christineredgate
Winner of the Copeland Wildlife Photographer of th
Great selection of poems here.The one by Emily Dickinson reminds me of our stormy weather here at the moment!!!
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Nerine
Well-known member
Hope things are calming down for you now, Christine. It's been pretty horrendous down here too!
Wonderful ED, Andrew, thanks! Thanks also to you and Steve for the Roger
McGoughs, interesting poems.
Back to Brian Patten whose poetry rather fascinates me. This one is not about birds but I love it!
The Minister for Exams
When I was a child I sat an exam.
The test was so simple
There was no way I could fail.
Q1. Describe the taste of the moon.
It tastes like Creation I wrote,
it has the flavour of starlight.
Q2. What colour is Love?
Love is the colour of the water a man
lost in the desert finds, I wrote.
Q3. Why do snowflakes melt?
I wrote, they melt because they fall
onto the warm tongue of God.
There were other questions.
They were as simple.
I described the grief of Adam when he was expelled from Eden.
I wrote down the exact weight of an elephant's dream.
Yet today, many years later,
For my living I sweep the streets
or clean out the toilets of the fat hotels.
Why? Because I constantly failed my exams.
Why? Well, let me set a test.
Q1. How large is a child's imagination?
Q2. How shallow is the soul of the Minister for Exams?
Brian Patten
I'm off to Brittany tomorrow for a couple of weeks.
Best wishes to all
Nerine
scampo
Steve Campsall
A fine poem, Nerine. Patten hits the nail on the head, that's for sure. Here's one of his that I taught for GCSE English. I recall the students enjoyed discussing what it means:
Sometimes it happens
And sometimes it happens that you are friends and then
You are not friends
And friendship has passed.
And whole days are lost and among them
A fountain empties itself.
And sometimes it happens that you are loved and then
You are not loved,
And love is past.
And whole days are lost and among them
A fountain empties itself into the grass.
And sometimes you want to speak to her and then
You do not want to speak,
Then opportunity has passed.
Your dreams flare up, they suddenly vanish.
And also it happens that there is nowhere to go and then
There is somewhere to go,
Then you have bypassed.
And the years flare up and are gone,
Quicker than a minute.
So you have nothing.
You wonder if these things matter and then
As soon as you begin to wonder if these things matter
They cease to matter,
And caring is past.
And a fountain empties itself into the grass.
Brian Patten
I hope you have a lovely time in Brittany!
Sometimes it happens
And sometimes it happens that you are friends and then
You are not friends
And friendship has passed.
And whole days are lost and among them
A fountain empties itself.
And sometimes it happens that you are loved and then
You are not loved,
And love is past.
And whole days are lost and among them
A fountain empties itself into the grass.
And sometimes you want to speak to her and then
You do not want to speak,
Then opportunity has passed.
Your dreams flare up, they suddenly vanish.
And also it happens that there is nowhere to go and then
There is somewhere to go,
Then you have bypassed.
And the years flare up and are gone,
Quicker than a minute.
So you have nothing.
You wonder if these things matter and then
As soon as you begin to wonder if these things matter
They cease to matter,
And caring is past.
And a fountain empties itself into the grass.
Brian Patten
I hope you have a lovely time in Brittany!
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scampo
Steve Campsall
A friend loaned me an anthology of railway poetry and it has some real gems in it. I thought I'd post a few. The anthology is called "Marigolds grow wild on platforms".
The first poem here struck me to the heart. Such compactness but such power - how is it possible?
Parting in Wartime
How long ago Hector took off his plume,
Not wanting that his little son should cry,
Then kissed his sad Andromache good-bye —
And now we three in Euston waiting-room.
Frances Cornford
I don't know why but for all its simplicity, this next one took me a couple of readings before it hit me. But when it did, it hit hard:
Daniel
sets up a plastic train set
on the table of a train
travelling from Tiverton to Bristol.
‘Wind up the engine Mum.
Look it’s frightened the donkey
by the bridge.
When this treatment’s finished
can we go to London?’
She helps him on with his sweater
fastens the buttons at the neck
settles a green cap on his bald head.
Patricia Pogson (b. 1944)
This one is so wistful. Just a charming poem...
Girl in a Train
You wear your calm
Like porcelain
Taking cool and fragile care
Not to look at me.
But your reflected self
Mirrored in the window,
Moving through the leafless trees,
Mistily over frosted fields
Blooded with winter sun,
That self regards my reflection
Boldly, steadily.
It is our ghosts who sit
In these substantial seats;
Our honest selves
Kiss in the glass.
Frank Rickards (b. 1919)
And now for something extremely clever - and wonderful!
Not Adlestrop
Not Adlestrop, no – besides, the name
hardly matters. Nor did I languish in June heat.
Simply, I stood, too early, on the empty platform,
and the wrong train came in slowly, surprised, stopped.
Directly facing me, from a window,
a very, very pretty girl leaned out.
When I, all instinct,
stared at her, she, all instinct, inclined her head away
as if she'd divined the much married life in me,
or as if she might spot, up platform,
some unlikely familiar.
For my part, under the clock, I continued
my scrutiny with unmitigated pleasure.
And she knew it, she certainly knew it, and would
glance at me in the silence of not Adlestrop.
Only when the train heaved noisily, only
when it jolted, when it slid away, only then,
daring and secure, she smiled back at my smile,
and I, daring and secure, waved back at her waving.
And so it was, all the way down the hurrying platform
as the train gathered atrocious speed
towards Oxfordshire or Gloucestershire.
Dannie Abse (b. 1923)
I could whole-heartedly recommend the anthology to all of you - there are so many like the above contained in it.
The first poem here struck me to the heart. Such compactness but such power - how is it possible?
Parting in Wartime
How long ago Hector took off his plume,
Not wanting that his little son should cry,
Then kissed his sad Andromache good-bye —
And now we three in Euston waiting-room.
Frances Cornford
I don't know why but for all its simplicity, this next one took me a couple of readings before it hit me. But when it did, it hit hard:
Daniel
sets up a plastic train set
on the table of a train
travelling from Tiverton to Bristol.
‘Wind up the engine Mum.
Look it’s frightened the donkey
by the bridge.
When this treatment’s finished
can we go to London?’
She helps him on with his sweater
fastens the buttons at the neck
settles a green cap on his bald head.
Patricia Pogson (b. 1944)
This one is so wistful. Just a charming poem...
Girl in a Train
You wear your calm
Like porcelain
Taking cool and fragile care
Not to look at me.
But your reflected self
Mirrored in the window,
Moving through the leafless trees,
Mistily over frosted fields
Blooded with winter sun,
That self regards my reflection
Boldly, steadily.
It is our ghosts who sit
In these substantial seats;
Our honest selves
Kiss in the glass.
Frank Rickards (b. 1919)
And now for something extremely clever - and wonderful!
Not Adlestrop
Not Adlestrop, no – besides, the name
hardly matters. Nor did I languish in June heat.
Simply, I stood, too early, on the empty platform,
and the wrong train came in slowly, surprised, stopped.
Directly facing me, from a window,
a very, very pretty girl leaned out.
When I, all instinct,
stared at her, she, all instinct, inclined her head away
as if she'd divined the much married life in me,
or as if she might spot, up platform,
some unlikely familiar.
For my part, under the clock, I continued
my scrutiny with unmitigated pleasure.
And she knew it, she certainly knew it, and would
glance at me in the silence of not Adlestrop.
Only when the train heaved noisily, only
when it jolted, when it slid away, only then,
daring and secure, she smiled back at my smile,
and I, daring and secure, waved back at her waving.
And so it was, all the way down the hurrying platform
as the train gathered atrocious speed
towards Oxfordshire or Gloucestershire.
Dannie Abse (b. 1923)
I could whole-heartedly recommend the anthology to all of you - there are so many like the above contained in it.
Steve,
Thanks for the lovely poems with trains as a metaphor. I've spent many hours of traveling by train, mostly very pleasant hours in the U.K. and some not so pleasant hours aboard a train in Eastern Europe! I especially liked the Richards poem "Girl in a Train." The image of reflections is wonderful:
It is our ghosts who sit
In these substantial seats;
Our honest selves
Kiss in the glass.
(last stanza)
Reminds me of a poem from years and years ago that I wrote:
Reflections
The reflections
seen
in mirrors unbroken
give only one
view of who we
are;
But silvered
shards of mirror
reflect multiple
images
of miniature
faces
with nothing
omitted,
just the angles are varied.
B. Wise
(“Reflections” was originally published in Baraza at University of Central Oklahoma in 1985. The following year Baraza became New Plains Review.)
Thanks for the lovely poems with trains as a metaphor. I've spent many hours of traveling by train, mostly very pleasant hours in the U.K. and some not so pleasant hours aboard a train in Eastern Europe! I especially liked the Richards poem "Girl in a Train." The image of reflections is wonderful:
It is our ghosts who sit
In these substantial seats;
Our honest selves
Kiss in the glass.
(last stanza)
Reminds me of a poem from years and years ago that I wrote:
Reflections
The reflections
seen
in mirrors unbroken
give only one
view of who we
are;
But silvered
shards of mirror
reflect multiple
images
of miniature
faces
with nothing
omitted,
just the angles are varied.
B. Wise
(“Reflections” was originally published in Baraza at University of Central Oklahoma in 1985. The following year Baraza became New Plains Review.)
Here's another "train" sort of poem, which I don't suppose has much to do with birds:
Shades of Gray (from a train in Wales)
lush green meadows
ochre yellow gorse
punctuate the sentences
of gray stone walls
ranging from silver white rock
to blackened slate
as if an artist smudged
charcoal across the surface
when the gray rains
fall and the white rock
streaks gray and
slate rooftops shelter gray
stucco and rock houses
where gray spirits
live and die.
when the gray sea
pushes and pulls
to meet the rocks,
gray sands lie bare and
above it all—
lush green meadows
ochre yellow gorse
punctuate the grayness
bringing forth the
beauty of the land
despite its being a
gray
country.
Bertha Wise
2001
Shades of Gray (from a train in Wales)
lush green meadows
ochre yellow gorse
punctuate the sentences
of gray stone walls
ranging from silver white rock
to blackened slate
as if an artist smudged
charcoal across the surface
when the gray rains
fall and the white rock
streaks gray and
slate rooftops shelter gray
stucco and rock houses
where gray spirits
live and die.
when the gray sea
pushes and pulls
to meet the rocks,
gray sands lie bare and
above it all—
lush green meadows
ochre yellow gorse
punctuate the grayness
bringing forth the
beauty of the land
despite its being a
gray
country.
Bertha Wise
2001
christineredgate
Winner of the Copeland Wildlife Photographer of th
Thanks,Wiseb.
deborah4
Well-known member
ALL STILL (AND YET ...)
'Tis time for awakening
Upon the 'morrow
Still cold iron cast
In earthy hue
Frosty breath of Hare
Leaping furrow
'Tis time for awakening
Upon the 'morrow
Still Gladioli
In stone cold tomb,
Buzzard mew plaintive
On thermal flow.
'Tis time for awakening
Upon the 'morrow
Still brown berry cling
wrinkled and worn,
Taken by Hawfinch
In fleeting show.
'Tis time for awakening
Upon the 'morrow
On skeleton tree
'Pecker beat drum from
'Bluebell Hollow'.
'Tis time for awakening
Upon the 'morrow
All still ...
And yet ...
'Tis time for awakening
Upon the 'morrow
Still cold iron cast
In earthy hue
Frosty breath of Hare
Leaping furrow
'Tis time for awakening
Upon the 'morrow
Still Gladioli
In stone cold tomb,
Buzzard mew plaintive
On thermal flow.
'Tis time for awakening
Upon the 'morrow
Still brown berry cling
wrinkled and worn,
Taken by Hawfinch
In fleeting show.
'Tis time for awakening
Upon the 'morrow
On skeleton tree
'Pecker beat drum from
'Bluebell Hollow'.
'Tis time for awakening
Upon the 'morrow
All still ...
And yet ...
Good poems, Bertha and Deborah. I enjoyed them both. But, Bertha, Welsh spirits grey? Surely not!!
Nerine, I was thinking of you when I heard that Guernsey was being battered by the recent storms. Hope you didn’t have any damage, and that the weather is more benign while you are in Brittany. Hope you have a pleasant break.
Steve, an interesting selection of railway poems. Sounds a fascinating anthology. Here are two railway-themed poems from Larkin (Not The Whitsun Weddings!), which even contain the odd reference to a bird!
Like the Train's Beat
Like the train's beat
Swift language flutters the lips
Of the Polish airgirl in the corner seat,
The swinging and narrowing sun
Lights her eyelashes, shapes
Her sharp vivacity of bone.
Hair, wild and controlled, runs back:
And gestures like these English oaks
Flash past the windows of her foreign talk.
The train runs on through wilderness
Of cities. Still the hammered miles
Diversify behind her face.
And all humanity of interest
Before her angled beauty falls,
As whorling notes are pressed
In a bird's throat, issuing meaningless
Through written skies; a voice
Watering a stony place.
Philip Larkin
One Man Walking a Deserted Platform
One man walking a deserted platform;
Dawn coming, and rain
Driving across a darkening autumn;
One man restlessly waiting a train
While round the streets the wind runs wild,
Beating each shuttered house, that seems
Folded full of the dark silk of dreams,
A shell of sleep cradling a wife or child.
Who can this ambition trace,
To be each dawn perpetually journeying?
