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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BIRD SONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             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