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Subject: PIGEONS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 4TH MAY MORNING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My carrier pigeon is a 'fancy' pigeon
Last Line: And give a kiss to dark-locked alice.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Pigeons


BALLAD OF THE LIGHT-EYED GIRL, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet sally took a cardboard-box
Last Line: Funeral for him whose epitaph %in 'pigeon - under ground'
Subject(s): Pigeons


CASIDA OF THE SHADOWY PIGEONS, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I saw two shadowy pigeons
Last Line: And both were neither
Subject(s): Birds; Pigeons; Sisters


DEAD PIGEON ON SOUTH STREET, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A crumb or maybe a peanut dropped in the suburb
Last Line: The lawns had been saved for auntie and we all felt good
Subject(s): Pigeons


FEBRUARY 30TH, by FREDERICK SEIDEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The speckled pigeon standing on the ledge
Subject(s): Pigeons; War; Modern Life; Politics & Government


FIRST EARLY MORNINGS TOGETHER, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Waking up over the candy store together
Subject(s): Waking; Morning; Togethernes; Pigeons


GALLERY OF PIGEONS, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dame fancy has a gallery
Last Line: "and rhyme sweet fantasy -- ""good morrow."
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Birds; Fear; Pigeons; Soul; Women


GRATITUDE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Knees and back affirm it was a frosty night
Last Line: For the neat, fresh gift of pigeon shit
Subject(s): Gratitude; Night; Pigeons


HOMING PIGEONS, by TED WALKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Among left trucks, mailbags, churns
Last Line: They clatter back in the hanging dark
Subject(s): Pigeons


MID-DAY AT TRINITY, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The pigeon's perch on trinity
Last Line: The doves drift down to dine.
Subject(s): Pigeons


MRS. PECK-PIGEON, by ELEANOR FARJEON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mrs. Peck-pigeon %is picking for bread
Last Line: Goes picking for bread
Subject(s): Pigeons


MY TWO PIGEONS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had two pigeons bright and gay
Last Line: I cannot tell for I do not know
Subject(s): Pigeons


ON STARTLING SOME PIGEONS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hundred wings are dropt as soft as one
Last Line: With anxious inquest fills his little span.
Subject(s): Pigeons


ON THE SUNNY SIDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hi and whoop-hooray, boys!
Last Line: On the sunny side!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Pigeons; Singing & Singers; Joy; Delight


PERFECT; ON THE WESTERN SEABOARD OF SOUTH UIST, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I found a pigeon's skull on the machair
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh
Subject(s): Jones, Glyn (b. 1905); Pigeons; Skulls


PERFECT; ON THE WESTERN SEABOARD OF SOUTH UIST, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I found a pigeon's skull on the machair
Last Line: That fixed the tilt of the wings
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh
Subject(s): Jones, Glyn (b. 1905); Pigeons; Skulls


PIGEON, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Has swallowed a fountain! %listen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Pigeons


PIGEONS, by MAUD BURNHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ten snowy white pigeons are standing in line
Subject(s): Pigeons


PIGEONS, by RUSSELL EDSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If a scientist had bred pigeons the size of horses, they
Last Line: Them open to see if benjamin franklin wasn't flying his kite%in the thunderstorms of their breasts
Subject(s): Pigeons


PIGEONS, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On shallow slates the pigeons shift together
Last Line: Shows them, black as their shadows, sleeping so
Subject(s): Pigeons


PIGEONS, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On shallow slates the pigeons shift together
Last Line: Light from a small intense lopsided moon %shows them, black as their shadows, sleeping so
Subject(s): Pigeons


PIGEONS, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Older than the ancient greeks, than
Subject(s): Pigeons


PIGEONS, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like every kingdom
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Pigeons


PIGEONS, by ALASTAIR REID    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the crooked arm of columbus, on his cloak
Last Line: Appropriately on the head of each is perched, %as though forever, his appointed pigeon
Subject(s): Pigeons; Statues


