G’day all,
I am running a couple of walks, dealing with poetry about birds, at the upcoming Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival (http://bellingenwritersfestival.com.au/). I have many poems already, but there must be thousands of good bird poems that I don’t know about. So I was wondering:
What are your favourite bird poems?
Brian ===============================
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The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringd with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Trevor Hunt
Of course, not one poem, but a whole lot of themed poems…
Crow by Ted Hughes….
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“The Windhover” by Gerard Manley Hopkins does it for me.
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 striding High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing, As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding Stirred for a bird, – the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!
Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!
No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.
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Crow by Ted Hughes….
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Hi Brian,
I love Emily Dickinson’s poem:
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm,
I’ve heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a thing of me.
…Also, I have a book called “Birds of Paradox” which is a collection of great writing on the birds of Australia and New Zealand by naturalists, birdwatchers, poets and writers including Joseph Banks, John Gould, Alec Chisholm, Banjo Patterson, Neville Cayley, Alan Moorhead, Robin Hill, Judith Wright, Vincent Serventy, Crosbie Morrison, Mary Gilmore and Olaf Ruhen, Kenneth Slessor, James McAuley, Thomas Shapcott…. it’s great!
All the best with it, Alex Randell, Barossa Valley SA.
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Brian,
I don’t think you can go past Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
G’day all,
I am running a couple of walks, dealing with poetry about birds, at the upcoming Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival (http://bellingenwritersfestival.com.au/ ). I have many poems already, but there must be thousands of good bird poems that I don’t know about. So I was wondering:
What are your favourite bird poems?
Brian ===============================
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Brian,
I don’t think you can go past Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
G’day all,
I am running a couple of walks, dealing with poetry about birds, at the upcoming Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival (http://bellingenwritersfestival.com.au/ ). I have many poems already, but there must be thousands of good bird poems that I don’t know about. So I was wondering:
What are your favourite bird poems?
Brian ===============================
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My favourite series of bird poems are those ‘Jim of the Hills’ poems by C J Dennis but particularly ‘Red Robin’ and ‘Grey Thrush’. Actually they are not really bird poems but use the calls of birds very well.
Alan
Anonymous?
I thought that (or something very similar) was a Groucho Marx effort.
Bill
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Have you got “Spring In The Bronx”?
Der spring is sprung Der grass is riz I wonder where dem boidies is?
Der little boids is on der wing, Ain’t dat absoid? Der little wings is on de boid!
Apparently anonymous.
Peter Shute
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One of my favorite bird poems is this one by Mark O’Connor, “Rainbow Lorikeets”: http://www.australianpoet.com/poems.html#rainbow
Cheers, Koren
Koren Mitchell Albury, Australia korenm64@yahoo.com
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G’day all,
I am running a couple of walks, dealing with poetry about birds, at the upcoming Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival (http://bellingenwritersfestival.com.au/). I have many poems already, but there must be thousands of good bird poems that I don’t know about. So I was wondering:
What are your favourite bird poems?
Brian ===============================
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