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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HERONS Matches Found: 45 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BLUE HERON, by YETZA GILLESPIE Poem Source First Line: Here, here among the reeds he stands Subject(s): Herons BLUE HERON, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: Great blue heron with configurated throat Last Line: And you swallow your silver thought at last Subject(s): Birds; Herons BLUE HERON, by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where water-grass grows overgreen Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice Subject(s): Birds; Herons BLUE HERON, by MARY BRENT WHITESIDE Poem Text First Line: Once in the evening it was there Last Line: The mystic heron vanished -- where? Subject(s): Herons; Nature CANOE CIRCLE, by RON WELBURN Poem Source First Line: The great blue heron circles us Last Line: As they follow the great heron %curling back to origins Subject(s): Herons CAROLINA HERONS, by ZOE KINCAID BROCKMAN Poem Source First Line: Haughty herons circling low Subject(s): Herons CONGRUENCIES (I): BLUE HERON, by DENNIS HINRICHSEN Poem Source First Line: When we saw the heron - where we always see it - %on the dead limb Last Line: Of landscape - what steered by) %into the river's next bend Subject(s): Herons ETUDE, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been watching a great blue heron Subject(s): Herons FLIGHTS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: English herons brought for sport to a new land Last Line: For worlds of outer space? Subject(s): Explorers; Herons; Seashore; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Beach; Coast; Shore GREAT BLUE HERON, by VICTORIA SAFFELLE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Where sanderlings, like children, run Subject(s): Herons HERON, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the copper marsh / I saw a stilted heron / wade the tidal wash Last Line: Marsh flew through my flesh Subject(s): Environment; Herons; Journeys; Trips HERON, by JOHN LYLE DONAGHY Poem Source First Line: At night, when the black water-hen Subject(s): Herons HERON, by MARY HOWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, there the hermit of the waste Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Herons HERON, by LISA LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Now another consideration emerges Last Line: On the bank all they see is a bird %drowning there's nothing they can do Subject(s): Birds; Food And Eating; Herons HERON, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heron stands in water where the swamp Last Line: A single ripple starts from where he stood Subject(s): Birds; Herons HERON, by TED WALKER Poem Source First Line: He comes down to the shadow Last Line: Out his hunger, bides, waiting %for the shoal he knows will come Subject(s): Herons HERON, by VERNON WATKINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cloud-backed heron will not move Last Line: On water's crooked tablet, %on light's reflected word Subject(s): Herons HERON AT LOW TIDE, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No wonder young patsy Last Line: I can almost feel it snap %once for young patsy Subject(s): Grandparents; Herons HERON WEATHER, by DOUGLAS CRASE Poem Source First Line: The terrace is empty, which shows how flat it is Last Line: Before even unfolding their wings Subject(s): Herons HERONS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After trailing their bony legs the herons dance Subject(s): Herons HERONS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was dreaming between hills Last Line: And night where I had lain all day Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Herons; Sleep HERONS AT FUNAMA, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If at the end of our days here Last Line: At play on my waterfront! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Herons HERONS IN WINTER IN THE FROZEN MARSH, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All winter / two blue herons Subject(s): Herons; Winter HERONS ON BO ISLAND, by ELIZABETH SHANE Poem Source Subject(s): Birds; Herons LAST RIDE DOWN THE WHISKEY, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: If herons spoke in ways you could Last Line: The night on extraordinary wing Subject(s): Herons NIGHT WIND, by COE BOTKIN Poem Text First Line: There is a song in the night wind Last Line: In marsh nest. Subject(s): Birds; Herons PEOPLE AND A HERON, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A desert of weed and water-darkened stone under my western windows Last Line: Reflected on the world for a mirror Subject(s): Herons POEM OF THE ONE WORLD, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning / the beautiful white heron Subject(s): Herons; Nature; Beauty SNOWY HERON, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What lifts the heron leaning on the air Last Line: Its heron back. All doubt all else. But praise Subject(s): Herons SNOWY HERON, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What lifts the heron leaning on the air Last Line: Its heron back. And doubts all else. But praise Subject(s): Herons THE BLUE, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Heron is gray, not blue, but great enough Subject(s): Herons THE BLUE HERON, by THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: In a green place lanced through Last Line: Death-still—and sudden as death! Alternate Author Name(s): Roberts, T. G. Subject(s): Herons THE GREAT BLUE HERON, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I wandered on the beach Last Line: My mother would drift away. Subject(s): Death; Herons; Mothers; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Feminism THE GREAT BLUE HERON; A WARNING, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great blue heron stood all alone Last Line: "betwixt you and the being called man." Subject(s): Herons; Hunting; Mankind; Hunters; Human Race THE HERON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the hern flew east, the hern flew west" Last Line: The falcon hath stol'n my mate away Subject(s): Herons THE HERON, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me tell you, my dear, about the heron I saw Last Line: And why, over and over again, must I write this poem? Subject(s): Animals; Herons; Humanity THE HERON, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The heron stands in water where the swamp Subject(s): Birds; Herons THE HERON'S NEST, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world-mother sits on her sky-blue eggs Last Line: And a radiant voice that was like the king's! Subject(s): Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Eggs; Herons; Minstrels THE HERONS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I was climbing ardan mor Last Line: Nor any waters flow. Variant Title(s): Ardan Mor Subject(s): Herons THE NIGHT HERON, by ALICE HARLOW STETSON Poem Text First Line: Where does he build his nest, whose cypress tree Last Line: Aloof inscrutable call. Subject(s): Herons THE SILVER HERONS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a home for captive beasts Last Line: Is not to lose one's life, but save. Subject(s): Freedom; Herons; Mercy; Liberty TIPPECANOE RIVER, by MARTIN WALLS Poem Source First Line: Two herons stretching. Their necks smoke through a cross-hatch of boughs Last Line: The way a filigree of cobwebs in the lowest branches catches & holds the light Subject(s): Herons; Nature; Rivers TO A BIRD [THAT HAUNTED THE WATERS OF LAAKEN IN THE WINTER], by EDWARD HOVELL-THURLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O melancholy bird! - a winter's day Last Line: Nature is always wise in every part. Alternate Author Name(s): Thurlow, 2d Baron Variant Title(s): The Heron Subject(s): Herons TO A HERON, by MEREDITH JONES Poem Text First Line: Gaunt, lonely bird Last Line: Lift wings? Subject(s): Herons WINGS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the heron Last Line: They fought, they wanted %to lie down in that silky mash %ofthe swamp, the sooner %to fly Subject(s): Flight; Herons; Wings |
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