Nature Poems – Page 13

A Birthday : Christina Rossetti : : Bird Poems : :

A Birthday : : By Christina Rossetti : My heart is like a singing birdWhose nest is in a water’d shoot;My heart is like an apple-treeWhose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;My heart is like a rainbow shellThat paddles in a halcyon sea;My heart is gladder than all theseBecause my love is come to me.Continue reading “A Birthday : Christina Rossetti : : Bird Poems : :”

The Peacock : Sujata Bhatt : : Bird Poems : :

The Peacock : : By Sujata Bhatt ( b. 1956 ) Bremen, Germany : : : : The Peacock : His loud sharp call seems to come from nowhere. Then, a flash of turquoise in the pipal tree The slender neck arched away from you as he descends, and as he darts away, a glimpseContinue reading “The Peacock : Sujata Bhatt : : Bird Poems : :”

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird : Wallace Stevens : : Bird Poems : :

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird : : By Wallace Stevens : IAmong twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. III was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. IIIThe blackbird whirled in the autumn winds. It was a small part of theContinue reading “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird : Wallace Stevens : : Bird Poems : :”

The Windhover : Gerard Manley Hopkins : : Bird Poems : :

The Windhover : : By Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 1844 – 1889 ) To Christ our Lord I caught this morning morning’s minion, king- dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and stridingHigh there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wingIn hisContinue reading “The Windhover : Gerard Manley Hopkins : : Bird Poems : :”

The Yellowhammer’s Nest : John Clare : : Bird Poems : :

The Yellowhammer’s Nest : : By John Clare: Just by the wooden brig a bird flew up,Frit by the cowboy as he scrambled downTo reach the misty dewberry—let us stoopAnd seek its nest—the brook we need not dread,‘Tis scarcely deep enough a bee to drown,So it sings harmless o’er its pebbly bed—Ay here it is,Continue reading “The Yellowhammer’s Nest : John Clare : : Bird Poems : :”

Crow Blacker Than Ever : Ted Hughes : : Bird Poems : :

Crow Blacker Than Ever : : By Ted Hughes : : When God, disgusted with man,Turned towards heaven,And man, disgusted with God,Turned towards Eve,Things looked like falling apart. But Crow CrowCrow nailed them together,Nailing heaven and earth together- So man cried, but with God’s voice.And God bled, but with man’s blood. Then heaven and earthContinue reading “Crow Blacker Than Ever : Ted Hughes : : Bird Poems : :”

Skylarks : Ted Hughes : : Bird Poems : :

Skylarks : : By Ted Hughes ( 17 August, 1930 – 28 October, 1998 ) , London , England : : : : : IThe lark begins to go upLike a warningAs if the globe were uneasy –Barrel-chested for heightsLike an Indian of the high Andes,A whippet head, barbed like a hunting arrow,But leadenWith muscleForContinue reading “Skylarks : Ted Hughes : : Bird Poems : :”

Shelley’s Skylark : Thomas Hardy : : Bird Poems : :

Shelley’s Skylark : : By Thomas Hardy ( 1840 – 1928 ) : : : : ………………………………………………: : Somewhere afield here something liesIn Earth’s oblivious eyeless trustThat moved a poet to prophecies –A pinch of unseen, unguarded dust The dust of the lark that Shelley heard,And made immortal through times to be; –Though it onlyContinue reading “Shelley’s Skylark : Thomas Hardy : : Bird Poems : :”

To The Skylark : William Wordsworth : ( 1 ) : : Skylark’s Singing & Chirping Video In Spring : Wildlife World : ( 2 ) : : Bird Poems : :

https://youtu.be/ssEZWMsQg_8?si=vUXMKJiPc-yt0bEN To the Skylark : : By William Wordsworth Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky!Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound?Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eyeBoth with thy nest upon the dewy ground?Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will,Those quivering wings composed, that music still! Leave to the nightingaleContinue reading “To The Skylark : William Wordsworth : ( 1 ) : : Skylark’s Singing & Chirping Video In Spring : Wildlife World : ( 2 ) : : Bird Poems : :”

Ode to a Nightingale : John Keats : : Bird Poems : :

Ode to a Nightingale : : By John Keats ( 1795 – 1821 ) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being tooContinue reading “Ode to a Nightingale : John Keats : : Bird Poems : :”