To trick this hour when lovers re-embrace
With the unguessed-at heart riding
The winds as gulls do? What lips said
Starset and cockcrow call the dispossessed
On to the next desert, lest
Love sink a grave round the still-sleeping head?
Philip Larkin
Andrew
Nerine, I was thinking of you when I heard that Guernsey was being battered by the recent storms. Hope you didn’t have any damage, and that the weather is more benign while you are in Brittany. Hope you have a pleasant break.
Steve, an interesting selection of railway poems. Sounds a fascinating anthology. Here are two railway-themed poems from Larkin (Not The Whitsun Weddings!), which even contain the odd reference to a bird!
Like the Train's Beat
Like the train's beat
Swift language flutters the lips
Of the Polish airgirl in the corner seat,
The swinging and narrowing sun
Lights her eyelashes, shapes
Her sharp vivacity of bone.
Hair, wild and controlled, runs back:
And gestures like these English oaks
Flash past the windows of her foreign talk.
The train runs on through wilderness
Of cities. Still the hammered miles
Diversify behind her face.
And all humanity of interest
Before her angled beauty falls,
As whorling notes are pressed
In a bird's throat, issuing meaningless
Through written skies; a voice
Watering a stony place.
Philip Larkin
One Man Walking a Deserted Platform
One man walking a deserted platform;
Dawn coming, and rain
Driving across a darkening autumn;
One man restlessly waiting a train
While round the streets the wind runs wild,
Beating each shuttered house, that seems
Folded full of the dark silk of dreams,
A shell of sleep cradling a wife or child.
Who can this ambition trace,
To be each dawn perpetually journeying?
To trick this hour when lovers re-embrace
With the unguessed-at heart riding
The winds as gulls do? What lips said
Starset and cockcrow call the dispossessed
On to the next desert, lest
Love sink a grave round the still-sleeping head?
Philip Larkin
Andrew
deborah4
Well-known member
Thanks Steve (I was too embarrassed to admit who wrote it
)I particularly liked 'The Newcomer' and 'Daniel' posted up thread
Bascar,
Ah, I have a very good Welsh friend who always says that Wales is a grey country. It may seem so if you've ever visited anywhere such as Oklahoma where the sky really is blue, with only an occasional grey day. Anyway, when I wrote the poem, I was playing off the idea of a grey country which I did not find when I saw the beautiful greens and yellows and other colors decorating the land.
Here's a poem about the blue sky, inspired by someone who was amazed how blue the sky in Oklahoma was as compared to where she lived (I don't recall exactly where it was, but I want to say it was farther east than Oklahoma in the U.S.)
Pressing Down Hard
(or, Why Is the Sky Blue?)
Poets speak of the azure sky
and make it seem bluer by the mere repeating of it—
The Azure!
Azure!
Azure!
A child uses a crayon
and presses down hard to make it true
but when she looks up and matches her ‘sky blue’
with the real blue sky, the color falls short
as if the Crayola label lied.
She feels cheated and asks her father,
“Daddy, what makes the sky blue?’
“Oh, you’d better go ask your mother,
she taught school, you know.’
She finds mother on the porch where she’s snapping beans
and the girl asks her then,
“Mom, what makes the sky blue?
Why can’t I color it the same?
My box of 64 colors has ‘sky blue’
but it doesn’t look right!’
Mother pauses,
her hands stopping momentarily as if she’s counting
stitches when she’s knitting multi-colored yarn into warm mittens that ‘go’ with everything.
The green beans stand out against her red apron.
Mother sighs and slowly begins to explain and
the girl is in for a school lesson,
now almost sorry she asked—
Her mother states, ‘I suppose that some people believe
the sky’s color is the same
everywhere, but I think not!’
She looks up to the sky to muster her memory and then—
“A clear sky is clear azure blue because of the refraction and decomposition of the sun’s light as it travels through the air
and gets more dense and in the color spectrum, blue and violet
refract more easily and spread out more in the sky as they reflect
off particles floating and---‘
Her voice trails off when she realizes the words are too hard for her daughter
and anyway she begins to wonder herself how the yellow sun
could hold blue and give the earth its azure.
The girl is listening no more, having spied a fallen robin’s egg.
Picking it up and gently rolling it in her palm,
she takes that moment
to decide for herself what makes the sky blue!
She knows now!
The crayons are all wrong!
Grown-ups are wrong too!
The answer’s right there!
A giant robin, far, far away, lost one of its eggs,
falling to the earth and the shell broke
into a million pieces and its color
dissolved in the robin’s tears
until heaven was colored
‘robin’s egg blue’
but because the sky was no longer an egg
someone else named it ‘sky blue.’
Poets speak of the color of the sky but
‘sky blue’ isn’t right either so
to make it true they must repeat
Azure!
Azure!
Azure!
Bertha L. Wise©
christineredgate
Winner of the Copeland Wildlife Photographer of th
Great selection of poems,love the "Sky Blue".Makes one think of how do we define the colour"green",so many variations.True blue,true green,no such colour.
dolphinbride
Bean Éanlaithe na Coillte
Here are a couple on the occasion of the equinox and the festival of Easter. Thank you for the lovely poems shared above! Happy SPRING to all!
Holy Thursday
Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean,
Came children walking two and two, in read, and blue, and green:
Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow,
Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.
Oh what a multitude they seemed, these flowers of London town!
Seated in companies they sit, with radiance all their own.
The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,
Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands.
Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song,
Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among:
Beneath them sit the aged man, wise guardians of the poor.
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
William Blake
The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry
Kristina
Holy Thursday
Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean,
Came children walking two and two, in read, and blue, and green:
Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow,
Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.
Oh what a multitude they seemed, these flowers of London town!
Seated in companies they sit, with radiance all their own.
The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,
Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands.
Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song,
Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among:
Beneath them sit the aged man, wise guardians of the poor.
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
William Blake
The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry
Kristina
scampo
Steve Campsall
I hadn't seen the second of those Larkin poems, Andrew - and I can't imagine why as I thought I had his entire collection. I must hunt through and seek it out - it'll be away hiding in a dark cobweb-filled corner no doubt.
The first poem I did know quite well and isn't it a fine one? Very "Larkin"!
On a separate issue, I don't know if it's only me but do others receive regular emails to remind them to check back to this thread? I find that I receive a few and then none, leaving me to think that the thread has gone quiet - when clearly it hasn't!
The first poem I did know quite well and isn't it a fine one? Very "Larkin"!
On a separate issue, I don't know if it's only me but do others receive regular emails to remind them to check back to this thread? I find that I receive a few and then none, leaving me to think that the thread has gone quiet - when clearly it hasn't!
I like The Peace of Wild Things very much Kristina.
Here's another poem by the same poet
What We Need Is Here
Geese appear high over us,
pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,
as in love or sleep, holds
them to their way, clear
in the ancient faith: what we need
is here. And we pray, not
for new earth or heaven, but to be
quiet in heart, and in eye,
clear. What we need is here.
Wendell Berry
.........and an updated Index :-
The index is updated to #2235 on page 90. The first number after the poem is the number on the thread when first posted. The number in square brackets is the page of the thread on which the poem appears.
ABSE, DANIEL Not Adelstrop 2224 [89]
ACHEBE, CHINUA
Vultures 1805 [73]
ADLER, RON
Untitled Poem 557 [23]
AGGELER, WILLIAM
The Albatross (Baudelaire) 1693 [68]
Owls (Baudelaire) 2036 [82]
ALBANO, CHARLES
The Hawk 389 [16]
ALLERTON, ELLEN P
Taught by a Bird 1700 [68]
ANGELOU, MAYA
Caged Bird 5 [1] ARISTOPHANES The Chorus of Birds 2190 [88]
ARMITAGE, SIMON
It Aint What You Do It's What It Does To You 815 [33]
The Ornithologists 1940 [78]
ARNOLD, MATTHEW
Dover Beach 1060 [43]
The Scholar Gypsy 1710 [69]
ATWOOD, MARGARET
Owl Burning 1940 [78]
Red Fox 1973 [79]
AUDEN, W H
As I Walked Out One Evening 78 [4]
Funeral Blues (Stop All the Clocks) 755 [31]
O Where Are You Going? 1969 [79]
Say This City has Ten Million Souls 1244 [50]
Seascape 94 [4]
The More Loving One 1249 [50]
Their Lonely Betters 756 [31]
The Unknown Citizen 1225 [49]
AUSTEN, JANE
Ode to Pity 1838 [74]
BASHO, MATSUO
Lightening 434 [18]
Midfield 434 [18]
Moonlight Slanting 434 [18]
The sea darkens 440 [18]
Your song caresses 440 [18]
BEDOES, THOMAS LOVELL
Dream Pedlary 190 [8]
The Song that Wolfram Heard in Hell 189 [8]
BELLOC, HILAIRE
The Birds 1766 [71]
The Vulture 102 [5]
BENT, ARTHUR CLEVELAND
High in the air they travel on 777 [32]
BERRY, WENDELL
The Peace of Wild Things 196 [8]
The Wild Geese 200 [8]
BERRYMAN, JOHN
Winter Landscape 1861 [75]
BETJEMAN, JOHN
The Last Laugh 1838 [74]
Trebetherick 1874 [75]
BINYON, LAURENCE
For The Fallen (September 1914) 132 [6]
BISHOP, ELIZABETH
For CWB 1847 [74]
Sandpiper 812 [33]
The Armadillo 1302 [53]
BLAKE, WILLIAM
A Divine Image 2118 [85]
A Dream 1904 [77]
Auguries of Innocence 13 [1] Holy Thursday 2235 [90]
Jerusalem 1279 [52]
Mad Song 1663 [67]
Nurses Song (Songs of Innocence) 1430 [58]
Nurses Song (Songs of Experience) 1431 [58]
Proverbs of Hell 508 [21]
Reeds of Innocence 1268 [51]
The Argument 1273 [51]
The Blossom 1423 [57]
The Ecchoing Green 1422 [57]
The Fly 1677 [68]
The Garden of Love 36 [2]
The Human Abstract 800 [32]
The Schoolboy 1326 [54]
The Tyger 1272 [51]
To Autumn 1899 [76]
To Spring 1276 [52]
BLIND, MATHILDE
April Rain 1496 [60]
Birds of Passage 1454 [59]
BLUNDEN, EDMUND
Concert Party: Busseboom 1634 [66]
Forefathers 1087 [44]
Premature Rejoicing 1635 [66]
Report on Experience (1929) 1634 [66]
Vlamertinghe-Passing the Chateau July 1917 1075 [43] BOLANDO , EAVAN Quarantine 2206 [89]
BRECHT, BERTOLD
Questions From A Worker Who Reads 187 [8]
BRESSNER, KAY
Clear blue sky above 984 [40]
BRIDGES, ROBERT
Flycatchers 26 [2]
Nightingales 1924 [77]
BRONTE, EMILY
A Day Dream 1818 [73]
Fall, Leaves Fall 1911 [77]
Song 1818 [73]
Stars 1818 [73]
BROOKE, RUPERT
A Fragment 655 [27]
Pine-Trees and the Sky: Evening 113 [5]
The busy Heart 1788 [72]
The Dead 1525 [61]
The Hill 1791 [72]
The Old Vicarage Grantchester 1719 [69]
The Voice 164 [7]
BROOKS, GWENDOLYN
Speech to the Young 1108 [45]
The Bean Eaters 1109 [45]
We Real Cool 1111 [45]
BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways 1362 [55]
The House of Clouds. 1360 [55]
BROWNING, ROBERT
Home-Thoughts From Abroad 30 [2]
Pippa's Song 1255 [51]
Summum Bonum 1972 [79]
BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN
November 638 [26] The Arctic Lover 2164 [87]
BUDBILL, DAVID
The Three Goals 1203 [49]
BURNS, ROBERT
Cauld Blows The Wind 384 [16]
Now Westlin Winds 396 [16]
Up in the Morning Early 1059 [43]
Yon banks and hills of bonnie Doon 384 [16]
BURROW, LUCY
Jacky Frost 626 [26]
BUXTON, JOHN
The Prisoner of the Singing Bird 1031 [42]
BYRON, GEORGE GORDON
Darkness 709 [29]
Epitaph to a Dog 1533 [62]
Solitude 1528 [62]
CANDOLE, ALEC DE
When the Last Long Trek is Over 1015 [41]
CAPERN, EDWARD
The Seagull 1378 [56]
O' the postman's is a pleasant life 1381 [56]
CARROLL, LEWIS
Jaberwocky 696 [28]
CARVER, RAYMOND
This Morning 318 [13]
CAUNT, MARGARET
The Green Sandpiper 1305 [53]
CIARDI, JOHN
White Heron 1435 [58]
CHESTERTON, G K
The Donkey 1117 [45]
CLARE, JOHN
Autumn Birds 1308 [53]
December 2062 [83]
