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Birds and poetry (11 Viewers)

Thanks,Fugl.I received an e-mail from David this evening,and he suggested I copy one poem from each season.
So later in the week,will find one.He is following this thread,and he did thank me for showing one from his collection.
But I think more than 4 poems ,will find something special.
 
The Blackbirds' Absence

Companions in the evening light,
No longer hunting where I've mown,
Two pairs of adults and their young ,
The blackbirds to the fields have flown.

'Though sparrows feed a second brood,
The blackbirds' absence lingers on,
While summer lasts they take their rest,
When they return,shall we have gone?.

by David Axtell.
Birds for all Seasons
 
Christine, many thanks for posting those delightful and beautifully observed poems from David Axtell. I like the idea of the blackbird as ‘the tenant of the lawn’. It reminds me of the refrain in Seamus Heaney’s ‘The Blackbird of Glanmore’:

‘On the grass when I arrive,
In the ivy when I leave.’

Kristina, your mention of Bloomsday caused me to look up some of Joyce’s early lyric poetry. It’s strange, but somehow reassuring, to think that this charming little poem was written by the author of the great Ulysses:

O Cool Is the Valley Now

O cool is the valley now
And there, love, will we go
For many a choir is singing now
Where Love did sometime go.
And hear you not the thrushes calling,
Calling us away?
O cool and pleasant is the valley
And there, love, will we stay.

James Joyce


Another lyric poem of an earlier vintage is this from Thomas Carew (1595-1640), who was a contemporary of John Donne and Ben Jonson:

A Song

Ask me no more where Jove bestows,
When June is past, the fading rose;
For in your beauty's orient deep
These flowers, as in their causes, sleep.

Ask me no more whither do stray
The golden atoms of the day;
For in pure love heaven did prepare
Those powders to enrich your hair.

Ask me no more whither doth haste
The nightingale, when May is past;
For in your sweet, dividing throat
She winters, and keeps warm her note.

Ask me no more where those stars light,
That downwards fall in dead of night;
For in your eyes they sit, and there
Fixed become, as in their sphere.

Ask me no more if east or west
The phoenix builds her spicy nest;
For unto you at last she flies,
And in your fragrant bosom dies.

Thomas Carew

Best regards to everyone.

Andrew
 
Thanks Merlin, it’s good to be back. I hope to be able to contribute a bit more frequently from now on.

I hope all is well with you.

Andrew
 
Thanks Merlin and Andrew.
The author of the book"Birds for all Seasons"-David Axtell has given his permission for a max of 4 poems,to be copied,so I should reall yhave shown one from each season.I have already copied 2 from the Summer,so here is one from the Spring section.
I chose this particular poem as there are several species mentioned,also,one of the joys of of birding is listening to their beautiful songs,and as is mentioned in this poem,each bird has it's own individual message to send across the airwaves.

Birds in Song

Birds with a will to live and breed
With cheerful song make hedgerows ring,
In choruses or solo airs
Make light of earthbound suffering.

The robin,which sings the whole year round,
As winter ends refines its skills,
The dunnock,too,its run prepares
Though more prosaic-no finishing frill.

The greenfinch sings between two showers,
With rise and fall its flute it plies,
Above the warbles,chirps and trills
For purity with the blackbird vies.

Starlings whistle,click and chirr
As,passing through,they rest on trees,
For resident birds show scant regard,
Mimic and practise vocalese.

Starlings massed,with many a wing
Make a single flutter as they shift their ground,
While a chaffinch boldly shakes its notes
And fills an empty lane with sound.

Waders on the waters edge
Lost times in elegies recall,
Flying overhead,with a single cluck,
A crow claims dominance over all.

But of all the birds that sing
And for a place to live contest,
One with its repertoire,one with its voice,
The thrush and the blackbird are the best.

David Axtell
Birds for All Seasons
www.ahstockwell.co.uk
 
I have just re read the above poem a couple of times,I quite like it,the author does seem to have a special affinity with blackbirds and thrushes.As I can only copy one more of his poems,I think I will ask him to choose his favourite for the final selection.
I will then have to hunt arount for some more books!!!.
 
Here is a poem from Elizabeth Barrett Browning that has a slightly different approach?

regards
Merlin

The Poet And The Bird


Said a people to a poet---" Go out from among us straightway!
While we are thinking earthly things, thou singest of divine.
There's a little fair brown nightingale, who, sitting in the gateways
Makes fitter music to our ears than any song of thine!"

The poet went out weeping---the nightingale ceased chanting;
"Now, wherefore, O thou nightingale, is all thy sweetness done?"
I cannot sing my earthly things, the heavenly poet wanting,
Whose highest harmony includes the lowest under sun."

The poet went out weeping,---and died abroad, bereft there---
The bird flew to his grave and died, amid a thousand wails:---
And, when I last came by the place, I swear the music left there
Was only of the poet's song, and not the nightingale's.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 
Another well-observed poem from David Axtell. Thanks for posting it, Christine, and many thanks to DA for giving you permission to do so. And thanks, Merlin, for that intriguing poem from EBB.

We have had several poems by the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge, who was killed in the First World War. He wrote some fine poetry, including this poignant elegy written on the death of Ellie Vaughey, a young woman with whom Ledwidge was in love but who married another man and who died in childbirth a year later.


To One Dead

A blackbird singing
On a moss-upholstered stone,
Bluebells swinging,
Shadows wildly blown,
A song in the wood,
A ship on the sea.
The song was for you
and the ship was for me.

A blackbird singing
I hear in my troubled mind,
Bluebells swinging,
I see in a distant wind.
But sorrow and silence,
Are the wood's threnody,
The silence for you
and the sorrow for me.

Francis Ledwidge


Andrew
 
Andrew
A great poem from Francis Ledwidge, his story is little known but in my humble opinion he deserves a special place not only as a 'War Poet' but as a poet on his own merit.
His story is both sad and refreshing, his love for nature and his native Ireland is ever present in his poems. I recently visited his grave in Artillery Wood in Belgium where he is buried, ironically within feet of another great Celtic poet 'Hedd Wyn' who was killed on the same day.

best regards
Merlin
 
I agree Merlin, Ledwidge was a wonderful nature poet. Here is another example:

To a Sparrow

Because you have no fear to mingle
Wings with those of greater part,
So, like me, with song I single
Your sweet impudence of heart.

And when prouder feathers go where
Summer holds her leafy show,
You still come to us from nowhere
Like grey leaves across the snow.

In back ways where odd and end go
To your meals you drop down sure,
Knowing every broken window
Of the hospitable poor.

There is no bird half so harmless,
None so sweetly rude as you,
None so common and so charmless,
None of virtues nude as you.

But for all your faults I love you,
For you linger with us still,
Though the wintry winds reprove you
And the snow is on the hill.

Francis Ledwidge


Andrew
 
Here are two 'bird poems' by Keats which are new to me:

Song (Stay, ruby breasted warbler, stay)

Stay, ruby breasted warbler, stay,
And let me see thy sparkling eye,
Oh brush not yet the pearl-strung spray,
Nor bow thy pretty head to fly.

Stay while I tell thee, fluttering thing,
That thou of love an emblem art,
Yes! patient plume thy little wing,
Whilst I my thoughts to thee impart.

When summer nights the dews bestow,
And summer suns enrich the day,
Thy notes the blossoms charm to blow,
Each opes delighted at thy lay.

So when in youth the eye’s dark glance
Speaks pleasure from its circle bright,
The tones of love our joys enhance,
And make superior each delight.

And when bleak storms resistless rove,
And every rural bliss destroy,
Nought comforts then the leafless grove
But thy soft note – its only joy -

E’en so the words of love beguile
When Pleasure’s tree no flower bears,
And draw a soft endearing smile
Amid the gloom of grief and tears.

John Keats


Song (I had a dove and the sweet dove died)

I had a dove and the sweet dove died;
And I have thought it died of grieving:
O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied,
With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving;
Sweet little red feet! why should you die -
Why should you leave me, sweet bird! why?
You lived alone in the forest tree,
Why, pretty thing! could you not live with me?
I kissed you oft and gave you white peas;
Why not live sweetly, as in the green trees?

John Keats


Andrew
 
It is a long time since the index of poems was last updated (26 January 2008, to be precise), so, to celebrate us reaching page 100, here is a complete list of all poems posted on this thread up to #2475, excluding poems written by members. It is based on the original, invaluable, index compiled by Colin (Tyke). The number in square brackets denotes the page of the thread on which the poem was first posted.

