Bird Poems

Bird Poems

The Eagle, by Edwin Curran

The dome of heaven is thy house
Bird of the mi...

The Swallow, by Edwin Curran

Dawn bird victorious,
Lyrical, glorious,
S...

O Heart of God, by Edwin Leibfreed

O heart of God, beat once for me!
The bird sh...

Oh Little Bird, by Edwin Leibfreed

Oh little bird with head atilt,
In safety dri...

The Quest for God, by Edwin Leibfreed

I would find God--the sovereign quest of life--...

The Summer Day, by Edwin Leibfreed

The farm--a bit of heaven--
Where nature stopp...

August Skies, by Elise Pumpelly Cabot

August skies, where is the voice of spring?
J...

In Winter, by Eliza Allen Starr

How lonely on the hillside look the graves!
Th...

Robin Redbreast, by Eliza Allen Starr

An early bird is our Robin, bold Rob,
The fi...

Spring Birds, by Eliza Allen Starr

O ask no song of one whose heart
Has not a hop...

But One, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The year has but one June, dear friend,
The ...

A Fable, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Some cawing Crows, a hooting Owl,
A Hawk, a...

The Lost Garden, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There was a fair garden sloping
From the south...

Love Song, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Once in the world's first prime,
When nothing...

The Room Beneath the Rafters, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sometimes when I have dropped to sleep,
Drape...

Tired, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I am tired tonight, and something,
The wind ...

O For the Wings of a Dove, by Euripides

Chorus from Hippolytus Could I take me to some...

Marco Bozzaris, by Fitz-Greene Halleck

At midnight, in his guarded tent,
The Turk ...

Electra, by Francis Howard Williams

My Love too stately is to be but fair,
Too fa...

There Sang a Bird, by Francis Vielé-Griffin

Behind my father's house there sang a bird,
I...

Old Eagle, by Fred Emerson Brooks

Fear not, grand eagle,
The bay of the beagle...

The Crow, by G. K. Thomas

I hear your repeated syllable
of loneliness a...

The Carpenter, by George Houghton

I I'm sad, I'm sad, for the joy I had
Is wr...

The Nest in the Haw, by George Houghton

I A haw, with branches of bloom;
And a bird...

Keenan's Charge, by George Parsons Lathrop

The Battle of Chancellorsville, 1863 The sun ...