Bird Poems

Bird Poems

The Evening Rain, by Mrs. O. M. Livingston

Plaintively echoes the evening rain,
Dropping...

The Leaves on the Stream, by Mrs. O. M. Livingston

Flow on, flow on, thou classic stream,
In q...

Morning, by Mrs. O. M. Livingston

The night is melting into day,
The crowing bi...

The First Phebe, by Obadiah Cyrus Auringer

Sweet latest herald of the spring,
Fresh from...

The Orchard, by Obadiah Cyrus Auringer

I The orchard stretches from the door,
To ri...

To a Summer Evening Wind, by Obadiah Cyrus Auringer

Soft wind of summer's eve,
Fresh from blue fi...

The Vale of Spirits, by Obadiah Cyrus Auringer

In deep green woods there lies a fairy glade
S...

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, by Omar Khayyám

I

WAKE! For the Sun, who scatter'd into ...

New York Harbor on a Calm Day, by Park Benjamin

Is this a painting? Are those pictured clouds
...

Sympathy, by Paul Laurence Dunbar

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When ...

Spring, by Richard Francis Towndrow

I. THE PROMISE Still lingers in the furrow, r...

The Sower, by Richard Watson Gilder

I A SOWER went forth to sow,
His eyes were d...

The Banks o' Doon, by Robert Burns

Ye banks and braes o' bonie Doon,
How can ye ...

Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw, by Robert Burns

Of a' the airts the wind can blaw
I dearly lik...

The Happy Days o' Youth, by Robert Gilfillan

O! The happy days o' youth are fast gaun by,
...

Pictures of the Past, by Robert McIntyre

God is good to let us keep in mind the pictures...

When the Gold is on the Willow, by Robert McIntyre

When the gold is on the willow, and the purple...

The Comet of 1858, by Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

I Oh, whither art thou hast'ning in thy wild ...

Under the Sands, by Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

Suggested by a notice of Sir Douglas Forsyth's ...

Bird Music, by Rose Terry Cooke

Singer of priceless melody,
Underguerdoned ch...

Fantasia, by Rose Terry Cooke

When I am a sea-flower
Under the cool green ti...

Gone, by Rose Terry Cooke

A silent, odor-laden air,
From heavy branche...

The Lesson, by Rose Terry Cooke

Flutter thy new wings lightly,
Poor, fearful...

Monotropa, by Rose Terry Cooke

Loves serene, uncarnate Graces!
Born of pure ...

The Ballad of East and West, by Rudyard Kipling

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and neve...