Emonsail's Heath in Winter 209 [9] Evening 2160 [87] First Love 2172 [87]
I am! 6 I look on the past , and I dread tomorrow 2179 [88]
Insects 1954 [79]
Little Trotty Wagtail 2 [1]
Love Lies Beyond The Tomb 1286 [52]
My Early Home 2023 [81]
November 2001 [81]
Schoolboys in Winter 1998 [80]
Song 692 [28] Song of Secret Love 2179 [88]
Sudden Shower 1720 [69]
The Cuckoo 1612 [65]
The Early Nightingale 16 [1]
The Flitting 1609 [65]
The Flood 1611 [65]
The Landrail 16 [1]
The Nightingale's Nest 289 [12]
The Nuthatch 719 [29]
The Old Year 969 [39] The Pettichap's Nest 2158 [87]
The Shepherd's Calendar 688 [28]
The Skylark 701 [29]
The Thrush's Nest 1953 [79]
The Winter's Spring 1994 [80]
The Yellowhammer 718 [29] What is Life ? 2183 [88]
Winter Walk 2075 [83]
Wood Pictures in Spring 1584 [64]
Written In Northampton County Asylum 693 [28]
CLARKE, AUSTIN
The Lost Heifer 1632 [66]
CLARKE, GILLIAN
Barn Owl at Le Chai 1955 [79]
Birth 1321 [53]
Little Owls 1955 [79]
Miracle on Saint David's Day 125 [5]
My Box 1043 [42]
Peregrine Falcon 1961 [79]
RS 1327 [54]
CLAYTON, DAVID
The Carpet Fights 138 [6]
COLE, MARGARET POSTGATE
The Falling Leaves 1976 [80]
COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR Answer to a Child's Question 2147[86] Brockley Combe 1446 [58]
The Rime of The Ancient Mariner 1443 [58]
COLLINS, BILLY Forgetfulness 2205 [89]
Litany 1876 [76]
CONNOR. T W
One of The Early Birds 53 [3]
COPE, WENDY
English Weather 2126 [86]
Tich Miller 1341 [54] CORNFORD, FRANCIS Parting in Wartime 2224 [89]
COUSINS, DAVID
On Growing Older 1067 [43]
COWPER, WILLIAM
The Task 1549 [62]
To The Nightingale 1220 [49]
CRANE, HART
My Grandmother's Love Letters 672 [27]
CRANE, STEPHEN
Little Birds of The Night 919 [37]
The Wayfarer 278 [12]
CRISFIELD, LEM WARD
A Hunter's Poem 760 [31]
CUMMINGS, e e
christ but they're few 1354 [55]
for any ruffian of the sky 1354 [55]
In time of daffodils 1356 [55]
i thank You God for most this amazing 1472 [59]
Poem 1 1028 [42]
seeker of truth 1354 [55] since feeling is first 2163 [87]
Why must itself up every of a park 1026 [42]
CUTLER, IVOR
I am a boo boo bird 1785 [72]
DARYUSH, ELIZABETH
Children of Wealth 1148 [46]
I saw the daughter of the sun 1147 [46]
Still Life 1148 [46]
DAVIES, IDRIS
The Curlews of Blaen Rhymni 2106 [85]
DAVIES, W H
A Greeting 1258 [51]
And we have known those days 1328 [54]
April's Charms 1529 [62]
Come Let Us Find 1716 [69]
How sweet this morning air in Spring 25 [1]
I am the poet Davies, William 1316 [53]
Leisure 1260 [51]
May Day 1536 [62]
No Master 544 [22]
Rich Days 1891 [76]
The Example 1537 [70]
The Hawk 1716 [69]
The Heap of Rags 1537 [62]
The Hermit 1316 [53]
The Kingfisher 25 [1]
Thunderstorms 1863 [75]
DE LA MARE, WALTER
Before Dawn 273 [11]
King David was a Sorrowful Man 267 [11]
Peace 1985 [80]
The Listeners 270 [11]
DENNY, SANDY
Who knows where the time goes? 1384 [56]
DICKINSON, EMILY
A Bird Came down the Walk 1751 [71]
A feather from the Whippoorwill 116 [5] An Awful Tempest Mashed the Air 2219 [89]
At Half past Three 1567 [63]
Bee! I'm expecting you 1810 [73]
Bring me the sunset in a cup 1565 [63]
God gave a loaf to every bird 2026 [82]
Hope is the thing with feathers 116 [5]
How the old Mountains drip with Sunset 1551 [63]
I'm nobody 1567 [63]
I know a place where summer strives 1777 [72]
I shall keep singing 1870 [75]
Indian Summer 1889 [76]
Mama never forgets her birds 1810 [73]
My Friend must be a Bird 1841 [74]
Of Being a Bird 1841 [74]
Some things that fly there be 1810 [73]
Success is counted sweetest 1648 [66] The Judge is like The Owl 2152 [87]
The Poets light but Lamps 1568 [63]
The Robin 1567 [63]
There came a wind like a bugle 1562 [63]
There's a certain Slant of Light 956 [39]
These are days when the birds come back 1784 [72]
Two Butterflies went out at noon 1754 [71]
Wild Nights-Wild Nights 1569 [63]
DICKINSON, PATRIC
Dunnerdale 2106 [85]
DONNE, JOHN
A Nocturnal upon St Lucy's Day 2051 [83]
Song 218 [9]
DRAKE, NICK
Which Will 1385 [56]
DRYDEN, JOHN
Happy the Man 1578 [64]
DUFFY, CAROL ANNE
Before You Were Mine 1123 [45]
In Mrs. Tilscher's Class 885 [36]
EDWARDS, MARJORIE
Morning Beach 506 [21]
EDGAR, MARRIOT
The Lion and Albert 530 [22]
EDGE, GRAEME
Late Lament 1064 [43]
The Day Begins 1064 [43]
The Dream 1061 [43]
EISELEY, LOREN
The Cardinals 158 [7]
ELIOT, T S
Burnt Norton 1040 [42]
Five-Finger Exercises IV and V 2132 [86]
Sweeney Among the Nightingales 2131 [86]
The Waste Land 157 [7], 1142 [46]
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO
The Rhodora 1883 [76]
EZEKIEL, NISSIM
Night of the Scorpion 996 [40]
Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher 2013 [81]
FARJEON. ELEANOR
Mrs. Peck Pigeon 1206 [49]
FEINSTEIN, ELAINE
Getting Older 2124 [85]
FERLINGHETTI, LAWRENCE
Seascape With Sun and Eagle 1604 [65]
The Light of Birds 277 [12]
FIELD, EUGENE
The Dinkey Bird 694 [28]
FIELD, RACHEL
Something Told The Wild Geese 760 [31] FLECKER, JAMES ELROY To A Poet a Thousand Years Hence 2199 [88 ] FORSTER, MARYANN
Flight of Swallows 303 [13]
FROST, ROBERT
A Late Walk 1837 [74]
A Minor Bird 112 [5]
A Prayer in Spring 1013 [41]
Dust of Snow 111 [5]
Fragmentary Blue 1755 [71]
Ghost House 1750 [70]
Hyla Brook 1750 [70]
Line-Storm Song 1749 [70]
Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter 2046 [82]
My November Guest 938 [38]
Never Again Would Bird Song Be The Same 1025 [41]
Nothing Gold Can Stay 1271 [51]
Questioning Faces 1990 [80]
Range Finding 1042 [42]
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 114 [5]
The Exposed Nest 1606 [65]
The Flood 745 [30]
The Ovenbird 921 [37]
The Pasture 1275 [51]
The Road Not Taken 114 [5]
The Sound of Trees 1469 [59]
To E. T. 2049 [82]
To The Thawing Wind 115 [5]
Two Tramps in Mud Time 1430 [58]
GALLIENNE, RICHARD
I Meant To Do My Work Today 282 [12]
GIBRAN, KAHLIL
The Dying Man and The Vulture 488 [20]
GILBERT & SULLIVAN
Tit Willow 23 [1] GILMORE , DAME MARY The First Thrush 2154 [87]
GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON
Heather Rose 494 [20]
Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily 1901 [76]
GOLDSMITH, OLIVER
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog 1620 [65]
The Deserted Village 1619 [65]
GRAVES, ROBERT
Sorley's Weather 1758 [71]
The Caterpillar 1767 [71]
The Cottage 1774 [71]
To Robert Nicholls 472 [19]
GRAY, THOMAS
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 1545 [62]
Ode on the Spring 1548 [62]
The Epitaph 1545 [62]
GRENFELL, JULIAN
The Naked Earth 1449 [58]
GRENNAN, EAMON
Detail 2111 [85]
GURNEY, IVOR
Hedges 1838 [74]
Song 1839 [74]
The hoe scrapes earth 1648 [66]
The Nightingales 2027 [82]
HARDY, THOMAS
A Christmas Ghost Story 924 [37] Birds at Winter Nightfall 2161 [87]
Beeny Cliff 959 [39]
Old Furniture 1386 [56] On a Fine Morning 2173 [87]
Paying Calls 810 [33]
The Darkling Thrush 50 [2]
The House of Hospitalities 1396 [56]
The Impercipient 1610 [65]
The Man He Killed 2069 [83] The Puzzled Game-Birds 2161 [87]
The Rambler 2116 [85]
The Seasons of Her Year 1910 [77]
The Voice 644 [26]
The Yellowhammer 718 [29]
Transformations 1098 [44]
Weathers 1133 [46]
Where the Picnic Was 1105 [41]
HARRISON, TONY
Long Distance 894 [36]
HEANEY, SEAMUS
Anything Can Happen 862 [35]
A Shiver 770 [31] At a Potato Digging 2209 [89]
Bogland 1523 [61]
Death of a Naturalist 1412 [57]
Digging 563 [23]
Drifting Off 1057 [43]
Edward Thomas on The Laggans Road 1240 [50]
Follower 888 [36]
MossBawn-Two Poems in Dedication-1 Sunlight 1518 [61]
Personal Helicon 1520 [61]
Planting The Alder 862 [35]
Punishment 1019 [41]
St. Kevin and the Blackbird 721 [29]
Serenades 1287 [52]
Stern 1582 [64]
The Birch Grove 1522 [61]
The Blackbird of Glanmore 1183 [48]
The Early Purges 1521 [61]
The Grabaulle Man 973 [39]
The Otter 1218 [49] Twice Shy 2167 [87]
HECHT, ANTHONY
The Dover Bitch 1060 [43]
HEMANS, FELICIA
Casabianca 611 [25]
HEMMING, ANNE
Into my fever's flush 380 [16]
HEMMINGWAY, ERNEST
Along with Youth 478 [20]
HERRICK, ROBERT
Collina Going a-Maying 1731 [70]
Gather Ye Rosebuds 810 [33]
HODGSON. RALPH
The Bells of Heaven 1918 [77]
The Great Auk's Ghost 321 [13]
The Late, Last Rook 1923 [77]
HINCHCLIFFE, ISAAC
The Mardalian Lament 2064 [83]
HOGG, JAMES
A Boy's Song 1503 [61]
HOOD, THOMAS
Autumn 1927 [78]
I Remember, I Remember 1930 [78]
The Song of the Shirt 1951 [79]
HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame 882 [36]
Binsey Poplars 1592 [64]
I Have Desired To Go 1593 [64]
Pied Beauty 576 [24]
Spring and Fall 1593 [64]
The Caged Lark 1766 [71]
The Sea and the Skylark 1855 [75]
The Windhover 55 [3]
The Woodlark 1734 [70]
HOSKINS, M L
At The Gate of the Year 968 [39]
HOUSMAN, A E
Bredon Hill 1616 [65]
How clear, how lovely bright 1577 [64]
I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded 108 [5]
Loveliest of trees the cherry now 954 [39]
On Wenlock Edge The Wood's In Trouble 108 [5]
When smoke stood up from Ludlow 105 [5]
White in the moon the long road lies 954 [39]
XL 955 [39]
HUGHES, LANGSTON
Dreams 1907 [77]
HUGHES, TED
A Childish Prank 71 [3]
Brambles 514 [21]
Crow Blacker than Ever 1467 [59]
Crow's Fall 1815 [73]
Hawk Roosting 65 [3]
Heptonstall Old Church 1044 [42]
Relic 686 [28]
The Owl 1814 [73]
The swallow of summer 395 [16]
The Warm and the Cold 1816 [73]
Thistles 868 [35]
Wodwo 1583 [64]
Wind 1740 [70]
ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER
The Common Cormorant (or Shag) 368 [15]
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY
White Bird 1082 [43]
JACOB, VIOLET
The Wild Geese 1387 [56]
JAMES, ERIC ANDREW
Canary Canary 1185 [48]
JAMIE, KATHLEEN
The Dipper 733 [30]
The Tree House 876 [36]
JARMAN, MARK
Old Acquaintance 932 [38]
JEFFERS, ROBINSON
Hurt Hawks 565 [23]
JENKINS, LOUIS
The Language of Crows 1881 [76]
JENKINS, LUCIEN
The Enclosure Acts 821 [33]
JENNINGS, ELIZABETH
Absence 2024 [81]
My Grandmother 1386 [56]
JONES, JOHN IDRIS
Bleddyn Griffith, Headmaster 2081 [84]
Exam Time, Heath 2081 [84]
JONES, PETER
Buttercups 818 [33]
The Heron 818 [33]
JOYCE, JAMES
All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters 1850 [74]
On the beach at Fontana 862 [35]
KEATS, JOHN
A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever 1179 [48]
Endymion 1707 [69]
Epistle to Charles Cowden Clarke 1176 [48]
La Belle Dame Sans Merci 18 [1]
O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell 1528 [62]
Ode to a Grecian Urn 1078 [44]
Ode to a Nightingale 689 [28]
On The Grasshopper and Cricket 1822 [73]
The Terror of Death 1192 [48]
To Ailsa Rock 1264 [51]
To Autumn 1887 [76]
To One Who Has Been Long In The City 1192 [48]
KENDON, FRANK
And ladders leaning against damson trees 517 [21]
KENNELLY, BRIAN
The Distinct Impression 815 [33]
KHAYYAM, OMAR
Rubaiyat 346 [14]
KING, PHYLLIS
A Linnet 1785 [72]
Ode to the West Wind 1791 [72]
KINGSLEY, CHARLES
Young and Old 1127 [46]
KIPLING, RUDYARD
If 952 [39]
In Springtime 669 [27]
Seal Lullaby 740 [30]
The Way Through The Woods 740 [30]
KOLATKAR, ARUN
An Old Woman 989 [40]
KLINE, MALINDA
Watching Over Me 984 [40]
LAIRD, CHRISTA
Fall Birthday 777 [32]
LARKIN, PHILIP
Afternoons 738 [30]
A Study of Reading Habits 2087 [84]
At Grass 1963 [79]
As Bad as a Mile 1647 [66]
Born Yesterday 860 [35]
Coming 96 [4]
Cut Grass 331 [14]
Days 331 [14]
Deceptions 855 [35]
Faith Healing 101 [5]
I Remember, I Remember 1930 [78] Like The Train's Beat 2231 [90] Love Songs in Age 1394 [56]
Maiden Name 887 [36]
May Weather 1678 [68]
MCMXIV 746 [30]
Modesties 1848 [74]
Mother, Summer, I 1672 [67]
Myxomatosis 581 [24]
New Eyes Each Year 2087 [94]
Next Please 868 [35] One Man Walking a Deserted Platform 2231 [90]
Pigeons 2087 [84]
Reasons for Attendance 860 [35]
Sunny Prestatyn 848 [34]
The Explosion 1042 [42]
The Trees 99 [4]
This be the verse 737 [30]
Water 331 [14]
LAWLESS, EMILY
Now the seagull spreads his wing 72 [3]
LAWRENCE, D H
Bavarian Gentians 1892 [76]
Humming Bird 851 [35]
Malade 1902 [77]
Piano 1390 [56]
The Enkindled Spring 1313 [53]
The Mosquito 1903 [77]
The Ship of Death (extract) 1902 [77]
LEAR, EDWARD
Mr. And Mrs. Spikky Sparrow 367 [15]
The Scroobious Pip 359 [15]
The Hunting of The Snark 364 [15]
There was an Old Man of Whitehaven 1775 [71]
There was an Old Mam on whose Nose 1775 [71]
There was an Old Man with a beard 367 [15]
There was an Old Man with an Owl 1775 [71]
LEDWIDGE, FRANCIS
A Rainy Day in April 1413 [57]
Lament for Thomas McDonagh 465 [19]
Soliloquy 1015 [41]
LEE, LAURIE
Town Owl 683 [28]
LEONARD, TOM
This is the Six O'Clock News 821 [33]
LEWIS, ALUN
All Day It Has Rained 1638 [66]
To Edward Thomas 1641 [66]
LINDSAY, VACHEL
The Flower-Fed Buffaloes 1607 [65]
The Leaden-Eyed 997 [40]
LOCKLEY (?)
