Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ORACULAR OWL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh, who could excel this oracular owl? Subject(s): Owls | ||||||||
The oracular owl Is a very wise fowl. He sits on a limb By night and by day. And an eager assembly waits on him To listen to what the wise bird may say. I heard him discourse in the following way : "The sun soon will set in the west." Twill be fair if the sky is not cloudy." "If a hundred are good only one can be best." "No gentleman 's ever a rowdy." "Ah I ah !" cry the birds. "What a marvellous fowl ! Oh, who could excel this oracular owl?" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ORATION: HALF-MOON IN VERMONT by NORMAN DUBIE LOVE AMID OWL-CRIES by JANE HIRSHFIELD THE OWL'S BEDTIME STORY by RANDALL JARRELL OWL AGAINST ROBIN by SIDNEY LANIER FACADE: 21. THE OWL by EDITH SITWELL A BATTLE SONG (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR) by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS |
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