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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MIGRANT THRUSH, by MARY RUSSELL BARTLETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: For one rare moment on a naked spray
Last Line: Which stranger keeps a holy song within.
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes; Wellesley College


A THRUSH BEFORE DAWN, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A voice peals in this end of night
Last Line: O innocent throat! O human ear!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


A THRUSH IN SEVEN DIALS (A FACT OF NATURE IS HERE DISREGARDED), by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in this den of smoke and filth
Last Line: To stir your hearts and dim your eyes.
Subject(s): Birds; Cages; Thrushes


A THRUSH IN THE MONLIGHT, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In came the moon and covered me with wonder
Last Line: And the moon came in, and silence, on my window-sill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


A YOUNG THRUSH, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: What power of will - to follow now
Last Line: Am happy to be gone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Birds; Death; Thrushes; Dead, The


AFTER RAINFALL, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The thrush starts singing down the road
Last Line: I jotting down this laughing song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Birds; Rain; Thrushes


ALL PASSES, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet, sweet, the lusty thrush
Last Line: Alack, that songs have wings!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Summer; Thrushes


AN ECHO, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Keats! Keats!
Last Line: His brother-bird.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Birds; Echoes; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Thrushes


ARTICULATE THRUSH, by LEW SARETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, you and I, wild thrush - we share
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


BALLAD OF THE THRUSH, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the noisy street
Last Line: Sing on, sing on, o thrush!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


DAWN, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the dark linked loveliness of lakes
Last Line: Shake off the dew that moment when he sings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Thrushes; Sunrise


DAWN, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All night the wind wove evil in the hills
Last Line: And christ walked clear-eyed, radiant through the dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Thrushes; Sunrise


ELEGY ON A YOUNG THRUSH, WHICH ESAPED ... COULD NOT BE FOUND, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mistaken bird, ah whither hast thou strayed?
Last Line: The good he well discerns through folly miss?
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


HARK! 'TIS THE THRUSH, UNDAUNTED, UNDEPREST, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Thrilled by loose snatches of the social lay
Subject(s): Thrushes


HERMIT THRUSH, by NELLY HART WOODWORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who rings new england's angelus?
Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Thrushes


HERMIT THRUSH IN THE CATSKILLS, by WILLIAM GRIFFITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Harken the song of the thrush
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


HERMIT-THRUSH SEXTONS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the hushed and reverent woodland
Last Line: When we hear the hermit's call.
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


IN OUR WOODS, SOMETIMES A RARE MUSIC, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every spring / I hear the thrush singing
Subject(s): Thrushes


MISSING, by ESTHER BARSTOW HAMMAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: The thrush who owns my cottonwood
Last Line: At spring's glad reveille.
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


MY THRUSH, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All through the sultry hours of june
Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


ODE TO THE MISSEL THRUSH, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The winter solstice scarce is past
Last Line: Thy song of hope and fortitude.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


ON A THRUSH SINGING IN AUTUMN, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet singer of the spring, when the new world
Last Line: "tis sweeter to remember than forget."
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


OVERFLOW, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hush! / with sudden gush
Last Line: O'er grief and wrong.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


QUAIL AND THRUSH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The quail's staccato call from out the wood
Last Line: Blent in with memories, borne on last year's wind.
Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Memory; Thrushes; Woods


RONDEL - THE WOOD-THRUSH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the twilight of the trees
Last Line: In the twilight!
Subject(s): Birds; Evening; Forests; Singing & Singers; Thrushes; Sunset; Twilight; Woods


SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 1., by BASIL BUNTING    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A thrush in the syringa sings
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 1., by BASIL BUNTING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A thrush in the syringa sings
Last Line: O gay thrush!
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


SHAKESPEARE IN THE THRUSH, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who sings so more than passing sweet
Last Line: And gods go large in warwickshire!
Subject(s): Birds; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Thrushes; Warwickshire, England; Dramatists


SIX MOVEMENTS; FOR MRS. EDWARD MACDOWELL: 2. HERMIT THRUSH, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's hard to count what an air can do
Last Line: Don't even know now what the air or the wind did.
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


SONG OF THE HERMIT THRUSH, by JAMES B. THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: From casco bay %to farallon
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


SONG OF THE THRUSH, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ah! The may was grand this mornin'!
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


SONG OF THE THRUSH, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere in the forest evening sits a thrush
Last Line: Nothingness as it dissolves within the core of the setting sun
Subject(s): Birds; Singing And Singers; Thrushes


SONG: 3, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: O thrush, in what deep glades
Last Line: From drops of the chilled rain?
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


SONGS OUT OF SORROW: WOOD SONG, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard a wood thrush in the dusk
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