Statistician's corner. There are 1054 poems from 309 poets, and the most popular poets have been:

(1) Edward Thomas 49
(2) John Clare 42
(3) Emily Dickinson 34
W B Yeats 34
(5) Philip Larkin 29
(6) Robert Frost 26
(7) Seamus Heaney 25
(8) Thomas Hardy 22
(9) William Blake 20
(10) Alfred Lord Tennyson 18
W H Davies 18


INDEX

ABSE, DANNIE
Not Adlestrop 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
Alone 2365 [95]
Caged Bird 5 [1]
ANONYMOUS
Five Little Owls 2381 [96]
Four Little Owls 2381 [96]
I Talk with the Moon 2381 [96]
Mr Owl 2381 [96]
Ten Hungry Owlets 2381 [96]
The Bird’s Carol (an old Czech carol) 2388 [96]
The Wise Owl 2381 [96]
ARISTOPHANES
Chorus of Birds 2190 [88]
ARMITAGE, SIMON
It Ain’t 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]
Fish in the Unruffled Lakes 2314 [93]
Funeral Blues (Stop All the Clocks) 755 [31]
If I Could Tell You 2426 [98]
O Tell Me The Truth About Love 2312 [93]
O Where Are You Going? 1969 [79]
Say This City has Ten Million Souls 1244 [50]
Seascape 94 [4]
Spain 2412 [97]
The More Loving One 1249 [50]
Their Lonely Betters 756 [31]
The Unknown Citizen 1225 [49]
The Wanderer 2314 [93]
AUSTEN, JANE
Ode to Pity 1838 [74]
AXTELL, DAVID
Birds in Song 2467 [99]
The Blackbird 2459 [99]
The Blackbirds’ Absence 2462 [99]
BARNES, LINDA
Cat Poem 2269 [91]
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
A Bad Child’s Book of Beasts 2303 [93]
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]
What We Need Is Here 2239 [90]
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]
Letter to NY 2371 [95]
One Art 2367 [95]
Sandpiper 812 [33]
The Armadillo 1302 [53]
BLACK, PHOENIX
Dream 2442 [98]
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]
Snow or Snowdrops? 2264 [91]
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]
BOLAND, 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]
The Poet and the Bird 2469 [99]
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]
CAREW, THOMAS
A Song 2464 [99]
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]
Autumn Morning 2350 [94]
December 2062 [83]
Emonsail's Heath in Winter 209 [9]
Evening 2160 [87]
First Love 2172 [87]
Hen’s Nest 2434 [98]
I am! 6 [1]
I look on the past and I dread the tomorrow 2183 [88]
Insects 1954 [79]
Little Trotty Wagtail 2 [1]
Love Lies Beyond The Tomb 1286 [52]
My Early Home 2023 [81]
Noon 2438 [98]
November 2001 [81]
Poesy A-Maying 2293, 2296 [92]
Schoolboys in Winter 1998 [80]
Song 692 [28]
Song 2168 [87]
Song of Secret Love 2180 [88]
Spring 2256 [91]
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]
To John Clare 2259 [91]
To William Wordsworth 2262 [91]
What is Life? 2188 [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, FRANCES
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]
This Night 2378 [96]
Thunderstorms 1863 [75]
When on a Summer’s Morn 2309 [93]
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]
A Something in a Summer’s Day 2311 [93]
An Awful Tempest Mashed the Air 2219 [89]
April 2256 [91]
At Half past Three 1567 [63]
Bee! I’m expecting you 1810 [73]
Bring me the sunset in a cup 1565 [63]
Further in Summer than the Birds 2332 [94]
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 dreaded that first robin so 2410 [97]
If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking 2309 [93]
I Have a Bird in Spring 2429 [98]
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]
Through lane it lay – through bramble 2352 [95]
To hear an oriole sing 2410 [97]
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]
Stuffed 2450 [98]
DUGGAN, FRANCIS
When Last I heard the Dipper Sing 2432 [98]
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]
Sweeney Among the Nightingales 2131 [86]
The Four Quartets 2313 [93]
The Waste Land 157 [7], 1142 [46]
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO
The Rhodora 1883 [76]
EURIPIDES
Ion and the Birds (from ‘Ion’) 2241 [90]
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]
FROEMKE, MARCY STEWART
Purrsonally Speaking 2285 [92]
FROST, ROBERT
A Boundless Moment 2431 [98]
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]
The Wood-Pile 2371 [95]
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]
The Shivering Beggar 2392 [96]
To Robert Nicholls 472 [19]
GRAY, SIR ALEXANDER
