Poems and Birds
Poems featuring skylarks, swallows, and nightingales.
Skylarks
With the heathery hills beneath me,
Where the streams in glory spring,
And the pearly clouds to wreath me,
Oh skylark for thy wing.
- Oh! Skylark for Thy Wings, Felicia Hemans
Nightingales
Poor melancholy bird—that all night long
Tell'st to the Moon, thy tale of tender woe;
From what sad cause can such sweet sorrow flow,
And whence this mournful melody of song?
-Sonnet III: To A Nightingale, Charlotte Smith
Swallows
Watching the swallows
That flew about restlessly,
And flung their shadows
Upon the sunbright walls of the old building;
- Watching the Swallows, Dorothy Wordsmith
Additional Birds & Poems
General Birding Poems
Anna Letitia Barbauld, “To Mrs P ____ with some drawings of birds and insects”
Helen Maria Williams, “Sonnet: To The White Bird of the Tropics”
Felicia Hemans, “The Birds”
Phillis Wheatley, “A Hymn to the Evening”
International Poetry
José María Heredia, “Death of the Eagle”
José María Heredia, “El Filósofo y el Búho” (“The Philosopher and the Owl”)
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