When Dotterel do first appear 688 [28]
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH
Aftermath 1813 [73]
Children 1432 [58]
It is not always May 1965 [79]
The Song of Hiawatha 484 [20], 1445 [58]
The Village Blacksmith 1884 [76]
LONNROT, ELIAS
The Kalevala 249, 250 [10]
LOWELL, AMY
Starling 1779 [72]
LOWELL, ROBERT
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket 1358 [55]
LYALL, SARAH
Pigeons 1187 [48]
LYYVUO, EERO
A Chaffinch to a Poet 234 [10]
Laulurastas ylistaa Illan Rankaa 230 [10]
McCARTNEY, PAUL
Blackbird 1104 [45]
McGONOGAL, WILLIAM
Death and burial of Lord Tennyson 964 [39]
The Tay Bridge Disaster 961 [39]
McGOUGH, ROGER
Bees Cannot Fly 212 [9]
Crow 167 [7]
Defying Gravity 169 [7]
Let me die a young man's death 790 [32]
Nooligan 175 [7] The Bright Side 2220 [89] You and I 2219 [89]
40 Love 713 [29]
McKAY, CLAUDE
Birds of Prey 1144 [46]
Winter in The Country 1146 [46]
McKAY, DON
Close-up on a Sharp-shinned Hawk 569 [23]
McMILLAN, JAN
Five artistic ducks 528 [22]
In Winter Silence 528 [22]
MacCAIG, NORMAN
Fetching Cows 1119 [45]
Home on a Cliff 1742 [70]
Ringed plover by water's edge 1119 [45]
Summer Farm 1115 [45]
MacLEISH, ARCHIBALD
Ars Poetica 1804 [73]
MACNIECE, LOUIS
Apple Blossom 1050 [42]
June Thunder 1737 [70]
Thalassa 1739 [70]
The Sunlight on The Garden 1288 [52]
Trains in The Distance 1299 [52]
MACRAE, JOHN
In Flanders Fields 659 [27]
Then And Now 1802 [73]
MAC GIOLLA GHUNNA, CATHAL BUIDHE
The Yellow Bittern 455 [19]
MANSFIELD, KATHERINE
Across the Red Sky 1778 [72]
MARLOW, CHRISTOPHER
The face that launched a thousand ships 1095 [44]
MASEFIELD, JOHN
Night is on the Downland 1827 [74]
Sea Fever 1365 [55]
The Wild Duck 1827 [74]
MEREDITH, GEORGE
He rises and begins to round 7 [1]
MERRITT DIXON LANIER
The Pelican 181 [8]
MERWIN, W S
Berryman 1860 [75]
Unknown Bird 1849 [74]
MEW, CHARLOTTE
I So Liked Spring 1591 [64]
The Trees are Down 1591 [64]
MIEZELAITIS, EDUARDAS
Hands 1879 [76]
Hyperbole 1878 [76]
MILLAY, EDNA ST VINCENT
Afternoon on a Hill 2104 [85]
First Fig 1834 [74]
Journey 1832 [74]
Pastoral 1834 [74]
Renascence Pt I 1867 [75]
Renascence Pt II 1873 [75]
Renascence Pt III 1885 [76]
Second Fig 1847 [74]
The Death of Autumn 1839 [74]
The Owls (Baudelaire) 2036 [82]
MILLIGAN, SPIKE
Have A Nice Day 2113 [85]
MILNE, A A
Oh the butterflies are flying 136 [6]
The Mirror 133 [6]
The Wrong House 133 [6]
MILTON, JOHN
Il Penseroso 1579 [64]
L'Allegro 1579 [64]
Lycidas 327 [14]
Paradise Lost 825 [33], 830 [34]
MOORE, MARIANNE
Poetry 1574 [63]
MOORE, THOMAS
The Young May Moon 1602 [65]
MOORMAN, F W
Fieldfares 722 [29]
MOORSOM, SASHA
The Company of Birds 1651 [67]
MUELLER, LISEL
Why I need Birds 1156 [47]
What the Dog Perhaps Hears 1157 [47]
MUIR, EDWIN
The Myth 2123 [85]
The Horses 1037 [42]
MULDOON, PAUL
Plovers 1036 [42]
NAGY, MARY
A Lesson from the Birds 1214 [49]
NASH, OGDEN
Always Marry An April Girl 1499 [60]
Crossing the Border 806 [33]
Spring is Sprung 178 [8]
The Ant 529 [22]
The Birds 701 [29]
The Cuckoo 182 [8]
The Duck 182 [8]
The Fly 1961 [79]
The Germ 882 [36]
The Grackle 179 [8]
The Ostrich 182 [8]
The Squab 182 [8]
The Wapiti 529 [22]
The Wasp 1964 [79]
Up from the Egg 529 [22]
NERUDA, PABLO
Bird 783 [32]
Black Vulture 488 [20]
Ode to Bird Watching 2041 [82]
The Me Bird 1687 [68]
The Stolen Branch 1370 [55]
Triangles 2034 [82]
You will remember 1373 [55]
NEWBOLT, HENRY
Vitai Lampada 1010 [41]
NICHOLSON, NORMAN
Boo to a Goose 127 [6]
Sea to the West 2076 [84]
The Cocks Nest 2080 [84]
The Black Guillemot 1 [1]
The Cock's Nest 98 [4]
Weather Ear 2064 [83]
Weeds 299 [12]
NOYES, ALFRED
Shadows on the Down 677 [28]
The Highwayman 676 [28]
Wizardry 1645 [66]
OLIVER, MARY
Catbird 1964 [79]
Egrets 1970 [79]
Entering the Kingdom 1854 [75]
Gannets 2033 [82]
Heron Rises from the Dark Summer Pond 172 [7] Little Owl Who Lives in The Orchard 2151 [87]
Mindful 2078 [84]
On Winter's Margin 1916 [77]
Starlings in Winter 1988 [80] Such Singing in the Wild Branches 2141 [86] The Lark 2152 [87] The Swan 791 [32]
Wild Geese 1571 [63]
Yes! No! 2078 [84]
OWEN, WILFRED
Anthem for Doomed Youth 123 [5]
Dulce et Decorum Est 654 [27]
Elegy in April and September 123 [5]
PANGYARIHAN, GILBERT
The Birds of Hong Kong 1160 [47]
PARKER, DOROTHY
Ornithology for Beginners 1865 [75]
Song in a Minor Key 1868 [75]
PATTEN, BRIAN A few questions about Romeo 2218 [9] In Tintagel Graveyard 176 [8]
Lockerbie 177 [8] Sleep Now 2218 [89] Sometimes it happens 2223 [89] The Bee's Last Journey 2217 [89] The Minister for Exams 2219 [89] The Newcomer 2213 [89] PAULIN, TOM
Sea Wind 1376 [56]
The Albatross 1693 [68]
The Lagan Blackbird 1376 [56]
The Owls (Baudelaire) 2036 [82]
The Rooks (Rimbaud) 1690 [68]
PAXTON, TOM
Whose Garden Was This 399 [16]
PEARSON, ENID
Frosty Morning 648 [26]
Owl 352 [15]
PENROSE, CLAUDE LEWIS
Billets at Dawn 1397 [56]
PLATH, SYLVIA
Blackberrying 67 [3]
Black Rook in Rainy Weather 73 [3]
Goatsucker 477 [20]
Spinster 486 [20]
POE, EDGAR ALLEN
The Raven 1665 [67] POGSON, PATRICIA Daniel 2224 [89]
POSEY, ALEXANDER LAWRENCE
Autumn [1886] [76]
Song of the Oktahutchee 1886 [76]
POTTER, BEATRIX
Tommy Tittle mouse 719 [29]
POUND, EZRA
Ode Pour L'election De Son Sepulchre 1509 [61]
PUGH, SHEENAGH
Sometimes 733 [30]
RAINE, KATHLEEN
Nameless Islets 558 [23]
RAMEL, GORDON J L
Mankind does not agree 1820 [73]
The First Hoopoe of Spring 1823 [73]
Tiger Tiger Revisited 1824 [73] RICHARDS, FRANK Girl in a Train 2224 [89]
RILKE, RAINER MARIA
Autumn 1839 [74]
The Dove 1836 [74]
ROETHKE, THEODORE
In a Dark Time 1964: 280 [12]
ROSEN, MICHAEL
Going Through Old Photos 518 [21]
ROSENBURG, ISAAC
Break of Day in the Trenches 1004 [41]
In the Trenches 1977 [80]
Returning We Hear the Larks 124 [5]
Through These Pale Cold Days 1977 [80]
ROSS, ALAN
Night Patrol 1138 [46]
ROSSETI, CHRISTINA
Remember 951 [39]
Song 1598 [64]
RYAN, KAY
Mockingbird 925 [37]
Paired Things 929 [38]
The Other Shoe 930 [38]
RYOKAN, TAIGU
Spring flows gently 442 [18]
Wind and Snow 441 [18]
SANDBURG, CARL
The Harbor 1913 [77]
SASSOON, SIEGFRIED
An Old French Poet 1762 [71]
Autumn 1859 [75]
Butterflies 842 [34]
Dream Forest 1802 [73]
Everyone Sang 1088 [44]
Have you forgotten yet? 131 [6]
October Trees 1919 [77]
The Hero 758 [31]
Thrushes 121 [5]
Wonderment 1807 [73]
SCANNELL, VERNON
Nettles 1338 [54]
Rhyme-Time 1340 [54]
SCHILLER, FRIEDRICH VON
The Power of Song 1863 [75]
SCOTT, PETER
A picture of Geese 1257 [51]
SCOTT, WALTER
The Lady of The Lake 471 [19]
SCOVELL, E J
Listening to Collared Doves 2109 [85]
SERVICE, ROBERT
Bird Sanctuary 1992 [80]
Birdwatcher 186 [8]
Grey Gull 191 [8]
The Lark 1997 [80]
The Red Retreat 1796 [72] Why Do Birds Sing ? 2145 [86]
SEXTON, ANNE
The Child Bearers 2055 [83]
Welcome Morning 1900 [76]
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Ariel's Songs 1629 [66]
A Midsummer Night's Dream 1543 [62]
Julius Caesar 1801 [73]
King Lear 1558 [63]
Macbeth 1473 [59], 1477 [60]
Richard II 1560 [63]
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? 1629 [66]
Sonnet No 73: 767 [31]
The ouzel-cock so black of hue 1399 [56]
The Tempest Act IV Sc 1 1908 [77]
When daffodils begin to peer 2192 [88 When daisies pied and violets blue 2192 [88]
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought 1393 [56]
Winter 63 [3]
SHAW, G B
Wings 1155 [47]
SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE
A widow bird sate mourning for her love 279 [12]
Adonais-An Elegy on the Death of John Keats 1508 [61]
England in 1819: 712 [29]
Goodnight 1788 [72] Hymn of Pan 2196 [88]
Ode to a Skylark 60 [3]