On a Cat Aging 2270 [91]
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]
Beeny Cliff 959 [39]
Birds at Winter Nightfall 2161 [87]
In a Museum 2408 [97]
Old Furniture 1386 [56]
On a Fine Morning 2173 [87]
Paying Calls 810 [33]
Shelley’s Skylark 2361 [95]
The Caged Thrush Freed and Home Again (Villanelle) 2367 [95]
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 Selfsame Song 2408 [97]
The Voice 644 [26]
The Yellowhammer 718 [29]
Transformations 1098 [44]
Weathers 1133 [46]
Where the Picnic Was 1105 [41]
HARJO, JOY
Eagle Poem 2216 [89]
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]
He lived there in the unsayable lights 2444 [98]
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]
This evening the cuckoo and the corncrake 2444 [98]
Twice Shy 2167 [87]
Villanelle for an Anniversary 2426 [98]
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]
HESSE, HERMAN
Stages 2268 [91]
HEYWOOD, THOMAS
Matin Song 2321 [93]
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]
HOPE, A D
The Death of a Bird 2324 [93]
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]
The Negro Speaks of Rivers 2243 [90]
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 (Work and Play) 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]
Rock and Hawk 2301 [93]
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]
O Cool is the Valley Now 2464 [99]
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]
Song (I had a dove and the sweet dove died) 2475 [99]
Song (Stay, ruby-breasted warbler, stay) 2475 [99]
The Terror of Death 1192 [48]
To Ailsa Rock 1264 [51]
To Autumn 1887 [76]
To One Who Has Been Long In City Pent 1192 [48]
KENDON, FRANK
And ladders leaning against damson trees 517 [21]
KENNEDY, X J
Owl 2381 [96]
KENNELLY, BRIAN
The Distinct Impression 815 [33]
KHAYYAM, OMAR
Rubaiyat 346 [14]
KING, PHYLLIS
A Linnet 1785 [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]
LAMB, CHARLES
Crumbs to the Birds 2373 [95]
The Old Familiar Faces 2374 [95]
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 Man 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]
To a Sparrow 2473 [99]
To One Dead 2471 [99]
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]
LUPTON G
Noises of the Night 2375 [95]
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]
40 Love 713 [29]
The Bright Side 2220 [89]
You and I 2219 [89]
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]
MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER
The face that launched a thousand ships 1095 [44]
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love 2319 [93]
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]
St Vincent’s 2448 [98]
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]
Doubt No More That Oberon 2317 [93]
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]
Song of a Second April 2290 [92]
Sonnet III 2291 [92]
The Death of Autumn 1839 [74]
The Owls (Baudelaire) 2036 [82]
The Spring and the Fall 2289 [92]
MILLIGAN, SPIKE
A Silly Poem 2428 [98]
Contagion 2428 [98]
Have A Nice Day 2113 [85]
Said Mother Tern to Baby Tern 2427 [98]
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]
Spenser’s Ireland 2298 [92]
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 Hunter 2331 [94]
The Ostrich 182 [8]
The Squab 182 [8]
The Wapiti 529 [22]
The Wasp 1964 [79]
Up from the Egg 529 [22]
NATARAJAN, POOJA
If I were a bird 2424 [97]
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]
The Raven 2322 [93]
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 [89]
In Tintagel Graveyard 176 [8]
Lockerbie 177 [8]
Sleep Now (In Memory of Wilfred Owen) 2218 [89]
Sometimes it happens 2223 [89]
The Bee’s Last Journey 2217 [89]
The Minister for Exams 2222 [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]
RICKARDS, 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]
ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA GEORGINA
A Birthday 2418 [97]
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]
Idyll 2446 [98]
October Trees 1919 [77]
The Hero 758 [31]
Thrushes 121 [5]
Wonderment 1807 [73]
SCANNELL, VERNON
Nettles 1338 [54]
Rhyme-Time 1340 [54]
SCHWARTZ, GERALD
Wreck 2328 [94]
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 W
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 1474 [59], 1477 [60]
