Bird Poems

Bird Poems

The Phoenix Bird Tower, by Li Bai

The Phoenix Bird Tower was situated to the nort...

The Steep Road to Shuh, by Li Bai

Alas! How precipitous! Alas! How high!
The roa...

Batik, by Mark Turbyfill

Important pale asters
And leering lilies paint...

Rain-Night, by Mark Turbyfill

The dogged rain
Of unawakened growths
Is hurl...

Morning Joy, by Claude McKay

At night the wide and level stretch of wold,
...

Behind the Blameless Trees, by Rainer Maria Rilke

Behind the blameless trees
old fate slowly bui...

Georgic I, by Virgil

Whence joyful harvests spring, what heav'nly s...

Georgic II, by Virgil

Thus far the tilth of fields and stars of heave...

Georgic IV, by Virgil

Of air-born honey, gift of heaven, I now
Tak...

Marozia, by A. Ferdinand Herold

UPON the terrace where the shadow falls,
Enga...

To a Cat Which Had Killed a Favorite Bird, by Agathias

O CAT in semblance, but in heart akin
To cani...

Ebb and Flow, by Albert Laighton

I wandered alone beside the stream;
The tide ...

In the Woods, by Albert Laighton

I walked alone in depths of Autumn woods;
The...

My Native River, by Albert Laighton

Like an azure vein from the heart of the main, ...

Oak and Vine, by Albert Laighton

Far out upon the lonely wold
There stands an o...

The Sunbeam, by Albert Laighton

A sunbeam through an open door
Streamed down t...

Tennessee, by Albert Pike

WRITTEN FOR MRS. W. BARROW. The sunset flings ...

The Extreme Orient, by Albert Samain

AN evening music in the reed was heard.
I went...

Desire, by Alcman

Maidens with voices like honey for sweetness, ...

The Mountain Summits Sleep, by Alcman

The mountain summits sleep, glens, cliffs, a...

A Song of Fleeting Love, by Alice Williams Brotherton

Love has wings as light as a bird,
Guileless ...

Unawares, by Alice Williams Brotherton

A song welled up in the singer's heart,
(Like...

Atlantis, by Amanda Theodocia Jones

PRELUDE   I If earth's lost youth thou ha...

The Soldier's Bride, by Amanda Theodocia Jones

At last the dread cloud that hung over the gorg...

Tell Me, Why, My Sweetest Dove, by Anacreon

Tell me, why, my sweetest dove,
Thus your h...