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Favourite Bird Poems

To: "'Chris Gregory'" <>, "'birdingaus mailing list'" <>
Subject: Favourite Bird Poems
From: "Trevor Hunt" <>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:07:39 +1100
The Eagle
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring?d 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


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Subject: Favourite Bird Poems

"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.

On 14 December 2011 17:28, Carl Clifford <> wrote:

> 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/<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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