Bird Poems

Bird Poems

The Praise of Works, by Bhartrhari

Why honour gods, who must submit to Fate,
Or...

Eros and the Fowler, by Bion of Smyrna

Hunting the birds within a bosky grove,
A bir...

Hope, by C. B. Langston

From whence the rapture which I feel
Through a...

My Boyish Days, by C. B. Langston

My boyish days are long past now,
Time's sile...

To a Raven, by C. B. Langston

Dost thou bear me evil thou croaking bird?
Thy...

Hymn to Jupiter, by Callimachus

Whilst we to Jove immortal and divine,
Perfor...

The Carpenter's Song, by Carmen Sylva

My lot grew lighter day by day;
The children ...

The Mowing, by Caroline Spencer

But yesterday I passed this way,
And stopped ...

The Singer's Place, by Caroline Spencer

You would pass it by among the rest,
Curious ...

The Snowbird, by Caroline Spencer

He sits in winter's sleet, and the snow is rou...

A Strange Singer, by Caroline Spencer

Joy's the shyest bird
Mortal ever heard;
Lis...

Together, by Caroline Spencer

A song for the season, my dear, my dear!
A s...

In Other Springs, by Carolyn Crosby Wilson

In other springs, before I knew your love,
S...

Hunting the Cotaco Creek, by Charles Ghigna

His hand in hold so trigger tight its blood
be...

To Francis Jammes, by Charles Guérin

O JAMMES, your house is like your face. A bear...

A Birthday, by Christina Rossetti

My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is ...

May, by Christina Rossetti

I cannot tell you how it was;
But this I know...

The Music of Nature, by Christopher Pearse Cranch

I A vision o'er my soul hath swept,
A dream ...

To a Hummingbird, by Christopher Pearse Cranch

Tell us, tell us whence thou comest,
Little ...

Midsummer Song, by Clinton Scollard

Dawnings of amber and amethyst eves;
Soft in ...

On Caragh Lake, by Clinton Scollard

I On Caragh lake the evening light
Is violet ...

The Spectral Rowers, by Clinton Scollard

What is that shimmering line of white
Gliding ...

The Aurora Borealis, by Dugald Moore

Are ye unholy shadows, that by fits
Start fro...

Columbus on First Beholding America, by Dugald Moore

God of my sires! O'er ocean's brim
Yon beauteo...

Autumn and the Afterglow, by Edith Matilda Thomas

I When the far woods a misty veil assume
(The...