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| Searching... Subject: SWALLOWS Matches Found: 82 A BIRD SONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's a year almost that I have not seen her Last Line: To build this weather one nest together. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Swallows A PAIR OF SWALLOWS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Together first they plan a nest Last Line: From ghostland speeding, must they go. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Swallows A SWALLOW, by EUENUS Poem Text First Line: Attic maid! With honey fed Last Line: That a songster may be fed. Variant Title(s): To The Swallow Subject(s): Swallows ARCHERY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bow across the sky Last Line: Like arrows from a quiver. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Archers And Archery; Swallows ASK THE SWALLOWS WHY!, by MILDRED HANNAN Poem Text First Line: A very young moon Last Line: In sudden haste to fly the other way. Subject(s): Moon; Sky; Swallows BATDOM, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: The swallow, by the evening light Subject(s): Swallows BLUE SWALLOWS, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across the millstream below the bridge Last Line: Adorns intelligible things %because the mind's eye lit the sun Subject(s): Birds; Swallows BUDDHA'S SWALLOW, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Text First Line: When his new gospel had consoled mankind Last Line: In one deep sob to weep a swallow's death. Subject(s): Buddhism; Swallows; Buddha; Buddhists DARK-WINGED SWALLOWS WILL RETURN, by GUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: They will not love you so! Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Swallows EACH SUMMER'S SWALLOWS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How do they know Last Line: Us even in air Subject(s): Swallows EACH SUMMER'S SWALLOWS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How do they know Last Line: Again is not there Subject(s): Swallows EVENING: A STUDIO IN ROME, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The window here is hung in the west wall Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Swallows FEAR IS A SWALLOW, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Seeking a window out Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fear; Nature; Swallows FORESHADOWED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swallow, with the spring returning Last Line: Mourns that doomful prophecy. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Swallows HAVEN OF THE SWALLOWS, by LILLIAN PARCEL Poem Text First Line: The padres walk again the trodden ground Last Line: The padre souls will bless the swallow band. Subject(s): San Juan Capistrano, California; Swallows IDYL, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The swallows made twitter incessant Last Line: To build them together a nest. Subject(s): Swallows IN PRAISE OF SWALLOWS, by HO NANSOLHON Poem Source First Line: Deep in the painted house, the blue screen is drooping Last Line: In which to bring up their fledglings year after year Subject(s): Swallows IN THE CATHEDRAL CLOSE, by EDWARD DOWDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dean's porch a nest of clay Last Line: Shall move from the maestro's soul. Subject(s): Swallows ITYLUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swallow, my sister, o sister swallow Last Line: But the world shall end when I forget. Subject(s): Swallows MAN PORTRAIT, by MARION JUDD Poem Text First Line: Look out!,' she exclaimed Last Line: He swallowed the bone. Subject(s): Swallows MY SWALLOWS, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For hours I sit here facing the white wall Subject(s): Swallows MY SWALLOWS, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For hours I sit here facing the white wall Last Line: Sitting against my wall, closing my eyes, %singing my dirges Subject(s): Swallows NEW SWALLOWS, by CH'IEN WEN OF LIANG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In reponse to the season new birds return Last Line: Through windows they're blocked by the dancers' gowns Alternate Author Name(s): Jian-wen; Xiao Gang; Ch'ien Wen-ti Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Swallows NOON SONGS, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Swallows ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in each revolving year Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Swallows; Seasons; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE TO THE SWALLOW, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou indeed, little swallow Last Line: Can I bear all this rout of a hundred and more loves? Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Swallows ODE TO THE SWALLOW, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Thou bringest summer on thy steel-blue pinions! Last Line: Low whispereth, 'summer—summer is fled!' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Swallows ON SHOOTING A SWALLOW IN EARLY YOUTH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hoard a little spring of secret tears Last Line: I seem to love the little ghost I made. Subject(s): Death - Animals; Swallows RHODIAN SWALLOW-SONG, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She has come, she has come, the swallow! Last Line: Open, open your door to the swallow! Subject(s): Greece; Guests; Swallows; Greeks; Visiting SIX MOVEMENTS; FOR MRS. EDWARD MACDOWELL: 5. SWALLOWS, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They're not going travelling for many a day Last Line: He'll be but a lover: another st francis. Subject(s): Swallows SIXTH-MONTH SONG IN THE FOOTHILLS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the cold shed sharpening saws Subject(s): Swallows SIXTH-MONTH SONG IN THE FOOTHILLS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the cold shed sharpening saws Last Line: Fly in to my shed Subject(s): Swallows SONGS TO A.H.R.: 7. SWALLOWS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a room that we love Last Line: And happy swallows ranging. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dreams; Love; Silence; Swallows; Nightmares SWALLOW, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Swift goes the sooty swallow o'er the heath Last Line: Its daily twittering is a song to spring Subject(s): Spring; Swallows SWALLOW, by BENNETT WEAVER Poem Text First Line: Swallow, swallow, swiftly you and I Last Line: Here where the light was fresh upon my face. Subject(s): Birds; Swallows SWALLOW CHICKS ON RAINY DAY, by THORKILD BJORNVIG Poem Source First Line: There they sat Last Line: The seventh with an insect Subject(s): Swallows SWALLOW FLIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love my hour of wind and light Last Line: Like swallows under evening skies, Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Swallows SWALLOW SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The swallow comes winging / her way to us here Last Line: "open the door to the swallow, then / for we are children and not old men" Subject(s): Swallows SWALLOW SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: She is here, she is here, the swallow Last Line: No grave old men, but merry children we Subject(s): Swallows SWALLOW'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here down the meadow runs a path Last Line: Then 'twit' and in the water dip, %and 'twit' and hurry back again Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Swallows SWALLOW-FLIGHTS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from the wind-swept country of my heart Last Line: Leave me but peace Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Swallows SWALLOWS, by EDWARD DOWDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wide fields of air left luminous Last Line: The larger ordinance obey. Subject(s): Swallows SWALLOWS, by AFANASI AFANASIEVICH FET Poem Text First Line: On nature ever idly spying Last Line: And yearn to scoop a drop away? Alternate Author Name(s): Foeth, Afanasy Afanasyveicht; Fet, Afanasy Subject(s): Swallows SWALLOWS, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the light softens just before it wanes Last Line: Love's perfect law of liberty we miss. Subject(s): Swallows SWALLOWS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the roofs the swallows fly Last Line: They would not fly again. Subject(s): Flight; Prayer; Swallows; Flying SWALLOWS, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little hearts, beat home, beat home Last Line: A place where wandering wings may sleep. Subject(s): Swallows SWALLOWS COMING, by ZHAO CAIJI Poem Source First Line: Sitting alone I lower the silk curtain Last Line: Which return once a year Subject(s): Swallows TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 5. A SWALLOW SEPARATED FROM THE NEST, by XUE TAO Poem Source First Line: In and out through crimson gates Last Line: Up among the rafters Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Swallows THE BLUE SWALLOWS, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the millstream below the bridge Subject(s): Birds; Swallows THE CATHEDRAL OF SWALLOWS, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who knows if god love these not more Last Line: A huddle of houses, old, and brown. Subject(s): Churches; Religion; Swallows; Cathedrals; Theology THE CLIFF SWALLOWS, by DEBRA NYSTROM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it some turn of wind Subject(s): Swallows THE DEPARTURE OF THE SWALLOW, by WILLIAM HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And is the swallow gone? Last Line: That a void is left below. Subject(s): Birds; Swallows THE FIRST SWALLOW, by SARAH JOSEPHA BUELL HALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out on the wisdom frozen Last Line: Earth's lowliest lot may bless. Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Sara; Hale, Sarah Josepha Subject(s): Swallows; Wisdom THE HAPPY BIRDS, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All about the gable tall, swift the swallows flit, Last Line: Leave to winter's bitterness our glad and gay good-bye. Subject(s): Summer; Swallows THE LOVE KISS OF DERMID AND GRAINNE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When by the twilit sea these twain were come Last Line: Far in a phantom dell against a phantom deer. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Death; Kisses; Love Affairs; Magic; Mythology - Celtic; Snakes; Swallows; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers THE NESTING SWALLOWS, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer day was spoiled with fitful storm. Last Line: To make me glad and grateful. That is all. Subject(s): Nature; Summer; Swallows THE NIGHT-WIND OF AUGUST, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For hours I sit here facing the white wall Last Line: Singing my dirges Subject(s): Swallows THE PLEA OF THE SHOT SWALLOW, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In teos once, bedewed with odours fine Last Line: Sweet as his dainty ode thy dirge should be. Subject(s): Swallows THE RETURN OF THE SWALLOWS, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the meadows the young grass springs Last Line: "to-morrow the swallows will northward fly!" Subject(s): Swallows THE SWALLOW, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Foolish prater, what dost thou Last Line: Tho' men say thou bring'st the spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Dreams; Swallows; Nightmares THE SWALLOW, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O swallow chirping in the sparkling eaves Last Line: Fare hence, false prophet! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Swallows THE SWALLOW, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At play in april skies that spread Last Line: But leave our love cemented. Subject(s): Birds; Swallows THE SWALLOW, by JEANNE MARIE BOUVIER DE LA MOTTE GUYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am fond of the swallow - I learn from her flight Last Line: That leads to the dayspring appearing above. Alternate Author Name(s): Guion, De La Mothe; Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvieres De La Mothe; Guyon Du Chesnoy Subject(s): Swallows THE SWALLOW, by PAMPHILUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day I heard your high heart-broken laughter Last Line: Your maidenhood, and tereus, king of thrace? Alternate Author Name(s): Pamphilus Of Alexandria Subject(s): Swallows THE SWALLOW, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gorse is yellow on the heath Last Line: By him who gives her laws. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Fables; Swallows; Allegories THE SWALLOW, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Skim o'er the tide Last Line: That woos all nature to her silent rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Swallows THE SWALLOW'S NEST, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the church with pray'r go by Last Line: God dwelleth too. Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Churches; God; Swallows; Cathedrals THE SWALLOW'S NOTE, by GRACE E. TOLLEMACHE Poem Text First Line: The swallow's cry that's so forlorn Last Line: On the wild rose-bush, bare! Subject(s): Swallows THE SWALLOWS, by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS Poem Text First Line: Night long I sigh, and soon as comes the day Last Line: A dream and fold me in rhodanthe's arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Agathias Scholasticos Subject(s): Swallows THE SWALLOWS, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: On the moorish coast, chain-tethered Last Line: "sorrow's burden do you bring?" Subject(s): Swallows THE WINGED WORSHIPPERS; ADDRESSED TO TWO SWALLOWS .. DURING SERVICE, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gay, guiltless pair Last Line: And nature's own great god adore. Subject(s): Birds; Churches; Swallows; Worship; Cathedrals THE WOOD-SWALLOWS (SUNRISE), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lightning-stricken giant gum Last Line: Dart joyous midst the sunrise-glow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Swallows TO A SWALLOW, by EUENUS Poem Source First Line: Relish honey. If you please Last Line: That poets should each other eat Subject(s): Swallows TO A SWALLOW BUILDING UNDER THE EAVES [AT CRAIGENPUTTOCK], by JANE WELSH CARLYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, too, hast travelled, little fluttering thing Last Line: Would I were such! Alternate Author Name(s): Carlyle, Thomas, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Swallows TO THE SWALLOW, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear bird, thy tunes and sportings here Last Line: They give my soul no rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Swallows TO THE SWALLOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "gentle swallow, thou we know" Last Line: O my heart by turns to tire? Subject(s): Swallows TO THE SWALLOWS, by AUGUSTE LACAUSSADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swift-winged wanderers, in your race Last Line: And the sun accompany. Subject(s): Swallows TUNE: JU-MENG LING. TITLE: SWALLOWS, by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Not all the swallows have left with the spring Last Line: With a smile, I reply, 'no, you mustn't' Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Swallows; Women VOICE OF THE SWALLOW, FLITTERING, CALLS TO ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Love never harmed a winged creature Subject(s): Swallows WEATHER BIRD, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's hard to decide whether the weather-swallow Subject(s): Swallows; Weather WHAT THE SWALLOWS SAY, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dry leaves drop silently and cover Last Line: With swallows to eternal spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Migration; Swallows; Winter WINGS AT DAWN, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn is dense with twitter Last Line: And their wings are split silver as they pass. Subject(s): Dawn; Swallows; Wings; Sunrise |
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