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Subject: WRENS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LITTLE WREN, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A wren dropped down on my window sill
Last Line: Which does god deems wisest, the sage or the wren?
Subject(s): Birds; Wrens


A WREN'S NEST, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the dwellings framed by birds
Last Line: In foresight, or in love.
Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Wrens


BELIEVING THE WREN, by JOHN D. BARGOWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wish there had been blood
Last Line: Turning the color of the sound %horned owls make at night
Subject(s): Birds; Wrens


CHILD'S TALK IN APRIL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish you were a pleasant wren
Last Line: And build our happy nest again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Birds; Wrens


FOR A WINTER WREN, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the first rain after a dry summer
Subject(s): Wrens


JENNY WREN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Her sight is short, she comes quite near
Last Line: Had starlings singing without stop.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Birds; Wrens


ONCE I COULD SAY, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Wrens


SONG OF A BROWN WREN IN WILD FIELDS, by CAO ZHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: High in the trees are sad strong winds
Last Line: It flew and flew till it touched the sky, %then came again down to thank the young man
Subject(s): Birds; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Wrens


THE CONTRAST, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within her gilded cage confined
Last Line: Or nature's darkling of this mossy shed?
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Parrots; Wrens


THE ENVIOUS WREN, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the ground lived a hen
Last Line: "and I guess I shall kill her to-night."
Subject(s): Birds; Envy; Wrens


THE GOLD-CRESTED WREN; HIS RELATION TO THE SONNET, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When my hand closed upon thee, worn and spent
Last Line: Shall plead for one last touch, - the crown of art.
Subject(s): Birds; Wrens


THE MARSH WREN, by RALPH METHVEN THOMSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: To think that such a tiny thing
Last Line: Unbounded faith in god!
Subject(s): Birds; Wrens


THE RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where's your kingdom, little king?
Last Line: There I'm happy as a king.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Birds; Wrens


THE SLEEP OF WOOD IN THE HOUSE OF WRENS, by GEORGE LOONEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's not the wrens but the girl in overalls and a blouse
Subject(s): Birds; Sleep; Wrens


THE THREE WRENS, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mr. Wren and his dear began early one year
Last Line: You must be one: -- as I never was, I can't say!
Subject(s): Birds; Wrens


THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONG OF THE WRENS: SPRING, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Birds' love and birds' song
Last Line: And all in a nest together.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Birds; Wrens


THE WREN, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why is the cuckoo's melody preferred
Last Line: The happy stories of the past again.
Subject(s): Birds; Wrens


TO A WREN ON CALVARY, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the unremarkable that will last,
Subject(s): Wrens; Death - Animals; Man-woman Relationships; Jesus Christ; Male-female Relations


VISIT OF THE WRENS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flying from out the gusty west
Last Line: Lost in a pure, ethereal grace!
Subject(s): Birds; Wrens