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On Wings of Song Poems about Birds

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ISBN-10: 0375407499

ISBN-13: 9780375407499

Edition: 2000

Authors: J. D. McClatchy

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List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/28/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 4.39" wide x 6.48" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

J. D. McClatchy is the author of four books of poems, two books of literary essays, & four opera libretti. He is the editor of "The Yale Review" & a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Foreword
Short Circuit
The Jay
Jenny Wren
Nuthatch
The Mockingbird
Mockingbird Month
Juncos
The Robin
The Starling
To a Sparrow
House Sparrows
Pigeons
Pigeons on the Grass
Turkeys
A Black November Turkey
Turkeys Observed
Chauntecleer
Cock-a-Doo
What Do We Geese Wear for Clothes?
The Eagle
Wild Geese Flying
Humming-Bird
The Blue Swallows
Swifts
The Kingfisher
The Cuckoo Song
The Merry Cuckoo
The Lark
Quail in Autumn
The Hollow Wood
To the Woodlark
Woodpecker
A Whippoorwill in the Woods
Black Cockatoos
The Cranes
A Gull Goes Up
Seagulls
The Heron
The Gray Heron
Cormorants
Sandpiper
Curlews Lift
The Flamingos
One of the Strangest
Pelicans
The Loon Upon the Lake
The Twa Corbies
Vultures
The Vulture
Vulture
Egyptian Kites
The Wing of the Ostrich Rejoiceth
He "Digesteth Harde Yron"
If I were a Cassowary
To the Nightingale
To a Nightingale
The Nightingale
Philomela
Pain or Joy
I Saw a Peacok
On a Peacock
The Peacock'e Eye
Domination of Black
The Peacock
Peacock Display
Owls
The Owl
The Owl
Owl
Owl
The Man-of-War Hawk
Hawk Roosting
Evening Hawk
Hurt Hawks
Hawk
The Silver Swan
Two Swans
The Dying Swan
The Swan
Winter Swan
The Wild Swans at Coole
Wild Swans
Birds' Nests
Birds' Nests
A Robin's Nest
The Cage
Three Things to Remember
The Caged Goldfinch
The Caged Skylark
Marche aux Oiseaux
Fly
Never Again Would Birds' Song be the Same
Bird-Language
The Saddest Noise
The Dove
A Minor Bird
The Death and Burial of Cock Robin
Rondel
Magpies
Little Birds are Playing
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
The Sea-Gull
The Penguin Jane Austen
A Listener's Guide to the Birds
The Bird
The Harpies
Hundred-Sunned Phenix
Leda and the Swan
The Living Quetzalcoatl
Persuasion
from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Albatross
To a Skylark
Ode to a Nightingale
The Darkling Thrush
The Windhover
To a Waterfowl
The Raven
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
The Oven Bird
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Sailing to Byzantium
Acknowledgments
Index of Authors