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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BIRDS' NESTS Matches Found: 54 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A WARNING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The robin and the redbreast Last Line: "bad [or, ill] luck will surely follow" Variant Title(s): The Robin And The Wren (1);a Rule For Birds' Nesters Subject(s): Birds;birds' Nests A WREN'S NEST, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the dwellings framed by birds Last Line: In foresight, or in love. Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Wrens BIRD IN THE NEST, by SALOME URENA DE HENRIQUEZ Poem Source First Line: Why are you terrified, innocent bird? Why do you Last Line: And leaves from the plain! Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Children; Innocence; Solitude BIRD-NESTING, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! That half bashful and half eager face! Last Line: The little birds that owed their life to thee. Subject(s): Birds' Nests BIRDS' NESTS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer nests uncovered by autumn wind Last Line: And grass and goose-grass seeds found soil and grew Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests BIRDS' NESTS (1), by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis spring, warm glows the south Last Line: Where the old cow at her leisure chews her cud Subject(s): Birds' Nests BIRDS' NESTS (2), by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How fresh the air, the birds how busy now! Last Line: The lanes and hedges where their homes abide. Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests CHIMNEY STACKS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In winter's cold and summer's heat Last Line: To build their neighboring nests. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds' Nests CROWS IN SPRING, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The crow will tumble up and down Last Line: Proclaims the winter by. Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Crows DISCOVERY, by STANLEY SNAITH Poem Source First Line: Once I found riches here Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Love DOVES, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roaming the little path 'neath dotterel trees Last Line: Then they in bolder crowds will sweep and fly %and brave the desert of a winter sky Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Doves IN THE NEST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O world beneath the mother's wing Last Line: Of deeper love. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds' Nests LARK'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From yon black clump of wheat that grows Last Line: Throws off the frequent falling shower %- and here's an egg this morning laid! Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Larks LITTLE BLUE EGG, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day we found a little nest Last Line: I can't see why, can you? Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Eggs MOOR-HEN'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I in my summer rambles love to see Last Line: They dive and dare and every gambol try %till they themselves to other scenes can fly Subject(s): Birds' Nests NIGHTINGALE'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up this green woodland-ride let's softly rove Last Line: Ao here we'll leave them, still unknown to wrong, %as the old woodland's legacy of song Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Nightingales PEWIT'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the fallow clods at early morn Last Line: Hid from all sight but the all-seeing sun %till never-ceasing danger seemeth by Subject(s): Birds' Nests PUDDOCK'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sailing puddock sweeps about for prey Last Line: And takes them home and often cuts their wing %and ties them in the garden with a string Subject(s): Birds' Nests QUAIL'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered out one rainy day Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Quails RAPE OF THE NEST, by FRANCIS P. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: In early spring I watched two sparrows build Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Sparrows REQUIEM FOR A NEST, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winged thang built her dream palace Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Birds' Nests RIDDLE, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source First Line: I have a house Last Line: That has no door Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Eggs; Riddles; Trees ROOK'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rooks begin to build, and pleasant looks Last Line: Others with reaching poles the nest destroys %while off and up they fly with deafening noise Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Rooks SAND MARTIN, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hermit hunter of the lonely glen Last Line: To see thee circle round nor go beyond %that lone heath and its melancholy pond Subject(s): Birds' Nests SKYLARK LEAVING HER NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right happy bird, so full of mirth Last Line: That upon every memory dwells %among home-fed delights Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Larks; Slavery SLEEP AT SEA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sound the deep waters Last Line: Of all their ways. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Vanity; Nightmares; Ocean SOLACE, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: I found a nest this morning, in the grass Last Line: Someone was near. I think she found only silence Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Death; Mothers SPARE THE NESTS, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: Is it a nest? It is a nest! See, 'mid the branches hidden Last Line: Than dry and withered blossoms, or shattered, ruined nests? Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Forests; Sanctuaries; Spring SWALLOW'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here down the meadow runs a path Last Line: Then 'twit' and in the water dip, %and 'twit' and hurry back again Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Swallows THE BIRD'S NEST, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a place, in the ivy on a tree Last Line: The sound of me watching, if I had been a bird. Subject(s): Animals; Birds' Nests THE BUILDING OF THE NEST, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They'll come again to the apple-tree Last Line: Your fairy building grow. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Mothers; Weavers And Weaving THE CHIMNEY NEST, by MARY BARKER (CARTER) DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dainty, delicate swallow-feather Last Line: Or not the whole I may understand. Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Nature; Spring THE FIELDFARE'S NEST, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though all should smile denying, I believe Last Line: And reads her heart to whom these glades belong. Subject(s): Birds' Nests THE GOLDEN-ROBIN'S NEST, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden-robin came to build his nest Last Line: A thing he wrought of white and golden hair! Variant Title(s): The Yellow-hammer's Nest Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Robins THE LARK'S NEST; A FABLE FROM ESOP, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trust only to thyself'; the maxim's sound Last Line: Who manages affairs by deputation. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Aesop (620?-560? B.c); Birds' Nests; Fables; Allegories THE NEST, by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This eve I left the flocks to stray and crop the grass with no one by Last Line: Believe you were a little saint just changed to child from angelhood! Alternate Author Name(s): Brizeux, Auguste Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Children; Eggs; Childhood THE NEST, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nest is round and the nest is small Last Line: The world's biggest bargain is surely a nest! Subject(s): Birds' Nests THE ROBIN'S NEST, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jenny brown has as pretty a house of her own Last Line: "I sang when I courted you -- shall I, my dear?" Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Robins THE SKYLARK, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rolls and harrows lie at rest beside Last Line: Lies safely, with the leveret, in the corn. Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Environment; Fields; Larks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Skylarks THE SWALLOW'S NEST, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the church with pray'r go by Last Line: God dwelleth too. Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Churches; God; Swallows; Cathedrals THE THATCH, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out alone in the winter rain Last Line: In on to the upper chamber floors. Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Grief; Rain; Roofing & Roofers; Straw; Sorrow; Sadness THE THRUSH'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush Last Line: Glad as that sunshine and the laughing sky. Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Thrushes THE TWO NESTS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wise thrush, the wise thrush, she choseth well her tree Last Line: Oh, pitiful her perished dreams to see. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Girls; Reason; Thrushes; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE WREN'S NEST, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I took the wren's nest Last Line: God forgive me! Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Birds' Nests THE WRYNECK'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That summer bird its oft-repeated note Last Line: And thinks the strange bird guards a serpent's nest. Subject(s): Birds' Nests TO A SWALLOW BUILDING UNDER THE EAVES [AT CRAIGENPUTTOCK], by JANE WELSH CARLYLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, too, hast travelled, little fluttering thing Last Line: Would I were such! Alternate Author Name(s): Carlyle, Thomas, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Swallows TO THE SNIPE, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lover of swamps Last Line: A dweller and a joy Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Snipes WASP, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Has built his palace %in a bell Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Nature; Wasps WEARY PHOENIX, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Amid the flames, self burned, the great bird dies Last Line: "I think of sleep—perhaps the ash is best." Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests WHAT ROBIN TOLD, by GEORGE COOPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How do robins build their nests? Last Line: That's what robin told me Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Holidays; Robins; Trees WHERE ARE THE NESTS?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The birds in the woods are crying, my love Last Line: Where are their nests, though? Oh, where are their nests? Subject(s): Birds' Nests WHO STOLE THE BIRD'S NEST?, by LYDIA MARIA CHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To-whit! To-whit! To-whit! Subject(s): Birds' Nests WOODLARK'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woodlark rises from the coppice tree Last Line: She giveth what sufficeth them to know, %that they of comfort may their share retain Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Larks YELLOW WAGTAIL'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon an eddying in a quiet nook Last Line: So soft, so sweet; and I so happy then %felt life still eden from the haunts of men Subject(s): Birds' Nests |
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