Ode to the West Wind 712 [29]
Ozymandias 1517 [61]
Song 708 [29]
The Cloud 1756 [71]
The Question 1541 [62]
SISSAY, LEMN
Let there be Peace 1912 [77]
SKELTON, JOHN
Merry Margaret as midsummer flower 376 [16]
The bittern with his bumpe 1081 [44]
SMITH, STEVIE
Autumn 1839 [74]
Not Waving but Drowning 743 [30]
The Airy Christ 1366
The Leader 1835 [74]
The Reason 1371 [55]
SNOWY WHITE
Bird of Paradise 1097 [44]
SNYDER, GARY
Magpies Song 1463 [59]
SORLEY, CHARLES HAMILTON
Rooks 1073 [43]
The Song of the Ungirt Runners 1764 [71]
SOUTHEY, ROBERT
The Old Man's Comforts 1429 [58]
To a Goose 2061 [83]
SPENSER, EDMUND
Epithalamion 1831 [74]
STAFFORD, WILLIAM
A Ritual To Read To Each Other 1350 [54]
Atavism 1458 [59]
At the Bomb Testing Site 931 [38]
Just Thinking 1389 [56]
Security 1350 [54]
The Well Rising 930 [38]
Walking West 1359 [55]
STALLWORTHY, JON
No Ordinary Sunday 656 [27]
STEPHENS, JAMES
I heard a bird at dawn 1787 [72]
In The Poppy Field 1654 [67]
The Shell 1531 [62]
STERLING, GEORGE
Autumn 1890 [76]
STEVENS, WALLACE
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 1573 [63]
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
Nest Eggs 1844 [74]
Singing 1845 [74]
Swallows Travel To and Fro 1622 [65]
Time to Rise 1842 [74]
SULLIVAN, REBECCA
There Lie Forgotten Men 668 [27]
TAGORE, RABINDRANATH
The Gift 806 [33]
TASHIJAN, FIONA LEE
Birds of Prey are all the same 504 [21]
That Reptile-Bird called Archaeopterix 504 [21]
TAYLOR, JOHN
There were rare birds I never saw before 72 [3]
TEASDALE, SARA
April Song 1480 [60]
August Moonrise 1778 [72]
Fear 1484 [60]
I Have Loved Hours at Sea 1799 [72]
I Love You 1857 [75]
May Day 1586 [64]
Morning 1484 [60]
Spring Night 1607 [65]
Swallow Flight 1797 [72]
The Progress of Spring 1668 [67]
The Storm 1737 [70]
The Swans 1479 [60]
There Will Come Soft Rains 1478 [60]
Water Lillies 1796 [72]
Wisdom 1799 [72]
TENNANT, EDWARD WYNDHAM
Home Thoughts in Laventie 1000 [40]
TENNYSON, ALFRED LORD
Break, Break, Break 599 [24]
Circumstance 1793 [72]
Cradle Song 265 [11]
I stood on a Tower in the West 965 [39]
In Memoriam 1794 [72]
Locksley Hall 1987 [80]
Morte D'Arthur 346 [14]
Spring 1792 [72]
Summer is Coming 235 [10]
Tears, Idle Tears 1932 [78]
The Blackbird 1703 [69]
The Brook 704 [29]
The Eagle 28 [2]
The Lady of Shallot 264 [11]
The Oak 1910 [77]
The Owl 1797 [72]
Ulysses 1669 [67]
THE MOODY BLUES
The Swallow 1079 [44]
Voices in The Sky 1079 [44]
THOMAS, DYLAN
Do not go gentle in to that good night 1120 [49]
Fern Hill 1314 [53]
Notes on the Art of Poetry 1574 [63]
Poem in October 166 [7]
The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower 1125 [45]
The Hand That Signed The Paper 573 [23]
When All My Five and Country Senses See 573 [23]
THOMAS, EDWARD
A Cat 1403 [57]
Adlestrop 128 [6]
And You Helen 130 [6]
As the Team's Head-Brass 107 [5]
Beauty 1923 [77]
Bird's Nest 1624 [65]
But these things also 1317 [53]
Cock-Crow 2049 [82]
Fifty Faggots 905 [37]
For These 1513 [61]
Gone, Gone Again 2040 [82]
How at Once 1614 [65]
If I should ever by chance 1736 [70]
In Memoriam 1515 [61]
July 1718 [69]
Lights Out 1235 [50]
Lob 328 [14]
Lovers 1686 [68]
October 1919 [77]
Rain 908 [37]
Sedge Warblers 171 [7]
She Dotes 978 [40]
Snow 1135 [46]
Tall Nettles 1337 [54]
Thaw 1326 [54]
The Brook 1866 [75]
The Cherry Trees 1126 [46]
The Child in the Orchard 1961 [79]
The Combe 884 [36]
The Dark Forest 1126 [46]
The Glory 1712 [69]
The Long Small Room 1724 [69]
The Mill-Pond 897 [36]
The Owl 1334 [54]
The Unknown Bird 1730 [70]
The Word 1235 [50]
There's Nothing Like the Sun 2050 [82]
This is no case of petty right or wrong 902 [37]
Two Pewits 1639 [66]
Words 1575 [63]
THOMAS, R S
A Blackbird Singing 768 [31]
A Welsh Testament 1315 [53]
Lore 1086 [44]
Moorland 978 [40] The Welsh Hill Country 2204 [89]
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID
Mist 472 [19]
TOWNSEND WALKER, SYLVIA
In April 1505 [61]
TURNER, BRIAN
Ashbah 1658 [67]
Eulogy 1658 [67]
Here, Bullet 1658 [67]
TYNAN, KATHERIN Slow Spring 2202 [89 ]
The Doves 1680 [68]
The End of the Day 532 [22]
The Watchers 1674 [67]
The Wind that Shakes the Barley 1679 [68]
TYREMAN, MAUREEN
Blackbird 1294 [52]
VERNEDE, R E
The Listening Post 1151 [47]
VOR, JON UR
Wintergull 1713 [69]
WAGONER, DAVID
Lost 780 [32]
WARDLE, SARAH
After Blake 1049 [42]
WATERS, ROGER
Grantchester Meadows 1650 [66]
WATSON, STANLEY
Ah Bluejay 165 [7]
WEBSTER, JOHN
Call for the Robin-Redbreast 1852 [75]
WEBSTER, NORMAN
Lakeland Rhapsody 2092 [84]
WHITE, GILBERT
The Invitation to Selborne 1744 [70]
The Naturalist's Summer-Evening Walk 2056 [83]
WHITMAN, WALT
O Me ! O Life! 82 [4]
The Dalliance of Eagles 91 [4]
To the Man-of-War Bird 92 [4]
Wood Odors 89 [4]
WILBUR, RICHARD
A Barred Owl 1224 [49]
WILCOX, ELLA WHEELER
My Home 2121 [85]
So many gods-so many creeds 275 [11]
The Year 2073 [83] WILDE, OSCAR Magdalene Walks 2178 [88]
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS
Dawn 1862 [75]
Peace on Earth 2119 [85]
The Birds 1863 [75]
WILSON, T P CAMERON
Magpies In Picardy 1022 [41]
WILSON, RAYMOND
Old Johnny Armstrong 159 [7]
WISE, BERTHA
Constant Velocity 312 [13]
WOODBERRY, GEORGE EDWARD
The Secret 1869 [75]
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM
Art thou the bird whom Man loves best 480 [20] At the Corner of Wood Street 2170 [87]
Tintern Abbey 479 [20]
Lines Written In Early Spring 1312 [53]
Near Anio's Stream I spied a gentle Dove 193 [8]
Ode on Intimations of Immortality 942 [38]
The Excursion 478 [20]
The Green Linnet 62 [3]
The Prelude 538 [22], 948 [38], 949 [38]
The Solitary Reaper 1215 [49]
The Waggoner 478 [20]
The World is Too Much With Us 1400 [56]
Written in March 1312 [53]
WRIGHT, KIT
Hoping It Might Be So 2110 [85]
YEATS, W B
At Algeciras 699 [28]
Come Gather Round Me Parnellites 1414 [57]
Demon and Beast 1726 [70] Down By The Salley Gardens 2165 [87]
Easter 1916: 1531 [62]
Fergus and the Druid 1363 [55]
He Reproves The Curlew 1277 [52]
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven 32 [2]
Her Praise 1790 [72]
In the Seven Woods 2014 [81]
Leda and the Swan 699 [28]
Never give all the Heart 1790 [72]
Sailing to Byzantium 699 [28]
The Ballad of Moll Magee 2060 [83]
The Cat and The Moon 1404 [57]
The Coming of Wisdom With Time 1425 [57]
The Falling of the Leaves 1891 [76]
The Fiddler of Dooney 1267 [51]
The Fisherman 1124 [45]
The Hawk 699 [28]
The Host Of The Air 1285 [52]
The Lake Isle of Innisfree 42 [2]
The Second Coming 27 [2]
The Song of Wandering Aengus 1129 [46]
The Tower 1280 [52]
The Two Trees 625 [25]
The White Birds 39 [2]
The Wild Swans at Coole 41 [2]
The Withering of the Boughs 2020 [81]
To a Child Dancing in the Wind 1737 [70] To An Isle In The Water 2165 [87]
When you are old 39 [2]
Who Goes with Fergus 1363 [55]
YOSA, BUSSAN
Calligraphy of Geese 434 [18]
Dawn 434 [18]
Sparrow Singing 434 [18]
Sudden shower 440 [18]
The behaviour of the pigeon 434 [18]
YOUNG-LEE, LI
One Heart 976 [40]
___________________
Colin
Here's another poem by the same poet
What We Need Is Here
Geese appear high over us,
pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,
as in love or sleep, holds
them to their way, clear
in the ancient faith: what we need
is here. And we pray, not
for new earth or heaven, but to be
quiet in heart, and in eye,
clear. What we need is here.
Wendell Berry
.........and an updated Index :-
The index is updated to #2235 on page 90. The first number after the poem is the number on the thread when first posted. The number in square brackets is the page of the thread on which the poem appears.
