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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EAGLES Matches Found: 83 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 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 AUSPEX, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in a california sierra Last Line: That there was anything I couldn’t be Subject(s): Eagles 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 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 BEAKS OF EAGLES, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis 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 BELOVED, LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Beloved, let us love Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Eagles; Doves 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 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 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 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 Analysis 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 Analysis 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 SONG, by MARY HUNTER AUSTIN Poem Source Poet Analysis 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 Analysis 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 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; 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 FOR THE LAST WOLVERINE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They will soon be down Subject(s): Eagles GOLDEN EAGLE, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: When we were kids Last Line: Something priceless %& we had Subject(s): Birds; Eagles 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 GOOFY YOUNG BALD EAGLE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis 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 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 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 I WANT TO GO WANDERING, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 IDEA: 56, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 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 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 MIGHTY EAGLE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mighty eagle! Thou that soarest Last Line: The embattled tempests' warning! Subject(s): Birds; Eagles 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 OH, THE RICKS, THE RICKS, by ALEXEY (ALEKSEY) KONSTANTINOVICH TOLSTOY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Tear them all asunder Alternate Author Name(s): Prutkov, Koz'ma Petrovich Subject(s): Eagles ON RECEIVING AN EAGLE'S QUILL FROM LAKE SUPERIOR, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 REVISITING DUNOLLY CASTLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 ONE TO NOTHING, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis 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 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 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 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 SOME FRIENDS FROM PASCAGOULA, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me more of the eagle, cotton, Subject(s): Eagles SONG OF THE REIM-KENNAR, FR. THE PIRATE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis 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 SONGS OF THE VOICES OF BIRDS: INTRODUCTION. EAGLES, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 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 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 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 THE BARBAROUS BIRD-GODS: A SAVAGE PARABASIS, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis 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 BEAKS OF EAGLES, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis 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 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 DALLIANCE OF THE EAGLES, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 DEAD EAGLE; WRITTEN AT ORAN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 DUNOLLY EAGLE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 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 Analysis 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 Analysis 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 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 Analysis 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 Analysis 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 FLIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 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 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 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 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 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 WOUNDED EAGLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 TO A STUFFED EAGLE, by LILLIAN LOWRY Poem Text First Line: Space - / the shadow of your wings Last Line: Stuffed liberty! Subject(s): Birds; Eagles TO AN EAGLE, by JOHN HANMER Poem Text First Line: Wild bird, they say that who like thee Last Line: And stayeth either course, and killeth all the kind. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles TO THE GALLIC EAGLE, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fame's favourite minion Last Line: Thy proud spirit never! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Birds; Eagles TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. WINGS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wings, wings Last Line: And I understood the meaning of the wings. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Freedom; Speech; Wings; Liberty; Oratory; Orators WHAT THE EAGLE FAN SAYS, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I strung dazzling thrones of thunder beings Last Line: On human breath, and I help them rise Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Fans WINGS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bay was bronzed with sunset and so light Last Line: We soared, upbuoyed on waters sunset-red! Subject(s): Air; Aviation & Aviators; Birds; Eagles; Sky; Wings; Airplanes; Air Pilots |
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