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Subject: FALCONS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LADY WITH A FALCON ON HER FIST; TO THE INCOMPARABLE ANNE LOVELACEU, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This queen of prey (now prey to you)
Last Line: In which the nobler is the she.
Subject(s): Falcons


FALCON, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose eyes have pierced that tragic east
Last Line: With golden and with crimson twine %I tie these bells about your feet
Subject(s): Falcons


FALCON IN NEW YORK, by DAVID SHAPIRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The falcon
Last Line: Who never learned %to hunt
Subject(s): Falcons; New York City


GOLDEN FALCON, by ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: He sees the circle of the world
Subject(s): Birds; Death; Falcons


LOVER COMPARETH HIMSELF TO THE PAINFUL FALCONER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The soaring hawk from fist that flies
Last Line: Wo ho ho!' I crie; 'I come,' then saie, %make me as glad ashee!
Subject(s): Falcons; Love


OF FALCONS, by CHARLES EDWARD BUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: No one speaks of falcons in these days
Subject(s): Falcons


QUI'AMIYAT DIKAKAH, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have seen you far below
Last Line: Until I am the first to die
Subject(s): Birds; Boundaries; Falcons; Tourists; Travel


SEND FORTH THE HIGH FALCON, by LEONIE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Send forth the high falcon flying after the mind
Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs.
Subject(s): Falcons


SINCE YOU ASK, by CARL PHILLIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the air, over water,
Subject(s): Falcons; Horses


THE FALCON, by GRACE UPDEGRAFF BERGEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: So oft about me I can see the ancient art of falconry
Last Line: So near my heart!
Subject(s): Falcons


THE FALCON, by DER VON KURENBERG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I raised a noble falcon
Last Line: Who lovers fain would be!
Subject(s): Falcons


THE FALCON, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair princess of the spacious air
Last Line: Only to sing thy elegy.
Subject(s): Falcons


THE FALCON, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a falcon swift and peerless
Last Line: And marks them with his vengeful eye.
Variant Title(s): The Falconer
Subject(s): Falcons


THE FALCON, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who would not be sir hubert, for his birth and bearing fine
Last Line: Sir hubert to those sunning all the rays of fortune shine!
Subject(s): Falcons


THE LOVER SHOWETH HOW HE IS FORSAKEN, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: They flee from me that sometime did me seek
Last Line: I would fain know what she hath deserved.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Remembrance;vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus;they Flee From Me;ballade: 2;the Lover Showeth How He Is Abandoned Of Such As He Onetime Enjoyed
Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Falcons; Love; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares


THE WINDHOVER: TO CHRIST OUR LORD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I caught this morning morning's minion, king
Last Line: Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.
Variant Title(s): The Windhover
Subject(s): Birds; Christianity; Falcons; Hawks; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology


VISIT, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome to abu dhabi
Last Line: Alright by me.
Subject(s): Birds; Falcons; Guests; Rooms; Visiting