ABSE, DANIEL Not Adelstrop 2224 [89]
ACHEBE, CHINUA
Vultures 1805 [73]
ADLER, RON
Untitled Poem 557 [23]
AGGELER, WILLIAM
The Albatross (Baudelaire) 1693 [68]
Owls (Baudelaire) 2036 [82]
ALBANO, CHARLES
The Hawk 389 [16]
ALLERTON, ELLEN P
Taught by a Bird 1700 [68]
ANGELOU, MAYA
Caged Bird 5 [1] ARISTOPHANES The Chorus of Birds 2190 [88]
ARMITAGE, SIMON
It Aint What You Do It's What It Does To You 815 [33]
The Ornithologists 1940 [78]
ARNOLD, MATTHEW
Dover Beach 1060 [43]
The Scholar Gypsy 1710 [69]
ATWOOD, MARGARET
Owl Burning 1940 [78]
Red Fox 1973 [79]
AUDEN, W H
As I Walked Out One Evening 78 [4]
Funeral Blues (Stop All the Clocks) 755 [31]
O Where Are You Going? 1969 [79]
Say This City has Ten Million Souls 1244 [50]
Seascape 94 [4]
The More Loving One 1249 [50]
Their Lonely Betters 756 [31]
The Unknown Citizen 1225 [49]
AUSTEN, JANE
Ode to Pity 1838 [74]
BASHO, MATSUO
Lightening 434 [18]
Midfield 434 [18]
Moonlight Slanting 434 [18]
The sea darkens 440 [18]
Your song caresses 440 [18]
BEDOES, THOMAS LOVELL
Dream Pedlary 190 [8]
The Song that Wolfram Heard in Hell 189 [8]
BELLOC, HILAIRE
The Birds 1766 [71]
The Vulture 102 [5]
BENT, ARTHUR CLEVELAND
High in the air they travel on 777 [32]
BERRY, WENDELL
The Peace of Wild Things 196 [8]
The Wild Geese 200 [8]
BERRYMAN, JOHN
Winter Landscape 1861 [75]
BETJEMAN, JOHN
The Last Laugh 1838 [74]
Trebetherick 1874 [75]
BINYON, LAURENCE
For The Fallen (September 1914) 132 [6]
BISHOP, ELIZABETH
For CWB 1847 [74]
Sandpiper 812 [33]
The Armadillo 1302 [53]
BLAKE, WILLIAM
A Divine Image 2118 [85]
A Dream 1904 [77]
Auguries of Innocence 13 [1] Holy Thursday 2235 [90]
Jerusalem 1279 [52]
Mad Song 1663 [67]
Nurses Song (Songs of Innocence) 1430 [58]
Nurses Song (Songs of Experience) 1431 [58]
Proverbs of Hell 508 [21]
Reeds of Innocence 1268 [51]
The Argument 1273 [51]
The Blossom 1423 [57]
The Ecchoing Green 1422 [57]
The Fly 1677 [68]
The Garden of Love 36 [2]
The Human Abstract 800 [32]
The Schoolboy 1326 [54]
The Tyger 1272 [51]
To Autumn 1899 [76]
To Spring 1276 [52]
BLIND, MATHILDE
April Rain 1496 [60]
Birds of Passage 1454 [59]
BLUNDEN, EDMUND
Concert Party: Busseboom 1634 [66]
Forefathers 1087 [44]
Premature Rejoicing 1635 [66]
Report on Experience (1929) 1634 [66]
Vlamertinghe-Passing the Chateau July 1917 1075 [43] BOLANDO , EAVAN Quarantine 2206 [89]
BRECHT, BERTOLD
Questions From A Worker Who Reads 187 [8]
BRESSNER, KAY
Clear blue sky above 984 [40]
BRIDGES, ROBERT
Flycatchers 26 [2]
Nightingales 1924 [77]
BRONTE, EMILY
A Day Dream 1818 [73]
Fall, Leaves Fall 1911 [77]
Song 1818 [73]
Stars 1818 [73]
BROOKE, RUPERT
A Fragment 655 [27]
Pine-Trees and the Sky: Evening 113 [5]
The busy Heart 1788 [72]
The Dead 1525 [61]
The Hill 1791 [72]
The Old Vicarage Grantchester 1719 [69]
The Voice 164 [7]
BROOKS, GWENDOLYN
Speech to the Young 1108 [45]
The Bean Eaters 1109 [45]
We Real Cool 1111 [45]
BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways 1362 [55]
The House of Clouds. 1360 [55]
BROWNING, ROBERT
Home-Thoughts From Abroad 30 [2]
Pippa's Song 1255 [51]
Summum Bonum 1972 [79]
BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN
November 638 [26] The Arctic Lover 2164 [87]
BUDBILL, DAVID
The Three Goals 1203 [49]
BURNS, ROBERT
Cauld Blows The Wind 384 [16]
Now Westlin Winds 396 [16]
Up in the Morning Early 1059 [43]
Yon banks and hills of bonnie Doon 384 [16]
BURROW, LUCY
Jacky Frost 626 [26]
BUXTON, JOHN
The Prisoner of the Singing Bird 1031 [42]
BYRON, GEORGE GORDON
Darkness 709 [29]
Epitaph to a Dog 1533 [62]
Solitude 1528 [62]
CANDOLE, ALEC DE
When the Last Long Trek is Over 1015 [41]
CAPERN, EDWARD
The Seagull 1378 [56]
O' the postman's is a pleasant life 1381 [56]
CARROLL, LEWIS
Jaberwocky 696 [28]
CARVER, RAYMOND
This Morning 318 [13]
CAUNT, MARGARET
The Green Sandpiper 1305 [53]
CIARDI, JOHN
White Heron 1435 [58]
CHESTERTON, G K
The Donkey 1117 [45]
CLARE, JOHN
Autumn Birds 1308 [53]
December 2062 [83]
Emonsail's Heath in Winter 209 [9] Evening 2160 [87] First Love 2172 [87]
I am! 6 I look on the past , and I dread tomorrow 2179 [88]
Insects 1954 [79]
Little Trotty Wagtail 2 [1]
Love Lies Beyond The Tomb 1286 [52]
My Early Home 2023 [81]
November 2001 [81]
Schoolboys in Winter 1998 [80]
Song 692 [28] Song of Secret Love 2179 [88]
Sudden Shower 1720 [69]
The Cuckoo 1612 [65]
The Early Nightingale 16 [1]
The Flitting 1609 [65]
The Flood 1611 [65]
The Landrail 16 [1]
The Nightingale's Nest 289 [12]
The Nuthatch 719 [29]
The Old Year 969 [39] The Pettichap's Nest 2158 [87]
The Shepherd's Calendar 688 [28]
The Skylark 701 [29]
The Thrush's Nest 1953 [79]
The Winter's Spring 1994 [80]
The Yellowhammer 718 [29] What is Life ? 2183 [88]
Winter Walk 2075 [83]
Wood Pictures in Spring 1584 [64]
Written In Northampton County Asylum 693 [28]
CLARKE, AUSTIN
The Lost Heifer 1632 [66]
CLARKE, GILLIAN
Barn Owl at Le Chai 1955 [79]
Birth 1321 [53]
Little Owls 1955 [79]
Miracle on Saint David's Day 125 [5]
My Box 1043 [42]
Peregrine Falcon 1961 [79]
RS 1327 [54]
CLAYTON, DAVID
The Carpet Fights 138 [6]
COLE, MARGARET POSTGATE
The Falling Leaves 1976 [80]
COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR Answer to a Child's Question 2147[86] Brockley Combe 1446 [58]
The Rime of The Ancient Mariner 1443 [58]
COLLINS, BILLY Forgetfulness 2205 [89]
Litany 1876 [76]
CONNOR. T W
One of The Early Birds 53 [3]
COPE, WENDY
English Weather 2126 [86]
Tich Miller 1341 [54] CORNFORD, FRANCIS Parting in Wartime 2224 [89]
COUSINS, DAVID
On Growing Older 1067 [43]
COWPER, WILLIAM
The Task 1549 [62]
To The Nightingale 1220 [49]
CRANE, HART
My Grandmother's Love Letters 672 [27]
CRANE, STEPHEN
Little Birds of The Night 919 [37]
The Wayfarer 278 [12]
CRISFIELD, LEM WARD
A Hunter's Poem 760 [31]
CUMMINGS, e e
christ but they're few 1354 [55]
for any ruffian of the sky 1354 [55]
In time of daffodils 1356 [55]
i thank You God for most this amazing 1472 [59]
Poem 1 1028 [42]
seeker of truth 1354 [55] since feeling is first 2163 [87]
Why must itself up every of a park 1026 [42]
CUTLER, IVOR
I am a boo boo bird 1785 [72]
DARYUSH, ELIZABETH
Children of Wealth 1148 [46]
I saw the daughter of the sun 1147 [46]
Still Life 1148 [46]
DAVIES, IDRIS
The Curlews of Blaen Rhymni 2106 [85]
DAVIES, W H
A Greeting 1258 [51]
And we have known those days 1328 [54]
April's Charms 1529 [62]
Come Let Us Find 1716 [69]
How sweet this morning air in Spring 25 [1]
I am the poet Davies, William 1316 [53]
Leisure 1260 [51]
May Day 1536 [62]
No Master 544 [22]
Rich Days 1891 [76]
The Example 1537 [70]
The Hawk 1716 [69]
The Heap of Rags 1537 [62]
The Hermit 1316 [53]
The Kingfisher 25 [1]
Thunderstorms 1863 [75]
DE LA MARE, WALTER
Before Dawn 273 [11]
King David was a Sorrowful Man 267 [11]
Peace 1985 [80]
The Listeners 270 [11]
DENNY, SANDY
Who knows where the time goes? 1384 [56]
DICKINSON, EMILY
A Bird Came down the Walk 1751 [71]
A feather from the Whippoorwill 116 [5] An Awful Tempest Mashed the Air 2219 [89]
At Half past Three 1567 [63]
Bee! I'm expecting you 1810 [73]
Bring me the sunset in a cup 1565 [63]
God gave a loaf to every bird 2026 [82]
Hope is the thing with feathers 116 [5]
How the old Mountains drip with Sunset 1551 [63]
I'm nobody 1567 [63]
I know a place where summer strives 1777 [72]
I shall keep singing 1870 [75]
Indian Summer 1889 [76]
Mama never forgets her birds 1810 [73]
My Friend must be a Bird 1841 [74]
Of Being a Bird 1841 [74]
Some things that fly there be 1810 [73]
Success is counted sweetest 1648 [66] The Judge is like The Owl 2152 [87]
The Poets light but Lamps 1568 [63]
The Robin 1567 [63]
There came a wind like a bugle 1562 [63]
There's a certain Slant of Light 956 [39]
These are days when the birds come back 1784 [72]
Two Butterflies went out at noon 1754 [71]
Wild Nights-Wild Nights 1569 [63]
DICKINSON, PATRIC
Dunnerdale 2106 [85]
DONNE, JOHN
A Nocturnal upon St Lucy's Day 2051 [83]
Song 218 [9]
DRAKE, NICK
Which Will 1385 [56]
DRYDEN, JOHN
Happy the Man 1578 [64]
DUFFY, CAROL ANNE
Before You Were Mine 1123 [45]
In Mrs. Tilscher's Class 885 [36]
EDWARDS, MARJORIE
Morning Beach 506 [21]
EDGAR, MARRIOT
The Lion and Albert 530 [22]
EDGE, GRAEME
Late Lament 1064 [43]
The Day Begins 1064 [43]
The Dream 1061 [43]
EISELEY, LOREN
The Cardinals 158 [7]
ELIOT, T S
Burnt Norton 1040 [42]
Five-Finger Exercises IV and V 2132 [86]
Sweeney Among the Nightingales 2131 [86]
The Waste Land 157 [7], 1142 [46]
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO
The Rhodora 1883 [76]
EZEKIEL, NISSIM
Night of the Scorpion 996 [40]
Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher 2013 [81]
FARJEON. ELEANOR
Mrs. Peck Pigeon 1206 [49]
FEINSTEIN, ELAINE
Getting Older 2124 [85]
FERLINGHETTI, LAWRENCE
Seascape With Sun and Eagle 1604 [65]
The Light of Birds 277 [12]
FIELD, EUGENE
The Dinkey Bird 694 [28]
FIELD, RACHEL
Something Told The Wild Geese 760 [31] FLECKER, JAMES ELROY To A Poet a Thousand Years Hence 2199 [88 ] FORSTER, MARYANN
Flight of Swallows 303 [13]
FROST, ROBERT
A Late Walk 1837 [74]
A Minor Bird 112 [5]
A Prayer in Spring 1013 [41]
Dust of Snow 111 [5]
Fragmentary Blue 1755 [71]
Ghost House 1750 [70]
Hyla Brook 1750 [70]
Line-Storm Song 1749 [70]
Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter 2046 [82]
My November Guest 938 [38]
Never Again Would Bird Song Be The Same 1025 [41]
Nothing Gold Can Stay 1271 [51]
Questioning Faces 1990 [80]
Range Finding 1042 [42]
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 114 [5]
The Exposed Nest 1606 [65]
The Flood 745 [30]
The Ovenbird 921 [37]
The Pasture 1275 [51]
The Road Not Taken 114 [5]
The Sound of Trees 1469 [59]
To E. T. 2049 [82]
To The Thawing Wind 115 [5]
Two Tramps in Mud Time 1430 [58]
GALLIENNE, RICHARD
I Meant To Do My Work Today 282 [12]
GIBRAN, KAHLIL
The Dying Man and The Vulture 488 [20]
GILBERT & SULLIVAN
Tit Willow 23 [1] GILMORE , DAME MARY The First Thrush 2154 [87]
GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON
Heather Rose 494 [20]
Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily 1901 [76]
GOLDSMITH, OLIVER
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog 1620 [65]
The Deserted Village 1619 [65]
GRAVES, ROBERT
Sorley's Weather 1758 [71]
The Caterpillar 1767 [71]
The Cottage 1774 [71]
To Robert Nicholls 472 [19]
GRAY, THOMAS
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 1545 [62]
Ode on the Spring 1548 [62]
