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| Searching... Subject: MALLARDS Matches Found: 27 A BALLAD OF DUCKS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The railway rattled and roared and swung Last Line: "mister,"" I says, ""there's your blanky ducks!""'" Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Ducks; Mallards; Drakes A MEMORY, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four ducks on a pond Last Line: To remember with tears! Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Ducks; Spring; Mallards; Drakes ARMORED HEARTS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd been awakened before by hammers cracking across the pond Last Line: The bait from his hooks. Subject(s): Ducks; Neighbors; Sabotage; Mallards; Drakes AT MIDNIGHT, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in the night Last Line: About his shoulders Subject(s): Thought; Old Age; Sunrise; Mallards; Drakes DAME DUCK'S FIRST LECTURE ON EDUCATION, by ANN HAWKSHAW Poem Text First Line: Old mother duck has hatched a brood Last Line: Got hardly any food. Alternate Author Name(s): Aunt Effie; Hawkshawe, Ann; Jackson, Ann Variant Title(s): Mother Duck Subject(s): Ducks; Mallards; Drakes DUCK, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't ever / all green thought Subject(s): Ducks; Thought; Mallards; Drakes; Thinking DUCK-CHASING, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I spied a very small brown duck Subject(s): Ducks; Mallards; Drakes DUCKS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In her first home each book had a light around it Last Line: The ducks were building a nest. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ducks; Family Life; Iran; War; Mallards; Drakes; Relatives; Persia ELEGY, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fled is the swiftness of all the white-footed ones Last Line: And the geese honk north again and the heron's going. Subject(s): Ducks; Geese; Migration; Mallards; Drakes EROS, by AMY S. JENNINGS Poem Text First Line: I see in your eyes what you have seen Last Line: And the ripples kissing her throat. Subject(s): Cupid; Ducks; Eros; Mallards; Drakes ESSAY: DUCKS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Break what is the / nectarine - word Last Line: Of the thought: dusks reflect you Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Ducks; Lakes; Mallards; Drakes; Pools; Ponds HONEYMOON FLIGHT, by J. E. NELSON Poem Text First Line: They're flying north to the arctic seas Last Line: To the bridal shores on hudson's bay. Subject(s): Ducks; Geese; Migration; Mallards; Drakes MALLARD, by GEORGE B. STAFF Poem Text First Line: Why does a mallard winging lonely Last Line: Down the lake? Subject(s): Ducks; Mallards; Drakes PORTRAIT OF THE GREAT WHITE HUNTER FOXHUNTING IN THE ABSENCE OF BIG..., by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Open the stable gate! Last Line: Out of a hole in my head Subject(s): Animals; Ducks; Hunting; Portraits; Rifles; Mallards; Drakes; Hunters SUCH A DUCK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "once venus, deeming love too fat" Last Line: "but then -- you're such a duck, my darling!" Subject(s): Birds;cupid;ducks;juno (goddess);minerva;mythology - Classical;peacocks;venus (goddess); Eros;mallards;drakes THE DUCK, by OGDEN NASH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the duck Subject(s): Animals; Ducks; Mallards; Drakes THE DUCK AND THE KANGAROO, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the duck to the kangaroo Last Line: As the duck and the kangaroo? Subject(s): Ducks; Friendship; Kangaroos; Nonsense; Mallards; Drakes THE FOWLER, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have an old remembrance - 'tis as old Last Line: Yea, loathed the purpose and the power to kill. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Ducks; Hunting; Wings; Mallards; Drakes; Hunters THE MALLARDS PASS UNHARMED, by LAURA FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text First Line: Grieve not because the mallards pass unharmed Last Line: To view the wing and hoof beats as a god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Frances Subject(s): Ducks; Mallards; Drakes THE NOTORIOUS GLUTTON, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A duck who had got such a habit of stuffing Last Line: There to learn the disgrace in which gluttony ends. Subject(s): Ducks; Gluttony; Mallards; Drakes THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 109, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mandarin ducks roost for the night Last Line: They don't usurp the phoenix's lake Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ducks; Phoenix (mythical Bird); Mallards; Drakes THE WILD DUCK, by LEROY OLIVER MCLEOD Poem Text First Line: A strange thing, that a lark and robin sky Last Line: And calmly waited, knowing you would kill. Subject(s): Ducks; Mallards; Drakes THE WILD DUCK'S NEST, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The imperial consort of the fairy-king Last Line: For human-kind, weak slaves of cumbrous pride! Subject(s): Ducks; Mallards; Drakes TO A WILD DUCK, by BERNICE GIBBS ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: Dusk - and you float, serene Last Line: Only a hunter's prize! Subject(s): Ducks; Hunting; Mallards; Drakes; Hunters TREETOPS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father moves through the south hunting duck Last Line: Probable volume of dreams, think so. Subject(s): Death; Ducks; Fathers & Sons; Hunting; Dead, The; Mallards; Drakes; Hunters WILD DUCKS, by ROSE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: I heard the wild ducks passing in the night Last Line: I heard the wild ducks passing in the night. Subject(s): Ducks; Night; Spring; Trees; Mallards; Drakes; Bedtime WINTER MORNING, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars faded out of the paling sky Last Line: Borne on the morning wind, the wild duck came. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ducks; Morning; Winter; Mallards; Drakes |
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