There Was an Old Man with a Beard (Edward Lear Poem)
There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, "It is just as I feared! -- Two Owls and ...
Poems about owls (31 Poems)
Hiawatha’s Childhood (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Downward through the evening twilight, In the days that are forgotten, In the unremembered ages, From the full moon fell ...
Christmas in India (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Dim dawn behind the tamerisks -- the sky is saffron-yellow -- As the women in the village grind the corn, ...
Eternity (James Lee Jobe Poem)
for C. G. Macdonald, 1956-2006 Charlie, sunrise is a three-legged mongrel dog, going deaf, already blind in one eye, answering ...
Unclean (Brooks Haxton Poem)
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am ...
Silence (Thomas Hood Poem)
There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be, In the ...
Autumn (Thomas Hood Poem)
I Saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like Silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would ...
owl power (Rg Gregory Poem)
they say in the local sanctuary owls are the stupidest creatures all this wisdom business is the mythological media at ...
owls and pussy cats and seven-year -old boys (Rg Gregory Poem)
owls and pussy cats can make up their minds to sail out to sea and even get married but they ...
PUBLISHERS (Godfrey Mutiso Gorry Poem)
And then they pretend like owls With marble eyes and wizened stupidity I do not know why they cannot perceive ...
Luna Lake Haiku (Adrian Green Poem)
New moon on the lake. Your voice and the nightingale serenade springtime. Full moon on the lake. Your voice and ...
Hence, All You Vain Delights from the Nice Valour (John Fletcher Poem)
Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly: There's nought in this ...
Melancholy (John Fletcher Poem)
HENCE, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There 's naught in ...
The Owl Describing her Young Ones (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Why was that baleful Creature made, Which seeks our Quiet to invade, And screams ill Omens through the Shade? 'Twas, ...
Morning Worship (Mark van Doren Poem)
I wake and hearing it raining. Were I dead, what would I give Lazily to lie here, Like this, and ...
Mac Flecknoe (John Dryden Poem)
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
The Judge is like the Owl — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Judge is like the Owl -- I've heard my Father tell -- And Owls do build in Oaks -- ...
The Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
Christabel (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
Agoraphobia (John Burnside Poem)
My whole world is all you refuse: a black light, angelic and cold on the path to the orchard, fox-runs ...
Elegy: Walking the Line (Edgar Bowers Poem)
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
The Growth of Love (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Sabbaths 2001 (Wendell Berry Poem)
I He wakes in darkness. All around are sounds of stones shifting, locks unlocking. As if some one had lifted ...
THE OWLS (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
UNDER the overhanging yews, The dark owls sit in solemn state, Like stranger gods; by twos and twos Their red ...
A Serenade At The Villa (Robert Browning Poem)
I. That was I, you heard last night, When there rose no moon at all, Nor, to pierce the strained ...
Song For The Rainy Season (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Hidden, oh hidden in the high fog the house we live in, beneath the magnetic rock, rain-, rainbow-ridden, where blood-black ...
The Armadillo (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
For Robert Lowell This is the time of year when almost every night the frail, illegal fire balloons appear. Climbing ...
The Lay of a Golden Goose (Louisa May Alcott Poem)
Long ago in a poultry yard One dull November morn, Beneath a motherly soft wing A little goose was born. ...
First Anniversary (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining ...
On the Same (John Milton Poems)
I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a ...