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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HAWKS Matches Found: 59 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 |
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