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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CUCKOOS Matches Found: 65 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CUCKOO SONG, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crowns are for kings to wear, sad crowns of gold Last Line: Run to thy marriage bells, birds of the day-time. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Spring ALLELUIA!, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With windflower now and daffodil Last Line: Alleluia! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Jesus Christ; Praise; Resurrection, The ALONE, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still earth turns and pulses stir Last Line: Then am I dead indeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Pleiades (coinstellation); Cuckoos AMORETTI: 19, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The merry cuckoo, messenger of spring Last Line: Ere cuckow end, let her a rebell be. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): The Merry Cuckoo Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO, by CHIYO NI Poem Source Last Line: Again the daylight too! Alternate Author Name(s): Kaga No Chiyo; Chiyo-ni; Chiyojo Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poet's Biography First Line: The cuckoo is a tell-tale Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O cuckoo troubling yonder hill Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We heard it calling, clear and low Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The voice of spring is heard in the forest Last Line: Soon he will board out his son Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cuckoos lead bohemian lives Last Line: Everybody else's marriage Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's the cuckoo, you say. I cannot hear it Last Line: The cuckoo's note would be drowned by the voice of my dead Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His voice runs before me; I follow, it flies Last Line: But when he calls cuckoo, the summer is here. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The cuckoo's a bonny bird, he whistles as he flies Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO - / ITS CALL STRETCHING, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Over the water Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO ON MT. CHIRI, by SONG SUGWON Poem Source First Line: Many a cuckoo in many a mountain peak Last Line: In which glow the azaleas on the pebbles Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Summer is I-cumen [or a-coming or y-comen] in Last Line: "sing cuckoo. Sing, cuckoo, now!" Variant Title(s): The Cuckoo Song Subject(s): Birds;cuckoos;nature;spring;summer CUCKOO SONG, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, bird Last Line: When all her hope was dead. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOO SONG (FROM THE PERSIAN), by PHILIP GUEDALLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sumurun's a coming in Last Line: Loudly sing, cuckoo! Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Oxford University CUCKOO: TUSCANY, by DAVID SWANGER Poem Source First Line: He thought there were no birds to sing Last Line: Bears witness, a braggart sound at a distance Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos CUCKOOS, LARKS, AND SPARROWS, by CAMILLA DOYLE Poem Source First Line: The cuckoo is a heartless bird Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Larks; Sparrows DID A CUCKOO CRY?, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Cuckoos DID A CUCKOO CRY?, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Perishing! Perishing! Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Moon; Night FACT OR FANCY?, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In town I hear, scarce wakened yet Last Line: Unbodied, like the cuckoo's song. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Time GOWK, by VIOLET JACOB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tib, my auntie's a deil to wark Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy Erskine, Violet Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos HAIKU, by NISHIYAMA SOIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the cuckoo Last Line: How much soever gods ye be Subject(s): Cuckoos HAS IT FLOWN AWAY, by FUJIWARA NO SHUNZEI Poem Source Last Line: Yet its song seems %still by my window Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos IN MONMOUTH, by EVE GILBERT SWIFT Poem Text First Line: In monmouth, in monmouth Last Line: "cuckoo, cuckoo." Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Spring INVOCATION TO THE CUCKOO, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, pursuivant and herald of the spring! Last Line: I laugh at fortune, and defy old time. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Fortune; Muses; Time LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 6. SPRING, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But haste we! - 'tis that merry time of year Last Line: Untiring sing their olden songs anew. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Flowers; Primroses; Singing & Singers; Spring; Violets; Songs NIGHTINGALE AND CUCKOO, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O nightingale and cuckoo! It was meet Last Line: And autumn silence gathers in their stead. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Nightingales ODE TO THE CUCKOO, by MICHAEL BRUCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, beauteous stranger of the grove [or, wood]! / attendant on the spring! Last Line: Companions of the spring. Variant Title(s): To The Cuckoo Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Spring ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 3. TO THE CUCKOO, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O rustic herald of the spring Last Line: The cuckoo joins his lay. Subject(s): Cuckoos ONCE FROM THE TOWN A STARLING FLEW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Sing of myself from morn till night Subject(s): Birds;cuckoos POPULAR RHYME ON THE CUCKOO; DEVON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the month of april Last Line: In the month of july, %away he doth fly Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos SILVER SWANS: 14. HOTOTOGISU - HOROBIRETE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cuckoo's call, though Last Line: Against the spring Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; A POET IN HIS YOUTH, AND THE CUCKOO-BIRD, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time, I lay Last Line: To-morrow, man, if not to-day %now it murmurs, wait, wait, wait! Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Patience; Poetry And Poets; Voices SUMMER HAS COME (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Healthy free summer has come Last Line: Hounds bay, stags gather, %ravens flourish, summer is come! Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos SUMMER HAS COME (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Summer's come, safe, sound Last Line: Harts will herd - summer's come! %summer Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos SUMMER HAS COME, HEALTHY AND FREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos THE CUCKOO, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the sound of picks to-day Last Line: The cuckoo's voice for the first time. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Railroads; Railways; Trains THE CUCKOO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The cuckoo is a merry bird / she sings as she flies Last Line: Three months in the year Subject(s): Birds;cuckoos THE CUCKOO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O the cuckoo she's a pretty bird Last Line: And the more she singeth cuckoo / the summer draweth near Subject(s): Birds;cuckoos THE CUCKOO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The cuckoo is a pretty bird Last Line: And off with her I'd go Subject(s): Birds;cuckoos THE CUCKOO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In april / come he will Last Line: Go he must Variant Title(s): The Cuckoo's Habits Subject(s): Birds;cuckoos THE CUCKOO, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange, reserved, unsocial bird Last Line: Though doleful as a mourning-dove. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos THE CUCKOO, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When I was sitting near a stream Last Line: And shouted in my face! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos THE CUCKOO AT LAVERNA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: List - 'twas the cuckoo. - o with what delight Last Line: And folds thy pinions up in blest repose. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Italy; Italians THE CUCKOO'S CHARACTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The cuckoo's a fine bird Last Line: The summer is near Subject(s): Birds;cuckoos THE CUCKOO'S VOICE, by JOHN HEYWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In april the koo-coo can sing her note by rote Last Line: At last, kooke, kooke, kooke, six cookes to one koo. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos THE CUCKOO'S WIT; A CORNISH FOLK-SONG, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, of all the birds that keep the tree Last Line: Is wiser than the owl! Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos THE FIND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I took a reed and blew a tune Last Line: Upon a fairy mound. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Fairies; Mythology - Irish; Reeds; Elves THE FIRST CUCKOO, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May had bid the young lambs play Last Line: The dead youth, the dead delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Death; Loss; Dead, The THE GIPSY AND THE CUCKOO, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, brother, what's a cuckoo, but a roguish chaffing bird? Last Line: Were the sounds all organ pealing, psalm and song and prayer? Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Gypsies; Gipsies THE GOWK, by WILLIAM SOUTAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half doun the hill, whaur fa's the linn Last Line: Cuckoo, cuckoo. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos THE KOOCOO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in april, the koocoo can sing her song by rote" Last Line: "at last, kooke, kooke, kooke; six kookes to one koo" Subject(s): Birds;cuckoos THE MARRIAGE OF EARTH AND HEAVEN, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hera, tall and fair and young, / walked on ida's hill Last Line: Sung their silver marriage song. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Greece; Marriage; Mythology; Spring; Storms; Greeks; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SILVER SWANS: 14. HOTOTOGISU - HOROBIRETE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cuckoo's call, though Last Line: Against the spring Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos THE WOODS AND BANKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The woods and banks of england now Last Line: Where are you now, cuckoo? Cuckoo! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Nature TO A CUCKOO IN A HIGHWAY HEDGE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O cuckoo! Am I of my wits bereft? Last Line: The muses know thee as a mystic sound. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos TO THE CUCKOO, by JOHN LOGAN (1748-1788) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, beauteous stranger of the grove! Last Line: Companions of the spring. Variant Title(s): Cuckoo Poem;the Cuckoo;ode To The Cuckoo Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos TO THE CUCKOO (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O blithe new-comer, I have heard Last Line: That is fit home for thee! Variant Title(s): To The Cuckoo Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos TO THE CUCKOO (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the whole warbling grove in concert heard Last Line: And thy erratic voice be faithful to the spring! Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos TRINITY, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: One trinity I believed in: %the unborn, the living, the dead Last Line: It was only listening absently to the cracks %inside itself Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Eggs TWILIGHT BY THE PLANTATION, by JOHN MOAT Poem Source Last Line: Summer's hope torn in two Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Riddles VISION OF THE CUCKOO, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Known by the ear; sweet voice, sour reputation Last Line: Filled with a bright scar, coloured like the roses Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos |
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