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| Searching... Subject: FEATHERS Matches Found: 34 A FEATHER FOR VOLTAIRE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bird is an alphabet, it flies Last Line: And this is the key to the kingdom Subject(s): Birds; Feathers ANTHILL, by SVETLANA MAKAROVIC Poem Source First Line: All the same. I am the same Last Line: They don't know about the golden beak- %opening above their roof Subject(s): Birds; Feathers; Strangers BATHERS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They make in the twining tide the motions of birds Last Line: And their only sun is swallowed up like a voice Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Birds; Feathers; Wings BIRDS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I dreamed that blood flowed from his mouth Last Line: Gather in flocks and come near Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Feathers; Wings 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 DOVE, by ANNE SZUMIGALSKI Poem Source First Line: It troubles the boy that, if you want to draw a white bird, you Last Line: Will never be able to escape again Subject(s): Animals; Children; Doves; Drawing; Feathers; Wings EJACULATION, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this short interval to tear Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Feathers; Words; Vocabulary EPITAPH ON LADY OSSORY'S BULLFINCH, by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All flesh is grass and so are feather too: / finches must die, as well as I & yo Last Line: What serves for one will serve for t' other. Alternate Author Name(s): Orford, 4th Earl Of Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Two Piping-bullfinches Of Lady Ossry's Subject(s): Epitaphs; Feathers; Finches; Funerals; Rest; Burials FEATHER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She's walking up the street from sanitary tortilla Last Line: Answer softly, here I am. Subject(s): Feathers FEATHER, by DZVINIA ORLOWSKY Poem Source First Line: A feather, its bird, the color red Last Line: Which world, trembling, did it finally choose Subject(s): Birds; Feathers FEATHERS, by ANTOINETTE ALBERTSON Poem Source First Line: Curious crows - scolding Last Line: Not one sparrow shall fall...' Subject(s): Birds; Feathers FEATHERS, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You restless, curious little jo Last Line: Who can't tell birds from feathers. Subject(s): Feathers FEATHERS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There falls with every wedding-chime Last Line: Upon the hearse there nods the last. Subject(s): Feathers; Time FEATHERS ON THE GRASS, by LAURA FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text First Line: Gray feathers now lie scattered on the grass Last Line: And though I sense a plan, I am confused. Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Frances Subject(s): Feathers; Time FINE FEATHERS, by HENRY T. PRAED Poem Text First Line: Cocky, self-pleased, barnyard king Last Line: And barnyard glories never last. Subject(s): Birds; Feathers; Wings HEARD, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: Heard in the middle of the night Last Line: But it was not the lark %and not the icy swan Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Feathers; Singing And Singers; Wings HOW SHARP MUST BE THE FLETCHER'S KNIFE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And leave in both halves flight Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Feathers; Knives; Nature LINES ON A CANARY SINGING TO AN ELECTRIC BEATER, by AMY LEE SPENCER Poem Text First Line: There is no call for him to rise and sing Last Line: More beauty than the fields, farflung and green. Subject(s): Feathers ON FINDING A DEAD BIRD UNDER MY WINDOW, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Here you lie, with feathers cold and wet Last Line: And be the first to wish a friend 'good morning'. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Feathers; Wings ON MRS. MONTAGUE'S FEATHER-HANGINGS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birds put off their every hue Last Line: Both poet saves and plume from fading. Subject(s): Feathers PITCH O' PINE SONNETS: 2. QUILLS, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Si's temper was barbed-quilled as a hedgehog's tail Last Line: He hurled one at the quills, and crushed si's head. Subject(s): Feathers; Hedgehogs TAILS AND HEADS, by SUZANNE KNOWLES Poem Source First Line: The cormorant has Last Line: And henri de navarre a great white %plume upon his helmet for a flag Subject(s): Feathers TENDER BUTTONS: A FEATHER, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light Subject(s): Feathers THE FEATHER AT BREENDONCK, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am praying again, god -- pale god Last Line: That's all we needed: a good war . . . Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Concentration Camps; Fathers & Daughters; Feathers; Guilt; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Memory; Prayer; Relationships; Salvation; Separation; Isolation; Judaism THE FIERCE BIRDS, by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kindling the air, fierce birds with feathers of fire Last Line: Angels exulted in fruits that are secret and sweet and forbidden. Alternate Author Name(s): Brusov, Valery Yakovlevich Subject(s): Angels; Birds; Feathers; Wings THE LITERAL = THE ABSTRACT: A DEMONSTRATION, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After all those swerving arcs in air Last Line: Of what is absolutely there. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Birds; Feathers; Hunting; Literary Form; Wings; Hunters THE PEACOCK FEATHERS, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: I went forth in the morning Last Line: All of the peacock's tail. Subject(s): Birds; Feathers; Peacocks THERE WAS A YOUNG PERSON IN RED, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Besides some long ribands of red Subject(s): Feathers; Youth TO A FLOCK OF GEESE, by CLARK MCADAMS Poem Text First Line: Ye wild, free troopers of the skies Last Line: With your wild-ringing cries. Subject(s): Feathers; Geese; Sky; Wilderness; Wings TRUMPETER SWANS, by JOHN RYBICKI Poem Source First Line: The trumpeter swans puncture down through blue Last Line: White nuts and bolts floating in god's engine Subject(s): Birds; Feathers; Swans UP TO ME, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I stole a glance at polly Last Line: "I'll know that it is ""up to me." Subject(s): Feathers; Geese; Likes & Dislikes WE MIGHT CHANGE, by JAMES DENBOER Poem Source First Line: The geese feel the low pressure Last Line: Choose-live until spring Subject(s): Cold; December; Feathers; Geese; Winter WOOD DUCKS AT YADDO, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: A small, gaudy mandarin Last Line: And see such splendid mockery Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Ducks; Feathers YELLOW FEATHER, by JANE M. MCCLELLAN Poem Source First Line: The old house, still as a cradle Last Line: One yellow feather left in the dust Subject(s): Feathers |
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