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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SPARROW-HAWK IN THE SUBURBS, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At that time of year there is a turn in the road where
Last Line: Last frosts of our / back gardens
Subject(s): Environment; Hawks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


AIRMAN, by STEPHEN SPENDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He will watch the hawk with an indifferent eye
Last Line: Hands, wings, are found.
Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir
Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Aviation & Aviators; Birds; Hawks; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.)


BEWARE THE HAWK, by FRANCES B. HUSTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: My heart, forbear, and do not leave
Last Line: The fierce and sudden hawk of love.
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


BIRDS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fierce musical cries of a couple of sparrow hawks hunting on the headland
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


BIRDS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fierce musical cries of a couple of sparrow hawks hunting on the headland
Last Line: From the sharp %rock-shores of the world and the secret waters
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


CHICKEN HAWK, by THOMAS CASEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Observe the high and circling wing
Last Line: And stop the hawk from growing bolder.
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 1, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fishhawks sing gwan gwan
Last Line: Gentle maiden, pure and fair, %with bells and dfrums do her delight
Subject(s): Birds; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Hawks


COLD AUGUST, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun had shrunk to a dime
Last Line: Them disappear in southward course.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): August; Birds; Cold; Hawks; Summer


COUNTING HAWKS, by BRUCE MACKINNON    Poem Source                    
First Line: They glide in slow circles above the fields
Last Line: Of the randomly flying birds
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


COUNTRY FAIR, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amost anyone, I guess, can rent booth space
Subject(s): Country Fairs; Hawks; Man-women Relationships; Dancing & Dancers; Girls


DEAD HAWKS, by STANLEY HANKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was not after quail, on a dry log
Last Line: Seeing and hearing satified myself %hawks may do good but this one wasn't about to
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


EVENING HAWK, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From plane of light to plane, wings dipping through
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


EVENING HAWK, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From plane of light to plane, wings dipping through
Last Line: Drip in darkness like a leaking pipe in the cellar
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


EXPRESSING HIS DELIGHT ON DREAMING OF HIS STRAY HAWK, by OTOMO NO YAKAMOCHI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the far realm of our lord
Last Line: The hawk I waited for %was told me in a dream
Alternate Author Name(s): Chunagon Yakamochi; Otomo Yakamochi; Yakamochi
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


FROM HAWK AND KITE, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor fluttered, frightened, silent one!
Last Line: Guard the poor from treachery!
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks; Kites


FUEL FOR J.S., by DEREK SHEFFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: A hawk's shadow drove the family
Last Line: Pink babies with bulging eyes %until the grimy hands come down
Subject(s): Birds; Fear; Hawks; Mice


HAWK, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hawk slipped out of the pine, and rose in the sunlit air
Last Line: And over the heather drifted the down from a bleeding breast
Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C.
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


HAWK, by GEORGE MACKAY BROWN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: On sunday the hawk fell on bigging
Last Line: And jock lowered his gun %and nailed a small wing over the corn
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


HAWK, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It circled, hand, and circled. I watched it come
Last Line: To keep the symbol but to shoot the bird
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


HAWK, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stare %I glare
Last Line: I don't %see %you!
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


HAWK, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men have tried to be kind
Last Line: And the hawk sweeps down and slays
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks; Life


HAWK IN A PAINTING, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From white silk -- a whiff of wind and frost
Last Line: Sprinkling -- blood and feathers across the plain
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


HAWK IN THE TWILIGHT, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: He drifts from dusts of twilight sifted there
Last Line: Deep into darkness where all flesh is kin!
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


HAWK NAILED TO A BARN DOOR, by PETER BLUE CLOUD    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I look at your beautiful wings %and sense your flight
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


HAWK WING, by LUCILE BLANCHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dawn slips past the blinds to touch
Last Line: To lighted room, unwilling to be born
Subject(s): Birds; Birth; Hawks


HAWKING FOR PARTRIDGES, by LORENZO DE' MEDICI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was already pink across the east
Last Line: And so, my friend, we passed our happy time %with rhymes, sweet rhymes in sugar, keeping time
Alternate Author Name(s): Lorenzo The Magnificent
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Dogs; Hawks; Hunting; Landscape


HURT HAWKS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder
Last Line: Before it was quite unsheathed from reality
Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Euthanasia; Hawks


HURT HAWKS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder
Last Line: Fear at its rising %before it was quite unsheathed from reality
Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Euthanasia; Hawks


IN THE BACKYARD, by PATRICIA HOOPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This morning a hawk plunges
Last Line: Flying across it, farther %and farther below
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


INVENTING THE HAWK, by LORNA CROZIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: She didn't believe the words
Last Line: When she was a child, %the radiant, uninvented blades of grass
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


