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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 11:02 A.M. THE BIRD DISAPPEARED, by JOHN CIARDI            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A humming bird darning the trumpet vine
Last Line: And somewhere an examiner shakes his head
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


11:02 A.M. THE BIRD DISAPPEARED, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A humming bird darning the trumpet vine
Last Line: And somewhere an examiner shakes his head
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


AT THE TABLE FOR NO REASON, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hummingbird is christmas, red throat
Last Line: I leave to get on with coming back
Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Hummingbirds


HAPPY HOUR, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I always forget the name,
Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Flowers; Forgetfulness


HUMMING BIRD, by PAUL GROVES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The humming bird refuels
Last Line: Or give you a second heart
Subject(s): Animals; Hummingbirds


HUMMING BIRD, by EDNAH PROCTOR CLARKE HAYES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dancer of air
Last Line: Thine is the nested silence, and the hush %that needs no silence
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


HUMMING-BIRD, by PADRAIC COLUM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the navel of the world
Last Line: That's bloom, and gem, and kiss of fire!
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


HUMMINGBIRD, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the apple tree whose fruit is always lop
Last Line: What we call down should find us, if we wait
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


HUMMINGBIRD, by EDGAR FAWCETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the mild gold stars flower out
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


HUMMINGBIRD, by SCOTT FRANCIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I melt my ruby rash
Last Line: Beauty. I pollinate the flame
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


HUMMINGBIRD, by MARY HOWITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


HUMMINGBIRD, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunlight speaks, and its voice is a bird
Last Line: A sunbeam giving the air a kiss
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


HUMMINGBIRD, by MYUNG MI KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Translate %praise beasts and their worthy marks
Last Line: Experiment is each scroll of white pages joined together
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Books; Hummingbirds; Writing And Writers


HUMMINGBIRD, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can imagine, in some otherworld
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Variant Title(s): Humming-bird
Subject(s): Birds; Hummingbirds; Time


HUMMINGBIRD, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can imagine, in some otherworld
Last Line: We look at him through the wrong end of the long telescope of time, %luckily for us
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Variant Title(s): Humming-bir
Subject(s): Birds; Hummingbirds; Time


HUMMINGBIRD, by HAROLD LITTLEBIRD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hummingbird %magenta-green and white
Last Line: And everywhere you looked was singing
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


HUMMINGBIRD, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ruby-throated hummingbird
Last Line: Is hardly bigger than this word
Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Size And Shape


HUMMINGBIRD, by JESS CAMPBELL RAE    Poem Text                    
First Line: On fairy wing
Last Line: The darling sprite!
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


HUMMINGBIRD, by ELAINE STOLTZFUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside the midday window
Last Line: Is in fact ourselves
Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Nature


HUMMINGBIRD, by IVAN SWIFT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When languorous noons entreat the summer sky
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


HUMMINGBIRD, by ELAINE TERRANOVA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What with foresight and dancing,
Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Death; Dead, The


HUMMINGBIRD, by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A winged rocket curving through
Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


HUMMINGBIRDS, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They will be without arms like god
Last Line: Who are wretched.
Subject(s): Death - Animals; God; Hummingbirds


HUMMINGBIRDS, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The female, and two chicks
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


HUMMINGBIRDS, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I read the translation from the russian
Last Line: Working so had just to remain in one spot
Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Translating And Interpreting


MAMMOTH, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Returning the refilled feeder to its hanger on the tree,
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


ODE TO THE HUMMINGBIRD, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou insect bird! Thou plumed bee!
Last Line: And sport'st with spring on other meads.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


ON SOME HUMMING-BIRDS IN A GLASS CASE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For vacant song behold a shining theme
Last Line: No soil, nor token of the tomb's disgrace!
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


OUR 'HUMMING-BIRD', by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, well I know the reason why / they called her by that graceful name
Last Line: Deliciously.
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


PEACE ALL SEASONS, EACH NIGHT, by PATTIANN ROGERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The husk-thin skull of a hummingbird
Last Line: And rolled all night in the bed %of your tongue
Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Night; Peace


PHENOMENA, by ANDREW FRISARDI    Poem Text                    
First Line: I mistook that hummingbird
Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Transience; Impermanence


PROMISE, by ELLEN HUNTER TERRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A ruby-throated humming bird came to sip
Last Line: My sweet petunias flutter to his kiss!
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Archilochus colubris %...The red he uses has an astonishing vibration
Last Line: From whose body the whirring begins
Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Love; Poetry And Poets; Red (color)


SAH SIN, by TESS GALLAGHER            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I found the hummingbird
Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Death; Fame; Dead, The; Reputation


SONGS OF THE WINE-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down in the sapphire ocean
Last Line: The hummingbird's, the humpback whales, %a neutron star, a human soul?
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Hummingbirds; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


SPHINX-MOTH AND DADDY LONGLEGS, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the evening when dark is settling down
Last Line: Man, the seeker, seeks himself
Subject(s): Animals; Flowers; Forests; Hummingbirds; Insects; Moths


THE CAPTIVE HUMMING BIRD, by JOEL T. HART    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fleet-flying gem, of burnished crest
Last Line: The honey of the heart.
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


THE CUBAN PIRATE, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Buccaneer in gemmed attire
Last Line: You flying spark of paradise?
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


THE HEART, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A stumblebum in scree
Last Line: With his throat cut
Subject(s): Butterflies; Hummingbirds; Insects; Bugs


THE HUMMING BIRDS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green wing and ruby throat
Last Line: Sleeps in this bloom; and, when it falls, they go.
Subject(s): Bees; Heaven; Hummingbirds; Insects; Sleep; Summer; Trees; Beekeeping; Paradise; Bugs


THE HUMMING-BIRD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it a monster bee
Last Line: Into a murmurous sound of wings too swift for sight!
Subject(s): Flowers; Hummingbirds; Marigolds; Summer; Wings


THE HUMMING-BIRD, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I entered my parlor one bright summer morn
Last Line: And your souls will be wafted to mansion above.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Worship


THE HUMMINGBIRD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A flash of harmless lightning
Last Line: And drained her nectary.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Nature


THE RUBY THROAT, by RUTH BUTLER BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tiny little humming bird
Last Line: I have time to stay.
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


TO A HUMMING BIRD, by GLADYS ARNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fairy child of a flower
Last Line: The soul of the flower.
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


TO A HUMMING BIRD IN A GARDEN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blithe playmate of the summer time
Last Line: From care till all is over!
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


VISION, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two hummingbirds as evanescent as
Last Line: Like intuitions before birth %sing, sing with the hummingbirds
Subject(s): Hummingbirds


YUMMY HUMMINGBIRD, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I shake the sugar water
Last Line: Little yummyhummingbird %please be mine
Subject(s): Hummingbirds