The Birds (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God. ~ Luke, xii, ...
Poems about ostrich (21 Poems)
Unknown Woman (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok Poems)
Above the restaurants in the eveningsThe sultry air is wild and still,And the decaying breath of springDrives drunken shouting.Above the ...
The Summer Girl (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
She's the jauntiest of creatures, she's the daintiest of misses,With her pretty patent leathers or her alligator ties,With her eyes ...
Hunting The Were-Wolf (Abner Cosens Poems)
The jungle law is broken; From forest, field and plain, The beasts and birds have spoken, ...
The Ostrich-Punc (Arthur Chapman Poems)
I was broke in Arizony, and was gloomy as a tombWhen I got a chance at punchin' for an outfit ...
Skunk Hour (Robert Lowell Poem)
For Elizabeth Bishop Nautilus Island's hermit heiress still lives through winter in her Spartan cottage; her sheep still graze above ...
Oonts (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes 'im to perspire? It isn't standin' up to charge nor lyin' ...
Terror (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Terror found us today Asleep, unaware Complacent We were Invincible Immune The Atlantic The Pacific Firewalls, protectors No longer Ostrich ...
Wine and Water (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Old Noah he had an ostrich farm and fowls on the largest scale, He ate his egg with a ladle ...
A Soliloquy Of The Full Moon, She Being In A Mad Passion (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Now as Heaven is my Lot, they're the Pests of the Nation! Wherever they can come With clankum and blankum ...
The Stranger (Aleksandr Blok Poem)
The restaurants on hot spring evenings Lie under a dense and savage air. Foul drafts and hoots from dunken revelers ...
Spring in Town (William Cullen Bryant Poem)
The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses--showers and ...
Georgia Dusk (Jean Toomer Poems)
The sky, lazily disdaining to pursue The setting sun, too indolent to hold A lengthened tournament for flashing gold, Passively ...
A Song to David (excerpt) (Christopher Smart Poems)
Sweet is the dew that falls betimes, And drops upon the leafy limes; Sweet Hermon's fragrant air: Sweet is the ...
A Song To David (Christopher Smart Poems)
I O THOU, that sit'st upon a throne, With harp of high majestic tone, To praise the King of kings; ...
Foreign Children (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
Little Indian, Sioux, or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, Oh! don't you wish that you were me? ...
Rural Reflections (Adrienne Rich Poems)
This is the grass your feet are planted on. You paint it orange or you sing it green, But you ...
The Ostrich (Ogden Nash Poems)
The ostrich roams the great Sahara. Its mouth is wide, its neck is narra. It has such long and lofty ...
Acknowledgement (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
With the ladies' permission, most humbly I'd mention How much we're obliged by all their attention; We sink with the ...
He “Digesteth Harde Yron” (Marianne Moore Poems)
Although the aepyornis or roc that lived in Madagascar, and the moa are extinct, the camel-sparrow, linked with them in ...
Niagara (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I Within the town of Buffalo Are prosy men with leaden eyes. Like ants they worry to and fro, (Important ...