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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SPARROWS Matches Found: 76 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GLIMPSE OF THE ETERNAL, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just now, / a sparrow lighted Subject(s): Sparrows A LITTLE COCK SPARROW SAT ON A GREEN TREE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: So he clapped his wings and away he flew Subject(s): Sparrows ALAS, ALL FOR A SPARROWHAWK I SIGH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: When once you were contented at my side Subject(s): Doves; Sparrows; Wings ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 83, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good brother philip, I have borne you long Last Line: Leave that, sir phip, lest off your neck be wrung. Subject(s): Sparrows BEE, THE ANT, AND THE SPARROW, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dears, 'tis said in days of old Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Sparrows CLARITAS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The all-day bird, the artist Subject(s): Nature; Sparrows CUCKOOS, LARKS, AND SPARROWS, by CAMILLA DOYLE Poem Source First Line: The cuckoo is a heartless bird Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Larks; Sparrows DID YOU EVER HEAR AN ENGLISH SPARROW SING?, by BERTHA JOHNSTON Poem Text First Line: What? An english sparrow sing? Last Line: I'm sure I'll hear that english sparrow sing. Subject(s): Sparrows ENGLISH SPARROW, by MARY ISABELLA FORSYTH Poem Source First Line: So dainty in plumage and hue Subject(s): Nature; Sparrows EPIGRAM: 6. POLITICAL REFLEXION, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No bars are set too close, no mesh too fine Last Line: Though the cage fret kings. You may make free with it Variant Title(s): The Sparrow In The Zo Subject(s): Sparrows; Zoos FABLE: THE BEE, THE ANT, AND THE SPARROW, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dears, 'tis said in days of old Last Line: The wicked, wanton sparrow died. Subject(s): Bees; Fables; Insects; Sparrows; Virtue; Beekeeping; Allegories; Bugs FIFTH GROUP OF VERSE: 9. DAVID, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow that does not leave my feet Last Line: And the sparrow follows mit gracefully Subject(s): Sparrows; Beetles; Death FIRST SONG-SPARROW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sunshine set to music! Subject(s): Sparrows FLIGHT OF THE SPARROWS, by MARYA ALEXANDROVNA ZATURENSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sparrows through the winters flying Last Line: Or does it explode? Subject(s): Sparrows FOX SPARROW, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: The geese drive northward Subject(s): Birds; Sparrows FRIEND SONG-SPARROW, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blithe little song-sparrow, friendly and cheery Last Line: Teach me the joy of your carolling days! Subject(s): Sparrows GESTURE, by ELIZABETH ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: Clouds overhead Last Line: Whose sparrows posed from a distance Subject(s): Birds; Sparrows HOUSE SPARROWS, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not of the wealthy, coral gables class Last Line: "rude canticles of ""summers"", ""summers"", ""summers" Subject(s): Sparrows HOUSE SPARROWS, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not of the wealthy, coral gables class Last Line: And, to the lovely honor of their race, %rude canticles of 'summers, summers, summers' Subject(s): Sparrows LAST AUTUMN, by GEORGE H. DILLON Poem Text First Line: Sparrows flock into a tree out of the gutter Last Line: And it is shadows I keep. Subject(s): Shadows; Sparrows LINES TO A SPARROW, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What shall we call thee - mouse o' the air Last Line: To find all times, come year, go year. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Sparrows LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 41, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blockheads, their holidays keeping Last Line: And softens my bosom to tears. Subject(s): Love; Nature; Sparrows; Tears MINUS ONE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full 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 ON THE DEATH OF LESBIA'S SPARROW, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Loves and graces mourn with me Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Sparrows ONE BIRD TO LOVE FOREVER, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were to pick one bird to love forever Subject(s): Sparrows PASSER MORTUUS EST, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death devours all lovely things Last Line: Now that love is perished? Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Death; Sparrows; Dead, The PSALM 84: THE SPARROW, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: The sparrow hath found an house Last Line: Without your father. Subject(s): Sparrows QUESTION, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: All morning long Last Line: In song? Subject(s): Sparrows; Youth RAPE OF THE NEST, by FRANCIS P. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: In early spring I watched two sparrows build Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Sparrows SIX MOVEMENTS; FOR MRS. EDWARD MACDOWELL: 6. SONG SPARROW, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stutters and stammers - a catch in his throat Last Line: A channel for opening the way to his mind. Variant Title(s): Song Sparrow's Limited Creativity Subject(s): Sparrows SPARROW, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No longer / country clubber Subject(s): Sparrows SPARROW, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When august hangs the bough with plums Last Line: For men and birds of wit and taste. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): August; Cities; Country Life; Sparrows; Urban Life SPARROW, by ALBERT DURRANT WATSON Poem Source First Line: A little meal of frozen cake Subject(s): Sparrows SPARROW, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This sparrow %who comes to sit at my window Last Line: This was I, %a sparrow. %I did my best; %farewell Subject(s): Sparrows SPARROW IS NOT BUSY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But hungry Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Hunger; Nature; Sparrows SPARROW TOOK A SLICE OF TWIG, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Was forfeited away Variant Title(s): Poem: 1211; Poem: 125 Subject(s): Sparrows SPARROW'S FEATHER, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was this empty bird cage in the garden Last Line: I hope the whole unimportant affair is %soon forgotten. The analogies are too trite Subject(s): Birdcages; Sparrows SPARROWS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring comes and autumn goes Last Line: Finality in sparrowdom Subject(s): Birds; Sparrows SPARROWS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where roof-ends rise up into dragons Last Line: To be caged