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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CARRION CROW SAT ON AN OAK, by MOTHER GOOSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding do!
Subject(s): Crows


ARIA, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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


AT A REHEARSAL OF UNCLE VANYA, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You mean well, doctor
Last Line: In the crow's shadow
Subject(s): Crows; Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904)


CLEARING, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always in that clearing
Last Line: And something like a name
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Nature


CROW, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Indelible of breast and wing
Subject(s): Crows


CROW, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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 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 Analysis             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 PHILIP BOOTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So. Nine crows to this april field
Subject(s): Crows


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 Analysis             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 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 Analysis             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


DUST OF SNOW, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


ECLOGUE: THE TIMES, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


FELIX CROW, by KAY RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Crow school / is basic and
Subject(s): Crows


IN NEW YORK, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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


LANDSCAPE, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Isn't it plain the sheets of moss, except that
Subject(s): Nature; Crows


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


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


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


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


ONE BLACK CROW, by ANN BRADSHAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blacker than black of the plum-tree bough
Subject(s): Birds; Crows


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


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


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


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


SHOCK, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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


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


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


SUITE TO APPLENESS: 3, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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


SUN, TREE AND CROW, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
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


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


THE ARIA, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One crow comes now every morning
Last Line: Croutons. They throw a party
Subject(s): Birds; Crows


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 CALVES NOT CHOSEN, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mind goes caw, caw, caw, caw
Last Line: Awake or asleep, in white, in black
Subject(s): Crows; Survival


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 3 A.M., by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The politically correct, perfect snow of vermont
Last Line: In the air live in a lonelness we can only imagine
Subject(s): Vermont; Crows; Solitude; Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)


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 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 GREAT BLACK CROW, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 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 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 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 SONG MY PADDLE SINGS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 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 THREE BLACK CROWS; SPOKEN AT THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL IN MANCHESTER, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At dawn my great aunt tsipie would rise and go
Subject(s): Birds; Crows


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


THREE BLACK CROWS, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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


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


TWO OLD CROWS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two old crows sat on a fence rail
Last Line: "buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzz."
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Birds; Crows


UBI SUNT, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometime near dawn the fog moved
Last Line: Now, now, now, they all call out
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Nature; November; Weather; West (u.s.)


VERDANT GREEN AND THE CROW, by ROBERT BRUCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Young verdant saddled his horse at the rail
Last Line: "a woebegone, gizzard-wrung, ""r-r-r."
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Deserts; Food & Eating; Fools; Idiots


WINTER, by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A crow arrives and perches in the tree
Last Line: That no one could not say is good
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Winter


WISE OLD CROW, by GERTRUDE E. DODGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A wise old crow sat on a fence, a thirsty guy was he
Subject(s): Birds; Crows


YOU CAN DO IT ALL, by SARAT MUKHOPADHYAYA    Poem Source                    
First Line: See, you've done it
Last Line: There's the endless struggle in the crow-way
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Growth