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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From:
on behalf of Carl Clifford
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 6:28 AM
To: Brian Hawkins
Cc:
Subject: Favourite Bird Poems
Brian,
I don't think you can go past Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven".
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
On 14/12/2011, at 2:05 PM, Brian Hawkins wrote:
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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