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Subject: CRANES (BIRDS)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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


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)


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)


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)


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 Analysis             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 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


HERALD CRANE, by HAMLIN GARLAND    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Say you so, bold sailor
Subject(s): Cranes (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)


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)


THE CRANES OF IBYCUS, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 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 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 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


TO A CAPTIVE CRANE, by HAMLIN GARLAND    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho, brother! Art thou prisoned
Subject(s): Cranes (birds)


WHEN YOU LIE IN, by PAUL ANTSCHEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Crane- %seed
Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul
Subject(s): Cranes (birds)


WHITE CRANE, by DEAN YOUNG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Fathers; Death; Cranes (birds); Dead, The


WHOOPING CRANE, by LEW SARETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh what a night it was for dreams
Last Line: Never a feather stirred.
Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Night; Bedtime


YE GOLDE-HEADED CRANE, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It stands in the corner yet, stately and tall
Last Line: My grandfather's gold-headed cane.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L.
Subject(s): Cranes (birds)