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Subject: PARROTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADMIRABLE BIRD, by JAMES TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hers was a docile parrot of few words
Last Line: It shrieked, and with that, they both retired
Subject(s): Parrots


BETWEEN NEIGHBORS, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The complainant is a big man
Subject(s): Neighbors; Dogs; Parrots


DEPRECATING PARROTS, by BEULAH MAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shu-lin was a parrot who sat on the shoulder
Subject(s): Parrots; Sea


DUVAL'S BIRDS, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The parrot, screeching, flew out into the darkness,
Last Line: The little white ones winked round yellow eyes
Subject(s): Parrots


ECHO, by HENRIQUETA LISBOA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Green parrot
Last Line: But no one died
Subject(s): Parrots


FABLES: 1ST SER. 25. THE SCOLD AND THE PARROT, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The husband thus reprov'd his wife
Last Line: The world with interest pays the debt.
Subject(s): Parrots


IF BIRD GETS NOISY, by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bird! Queen of the night!
Last Line: Put sarong over cage)
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Loss; Nature; Parrots; Silence


LONGEVITY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I watched one day a parrot grey - 'twas in a barber shop
Last Line: Than parrot be, and live to see ten times a hundred years
Subject(s): Cuckolds; Parrots


MEDITATIONS OF A PARROT, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh the rocks and the thimble
Last Line: And all day: robin hood! Robin hood!
Subject(s): Parrots


MEDITATIONS OF A PARROT, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh the rocks and the thimble
Last Line: And all day: robin hood! Robin hood!
Subject(s): Parrots


NEXT MORNING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Next morning %when a damnfool parrot
Last Line: Drowning out %the parrot's calls
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Parrots


OBITUARY, by WELDON KEES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Boris is dead. The fatalist parrot
Last Line: And a black wreath decorates the door
Subject(s): Parrots; Death - Animals


PARROT, by MAX GUTMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once upon a noon-time awful, as I pondered some unlawful
Last Line: Pecking at me as I stand here where there ought to be a door, %feeding crackers evermore
Subject(s): Parrots


PARROT, by MA SHOU-CHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All day long I watch the parrot
Last Line: Always companion to my boudoir feelings
Subject(s): Parrots


PARROT, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I pratyng parret am, to speake
Last Line: Caesaer alhaile to thee
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Parrots


PARROT IN FROSTLAND, by ROBERT HILL LONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is crazy. This is plainly wrong: to be
Last Line: Green: burn the cold until it burns you out
Subject(s): Parrots


PRETTY POLLY, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An agile noisy jungle flower he flies
Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill
Subject(s): Birds; Parrots


SONG OF THE THREE SEEDS IN THE MACAW'S BEAK, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cracked by that accurate beak
Last Line: The three seeds sung.
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Parrots; Seeds; Dead, The


SPEAK PARROT, by JOHN SKELTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My name ys parott, a byrde of paradyse
Last Line: Hinc mea dicteur skeltonidis inclita fama
Subject(s): Parrots


TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 4. A PARROT SEPARATED FROM ITS CAGE, by XUE TAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: It goes alone through longxi
Last Line: Calling from its cage
Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Parrots


THE BLACKBIRD AND THE THRUSH, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's my idee,' a blackbird said
Last Line: "and a parrot said: ""so do I."
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Fables; Farm Life; Parrots; Thrushes; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers


THE CONTRAST, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within her gilded cage confined
Last Line: Or nature's darkling of this mossy shed?
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Parrots; Wrens


THE PARROT, by VINCENT BOURNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In painted plumes superbly drest
Last Line: And women are the teachers.
Subject(s): Parrots; Talk


THE PARROT, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old professor of zoology
Last Line: "but that was long ago! "
Subject(s): Birds; Parrots


THE PARROT, by JEAN PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Uncag'd one day
Last Line: "but sing I never could."
Subject(s): Birds; Parrots


THE PARROT, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whiles, when I sit alone, I hear my soul
Last Line: ... Then I cover it up, lest the dream should drive me mad.
Subject(s): Birds; Parrots; Solitude; Loneliness


THE PARROT AND THE EAGLE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A parrot to an eagle came
Last Line: "to learn to be afraid."
Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Fables; Flight; Parrots; Allegories; Flying


THE PARROT; A DOMESTIC ANECDOTE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The deep affections of the breast
Last Line: Dropped down, and died.
Subject(s): Memory; Parrots


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 19, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Parrots live in western lands
Last Line: Flying up in the clouds
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Parrots; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts


THE RED COCKATOO, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sent as a present from annam
Last Line: And shut it up inside.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Anti-intellectualism; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Parrots


THE SAILOR TO HIS PARROT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou foul-mouthed wretch! Why dost thou choose
Last Line: And you tell me to go to hell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Parrots; Sea; Ocean


THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON IN GRAY, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Which pleased that old person in gray
Subject(s): Parrots


THOROUGHBRED, by RAFAEL OSES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ramona has a very intelligent parrot named oliver
Last Line: She whispers. He thinks of a word short for 'help.'
Subject(s): Birds; Parrots


TO A SULPHUR-CRESTED COCKATOO, by MARY NICHOL CAMPBELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Unflinching, cool, detached, of raiment proud
Last Line: No man could ever mark me as unclean!
Subject(s): Parrots


TROPICAL PARROTS, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For us / there are no macro-worlds. No footing where we can
Last Line: An eagle to descend long ago
Subject(s): Parrots


YELLOW BEAK, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man owns a green parrot with a yellow beak
Subject(s): Life; Parrots