SONNET ON HEARING A THRUSH SING IN JANUARY, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing on, sweet thrush, upon the leafless bough
Last Line: The mite high heav'n bestow'd, that mite with thee I'll share.
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


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 BROWN THRUSH, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a merry brown thrush sitting up in the tree
Last Line: Unless we're as good as can be!
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


THE CAGED THRUSH FREED AND HOME AGAIN; VILLANELLE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men know but little more then we
Last Line: How happy days are made to be.'
Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Thrushes; Joy; Delight


THE DARKLING THRUSH, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I leant upon a coppice gate
Last Line: And I was unaware.
Subject(s): Birds; Despair; Hope; Thrushes; Optimism


THE DEAD THRUSH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love of nest and mate and young
Last Line: Melt in rhapsodies of rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Thrushes


THE FIRST THRUSH, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The thrush begins again
Last Line: In earth's fields long ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birds; Spring; Thrushes


THE HERMIT THRUSH, by JOHN BURROUGHS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the primal forest's hush
Last Line: A benediction on the air.
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


THE HERMIT THRUSH, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Only through grace of keats have I yet heard
Last Line: In that song-shaken air!
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


THE HERMIT THRUSH, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wonderful! How liquid clear
Last Line: And we will drink the wine of love with you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Birds; Love; Thrushes


THE MUSIC-LESSON, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A thrush alit on a young-leaved spray
Last Line: Hymn of rejoicing in praise of their love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


THE THRUSH, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll pay my rent in music,' said a thrush
Last Line: That helps to fit him for the choir of heaven.
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


THE THRUSH AND THE MAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time to get up! Time to get up! Says the thrush
Last Line: Time to get up! O thrush, I rise—I hear!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Advice; Birds; Calm; Mankind; Noises; Thrushes; Waking; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Human Race


THE THRUSH IN FEBRUARY, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know him, february's thrush
Last Line: The crocus lays her cheek to mire.
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


THE THRUSH'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush
Last Line: Glad as that sunshine and the laughing sky.
Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Thrushes


THE THRUSH'S SONG, by WILLIAM MACGILLIVRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear, dear, dear / is the rocky glen
Last Line: Quiu, qui, qui.
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


THE TWO NESTS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wise thrush, the wise thrush, she choseth well her tree
Last Line: Oh, pitiful her perished dreams to see.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Girls; Reason; Thrushes; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE VEERY-THRUSH, by JOSEPH RUSSELL TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blow softly, thrush, upon the hush
Last Line: Breathe it, veery-thrush!
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes; Veeries


THE WINGED MARINERS, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the wild night, the silence and the dark
Last Line: Still points to home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Thrushes


THE WOOD THRUSH, by SUSAN SHARP ADAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: At eve I hear him in the woods
Last Line: To reproduce his wildwood lay.
Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Singing & Singers; Thrushes; Songs


THRUSH, by LAURA BENET    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God bade the birds break not the silent spell
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


THRUSH, by TIMOTHY CORSELLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I plucked a throstle from the throat of god
Last Line: Lord, much loved you her full-throated song; %lord, pray forgive me - I did wrong
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes; War


THRUSH, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even earlier yet this listening thrush
Last Line: To help her feed her family!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


THRUSH, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When winter's dead
Last Line: And that's ahead and behind
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes; Winter


THRUSHES, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ten days I watched beside a thrushes' nest
Last Line: And caught by the neck and hung and strangled there
Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K.
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


THRUSHES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tossed on the glittering air they soar and skim
Last Line: And storms the gate of nothingness for proof.
Subject(s): Birds; Soldiers' Writings; Thrushes; World War I; First World War


TO A DEAD THRUSH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though silence shuts the gate of song
Last Line: The groves of memory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Thrushes


TO A HERMIT THRUSH, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dweller among leaves, and shining twilight boughs
Last Line: My wings must fail e'en with my song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Thrushes


TO A NIGHTINGALE, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet bird, that sing'st away the early hours
Last Line: To ayres of spheres, yea, and to angels' layes
Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William
Variant Title(s): Sonnet: Sweet Bird; To The Nightingale (1); The Thrus
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


TO A TAWNY THRUSH, by MAX EASTMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pine spirit!
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


TO A THRUSH, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sing clear, o throstle!
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


TWO THRUSHES MET, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two thrushes met upon an april day
Last Line: And sang a simple song of love and glee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


WHAT THE THRUSH SAID, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou whose face hath felt the winter's wind
Last Line: And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.
Variant Title(s): "o Thou Whose Face Hath Felt The Winter's Wind"";what The Thrush Seemed To Say;
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes


WHAT THE THRUSH SAYS, by QUEENIE SCOTT-HOPPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come and see! Come and see!
Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes