Birds; Owls OWL TURNS HIS HEAD ALL THE WAY AROUND, by HOLLY PRADO Poem Source First Line: Some hunters come to our fire to get warm after being in the hills all Last Line: Been doing the right thing for a long time Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Hunting; Owls OWL WRITES A DETECTIVE STORY, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A stately home where doves, in dovecotes, coo Last Line: But who? But who? Who, who, who, who, who, who? Subject(s): Birds; Detective Stories; Owls OWLS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under black yews that protect them Last Line: For trying to change his place Subject(s): Birds; Owls OWLS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: What music, lord, these birds must feel Last Line: For the beauty at my door. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Owls; Singing & Singers; Songs OWLS, by GLYN HUGHES Poem Source First Line: Two cinders of the fiery sunset Last Line: They say that someone dies %in the house over which he cries Subject(s): Birds OWLS AND THE LAWS OF DARKNESS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I flashed the light so billy joe could shoot Last Line: The owls that fell, or staggered to the moon Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Birds; Hunting; Owls OWNERSHIP, by INA DONNA COOLBRITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a garden that I know Last Line: Sings for me, and for me only. Subject(s): Birds P'ENG THAT WAS A K'UN, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In northern seas there roams a fish called a k'un Last Line: Though, indeed, neither started as a fish Subject(s): Birds; Fishing And Fishermen; Monsters PAIN OR JOY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! That's the nightingale Last Line: Throbs in each throbbing vein? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Nightingales; Pain; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery PAINTED HAWK, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wind-blown frost rises from plain white silk Last Line: When will it strike the common birds? - %bloody feathers strewing rhw weed-covered plain Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Birds; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Hawks; Paintings And Painters PAIR O' THEM, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Old bard, young bird Last Line: In the end will be the word Subject(s): Bards; Birds; Language PAIRED THINGS, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Who, who had only seen wings, Subject(s): Birds PAPER CRANES - BLACK, by JAMES KEEGAN Poem Source First Line: Kids dying of cancer in japan kill Last Line: This black trickster, longevity's symbol Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Cranes (birds); Japan PAPER CRANES - BLUE, by JAMES KEEGAN Poem Source First Line: Over the phone you tell me you can play Last Line: We wrong each other into song and stay Subject(s): Cranes (birds) PAPER CRANES - GOLD, by JAMES KEEGAN Poem Source First Line: Nine on the dashboard, but this stray you left Last Line: Name the screen 'missing crane' and live bereft Subject(s): Cranes (birds) PAPER CRANES - WHITE, by JAMES KEEGAN Poem Source First Line: Ten folds, you tell me, once the base is done Last Line: Sure losses shade our every choice. We pause Subject(s): Cranes (birds) PARAKEET, by DAWN MCDUFFIE Poem Source First Line: Here in detroit the birds have taken over Last Line: That seemed to last forever Subject(s): Birds PARLIAMENT OF FOWLS ON DOG RIVER, by ARTHUR MCLEAN Poem Source First Line: I had not thought so many birds around Last Line: To fly up-river and rob some other nest Subject(s): Birds; Nature PART THE SEVENTH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Since then, at an uncertain hour Subject(s): Birds 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 PASSING THROUGH WATERLESS PLACES, by ANNETTE ABMA Poem Source First Line: The bird circles, drops onto the water Last Line: Swimming and oblivious of water Subject(s): Birds; Water PASSING TIME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He climbs to a high room in the big house Last Line: Shoots two swans Subject(s): Birds; Guns; Home; Hunting; Swans PAST MINDING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A tender-hearted maiden, in the latest fashion dressed Last Line: "she doesn't mind such little things, for she is on your hat!" Subject(s): Birds; Hats PATHETIC FALLACY, by MICHAEL A. SCHAFFNER Poem Source First Line: The hawk sees me as well as I see her Last Line: And, despite myself, I applaud the crows Subject(s): Birds; Hawks PEACE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace belongs with the birds Last Line: Their wings widespread Subject(s): Birds; Peace PEACE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Peace belongs with the birds Last Line: Utter no protest, %their wings widespread Subject(s): Birds; Peace PEACOCK, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source 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, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I speak to the unbeautiful of this bird Last Line: Lone angels round each human grave Subject(s): Birds 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 DISPLAY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He approaches her, trailing his whole fortune Subject(s): Birds PEACOCK DISPLAY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He approaches her, trailing his whole fortune Last Line: Not watching him, astonished to discover %all these seeds spread just for her in the dirt Subject(s): Birds PEACOCK OF JAVA, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source 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 PEACOCK'S EYE, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mark you how the peacock's eye Last Line: To win a look of violet Subject(s): Animals; Birds PEACOCKS, by PAULINE CLARKE Poem Source First Line: A muster of peacocks Last Line: Staring with surprise Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Peacocks PEASANT, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's the mixture of peasantry Last Line: That birds descend from. Subject(s): Birds; Hope; Peasantry; Optimism PELICAN, by MICHAEL DAVID MADONICK Poem Source First Line: Seeing what he is, sag-bellied, sag-bellied, sag-jawed Last Line: Its wings becoming fluent, cantilvering from the edge of this world Subject(s): Birds; Pelicans PELICAN, by DIXON LANIER MERRITT Poem Source First Line: A rare old bird is the pelican Subject(s): Birds; Pelicans PELICANARIES, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Pelicanaries are homely birds Last Line: And nodding off with croaking tweets, %they sleep on two too little feets Subject(s): Birds PELICANS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four pelicans went over the house Last Line: Pelicans. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Pelicans PELICANS, by AMY REQUA RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: They sail the evening sky, a solemn row Last Line: As if it were their duty not their will. Subject(s): Birds; Pelicans PELICANS, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Funnel-web spider, snake and octopus Last Line: Meaning: this world holds every sort of weather Subject(s): Birds PENGUIN JANE AUSTEN, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: With a single indecorous groan %a glacier calves an iceber the size Last Line: Marriage of property to title, awaiting issue, %how roughly do you compare? Subject(s): Birds PEOPLE BUY A LOT OF THINGS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: And then I'd open wide the cage, and set the singer free Subject(s): Birds; Freedom PERSEPHONE IN THE UNDERWORLD: 3. THE PELICAN, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: Because it amused the queen in me Last Line: It was an ugly fish, all head, %also called a teacher in those parts Subject(s): Birds; Pelicans PEWIT'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across the fallow clods at early morn Last Line: Hid from all sight but the all-seeing sun %till never-ceasing danger seemeth by Subject(s): Birds' Nests PHANTOMS, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was her home; one mossy gable thrust Last Line: He cannot help but speak her, face to face. Subject(s): Birds; Home; Kisses; Love PHEASANT, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cock stubble-searching pheasant, delicate Last Line: Exotic bird, haunter of autumn hedgerows Subject(s): Birds; Pheasants PHILIP MY SPARROW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of all the birds that I do know Subject(s): Birds PHILOMEL, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, love! Last Line: In rapture about us and o'er us. Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales; Passion PHILOMELA, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Ah, the nightingale Last Line: Eternal pain! Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Nightingales PHILOMELA, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Procne, philomela, and itylus Last Line: Thy fabulous provinces belong. Subject(s): Birds PHOEBE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It is wee, sad-colored thing Subject(s): Birds PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 9. CALM AT SEA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calm at sea! His beams all radiant Last Line: In his bill, again mounts upward. Subject(s): Birds; Sea; Ocean PIGEON AND WREN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Coo-oo, coo-oo %it's as much as a pigeon Subject(s): Birds PIGEONS, by GEORGE H. DILLON Poem Source First Line: At morning the pale pigeons come in a band Subject(s): Birds PIGEONS, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: They paddle with staccato feet Last Line: With one quick gust %they fountain into air Subject(s): Animals; Birds PIGEONS, by VIKRAM SETH Poem Source First Line: The pigeons swing acros the square Last Line: The glossy oils that scarf their throats Subject(s): Birds PIGEONS ON THE GRASS, FR. FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pigeons on the grass alas Last Line: Be very well very well they might be Subject(s): Birds PILEATED, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's much too big for words Last Line: Our blue eyes with it Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Birds; Nature PILGRIM SIGNS: SNOWDON AVIARY, by MICHAEL J. ROSEN Poem Source First Line: We added an easy dozen to our life list Last Line: And each without a hope of progeny Subject(s): Birds; Snowdon (mountain), Wales PIPINGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Surcharged with discontent, %to sylvane's Subject(s): Birds PLUMED SERPENT: 11, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am the living quetzalcoatl Last Line: I am quetzalcoatl, of the two ways Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Aztecs; Birds; Mexico 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 POEM ABOUT A BALL IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source 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 POEM BEFORE BREAKFAST, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A small brown bird flies toward me Subject(s): Birds; Morning POEM BY GARNIE BRAXTON, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Garnie, I wish I was a sea gull Last Line: I been there once Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Gulls; Labor And Laborers POET AS IMMORTAL BIRD, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A second ago my heart thump went Subject(s): Birds; Poetry & Poets POET TO BIRD, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Source First Line: Your carol is a dewy, fragrant bloom that grows Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Birds POETAE MINORES, by ALBERT EDMUND TROMBLY Poem Text First Line: Nightingales and larks are found Last Line: Warm us with their undertone. Subject(s): Birds POETIC EXPOSITION ON THE OWL, by JIA YI Poem Source First Line: Chan-yan is the year Last Line: Trivial problems, picayune troubles %are not worth bringing anxieties Subject(s): Birds; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Owls POETS IN LATE WINTER, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poets of missouri stare at astonishing winter Last Line: And ends that tiny, unearthly song Subject(s): Nature; Birds; Winter POLYOLBION, SELS., by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birds POOR CROW!, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me something to eat Last Line: I've come a long way. Subject(s): Birds; Crows POOR ROSE, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beware!' you bird now in glee on the bough Last Line: But when will the best beware? Subject(s): Birds; Love - Loss Of; Weariness; Fatigue POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 3. OPPOSITION, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Four farmers seen through an open window falling asleep Last Line: "that letter fly between her knees."" they are drunk." Subject(s): Birds; Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Omens; Reproduction; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations; Mating POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 7. SONG, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A bird drops down from a tree in the sun in marseille Last Line: No longer a bitter poem; no longer a poem that could continue! Subject(s): Birds; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marseilles, France; Nazis; Poetry & Poets; Male-female Relations; National Socialism POPULAR RHYME ON THE CUCKOO; DEVON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the month of april Last Line: In the month of july, %away he doth fly Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos POSTCARD FROM IRELAND, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm here with the last good weather Last Line: From the underside, but the rafts of geese are already lost, %calling somewhere out in the bay Subject(s): Birds; Ireland; Travel PRECURSORS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little birds that hither bring Last Line: The leafy multitude appears. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds PRELUDE TO COMMENCEMENT, by MARIE DE L. WELCH Poem Source First Line: The air's advice is all Last Line: Than all the birds together, %cannot get off so light Subject(s): Birds PRELUDE: WHITE SWANS IN PAIRS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In pairs white swans came flying Last Line: Live this day with delight on delight, %long life to you, ten thousand years Subject(s): Birds; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Swans PREMONITION AT TWILIGHT, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The magpie in the joshua tree Subject(s): Birds PREPARATION, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little bird sits in the nest and sings Last Line: Are proving the wings for a bolder flight! Subject(s): Birds PRETTY POLLY, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An agile noisy jungle flower he flies Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Birds; Parrots PRETTY WANTONS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "pretty wantons, sweetly sing" Last Line: O prett'ly warbled from a sweet sweet throat Subject(s): Birds PRICELESS GIFTS, by OLIVE MAY COOK Poem Text First Line: I found silver today in the cadence and trill Last Line: Of that gay little song of the whippoorwill. Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills PRISON SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beat, beat, wings of my heart Last Line: For between -- the iron bars. Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Prisons & Prisoners; Singing & Singers PRIVATE PANTOMIME, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will reach into the grab-bag of unconscious things Subject(s): Birds PROBABILITY AND BIRDS IN THE YARD, by RUSSELL ATKINS Poem Source First Line: The probability in the yard is this Last Line: Which we love %dogs are random Subject(s): Birds PROFUNDITY AND LEVITY, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So frolic, so flighty Last Line: Is then life worth living? Subject(s): Birds; Owls 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 PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUE TO A BIRD MASQUE: PROLOGUE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gentles, just now I met an elf Last Line: Be showered by my players' glad applause. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Art & Artists; Birds; Creative Ability; Poetry & Poets; Robins; Inspiration; Creativity PROTHALAMION, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calm was the day, and through the trembling air Last Line: Sweete themmes, runne softly, till I end my song. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Birds; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PUDDOCK'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sailing puddock sweeps about for prey Last Line: And takes them home and often cuts their wing %and ties them in the garden with a string Subject(s): Birds' Nests PURPLE BERRIES, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: My bird flew yester morn from its cage Last Line: That priests would have me fear. Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Purple (color); Liberty PURPLE GRACKLES, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A cross between blackbird and crow Subject(s): Birds; Grackles PUSSY WILLOW DAYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Birds and pussies in a tree Last Line: In the shining weather. Subject(s): April; Birds; Children; Friendship; Play; Spring; Weather; Willow Trees; Childhood QU'EST-CE QU'IL DIT', by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Espion aile de la jeune amante Last Line: Demande mais doucement - 'et le viellard, %qu'est-ce qu'il dit? Subject(s): Birds; Trinidad And Tobago QUAIL AND THRUSH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The quail's staccato call from out the wood Last Line: Blent in with memories, borne on last year's wind. Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Memory; Thrushes; Woods QUAIL'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered out one rainy day Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Quails QUARREL IN THE BERRY PATCH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I gave you the cherries this year, Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Birds QUATORZAINS: 7. ANOTHER FANTASTIC SIMILE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a moon-tinted primrose, with a well Last Line: And sheath their minds in scorn and self-conceit. Subject(s): Birds; Fairies; Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Elves; Similes QUETZAL, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: The %fluorescent %emerald %tail Last Line: A %bird %tail %getzal Subject(s): Birds QUI'AMIYAT DIKAKAH, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: I have seen you far below Last Line: Until I am the first to die Subject(s): Birds; Boundaries; Falcons; Tourists; Travel RAINBIRD, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a rainbird singing Subject(s): Birds RANGE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The crow's croak has the melodic range Last Line: Of morning in the stock exchange Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Stock Exchange RANSOM NOTE TO THE OWNER OF A LOST COCKATIEL, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Last night, my neighbor l. Came over with your cockatiel on her shoulder. It Last Line: And forth, and your cockatiel looks on, proudly, not the least bit suspicious Subject(s): Birds RAPE OF THE NEST, by FRANCIS P. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: In early spring I watched two sparrows build Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Sparrows RECONNAISSANCE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twere bliss to see one lark Last Line: As though one flower were not enough, thank god! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; God; Larks; Praise; Spring; Skylarks RED, by LIA PURPURA Poem Source First Line: If I let red Last Line: A reward is a startling thing Subject(s): Birds RED SWAN, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Purple necks and green, fat drakes whiter than easter Last Line: To burn for a moment in the shape of a swan. Subject(s): Birds; Curiosities & Wonders; Lakes; Rumors; Enigmas; Oddities; Pools; Ponds REDBIRD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He flies with flirt and fluting Subject(s): Cardinals (birds) REDBIRD, by EDNA M. HOLY Poem Text First Line: Cardinal! Cardinal! Last Line: "whistling, ""redbird, redbird." Subject(s): Cardinals (birds) REDBIRDS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Redbirds, redbirds Last Line: On saxton's hill? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Cardinals (birds) REDBREAST'S HAUNT, by JAMES GRAHAM (1612-1650) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: High is his perch, but humble is his home Alternate Author Name(s): Montrose, 1st Marquis Of Subject(s): Birds 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 REDWING, by PATRIC DICKINSON Poem Source First Line: The winter clenched its fist Last Line: But I know what a redwing is, %and I know how I know Subject(s): Birds REDWING, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The readers of poetry, the writers of Last Line: Of the monster Subject(s): Native Americans; Birds; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America RELEASED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, bird, and to the sky Last Line: Dear bird, for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Joy; Delight REPLY, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bird, bird, don't edge me in Last Line: And, like you, bird, I sing, %a man, a man alive Subject(s): Birds; Life REQUIEM FOR A NEST, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winged thang built her dream palace Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Birds' Nests REST, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On me to rest, my bird, my bird Last Line: And lap you close with loving leaves. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Birds; Rest REST IN THE GRAVE! BUT REST IS FOR THE WEARY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Rest in the grave! But rest is for the weary Last Line: Have slain the unborn flower and new-fledged bird Subject(s): Birds;death;graves; "dead, The;tombs;tombstones; RESTART IN A WELSH WOOD, by MIKE MOCKLER Poem Source First Line: Lichen drips green light Last Line: And the wood waits for the redstart's return Subject(s): Birds RETURN TO THE BIRDS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When cities prod me with demands Last Line: Gratefully I return to birds Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Birds; Language RETURN TO THE BIRDS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When cities prod me with demands Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Birds RETURNING BLUEBIRDS, by NANCY E. KEAHEY Poem Text First Line: When the autumn days are hazy Last Line: And summer nest with soft snow fills. Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Bluebirds; Seasons; Fall RETURNING, WE HEAR THE LARKS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sombre the night is Last Line: Or her kisses where a serpent hides. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Skylarks; First World War RHINOCEROS HORNBILL, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: This southeast asian bird is born Last Line: (for halloween it needs no mask Subject(s): Birds RHU MOR, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gannets fall like the heads of tridents Last Line: Whose detonations %explode the green into white Subject(s): Birds RHYME-PROSE ON THE OWL, by CHIA YI Poem Source First Line: In the year tan-o Last Line: Petty matters, weeds and thorns - %what are they to me? Subject(s): Birds; Owls RHYMES AND RHYTHMS: 11, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gulls in an aery morrice Last Line: The way of a man with a maid! Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls RICE BIRDS, by MAIDI PAYNE Poem Text First Line: In the sky are hundreds of rice birds Last Line: My lines of wash. Subject(s): Birds RIDDLE, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source First Line: I have a house Last Line: That has no door Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Eggs; Riddles; Trees RIDDLE (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My dress is silent when I tread the ground Last Line: With earth or water, but a flying spirit Subject(s): Birds; Riddles; Swans RIDDLE, FROM THE EXETER BOOK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Clothes make no sound when I tread ground Last Line: And feel and know %no fold, no flow Subject(s): Birds; Riddles; Swans RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 2, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun now rose upon the right: %out of the sea came he Last Line: Instead of the cross, the albatross %about my neck was hung Subject(s): Birds; Sea RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 3, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There passed a weary time. Each throat %was parched, and glazed each eye Last Line: And every soul, it passed me by, %like the whizz of my cross-bow Subject(s): Birds; Sea RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 4, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I fear thee, ancient mariner! %I fear thy skinny hand! Last Line: The albatross fell off, and sank %like lead into the sea Subject(s): Birds; Love; Sea RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER: PART 6, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But tell me, tell me! Speak again Last Line: He'll shrive my soul, he'll wash away %the albatross's blood Subject(s): Birds; Sea RINGED PLOVER BY A WATER'S EDGE, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They spring eight feet and - %stop. Like that. Last Line: They, suddenly, are %gravel Subject(s): Birds RISING, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the government offices the rules and regulations Last Line: That the house is going out with the tide. Subject(s): Birds; Erosion; Gulls; Seashore; Waves; Seagulls; Beach; Coast; Shore ROAD SIGN TO FORGETTING, by CHRIS GAGE Poem Source First Line: There should have been a letter Last Line: Is disorienting without a pale blue egg %for the eye to alight upon Subject(s): Birds; Postal Service ROADRUNNER, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: The roadrunner darts Last Line: Turns on the brakes Subject(s): Birds ROBERT OF LINCOLN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Merrily swinging on brier and weed Last Line: Chee, chee, chee. Variant Title(s): Bob-o'-lincoln Subject(s): Birds; Bobolinks ROBIN, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now the snow hides the ground, little birds leave the wood Last Line: Since god don't deny it to sinners like me Subject(s): Birds ROBIN, by HAL SUMMERS Poem Source First Line: With a bonfire throat Last Line: And the last missile raider - %it's the only one he knows Subject(s): Birds 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 ROBIN SONG, by ELISABETH SCOLLARD Poem Source First Line: It pulses through the twilight Subject(s): Birds ROBIN'S NEST, by MARY JO SALTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of the for fuchsia plants that hung Last Line: Of life's own bloody victory Subject(s): Birds ROBINS ARE BACK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Wherever they go Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Flight; Nature; Robins ROC, by EDWARD LOWBURY Poem Source First Line: Scattered like flotsam on the erupting sea Last Line: Won't even notice when we choose to go Subject(s): Birds ROCK DOVES, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Three years I commuted across the tappan zee, Last Line: The answer rang out sharp and shrapnel-sudden Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Relationships ROMANCIN', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'b'en a-kindo' musin', as the feller says Last Line: "I kin wake and say ""dog-gone-it!"" jest as soft as any prayer!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Music & Musicians; Nature; Time RONDEL, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: When I see you my heart sings Last Line: When I see you! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Hope; Love; Singing & Singers; Optimism RONDEL - THE WOOD-THRUSH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: In the twilight of the trees Last Line: In the twilight! Subject(s): Birds; Evening; Forests; Singing & Singers; Thrushes; Sunset; Twilight; Woods ROOK'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rooks begin to build, and pleasant looks Last Line: Others with reaching poles the nest destroys %while off and up they fly with deafening noise Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Rooks ROOKERY, by MARY BIDDINGER Poem Source First Line: Once I was stolen Last Line: My hair the third I rapped %with a stone and broke Subject(s): Birds; Children; Parents ROOKERY, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here they come, freckling the sunset Last Line: Who wouldn't come to rest like that? Subject(s): Birds ROOKS, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There, where the rusty iron lies Subject(s): Birds ROUNDELAY, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are not only nightingales %they who sing in flowery dales Last Line: A greeting gay %to eyes aglow Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales; Singing And Singers ROYAL SPOONBILL, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: How fortunate and opportune Last Line: For eating peas and drinking soup? Subject(s): Birds RUBBER ANGEL, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is not Last Line: I dare you Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Forests; Owls; Philosophy & Philosophers; Woods RUDIGER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright on the mountain's heathy slope Last Line: Adown the dark profound. Subject(s): Birds; Boats; Curses; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Soldiers; Swans; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RURAL RAPTURES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tis sweet at dewy eve to rove Subject(s): Birds;nightingales;pigeons;singing & Singers RYHMEPROSE ON AN OWL, SELS., by CHIA YI Poem Source First Line: The year was tan-wo, it was the fourth month, summer's first Last Line: Be detached, remote, and soar with tao Subject(s): Birds; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Omens; Owls SACRED EPIGRAM: WHERE HE TEACHES LOVE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just as the expiring swan, sweeter in its final word Last Line: Complete love in pure love, sing Subject(s): Birds; Swans SADDEST NOISE, THE SWEETEST NOISE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: We wish the ear had not a heart %so dangerously near Variant Title(s): Poem: 1764; Poem: 178 Subject(s): Birds; Noises; Sound SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: That is no country for old men. The young Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Istambul; Byzantium; Dead, The; Fancy SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That is no country for old men. The young Last Line: To lords and ladies of byzantium %of what is past, or passing, or to come Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art And Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry And Poets; Vision SAILOR, by HORACE GREGORY Poem Source First Line: An albatross goes flapping high Subject(s): Albatrosses; Birds SAILOR, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO Poem Source First Line: That bird which is flying for the first time Last Line: I am the old sailor %who sews cut horizons Subject(s): Airships; Aviation And Aviators; Birds; Clouds; Sailors And Sailing; Sky SAINT FRANCIS TO THE BIRDS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Birds, - birds of the air Last Line: Forgetful of the little worm and mole! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); God; Religion; Saints; Theology SANCTUARY, by JOSIE CRAIG BERRY Poem Text First Line: An eagle soared the blue immensity Last Line: Will eagles find their rock in alien land? Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Sanctuaries SANCTUARY, by ELINOR MACARTHUR Poem Source First Line: I was on the ocean once Subject(s): Birds SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 4. THE GULLS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White stars scattering Last Line: In a noiseless flight, far out across the sky. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls SAND MARTIN, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hermit hunter of the lonely glen Last Line: To see thee circle round nor go beyond %that lone heath and its melancholy pond Subject(s): Birds' Nests SANDHILL CRANES, by ANN SPIERS Poem Source First Line: This pair I have come to show you Last Line: Back and forth, low and woody, unmistakable when heard Subject(s): Cranes (birds) SANDPIPER, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The roaring alongside he takes for granted Subject(s): Birds; Sandpipers SANDPIPER, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The roaring alongside he takes for granted Last Line: The millions of grains are black, white, tan, and gray, %mixed with quartz grains, rose and amethyst Subject(s): Birds; Sandpipers SANDPIPER, by IVAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Prime indignity of solitude Subject(s): Birds; Sandpipers SAVANT OF BIRDCALLS, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blue herons' do-si-do, Subject(s): Birds SAY, DOTH THE DULL SOIL ...', by JOHN KEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birds SCARECROW, by MABEL WARD RUDD Poem Text First Line: I like the way you stand at ease Last Line: Success to almost anything. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Scarecrows SCAVENGERS, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My birdfeeder, pagoda of weathered wood Last Line: Slab of concrete, the hot, august sun just now on the rise Subject(s): Birds SCAVENGERS, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My birdfeeder, pagoda of weathered wood Last Line: August sun just now on the rise Subject(s): Birds SCENE AT DUSK, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On our way to the city of the singing street Last Line: Shed by an april evening upon lovely hair. Subject(s): Birds; Dusk; Hope; Love; Optimism SEA BIRDS, by VAN K. BROCK Poem Source First Line: No light except the stars, but from the cliff Last Line: With restless birds above a freezing pool, %and no one shall put salt on their bright tails Subject(s): Birds SEA GULLS IN DAKOTA, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: The western sky is filled with soaring wings Last Line: Of high tides, thundering, by the great sea wall. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls SEA IN MY WORDS, by FOLKE ISAKSSON Poem Source First Line: The sea is alwayst in my words Last Line: Into a triumphant arch Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Memory; Sea Voyages; Storms SEA-BIRDS, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lonesome sea-gull, floating far Last Line: Where is thy mate, and where thy nest? Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Birds SEA-BIRDS, by ELINOR MACARTHUR Poem Source First Line: Birds that float upon a wave Subject(s): Birds SEA-CHANGE, by BERENICE VAN SLYKE Poem Text First Line: Before a young lark sings Last Line: Remembers how. Alternate Author Name(s): Heaton, Maurice C., Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks SEA-GULL, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sea-gull swooping Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Birds SEA-GULL, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the whimper of the sea-gull Last Line: Could you explain it to your she-gull? Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Sea Gulls SEA-GULLS OF MANHATTAN, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Children of the elemental mother Last Line: While the river flows to meet the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; New York City; Seagulls; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SEA-HAWK, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The six-foot nest of the sea-hawk Last Line: At the eye of a sea-hawk, %a blaze of grandeur, permanence of the impersonal Subject(s): Birds; Hawks; Sea SEA-STRETCH, by RENA CAREY SHEFFIELD Poem Source First Line: A golden day Subject(s): Birds SEABIRD POEM FOR CHILDREN, by LLOYD VAN BRUNT Poem Source First Line: Gulls and terns so thick Last Line: From half-mile-high clouds %or what it's like to be lost sight of %on a stormy morning %far out to s Subject(s): Birds SEAGULL, by KIM OK Poem Source First Line: Over the waves leaping and laughing Last Line: Fade lonely like a seagull %wandering, white Subject(s): Birds; Gulls SEAGULL CLAWS THE SKY...', by CHRISTIAN VIREDAZ Poem Source Last Line: Will one day ruin you Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Sky SEAGULLS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gull, up close, / looks surprisingly stuffed Last Line: Among our mortal apprehensions Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Poetry & Poets; Seagulls SEAGULLS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A gull, up close, %looks surprisingly stuffed Last Line: Beautiful gods stroll unconcerned %among our mortal apprehensions Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Poetry And Poets SEAGULLS IN LONDON, JANUARY, 1940, by RUTH PITTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They stormed upon me like catastrophe Last Line: If this be folly, o forgive it me! Subject(s): Birds; Forgiveness; Gulls; London; Clemency; Seagulls SEAL AND THE SEAGULL, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: Even now, survival is godhead, a dim red glow warming the water Last Line: You could have chosen pity, feeding the tide the broken bones to see what %might come back Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seals (animals); Seashore; Water SEALED, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The doves call down the long arcades of Last Line: I shall be striving towards you till the end. Subject(s): Birds; Boredom; Doves; Love; Ennui SEASON OF PHANTASMAL PEACE, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Then all the nations of birds lifted together Last Line: But, for such as our earth is now, it lasted long Subject(s): Birds SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 1., by BASIL BUNTING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thrush in the syringa sings Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 1., by BASIL BUNTING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A thrush in the syringa sings Last Line: O gay thrush! Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes SECOND ODE TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blest be thy song, sweet nightingale Last Line: Shall mock despair, and blunt the shaft of pain. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Odes (as Poetic Form) SECRET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We have a secret, just we three Last Line: Though I know when the little birds fly about %then the whole secret will be out Subject(s): Birds SEE THE YOUNG, THE ROSY SPRING, FR. ODES OF ANACREON, by ANACREON Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Birds SELBORNE, SELS., by GILBERT WHITE Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birds SEMI-CHORUS OF THRUSHES, LINNETS, AND BLACKCAPS, by WILLIAM JOHN COURTHOPE Poem Source First Line: O windless haven of delight! Subject(s): Birds SEPTEMBER, by SUSAN FRANCES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds that were gray in the green are black in the yellow Last Line: More than that -- do you know that the gray is showing? Alternate Author Name(s): Seranus; Frances, Susan Subject(s): Birds; Colors SERFS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter has planted the fields black with crows Last Line: To make an earth that can be made a hell. Subject(s): Birds; Dirt; Farm Life; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers SEVEN P.M, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slow twilight bird Last Line: Gentle, wild voices from the dark aloft. Subject(s): Birds; Dusk SEVEN POEMS: 1, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sight of the songbirds at dusk Last Line: All the singing in our fingers Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Birds SEYNT VALENTYNES DAY, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ther mighte men the royal egle finde Subject(s): Birds SHAKESPEARE IN THE THRUSH, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who sings so more than passing sweet Last Line: And gods go large in warwickshire! Subject(s): Birds; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Thrushes; Warwickshire, England; Dramatists SHE DOTES ON WHAT THE WILD BIRDS SAY, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The word the cuckoo cries to his mate %over and over Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Birds SHEARWATERS, by AL MAGINNES Poem Source First Line: Some have been found broken on shore Last Line: Scarlet with deliverance's false light Subject(s): Birds SHOCK, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Furiously a crane %in the scrap yard out of whose grasp Last Line: So we can preen, too, for so much %so well accomplished, so well seen. Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Birds; Crows SHORELINE AT CAMBRIA, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Early morning shoreline: a scattering of birds blackens the sky Last Line: And I'm out standing on the deck trying to capture this but it's %not possible Subject(s): Birds; Cambria, Wales; Gulls; Nature; Seashore SHORT CIRCUIT, by DANIEL HALL Poem Source First Line: For no reason, %all at once %a dove and a jay %swere and land Last Line: And the clothes - mine %all mine! Commence %to dance with reckless %love and joy Subject(s): Birds SHORT PRECARIOUS HOUR, by FLORENCE DICKINSON STEARNS Poem Text First Line: A bird of red consented to remain Last Line: It was as though the silence breathed a name. Subject(s): Birds SIGNS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the birds begin to walk Last Line: Almost lifting straining to fly Subject(s): Birds SIGNS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the birds begin to walk Last Line: Almost lifting straining to fly Subject(s): Birds SILVER DREAM, by LILA HURLEY Poem Text First Line: At dusk the wood bird's song continuous rang Last Line: That night when summer dreamed a silver dream. Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Moon; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs SILVER SWANS: 14. HOTOTOGISU - HOROBIRETE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cuckoo's call, though Last Line: Against the spring Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos SILVER TREE, by FRANCIS KEPPEL Poem Source First Line: I wish that I could see tonight Subject(s): Birds SING LITTLE BIRD, by MARIA HASTINGS Poem Source First Line: Sing, little bird, %when the skies are blue Last Line: Sing for the world %has need of you Subject(s): Birds SING, MERRY BIRDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Birds SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 83, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blind from my birth Last Line: Where all joy-bells are ringing. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Blindness; Happiness; Larks; Visually Handicapped; Joy; Delight; Skylarks SINGING BRANCH, by CHARLOTTE BLAKE LORING Poem Text First Line: If you had never loved me then, oh then Last Line: Beneath whose singing branch our love has been. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Love; Rain; Spring SINGING LESSON, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A nightingale made a mistake Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales SINGING-BIRD, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the valley of my life Last Line: Shall sing for me. Subject(s): Birds SINKING SUN IS TAKING LEAVE, FR. SUMMER EVENING, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birds SIR LARK AND KING SUN; A PARABLE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Good morrow, my lord!' in the sky alone Subject(s): Birds; Larks SIR WINTER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir winter is coming across the wide sea Last Line: Till he sings us the very best song that he can. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Sea; Singing & Singers; Winter; Ocean SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA, BIRD-WATCHING WITH 8TH GRADE BOYS AND GIRLS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We have too much in common Last Line: For show -- and to hide our true designs Subject(s): Birds SIX BIRDS, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: The buzzard and the owl Last Line: The heron and the stork %are god almighty's knife and fork Subject(s): Birds SIX EAGLES, by THOMAS PEACOCK (20TH CENTURY) Poem Source First Line: Red on sun sky sail Last Line: Will twenty eagles pay homage to him? Subject(s): Birds; Eagles SIX MOVEMENTS; FOR MRS. EDWARD MACDOWELL: 1. NEIGHBORS, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds aren't people one has to walk to Last Line: Coming like lightning, going like arrows. Subject(s): Birds SIX MOVEMENTS; FOR MRS. EDWARD MACDOWELL: 2. HERMIT THRUSH, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's hard to count what an air can do Last Line: Don't even know now what the air or the wind did. Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes SIX MOVEMENTS; FOR MRS. EDWARD MACDOWELL: 4. CITY CHAP, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who's that dusty stranger? What's he doing here? Last Line: Of winters, towns, and people no kinder. Subject(s): Birds SKY WITHOUT GULLS, by HELEN FRAZEE-BOWER Poem Text First Line: Always across the sea-scape of my mind Last Line: Where gulls should be -- and suddenly were not. Alternate Author Name(s): Bower, W. M., Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls SKYLARK, by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bird of the wilderness Subject(s): Birds; Larks SKYLARK LEAVING HER NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Right happy bird, so full of mirth Last Line: That upon every memory dwells %among home-fed delights Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Larks; Slavery SLEEP AT SEA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound the deep waters Last Line: Of all their ways. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Vanity; Nightmares; Ocean SMALL BIRD TO THE BIG, by C. HATAKEYAMA Poem Source First Line: Fly up and away, large hawk Last Line: I shall believe you the chief light upon this dark grey world Subject(s): Birds SMALL ELEGY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a bird pasted to muck Last Line: We leave him guessing our first laws Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals SNOW LIES LIGHT UPON THE PINE, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Birds SNOWBIRD, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poem Source First Line: When all the ground with snow is white Last Line: Keeps him from walking on the snow %and printing it with stars Subject(s): Birds SNOWLY OWL NEAR OCEAN SHORES, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sits on a stump in an abandoned famer's field Last Line: So when a double-rainbow arced the sky %we left him to his white refrain Subject(s): Birds; Owls SO GOOD, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing to me Subject(s): Weather; Birds; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers SOLACE, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: I found a nest this morning, in the grass Last Line: Someone was near. I think she found only silence Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Death; Mothers SOLITARY CROW, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why solitary crow? He is his feathers Last Line: And adds a silver spot to that round eye %whose black light bends and cocks the world awry Subject(s): Birds SOME LATE LARK SINGING, by BROTHER CLEMENT Poem Text First Line: These are my songs. As all men sing Last Line: Me up, and far below, some late lark sings! Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Pain; Singing & Singers; Skylarks; Suffering; Misery; Songs SOMETIME TODAY, OR YESTERDAY, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source Last Line: Of news from so long ago %amplified by hard surfaces Subject(s): Birds; News; Nightingales; Television SOMETIMES I HEAR THE VEERY'S CLARION, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography Last Line: Of virtue evermore Subject(s): Birds SOMEWHERE IS SUCH A KINGDOM, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The famous kingdom of the birds Last Line: If no such beast were, no such bird? Subject(s): Birds SOMEWHERE IS SUCH A KINGDOM, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The famous kingdom of the birds Last Line: And dare I think it is absurd %if no such beast were, no such bird? Subject(s): Birds SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love and harmony combine Last Line: And doth among our branches play. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My silks and fine array Last Line: True love doth pass away! Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the jocund dance Last Line: But thou art all to me. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh from the dewy hill, the merry year Last Line: Burns in my soul, and does my song inspire. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet I roamed from field to field Last Line: And mocks my loss of liberty. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My silks and fine array Last Line: True love doth pass away! Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When early morn walks forth in sober grey Last Line: And then I'd die in peace, and be forgot. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the jocund dance Last Line: But thou art all to me. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh from the dewy hill, the merry year Last Line: Burns in my soul, and does my song inspire. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet I roamed from field to field Last Line: And mocks my loss of liberty. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Love; Mythology SONG, by MICHAEL BOWDEN Poem Source First Line: We have all the time in the world. We have no time. The bed's raft is Last Line: You, without shame, call the bird's three quick syllables song Subject(s): Birds; Singing And Singers SONG, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O sweet is the song o' the thrush I' the spring mornings Last Line: I courted her long & I loved her the best Subject(s): Birds SONG, by RALPH HODGSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There, sharp and sudden, there I heard Subject(s): Birds SONG, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have a black, black mind! Subject(s): Birds SONG - FOR NOVEMBER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While skies glint bright with Last Line: With all her blossoms blooming. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Apples; Birds; Fruit; November; Seasons SONG BIRD OF THE SPRING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: You make talk about your bobolinks, and the Last Line: But the umpire is the bird of birds, the song-bird of the spring! Subject(s): Baseball; Birds; Sports; Spring SONG IN THREE PARTS, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The white broom flatt'ring her flowers in calm june weather Last Line: No more -- no more.' Subject(s): Birds; Echo (mythology); Life; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Songs SONG OF A BROWN WREN IN WILD FIELDS, by CAO ZHI Poem Source First Line: High in the trees are sad strong winds Last Line: It flew and flew till it touched the sky, %then came again down to thank the young man Subject(s): Birds; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Wrens SONG OF A NEST, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Birds SONG OF MAN, by WILLIAM JOHN COURTHOPE Poem Source First Line: Man that is born of a woman Subject(s): Birds SONG OF THE CARRION CROW, by ELIZA COOK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My roost is the creaking gibbet's beam Subject(s): Birds SONG OF THE CROW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lords and ladies, for your ear" Last Line: "and your crow, as in duty most bounden, shall pray" Subject(s): Birds;crows;greece; Greeks SONG OF THE HERMIT THRUSH, by JAMES B. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: From casco bay %to farallon Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes SONG OF THE LARK, by RUTH GENEVIEVE WORK IODICE Poem Source First Line: As in a quiet landscape of millet Last Line: Is their marvelous mother really part bird? Subject(s): Birds; Mothers SONG OF THE LARKS AT DAWN, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherds who pastures seek Subject(s): Birds; Larks SONG OF THE REIM-KENNAR, FR. THE PIRATE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stern eagle of the far north-west Last Line: Eagle of the north-west, thou hast heard the voice of the reim-kennar Subject(s): Birds; Eagles SONG OF THE SEA-GULLS, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds of the land, ye may carol and fly Last Line: In the glassy calm or tempest strife. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls SONG OF THE THRUSH, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Source First Line: Ah! The may was grand this mornin'! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes SONG OF THE THRUSH, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in the forest evening sits a thrush Last Line: Nothingness as it dissolves within the core of the setting sun Subject(s): Birds; Singing And Singers; Thrushes SONG TO A PHANTOM NIGHTINGALE, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, nightingale that lures my soul to slumber Last Line: The songster that to me you always seem Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales SONG'S ETERNITY, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is song's eternity? Last Line: Eternity. Subject(s): Birds; Permanence SONG-BIRDS FOR SALE, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet-throated linnet, small and brown Subject(s): Birds SONG/BIRDS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Along the wires, %like scattered notes Last Line: Hover on the edges %of the tune Subject(s): Birds SONG: 110, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I must go walk the woods so wild Last Line: And all for your love, my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Forests; Life; Love; Nature; Trust; Woods SONG: 2, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My bird who may not lift his wing Last Line: Who now is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Dead, The SONG: 3, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Text First Line: O thrush, in what deep glades Last Line: From drops of the chilled rain? Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes SONG: 3, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By nought but sorrow attended Last Line: On your friendship I cannot rely. Subject(s): Birds; Friendship; Grief; Unfaithfulness; Sorrow; Sadness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SONG: 4. THE SKYLARK, by WILLIAM SHENSTONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, tuneful bird, that glad'st the skies Last Line: Who sings her praise, and sings forlorn. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks SONG: THE LARK, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet to hear the merry lark Last Line: And woe may come to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks SONGS OF THE VOICES OF BIRDS: INTRODUCTION. EAGLES, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look you now / this vessel's off the rocks, a tidy craft Last Line: "she must be called ""the eagle"" after these." Subject(s): Birds; Eagles SONGS OF THE WEST: THE CROWS FLY BY NIGHT (4), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hateful old crow! Last Line: And my love went off in the dark Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Love - Loss Of SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; A POET IN HIS YOUTH, AND THE CUCKOO-BIRD, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time, I lay Last Line: To-morrow, man, if not to-day %now it murmurs, wait, wait, wait! Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Patience; Poetry And Poets; Voices SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; A RAVEN IN A WHITE CHINE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw when I looked up, on either hand Last Line: Cry, thou black prophetess! Lift up! Cry, cry.' Subject(s): Birds; Omens; Prophecy & Prophets; Ravens; Sea; Ocean SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; THE NIGHTINGALE AND UNSATISFIED HEART, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in a may-day hush Last Line: Whose fate is still to yearn, and not be satisfied.' Subject(s): Birds; Echo (mythology); Hearts; Nightingales SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; THE WARBLING OF BLACKBIRDS, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I hear the waters fretting Last Line: "and a ""hey down derry, let's be merry! Little girl and boy!""'" Subject(s): April; Birds; Blackbirds; Voices SONGS OUT OF SORROW: WOOD SONG, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a wood thrush in the dusk Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes SONGS TO A.H.R.: 10. ASSUAGEMENT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How close tonight the whippoorwill Last Line: But love's star-builded roof. Subject(s): Birds; Life; Love; Moon; Whipporwills SONNET, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: A poet wrote a song - a tender lay Last Line: She sang it through—it was the nightingale! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales SONNET ON HEARING A THRUSH SING IN JANUARY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing on, sweet thrush, upon the leafless bough Last Line: The mite high heav'n bestow'd, that mite with thee I'll share. Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes SONNET TO THE CURLEW, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soothed by the murmurs on the sea-beat shore Last Line: And seem the symbol of my present woe. Subject(s): Birds; Curlews; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad songstress of the night, no more I hear Last Line: No more responsive to the lay of love. Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Love; Nightingales; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 2. FEBRUARY AFTERNOON, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men heard this roar of parleying starlings, saw Last Line: That we have wrought him, stone-deaf and stone-blind. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Variant Title(s): February Afternoon Subject(s): Birds; Time; World War I; First World War SONNET: MARCH, 1879, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye little birds, that chant your love so loud Last Line: I hold your joy within my secret heart. Subject(s): Birds SOUND, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn I squat on the garage Last Line: As they burst from the trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Labor & Laborers; Morning; Work; Workers SOUND OF BIRDS AT NOON, by DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH Poem Source First Line: This chirping Last Line: A note of compassion Subject(s): Birds SOUNDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The multitudinous murmurings of day! Last Line: As myrmidons of night and parts of her. Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Night; Sound; Woods; Bedtime SOUTHERN WHIP-POOR-WILL, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night it was the whip-poor-will Subject(s): Birds SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 67, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It matters little to me Last Line: Should flutter from tree to tree Subject(s): Birds SPARE THE NESTS, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: Is it a nest? It is a nest! See, 'mid the branches hidden Last Line: Than dry and withered blossoms, or shattered, ruined nests? Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Forests; Sanctuaries; Spring SPARROW, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He's no artist Last Line: On the o-levels and a-levels %of the air Subject(s): Birds SPARROWS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring comes and autumn goes Last Line: Finality in sparrowdom Subject(s): Birds; Sparrows SPARROWS AND MEN, by BEDE Poem Source First Line: Man's life is like a sparrow, mighty king! Alternate Author Name(s): The Venerable Bede (beda) Subject(s): Birds SPEAR THISTLE, SELS., by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The pewit, swopping up and down Subject(s): Birds SPECIMEN DAYS: LOAFING IN THE WOODS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: March 8. - I write this down in the country again, but in a new spot Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Nature SPIRIT OF BIRD SONGS, by EDITH HASKELL TAPPAN Poem Text First Line: O birds that trail your evening songs across the sunset sky Last Line: And heaven sends forth, to meet us, the spirits of our mates! Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers SPOKEN TO AN OWL, by FRANK THIBAULT Poem Text First Line: Dawn wakes the day that queerly forms your night Last Line: When questioned by my friends, wink mute replies! Subject(s): Birds; Owls SPRING CAME IN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring came in with a red-wing's feather Last Line: Yet come no more, should he tarry ... Tarry! Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Romance; Spring SPRING COMES!, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little birds, they do not heed nor care Last Line: The birds have heard it—and the birds are wise. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Birds; Seasons; Spring SPRING SPARKLE AND THE COCK-BIRD SHRIEK, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: Yesterday the winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind Last Line: May this movement spare me a final humiliation Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Seasons; Singing And Singers; Time; Winter SPRING TIME IS COMING, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful spring is coming Last Line: In this glad new year. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Birds SPRING WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O full-voiced herald of immaculate spring Last Line: And heard june's leaf-like murmur of sweet words? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Spring; Wind SPRING'S TORCH-BEARER, by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oriole - athlete of the air Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice Subject(s): Birds 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 ST FRANCIS TO THE BIRDS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daytime? The stars quite gone? Last Line: Go! But birds, my birds, come back to me! Subject(s): Birds; God; Love; Saints ST. KEVIN AND THE BLACKBIRDS, by JULIE MOULDS Poem Source First Line: The bird thought an oak branch Last Line: Dark sparrows in god's eyes Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds STARLING, by JOHN HEATH-STUBBS Poem Source First Line: The starling is my darling, although %I don't much approve of its habits Last Line: Turning like one bird: an image %realized, of the city Subject(s): Birds STARLINGS, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Can you keep it so Last Line: Bustling monks %tilling their green precincts Subject(s): Birds STARTLED, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: A startled sparrow startled me Last Line: Your fate's no worse than that of man. Subject(s): Birds; Fate; Worms STATION (5), by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere between a bird's nest and a solar system Last Line: Washing less than nothing from your hands Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Birds; Jesus Christ STATUE AND BIRDS, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Here, in the withered arbor, like the arrested wind Last Line: Fails on her breast Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Statues STATUE AND BIRDS, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here, in the withered arbor, like the arrested wind Last Line: Fails on her breast Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Statues STEP BY STEP MY HEART GOES ON, by SIMON PERCHIK Poem Source Last Line: Bringing me the small breeze %the small wings Subject(s): Birds STILL, CITIZEN SPARROW, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still, citizen sparrow, this vulture which you call Subject(s): Birds; Noah (bible) STILL, CITIZEN SPARROW, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Still, citizen sparrow, this vulture which you call Last Line: Gladly with all you knew; he rode that tide %to ararat; all men are noah's sons Subject(s): Birds; Noah (bible) STORK, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Observe the large long-legged stork Last Line: It feeds on frogs without a plate Subject(s): Birds STORM BRINGER, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: It was a dry fall Last Line: After they left, %it rained Subject(s): Birds STORMCOCK IN ELDER, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my dark hermitage, aloof Subject(s): Birds STORMED EAGLE, by JOHN LEE HIGGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The victor's fifes are heard Last Line: And the small gaping beaks. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Victory; War STRADA'S NIGHTINGALE, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shepherd touched his reed; sweet philomel Last Line: And he may wish that he had never won. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales SUBMISSION, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sparrow sits and sings, and sings Last Line: And clasp god's hand, who wrought it all. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Grief; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness 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 SUITE TO APPLENESS: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Or in the orchard that night Last Line: As an apple. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Apples; Birds; Christianity; Crows; Fruit; Night; Bedtime SUMMER DUSK, by PAMELA TENNANT Poem Source First Line: Now may we follow on his curving flight Subject(s): Birds SUMMER HAS COME (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Healthy free summer has come Last Line: Hounds bay, stags gather, %ravens flourish, summer is come! Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos SUMMER HAS COME (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Summer's come, safe, sound Last Line: Harts will herd - summer's come! %summer Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos SUMMER HAS COME, HEALTHY AND FREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos SUN, TREE AND CROW, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: There, on a branch, he stands alone Last Line: And gives it to that old, black crow! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Crows SUN-STRUCK EAGLE, by CATHERINE ANNE WARFIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw an eagle sweep to the sku Last Line: Sun-struck eagle! To die lie thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Warfield, Catherine M. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles SUPPOSE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Suppose the entire venture Last Line: To sit and listen to a seagull's cry Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Truth SWALLOW, by SYDNEY THOMPSON DOBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Swallow, that yearly art blown round the Alternate Author Name(s): Yendys, Sidney Subject(s): Birds SWALLOW, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The swallow, privilege above the rest Subject(s): Birds SWALLOW, by BENNETT WEAVER Poem Text First Line: Swallow, swallow, swiftly you and I Last Line: Here where the light was fresh upon my face. Subject(s): Birds; Swallows SWALLOW'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here down the meadow runs a path Last Line: Then 'twit' and in the water dip, %and 'twit' and hurry back again Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Swallows SWALLOWS, by RICHARD JAGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ere yellow autumn from our plains retired Subject(s): Birds SWAN, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hawks stir the blood like fiercely ringing bells Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds 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 SWAN, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Far-off %at the core of space Last Line: And stamps his black marsh-feet on their white and marshy flesh Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Birds; Swans SWAN, by JAY MACPHERSON Poem Source First Line: White-habited, the mystic swan Last Line: My garment may no man put by Subject(s): Birds; Swans SWAN, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Voraciously the swan Last Line: Coldly as a snake about the bay of dreams Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Swans SWAN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This laboring through what is still undone Last Line: In his full majesty and ever more %indifferent, he condescends to glide Subject(s): Birds; Swans SWAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My robe is silent, when I rest on earth Last Line: O'er wave and wood, a wandering sprite Subject(s): Birds; Riddles; Swans SWAN, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Over the mirror %the noble swan slides Last Line: Crack out one more mile Subject(s): Birds SWAN AND SHADOW, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk / above the / water hang the Subject(s): Birds; Shadows; Swans SWAN AND SHADOW, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk %above the %water hang the Last Line: Sudden dark as %if a swan %sang Subject(s): Birds; Shadows; Swans SWAN BATHING, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now to be clean he must abandon himself Subject(s): Birds; Swans SWAN BOAT, by ROBERT PALFREY UTTER Poem Source First Line: What fun to be a baby swan Subject(s): Birds; Swans SWAN BY THE MALL, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The swan's white bulk, crumbled like a corrugated box Last Line: Drawing itself from death's shrunken [or, sunken] belly into the room? Subject(s): Angels; Birds; Death; Medicine; Nurses; Swans SWAN SEQUENCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hear that echo, children Last Line: With folded wings, they watch by their last king Subject(s): Birds; Swans SWAN'S FEET, by EDITH JOY SCOVELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who is this whose feet Last Line: That opens and bends closed those leaves Alternate Author Name(s): Scovell, E. J. Subject(s): Birds; Swans SWAN-CHILD, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My feet have touched the dancing water Last Line: My lips have kissed the singing rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Birds; Swans SWANS, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the green light of water, like the day Last Line: With snows as soft, as soundless - then, who knows %rose-footed swan from snow, or girl from rose Subject(s): Birds; Swans SWANS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night is over the park Last Line: We watch the swans and never a word is said. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Swans SWANS FROM THE NORTH, by HANS HARTVIG SEEDORFF PEDERSEN Poem Source First Line: Twas five wild swans in silver plumage dressed Subject(s): Birds; Swans SWANS IN THE NIGHT, by JOAN MELLINGS Poem Source First Line: Three swans Last Line: From the dark lagoon Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Swans SWEET SUFFOLK OWL, by THOMAS VAUTER Poem Source First Line: Sweet suffolk owl, so trimly dight Last Line: And sings a dirge for dying souls, %te whit, te whoo, te whit, te whit Subject(s): Birds; Owls SWIFTS, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fifteenth of may. Cherry blossom. The swifts Last Line: The charred scream %folded in its huge power Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Birds SWIFTS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The swifts winnow the air Last Line: Of the geometry of their dark wings Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Birds SWIFTS IN THE CHIMNEY, by ROSE MILLS POWERS Poem Source First Line: I lift the latch Subject(s): Birds SYMBOLS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched a rosebud very long Last Line: Should also take the rod? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Vengeance SYRINX, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the foghorn that's all lung Last Line: But dispossed of breath Subject(s): Birds; Sound TAKING TIME TO GROW, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mamma! Mamma!' two eaglets cried Last Line: An eaglet can afford to wait Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Growth; Patience TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE FIRST DAY: THE BIRDS OF KILLINGWORTH, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the season, when through all the land Last Line: Amid the sunny farms of killingworth. Variant Title(s): The Poet's Tale Subject(s): Birds; Killingworth, Connecticut TALISMAN, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under a splintered mast Last Line: Parting its beak to greet %men long dead Subject(s): Birds; Gulls TALKING TO LITTLE BIRDIES, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not a peep out of you now Subject(s): Birds TAMER AND HAWK, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I was so tough Last Line: I lose to keep, and choose %tamer as prey Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Birds; Hawks TAMPA GULL, by MURRAY JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Yellow-nosed herring gulls Variant Title(s): Gull Subject(s): Birds; Gulls TANAGER, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scarlet bird Last Line: O scarlet bird! Subject(s): Birds; Tanagers TAR & FEATHER, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Let me say this outright Last Line: Over and under bows, the self in flight calls %why %why %why Subject(s): Birds; Women TELL ME, SONG-BIRD, by K. DEVRISH Poem Text First Line: Gay song-bird, on your journey back to spring Last Line: My heart without your message throbs and grieves. Subject(s): Birds; Seasons TEMA CON VARIAZONI: PRELUDE, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went a roaming through the woods alone Last Line: And heard the nightingale that made her moan. Variant Title(s): The Nightingale Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 8. A HAWK SEPARATED FROM THE GAUNTLET, by XUE TAO Poem Source First Line: Talons sharp as blade-point Last Line: Upon the ruler's arm Subject(s): Absence; Birds; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Hawks TENANTS, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As to the old woman Last Line: In one crow's bill. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Death; Old Age; Sheep; Dead, The TERCETS, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: Clatter in the landscape Last Line: Tomorrow, in night, in three warm cores, %I'll prepare Subject(s): Birds; Death; Ducks; Expressionism - Poets; Soul TEXT AND MORAL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full early in that dewy time of year Last Line: And one must soar and sing, and one must weep. Subject(s): Birds TEXT OF THE BIRD, by GREGOR LASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Across the sky as once always the strokes frozen in- %to white, far behind that Last Line: A little bit, couple lengths %of an eye Subject(s): Birds THAMES GULLS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful it is to see Last Line: And inaccessible as dido's phantom. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; London; Seagulls THANKSGIVING, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: That day on the coast of veracruz Last Line: And to william johnston -- !Amigo! Subject(s): Birds THAT FIND OF LONGISQUAMA INSIGNIS, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: Oldest known feathered fossil evidence Last Line: Enabling first flight?... %sunt aliquid manes Subject(s): Birds; Dinosaurs; Flight 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 ALBATROSS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often, for pastime, mariners will ensnare Subject(s): Albatrosses; Birds THE ALBATROSS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often, in idle hours, men of the crew Last Line: His giant wings are weights to keep him low. Subject(s): Albatrosses; Birds THE ALBATROSS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poet's Biography First Line: Ofttimes, for diversion, the men of the crew / capture albatross Subject(s): Albatrosses; Birds THE ALBATROSS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the lone australian shore Last Line: "to souls in prison, words of life!" Subject(s): Albatrosses; Birds THE ANGLER'S REVEILLE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What time the rose of dawn is laid across the lips of night Last Line: Good luck! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Birds; Fish & Fishing THE ARIA, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One crow comes now every morning Last Line: Croutons. They throw a party Subject(s): Birds; Crows THE ARMADILLO; FOR ROBERT LOWELL, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is the time of year Subject(s): Animals; Armadillos; Birds; Brazil; Owls; Brazilians THE AUTHOR OF AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY SKETCHES A BIRD, NOW EXTINCT, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When he walked through town, the wing-shot bird he'd hidden Subject(s): Birds THE AVENGED CROW, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: You have all heard the tale of the fox and the crow Last Line: "in return, he lies there, carried off by disease!" Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Death; Foxes; Revenge; Story-telling; Dead, The THE BARBAROUS BIRD-GODS: A SAVAGE PARABASIS, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text 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 BARLEY-BIRDS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Assuredly the barley-birds Last Line: To count each bird twice over! Subject(s): Birds; Courtship THE BEAKS OF EAGLES, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An eagle's nest on the head of an old redwood on one of the Subject(s): Birds; Eagles THE BELL-BIRD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stillness of the austral noon Last Line: Save 'mid these silences alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Birds THE BIRD, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Only a bird in a cage Last Line: "I thank thee, bird — dear bird." Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs THE BIRD, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: O sweet song-bird in the sunlight winging Last Line: Sun thou art darkened -- bird thou art mute. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Love; Singing & Singers; Soul THE BIRD, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: Facing a ragged cobalt sky Last Line: The bird! . . . The silver agony! Subject(s): Birds THE BIRD, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful boy, with the sunny hair Last Line: Among the trees that shall fade no more. Subject(s): Birds THE BIRD, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hither thou com'st: the busy wind all night Last Line: Till the day-spring breaks forth again from high. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): To A Bird After A Storm Subject(s): Birds THE BIRD AND THE FOUNTAIN, by CHARLOTTE YOUNG Poem Text First Line: There was once a little fountain Last Line: And hers enduring light! Subject(s): Birds; Fountains THE BIRD AT DAWN, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What I saw was just one eye Last Line: The singing and the silence of a bird? Subject(s): Birds THE BIRD AT SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bird of the greenwood! Last Line: "away, away!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds THE BIRD FANCIER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Overhead a bleak and sinful sky Last Line: Through a feathery storm of unholy hues! Subject(s): Birds THE BIRD IN THE LAUREL'S SONG, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text 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 BIRD IN WHATEVER NAME, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bird with a name it does not itself Subject(s): Birds; Names THE BIRD OF CHRIST, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Holy, holy, holy Last Line: All the birds together. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Faith; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Rewards; Salvation; Self-immolation; Women - Bible; Belief; Creed; Virgin Mary THE BIRD OF HOPE, by CHARLES SWAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A golden cage of sunbeams Last Line: It was hope's golden bird! Subject(s): Birds; Hope; Optimism THE BIRD OF PARADISE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art perfected splendor without the / peacock's feet Last Line: With the cunning of a blow-pipe may bring thy beauty down. Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Heaven; Paradise THE BIRD OF SADNESS, by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little black bird flies over the world Last Line: And again it flies fluting over the world. Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE BIRD OF TIME, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O bird of time on your fruitful bough Last Line: And the pride of a soul that has conquered fate. Subject(s): Birds; Nature THE BIRD ON THE TELEGRAPH WIRE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The long lines stretched from west to east Last Line: "he teaches us, trusting, to say, ""it is best." Subject(s): Birds THE BIRD WITH THE COPPERY, KEEN CLAWS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above the forest of the parakeets Last Line: To flare, in the sun-pallor of his rock. Subject(s): Birds THE BIRD'S NEST, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a place, in the ivy on a tree Last Line: The sound of me watching, if I had been a bird. Subject(s): Animals; Birds' Nests THE BIRD'S RELEASE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go forth! For she is gone! Last Line: But it wins her back no more! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Cemeteries; India; Graveyards THE BIRDCATCHER, by RALPH HODGSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When flighting time is on, I go Last Line: They fly into my head. Subject(s): Birds THE BIRDS, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where thou dwellest, in what grove Last Line: Among green leaves & blossoms sweet Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Mythology THE BIRDS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tribes of the air! Whose favoured race Last Line: Know, what he wills is best! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds THE BIRDS AND I, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand voices whisper it is spring Last Line: And to remember what good days we had? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Birds THE BIRDS COME BACK, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birds come back to their last year's nest Last Line: "she never will come again." Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Birds THE BIRDS DISCUSS THE AEROPLABE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the owl: 'it's a marvel! I never have heard Last Line: "it's the queerest of creatures that fly in the air!" Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Birds THE BIRDS OF PASSAGE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds, joyous birds of the wandering wing! Last Line: So may we reach our bright home at last! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Women THE BIRDS OF THE AIR, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye too, the free and fearless birds of air Last Line: But hangs upon its god, unconsciously resigned. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds THE BIRDS OF VIETNAM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O bright, o swift and bright Last Line: Help it, I have so loved / this world Subject(s): Asia; Birds; Vietnam; Far East; East Asia; Orient THE BIRDS' LULLABY, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing to us, cedars; the twilight is creeping Last Line: And we drowse to your dreamy whispering. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Birds; Cedar Trees; Night; Bedtime THE BIRDS: THE BIRDS' LIFE, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the wide world now I sway Last Line: Of myrtle-berries maiden-white. Subject(s): Birds THE BIRDS: THE BUILDING OF CLOUDCUCKOOCITY, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wh-wh -- wh-wh -- where's he, wh -- wh-where's Last Line: Up on the barbicans. Subject(s): Birds THE BIRDS: THE HOOPOE'S CALL TO HIS WIFE PROCNE, THE NIGHTINGALE, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear comrade, arise, from slumber awake Last Line: (a pipe-solo follows, representing the nightingale.) Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE BIRDS: THE HOOPOE'S CALL TO THE BIRDS, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Epopoi / popo popo popo poi Last Line: Assemble. Subject(s): Birds THE BIRDS: THE HYMN OF THE BIRDS, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come on then, ye dwellers by nature in darkness Last Line: That we are to you all as the manifest godhead that speaks in prophetic apollo? Variant Title(s): Grand Chorus Of Birds;chorus Of Birds Subject(s): Apollo; Birds; Mythology - Classical; Night; Bedtime THE BLACK SWAN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the swans turned my sister into a swan Subject(s): Birds; Swans THE BLACKBIRD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ov all the birds upon the wing Last Line: Where I do hear the blackbird's zong. Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs THE BLACKBIRD, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the far corner Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds THE BLACKBIRD AND THE THRUSH, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's my idee,' a blackbird said Last Line: "and a parrot said: ""so do I." Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Fables; Farm Life; Parrots; Thrushes; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers THE BLACKBIRDS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, only once, I saw it clear Last Line: And the black magic of the croaking birds. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Magic THE BLINDED BIRD, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So zestfully canst thou sing? Last Line: Who is divine? This bird. Subject(s): Birds THE BLOSSOM, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Merry merry sparrow! Last Line: Near my bosom. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Flowers; Mythology THE BLUE BIRD, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A blue-bird built his nest Last Line: My name is grief. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE BLUE BIRD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From morn till noon upon the window-pane Last Line: The strata'd clouds in azure tremolo. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds THE BLUE BOOBY, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blue booby lives / on the bare rocks Subject(s): Birds; Galapagos Islands THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When a deacon in their church dreamt god would burn portland Last Line: Bright as trumpets, far and farther. Subject(s): Birds; Faith; Moving & Movers; Owls; Prophecy & Prophets; Belief; Creed THE BLUE SWALLOWS, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the millstream below the bridge Subject(s): Birds; Swallows 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 BLUE-BIRD, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath yon larkspur's azure bells Last Line: The bird's transfigured in the flower. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds THE BLUEBIRD, by WILLIAM P. ALEXANDER Poem Text First Line: One bird I know, that haunts the blissful / scene Last Line: A benediction, when the bluebird sings! Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Spring THE BLUEBIRD, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wistful note from out the sky Last Line: In downy's cell, my lodge beside. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds THE BLUEBIRD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the very spring Last Line: He is off, he is mutely whelmed in the southern haze! Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; March (month); Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs THE BLUEBIRD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before you thought of spring, / except as a surmise Last Line: But his seraphic self! Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds THE BLUEBIRD, by CAMEO GORDON Poem Text First Line: Lovely bird, yours is the palace Last Line: Dreams of future poesy. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds THE BLUEBIRD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am so blithe and glad to-day! Last Line: Full swift the hours lead on to may! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; New Hampshire; Spring THE BLUEBIRD, by ALEXANDER WILSON Poem Text First Line: When winter's cold tempests and snows are no more Last Line: He comes to remind us of sunshine and pleasure! Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds THE BLUEBIRD (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When god had made a host of them Last Line: As wings, away it flew. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds THE BLUEBIRD (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis thine the earliest song to sing Last Line: The fragrance of her sheltering leaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds THE BLUEBIRDS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the midst of the poplar that stands by our door Last Line: On purpose to sing to me. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds THE BOBOLINK'S SONG, by SARA V. PRUESER Poem Text First Line: You flew far above me Last Line: A symphony of joy. Subject(s): Birds THE BOBOLINKS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When nature had made all her birds Last Line: And heap our measures fuller. Subject(s): Birds; Bobolinks THE BROKEN BOW, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Proud was I of my bow and quiver of arrows Last Line: But men's scorn is easier to hear than my own scorn or amida's. Subject(s): Birds THE BROWN THRUSH, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a merry brown thrush sitting up in the tree Last Line: Unless we're as good as can be! Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes THE BUILDING OF THE NEST, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They'll come again to the apple-tree Last Line: Your fairy building grow. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Mothers; Weavers And Weaving THE CAGED BIRD, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Giacomo sarpatti, lasta spreeng Last Line: "I know justa how eet feel mysal'." Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Birds; Cages 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 CAGED GOLDFINCH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a churchyard, on a recent grave Last Line: No one knew anything. Subject(s): Birds; Goldfinches THE CAGED LARK, by COLIN RAE-BROWN Poem Text First Line: Poor prison'd lark! All thy regrets are vain Last Line: And spend my leisure hours with books and thee. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE CAGED SKYLARK, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage Last Line: For a rainbow footing it nor he for his bones risen. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE CAGED THRUSH FREED AND HOME AGAIN; VILLANELLE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men know but little more then we Last Line: How happy days are made to be.' Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Thrushes; Joy; Delight THE CARDINAL, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: I hear him singing, loud and gay Last Line: Is just a red flash in the tree. Subject(s): Cardinals (birds); Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs THE CARDINAL, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cardinal, lover of shade Subject(s): Cardinals (birds) THE CARDINAL BIRD, by WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A day and then a week passed by Last Line: The cardinal bird. Subject(s): Cardinals (birds) THE CATBIRD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A skulker in a thicket, loud and harsh Last Line: Enthralled, the melody is so divine. Subject(s): Birds; Catbirds; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Songs THE CHANGES, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What bird, if you could be a bird Last Line: For whiter-throated nancy! Subject(s): Birds; Desire; Women THE CHEERY CHEWINK, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chewink! Chewink!' a sprightly sound Last Line: "just hear that bird: ""chewink! Chewink!" Subject(s): Birds; Towhees (birds); Chewinks THE CHEVALIER'S LAMENT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The small birds rejoice in the green leaves returning Last Line: Alas! I can make it no better return! Subject(s): Birds; Grief THE CHIMNEY NEST, by MARY BARKER (CARTER) DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dainty, delicate swallow-feather Last Line: Or not the whole I may understand. Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Nature; Spring THE CHINESE NIGHTINGALE; A SONG IN CHINESE TAPESTRIES, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How, how,' he said. 'friend chang,' I said Last Line: Said the chinese nightingale. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Birds; China; Nightingales; Tapestries THE CHOIR, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blackbird now is never done Last Line: Singing his lover's laud and none. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Choirs; Love THE CHRISTMAS GOOSE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mr smiggs was a gentleman Last Line: "aye, and pick it to the bone." Subject(s): Birds; Christmas; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Geese; Holidays; Nativity, The THE CHRISTMAS SHEAF, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, goodwife, bring your precious hoard Last Line: Is alive with happy birds! Subject(s): Birds; Christmas; Nativity, The THE CLASSIC LARK, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, sweet bird, so winsome and so wise! Last Line: While thou art pois'd above the asphodels! Subject(s): Birds; Charon; Larks; Styx (river); Skylarks THE CLOUDS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood and looked around, where, far and nigh Last Line: And ran away. Subject(s): Birds; Clouds 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 CONTRAST, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within her gilded cage confined Last Line: Or nature's darkling of this mossy shed? Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Parrots; Wrens THE COO OF THE CUSHAT, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the smooth lawns, broider'd with violets Last Line: Loving and trustful, and thankful for all. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; God THE CORMORANT, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up through the buttercup meadow the children lead Last Line: And, beyond the cove, the channel bells Subject(s): Birds; Cormorants THE CORN IS IN TASSEL, by CAROLINE HAZARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The corn is in tassel, and each tufted plume Last Line: The corn is in tassel, the year at its prime. Subject(s): August; Birds; Corn; Sun THE COTTAR'S SONG, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Here the birds still chirp and twitter Last Line: Of a world supine. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Birds; Cities; Nature; Urban Life THE COUNTRY WALK, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The morning's fair, the lusty sun Last Line: And not alone and solitary stray! Variant Title(s): The Yellow Barn Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Wood; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE CRANES OF IBYCUS, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man who watched the river flow Last Line: Bore him the greetings of the deathless dead! Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Ibycus; Mythology - Classical THE CRANES OF IBYCUS, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From rhegium to the isthmus, long Last Line: Struck by the lightning that reveal'd! Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Cranes (birds); Ibycus THE CRIPPLE, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bird came hopping on my shelf Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Birds THE CROW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: On the first of march Last Line: Wi' october's wind and rain Subject(s): Birds;crows THE CROW, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My friend and neighbor through the year Last Line: That thou playest the part of scare crow. Subject(s): Birds; Crows THE CROW, by WILLIAM CANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With rakish eye and plenished crop Last Line: Takes the glad morning's sun and air. Subject(s): Birds; Crows THE CROW'S CHILDREN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A huntsman, bearing his gun afield Last Line: "she can't tell black from white!" Subject(s): Birds; Crows THE CROWS AT WASHINGTON, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slow flapping to the setting sun Last Line: Above the roofs of washington. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Washington, D.c. THE CRY OF A LOST SOUL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that black forest, where, when day is done Last Line: "and change to praise the cry of a lost soul?" Subject(s): Birds; Brazil; Brazilians THE CRY OF GULLS, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: The cry of sea gulls Last Line: Into bits of confusion . . . Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls THE CRY OF THE CRANE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: The woman had borne me a child Last Line: With my child in her arms? Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Death - Children; Desolation; Pain; Death - Babies; Suffering; Misery THE CUCKOO, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the sound of picks to-day Last Line: The cuckoo's voice for the first time. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Railroads; Railways; Trains THE CUCKOO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The cuckoo is a merry bird / she sings as she flies Last Line: Three months in the year Subject(s): Birds;cuckoos THE CUCKOO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O the cuckoo she's a pretty bird Last Line: And the more she singeth cuckoo / the summer draweth near Subject(s): Birds;cuckoos THE CUCKOO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The cuckoo is a pretty bird Last Line: And off with her I'd go Subject(s): Birds;cuckoos THE CUCKOO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In april / come he will Last Line: Go he must Variant Title(s): The Cuckoo's Habits Subject(s): Birds;cuckoos THE CUCKOO, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange, reserved, unsocial bird Last Line: Though doleful as a mourning-dove. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos THE CUCKOO, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: When I was sitting near a stream Last Line: And shouted in my face! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos THE CUCKOO AT LAVERNA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: List - 'twas the cuckoo. - o with what delight Last Line: And folds thy pinions up in blest repose. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Italy; Italians THE CUCKOO'S CHARACTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The cuckoo's a fine bird Last Line: The summer is near Subject(s): Birds;cuckoos THE CUCKOO'S VOICE, by JOHN HEYWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In april the koo-coo can sing her note by rote Last Line: At last, kooke, kooke, kooke, six cookes to one koo. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos THE CUCKOO'S WIT; A CORNISH FOLK-SONG, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, of all the birds that keep the tree Last Line: Is wiser than the owl! Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos THE CURLEW SONG, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The viewless blast flies moaning past Last Line: The shrieks of the wild curlew! Subject(s): Birds; Curlews THE CYCLONE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So lone I stood, the very trees Last Line: The birds sang in the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Cyclones; Nature; Summer; Trees THE CYPRESS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O ivory bird, that shakest thy wan plumes Last Line: Long in the shadow of the cypress tree. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Birds; Cypress Trees THE DALLIANCE OF THE EAGLES, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Last Line: She hers, he his, pursuing. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles THE DARING ONE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would my soul were like the bird Subject(s): Birds THE DARKLING THRUSH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I leant upon a coppice gate Last Line: And I was unaware. Subject(s): Birds; Despair; Hope; Thrushes; Optimism THE DAWN; THE BIRDS', by WILLIAM WRIGHTSON EUSTACE ROSS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And then the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, W. W. E. Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Morning; Sunrise THE DEAD EAGLE; WRITTEN AT ORAN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fallen as he is, this king of birds still seems Last Line: Of glassy runnels bubbling over rocks. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Oran, Algeria; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE DEAD FOWLER, by MNASALCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here too the birds, god's children, that lightly come and go Last Line: With reed and lime he'll never come again. Subject(s): Birds THE DEAD LARK, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the slope, half-hid in grass, and right beneath the sounding wire Last Line: To the carol of his fellows and the sunshine overhead. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Larks; Railroads; Singing & Singers; Skylarks; Railways; Trains; Songs THE DEAD THRUSH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love of nest and mate and young Last Line: Melt in rhapsodies of rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Thrushes THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF THE BIRDS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Falling asleep, the birds are falling Subject(s): Birds THE DEPARTURE OF THE SWALLOW, by WILLIAM HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And is the swallow gone? Last Line: That a void is left below. Subject(s): Birds; Swallows THE DESERTED GARDEN, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where robins walked with mincing steps Last Line: To robins in my face. Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Robin Hood; Spring THE DIPPER, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I saw / in a quick-falling, white-veined stream Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Pleasure THE DIRTY WORD, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dirty word hops into the cage of the mind Subject(s): Jews; Birds; Survival; Judaism THE DONKEY AND THE MOCKING-BIRD, by JOSE ROSAS MORENO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mock-bird in a village Last Line: "a word in praise of me." Subject(s): Birds THE DOR-HAWK, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fern-owl, churn-owl, or goat-sucker Last Line: Like a pleasant voice of dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Birds; Hawks THE DOWNY WOODPECKER, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Downy came and dwelt with me Last Line: In this charmed spot. Subject(s): Birds; Woodpeckers THE DUNOLLY EAGLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not to the clouds, not to the cliff, he flew Last Line: That clings to slavery for its own sad sake. Subject(s): Birds; Castles; Eagles; Ireland; Irish THE DYING POET, by HELENE GALLAGHER MULLINS Poem Text First Line: During this hour shadows touch his eyes Last Line: Nor beauty's voice again to teach him pain. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THE DYING SWAN, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O silver-throated swan Last Line: The god of love, let him learn how! Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Birds; Swans THE DYING SWAN, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The plain was grassy, wild and bare Last Line: Were flooded over with eddying song. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Birds; Swans THE EAGLE, by TIMOTHY OTIS PAINE Poem Text First Line: How the eagle does Last Line: There the place is great. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles THE EAGLE, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: Majestic bird, you soar through our-flung sky Last Line: The nation's symbol, die by vandal hand? Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Pioneers THE EAGLE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between two mighty hills a sheer Last Line: The eagle scans his vast domain. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Eagles 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 AND THE DOVE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shade of caractacus, if spirits love Last Line: From heaven, gigantic force to beardless boys. Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Eagles THE EAGLE AND THE KINGS, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An eagle sought the desert's spring beside / a lion's cave Last Line: "and keep the sky." Subject(s): Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Eagles; Murder; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE EAGLE AND THE MOLE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Avoid the reeking herd Last Line: And disembodied bones. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Eagles; Misanthropy; Moles THE EAGLE AND THE SONNET, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As on the sceptre of the olympian king Last Line: To clutch my climax with an angry cry? Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Pindar (522-440 B.c.) THE EAGLE EXTERMINATING COMPANY, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are birds larger than us, I know that Last Line: There is the birdcall. There is the wingspan. Subject(s): Birds THE EAGLE FLIES; A SONNET SEQUENCE: 16. THE EAGLE'S MATE, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not a soft breast to ease my tired head Last Line: When was there eagle's mate, that could not fly? Subject(s): Birds; Eagles THE EAGLE OF CORINTH, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did you hear of the fight at corinth Last Line: On the nation's loftiest dome. Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; Corinth, Mississippi, Battle Of (1862); Courage; Eagles; United States - History; Valor; Bravery 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 EAGLE OF THE BLUE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aloft he guards the starry folds Last Line: The eagle of the blue. Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; Eagles; United States - History THE EAGLE; A FRAGMENT, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: He clasps the crag with crooked [or, hooked] hands Last Line: And like a thunderbolt he falls. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Eagle Subject(s): Birds; Eagles THE EAGLES, by HUMPHRY DAVY Poem Text First Line: The mighty birds still upward rose Last Line: The light of joy and immortality. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles THE EARLY BIRD, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still dark and raining hard Subject(s): Birds THE EAST IN GOLD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Somehow this world is wonderful at times Last Line: To scream for joy -- they saw the east in gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds THE ECSTATIC, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lark, skylark, spilling your rubbed and round Last Line: That estuary drop down to peace Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Birds THE ENGLISH ROBIN, by WILLIAM HARRISON WEIR Poem Text First Line: See yon robin on the spray Last Line: Sings of days that brighter were. Subject(s): Birds; Robins THE ENVIOUS WREN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the ground lived a hen Last Line: "and I guess I shall kill her to-night." Subject(s): Birds; Envy; Wrens THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE, by EMMA BOWERS Poem Text First Line: Two robins on the lawn Last Line: For she flew away with the other fellow. Subject(s): Birds; Courtship; Singing & Singers; Songs THE FAIRY, THE ROSE, AND THE NIGHTINGALE; A FABLE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rose while yet 'twas early morn Last Line: So to revel in the golden ray. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Nightingales; Roses THE FAITHFUL BIRD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The greenhouse is my summer seat Last Line: To liberty without. Variant Title(s): The Faithful Friend Subject(s): Animals; Birds THE FAR-OFF DAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I behold a little bird Last Line: And bird and beast and man are one in thee. Subject(s): Birds; Cain; Faith; Love; Vision; Belief; Creed THE FAUN'S CALL IN THE WOODS, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Early in spring, / when the woods shine Last Line: As it must one day. Subject(s): Birds; Spring THE FEATHERED BIRD OF THE HARBOR OF GLOUCESTER, by CHARLES OLSON Poet's Biography First Line: He was here, 1817 august 23rd Subject(s): Birds THE FIELDFARE'S NEST, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though all should smile denying, I believe Last Line: And reads her heart to whom these glades belong. Subject(s): Birds' Nests 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 FIFTEEN ACRES, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cling and swing Last Line: So early in the morning o! Subject(s): Birds THE FIND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I took a reed and blew a tune Last Line: Upon a fairy mound. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Fairies; Mythology - Irish; Reeds; Elves THE FIRST BLUEBIRD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jest rain and snow! And rain again! Last Line: Hopped out o' bed with me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Rain; Snow THE FIRST CUCKOO, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May had bid the young lambs play Last Line: The dead youth, the dead delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Death; Loss; Dead, The THE FIRST SINGING, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I shall come one evening to god's house on the hill Last Line: And the thrush and the blackbird their song in the cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; God; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Spring; Joy; Delight THE FIRST SKYLARK OF SPRING, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two worlds hast thou to dwell in, sweet Last Line: And human dies divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Spring; Skylarks THE FIRST THRUSH, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thrush begins again Last Line: In earth's fields long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Spring; Thrushes THE FISH-HAWK, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the large highway of the awful air that flows Last Line: Heaven, crowded with stars, trembled from rim to rim. Subject(s): Birds; Hawks THE FLIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look back with longing eyes and know that I will follow Last Line: But what if I heard my first love calling me once more? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Eagles; Togetherness; Dead, The THE FLIGHT OF THE CROWS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn afternoon is dying o'er Last Line: Yon band of black, belated crows still frets the evening air. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Flight; Freedom; Sea; Travel; Flying; Liberty; Ocean; Journeys; Trips 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 FLYING MOUSE (NEW SOUTH WALES -- MOONLIGHT), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eucalyptus-blooms are sweet Last Line: Flits bat-like where the white gums rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Birds; Eucalyptus Trees THE FORGETFUL OWLS, by PAUL ELDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Nightly, / silence summons to herself Last Line: And the owls know... Subject(s): Birds; Owls 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 FREED BIRD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Return, return, my bird! Last Line: "I pierce the blue skies -- I am earth's no more!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds THE FREED BIRD, by AMELIA B. WELBY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy cage is open'd, bird! Too well I love thee Last Line: Since this heart held a wish, and this frail form a soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Coppuck, Amelia B. Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Liberty THE FRIGATE PELICAN, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rapidly cruising or lying on the air there is a bird Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Birds; Pelicans; Airplanes; Air Pilots THE GIPSY AND THE CUCKOO, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, brother, what's a cuckoo, but a roguish chaffing bird? Last Line: Were the sounds all organ pealing, psalm and song and prayer? Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Gypsies; Gipsies THE GLADNESS OF SPRING, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When spring, with blossom-haunted lanes Last Line: Could hush a soul's discordant word? Subject(s): Birds; Spring THE GOD OF THE GULLS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: O the god of the gulls goes straight and swift Last Line: Over the secret sea. Subject(s): Birds; God; Gulls; Nature - Religious Aspects; Travel; Seagulls; Journeys; Trips THE GOLD-CRESTED WREN; HIS RELATION TO THE SONNET, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my hand closed upon thee, worn and spent Last Line: Shall plead for one last touch, - the crown of art. Subject(s): Birds; Wrens THE GOLDEN TARGE, by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright as the stern of day begouth to shine Last Line: The skyes rang for schoutyng of the larkis. Variant Title(s): Mirth Of May Subject(s): Birds; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400) THE GOLDEN-ROBIN'S NEST, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden-robin came to build his nest Last Line: A thing he wrought of white and golden hair! Variant Title(s): The Yellow-hammer's Nest Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Robins THE GOOD BIRDS, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Threading the evil hand and look Last Line: Between my lovely ground and god. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds THE GOWK, by WILLIAM SOUTAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half doun the hill, whaur fa's the linn Last Line: Cuckoo, cuckoo. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos THE GRATEFUL SWAN, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day, a poor peddler Last Line: "nor I!"" said his wife." Subject(s): Birds; Swans THE GRAY HERON, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It held its head still Subject(s): Birds THE GRAY SWAN, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh tell me, sailor, tell me true Last Line: My dead, my living child! Subject(s): Birds; Swans THE GREAT BIRDS, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gentle wind blows in from the water Subject(s): Birds THE GREAT BLACK CROW, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crow - the crow! The great black crow! Last Line: But it's fine to live and die like a great black crow! Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Death; Worms; Dead, The THE GREAT SCARF OF BIRDS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ripe apples were caught like red fish in the nets Last Line: The southward cloud withdrew into the air Subject(s): Birds THE GREEN BIRD SEETH ISEULT, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A green bird on a golden bush Last Line: Deliriously. Subject(s): Birds THE GREEN CORNFIELD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth was green, the sky was blue Last Line: And listened longer than I did. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Larks; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Skylarks THE GULLS, by ANNA LEE TOMKINS Poem Text First Line: Their world is quite as large as mine Last Line: Emblems of joyous liberty. Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Gulls; Liberty; Seagulls THE GULLS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched the gulls in shimmering changeful flight Last Line: "on brutal errands in the waves of care." Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls THE GULLS AND I, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We had the world to ourselves today Last Line: But what, ah, what of the land behind? Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls THE HAPPY NIGHTINGALE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Melodious creature, happy in thy choice! Last Line: Compar'd to mine, thy happiness is most complete. Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Nightingales; Joy; Delight THE HAPPY SWAN, by FLORENCE CONVERSE Poem Text First Line: In the cathedral close at wells Last Line: Every time you rang a bell! Subject(s): Birds; Swans; Wellesley College THE HAWK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Thou dost not fly, thou art not perched Last Line: It knows not flowers from stones. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Hawks THE HAWK, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ambushed in yonder cloud of white Last Line: A few brown feathers strew the ground! Subject(s): Birds; Hawks THE HAWK, by RAYMOND KNISTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the bristled and sallow fields Last Line: Along the soundless horizon. Subject(s): Birds; Hawks THE HAWK, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Call down the hawk from the air Last Line: A pretense of wit.' Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Birds; Hawks THE HAWK'S NEST, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We checked our pace, - the red road sharply rounding Last Line: "ain't a bad thing right here!" Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Birds; Hawks THE HEART O' THE WOODS, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear it beat in morning still Last Line: Thy flight is music every hour. Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Woods THE HEATH-COCK, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good morrow to thy sable beak Last Line: Thou art already on the wing. Variant Title(s): The Black Cock Subject(s): Birds; Roosters; Snowdon (mountain), Wales; Cocks THE HERMIT THRUSH, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the primal forest's hush Last Line: A benediction on the air. Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes THE HERMIT THRUSH, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: Only through grace of keats have I yet heard Last Line: In that song-shaken air! Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes THE HERMIT THRUSH, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wonderful! How liquid clear Last Line: And we will drink the wine of love with you. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Birds; Love; Thrushes THE HERON, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The heron stands in water where the swamp Subject(s): Birds; Herons THE HERON'S NEST, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world-mother sits on her sky-blue eggs Last Line: And a radiant voice that was like the king's! Subject(s): Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Eggs; Herons; Minstrels THE HOMING BIRD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soul is like a homing bird that's sure Last Line: To reach the native loft, the lonesome mate. Subject(s): Birds; Love; Soul THE HONEY-BIRD, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The honey-bird, my children Last Line: Are neighbors to the bees. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Forests; Hunting; Childhood; Woods; Hunters THE HOSPITAL BIRD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A breath of joy, sweet bird Last Line: Dear to all hearts as thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds THE HUDSONIAN CURLEW, by GARY SYNDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The end of a desert track - turnaround Subject(s): Birds; Hunting; Hunters THE HUMA, by SARAH LOUISA P. SMITH Poem Text First Line: Fly on! Nor touch thy wing, bright bird Last Line: "where the fount of ""living waters"" springs." Subject(s): Birds THE ICE CAGE, by JAMES METHVEN BALLANTYNE Poem Text First Line: A red bird in a frozen tree Last Line: That were a clarion call to prayer. Subject(s): Birds; Winter THE IMMORTAL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where I went in and out Last Line: My birds and I shall be together. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Comfort; Immortality; Loss THE INDIAN BASKET WEAVER, by CAREY YATES BUSBY Poem Text First Line: The voice of my singing is dumb Last Line: Do songs from my silent heart spring. Subject(s): Birds; Melodies; Singing & Singers; Songs THE INDIGO BIRD, by AGNES ETHELWYN WETHERALD Poem Text First Line: When I see / high on the tip-top twig of a tree Last Line: As the gay, gay note of the indigo bird. Alternate Author Name(s): Wetherald, Ethelwyn Subject(s): Birds; Indigo Buntings THE INVITATION, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, thrushes, blackcaps, finches, all Last Line: Through all this leafy county! Subject(s): Birds; Country Life; Courtship THE JAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No brigadier throughout the year Last Line: That leaves this neighbor out. Subject(s): Birds; Bluejays THE JAYBIRD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jaybird he's my favorite Last Line: Like it's cut pompadore! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds THE KINGFISHER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the rainbow gave thee birth Last Line: Sigh with her bosom over me. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Kingfishers THE KOOCOO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in april, the koocoo can sing her song by rote" Last Line: "at last, kooke, kooke, kooke; six kookes to one koo" Subject(s): Birds;cuckoos THE LAGGARD SONG, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had no heart to write to thee in prose Last Line: O winter of my heart! O nightingale! Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Hearts; Love; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs THE LAPWING, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How like that pied and restless bird am I Last Line: And love must watch my nest when I am gone. Subject(s): Birds THE LARK, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I, below the mornen sky Last Line: An' uncaught larks ageän mid sound. Subject(s): Birds; Farm Life; Larks; Agriculture; Farmers; Skylarks THE LARK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood knee-deep within a field of grain Last Line: Make subtle music for my brooding ear. Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Larks; Life; Singing & Singers; Sky; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Skylarks; Songs THE LARK, by JACQUES PELETIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As soon as does the crimson morn Last Line: And for a while we hear her not. Alternate Author Name(s): Peletier Du Mans, Jacques Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE LARK, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A close gray sky Last Line: Then not at all! Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE LARK, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From wrath-red dawn to wrath-red dawn Last Line: Lift shining eyes, see heaven too. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE LARK, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a small bird cowering in the dark Last Line: In the dark! Subject(s): Birds; Fear; Larks; Skylarks THE LARK, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He rose, and singing passed from sight Last Line: And heavenly song were one. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE LARK ASCENDING, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He rises and begins to round Last Line: In light, and then the fancy sings. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE LARK'S FIAT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How vast the ocean of the dark Last Line: Awakes the new-created light. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE LARK'S NEST, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never hear a lark its matins sing Last Line: Beneath a morning sky they could not see. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE LARK'S NEST; A FABLE FROM ESOP, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trust only to thyself'; the maxim's sound Last Line: Who manages affairs by deputation. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Aesop (620?-560? B.c); Birds' Nests; Fables; Allegories THE LAST LULLABY, by HENRY BATAILLE Poem Text First Line: Sing sweetly, killore Last Line: With a black magpie on a bough. Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Singing & Singers; Trees; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Songs THE LAST SALOON IN LUBBOCK, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bulky in coats Last Line: In stiff winds banging the roof. Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Dawn Of The Bitter Blizzard Subject(s): Bells; Birds; Buzzards; Ghosts; Snow; Supernatural; Winter THE LAST WORD OF A BLUEBIRD; AS TOLD TO A CHILD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I went out a crow Last Line: "he would come back and sing." Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Imagination; Fancy THE LAY OF THE LARK, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With dew upon its breast Last Line: "he only murmur'd ""bread!" Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE LEGEND OF LA BREA, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down beside the loathly pitch lake Last Line: "ardered jes' now fram new yark." Subject(s): Birds; Pitch Lake, Trinidad THE LIFE SO SHORT, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind colder even than march in maine, though the same sea Subject(s): Life; Transience; Mortality; Birds THE LIFE-FORCE, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Against the sun I saw a bird Last Line: Against the sun. Subject(s): Birds; Life; Sun THE LILY OF THE VALLEY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the hare-bells are ringing Last Line: Sign the warrant for its death. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Lilies Of The Valley; Dead, The THE LINNET'S PETITION, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As stella sat the other day Last Line: As when she set him free. Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Linnets; Liberty THE LINTWHITE, by JAMES SMITH (1824-) Poem Text First Line: A lintwhite sat in her mossy nest Last Line: "why tarries my love sae lang?" Subject(s): Birds THE LITERAL = THE ABSTRACT: A DEMONSTRATION, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text 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 LITTLE BEACH BIRD, by RICHARD HENRY DANA (1787-1879) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea Last Line: Where birds of summer sing. Subject(s): Birds THE LITTLE BIRD UPON THE TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: It's time to start down south again Subject(s): Birds THE LITTLE BIRD'S COMPLAINT TO HIS MISTRESS, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this wiry prison, where I sing Last Line: And sing sweet songs to freedom and to thee. Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Pets; Liberty THE LITTLE BRETHREN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brendan went to the greenwood Last Line: Wept: and he heard their tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Brendan, Saint (484-578); Fairies; Flowers; God; Jesus Christ; Soul; Tears; Brendan Of Clonfert; Brandan, Saint; Brandon, Saint; Brennainn, Saint; Brendan The Voyager; Elves THE LITTLE PRETTY NIGHTINGALE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "but yet, ye wot now whom I mean" Subject(s): Birds;love;nightingales THE LITTLE RED LARK, by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O swan of slenderness Last Line: Laughing on every spray. Subject(s): Birds; Courtship; Larks; Skylarks THE LONELY BIRD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From a ruin thou art singing Last Line: O lonely, lonely bird! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds THE LONELY BIRD, by HARRISON SMITH MORRIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dappled throat of white! Shy, hidden bird! Last Line: And I, in thee, have uttered what I am! Subject(s): Birds; Nature THE LONELY MOUNTAIN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One bird, that ever with the wakening spring Last Line: A mountain stirred. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Nature THE LOON ON FORRESTER'S POND, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer wilderness, a blue light Last Line: The real and only sanity to me Subject(s): Birds; Loons; Mountain Life - Vermont; Summer THE LOST BIRD, by CAROLINA CORONADO DE PERRY Poem Text First Line: My bird has flown away Last Line: My heart in utter sadness faints away. Alternate Author Name(s): Perry, Horatio J., Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE LYRE OF SPRING, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Song in the forest is ringing Last Line: "repeats your ""wood notes wild." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Spring THE MAGPIES IN PICARDY, by T. P. CAMERON WILSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The magpies in picardy / are more than I can tell Last Line: He flies as poets might.) Alternate Author Name(s): Tipuca; Wilson, Tony P. Cameron Subject(s): Birds; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE MAKING OF BIRDS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made him birds in a pleasant humour Last Line: Bade them soar and sing for his joy. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Creation; God; Praise; Singing & Singers THE MAN-OF-WAR HAWK, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yon black man-of-war-hawk that wheels in the light Last Line: To the placid supreme in the sweep of his reign. Subject(s): Birds; Hawks; Ships & Shipping THE MARRIAGE OF EARTH AND HEAVEN, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hera, tall and fair and young, / walked on ida's hill Last Line: Sung their silver marriage song. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Greece; Marriage; Mythology; Spring; Storms; Greeks; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MARSH WREN, by RALPH METHVEN THOMSON Poem Text First Line: To think that such a tiny thing Last Line: Unbounded faith in god! Subject(s): Birds; Wrens THE MARSHES, by MABEL WARD RUDD Poem Text First Line: Where, through rank thatch, the grasping sea has put Last Line: To see the last trace of the marshes pass? Subject(s): Birds; Cities; Native Americans; Swamps; Urban Life; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Bogs; Fens; Marshes THE MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When may bedecks the naked trees Last Line: "witchery -- witchery -- witchery!" Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Birds; Yellow-throats THE MEADOW LARK, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though the winds be dank Last Line: Who sing when skies are gray! Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE MESSAGE, FR. THE FAIR MAID OF THE EXCHANGE, by THOMAS HEYWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye little birds that sit and sing Last Line: Return with pleasant warblings. Variant Title(s): To Phyliss;song Subject(s): Birds; Love THE MESSENGER BIRD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art come from the spirits' land Last Line: But say, do they love there still? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds THE MINSTREL, by JOSEPH TATLOW Poem Text First Line: A minstrel sang - his notes were glad Last Line: "so, sing on, minstrel, whilst I dream!" Subject(s): Birds; Minstrels; Singing & Singers THE MOCKING-BIRD, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He didn't know much music Last Line: When one bird could sing fer all! Subject(s): Birds; Mockingbirds THE MOCKING-BIRD, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In mirth he mocks the other birds at noon Last Line: His own wild song beneath the listening moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Birds; Love; Mockingbirds; Moon THE MOCKINGBIRD, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look one way and the sun is going down Subject(s): Birds; Mockingbirds THE MOON HAS HER NEST, by MARIE AUSTIN MAJOR Poem Text First Line: The moon has her nest in a tree Last Line: Little fledgling stars soon follow. Subject(s): Birds; Moon THE MOUNTAIN WHIPPOORWILL (A GEORGIA ROMANCE), by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up in the mountains, it's lonesome all the time Last Line: An' then the noise of the crowd began. Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills THE MULTILINGUAL MYNAH BIRD, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poet's Biography First Line: Birds are known to cheep and chirp Subject(s): Animals; Mynah Birds; Mina Birds; Myna Birds THE MUSIC OF THE SWAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard (alas! 'twas only in a dream) Last Line: She soared -- and I awoke, struggling in vain to follow. Subject(s): Birds; Swans THE MUSIC-LESSON, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thrush alit on a young-leaved spray Last Line: Hymn of rejoicing in praise of their love. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes THE MYNAH BIRD, by PAUL SUMMERS Poem Text First Line: The mynah bird is a tawdry thing Last Line: The misery of singers -- with half a song! Subject(s): Mynah Birds; Mina Birds; Myna Birds 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 NEST, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The day the birds were lifted from my shoulders Last Line: It killed me — and almost cost me a life... Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Life; Loss; Sorrow; Sadness THE NEST, by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This eve I left the flocks to stray and crop the grass with no one by Last Line: Believe you were a little saint just changed to child from angelhood! Alternate Author Name(s): Brizeux, Auguste Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Children; Eggs; Childhood THE NEST, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When oaken woods with buds are pink Last Line: Of that fair garden 'neath the palms. Subject(s): Birds THE NEST, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nest is round and the nest is small Last Line: The world's biggest bargain is surely a nest! Subject(s): Birds' Nests THE NIGHT BIRD, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down where the cedars are bending Last Line: "and sorrow is not eternal." Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Birds; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness THE NIGHT BIRD; A MYTH, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A floating, a floating Last Line: "ere thou hast sailed them through." Variant Title(s): A Myth Subject(s): Birds 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 NIGHTINGALE, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I read in many a foreign tale, oh nightingale! Last Line: Of one sweet sigh. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Nightingales; Singing & Singers THE NIGHTINGALE, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nightingale, as soon as april bringeth Last Line: Thy thorn without, my thorn my heart invadeth. Variant Title(s): Philomela;sonnet: 4 Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales THE NIGHTINGALE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone warbler! Thy love-melting heart supplies Last Line: So kind and watchful is celestial love! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE NIGHTINGALE, by JOHN VANBRUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time, a nightingale Last Line: Would run away from her -- as I from you. Variant Title(s): Learned Women Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE NIGHTINGALE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a clamorous flock of startled birds Last Line: The quivering tree and the weeping bird. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE GLOW-WORM, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A nightingale, that all day long Last Line: Of him that creeps and him that flies. Subject(s): Birds; Fireflies; Nightingales; Glowworms THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ORGAN; FROM YRIARTE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A nightingale who chanced to hear Last Line: Instruction from the humblest source Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NIGHTINGALE IN BADELUNDA, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the green midnight at the nightingale's northern limit Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NIGHTINGALE IN THE STUDY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come forth!' my catbird calls to me Last Line: "to nature's self her better glory." Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NIGHTINGALE NEAR THE HOUSE, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn Last Line: Then breaks, and it is dawn. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NIGHTINGALE THAT WAS DROWNED, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a bough, hung trembling o'er a spring Last Line: Nymphs, take my life, since you despise my song.' Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NIGHTINGALE [AND THE STOCK-DOVE], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O nightingale! Thou surely art Last Line: That was the song -- the song for me! Variant Title(s): "o Nightingale! Thou Surely Art""; Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NIGHTINGALE'S DEATH-SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mournfully, sing mournfully Last Line: With summer I depart! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Nightingales THE NIGHTINGALE; A CONVERSATION POEM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No cloud, no relique of the sunken day Last Line: Sweet nightingale! Once more, my friends! Farewell. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NIGHTINGALE; CHILD'S EVENING HYMN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When twilight's grey and pensive hour Last Line: Smile on thy servant's bed of rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NOTIONAL NIGHTINGALE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King hubert, he went to the forest in state Last Line: But somehow, no nightingale answered the call. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE OCTOBER REDBREAST, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn is weary, halt, and old Last Line: This singing-bird's a lad, a lad. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Birds; Youth THE OFFERING, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the scrap pine I jerked the saw, guessing dimensions Last Line: White as a soul, fat as a tongue. Subject(s): Bird-watching; Birds; Gifts & Giving THE OLD COUPLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pair of oldsters, humble folk, come straying Last Line: Behold them -- king and queen! Subject(s): Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Eyes; Faith; Flowers; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Belief; Creed THE OLD EAGLE, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A light had gone out from his vanquished eyes Last Line: Over the lost empire of the peaks. Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles THE ONSET; A CALIFORNIA BEACH, by JESSIE BELL RITTENHOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wet sands were grey-blue that afternoon Last Line: Love can defy. Alternate Author Name(s): Scollard, Clinton, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; California; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore 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 ORIOLE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun on the oriole's flashing breast Last Line: Sing on, by the rosy apple-flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Birds; Orioles THE OVEN BIRD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There is a singer everyone has heard Last Line: Is what to make of a diminished thing. Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Songs THE OVENBIRD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You dainty, ardent little preacher Last Line: Shall be the teacher of us all. Subject(s): Birds; Ovenbirds THE OVIPAROUS TAILOR, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wee, wee tailor, / nobody was paler Last Line: Wee, wee tailor. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Devil; Pain; Sin; Tailors; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Suffering; Misery; Dress Makers THE OWL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: The boding owl, that in despair Last Line: A thing to fill my heart with mirth. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE OWL, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The owl is wary, the owl is wise Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE OWL, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower Last Line: But the king of the night is the bold brown owl! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Variant Title(s): The Horned Owl Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE OWL, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The path was purple in the dusk Last Line: May light. Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE OWL, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Downhill I came, hungry, and yet not starved Last Line: Soldiers and poor, unable to rejoice. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Birds; Owls; World War I; First World War THE OWL (1), by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When cats run home and light is come Last Line: The white owl in the belfry sits. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Song: The Owl Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE OWL (2), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What if to edge of dream Last Line: To shatter its dream? Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE OWL (2), by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy tuwhits are lull'd I wot Last Line: Tuwhoo, tuwhit, tuwhit, tuwhoo-o-o! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE OWL AND THE CROW, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old owl Last Line: "it's not without caws" Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Birds; Chickens; Crows; Owls THE OWL AND THE NIGHTINGALE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In summertide it so befell / I found me in a hidden dell Last Line: "that can I you in no wise tell, / I know no more of what befell" Subject(s): Birds;nightingales;owls THE OWL AND THE NIGHTINGALE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To know the mistress' humour right Last Line: An owl is scorn'd alike by both.' Subject(s): Birds; Fables; Housewives; Nightingales; Owls; Women; Allegories THE OWL AND THE PUSSY CAT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The owl and the pussy cat went to sea Last Line: They danced by the light of the moon. Variant Title(s): The Owl And The Pussy-cat Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats; Children; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Nonsense; Owls; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE OWL CRITIC, by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who stuffed that white owl?' no one spoke in the shop Last Line: And the barber kept on shaving. Subject(s): Birds; Critics & Criticism; Owls THE PARROT, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old professor of zoology Last Line: "but that was long ago! " Subject(s): Birds; Parrots THE PARROT, by JEAN PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN Poem Text First Line: Uncag'd one day Last Line: "but sing I never could." Subject(s): Birds; Parrots THE PARROT, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whiles, when I sit alone, I hear my soul Last Line: ... Then I cover it up, lest the dream should drive me mad. Subject(s): Birds; Parrots; Solitude; Loneliness THE PARROT AND THE EAGLE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A parrot to an eagle came Last Line: "to learn to be afraid." Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Fables; Flight; Parrots; Allegories; Flying THE PASSING OF THE BIRDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out the heart of an autumnal day Last Line: Most fraught with sense of fetterless grace and glee. Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Heaven; Memory; Seasons; Fall; Paradise 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, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I speak to the unbeautiful of this bird Subject(s): Birds 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 Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought of the mariners of solomon Subject(s): Birds; Peacocks THE PELICANS MY FATHER SEES, by SISTER MARIS STELLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Early one morning the bay will be full of pelicans Last Line: After the long dark winter. After the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Alice Gustava Subject(s): Birds; Pelicans THE PILGRIM CRANES, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pilgrim cranes are moving to their south Last Line: To listen for a step that will not come. Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Cranes (birds) THE PIPER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard the pipes of pan Last Line: To follow the piper—pan! Subject(s): Birds; Melodies; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers THE PLUMS, by ALPHONSE DAUDET Poem Text First Line: Well, since you ask me, this is how Last Line: We fell in love -- it was the plums! Subject(s): Birds; Love - Beginnings; Orchards; Plums; Plum Trees THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 242, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a bird of five colors Last Line: It dances and enjoys the day Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Birds; Chinese Literature THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 43, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A white crane carries a bitter flower Last Line: His wife and children don't know him Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Cranes (birds); Travel; Journeys; Trips THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 40, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Past thousands of layers of mountains and clouds Last Line: And bird talk suddenly agrees with my thoughts Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Birds; Brooks; Chinese Literature; Quiet Life; Streams; Creeks THE POET TO THE BIRDS, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You bid me hold my peace Last Line: There is no peace but one. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Birds; Peace THE POET'S WINTER SONG TO HIS WIFE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birds that sang so sweet in the summer skies are fled Last Line: Till in ripeness of old age we both drop to earth together! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birds; Love; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POINT OF VIEW, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the birch tree was cut down Last Line: Said the wren. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Birch Trees; Birds; Trees THE POST-DRIVER, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lingering loon flies over the marsh Last Line: Oh, what is it that goes cuhchoo? Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Animals; Bird-watching; Birds; Frogs THE POSTED SWAN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A noble swan was borne through field and lane Last Line: Such dole as royal mails can pause to give. Subject(s): Birds; Swans THE PRETTY PLOUGHBOY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I was a-walking Last Line: To her nest again Subject(s): Birds THE PRIEST IS COME AND THE CANDLES BURN, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: The white moth is wooing his chosen mate Last Line: The priest is come and the candles burn. Subject(s): Birds; Clergy; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE PROTEST, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I say 'e isn't remorse! Last Line: (protest dismissed.) Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Crows; Horses; Remorse THE PUZZLED GAME-BIRDS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are not those who used to feed us Last Line: When we were young - they cannot be! Subject(s): Birds THE QUEEN'S DIAMOND JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1897, and on the 22nd of june Last Line: And may she wear a crown of glory hereafter when dead. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Crows; National Songs; National Anthems THE QUEST OF SUMMER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had been waiting long Last Line: Is the summer here again. Subject(s): Birds; Life; May (month); Nature; Spring; Summer THE RAIN-CROW, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Can freckled august, drowsing warm and blond Last Line: Like some drenched truant, cower. Subject(s): Birds THE RARE BIRDS; FOR TED BERRIGAN, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brook no obscurity, merely plunging deeper Last Line: Impressions, and it was a message, from like a very rare bird. Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Birds; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Songs THE RAVEN, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary Last Line: Shall be lifted -- nevermore! Subject(s): Birds; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Mysticism; Omens; Ravens; Supernatural; Dead, The THE RED TYROLEAN EAGLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "eagle, tyrolean eagle" Last Line: From these am I so red Subject(s): "birds;eagles;tyrol, Austria; THE REDBIRD IN WINTER, by ETHEL M. HASSON Poem Text First Line: The redbird's singing to himself Last Line: And for his cheerful song. Subject(s): Birds; Winter THE REDBREAST (A LEGEND OF BRITTANY), by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: When jesus meekly passed to death Last Line: Is loved by man the best. Subject(s): Birds; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Legends, French; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; French Folklore THE REPLY, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bird, bird, don't edge me in Subject(s): Birds; Life THE RETURN OF THE BIRDS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear, from many a little throat Last Line: "and freedom to the slave!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; Holidays; Trees; United States - History THE RIDDLERS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou solitary!' the blackbird cried Last Line: Into the midnight air. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Birds THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It is an ancient mariner Last Line: He rose the morrow morn. Variant Title(s): The Rime Of The Ancyent Marinere (1834) Subject(s): Albatrosses; Birds; Curses; Mysticism; Sailing & Sailors; Supernatural; Seamen; Sails THE RIVALS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a bird at dawn Last Line: As he sang upon a tree! Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Songs THE ROBIN, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more, o robin, from the boughs of may Last Line: What dreams -- what dreams -- thy music brings to me! Subject(s): Birds; Robins THE ROBIN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day and every day Last Line: To all who pass. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Birds; Robins THE ROBIN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My old welsh neighbor over the way Last Line: "who suffer like him in the good they do!" Subject(s): Birds; Robins THE ROBIN'S NEST, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jenny brown has as pretty a house of her own Last Line: "I sang when I courted you -- shall I, my dear?" Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Robins THE ROCK IN THE SEA, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Think of our blindness where the water burned Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Sea; Birds; Ocean THE ROMANCE OF THE SWAN'S NEST, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little ellie sits alone Last Line: That swan's nest among the reeds! Subject(s): Birds; Children; Swans; Childhood THE RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where's your kingdom, little king? Last Line: There I'm happy as a king. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Birds; Wrens THE SANDPIPER, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the narrow beach we flit, Last Line: Thou, little sandpiper, and I? Subject(s): Birds; Sandpipers THE SCARECROW, by JOSEPH MARIE SOULARY Poem Text First Line: Under her tilted hat of tuscan rushes Last Line: And evening finds the bushes all stript bare. Subject(s): Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Food & Eating; Scarecrows THE SCARLET TANAGER, by JOEL BENTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A ball of fire shoots through the tamarack Last Line: Or stand above some eastern monarch's throne. Subject(s): Birds; Tanagers THE SCITUATE BIRD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is your 'scituate, scituate, scituate' Last Line: Live there and sing there till singing I die. Subject(s): Scituate, Massachusetts; Yellowthroats (birds) THE SCRIVENER'S ROSES; FOR MARVIN FISHER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gulls fly in close formation becoming a patch of sail Last Line: Inside the convent's south garden wall. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Gulls; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Dead, The; Seagulls; Male-female Relations THE SEA AND THE SKYLARK, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On ear and ear two noises too old to end Last Line: To man's last dust, drain fast towards man's first slime. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE SEA BIRD TO THE WAVE, by PADRAIC COLUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On and on / o white brother! Last Line: Art thou gone! Subject(s): Birds; Sea; Waves; Ocean THE SEA-BIRD FLYING INLAND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hath the summer's breath, on the south wind. Last Line: "there lies the pathway of bliss for thee?" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds THE SEA-BIRD'S SONG, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the deep is the mariner's danger Last Line: The only witness there. Subject(s): Birds; Sea; Ocean THE SEA-EAGLES OF COLUMBIA, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Columbia's eagles of the sea Last Line: "have borne thy slogan: ""sail! Sail on!" Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Birds; Columbia River (north America); Eagles; Sea; Ocean THE SEA-FOWLER, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The baron hath the landward park, the fisher hath the sea Last Line: But the rocky haunts of the sea-fowl belong alone to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Birds THE SEA-GULL, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the white sea-gull, the wild sea-gull Last Line: For the sea is his truest home! Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Sea; Seagulls; Ocean THE SEA-MEW, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How joyously the young sea-mew Last Line: And, with our touch, our agony. Subject(s): Mews (birds) THE SEA-MEW, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from her cliffs sublime the sea-mew goes Last Line: Lend me thy wings, and let thy joys be mine! Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Mews (birds); Sea; Ocean THE SEAGULL, by HERBERT BASHFORD Poem Text First Line: A ceaseless rover, waif of many climes Last Line: Or shriek amid black hollows of the sea? Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls THE SEARCH FOR THE NIGHTINGALE (TO S.S.), by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside a stony, shallow stream I sat Last Line: Leaving bright treasure on this calm air blown. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE SEASON OF PHANTASMAL PEACE, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then all the nations of birds lifted together Subject(s): Birds THE SECOND COMING, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Turning and turning in the widening gyre Last Line: Slouches towards bethlehem to be born? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Chaos; Easter; History; Holidays; Imagination; Judgment Day; Men; Millenium; Religion; Vision; War; The Resurrection; Historians; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology THE SECRET OF THE NIGHTINGALE, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ground I walk'd on felt like air Last Line: The holy lore of the nightingale! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE SEDGE WARBLER, by RALPH HODGSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In early summer moonlight I have strayed Last Line: Till broke the babel of the summer day. Subject(s): Birds THE SERMON OF ST. FRANCIS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up soared the lark into the air Last Line: The meaning of his words was clear. Subject(s): Birds; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Saints THE SHRIKE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark -- hark -- from out the thickest fog Last Line: He whistles in his ear. Subject(s): Birds THE SICK MAN AND THE BIRDS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring,- art thou come, o spring! Last Line: And the night answers it. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Birds THE SICK MAN AND THE NIGHTINGALE, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So late, and yet a nightingale? Last Line: To me one greeting more ? Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE SILENT TIME, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Singing of birds is over; the curlew only Last Line: He thinks it a whistling boy coming over the hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Silence; Singing & Singers THE SILVER BIRD OF HERNDYKE MILL, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By herndyke mill there haunts, folks tell Last Line: To hear her makes a man's blood chill. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Birds; Mills & Millers THE SILVER SWANS: 14. HOTOTOGISU - HOROBIRETE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cuckoo's call, though Last Line: Against the spring Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos THE SKY-LARK; CHILD'S MORNING HYMN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sky-lark, when the dews of morn Last Line: Most glad, when rising most to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Morning; Skylarks THE SKYLARK, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rolls and harrows lie at rest beside Last Line: Lies safely, with the leveret, in the corn. Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Environment; Fields; Larks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Skylarks THE SKYLARK, by JAMES HEDDERWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whither away, proud bird? Is not thy home / on earth's low breast? Last Line: Their author -- thou! Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE SKYLARK, by JAMES HOGG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bird of the wilderness Last Line: O, to abide in the desert with thee! Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick Variant Title(s): The Lark Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE SKYLARK: CAGED AND FREE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet minstrel of the summer dawn Last Line: I to a loftier sphere on high! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Nature; Skylarks THE SLEEP OF WOOD IN THE HOUSE OF WRENS, by GEORGE LOONEY Poem Text First Line: It's not the wrens but the girl in overalls and a blouse Subject(s): Birds; Sleep; Wrens THE SMALL, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The small birds swirl around; Subject(s): Birds; Size & Shape; Height THE SNOW-BIRD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When snow, like silence visible Last Line: Thou vanishest like snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds THE SOLITARY ROSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O happy rose, red rose, that bloomest lonely Last Line: O happy rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Flowers; Night; Nightingales; Roses; Bedtime THE SONG MY PADDLE SINGS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: West wind, blow from your prairie nest Last Line: Swelling the song that my paddle sings. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Birds; Canoes & Canoeing; Crows; Rivers; Wind THE SONG OF AEIFA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speed hence, speed hence, o lone white swans Last Line: At the ringing of christ's bell. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bells; Birds; Death; Jesus Christ; Mythology - Celtic; Swans; Dead, The THE SONG OF FLOWERS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is a bird but a living flower? Last Line: The song of a flow'r-soul hears! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Nature; Singing & Singers; Soul THE SONG OF THE CRICKET, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, the world is big, but I'll do my best Last Line: Though I 'm neither a lark nor a linnet! Subject(s): Birds; Music & Musicians THE SONG-SPARROW, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When june was cool and clover long Last Line: Still make a subterfuge of song! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Variant Title(s): The Song Sparrow Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls THE SONGSTER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of a plaintive note, and long Last Line: That his breast was born for song. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Birds; May (month); Robins; Singing & Singers; Spring; Songs THE SONGSTERS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, nightingale! There still be those who take Last Line: Still tolerated bird! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE SORROW OF THE HOUSE OF LIR, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy our father lir afar Last Line: Homeless we are from shore to shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Brothers; Homeless; Magic; Mythology - Celtic; Pain; Swans; Half-brothers; Suffering; Misery THE SOUVENIR, by ANTOINETTE DE COURSEY PATTERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of finest porcelain and of choicest dye Last Line: A chip from that blue bowl we call the sky! Subject(s): Birds; Shells; Conchology THE SPARROW, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little bird of dusty brown Last Line: Is that why you choose to stay? Subject(s): Birds; Sparrows THE SPRING MINSTRELS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Hark! How the welkin rings Last Line: Is evening's calm. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Birds; Minstrels; Spring THE STRANGERS, by NORA (CHESSON) HOPPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They bought her, not with irish knife Last Line: That dwell in donegal. Subject(s): Aliens; Birds; Strangers; Extraterrestrials THE SULTAN AND THE OWLS; AN ARABIAN TALE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sultan, mahmoud, in his early reign Last Line: That not an owl could find a ruined village. Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE SUMMER-TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the summer-time to-day Last Line: That they never heerd sich singin' anywhere! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Summer THE SUN OF MY SONGS, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: The birds are all a-singing Last Line: "bursting into blossoming." Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Death; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Sun; Dead, The THE SWALLOW, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At play in april skies that spread Last Line: But leave our love cemented. Subject(s): Birds; Swallows THE SWALLOW'S NEST, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the church with pray'r go by Last Line: God dwelleth too. Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Churches; God; Swallows; Cathedrals THE SWAN, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The awakening swan grows tired at last Last Line: The awakened soul must sail or die. Subject(s): Birds; Swans THE SWAN, by YAKOV POLONSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The quaver'd plea of the fiddle; gardens glowing Last Line: An ink-black sky; and quavering went the fiddle. Subject(s): Birds; Swans 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 SWAN AND THE SKYLARK, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Midst the long reeds that o'er a grecian stream Last Line: "and the glad skylark's -- triumph and despair!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Swans; Skylarks THE SWAN'S FEET, by EDITH JOY SCOVELL Poet's Biography First Line: Who is this whose feet Alternate Author Name(s): Scovell, E. J. Subject(s): Birds; Swans THE SWAN-AVIARY, by THOMAS WADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand swans are o'er the waters sailing Last Line: To the white pomp of that vast aviary! Subject(s): Birds; Swans THE SWAN; TO VICTOR HUGO, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Andromache, I think of you! - this small river Last Line: Of captives, of the conquered! . . . Of many others more! Subject(s): Birds; Mythology - Classical; Swans THE SWANS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The swans float and float Last Line: And the swans which float. Subject(s): Birds; Swans THE SWANS, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the green light of water, like the day Subject(s): Birds; Swans THE SWANS AT WELLS, by LETITIA STOCKETT Poem Text First Line: With sidelong eye and regal throat Last Line: Here beauty dwells with jeopardy. Subject(s): Birds; Swans THE SWANS' LAMENT FOR THE DESOLATION OF LIR, by JOHN TODHUNTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lost dream to us now is our home Last Line: A lost dream to us now is our home! Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Swans; Sorrow; Sadness THE THATCH, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out alone in the winter rain Last Line: In on to the upper chamber floors. Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Grief; Rain; Roofing & Roofers; Straw; Sorrow; Sadness THE THING, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly they came flying, like a long scarf of smoke Subject(s): Birds THE THREE BLACK CROWS; SPOKEN AT THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL IN MANCHESTER, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tale!' that will raise the question, I suppose Last Line: Something that was as black, sir, as a crow.' Subject(s): Birds; Crows THE THREE CROWS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn my great aunt tsipie would rise and go Subject(s): Birds; Crows THE THREE MAIDENS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were three maidens met on the highway Last Line: O the nightingale is dying for its mate. Subject(s): Birds; Household Employees; Night; Nightingales; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Bedtime THE THREE WRENS, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Wren and his dear began early one year Last Line: You must be one: -- as I never was, I can't say! Subject(s): Birds; Wrens THE THRUSH, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll pay my rent in music,' said a thrush Last Line: That helps to fit him for the choir of heaven. Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes THE THRUSH AND THE MAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time to get up! Time to get up! Says the thrush Last Line: Time to get up! O thrush, I rise—I hear! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Advice; Birds; Calm; Mankind; Noises; Thrushes; Waking; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Human Race THE THRUSH IN FEBRUARY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know him, february's thrush Last Line: The crocus lays her cheek to mire. Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes THE THRUSH'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush Last Line: Glad as that sunshine and the laughing sky. Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Thrushes THE THRUSH'S SONG, by WILLIAM MACGILLIVRAY Poem Text First Line: Dear, dear, dear / is the rocky glen Last Line: Quiu, qui, qui. Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes THE TIRED MARKSMAN, by LUCY WHEELER KEGLEY Poem Text First Line: I know great birds are passing Last Line: Fall no longer at his feet. Subject(s): Birds; Hunting; Poetry & Poets; Hunters THE TITMOUSE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You shall not be overbold Last Line: Paean! Veni, vidi, vici. Subject(s): Birds; Chickadees THE TOO HIGH, by BENJAMIN ROBBINS CURTIS LOW Poem Text First Line: That bird in the maple next my eaves Last Line: Lay still. So with me. Subject(s): Birds THE TOUNG LOVERS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These two went with cautious smile Last Line: And find their bird at the end of the day Subject(s): Birds THE TUNEFUL LITTLE BIRD YOU SEE CONFINED, by TOMASSO STIGLIANI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Rapture so passing sweet and yet not die Subject(s): Birds; Beauty THE TWA ROBINS, by P. MCARTHUR Poem Text First Line: Red robin leev'd doon in yon green bosky glen Last Line: He flutter'd awa' -- I ne'er saw him again. Subject(s): Birds; Robins THE TWO NESTS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wise thrush, the wise thrush, she choseth well her tree Last Line: Oh, pitiful her perished dreams to see. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Girls; Reason; Thrushes; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE TWO SWANS; A FAIRY TALE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal imogen, crowned queen above Last Line: And little birds were singing sweetly from each spray. Subject(s): Birds; Swans THE TWO VOICES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night darkens fast and the shadows darken Last Line: Lest they should wake to weep, should wake to weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Doves; Morning; Night; Tears; Voices; Bedtime THE UNKNOWN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you exist Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Fancy 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 THE VAGABONDS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What saw you in your flight to-day Last Line: Ere you enter your slumber-land. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Flight; Wandering & Wanderers; Flying; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE VANISHED VOICE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There stood a tree beside his boyhood's door Last Line: Youth in the air and sunset in the west. Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Singing & Singers; Trees; Voices; Youth; Songs THE VEERY-THRUSH, by JOSEPH RUSSELL TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Blow softly, thrush, upon the hush Last Line: Breathe it, veery-thrush! Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes; Veeries THE VIREO, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the lofty elm tree sprays Last Line: Striving to lift our thoughts above the street. Subject(s): Birds; Elm Trees; Vireos THE VOICE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: The nightingale I had not heard Last Line: But you, my love, I thank with tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Voices THE VOICE OF A BIRD, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who then is 'he'? Last Line: The saddest cock-crow of our human years. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Birds; Poetry & Poets THE VULTURE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vulture eats between his meals Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Gluttony; Vultures THE WAKEFUL NIGHTINGALE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "for love that makes him wakeful, makes him sing" Subject(s): Birds;cupid;love - Complaints;nightingales; Eros THE WAKERS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The joyous morning ran and kissed the grass Last Line: And there was the old scolding of the birds. Subject(s): Angels; Birds; Death; Heaven; Rebirth; Shadows; Sleep; Dead, The; Paradise THE WAKING OF THE LARK, by ERIC MACKAY Poem Text First Line: O bonnie bird, that in the brake, exultant Last Line: His robes of darkness round him torn, doth scale the lofty heavens! Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE WATCH OF A SWAN, by SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read somewhere that a swan, snow-white Last Line: Had the love of a bird for a child. Alternate Author Name(s): Piatt, Sarah Subject(s): Birds; Swans THE WATER OUZEL, by HARRIET MONROE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little brown surf-bather of the mountains! Last Line: Must you plunge for life and death through the foam? Subject(s): Birds; Yosemite Valley And National Park THE WHEAT-EAR, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From that deep shelter'd solitude Last Line: Aspire to endless fame! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Wheatears (birds) THE WHIP-POOR-WILL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From yonder wooded hill Last Line: The legend thou hast heard! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills THE WHIP-POOR-WILL, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember, father Last Line: "a passing thrill, -- ""whippoorwill!" Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Birds; Fathers & Sons; Whipporwills THE WHIPPOORWILL'S SONG, by ELIZABETH COX GILLILAND Poem Text First Line: Whippoorwill is calling Last Line: Twill be home to me. Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills THE WHIPPOORWILL'S SONG, by FRANCHEN HAUSER WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Often at dusk, before twilight Last Line: Every burden I had. Subject(s): Birds; Whipporwills THE WHITE BIRDS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! Last Line: The sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Birds THE WHITE CASCADE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What happy mortal sees that mountain now Last Line: That on the mountain sings, and shines so far. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Brooks; Rivers; Streams; Creeks 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 THE WHITE OWL, by CAMILLA DOYLE Poem Text First Line: He comes in the twilight Last Line: The antiquity of night. Subject(s): Birds; Night; Owls; Bedtime THE WHITE PEACOCK, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text 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 THE WILD BIRD'S NOTE, by GERTRUDE WEBSTER Poem Text First Line: List, the wild bird's note! Last Line: Sleep white, fragrant clouds. Subject(s): Birds; Nature THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The trees are in their autumn beauty Last Line: To find they have flown away? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Aging; Birds; Coole, Ireland; Imagination; Swans; Vision; Fancy THE WINDHOVER: TO CHRIST OUR LORD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I caught this morning morning's minion, king Last Line: Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion. Variant Title(s): The Windhover Subject(s): Birds; Christianity; Falcons; Hawks; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONG OF THE WRENS: SPRING, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds' love and birds' song Last Line: And all in a nest together. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Birds; Wrens THE WINGED WORSHIPPERS; ADDRESSED TO TWO SWALLOWS .. DURING SERVICE, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gay, guiltless pair Last Line: And nature's own great god adore. Subject(s): Birds; Churches; Swallows; Worship; Cathedrals THE WOLF, THE HORNET, AND THE NIGHTINGALE, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: A wolf, a hornet, and a nightingale Last Line: Slaying the rapturous song-bird on the wing! Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Hornets; Nightingales; Thought; Wolves; Thinking THE WOOD THRUSH, by SUSAN SHARP ADAMS Poem Text First Line: At eve I hear him in the woods Last Line: To reproduce his wildwood lay. Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Singing & Singers; Thrushes; Songs THE WOODLARK, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Teevo cheevo cheevio chee: / o where, what can that be? Last Line: Of a sweet -- a sweet -- sweet -- joy.' Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks THE WOODMAN AND THE NIGHTINGALE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A woodman whose rough heart was out of tune Last Line: And vex the nightingales in every dell. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE WOODPECKER, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I once a king and chief Last Line: Chasing the prey. Subject(s): Birds; Woodpeckers THE WOODPECKER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wizard of the woods is he Last Line: He makes the timber sound. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Woodpeckers THE WOODPECKER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Innocence! Innocence is the condition of heaven Last Line: Stabbing there with a barbed tongue which succeeds! Subject(s): Birds; Woodpeckers THE WOODS AND BANKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: The woods and banks of england now Last Line: Where are you now, cuckoo? Cuckoo! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Nature THE WOUNDED BIRD, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose coming home / had a bird in her breast Last Line: In her breast. Subject(s): Birds; Flirtation THE WOUNDED BIRD, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the wide bed Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Birds THE WOUNDED EAGLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eagle! This is not thy sphere! Last Line: Is not such their destiny? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Eagles THE WOUNDED GULL, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along a grim and granite shore Last Line: The courage of the wounded gull. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls THE WREN, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why is the cuckoo's melody preferred Last Line: The happy stories of the past again. Subject(s): Birds; Wrens THE WREN'S NEST, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I took the wren's nest Last Line: God forgive me! Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Birds' Nests THE WRYNECK'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That summer bird its oft-repeated note Last Line: And thinks the strange bird guards a serpent's nest. Subject(s): Birds' Nests THE YELLOW HAMMER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spruce and limber yellow-hammer Last Line: With notes as of one who brass is filing. Subject(s): Birds; Craftsmanship THE YELLOWBIRD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hey! My little yellowbird Last Line: Pippin on the tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening; Trees THE YELLOWHAMMER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With rural admixture of shrill and sweet Last Line: While from the totter-grass gazes the humble hare. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Birds THE YELLOWHAMMER'S SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out on the waste, a little lonely bird, I flit and I sing Last Line: Ah, sweet! The song that I sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Morning; Singing & Singers THEN HESPERUS ON HIGH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Birds THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF CROWLE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That depressing old person of crowle Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Owls THERE'S BEAUTY ALL AROUND US, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All around us there is beauty Last Line: And our work less irksome be. Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Nature THING, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly they came flying, like a long scarf of smoke Last Line: And the blue air darkened Subject(s): Birds THINGS WE MAKE BIRDS SAY, by TINA KELLEY Poem Source First Line: I believe the rufous-sided towhee, given the choice Last Line: It is morning, I am here, %it is evening, I am yours Subject(s): Birds THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Among twenty snowy mountains Last Line: In the cedar-limbs. Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Perception THIS NIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: This night, as I sit here alone Last Line: Oh-o-o! Oh-o-o! The owl doth cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Life; Owls; Dead, The THIS WINTER, by WENDY M. MNOOKIN Poem Source First Line: Nearly home from doing errands Last Line: Will easily give way in my hands Subject(s): Birds; Winter THOMAS BEWICK, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I think of a man on foot Last Line: The history of british birds Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Bewick, Thomas (1753-1828); Birds; Engraving And Engravers THOMAS MOORE AT ST. ANNE'S, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On these swift waters borne along Last Line: The constant star that loves the north. Subject(s): Birds; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Poetry & Poets THOROUGHBRED, by RAFAEL OSES Poem Source First Line: Ramona has a very intelligent parrot named oliver Last Line: She whispers. He thinks of a word short for 'help.' Subject(s): Birds; Parrots THOUGH BIRDS HAVE FLOWN, by BETTIE MARGOT CASSIE Poem Text First Line: Now that the trees are stripped of all their fire Last Line: Though birds have flown the trees still harbor nests. Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Dreams; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Nightmares THREE BIRDS, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Beneath the solemn orchard of emblematic flowers Last Line: Long, long hast thou been singing thy secret song to me! Subject(s): Birds; Singing And Singers; Spring THREE BLACK CROWS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two honest tradesmen meeting in the strand Last Line: "something that was -- as black, sir, as a crow." Subject(s): Birds; Crows THREE CROWS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn my great aunt tsipie would rise and go Last Line: Only to plummet surely back to earth Subject(s): Birds; Crows THREE MOMENTS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child said: pretty bird Last Line: "oh happy thou!" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Children; Mothers; Pain; Tears; Childhood; Suffering; Misery THREE NESTS, by MICHAEL J. ROSEN Poem Source First Line: The first, a robin built atop a house Last Line: We stood a chance of learning it, in what time remains Subject(s): Birds; Eggs; Robins THREE SEVERAL BIRDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The romancer's a nightingale Last Line: And only dreams for him!) Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Books; Nightingales; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Reading THREE WASH DRAWINGS: 1. PELICANS, by WINIFRED WALDRON Poem Text First Line: Three white-breasted pelicans Last Line: Under the thin white moon. Subject(s): Birds; Pelicans; Sea Gulls THREE WHITE BIRDS OF ANGUS, by ELEANOR ROGERS COX Poem Text First Line: Last night when all the stars were still Last Line: The feet of morn came whisperingly Subject(s): Birds; Fairies; Elves THRUSH, by LAURA BENET Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God bade the birds break not the silent spell Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes THRUSH, by TIMOTHY CORSELLIS Poem Source First Line: I plucked a throstle from the throat of god Last Line: Lord, much loved you her full-throated song; %lord, pray forgive me - I did wrong Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes; War THRUSH, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even earlier yet this listening thrush Last Line: To help her feed her family! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes THRUSH, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When winter's dead Last Line: And that's ahead and behind Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes; Winter THRUSHES, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through tanglewood the thrushes trip Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Birds THRUSHES, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ten days I watched beside a thrushes' nest Last Line: And caught by the neck and hung and strangled there Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes THRUSHES, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Terrifying are the attent sleek thrushes on the lawn Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Birds THRUSHES, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Terrifying are the attent sleek thrushes on the lawn Last Line: Orgy and hosannah, under what wilderness %of black silent waters weep Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Birds THRUSHES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tossed on the glittering air they soar and skim Last Line: And storms the gate of nothingness for proof. Subject(s): Birds; Soldiers' Writings; Thrushes; World War I; First World War TIME PIECE, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Which is more fleeting: %the flicker Last Line: Of sandpipers %before an incoming tide? Subject(s): Birds TITMOUSE, by MAX GUTMANN Poem Source First Line: The titmouse ought to be, you'd think Last Line: To make the titmouse be a bird Subject(s): Birds TITWILLOW, FR. THE MIKADO, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a tree by a river a little tom-tit Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S. Variant Title(s): The Suicide's Grave Subject(s): Birds TITWILLOW, FR. THE MIKADO, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On a tree by a river a little tom-tit Last Line: Though I probably shall not exclaim as I die, %'oh, willow, titwillow, titwillow' Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S. Variant Title(s): The Suicide's Grav Subject(s): Birds 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 BIRD, by EDWARD MOXON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet captive, thou a lesson me hast taught Last Line: In lonely cell thou sing'st, and sing'st unheard. Subject(s): Birds TO A BIRD, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O bird that darts now low, now high Last Line: But never can be wise as you! Subject(s): Birds; May (month); Wisdom TO A BIRD IN THE CITY, by MATTHIAS BARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, bird! I bless thee in my heart; god knows I love to see Last Line: Such things speak plainer far to me than all that man can say. Subject(s): Birds; Cities; Urban Life TO A BIRD ON A DOWNTOWN WIRE, by HILTON ROSS GREER Poem Text First Line: And so, with feet god meant should cling Last Line: Theocritus in feathers! Subject(s): Birds; Telephone Wires TO A BLUE TIT, by VIOLET HELEN FRIEDLAENDER Poem Source First Line: Day after day you who are as free as air Subject(s): Birds TO A BLUEBIRD, by EMERSON KROPF Poem Text First Line: If I were you, o bird of blue Last Line: If I were you! Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds TO A CAPTIVE CRANE, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, brother! Art thou prisoned Subject(s): Cranes (birds) TO A CHINESE LARK, by CHARLES S. F. LINCOLN Poem Text First Line: Out in the squalid village sits and sings Last Line: With hymns of praise, uplifted to the sun. Subject(s): Birds; Cages; Life; Singing & Singers; Songs TO A CROW IN FEBRUARY, by CAROLINE M. LORD Poem Text First Line: Where a hemlock tree depends its tented boughs Last Line: And thank him for that friendly raucous note. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; February; Hemlocks TO A CUCKOO IN A HIGHWAY HEDGE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O cuckoo! Am I of my wits bereft? Last Line: The muses know thee as a mystic sound. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos TO A DEAD THRUSH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though silence shuts the gate of song Last Line: The groves of memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Thrushes TO A GROSBEAK IN THE GARDEN, by IVAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: When through the heaviness and clamouring throng Subject(s): Birds; Grosbeaks TO A HERMIT THRUSH, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dweller among leaves, and shining twilight boughs Last Line: My wings must fail e'en with my song. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Thrushes TO A LARK, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O little singing bird Subject(s): Birds TO A LOVER OF BIRDS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the window ropes of nuts Last Line: And send all bedward, well content. Subject(s): Birds; Nature TO A MACAW, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Fowl of the nightmare visage, baldly white Last Line: Cloyed with the unconvincing nut and seed! Subject(s): Birds; Evil TO A MARSH HAWK IN SPRING, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is health in thy gray wing Last Line: And resume new life again. Subject(s): Birds; Hawks TO A MOCKING BIRD, by EDWIN OSGOOD GROVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I watched the day come up the road Subject(s): Birds TO A MOCKING-BIRD IN THE PINE-TOP, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bird of the south-sweet songster! Last Line: Shall live for immortality. Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight TO A MOCKING-BIRD: FROM TAORMINA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nightingale has a golden heart Last Line: With the free, proud heart of a man. Subject(s): Birds; Life; Love; Mockingbirds; Nightingales; Tears TO A NEST OF YOUNG THRUSHES, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear little birds, you're ready now to fly Last Line: From day to day. Subject(s): Birds; Explorers; Nature; Solitude; Youth; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Loneliness TO A NIGHTINGALE, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet bird, that sing'st away the early hours Last Line: To ayres of spheres, yea, and to angels' layes Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): Sonnet: Sweet Bird; To The Nightingale (1); The Thrus Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes TO A NIGHTINGALE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O nightingale! How hast thou learnt Last Line: Round whom the future sings! Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Nightingales TO A NIGHTINGALE, by ELINOR SWEETMAN Poem Text First Line: Minstrel unseen, who singest to the skies Last Line: Among the silver lilies of the stars. Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales TO A NIGHTINGALE HEARD UPON A HILLTOP BEFORE DAWN, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, nightingale, I lie awake Last Line: Floats out to all the land! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales TO A NIGHTINGALE ON ITS RETURN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And art thou here again, sweet nightingale Last Line: A music chamber for my soul and thee! Sub |