The Oceanides IX (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
THE EDEN OF THE SEA.Inscribed to the Rev. B. Bailey, Senior Chaplain of Ceylon.A dream! a dream! Our billowy home Before ...
Poems about pecking (21 Poems)
The Art of the Lathe (B H Fairchild Poems)
Leonardo imagined the first one.The next was a pole lathe with a drive cord,illustrated in Plumier's L'art de tourner en ...
Love And Liberty (Horace Smith Poems)
The linnet had flown from its cage away,And flitted and sang in the light of day--Had flown from the lady ...
North America and Her War Parsons (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Angels and ministers of grace defend us,"Not airs from Heaven, quite the reverse you send us,Your priests who counsel war ...
At The Window (Maurice Thompson Poems)
I heard the woodpecker pecking,The bluebird tenderly sing;I turned and looked out of my window,And lo, it was spring!A breath ...
The Latter Rain (Jones Very Poems)
THE latter rain, it falls in anxious hasteUpon the sun-dried fields and branches bare,Loosening with searching drops the rigid wasteAs ...
Birds, Converging (Christianne Balk Poems)
Sun salved, we sit on the front porch, carefulwhen we speak, watching the crows swagger nearthe property line, dabbing - ...
Branch Library (Edward Hirsch Poems)
I wish I could find that skinny, long-beaked boywho perched in the branches of the old branch library.He spent the ...
The Awakening Of Dermuid (Austin Clarke Poems)
IN the sleepy forest where the bluebells Smouldered dimly through the night, Dermuid saw the leaves like glad green waters ...
The Pitiful Young Prince (Du Fu Poems)
Hooded crows fly at night over the walls of Chang'an,uttering harsh cries above Welcoming Autumn Gate,then head for ...
Summer Gone (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Poems)
SMALL wren, mute pecking at the last red plum Or twittering idly at the yellowing boughs Fruit-emptied, over thy forsaken ...
Guests (Celia Laighton Thaxter Poems)
Sunflower tall and hollyhock, that wave in the wind together,Corn-flower, poppy, and marigold, blossomingfair and fine,Delicate sweet-peas, glowing bright in ...
Some Sparrows (Ernesto Trejo Poems)
Lately, I've been watching them, peckingfuriously at the ground,then retreating into the eucalyptus,where they stagger like compassesbefore their tiny hearts ...
The Basket (Amy Lowell Poem)
I The inkstand is full of ink, and the paper lies white and unspotted, in the round of light thrown ...
Endymion: Book IV (John Keats Poem)
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
The Woman At The Washington Zoo (Randall Jarrell Poem)
The saris go by me from the embassies. Cloth from the moon. Cloth from another planet. They look back at ...
Winter in Durnover Field (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Scene.--A wide stretch of fallow ground recently sown with wheat, and frozen to iron hardness. Three large birds walking about ...
from the Ansty Experience (Rg Gregory Poem)
(a) they seek to celebrate the word not to bring their knives out on a poem dissecting it to find ...
LILY’S MENAGERIE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
[Goethe describes this much-admired Poem, which he wrote in honour of his love Lily, as being "designed to change his ...
In Reference to Her Children (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
I had eight birds hatched in one nest, Four cocks there were, and hens the rest. I nursed them up ...
Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens (Jack Prelutsky Poems)
Last night I dreamed of chickens, there were chickens everywhere, they were standing on my stomach, they were nesting in ...