Thursday, 10 November 2011

The RSPB: Nightingale

The RSPB: Nightingale: "Latin name
Luscinia megarhynchos"

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Nature Poetry Competition set in Motion - Bugs, Birds and Beasts in the East - Our work - The RSPB Community

Nature Poetry Competition set in Motion - Bugs, Birds and Beasts in the East - Our work - The RSPB Community:

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Ode to a Nightingale- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

Ode to a Nightingale- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More: "Ode to a Nightingale
by John Keats

1.

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thine happiness,— "

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Hope is the thing with feathers (254)- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

Hope is the thing with feathers (254)- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More: "Hope is the thing with feathers (254)
by Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul, "

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Epithalamium, [Happy Bridegroom]- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

Epithalamium, [Happy Bridegroom]- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More: "Epithalamium, [Happy Bridegroom]
by Sappho
translated by A. E. Housman

Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings
All desired and timely things.
All whom morning sends to roam,
Hesper loves to lead them home.
Home return who him behold,
Child to mother, sheep to fold,
Bird to nest from wandering wide:
Happy bridegroom, seek your bride."

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