PIGEONS AT CANNON STREET, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O ye pigeons of the station with your loveliness of hues
Last Line: Lost the verdant county acres and the freedom of the blue!
Subject(s): Cities; London; Pigeons; Urban Life


PIGEONS AT DAWN, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Extraordinary efforts are being made
Subject(s): Morning; City & Town Life; Pigeons


PIGEONS IN GEORGE SQUARE, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pigeons, pee-gulls
Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Pigeons


PIGEONS IN GEORGE SQUARE, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pigeons, pee-gulls
Last Line: Citizens of glasgow
Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Pigeons


POSSIBILITIES, by PETER KANE DUFAULT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three pigeons down-swing
Last Line: Till pigeons settle in %their pigeonholes for good
Subject(s): Pigeons


ROOF PIGEONS, by EMMA ROBERTSON MCRAE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stark-lying roofs the teeming city crown
Last Line: Roof-bound to earth who might to heaven soar.
Subject(s): Pigeons


RURAL RAPTURES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis sweet at dewy eve to rove
Subject(s): Birds;nightingales;pigeons;singing & Singers


STREET SONGS: 1. THE PIGEONS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the houses and into the sky
Subject(s): Cities; Pigeons; Urban Life


STREET SONGS: 1. THE PIGEONS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the houses and into the sky
Last Line: And into their airy home
Subject(s): Cities; Pigeons


TENEMENT ROOF, by PHILIP BOOTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange, our not knowing
Subject(s): Pigeons


THE BELFRY PIGEON, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the cross-beam under the old south bell
Last Line: And, lapped in quiet, bide my time.
Subject(s): Boston; Pigeons


THE BIRD LET LOOSE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bird, let loose in eastern skies
Last Line: Thy freedom in her wings!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Pigeons; Religion; Theology


THE CARRIER-PIGEON RETURNED, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunset has flung its glory o'er the floods
Last Line: The darkness of the grave is now before her.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Pigeons


THE COURTYARD PIGEONS, by CAROLINE GILTINAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear birds, that flutter happily
Last Line: The part of me that flies!
Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs.
Subject(s): Pigeons


THE HILLS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hills are crying from the fields to me
Last Line: That strikes the world in admiration mute.
Subject(s): Jason; Pigeons


THE HOME-COMING, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Straight upward from the crowded square
Last Line: May rule the kingdom of the air.
Subject(s): Courage; Flight; Home; Pigeons; Valor; Bravery; Flying


THE PIGEONS, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pigeons, following the faint warm light
Last Line: As thou dost blot out all our miseries.
Subject(s): Frost; Pain; Pigeons; Winter; Suffering; Misery


THE TRUANT DOVE FROM PILPAY, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A mountain stream its channel deep
Last Line: "so love your wife, and know when you are well."
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Fables; Pigeons; Allegories


TO A BANK OF ENGLAND PIGEON, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Descendant of the doves of aphrodite
Last Line: The stern old lady of threadneedle street!
Subject(s): England; Pigeons; English


TO A CITY PIGEON, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stoop to my window, thou beautiful dove
Last Line: Lessons of heaven, sweet bird, in thee!
Subject(s): Pigeons


TRINITY PLACE, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pigeons that peck at the grass in trinity churchyard
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Pigeons; Unemployment; Work; Workers


TRINITY PLACE, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pigeons that peck at the grass in trinity churchyard
Last Line: It is only the men who are hungry. The pigeons are fed
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Pigeons; Unemployment


WHEN THE PIGEONS LIFT UP, by R. B. MORRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the pigeons lift up one more time
Last Line: Draw near the edge
Subject(s): Birds; Pigeons


WOOD-PIGEONS, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Often the woodman scares them as he comes
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Pigeons


YESTERDAY, by RUTH LASHORNE BUNDY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Swift as a pigeon's wings
Last Line: To her finger ladder, rung by rung.
Subject(s): Past; Pigeons


YOU ARE A STOOL PIGEON AND, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: You don't have more money
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Stool Pigeons