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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: OWLS Matches Found: 102 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "SWEET SUFFOLK OWL, SO TRIMLY DIGHT", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "and sings a dirge for dying souls, / 'te whit, te whoo!'" Subject(s): Birds;death;owls; "dead, The; A BARRED OWL, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The warping night air having brought the boom Subject(s): Owls; Fear A PAIR OF BARN OWLS, HUNTING, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now slowly, smoothly flying over the field Subject(s): Owls; Hunting; Hunters ALL EYES, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Silly bird is mr. Owl Last Line: When he swifels left and right %eyes surround the mouse-mad night Subject(s): Birds; Owls AN OWL IS AN ONLY BIRD OF POETRY, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A cross leaves marks the tree we fancy Subject(s): Owls ARMADILLO; FOR ROBERT LOWELL, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the time of year Last Line: And a weak mailed fist %clenched ignorant against the sky Subject(s): Animals; Armadillos; Birds; Brazil; Owls BARN OWL, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: High in the chaffy Subject(s): Owls BARN OWL, by EUGENE EDMUND MURPHEY Poem Source First Line: Reading far into the night Subject(s): Birds; Owls BARN OWL, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly it is a pale Last Line: Over their bleached bones %of its night-strangled cry Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Birds; Owls BARN OWL (FROM: FATHER AND CHILD), by GWEN HARWOOD Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Daybreak: the household slept Last Line: For what I had begun Alternate Author Name(s): Foster, Gwendoline Subject(s): Birds; Cruelty; Human Rights; Hunting; Night; Owls BARN-OWL, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: They say that the barn-owl Last Line: With the virgin light-giving oil Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Owls BLIZZARD BIRDS, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: The crested newt creep up the trees Last Line: Wakes up the snowy owls who hoot %and dance upon the heads of newt Subject(s): Birds; Lizards; Owls BROBDINGNAG, by ADRIEN STOUTENBURG Poem Source First Line: The owls roost like gray lamps up there Last Line: For what they can light upon and keep Subject(s): Birds; Owls BROWN OWLS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Brown owls come here in the blue evening Last Line: They are shaking their wings and hooting Subject(s): Birds; Owls COMPANIONSHIP AT NIGHT, by AGNES STEWART BECK Poem Text First Line: An owl's weird cry comes across the hill Last Line: Keeps coming across the hill all night. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats; Night; Owls; Trees; Bedtime DICTATORIAL OWL, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within a hollow elm, whose scanty shade Last Line: Who think themselves much wiser than their neighbours Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Birds; Fables; Owls DIRGE TO A DEAD OWL, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Silent, mysterious, on wings of down Last Line: You for the sweepstakes woodcock. Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Owls DOWNY OWL, GRAY BANSHEE OF THE NIGHT, by EDITH WILLIS LINN Poem Source Subject(s): Birds; Owls DUSK, by ANNIE FINCH Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Owls FABLE: THE OWL, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It seems, an owl, in days of yore Last Line: And fills his purse, and thins the town. Subject(s): Birds; Fables; Owls; Allegories FABLES: 1ST SER. 32. THE TWO OWLS AND THE SPARROW, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two formal owls together sate Last Line: And no keen cat find more regard. Subject(s): Birds; Owls FABLES: 1ST SER. 41. THE OWL AND THE FARMER, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An owl of grave deport and mien Last Line: Fools in derision follow fools. Subject(s): Birds; Owls; Wisdom FACADE: 21. THE OWL, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The currants, moonlit as mother bunch Last Line: As poor mrs. Bunch arranged her bustle. Subject(s): Birds; Owls FLEETING: THE OWL, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The door-bell jangled in evening's peace Last Line: A-hoo! A-hoo! %a-hoo! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Birds; Owls FLOODGATE, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low, when the western flock is folded Last Line: And the owl begins his flight. Subject(s): Birds; Floods; Insects; Owls; Bugs FREED FROM ANOTHER CONTEXT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, the foreground of the other Last Line: The other side. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Birds; Eyes; Owls; Sight; Vision; Wings GREAT BROWN OWL, by ANN HAWKSHAW Poem Source First Line: The brown owl sits in the ivy bush Alternate Author Name(s): Aunt Effie; Hawkshawe, Ann; Jackson, Ann Subject(s): Birds; Owls GREAT GRAY OWL-WATCH IN DECEMBER TWILIGHT, by DEBORAH LARSEN Poem Source First Line: And I, under the shagbark hickory Last Line: Snapped back -- one, and one -- its slanted eyecups Subject(s): Birds; Owls HEART OF OWL COUNTRY, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: Whatever blossoms is rooted Last Line: In its large community, alert and perfect Subject(s): Birds; Gardens And Gardening; Owls; Solitude IF THE OWL CALLS AGAIN, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis First Line: At dusk / from the island Last Line: Cold world awakens. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Environment; Owls; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation JUDGE IS LIKE THE OWL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: His favorite refrain Variant Title(s): Poem: 699; Poem: 72 Subject(s): Birds; Owls KNOWLEDGE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild swan over the marshes knows Last Line: Across the glaciers of eternity! Subject(s): Birds; Future Life; Happiness; Hawks; Hope; Knowledge; Owls; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Joy; Delight; Optimism LANDSCAPE IS LANGUAGE, by DAVID SMITH-FERRI Poem Source First Line: At the hour of owl flight Last Line: At breakfast %still dripping Subject(s): Birds; Language; Nature; Owls LATE HALF MOON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late half moon %high over head Last Line: In the moonfilled dawn Subject(s): Birds; Moon; Owls; Space And Space Travel LOVE AMID OWL-CRIES, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not Subject(s): Birds; Owls LOVE AMID OWL-CRIES, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not Last Line: The fact that there is a door Subject(s): Birds; Owls NATURE RHYMES: 5, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Poor little owl Last Line: "te-hoo, te-hoo, te-hoo" Subject(s): Birds;owls OF ALL THE BIRDS THAT EVER I SEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And that gave me my jolly red nose Subject(s): Birds;owls ORATION: HALF-MOON IN VERMONT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A horse is shivering flies off its ribs, grazing Last Line: Doesn't poverty just fucking break your heart? Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Girls; Politics & Government; Horses; Owls; Poverty; Vermont OUR MOTHER WAS THE PUSSY-CAT, OUR FATHER WAS THE OWL, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Because we take no interest in politix of the day Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats; Owls OWL, by PETER KANE DUFAULT Poem Source First Line: In the unnavigable dusk, when Last Line: The indians' orenda, or the greeks' %athene, the owl? Subject(s): Birds; Owls OWL, by CRAIG HANCOCK Poem Source First Line: Twenty below again Subject(s): Birds; Cold; Owls OWL, by FOLKE ISAKSSON Poem Source First Line: Behind his feigned blindness Last Line: Night screams with sparks Subject(s): Birds; Despair; Disappeared Persons; Owls OWL, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The owl is wary, the owl is wise Last Line: But mostly he sits - and he sits - and he sits Subject(s): Birds; Owls OWL, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The owl that lives in the old oak tree Last Line: And flies and flies Subject(s): Owls OWL, by SUH JUNG-JU Poem Source First Line: What the devil is his gripe Last Line: Long ago you built your round nest %and dwelt in the dark night of my mind Subject(s): Birds; Owls OWL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The owl hooted and told of the morning star Last Line: He hooted again and told of the dawn Subject(s): Birds; Owls OWL, by ROLAND YOUNG Poem Source First Line: The owl is very very wise Subject(s): Birds; Night; Owls; Wisdom OWL (1), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apart, thank heaven, from all to do Last Line: Till it grow dark enough for him to see Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Birds; Owls OWL (3), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Owl of the wildwood I Last Line: Of my woodland through: %a-hooh! A-hooh! - %a-hooh! