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| Searching... Subject: PARROTS Matches Found: 36 ADMIRABLE BIRD, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hers was a docile parrot of few words Last Line: It shrieked, and with that, they both retired Subject(s): Parrots BETWEEN NEIGHBORS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The complainant is a big man Subject(s): Neighbors; Dogs; Parrots DEPRECATING PARROTS, by BEULAH MAY Poem Source First Line: Shu-lin was a parrot who sat on the shoulder Subject(s): Parrots; Sea DUVAL'S BIRDS, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The parrot, screeching, flew out into the darkness, Last Line: The little white ones winked round yellow eyes Subject(s): Parrots ECHO, by HENRIQUETA LISBOA Poem Source First Line: Green parrot Last Line: But no one died Subject(s): Parrots FABLES: 1ST SER. 25. THE SCOLD AND THE PARROT, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The husband thus reprov'd his wife Last Line: The world with interest pays the debt. Subject(s): Parrots IF BIRD GETS NOISY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bird! Queen of the night! Last Line: Put sarong over cage) Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Loss; Nature; Parrots; Silence LONGEVITY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I watched one day a parrot grey - 'twas in a barber shop Last Line: Than parrot be, and live to see ten times a hundred years Subject(s): Cuckolds; Parrots MEDITATIONS OF A PARROT, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the rocks and the thimble Last Line: And all day: robin hood! Robin hood! Subject(s): Parrots MEDITATIONS OF A PARROT, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the rocks and the thimble Last Line: And all day: robin hood! Robin hood! Subject(s): Parrots NEXT MORNING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Next morning %when a damnfool parrot Last Line: Drowning out %the parrot's calls Subject(s): Erotic Love; Parrots OBITUARY, by WELDON KEES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Boris is dead. The fatalist parrot Last Line: And a black wreath decorates the door Subject(s): Parrots; Death - Animals PARROT, by MAX GUTMANN Poem Source First Line: Once upon a noon-time awful, as I pondered some unlawful Last Line: Pecking at me as I stand here where there ought to be a door, %feeding crackers evermore Subject(s): Parrots PARROT, by MA SHOU-CHEN Poem Source First Line: All day long I watch the parrot Last Line: Always companion to my boudoir feelings Subject(s): Parrots PARROT, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I pratyng parret am, to speake Last Line: Caesaer alhaile to thee Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Parrots PARROT IN FROSTLAND, by ROBERT HILL LONG Poem Source First Line: This is crazy. This is plainly wrong: to be Last Line: Green: burn the cold until it burns you out Subject(s): Parrots PRETTY POLLY, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An agile noisy jungle flower he flies Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Birds; Parrots SONG OF THE THREE SEEDS IN THE MACAW'S BEAK, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cracked by that accurate beak Last Line: The three seeds sung. Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Parrots; Seeds; Dead, The SPEAK PARROT, by JOHN SKELTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My name ys parott, a byrde of paradyse Last Line: Hinc mea dicteur skeltonidis inclita fama Subject(s): Parrots TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 4. A PARROT SEPARATED FROM ITS CAGE, by XUE TAO Poem Source First Line: It goes alone through longxi Last Line: Calling from its cage Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Parrots THE BLACKBIRD AND THE THRUSH, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's my idee,' a blackbird said Last Line: "and a parrot said: ""so do I." Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Fables; Farm Life; Parrots; Thrushes; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers THE CONTRAST, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within her gilded cage confined Last Line: Or nature's darkling of this mossy shed? Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Parrots; Wrens THE PARROT, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In painted plumes superbly drest Last Line: And women are the teachers. Subject(s): Parrots; Talk THE PARROT, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old professor of zoology Last Line: "but that was long ago! " Subject(s): Birds; Parrots THE PARROT, by JEAN PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN Poem Text First Line: Uncag'd one day Last Line: "but sing I never could." Subject(s): Birds; Parrots THE PARROT, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whiles, when I sit alone, I hear my soul Last Line: ... Then I cover it up, lest the dream should drive me mad. Subject(s): Birds; Parrots; Solitude; Loneliness THE PARROT AND THE EAGLE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A parrot to an eagle came Last Line: "to learn to be afraid." Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Fables; Flight; Parrots; Allegories; Flying THE PARROT; A DOMESTIC ANECDOTE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The deep affections of the breast Last Line: Dropped down, and died. Subject(s): Memory; Parrots THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 19, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Parrots live in western lands Last Line: Flying up in the clouds Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Parrots; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts THE RED COCKATOO, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sent as a present from annam Last Line: And shut it up inside. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Anti-intellectualism; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Parrots THE SAILOR TO HIS PARROT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou foul-mouthed wretch! Why dost thou choose Last Line: And you tell me to go to hell! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Parrots; Sea; Ocean THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON IN GRAY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Which pleased that old person in gray Subject(s): Parrots THOROUGHBRED, by RAFAEL OSES Poem Source First Line: Ramona has a very intelligent parrot named oliver Last Line: She whispers. He thinks of a word short for 'help.' Subject(s): Birds; Parrots TO A SULPHUR-CRESTED COCKATOO, by MARY NICHOL CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: Unflinching, cool, detached, of raiment proud Last Line: No man could ever mark me as unclean! Subject(s): Parrots TROPICAL PARROTS, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For us / there are no macro-worlds. No footing where we can Last Line: An eagle to descend long ago Subject(s): Parrots YELLOW BEAK, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man owns a green parrot with a yellow beak Subject(s): Life; Parrots |
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