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• The Heath-Cock

  Good morrow to thy sable beak
  And glossy plumage dark and sleek,
  Thy crimson moon and azure eye, …

  Joanna Baillie

• The Belfry Pigeon

  On the cross-beam under the Old South bell
  The nest of a pigeon is builded well.
  In summer and winter that bird is there, …

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

• The English Robin

  See yon robin on the spray;
  Look ye how his tiny form
  Swells, as when his merry lay …

  Harrison Weir

• Asian Birds

  In this May-month, by grace
  of heaven, things shoot apace.
  The waiting multitude …

  Robert Bridges

• The Departure of the Swallow

  And is the swallow gone?
  Who beheld it?
  Which way sailed it? …

  William Howitt

• The Flight of the Geese

  I Hear the low wind wash the softening snow,
  The low tide loiter down the shore. The night,
  Full filled with April forecast hath no light. …

  Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

• Lines to the Stormy Petrel

  The Lark sings for joy in her own loved land,
  In the furrowed field, by the breezes fanned;
  And so revel we …

  Anonymous

• Ode to Mother Carey’s Chicken

  On Seeing a Storm-Petrel in a Cage on a Cottage Wall and Releasing It
  GAZE not at me, my poor unhappy bird;
  That sorrow is more than human in thine eye; …

  Theodore Watts-Dunton

• The Grasshopper and Cricket

  The Poetry of earth is never dead;
  When all the birds are faint with the hot sun
  And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run …

  John Keats

• To the Grasshopper and Cricket

  Green little vaulter in the sunny grass,
  Catching your heart up at the feel of June,—
  Sole voice that ’s heard amidst the lazy noon, …

  Leigh Hunt

• A Soliloquy

  Occasioned by the Chirping of a Grasshopper
  HAPPY insect! ever blest
  With a more than mortal rest, …

  Walter Harte

• To an Insect

  I Love to hear thine earnest voice,
  Wherever thou art hid,
  Thou testy little dogmatist, …

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The Fly

  Occasioned by a Fly Drinking out of the Author’s Cup
  BUSY, curious, thirsty fly,
  Drink with me, and drink as I! …

  William Oldys

• To the Humblebee

  Burly, dozing humblebee!
  Where thou art is clime for me;
  Let me chase thy waving lines; …

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Wild Honey

  Where hints of racy sap and gum
  Out of the old dark forest come;
  Where birds their beaks like hammers wield, …

  Maurice Thompson

• A More Ancient Mariner

  The Swarthy bee is a buccaneer,
  A burly velveted rover,
  Who loves the booming wind in his ear …

  Bliss Carman

• To a Louse

  On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church
  HA! whare ye gaun, ye crawlin’ ferlie?
  Your impudence protects you sairly: …

  Robert Burns

• To a Mouse

  On Turning Her up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785
  WEE, sleekit, cowerin’, timorous beastie,
  O, what a panic ’s in thy breastie! …

  Robert Burns

• The Housekeeper

  The Frugal snail, with forecast of repose,
  Carries his house with him where’er he goes;
  Peeps out,—and if there comes a shower of rain, …

  Charles Lamb

• Remonstrance with the Snails

  YE little snails,
  With slippery tails,
  Who noiselessly travel …

  Anonymous

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