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The term "o bird" has been searched for 482 times on the American Poems site since November 15th, 2004.
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1. A Minor Bird - written by Robert Frost
From West-Running Brook.
Published in 1928.
Read 6241 times on American Poems.
I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of... (Read full poem)
2. Premonition At Twilight - written by Philip Levine
From On The Edge.
Published in 1963.
Read 642 times on American Poems.
The magpie in the Joshua tree
Has come to rest. Darkness collects,
And what I cannot hear or see,
Broken limbs, the curious bird,
Become in darkness darkness too.
I had been going when I heard
The sound of something called the night;
I had... (Read full poem)
3. Weird-Bird - written by Shel Silverstein
Read 4477 times on American Poems.
Birds are flyin' south for winter.
Here's the Weird-Bird headin' north,
Wings a-flappin', beak a-chatterin',
Cold head bobbin' back 'n' forth.
He says, "It's not that I like ice
Or freezin' winds and snowy ground.
It's just... (Read full poem)
4. The Lady feeds Her little Bird - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1651 times on American Poems.
The Lady feeds Her little Bird
At rarer intervals --
The little Bird would not dissent
But meekly recognize
The Gulf between the Hand and Her
And crumbless and afar
And fainting, on Her yellow Knee
Fall softly, and adore --(Read full poem)
5. Sympathy - written by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Read 10549 times on American Poems.
I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,
And the river flows like a stream of glass;
When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,
And... (Read full poem)
6. I know why the caged bird sings - written by Maya Angelou
Read 172320 times on American Poems.
A free bird leaps on the back of the wind
and floats downstream till the current ends
and dips his wing in the orange suns rays and dares to claim the sky.
But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage
can seldom see through his bars of... (Read full poem)
7. Looking For a Sunset Bird in Winter - written by Robert Frost
From New Hampshire.
Published in 1923.
Read 6557 times on American Poems.
The west was getting out of gold,
The breath of air had died of cold,
When shoeing home across the white,
I thought I saw a bird alight.
In summer when I passed the place
I had to stop and lift my face;
A bird with an angelic gift
Was... (Read full poem)
8. I have a Bird in spring - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 31548 times on American Poems.
I have a Bird in spring
Which for myself doth sing --
The spring decoys.
And as the summer nears --
And as the Rose appears,
Robin is gone.
Yet do I not repine
Knowing that Bird of mine
Though flown --
Learneth beyond the sea
Melody new for me
And... (Read full poem)
9. The Oven Bird - written by Robert Frost
From Mountain Interval.
Published in 1916.
Read 10915 times on American Poems.
There is a singer everyone has heard,
Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,
Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again.
He says that leaves are old and that for flowers
Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten.
he says the early petal-fall is... (Read full poem)
11. Humming Bird Woman - written by Carl Sandburg
From Smoke and Steel.
Published in 1922.
Read 1797 times on American Poems.
WHY should I be wondering
How you would look in black velvet and yellow? in orange and green?
I who cannot remember whether it was a dash of blue
Or a whirr of red under your willow throat—
Why do I wonder how you would look in humming-bird... (Read full poem)
12. My friend must be a Bird - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 10163 times on American Poems.
My friend must be a Bird --
Because it flies!
Mortal, my friend must be,
Because it dies!
Barbs has it, like a Bee!
Ah, curious friend!
Thou puzzlest me!(Read full poem)
13. In Childhood - written by Kimiko Hahn
Published in 2002.
Read 1923 times on American Poems.
things don't die or remain damaged
but return: stumps grow back hands,
a head reconnects to a neck,
a whole corpse rises blushing and newly elastic.
Later this vision is not True:
the grandmother remains dead
not hibernating in a wolf's belly.... (Read full poem)
14. Upon his Saddle sprung a Bird - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1280 times on American Poems.
Upon his Saddle sprung a Bird
And crossed a thousand Trees
Before a Fence without a Fare
His Fantasy did please
And then he lifted up his Throat
And squandered such a Note
A Universe that overheard
Is stricken by it yet --(Read full poem)
15. No ladder needs the bird but skies - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1383 times on American Poems.
No ladder needs the bird but skies
To situate its wings,
Nor any leader's grim baton
Arraigns it as it sings.
The implements of bliss are few --
As Jesus says of Him,
"Come unto me" the moiety
That wafts the cherubim.(Read full poem)
16. Of Being is a Bird - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2014 times on American Poems.
Of Being is a Bird
The likest to the Down
An Easy Breeze do put afloat
The General Heavens -- upon --
It soars -- and shifts -- and whirls --
And measures with the Clouds
In easy -- even -- dazzling pace --
No different the Birds --
Except a Wake... (Read full poem)
17. A prompt -- executive Bird is the Jay -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1336 times on American Poems.
A prompt -- executive Bird is the Jay --
Bold as a Bailiff's Hymn --
Brittle and Brief in quality --
Warrant in every line --
Sitting a Bough like a Brigadier
Confident and straight --
Much is the mien of him in March
As a Magistrate --(Read full poem)
18. In a Vale - written by Robert Frost
From A Boy's Will.
Published in 1913.
Read 8331 times on American Poems.
WHEN I was young, we dwelt in a vale
By a misty fen that rang all night,
And thus it was the maidens pale
I knew so well, whose garments trail
Across the reeds to a window light.
The fen had every kind of bloom,
And for every kind... (Read full poem)
19. The Ambition Bird - written by Anne Sexton
Read 4581 times on American Poems.
So it has come to this
insomnia at 3:15 A.M.,
the clock tolling its engine
like a frog following
a sundial yet having an electric
seizure at the quarter hour.
The business of words keeps me awake.
I am drinking cocoa,
that warm brown mama.... (Read full poem)
20. The Bird did prance -- the Bee did play -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1392 times on American Poems.
The Bird did prance -- the Bee did play --
The Sun ran miles away
So blind with joy he could not choose
Between his Holiday
The morn was up -- the meadows out
The Fences all but ran,
Republic of Delight, I thought
Where each is Citizen --
From... (Read full poem)
21. The most triumphant Bird I ever knew or met - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1241 times on American Poems.
The most triumphant Bird I ever knew or met
Embarked upon a twig today
And till Dominion set
I famish to behold so eminent a sight
And sang for nothing scrutable
But intimate Delight.
Retired, and resumed his transitive Estate --
To what delicious... (Read full poem)
23. The Skies can't keep their secret! - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 4376 times on American Poems.
The Skies can't keep their secret!
They tell it to the Hills --
The Hills just tell the Orchards --
And they -- the Daffodils!
A Bird -- by chance -- that goes that way --
Soft overhears the whole --
If I should bribe the little Bird --
Who knows... (Read full poem)
24. The Bird must sing to earn the Crumb - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1329 times on American Poems.
The Bird must sing to earn the Crumb
What merit have the Tune
No Breakfast if it guaranty
The Rose content may bloom
To gain renown of Lady's Drawer
But if the Lady come
But once a Century, the Rose
Superfluous become --(Read full poem)
25. The Bird her punctual music brings - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1380 times on American Poems.
The Bird her punctual music brings
And lays it in its place --
Its place is in the Human Heart
And in the Heavenly Grace --
What respite from her thrilling toil
Did Beauty ever take --
But Work might be electric Rest
To those that Magic make --(Read full poem)
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