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Subject: STARLINGS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHILD'S SONG, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The starlings they have come to town
Last Line: Creak, creak, pipe, pipe, squeak, squeak, sweet!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Starlings


A PLAGUE OF STARLINGS (FISK CAMPUS), by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Evenings I hear / the workmen fire
Subject(s): Fisk University; Starlings


AGAINST STARLINGS, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their song is almost painful the way it
Subject(s): Starlings


AGAINST STARLINGS, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their song is almost painful the way it
Subject(s): Starlings


MANEUVER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the two starlings
Last Line: That's what got me--to %face into the wind's teeth
Subject(s): Starlings


PLAGUE OF STARLINGS (FISK CAMPUS), by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Evenings I hear %the workmen fire
Last Line: In the piercing dark %above the killed
Subject(s): Fisk University; Starlings


SEPTEMBER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Starlings gather in their thousands on the wires
Last Line: On a cloth drying on a windowsill %a wasp is dying.
Subject(s): Starlings; Waiting


STARLING, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little lame tailor sat stitching and snarling
Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas
Subject(s): Starlings


STARLING, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The starling in the ivy now
Last Line: To show—his mother's eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Death; Starlings; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War


STARLINGS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: This time of year, when but the robin sings
Last Line: With wicked music waste my sweetest pears?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Starlings


STARLINGS, by LYDIA PENDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like crumbs from someone's shaken tablecloth
Last Line: A cloud of birds, into the cloudless sky
Subject(s): Animals; Starlings


STARLINGS IN WINTER, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chunky and noisy
Subject(s): Starlings


STARLINGS ON THE ROOF, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No smoke spreads out of this chimney-pot
Last Line: Till they move their last - no care to pack!'
Subject(s): Moving & Movers; Starlings


THE DEATH OF THE STARTLING, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pity, mourn in plaintive tone
Last Line: Softly stroke the stiffened wing.
Subject(s): Death - Animals; Starlings


THE MANOEUVRE , by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the two starlings
Last Line: Face into the wind's teeth
Subject(s): Starlings


THE STARLING, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's an odd thing how one changes!
Last Line: Yes, it's strange how one changes! . . .
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Starlings


THE STARLING; OR NEST-TALK AND FEAR-TALK, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor bird! Why with such energy reprove
Last Line: Renewed, and knit our indoor bond again.
Subject(s): Starlings


THE STARLINGS, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Early in spring time, on raw and windy mornings
Last Line: "sad, sad, to think that the year is all but done."
Subject(s): Starlings; Time