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Poetry is a sky dark with wild-duck migration. - Carl Sandburg

1. Robin Redbreast by William Allingham
2. Sonnet to the Redbreast by John Codrington Bampfylde

   Sweet bird! Sing on!
   

3. Stanzas by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
4. Nightingales by Robert Bridges

   Our song is the voice of desire
   

5. To A Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant

   God guides the paths of bird and man

6. Bird Language by Christopher Pearse Cranch

   what could those birds be saying?

7. The Eagle by e.e. cummings

   sailing into far skies and unknown harbors
   

8. The Kingfisher by W. H. Davies

   its beauty is found only in quiet places

9. What Bird So Sings by Thomas Dekker
10. A Route of Evanescence by Emily Dickinson
11. Morning-Rains by Michael Field
12. The Owl Critic by James T. Fields

    this man surely knows his owl-eology, or does he?

13. The Oven Bird by Robert Frost

    What to make of a diminished thing
    

14. The Cardinal Bird by William Davis Gallagher
15. The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

    who understands more, bird or man?

16. To the Oriole by Herbert Salisbury Hopkins
17. Some Geese by Oliver Herford
18. The Hen by Oliver Herford
19. The Penguin by Oliver Herford

    this bird really knows how to catch fish

20. The Woodcock and the Daw by John Heywood
21. Ye Little Birds That Sit and Sing by Thomas Heywood
22. The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins

    long rising and falling rhythms throughout the octave of this sonnet imitate the dipping and soaring motion of the falcon as it glides on the wind

23. Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
24. Owl Against Robin by Sidney Lanier

    the Owl puts the noisy Robin in its place

25. The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

    an eerie tale of an anguished man haunted by the memory of his lost love

26. The Loon by George Charles Selden
27. To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley

    the song of the Skylark becomes Shelley's exquisite metaphor for the poet who wants to teach mankind "sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not."

28. Meadowlarks by Sara Teasdale
29. The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    he is the monarch of his world

30. To the Mocking-Bird by Richard Henry Wilde
31. The Fisherman's Hymn by Alexander Wilson
32. The Blue-bird by Alexander Wilson