once again in the dark. Subject(s): Buddhism; Salespersons; Sparrows; Buddha; Buddhists; Selling SPARROWS AMONG DRY LEAVES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sparrows by the iron fence post Last Line: Obscure and insatiable / appetite Subject(s): Sparrows SPARROWS AMONG DRY LEAVES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sparrows by the iron fence post Last Line: Obscure and insatiable appetite Subject(s): Sparrows SPARROWS SELF-DOMESTICATED IN TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: None ever shared the social feast Last Line: To suppliants, natives of the place? Subject(s): Sparrows STRANGER'S CHILD, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sparrow in the cobbled street Subject(s): Sparrows TEARS FOR A SPARROW, by JR. B. P. CHAMBERLAIN Poem Source First Line: There was a time when even sparrows died for cause Subject(s): Sparrows THE BUSH-SPARROW, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bushy pastures Last Line: And pays me every year. Subject(s): Sparrows THE CHURCH PORCH, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sparrows underneath thine eaves Last Line: One little pipe for thy delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Churches; God; Humility; Prayer; Sparrows; Cathedrals THE DEAD SPARROW, by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not of joy; there's none Last Line: To sing dirges o'er his stone. Variant Title(s): Lesbia Upon Her Sparrow Subject(s): Death - Animals; Sparrows THE DEAD SPARROW, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye cupids, droop each little head Last Line: Receptacle of life's decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Sparrows THE DISASTER, by MARY SAVAGE Poem Text First Line: By sparrows drawn, there's now no chance Last Line: And in my husband's chariot come. Subject(s): Pets; Sparrows THE FALL OF THE SPARROW, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are you dying, little bird Last Line: "poor and innocent as I." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sparrows THE LAMP AND THE GUITAR, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love, she lives in salamanca Last Line: Copy luisa—love all spain! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Sparrows; Women THE SONG SPARROW, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair little scout, that when the iron year Last Line: The classic lyrist and the classic flower. Subject(s): Sparrows THE SONG SPARROW, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a bird I know so well Last Line: "with ""sweet -- sweet -- sweet -- very merry cheer." Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Sparrows THE SPARROW, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little bird of dusty brown Last Line: Is that why you choose to stay? Subject(s): Birds; Sparrows THE SPARROW, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little bird with plumage brown Last Line: Nor know our loss till they are gone. Subject(s): African Americans; Sparrows; Negroes; American Blacks THE SPARROW, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sparrows; Food & Eating; Mothers; Miami Beach THE SPARROW, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This sparrow / who comes to sit at my window Subject(s): Sparrows THE SPARROW AND DIAMOND; A SONG, by MATTHEW GREEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lately saw, what now I sing Last Line: A venus kill her bird. Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Sparrows; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces THE SPARROW AND THE DEW-DROP, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When to the birds their morning meal I threw Last Line: Fie on thy little foot and thrumming wing! Subject(s): Sparrows THE SPARROW AND THE DOVE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was, as learn'd traditions say Last Line: And, sighing to himself, withdrew. Subject(s): Doves; Fables; Sparrows; Women; Allegories THE SPARROW'S FALL, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too frail to soar - a feeble thing Last Line: Like children, on our father's breast? Subject(s): Sparrows THE SPARROW'S LITTLE WINGS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The sparrow's little wings can bear him fast and high Last Line: Are safer and more curious than any made-up things Subject(s): Sparrows THE TURTLE AND SPARROW, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Behind an unfrequented glade Last Line: And knaves and prudes are six times married. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Fables; Grief; Sparrows; Turtles; Dead, The; Allegories; Sorrow; Sadness; Tortoises THE TWO SPARROWS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "two sparrows, votaries of love" Last Line: The ills that kindness fails to cure! Subject(s): Sparrows THE VESPER SPARROW, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear minstrel of the twilight fields Last Line: Till skies are filled with morning light. Subject(s): Sparrows THE WHITE-THROAT, by SUSAN GOLDMARK Poem Text First Line: Faint, far-off, haunting, hear! Last Line: Plaintively beautiful. Subject(s): Sparrows THE WHITE-THROATED SPARROW CAN'T COMPARE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had made it through so many winters Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Sparrows; Air Raids THREE SONGS: SPARROW, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chill to the marrow Last Line: Like sparrow one day Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Sparrows TO A SPARROW, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because you have no fear to mingle Last Line: And the snow is on the hill. Subject(s): Sparrows TO A SPARROW, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your perch is the branch Last Line: To complete the décor Subject(s): Sparrows TO SPARROWS FIGHTING, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Stop, feathered bullies! Last Line: Of anger, like the great. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Sparrows TO THE GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW IN ALASKA, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, minstrel of these borean hills Last Line: Between thy home and mine. Subject(s): Alaska; Nature; Sparrows UPON THE DEATH OF HIS SPARROW; AN ELEGIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why doe not all fresh maids appeare Last Line: Not virgil's gnat had such a tomb. Subject(s): Sparrows WHITE-THROAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The singing white-throat poured my gladness out Subject(s): Birds; Sparrows WINTER SPARROW, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first thing I heard early that morning Subject(s): Sparrows WISDOM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wisest of sparrows that sparrow which sitteth alone Last Line: Seated alone and in peace till god bids it arise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Yea, The Sparrow Hath Found An House Subject(s): Sparrows; Wisdom |
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