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Last Line: "from the otherworld, your whistle!"
Subject(s): Blackbirds


A BLACKBIRD, by MARCUS ARGENTARIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No longer by the oak. O blackbird, sing
Last Line: But vines bear grapes -- and bacchus loves a song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Markus Argentarios
Subject(s): Blackbirds


A BLACKBIRD SINGING, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems wrong that out of this bird
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Blackbirds


A BLACKBIRD SINGING AT DAWN, by MARTHA ELVIRA PETTUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What bird sings now, an hour before the day?
Last Line: "his morning hymn; my god, thou shalt have mine!"
Subject(s): Blackbirds


A BLACKBIRD SUDDENLY, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven is in my hand, and I
Last Line: Like you—a bird!
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Singing & Singers; Songs


A PARIS BLACKBIRD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the seine's left bank, near the pont-neuf, on the mansard roof
Last Line: The scruffy blackbird -- and listen for the cry caught in her bronze throat.
Subject(s): Bird-watching; Blackbirds; Creative Ability; Knowledge; Louvre, Paris; Museums; Paris, France; Seine (river), France; Inspiration; Creativity; Art Gallerys


ABER STATIONS: STATIO SECUNDA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just listen to the blackbird -- what a note
Last Line: I hope he won't go mad.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


ALL I WANT TO BE, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Seeding the sky
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Nature


AN IRISH BLACKBIRD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is my brave singer
Last Line: Skies so wide for you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Blackbirds


BABY'S SONG, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The very song the blackbird sung
Last Line: To the first song the blackbird made.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Babies; Blackbirds; Singing & Singers; Infants


BLACKBIRD, by HENRY CHARLES BEECHING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dearest, these household cares remit
Subject(s): Blackbirds


BLACKBIRD, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A slender young blackbird
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Blackbirds


BLACKBIRD, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He comes on chosen evenings
Last Line: Those are celestial chimney-pots.
Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds


BLACKBIRD, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Day turns to night
Last Line: In a wet march lane.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Happiness; Pain; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery


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


BLACKBIRD SINGING, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems wrong that out of this bird
Last Line: But fresh always with new tears
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Blackbirds


BLACKBIRDS, by CLARA EXLINE BOCKOVEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The giant that lives in the hill
Last Line: With the sounds of a spring that is dead!
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Death; Wings; Dead, The


BLACKBIRDS, by RUSSELL KESLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: For two weeks, now their wheezing treetop patter
Last Line: Near dusk, with one mind their black clouds rise, %leaving silence empty as their yellow eyes
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Nature


COLUMBA AND THE BLACKBIRD, by JOHN O'LEARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bright gold of the chalice
Subject(s): Blackbirds


DE AEGYPTO, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the wet bank shines
Last Line: If I die not in my own land.
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Death; Flowers; Hearts; Moon; Violets; Dead, The


DE BLACKBIRD FETCH DE SPRING, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When de autumn leabes was twistin'
Last Line: Kase my blackbird fetched de spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Spring


DEAR BLACKBIRD, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little light, unsong, this turnstile stopped
Last Line: Rumble of expectation: it's going on %everywhere, not at all
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical


ECHOES: 18, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The nightingale has a lyre of gold
Last Line: Our hearts and lips together.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Variant Title(s): The Blackbird;love Notes;the Pleasant Song;to A.d.
Subject(s): Blackbirds


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


IN THE ORCHARD, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black bird, black voice
Last Line: You can never choose away from
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Orchards


IN THE WOOD, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Night's in the wood now, in poplars and larches
Last Line: "shouting ""good-night, now!"" in the old madcap way."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Forests; Noises; Woods


MARSH BLACKBIRD, by HARRIET SENNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: You of the crimson wing
Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds


MARSH MUSIC, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: A thread of sea is sewn in the green land
Last Line: Of the sea's sound -- attenuated clang.
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Sea; Swamps; Ocean; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


NEUTRAL, by WRENNE JARMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I was walking in the park
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Soldiers; World War Ii


O WHAT IF THE FOWLER, by CHARLES WILLIAM DALMON    Poem Source                    
First Line: O what if the fowler my blackbird has taken?
Last Line: I'll weep all the day by my red fuchsia tree!
Subject(s): Blackbirds


ODE TO A BLACKBIRD, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Troll out thy passion from yon vantage spray
Last Line: Resounding thro' the echoing arbours of my brain!
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Earth; Evil; Heaven; World; Paradise


ONE BLACKBIRD, by HAROLD MONRO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars must make an awful noise
Subject(s): Blackbirds


ONLY THE BLACKBIRD, by AUDREY WURDEMANN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Blackbirds


RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD, by VALERIE WOHLFELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Red stripe of valor, of war
Last Line: And knows the world all the same
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Red (color); Wings


RUINED NEST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sadly talks the blackbird here
Subject(s): Blackbirds


RUINED NEST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sad is yonder blackbird's song
Subject(s): Blackbirds


SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; THE WARBLING OF BLACKBIRDS, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


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


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


STORY OF A BLACKBIRD, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, gather round me, children
Last Line: "this comes of being proud."
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect


SUTURE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical


THE BIRDS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world begins again
Last Line: And the dripping grass.
Subject(s): Blackbirds


THE BLACKBIRD, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One on another against the wall
Last Line: As he does with the song he was born to? Not he!
Subject(s): Blackbirds


THE BLACKBIRD, by BASIL MURRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A blackbird sat upon a pinnacle
Last Line: Men will die. They will, they will.'
Subject(s): Blackbirds


THE BLACKBIRD, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O blackbird! Sing me something well
Last Line: Caught in the frozen palms of spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Blackbirds


THE BLACKBIRD, by FREDERICK TENNYSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweet the harmonies of afternoon!
Last Line: His ears, they hear not what the blackbird sings.
Subject(s): Blackbirds


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 BLACKBIRD IN TOWN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the stone-prisoned tree
Last Line: Through the spring nights and days.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Country Life; Singing & Singers; Towns


THE BLACKBIRD OF DARICARN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "sweet thy song, in dari grove"
Last Line: "than tinkle of the bells, they thought / the blackbird's song more sweet!"
Subject(s): Blackbirds


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 TWO BLACKBIRDS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A blackbird in a wicker cage
Last Line: A self-forgetful sympathy.
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Singing & Singers


THIRTEEN BLACKBIRDS LOOK A MAN, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is calm
Last Line: Will there be a man among them?
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Blackbirds


THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among twenty snowy mountains
Last Line: In the cedar-limbs.
Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Perception


TO A BLACKBIRD AND HIS MATE WHO DIED IN THE SPRING, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An iron hand has stilled the throats
Last Line: And smile, by your clear music blest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce
Subject(s): Blackbirds


TO ONE DEAD, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A blackbird singing
Last Line: And the sorrow for me.
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Death; Funerals; Grief; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness


TO ONE WEEPING, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maiden, these are sacred tears
Last Line: In my heart at singing time.
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


TO THE BLACKBIRD IN MARCH, by CAMILLA DOYLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O blackbird, try another tune
Last Line: You knew so well, last may and june.
Subject(s): Blackbirds


VESPERS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O blackbird, what a boy you are!
Last Line: The blackbird saith.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Blackbirds