KNOWLEDGE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wild swan over the marshes knows
Last Line: Across the glaciers of eternity!
Subject(s): Birds; Future Life; Happiness; Hawks; Hope; Knowledge; Owls; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Joy; Delight; Optimism


LONE HAWK OVER THE BUDDHA TOWER OF THE MONASTERY OF UNIVERSAL PURITY, by MEI YAO-CH'EN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From my newly rented lodgings
Last Line: I now recall this and make it a poem %beside this autumn river
Subject(s): Birds; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Hawks


MINUS ONE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of seven sparrows on a country wire
Last Line: Hawk in this now? Unchosen? Come to choose?
Subject(s): Sparrows; Hawks; Fathers & Sons


MONOCULAR, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I caught this morning a young hawk
Last Line: As the wind sank in the bare winter woods, %perfectly encircled in glass
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks; Photography And Photographers


MORTAL LIMIT, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the hawk ride updraft in the sunset over wyoming
Subject(s): Hawks


NATURAL WORLD: 2, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On hawk mountain in pennsylvania
Last Line: Slaughtered for pleasure.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Birds; Death; Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania; Hawks; Dead, The


PAINTED HAWK, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind-blown frost rises from plain white silk
Last Line: When will it strike the common birds? - %bloody feathers strewing rhw weed-covered plain
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Birds; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Hawks; Paintings And Painters


PATHETIC FALLACY, by MICHAEL A. SCHAFFNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hawk sees me as well as I see her
Last Line: And, despite myself, I applaud the crows
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


ROCK AND HAWK, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is a symbol in which
Last Line: Nor success make proud
Subject(s): Hawks; Pride; Stones; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Granite; Rocks


SEA-HAWK, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The six-foot nest of the sea-hawk
Last Line: At the eye of a sea-hawk, %a blaze of grandeur, permanence of the impersonal
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks; Sea


TAMER AND HAWK, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought I was so tough
Last Line: I lose to keep, and choose %tamer as prey
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 8. A HAWK SEPARATED FROM THE GAUNTLET, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Talons sharp as blade-point
Last Line: Upon the ruler's arm
Subject(s): Absence; Birds; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Hawks


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 DOR-HAWK, by MARY HOWITT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fern-owl, churn-owl, or goat-sucker
Last Line: Like a pleasant voice of dreams!
Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


THE DOUBLE-BED DREAM GALLOWS, by RICHARD BRAUTIGAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Driving through
Subject(s): Hawks


THE FISH-HAWK, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the large highway of the awful air that flows
Last Line: Heaven, crowded with stars, trembled from rim to rim.
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


THE HAWK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Thou dost not fly, thou art not perched
Last Line: It knows not flowers from stones.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


THE HAWK, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ambushed in yonder cloud of white
Last Line: A few brown feathers strew the ground!
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


THE HAWK, by RAYMOND KNISTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the bristled and sallow fields
Last Line: Along the soundless horizon.
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


THE HAWK, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Call down the hawk from the air
Last Line: A pretense of wit.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


THE HAWK'S NEST, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We checked our pace, - the red road sharply rounding
Last Line: "ain't a bad thing right here!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


THE MAN-OF-WAR HAWK, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yon black man-of-war-hawk that wheels in the light
Last Line: To the placid supreme in the sweep of his reign.
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks; Ships & Shipping


THE NIGHT HAWK, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds are pillow'd on the waveless deep
Last Line: In viewless robe, shall sit enthroned on smoking hills.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Hawks; Sky; Wings


THE WINDHOVER: TO CHRIST OUR LORD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I caught this morning morning's minion, king
Last Line: Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.
Variant Title(s): The Windhover
Subject(s): Birds; Christianity; Falcons; Hawks; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology


TO A MARSH HAWK IN SPRING, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is health in thy gray wing
Last Line: And resume new life again.
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks


TO THE HAWKS, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell is the bell
Last Line: Grows round with the sound
Subject(s): Antiwar Movement; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Mcnamara, Robert S.; Rusk, Dean (1909-1994); Bindy, Mcgeorge (1919-1996); War Hawks


TO THE MAN-OF-WAR-BIRD, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou who hast slept all night upon the storm
Last Line: What joys! What joys were thine!
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks; Storms


WINGED OMENS, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mauve dusk enshrouds the saffron west
Last Line: (so comes my love.)
Subject(s): Absence; Birds; Hawks; Love; Separation; Isolation


WINGS, by CYNTHIA HUNTINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The marsh hawk flies low, hunting
Subject(s): Birds; Hawks