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Subject: ROOKS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMORIS EXSUL: 11. ARQUES: 1. NOON, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shadows of the rooks fly up the hill
Last Line: Pass, and return, and pass, and turn again.
Subject(s): Rooks


BLACK ROOK IN RAINY WEATHER, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the stiff twig up there
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Rooks


BLACK ROOK IN RAINY WEATHER, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the stiff twig up there
Last Line: The long wait for the angel %for that rare, random descent
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Rooks


PROSPECT, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among orange-tile rooftops
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fog; Rooks; Haze


ROOK SITS HIGH, WHEN THE BLAST SWEEPS BY, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Rooks


ROOK'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rooks begin to build, and pleasant looks
Last Line: Others with reaching poles the nest destroys %while off and up they fly with deafening noise
Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Rooks


ROOKS: NEW COLLEGE GARDENS, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through rosy cloud, and over thorny towers
Last Line: The scholar's star, the star of sanctity.
Subject(s): Rooks


THE ROOKERY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought, as I beheld the rookery pass
Last Line: The dark clan talks, the social instincts move.
Subject(s): Rooks