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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MOCKING-BIRD, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An arrow, feathery, alive
Last Line: Of paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


A PHONOGRAPH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! What his fellow-warblers heard
Last Line: Repeats to them at night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Mockingbirds; Sound Recordings; Phonograph Records; Recordings; Records; Audiodiscs; Discography


ABSENCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The mock-bird sings in the dusky morn
Last Line: And know love broods in your home-nest too.
Subject(s): Birds; Longing; Love; Mockingbirds


BIRD-WITTED, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: With innocent wide penguin eyes
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


BIRD-WITTED, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With innocent wide penguin eyes
Last Line: With bayonet beak and cruel wings, the %intellectual cautiously creeping cat
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


MOCKING BIRD, by J. MACEKURA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: All through the night %with the mocking bird
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


MOCKING BIRDS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In mid-march in the heart of
Subject(s): Love; Mockingbirds


MOCKING BIRDS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In mid-march in the heart of
Last Line: With the songs of mocking birds
Subject(s): Love; Mockingbirds


MOCKING-BIRD, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: O condor, I marvel at you! You are flight
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


MOCKING-BIRD, by ELIZABETH COPMANN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The song that bursts and shatters
Last Line: Anguish of a sinner?
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


MOCKING-BIRD AND I, by ROMAN MAYORGA RIVAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The aztec mocking-bird, when caught and prisoned
Last Line: Unfeigned and fervent, in my own true song
Subject(s): Mockingbirds; Singing And Singers


MOCKINGBIRD, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Writing about you seems to tilt me
Last Line: You made me see as with two pairs of eyes, %two sensibilities: a siamese life
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


MOCKINGBIRD, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look one way and the sun is going down
Last Line: So well that, for a minute in the moonlight, %which one's the mockingbird? Which one's the world?
Subject(s): Birds; Mockingbirds


MOCKINGBIRD, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The racket from the eaves drove him to distraction-day and
Last Line: And his knowledge that the songs were not the bird's, but skill- %ful imitations
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


MOCKINGBIRD, by LEN ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They're all gone
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


MOCKINGBIRD, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is thunder in the snow
Last Line: Though dressed in the same quaker grey
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


MOCKINGBIRD MONTH, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A pupa of pain, I sat and lay one july
Last Line: I resolved to husband my own apprentice words
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


MOCKINGBIRD SUITE: 1. THE MOCKINGBIRD, by EDWARD BARTOK-BARATTA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sounds like crickets
Last Line: Lyrical on the blacktop at dawn
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


MOCKINGBIRDS, by JEFF MOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fly in, early summer, cusp
Last Line: Engaged for the full %of the season
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


MOCKINGBIRDS, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This morning
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


MOCKINGBIRDS, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This morning
Last Line: I was listening
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


MOCKINGBIRDS, by WILLIAM OLSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I found a pool of feathers today
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


MOONLIGHT SONG OF THE MOCKING-BIRD; A QUATRAIN, by WILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each golden note of music greets
Last Line: Had found its new birth in a bird.
Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Mockingbirds; Poetry & Poets


ODE TO A MOCKINGBIRD, by ANNE ARRINGTON TYSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: All hail blithe songster of the south
Last Line: Bird of the south, bird of the spring!
Subject(s): Mockingbirds; Southern States; South (u.s.)


PATRIOTIC TOUR AND POSTULATE OF JOY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, once, in washington
Last Line: To live by, in sunlight and moonlight, until they died
Subject(s): Mockingbirds; Patriotism; Washington, D.c.


PATRIOTIC TOUR AND POSTULATE OF JOY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, once, in washington
Last Line: To know what postulate of joy men have tried %to live by, in sunlight and moonlight, until they die
Subject(s): Mockingbirds; Patriotism; Washington, D.c.


THE FIRST MOCKING-BIRD IN SPRING, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Winged poet of vernal ethers!
Last Line: Find voice in thy bountiful strains to-day!
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


THE MOCKING BIRD, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Superb and sole, upon a plumed spray
Last Line: The life of yon trim shakespeare on the tree?
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


THE MOCKING BIRD, by FREDERIC SAUSER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The heat is overwhelming
Last Line: And from the cactus the call of the mocking-birds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise
Subject(s): Animals; Cattle; Fields; Mockingbirds; Singing & Singers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE MOCKING BIRD (AT NIGHT), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A golden pallor of voluptuous light
Last Line: Into remote and tender silences.
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


THE MOCKING-BIRD, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It has a strange wild note - that mocking-bird
Last Line: How he does sing, and scream, and mock us all.
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


THE MOCKING-BIRD, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear! Hear! Hear! / listen! The word
Last Line: For all he promises so well.
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


THE MOCKING-BIRD, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He didn't know much music
Last Line: When one bird could sing fer all!
Subject(s): Birds; Mockingbirds


THE MOCKING-BIRD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O heart that cannot sleep for song
Last Line: Leaps heavenward with thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


THE MOCKING-BIRD, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In mirth he mocks the other birds at noon
Last Line: His own wild song beneath the listening moon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Birds; Love; Mockingbirds; Moon


THE MOCKING-BIRD [IN A GARDEN], by EDNAH PROCTOR CLARKE HAYES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen to that bird! His song - what poet pens it?
Last Line: Pours the whole forest from one tiny throat!
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Mockingbirds


THE MOCKINGBIRD, by JOHN WARWICK DANIEL III    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like a herald rainbow springing from a cloud
Last Line: And I have learned the music of a passionate desire.
Subject(s): Memory; Mockingbirds; Music & Musicians


THE MOCKINGBIRD, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look one way and the sun is going down
Subject(s): Birds; Mockingbirds


THE NIGHT SONG, by MARY DELL ALLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A mocking bird sang at my window
Last Line: In the stillness of the night.
Subject(s): Love; Mockingbirds


TO A MOCKING-BIRD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy taunting happiness
Last Line: Beareth the blue, homeric, star-entangled tide!
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Mockingbirds; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


TO A MOCKING-BIRD: FROM TAORMINA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The nightingale has a golden heart
Last Line: With the free, proud heart of a man.
Subject(s): Birds; Life; Love; Mockingbirds; Nightingales; Tears


TO A MOCKINGBIRD, by PEARL H. LUEBKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little bird upon my sill
Last Line: Gloom dispelled and fear made glad.
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


TO OUR MOCKING-BIRD; DIED OF A CAT, MAY, 1878, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trillets of humor, - shrewest whistle-wit
Last Line: Baltimore, 1878.
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


TO THE MOCK-BIRD, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bird of the woodland, sing me a song
Last Line: This my time of minstrelsy, bright, sunny may.
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


TO THE MOCKING BIRD, by DUKE COLE MEREDITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Before the dawn while slumbers fade through dreams
Last Line: Provide the soul with messages that please.
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


TO THE MOCKING-BIRD, by ALBERT PIKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou glorious mocker of the world! I hear
Last Line: Over them pour thy song, like a rich flood of light.
Subject(s): Mockingbirds


TO THE MOCKINGBIRD, by RICHARD HENRY WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Winged mimic of the woods! Thou motley fool
Last Line: And sighing for thy motley coat again.
Subject(s): Mockingbirds