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Subject: CARDINALS (BIRDS)
Matches Found: 15

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Against the green the line in red
Subject(s): Cardinals (birds)


CARDINAL, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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 HOWARD ZIMMON    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I come back
Last Line: As a cardinal
Subject(s): Cardinals (birds)


MARCH CARDINAL, by BEN BELITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The one, slant bird on the dark stone
Subject(s): Cardinals (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


NOEL, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a single / ornament,
Subject(s): Cardinals (birds); Christmas; Nativity, The


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 Analysis             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)


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 Analysis             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)