The Epitaph 1545 [62]
GRENFELL, JULIAN
The Naked Earth 1449 [58]
GRENNAN, EAMON
Detail 2111 [85]
GURNEY, IVOR
Hedges 1838 [74]
Song 1839 [74]
The hoe scrapes earth 1648 [66]
The Nightingales 2027 [82]
HARDY, THOMAS
A Christmas Ghost Story 924 [37] Birds at Winter Nightfall 2161 [87]
Beeny Cliff 959 [39]
Old Furniture 1386 [56] On a Fine Morning 2173 [87]
Paying Calls 810 [33]
The Darkling Thrush 50 [2]
The House of Hospitalities 1396 [56]
The Impercipient 1610 [65]
The Man He Killed 2069 [83] The Puzzled Game-Birds 2161 [87]
The Rambler 2116 [85]
The Seasons of Her Year 1910 [77]
The Voice 644 [26]
The Yellowhammer 718 [29]
Transformations 1098 [44]
Weathers 1133 [46]
Where the Picnic Was 1105 [41]
HARRISON, TONY
Long Distance 894 [36]
HEANEY, SEAMUS
Anything Can Happen 862 [35]
A Shiver 770 [31] At a Potato Digging 2209 [89]
Bogland 1523 [61]
Death of a Naturalist 1412 [57]
Digging 563 [23]
Drifting Off 1057 [43]
Edward Thomas on The Laggans Road 1240 [50]
Follower 888 [36]
MossBawn-Two Poems in Dedication-1 Sunlight 1518 [61]
Personal Helicon 1520 [61]
Planting The Alder 862 [35]
Punishment 1019 [41]
St. Kevin and the Blackbird 721 [29]
Serenades 1287 [52]
Stern 1582 [64]
The Birch Grove 1522 [61]
The Blackbird of Glanmore 1183 [48]
The Early Purges 1521 [61]
The Grabaulle Man 973 [39]
The Otter 1218 [49] Twice Shy 2167 [87]
HECHT, ANTHONY
The Dover Bitch 1060 [43]
HEMANS, FELICIA
Casabianca 611 [25]
HEMMING, ANNE
Into my fever's flush 380 [16]
HEMMINGWAY, ERNEST
Along with Youth 478 [20]
HERRICK, ROBERT
Collina Going a-Maying 1731 [70]
Gather Ye Rosebuds 810 [33]
HODGSON. RALPH
The Bells of Heaven 1918 [77]
The Great Auk's Ghost 321 [13]
The Late, Last Rook 1923 [77]
HINCHCLIFFE, ISAAC
The Mardalian Lament 2064 [83]
HOGG, JAMES
A Boy's Song 1503 [61]
HOOD, THOMAS
Autumn 1927 [78]
I Remember, I Remember 1930 [78]
The Song of the Shirt 1951 [79]
HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame 882 [36]
Binsey Poplars 1592 [64]
I Have Desired To Go 1593 [64]
Pied Beauty 576 [24]
Spring and Fall 1593 [64]
The Caged Lark 1766 [71]
The Sea and the Skylark 1855 [75]
The Windhover 55 [3]
The Woodlark 1734 [70]
HOSKINS, M L
At The Gate of the Year 968 [39]
HOUSMAN, A E
Bredon Hill 1616 [65]
How clear, how lovely bright 1577 [64]
I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded 108 [5]
Loveliest of trees the cherry now 954 [39]
On Wenlock Edge The Wood's In Trouble 108 [5]
When smoke stood up from Ludlow 105 [5]
White in the moon the long road lies 954 [39]
XL 955 [39]
HUGHES, LANGSTON
Dreams 1907 [77]
HUGHES, TED
A Childish Prank 71 [3]
Brambles 514 [21]
Crow Blacker than Ever 1467 [59]
Crow's Fall 1815 [73]
Hawk Roosting 65 [3]
Heptonstall Old Church 1044 [42]
Relic 686 [28]
The Owl 1814 [73]
The swallow of summer 395 [16]
The Warm and the Cold 1816 [73]
Thistles 868 [35]
Wodwo 1583 [64]
Wind 1740 [70]
ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER
The Common Cormorant (or Shag) 368 [15]
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY
White Bird 1082 [43]
JACOB, VIOLET
The Wild Geese 1387 [56]
JAMES, ERIC ANDREW
Canary Canary 1185 [48]
JAMIE, KATHLEEN
The Dipper 733 [30]
The Tree House 876 [36]
JARMAN, MARK
Old Acquaintance 932 [38]
JEFFERS, ROBINSON
Hurt Hawks 565 [23]
JENKINS, LOUIS
The Language of Crows 1881 [76]
JENKINS, LUCIEN
The Enclosure Acts 821 [33]
JENNINGS, ELIZABETH
Absence 2024 [81]
My Grandmother 1386 [56]
JONES, JOHN IDRIS
Bleddyn Griffith, Headmaster 2081 [84]
Exam Time, Heath 2081 [84]
JONES, PETER
Buttercups 818 [33]
The Heron 818 [33]
JOYCE, JAMES
All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters 1850 [74]
On the beach at Fontana 862 [35]
KEATS, JOHN
A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever 1179 [48]
Endymion 1707 [69]
Epistle to Charles Cowden Clarke 1176 [48]
La Belle Dame Sans Merci 18 [1]
O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell 1528 [62]
Ode to a Grecian Urn 1078 [44]
Ode to a Nightingale 689 [28]
On The Grasshopper and Cricket 1822 [73]
The Terror of Death 1192 [48]
To Ailsa Rock 1264 [51]
To Autumn 1887 [76]
To One Who Has Been Long In The City 1192 [48]
KENDON, FRANK
And ladders leaning against damson trees 517 [21]
KENNELLY, BRIAN
The Distinct Impression 815 [33]
KHAYYAM, OMAR
Rubaiyat 346 [14]
KING, PHYLLIS
A Linnet 1785 [72]
Ode to the West Wind 1791 [72]
KINGSLEY, CHARLES
Young and Old 1127 [46]
KIPLING, RUDYARD
If 952 [39]
In Springtime 669 [27]
Seal Lullaby 740 [30]
The Way Through The Woods 740 [30]
KOLATKAR, ARUN
An Old Woman 989 [40]
KLINE, MALINDA
Watching Over Me 984 [40]
LAIRD, CHRISTA
Fall Birthday 777 [32]
LARKIN, PHILIP
Afternoons 738 [30]
A Study of Reading Habits 2087 [84]
At Grass 1963 [79]
As Bad as a Mile 1647 [66]
Born Yesterday 860 [35]
Coming 96 [4]
Cut Grass 331 [14]
Days 331 [14]
Deceptions 855 [35]
Faith Healing 101 [5]
I Remember, I Remember 1930 [78] Like The Train's Beat 2231 [90] Love Songs in Age 1394 [56]
Maiden Name 887 [36]
May Weather 1678 [68]
MCMXIV 746 [30]
Modesties 1848 [74]
Mother, Summer, I 1672 [67]
Myxomatosis 581 [24]
New Eyes Each Year 2087 [94]
Next Please 868 [35] One Man Walking a Deserted Platform 2231 [90]
Pigeons 2087 [84]
Reasons for Attendance 860 [35]
Sunny Prestatyn 848 [34]
The Explosion 1042 [42]
The Trees 99 [4]
This be the verse 737 [30]
Water 331 [14]
LAWLESS, EMILY
Now the seagull spreads his wing 72 [3]
LAWRENCE, D H
Bavarian Gentians 1892 [76]
Humming Bird 851 [35]
Malade 1902 [77]
Piano 1390 [56]
The Enkindled Spring 1313 [53]
The Mosquito 1903 [77]
The Ship of Death (extract) 1902 [77]
LEAR, EDWARD
Mr. And Mrs. Spikky Sparrow 367 [15]
The Scroobious Pip 359 [15]
The Hunting of The Snark 364 [15]
There was an Old Man of Whitehaven 1775 [71]
There was an Old Mam on whose Nose 1775 [71]
There was an Old Man with a beard 367 [15]
There was an Old Man with an Owl 1775 [71]
LEDWIDGE, FRANCIS
A Rainy Day in April 1413 [57]
Lament for Thomas McDonagh 465 [19]
Soliloquy 1015 [41]
LEE, LAURIE
Town Owl 683 [28]
LEONARD, TOM
This is the Six O'Clock News 821 [33]
LEWIS, ALUN
All Day It Has Rained 1638 [66]
To Edward Thomas 1641 [66]
LINDSAY, VACHEL
The Flower-Fed Buffaloes 1607 [65]
The Leaden-Eyed 997 [40]
LOCKLEY (?)
When Dotterel do first appear 688 [28]
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH
Aftermath 1813 [73]
Children 1432 [58]
It is not always May 1965 [79]
The Song of Hiawatha 484 [20], 1445 [58]
The Village Blacksmith 1884 [76]
LONNROT, ELIAS
The Kalevala 249, 250 [10]
LOWELL, AMY
Starling 1779 [72]
LOWELL, ROBERT
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket 1358 [55]
LYALL, SARAH
Pigeons 1187 [48]
LYYVUO, EERO
A Chaffinch to a Poet 234 [10]
Laulurastas ylistaa Illan Rankaa 230 [10]
McCARTNEY, PAUL
Blackbird 1104 [45]
McGONOGAL, WILLIAM
Death and burial of Lord Tennyson 964 [39]
The Tay Bridge Disaster 961 [39]
McGOUGH, ROGER
Bees Cannot Fly 212 [9]
Crow 167 [7]
Defying Gravity 169 [7]
Let me die a young man's death 790 [32]
Nooligan 175 [7] The Bright Side 2220 [89] You and I 2219 [89]
40 Love 713 [29]
McKAY, CLAUDE
Birds of Prey 1144 [46]
Winter in The Country 1146 [46]
McKAY, DON
Close-up on a Sharp-shinned Hawk 569 [23]
McMILLAN, JAN
Five artistic ducks 528 [22]
In Winter Silence 528 [22]
MacCAIG, NORMAN
Fetching Cows 1119 [45]
Home on a Cliff 1742 [70]
Ringed plover by water's edge 1119 [45]
Summer Farm 1115 [45]
MacLEISH, ARCHIBALD
Ars Poetica 1804 [73]
MACNIECE, LOUIS
Apple Blossom 1050 [42]
June Thunder 1737 [70]
Thalassa 1739 [70]
The Sunlight on The Garden 1288 [52]
Trains in The Distance 1299 [52]
MACRAE, JOHN
In Flanders Fields 659 [27]
Then And Now 1802 [73]
MAC GIOLLA GHUNNA, CATHAL BUIDHE
The Yellow Bittern 455 [19]
MANSFIELD, KATHERINE
Across the Red Sky 1778 [72]
MARLOW, CHRISTOPHER
The face that launched a thousand ships 1095 [44]
MASEFIELD, JOHN
Night is on the Downland 1827 [74]
Sea Fever 1365 [55]
The Wild Duck 1827 [74]
MEREDITH, GEORGE
He rises and begins to round 7 [1]
MERRITT DIXON LANIER
The Pelican 181 [8]
MERWIN, W S
Berryman 1860 [75]
Unknown Bird 1849 [74]
MEW, CHARLOTTE
I So Liked Spring 1591 [64]
The Trees are Down 1591 [64]
MIEZELAITIS, EDUARDAS
Hands 1879 [76]
Hyperbole 1878 [76]
MILLAY, EDNA ST VINCENT
Afternoon on a Hill 2104 [85]
First Fig 1834 [74]
Journey 1832 [74]
Pastoral 1834 [74]
Renascence Pt I 1867 [75]
Renascence Pt II 1873 [75]
Renascence Pt III 1885 [76]
Second Fig 1847 [74]
The Death of Autumn 1839 [74]
The Owls (Baudelaire) 2036 [82]
MILLIGAN, SPIKE
Have A Nice Day 2113 [85]
MILNE, A A
Oh the butterflies are flying 136 [6]
The Mirror 133 [6]
The Wrong House 133 [6]
MILTON, JOHN
Il Penseroso 1579 [64]
L'Allegro 1579 [64]
Lycidas 327 [14]
Paradise Lost 825 [33], 830 [34]
MOORE, MARIANNE
Poetry 1574 [63]
MOORE, THOMAS
The Young May Moon 1602 [65]
MOORMAN, F W
Fieldfares 722 [29]
MOORSOM, SASHA
The Company of Birds 1651 [67]
MUELLER, LISEL
Why I need Birds 1156 [47]
What the Dog Perhaps Hears 1157 [47]
MUIR, EDWIN
The Myth 2123 [85]
The Horses 1037 [42]
MULDOON, PAUL
Plovers 1036 [42]
NAGY, MARY
A Lesson from the Birds 1214 [49]
NASH, OGDEN
Always Marry An April Girl 1499 [60]
Crossing the Border 806 [33]
Spring is Sprung 178 [8]
The Ant 529 [22]
The Birds 701 [29]
The Cuckoo 182 [8]
The Duck 182 [8]
The Fly 1961 [79]
The Germ 882 [36]
The Grackle 179 [8]
The Ostrich 182 [8]
The Squab 182 [8]
The Wapiti 529 [22]
The Wasp 1964 [79]
Up from the Egg 529 [22]
NERUDA, PABLO
Bird 783 [32]
Black Vulture 488 [20]
Ode to Bird Watching 2041 [82]
The Me Bird 1687 [68]
The Stolen Branch 1370 [55]
Triangles 2034 [82]
You will remember 1373 [55]
NEWBOLT, HENRY
Vitai Lampada 1010 [41]
NICHOLSON, NORMAN
Boo to a Goose 127 [6]
Sea to the West 2076 [84]
The Cocks Nest 2080 [84]
The Black Guillemot 1 [1]
The Cock's Nest 98 [4]
Weather Ear 2064 [83]
Weeds 299 [12]
NOYES, ALFRED
Shadows on the Down 677 [28]
The Highwayman 676 [28]
Wizardry 1645 [66]
OLIVER, MARY
Catbird 1964 [79]
Egrets 1970 [79]
Entering the Kingdom 1854 [75]
Gannets 2033 [82]
Heron Rises from the Dark Summer Pond 172 [7] Little Owl Who Lives in The Orchard 2151 [87]
Mindful 2078 [84]
On Winter's Margin 1916 [77]
Starlings in Winter 1988 [80] Such Singing in the Wild Branches 2141 [86] The Lark 2152 [87] The Swan 791 [32]
Wild Geese 1571 [63]
Yes! No! 2078 [84]
OWEN, WILFRED
Anthem for Doomed Youth 123 [5]
Dulce et Decorum Est 654 [27]
Elegy in April and September 123 [5]
