Birds

Leda, After the Swan by Carl Phillips Perhaps, / in the exaggerated grace

The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins Caught this morning morning's minion, king-

To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant Whither, 'midst falling dew

Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge It is an ancient mariner

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens Among twenty snowy mountains,

If the Owl Calls Again by John Haines

My Mother Would Be a Falconress by Robert Duncan My mother would be a falconress,

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens by Jack Prelutsky Last night I dreamed of chickens,

Leda and the Swan by W. B. Yeats A sudden blow: the great wings beating still

The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy I leant upon a coppice gate

Evening Hawk by Robert Penn Warren From plane of light to plane, wings dipping through

The Starlings by Jesper Svenbro Late one afternoon in October

Birdcall by Alicia Suskin Ostriker Tuwee, calls a bird near the house

Birds Appearing In A Dream by Michael Collier One had feathers like a blood-streaked koi

I am Like a Desert Owl, an Owl Among the Ruins by Noelle Kocot The alpha You. The omega You

Birds Again by Jim Harrison A secret came a week ago though I already

Darwin's Finches by Deborah Digges My mother always called it a nest

The Scarlet Ibis, Section VII by Susan Hahn Once, I got lost

Littlefoot, 19, [This is the bird hour] by Charles Wright This is the bird hour, peony blossoms falling bigger than wren hearts

Hope is the thing with feathers (254) by Emily Dickinson Hope is the thing with feathers

The Eagle by Lord Alfred Tennyson He clasps the crag with crooked hands

Home to Roost by Kay Ryan The chickens

Poet as Immortal Bird by Ron Padgett A second ago my heart thump went

The Heron by Linda Hogan I am always watching

Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains

The Blue by David Baker heron is gray, not blue, but great enough

The Parakeets by Alberto Blanco They talk all day

Let Birds by Linda Gregg Eight deer on the slope

To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley Hail to thee, blithe Spirit

In Flight by Jennifer K. Sweeney The Himalayan legend says

Tender Buttons [Chicken] by Gertrude Stein Pheasant and chicken, chicken is a peculiar third

Hummingbird by Elaine Terranova What with foresight and dancing

A Bird came down the Walk (328) by Emily Dickinson A Bird came down the Walk

The Yellow Bittern (An Bunnan Bui) by Cathal Bui Mac Giolla Gunna The yellow bittern that never broke out