1. 244. The Henpecked Husband - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.. Published in 1788. Read 750 times on Poetry Connection.

Chorus.—Robin shure in hairst,
  I shure wi’ him.
Fient a heuk had I,
  Yet I stack by him.
 

I GAED up to Dunse,
  To warp a wab o’ plaiden,
At his daddie’s yett,
  Wha met me but Robin:
    Robin shure, &c.
 

Was na Robin... (Read full poem)

THERE 1 was a lad was born in Kyle,
But whatna day o’ whatna style,
I doubt it’s hardly worth the while
  To be sae nice wi’ Robin.
 

Chor.—Robin was a rovin’ boy,
  Rantin’, rovin’, rantin’,... (Read full poem)

3. The Blossom - written by William Blake
From Songs of Innocence. Published in 1789. Read 2405 times on Poetry Connection.

Merry Merry Sparrow
Under leaves so green
A happy Blossom
Sees you swift as arrow
Seek your cradle narrow
Near my Bosom.

Pretty Pretty Robin
Under leaves so green
A happy Blossom
Hears you sobbing sobbing
Pretty Pretty Robin
Near my Bosom.(Read full poem)

Hey, sparrow!
out of the way,
    Horse is coming.(Read full poem)

5. Sparrow singing - written by Yosa Buson
From The Essential Haiku. Published in 1994. Read 967 times on Poetry Connection.

Sparrow singing--
its tiny mouth
    open.(Read full poem)

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace -
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
Alice is marrying one of the guard.
"A soldier's life is terrible hard,"
Says Alice.

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace -
Christopher Robin... (Read full poem)

7. Robin Hood, An Outlaw. - written by James Henry Leigh Hunt
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Robin Hood is an outlaw bold
Under the greenwood tree;
Bird, nor stag, nor morning air
Is more at large than he.

They sent against him twenty men,
Who joined him laughing-eyed;
They sent against him thirty more,
And they remained... (Read full poem)

Laid out for dead, let thy last kindness be
With leaves and moss-work for to cover me;
And while the wood-nymphs my cold corpse inter,
Sing thou my dirge, sweet-warbling chorister!
For epitaph, in foliage, next write this:
HERE, HERE THE TOMB... (Read full poem)

9. UPON MRS ELIZ. WHEELER, UNDER THE NAME OFAMARILLIS - written by Robert Herrick
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Sweet Amarillis, by a spring's
Soft and soul-melting murmurings,
Slept; and thus sleeping, thither flew
A Robin-red-breast; who at view,
Not seeing her at all to stir,
Brought leaves and moss to cover her:
But while he, perking, there did... (Read full poem)

My garden robin in the Spring
Was rapturous with glee,
And followed me with wistful wing
From pear to apple tree;
His melodies the summer long
He carolled with delight,
As if he could with jewelled song
Find favour in my sight.

And now that... (Read full poem)

11. 66. Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.. Published in 1785. Read 1823 times on Poetry Connection.

NOW Robin 1 lies in his last lair,
He’ll gabble rhyme, nor sing nae mair;
Cauld poverty, wi’ hungry stare,
                Nae mair shall fear him;
Nor anxious fear, nor cankert care,
                E’er mair come near him.
 

To... (Read full poem)

It was the pleasant season yet,
When the stones at cottage doors
Dry quickly, while the roads are wet,
After the silver showers.

The green leaves they looked greener still,
And the thrush, renewing his tune,
Shook a loud note from his... (Read full poem)

13. Robin Hood - written by John Keats
Read 4034 times on Poetry Connection.

to a friend 

No! those days are gone away
And their hours are old and gray,
And their minutes buried all
Under the down-trodden pall
Of the leaves of many years:
Many times have winter's shears,
Frozen North, and chilling East,
Sounded tempests to... (Read full poem)

Robin and his merry men
: Lived just like the birds;
They had almost as many tracks as thoughts,
: And whistles and songs as words.

Up they were with the earliest sign
Of the sun's up-looking eye;
But not an archer breakfasted
Till he... (Read full poem)

15. Robin Hood's Flight - written by James Henry Leigh Hunt
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Robin Hood's mother, these twelve years now,
Has been gone from her earthly home;
And Robin has paid, he scarce knew how,
A sum for a noble tomb.

The church-yard lies on a woody hill,
But open to sun and air:
It seems as if the heaven... (Read full poem)

A Robin Redbreast in a cage,
Puts all Heaven in a rage. 

A skylark wounded on the wing
Doth make a cherub cease to sing. 

He who shall hurt the little wren
Shall never be beloved by men. (Read full poem)

17. He "Digesteth Harde Yron" - written by Marianne Moore
Read 873 times on Poetry Connection.

Although the aepyornis
or roc that lived in Madagascar, and
the moa are extinct,
the camel-sparrow, linked
with them in size--the large sparrow
Xenophon saw walking by a stream--was and is
a symbol of justice.

This bird watches his chicks... (Read full poem)

Oh, why should a hen
have been run over
on West 4th Street
in the middle of summer?

She was a white hen
--red-and-white now, of course.
How did she get there?
Where was she going?

Her wing feathers spread
flat, flat in the tar,
all dirtied, and... (Read full poem)

19. 542. Song—Fragment—the Wren’s Nest - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.. Published in 1795. Read 583 times on Poetry Connection.

THE ROBIN to the Wren’s nest
  Cam keekin’ in, cam keekin’ in;
O weel’s me on your auld pow,
  Wad ye be in, wad ye be in?
Thou’s ne’er get leave to lie without,
  And I within, and I within,
Sae lang’s I hae an... (Read full poem)

You don't believe -- I won't attempt to make ye:
You are asleep -- I won't attempt to wake ye.
Sleep on! sleep on! while in your pleasant dreams
Of Reason you may drink of Life's clear streams.
Reason and Newton, they are quite two... (Read full poem)

21. 246. Song—Robin Shure in Hairst - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.. Published in 1789. Read 796 times on Poetry Connection.

HIS face with smile eternal drest,
Just like the Landlord’s to his Guest’s,
High as they hang with creaking din,
To index out the Country Inn.
He looked just as your sign-post Lions do,
With aspect fierce, and quite as harmless... (Read full poem)

The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves,
The brilliant moon and all the milky sky,
And all that famous harmony of leaves,
Had blotted out man's image and his cry.

A girl arose that had red mournful lips
And seemed the greatness of the world in... (Read full poem)

23. 28. Poor Mailie’s Elegy - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.. Published in 1783. Read 753 times on Poetry Connection.

LAMENT in rhyme, lament in prose,
Wi’ saut tears trickling down your nose;
Our bardie’s fate is at a close,
            Past a’ remead!
The last, sad cape-stane o’ his woes;
            Poor Mailie’s dead!
 

  It’s no... (Read full poem)

Gone were but the Winter,
Come were but the Spring,
I would go to a covert
Where the birds sing;

Where in the whitethorn
Singeth a thrush,
And a robin sings
In the holly-bush.

Full of fresh scents
Are the budding boughs
Arching high... (Read full poem)

25. An Old Man - written by R.S. Thomas
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Looking upon this tree with its quaint pretension
Of holding the earth, a leveret, in its claws,
Or marking the texture of its living bark,
A grey sea wrinkled by the winds of years,
I understand whence this man's body comes,
In veins and fibres,... (Read full poem)