PANGYARIHAN, GILBERT
The Birds of Hong Kong 1160 [47]
PARKER, DOROTHY
Ornithology for Beginners 1865 [75]
Song in a Minor Key 1868 [75]
PATTEN, BRIAN A few questions about Romeo 2218 [9] In Tintagel Graveyard 176 [8]
Lockerbie 177 [8] Sleep Now 2218 [89] Sometimes it happens 2223 [89] The Bee's Last Journey 2217 [89] The Minister for Exams 2219 [89] The Newcomer 2213 [89] PAULIN, TOM
Sea Wind 1376 [56]
The Albatross 1693 [68]
The Lagan Blackbird 1376 [56]
The Owls (Baudelaire) 2036 [82]
The Rooks (Rimbaud) 1690 [68]
PAXTON, TOM
Whose Garden Was This 399 [16]
PEARSON, ENID
Frosty Morning 648 [26]
Owl 352 [15]
PENROSE, CLAUDE LEWIS
Billets at Dawn 1397 [56]
PLATH, SYLVIA
Blackberrying 67 [3]
Black Rook in Rainy Weather 73 [3]
Goatsucker 477 [20]
Spinster 486 [20]
POE, EDGAR ALLEN
The Raven 1665 [67] POGSON, PATRICIA Daniel 2224 [89]
POSEY, ALEXANDER LAWRENCE
Autumn [1886] [76]
Song of the Oktahutchee 1886 [76]
POTTER, BEATRIX
Tommy Tittle mouse 719 [29]
POUND, EZRA
Ode Pour L'election De Son Sepulchre 1509 [61]
PUGH, SHEENAGH
Sometimes 733 [30]
RAINE, KATHLEEN
Nameless Islets 558 [23]
RAMEL, GORDON J L
Mankind does not agree 1820 [73]
The First Hoopoe of Spring 1823 [73]
Tiger Tiger Revisited 1824 [73] RICHARDS, FRANK Girl in a Train 2224 [89]
RILKE, RAINER MARIA
Autumn 1839 [74]
The Dove 1836 [74]
ROETHKE, THEODORE
In a Dark Time 1964: 280 [12]
ROSEN, MICHAEL
Going Through Old Photos 518 [21]
ROSENBURG, ISAAC
Break of Day in the Trenches 1004 [41]
In the Trenches 1977 [80]
Returning We Hear the Larks 124 [5]
Through These Pale Cold Days 1977 [80]
ROSS, ALAN
Night Patrol 1138 [46]
ROSSETI, CHRISTINA
Remember 951 [39]
Song 1598 [64]
RYAN, KAY
Mockingbird 925 [37]
Paired Things 929 [38]
The Other Shoe 930 [38]
RYOKAN, TAIGU
Spring flows gently 442 [18]
Wind and Snow 441 [18]
SANDBURG, CARL
The Harbor 1913 [77]
SASSOON, SIEGFRIED
An Old French Poet 1762 [71]
Autumn 1859 [75]
Butterflies 842 [34]
Dream Forest 1802 [73]
Everyone Sang 1088 [44]
Have you forgotten yet? 131 [6]
October Trees 1919 [77]
The Hero 758 [31]
Thrushes 121 [5]
Wonderment 1807 [73]
SCANNELL, VERNON
Nettles 1338 [54]
Rhyme-Time 1340 [54]
SCHILLER, FRIEDRICH VON
The Power of Song 1863 [75]
SCOTT, PETER
A picture of Geese 1257 [51]
SCOTT, WALTER
The Lady of The Lake 471 [19]
SCOVELL, E J
Listening to Collared Doves 2109 [85]
SERVICE, ROBERT
Bird Sanctuary 1992 [80]
Birdwatcher 186 [8]
Grey Gull 191 [8]
The Lark 1997 [80]
The Red Retreat 1796 [72] Why Do Birds Sing ? 2145 [86]
SEXTON, ANNE
The Child Bearers 2055 [83]
Welcome Morning 1900 [76]
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Ariel's Songs 1629 [66]
A Midsummer Night's Dream 1543 [62]
Julius Caesar 1801 [73]
King Lear 1558 [63]
Macbeth 1473 [59], 1477 [60]
Richard II 1560 [63]
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? 1629 [66]
Sonnet No 73: 767 [31]
The ouzel-cock so black of hue 1399 [56]
The Tempest Act IV Sc 1 1908 [77]
When daffodils begin to peer 2192 [88 When daisies pied and violets blue 2192 [88]
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought 1393 [56]
Winter 63 [3]
SHAW, G B
Wings 1155 [47]
SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE
A widow bird sate mourning for her love 279 [12]
Adonais-An Elegy on the Death of John Keats 1508 [61]
England in 1819: 712 [29]
Goodnight 1788 [72] Hymn of Pan 2196 [88]
Ode to a Skylark 60 [3]
Ode to the West Wind 712 [29]
Ozymandias 1517 [61]
Song 708 [29]
The Cloud 1756 [71]
The Question 1541 [62]
SISSAY, LEMN
Let there be Peace 1912 [77]
SKELTON, JOHN
Merry Margaret as midsummer flower 376 [16]
The bittern with his bumpe 1081 [44]
SMITH, STEVIE
Autumn 1839 [74]
Not Waving but Drowning 743 [30]
The Airy Christ 1366
The Leader 1835 [74]
The Reason 1371 [55]
SNOWY WHITE
Bird of Paradise 1097 [44]
SNYDER, GARY
Magpies Song 1463 [59]
SORLEY, CHARLES HAMILTON
Rooks 1073 [43]
The Song of the Ungirt Runners 1764 [71]
SOUTHEY, ROBERT
The Old Man's Comforts 1429 [58]
To a Goose 2061 [83]
SPENSER, EDMUND
Epithalamion 1831 [74]
STAFFORD, WILLIAM
A Ritual To Read To Each Other 1350 [54]
Atavism 1458 [59]
At the Bomb Testing Site 931 [38]
Just Thinking 1389 [56]
Security 1350 [54]
The Well Rising 930 [38]
Walking West 1359 [55]
STALLWORTHY, JON
No Ordinary Sunday 656 [27]
STEPHENS, JAMES
I heard a bird at dawn 1787 [72]
In The Poppy Field 1654 [67]
The Shell 1531 [62]
STERLING, GEORGE
Autumn 1890 [76]
STEVENS, WALLACE
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 1573 [63]
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
Nest Eggs 1844 [74]
Singing 1845 [74]
Swallows Travel To and Fro 1622 [65]
Time to Rise 1842 [74]
SULLIVAN, REBECCA
There Lie Forgotten Men 668 [27]
TAGORE, RABINDRANATH
The Gift 806 [33]
TASHIJAN, FIONA LEE
Birds of Prey are all the same 504 [21]
That Reptile-Bird called Archaeopterix 504 [21]
TAYLOR, JOHN
There were rare birds I never saw before 72 [3]
TEASDALE, SARA
April Song 1480 [60]
August Moonrise 1778 [72]
Fear 1484 [60]
I Have Loved Hours at Sea 1799 [72]
I Love You 1857 [75]
May Day 1586 [64]
Morning 1484 [60]
Spring Night 1607 [65]
Swallow Flight 1797 [72]
The Progress of Spring 1668 [67]
The Storm 1737 [70]
The Swans 1479 [60]
There Will Come Soft Rains 1478 [60]
Water Lillies 1796 [72]
Wisdom 1799 [72]
TENNANT, EDWARD WYNDHAM
Home Thoughts in Laventie 1000 [40]
TENNYSON, ALFRED LORD
Break, Break, Break 599 [24]
Circumstance 1793 [72]
Cradle Song 265 [11]
I stood on a Tower in the West 965 [39]
In Memoriam 1794 [72]
Locksley Hall 1987 [80]
Morte D'Arthur 346 [14]
Spring 1792 [72]
Summer is Coming 235 [10]
Tears, Idle Tears 1932 [78]
The Blackbird 1703 [69]
The Brook 704 [29]
The Eagle 28 [2]
The Lady of Shallot 264 [11]
The Oak 1910 [77]
The Owl 1797 [72]
Ulysses 1669 [67]
THE MOODY BLUES
The Swallow 1079 [44]
Voices in The Sky 1079 [44]
THOMAS, DYLAN
Do not go gentle in to that good night 1120 [49]
Fern Hill 1314 [53]
Notes on the Art of Poetry 1574 [63]
Poem in October 166 [7]
The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower 1125 [45]
The Hand That Signed The Paper 573 [23]
When All My Five and Country Senses See 573 [23]
THOMAS, EDWARD
A Cat 1403 [57]
Adlestrop 128 [6]
And You Helen 130 [6]
As the Team's Head-Brass 107 [5]
Beauty 1923 [77]
Bird's Nest 1624 [65]
But these things also 1317 [53]
Cock-Crow 2049 [82]
Fifty Faggots 905 [37]
For These 1513 [61]
Gone, Gone Again 2040 [82]
How at Once 1614 [65]
If I should ever by chance 1736 [70]
In Memoriam 1515 [61]
July 1718 [69]
Lights Out 1235 [50]
Lob 328 [14]
Lovers 1686 [68]
October 1919 [77]
Rain 908 [37]
Sedge Warblers 171 [7]
She Dotes 978 [40]
Snow 1135 [46]
Tall Nettles 1337 [54]
Thaw 1326 [54]
The Brook 1866 [75]
The Cherry Trees 1126 [46]
The Child in the Orchard 1961 [79]
The Combe 884 [36]
The Dark Forest 1126 [46]
The Glory 1712 [69]
The Long Small Room 1724 [69]
The Mill-Pond 897 [36]
The Owl 1334 [54]
The Unknown Bird 1730 [70]
The Word 1235 [50]
There's Nothing Like the Sun 2050 [82]
This is no case of petty right or wrong 902 [37]
Two Pewits 1639 [66]
Words 1575 [63]
THOMAS, R S
A Blackbird Singing 768 [31]
A Welsh Testament 1315 [53]
Lore 1086 [44]
Moorland 978 [40] The Welsh Hill Country 2204 [89]
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID
Mist 472 [19]
TOWNSEND WALKER, SYLVIA
In April 1505 [61]
TURNER, BRIAN
Ashbah 1658 [67]
Eulogy 1658 [67]
Here, Bullet 1658 [67]
TYNAN, KATHERIN Slow Spring 2202 [89 ]
The Doves 1680 [68]
The End of the Day 532 [22]
The Watchers 1674 [67]
The Wind that Shakes the Barley 1679 [68]
TYREMAN, MAUREEN
Blackbird 1294 [52]
VERNEDE, R E
The Listening Post 1151 [47]
VOR, JON UR
Wintergull 1713 [69]
WAGONER, DAVID
Lost 780 [32]
WARDLE, SARAH
After Blake 1049 [42]
WATERS, ROGER
Grantchester Meadows 1650 [66]
WATSON, STANLEY
Ah Bluejay 165 [7]
WEBSTER, JOHN
Call for the Robin-Redbreast 1852 [75]
WEBSTER, NORMAN
Lakeland Rhapsody 2092 [84]
WHITE, GILBERT
The Invitation to Selborne 1744 [70]
The Naturalist's Summer-Evening Walk 2056 [83]
WHITMAN, WALT
O Me ! O Life! 82 [4]
The Dalliance of Eagles 91 [4]
To the Man-of-War Bird 92 [4]
Wood Odors 89 [4]
WILBUR, RICHARD
A Barred Owl 1224 [49]
WILCOX, ELLA WHEELER
My Home 2121 [85]
So many gods-so many creeds 275 [11]
The Year 2073 [83] WILDE, OSCAR Magdalene Walks 2178 [88]
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS
Dawn 1862 [75]
Peace on Earth 2119 [85]
The Birds 1863 [75]
WILSON, T P CAMERON
Magpies In Picardy 1022 [41]
WILSON, RAYMOND
Old Johnny Armstrong 159 [7]
WISE, BERTHA
Constant Velocity 312 [13]
WOODBERRY, GEORGE EDWARD
The Secret 1869 [75]
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM
Art thou the bird whom Man loves best 480 [20] At the Corner of Wood Street 2170 [87]
Tintern Abbey 479 [20]
Lines Written In Early Spring 1312 [53]
Near Anio's Stream I spied a gentle Dove 193 [8]
Ode on Intimations of Immortality 942 [38]
The Excursion 478 [20]
The Green Linnet 62 [3]
The Prelude 538 [22], 948 [38], 949 [38]
The Solitary Reaper 1215 [49]
The Waggoner 478 [20]
The World is Too Much With Us 1400 [56]
Written in March 1312 [53]
WRIGHT, KIT
Hoping It Might Be So 2110 [85]
YEATS, W B
At Algeciras 699 [28]
Come Gather Round Me Parnellites 1414 [57]
Demon and Beast 1726 [70] Down By The Salley Gardens 2165 [87]
Easter 1916: 1531 [62]
Fergus and the Druid 1363 [55]
He Reproves The Curlew 1277 [52]
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven 32 [2]
Her Praise 1790 [72]
In the Seven Woods 2014 [81]
Leda and the Swan 699 [28]
Never give all the Heart 1790 [72]
Sailing to Byzantium 699 [28]
The Ballad of Moll Magee 2060 [83]
The Cat and The Moon 1404 [57]
The Coming of Wisdom With Time 1425 [57]
The Falling of the Leaves 1891 [76]
The Fiddler of Dooney 1267 [51]
The Fisherman 1124 [45]
The Hawk 699 [28]
The Host Of The Air 1285 [52]
The Lake Isle of Innisfree 42 [2]
The Second Coming 27 [2]
The Song of Wandering Aengus 1129 [46]
The Tower 1280 [52]
The Two Trees 625 [25]
The White Birds 39 [2]
The Wild Swans at Coole 41 [2]
The Withering of the Boughs 2020 [81]
To a Child Dancing in the Wind 1737 [70] To An Isle In The Water 2165 [87]
When you are old 39 [2]
Who Goes with Fergus 1363 [55]
YOSA, BUSSAN
Calligraphy of Geese 434 [18]
Dawn 434 [18]
Sparrow Singing 434 [18]
Sudden shower 440 [18]
The behaviour of the pigeon 434 [18]
YOUNG-LEE, LI
One Heart 976 [40]
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