Richard II 1560 [63]
Romeo and Juliet Act III Sc 1 2197 [88]
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? 1629 [66]
Sonnet No 73: 767 [31]
Spring (from Love’s Labour Lost, Act V Sc 2) 2192 [88]
The ouzel-cock so black of hue 1399 [56]
The Tempest Act IV Sc 1 1908 [77]
The Winter’s Tale Act IV Sc 3 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] 2360 [95]
Ode to the West Wind 712 [29], 1791 [72]
Ozymandias 1517 [61]
Song 708 [29]
The Cloud 1756 [71]
The Question 1541 [62]
To the Night 2439 [98]
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]
SMITH, WILLIAM JAY
The Owl 2381 [96]
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]
SPRIGGS, FRANKLIN
One Bird Concert Show [99]
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]
Spring Song 2419 [97]
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]
Blue Squills 2256 [91]
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]
The Throstle 2244 [90]
Ulysses 1669 [67]
THE LITTLE STINT
Flying Machines 813 [33]
THE MOODY BLUES
The Swallow 1079 [44]
Voices in The Sky 1079 [44]
THOMAS, DYLAN
Do not go gentle into 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 Nests 1624 [65]
But these things also 1317 [53]
Celandine 2431 [98]
Cock-Crow 2049 [82]
Fifty Faggots 905 [37]
For These 1513 [61]
Gone, Gone Again 2040 [82]
Good-Night 2414 [97]
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]
March 2414 [97]
March the 3rd 2416 [97]
October 1919 [77]
Rain 908 [37]
Sedge Warblers 171 [7]
She Dotes 978 [40]
Snow 1135 [46]
Sowing 2416 [97]
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 Lane 2327 [94]
The Long Small Room 1724 [69]
The Manor Farm 2352 [95]
The Mill-Pond 897 [36]
The New Year 2403 [97]
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]
Tonight 2431 [98]
Two Pewits 1639 [66]
Words 1575 [63]
THOMAS, R S
A Blackbird Singing 768 [31]
An Old Man 2434 [98]
A Welsh Testament 1315 [53]
Lore 1086 [44]
Moorland 978 [40]
Poetry for Supper 2401 [97]
Summer is Here 2297 [92]
The Ancients of the World 2378 [96]
The Welsh Hill Country 2204 [89]
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID
Mist 472 [19]
TOWNSEND WALKER, SYLVIA
In April 1505 [61]
TRILLIN, CALVIN
Anticipating the Inauguration of Barack Obama 2405 [97]
TURNER, BRIAN
Ashbah 1658 [67]
Eulogy 1658 [67]
Here, Bullet 1658 [67]
TYNAN, KATHARINE
Slow Spring 2202 [89]
The Birds’ Bargain 2308 [93]
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]
WATKINS, VERNON
The Heron 2325 [93]
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
Magdalen 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]
It was an April morning: fresh and clear 2252 [91]
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 Reverie of Poor Susan 2170 [87]
The Solitary Reaper 1215 [49]
The Waggoner 478 [20]
The World is Too Much With Us 1400 [56]
Tintern Abbey 479 [20], 2421 [97]
To the Cuckoo 2255 [91]
We Are Seven 2275 [91]
Written in March 1312 [53]
WRIGHT, KIT
Hoping It Might Be So 2110 [85]
WRIGLEY, ROBERT
Mammoth 2452 [99]
YEATS, W B
At Algeciras 699 [28]
Beautiful Lofty Things 2374 [95]
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]
 
Many thanks--much appreciated. As a casual visitor--& very sporadic contributor--to the thread, I'll be using the index a lot.
 
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After the recent deaths of Henry Allingham and Harry Patch :-


A PRIVATE

This ploughman dead in battle slept out of doors
Many a frozen night, and merrily
Answered staid drinkers, good bedmen, and all bores:
"At Mrs Greenland's Hawthorn Bush," said he,
"I slept." None knew which bush. Above the town,
Beyond `The Drover', a hundred spot the down
In Wiltshire. And where now at last he sleeps
More sound in France -that, too, he secret keeps.

Edward Thomas
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Colin
 
Colin,
It's good to hear from you and another poem from the great Edward Thomas.

Andrew,
The index makes interesting reading, thank you for the results of an an amazing effort on your part.

with Colin here we have almost got the old team back, just a few missing but I'm sure they are out there in the wings???

best regards

Merlin
 

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