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Birds; Owls OWL AGAINST ROBIN, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frowning, the owl in the oak complained him Last Line: Baltimore, 1880. Subject(s): Birds; Owls; Robins OWL AND MOUSE, by IAIN CRICHTON SMITH Poem Source First Line: The owl wafts home with a mouse in its beak Last Line: Which shows no waste soundlessly playing on Subject(s): Birds; Owls OWL IS A BRONZE URN OF ASHES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Till one of the round seals blinks Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Owls OWL PELLET, by STEVEN REESE Poem Source First Line: One mouse is history Last Line: He feels the planet fly its belly of bones %through the dark Subject(s): Birds; Food And Eating; Hunting; Owls OWL SONG, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the heart of a murdered woman Subject(s): Owls; Death; Dead, The OWL SONG, FR. KENILWORTH, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the birds on bush or tree Last Line: We'll drink to the health of the bonny, bonny owl Subject(s): Birds; Owls OWL TURNS HIS HEAD ALL THE WAY AROUND, by HOLLY PRADO Poem Source First Line: Some hunters come to our fire to get warm after being in the hills all Last Line: Been doing the right thing for a long time Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Hunting; Owls OWL WRITES A DETECTIVE STORY, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stately home where doves, in dovecotes, coo Last Line: But who? But who? Who, who, who, who, who, who? Subject(s): Birds; Detective Stories; Owls OWLS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under black yews that protect them Last Line: For trying to change his place Subject(s): Birds; Owls OWLS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What music, lord, these birds must feel Last Line: For the beauty at my door. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Owls; Singing & Singers; Songs OWLS AND THE LAWS OF DARKNESS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I flashed the light so billy joe could shoot Last Line: The owls that fell, or staggered to the moon Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Birds; Hunting; Owls POETIC EXPOSITION ON THE OWL, by JIA YI Poem Source First Line: Chan-yan is the year Last Line: Trivial problems, picayune troubles %are not worth bringing anxieties Subject(s): Birds; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Owls PROFUNDITY AND LEVITY, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So frolic, so flighty Last Line: Is then life worth living? Subject(s): Birds; Owls QUESTIONING FACES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winter owl banked just in time to pass Last Line: To glassed-in children at the window sill Subject(s): Owls RHYME-PROSE ON THE OWL, by CHIA YI Poem Source First Line: In the year tan-o Last Line: Petty matters, weeds and thorns - %what are they to me? Subject(s): Birds; Owls RUBBER ANGEL, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is not Last Line: I dare you Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Forests; Owls; Philosophy & Philosophers; Woods RYHMEPROSE ON AN OWL, SELS., by CHIA YI Poem Source First Line: The year was tan-wo, it was the fourth month, summer's first Last Line: Be detached, remote, and soar with tao Subject(s): Birds; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Omens; Owls SCREECH OWL, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night each reedy whinny Subject(s): Owls SNOWLY OWL NEAR OCEAN SHORES, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sits on a stump in an abandoned famer's field Last Line: So when a double-rainbow arced the sky %we left him to his white refrain Subject(s): Birds; Owls SPOKEN TO AN OWL, by FRANK THIBAULT Poem Text First Line: Dawn wakes the day that queerly forms your night Last Line: When questioned by my friends, wink mute replies! Subject(s): Birds; Owls SWEET SUFFOLK OWL, by THOMAS VAUTER Poem Source First Line: Sweet suffolk owl, so trimly dight Last Line: And sings a dirge for dying souls, %te whit, te whoo, te whit, te whit Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE ARMADILLO; FOR ROBERT LOWELL, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the time of year Subject(s): Animals; Armadillos; Birds; Brazil; Owls; Brazilians THE BALLAD OF BLOSSOM, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lake is known as west branch pond Subject(s): Owls; Cows; Nature; Dogs THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When a deacon in their church dreamt god would burn portland Last Line: Bright as trumpets, far and farther. Subject(s): Birds; Faith; Moving & Movers; Owls; Prophecy & Prophets; Belief; Creed THE FORGETFUL OWLS, by PAUL ELDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Nightly, / silence summons to herself Last Line: And the owls know... Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE LEAVES THAT RUSTLED ON THIS OAK-CROWNED HILL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The elements have heard, and rock and cave replied Subject(s): Owls THE NATURALIST'S SUMMER-EVENING WALK, by GILBERT WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When day declining sheds a milder gleam Last Line: Leander hastened to his hero's bed. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Crickets; Nature; Owls; Wings THE ORACULAR OWL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh, who could excel this oracular owl? Subject(s): Owls THE OWL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The boding owl, that in despair Last Line: A thing to fill my heart with mirth. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE OWL, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The owl is wary, the owl is wise Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE OWL, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower Last Line: But the king of the night is the bold brown owl! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Variant Title(s): The Horned Owl Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE OWL, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The path was purple in the dusk Last Line: May light. Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE OWL, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Downhill I came, hungry, and yet not starved Last Line: Soldiers and poor, unable to rejoice. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Birds; Owls; World War I; First World War THE OWL, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here was the sound of water falling only Subject(s): Nature; Owls THE OWL (1), by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When cats run home and light is come Last Line: The white owl in the belfry sits. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Song: The Owl Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE OWL (2), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if to edge of dream Last Line: To shatter its dream? Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE OWL (2), by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy tuwhits are lull'd I wot Last Line: Tuwhoo, tuwhit, tuwhit, tuwhoo-o-o! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE OWL AND THE CROW, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old owl Last Line: "it's not without caws" Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Birds; Chickens; Crows; Owls THE OWL AND THE NIGHTINGALE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In summertide it so befell / I found me in a hidden dell Last Line: "that can I you in no wise tell, / I know no more of what befell" Subject(s): Birds;nightingales;owls THE OWL AND THE NIGHTINGALE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To know the mistress' humour right Last Line: An owl is scorn'd alike by both.' Subject(s): Birds; Fables; Housewives; Nightingales; Owls; Women; Allegories THE OWL AND THE PUSSY CAT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The owl and the pussy cat went to sea Last Line: They danced by the light of the moon. Variant Title(s): The Owl And The Pussy-cat Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats; Children; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Nonsense; Owls; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE OWL CRITIC, by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who stuffed that white owl?' no one spoke in the shop Last Line: And the barber kept on shaving. Subject(s): Birds; Critics & Criticism; Owls THE OWL YOU HEARD, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The owl you heard hooting Subject(s): Owls; Sleep THE OWL'S BEDTIME STORY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was once upon a time a little owl Last Line: A friend to play with,if, now, you will fly Subject(s): Friendship; Owls THE SULTAN AND THE OWLS; AN ARABIAN TALE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sultan, mahmoud, in his early reign Last Line: That not an owl could find a ruined village. Subject(s): Birds; Owls THE WHITE OWL, by CAMILLA DOYLE Poem Text First Line: He comes in the twilight Last Line: The antiquity of night. Subject(s): Birds; Night; Owls; Bedtime THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF CROWLE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That depressing old person of crowle Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Owls THIS NIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: This night, as I sit here alone Last Line: Oh-o-o! Oh-o-o! The owl doth cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Life; Owls; Dead, The TO THE OWL, by THOMAS RUSSELL (1762-1788) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grave bird, that sheltered in thy lonely bower Last Line: On me and thee alike is bent to light. Subject(s): Birds; Owls TU-WHIT, TU-WHOO, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: A lad and lass across the grass Last Line: Two wed, two wed, hoo, hoo. Subject(s): Birds; Owls WANTED: LOOKING FOR OWL ROOSTS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For pellets for science project Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Owls; Science WORDLY WISE (10), by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wise old owl sat in an oak Last Line: Why aren't we all like that wise old bird? Variant Title(s): Question And Answer;a Wise Old Owl Subject(s): Birds; Owls |
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