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Subject: MAGPIES
Matches Found: 11

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHARM AGAINST A MAGPIE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Clean birds by sevens
Last Line: Is the one I choose
Subject(s): Magpies


A VERY NICE PAIR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two magpies sat on a garden wall
Last Line: And the other little magpie's tail
Subject(s): Birds;magpies;tails


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 12. 'MAGPIE'S NEST', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O the magpie has its nest
Last Line: The bride is going to her home, %a hundred coaches in her train
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Magpies; Marriage


MAGPIE, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Magpie, lonely flying
Last Line: What have you brought to me?
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Magpies


MAGPIE SONG (GAMBLING SONG), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The magpie! The magpie! Here underneath
Last Line: It dawns! It dawns!
Subject(s): Magpies


MAGPIE STEPS ON THE BRANCH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can't stand that 'lucky' magpie
Last Line: Off into the blue clouds
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Magpies


MAGPIE'S SONG, by FRANK S. WILLIAMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the dreaming tiber wanders
Subject(s): Magpies


MAGPIES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I have an orchard near my house
Last Line: And tremble when I come alone!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Magpies


MY MAGPIE, by NOVICA TADIC    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My magpie my black and white
Last Line: With a face %that is a mirror
Subject(s): Magpies


RUMOURED THIEF, by SAM SMITH    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Picker of ideas
Subject(s): Magpies; Riddles


WORDS STUMBLE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The magpie is determined / to freeze
Subject(s): Magpies