The Blackbird (Nora Jane Hopper Chesson Poems)
The blackbird has a mouth of gold, though sombre be his feathers;The lark is for the summer noon, the blackbird ...
Birds Poems (5078 Poems)
The Forest of the Dead (James Griffyth Fairfax Poems)
There are strange trees in that pale fieldOf barren soil and bitter yield:They stand without the city walls;Their nakedness is ...
Life (Margaret Deland Poems)
BY one great Heart the Universe is stirred: By Its strong pulse, stars climb the darkening blue; It throbs in each fresh ...
The Gold-Bird (Maurice Thompson Poems)
The gold-bird came in the May mornDown fragrant billows of southwest weather:He fell, like a flame, in the sweet thorn,—He ...
The Birds will sing again (John O Brien Poems)
She saw The Helper standing near When grief and, care oppressed;"A Great, Big God," Who wiped the tear, And soothed the aching ...
Kennst Du Das Land (Leonie Adams Poems)
No, I have borne in mind this hill,For once before I came its wayIn hours when summer held her breathAbove ...
A Spell For Creation (Kathleen Raine Poems)
Within the flower there lies a seed,Within the seed there springs a tree,Within the tree there spreads a wood.In the ...
The Lost Heart (Grace Greenwood Poems)
"SAY, have you found the heart I lostAs you and I, last night,The fragrant, new-mown meadow crossed,Beneath the sweet starlight?""I ...
The Old Tune (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THIRTY-SIXTH VARIATIONTHIS shred of song you bid me bringIs snatched from fancy's embers;Ah, when the lips forget to sing,The faithful ...
The Love Of Loves (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I have not seen her face, and yet She is more sweet than any thing Of Earth--than rose or violet That Mayday winds ...
Thieves’ Kitchen (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
GOOD roaring pistol-boys, brave lads of gold,Good roistering easy maids, blown cock-a-hoopOn floods of tavern-steam, I greet you! DrunkWith wild ...
After A Visit ToThe Natural History Museum (Laura Elizabeth Richards Poems)
This is the Wiggledywasticus, Very remarkable beast.Nose to tail an eighth of a mile;Took him an acre or two to smile;Took ...
A Child’s Laughter (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
ALL the bells of heaven may ring,All the birds of heaven may sing,All the wells on earth may spring,All the ...
The Sea’s Withholding (Isabel Ecclestone Mackay Poems)
THE ladye's bower faced the sea,Its casements framed a sea-born day.She saw the fishers sail away, And, far and high, The gulls ...
Field And Forest Call (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IThere is a field, that leans upon two hills,Foamed o'er of flowers and twinkling with clear rills;That in its girdle ...
Thoughts (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
Had I the wings of a bird,I'd make it a constant dutyTo fly far above the earthAnd gaze on it's ...
To Laura (Peyo Kracholov Yavorov Poems)
My soul is grief. My soul is call Because I am a bird picked off. To death is doomed my wounded soul ...
The Morning Drive (Mary Ann H T Bigelow Poems)
FOR MY DAUGHTER MARGARET.Very like to a dream,Doth the time to me seem,When with thee a young girl by my ...
Geraldine (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
The rose is sweetly blushingAnd virgin lilies bloom,While Summer-winds are bearingTheir heaven-sent perfume,And blithe young birds are singingUpon the beechen ...
Spring In Absence (Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper Poems)
Nature her gifts is bringingTo deck the fields anew,And all the birds are singing,And all the skies are blue,And all ...
Jackdaw (Padraic Colum Poems)
ALOOF from his tribeOn the elm-tree's top,A jackdaw perchedA hand-reach up.Silent he satOn the branch, nor stirred,And I saw m ...
They’re Coming! (Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass Poems)
They're coming! And it seems so long Since sadly autumn laid them low. They left us with the robin's song, They left us ...
Hagar In The Middle Of The Road (Itzik Manger Poems)
Hagar sits all weepingon a stone mid roadand asks the windswhich way to go.One says, Go east -the other - ...
Meganom (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
1Still far the asphodels,grey-transparent Spring.Meanwhile, the sand rustles,the wave foams.But here, like Persephone,my soul joins the gentle circle,and in the ...
Hymn For The Seventh Sunday After Trinity (Reginald Heber Poems)
When Spring unlocks the flowers, to paint the laughing soil;When Summer's balmy showers refresh the mower's toil;When Winter binds in ...
The Echo In The Heart (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
It's little I can tell About the birds in books;And yet I know them well, By their music and their looks: When May ...
The Tryst (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
DE night creep down erlong de lan',De shadders rise an' shake,De frog is sta'tin' up his ban',De cricket is awake;My ...
Sea Change (John Masefield Poems)
"Goneys an' gullies an' all o' the birds o' the sea They ain't no birds, not really", said Billy the Dane."Not ...
The Cottager’s Welcome. (George Pope Morris Poems)
Hard by I've a cottage that stands near the wood--A stream glides in peace at the door--Where all who will ...
Palinode – Autumn (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Still thirteen years: 'tis autumn now On field and hill, in heart and brain;The naked trees at evening sough;The leaf to ...