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Tables of Contents for On Wings of Song
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
13
6
THE BACKYARD
Short Circuit
19
1
Daniel Hall
The Jay
20
1
Emily Dickinson
Jenny Wren
21
1
Walter De La Mare
Nuthatch
22
1
David Wagoner
The Mockingbird
23
1
Randall Jarrell
Mockingbird Month
24
2
Mona Van Duyn
Juncos
26
1
William Stafford
The Robin
27
2
John Greenleaf Whittier
The Starling
29
1
John Heath-Stubbs
To a Sparrow
30
1
William Carlos Williams
House Sparrows
31
2
Anthony Hecht
Pigeons
33
1
Vikram Seth
Pigeons on the Grass
34
3
Gertrude Stein
THE BARNYARD
Turkeys
37
1
John Clare
A Black November Turkey
38
2
Richard Wilbur
Turkeys Observed
40
1
Seamus Heaney
Chauntecleer
41
2
Geoffrey Chaucer
Cock-a-Doo
43
2
Stevie Smith
What Do We Geese Wear for Clothes?
45
4
German Folk Song
THE REALM OF AIR
The Eagle
49
1
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Wild Geese Flying
50
1
Barbara Howes
Humming-Bird
51
1
D. H. Lawrence
The Blue Swallows
52
2
Howard Nemerov
Swifts
54
3
Ted Hughes
The Kingfisher
57
4
Amy Clampitt
FIELD AND FOREST
The Cuckoo Song
61
1
Anon.
The Merry Cuckoo
62
1
Edmund Spenser
The Lark
63
1
Anon.
Quail in Autumn
64
1
William Jay Smith
The Hollow Wood
65
1
Edward Thomas
To the Woodlark
66
1
Robert Burns
Woodpecker
67
1
Gerald Bullett
A Whippoorwill in the Woods
68
3
Amy Clampitt
Black Cockatoos
71
1
Judith Wright
The Cranes
72
3
Po Chu-I
AT WATER'S EDGE
A Gull Goes Up
75
1
Leonie Adams
Seagulls
76
2
John Updike
The Heron
78
1
Theodore Roethke
The Gray Heron
79
1
Galway Kinnell
Cormorants
80
1
John Kinsella
Sandpiper
81
1
Elizabeth Bishop
Curlews Lift
82
1
Ted Hughes
The Flamingos
83
1
Rainer Maria Rilke
One of the Strangest
84
1
May Swenson
Pelicans
85
1
Judith Wright
The Loon Upon the Lake
86
3
Ojibwa Song
BIRDS OF PREY
The Twa Corbies
89
1
Anon.
Vultures
90
2
Margaret Atwood
The Vulture
92
1
Hilaire Belloc
Vulture
93
1
X. J. Kennedy
Egyptian Kites
94
5
Rex Warner
FLIGHTLESS BIRDS
The Wing of the Ostrich Rejoiceth
99
1
The Bible
He ``Digesteth Harde Yron''
100
3
Marianne Moore
If I were a Cassowary
103
4
Samuel Wilberforce
THE NIGHTINGALE
To the Nightingale
107
1
John Milton
To a Nightingale
108
1
William Drummond
The Nightingales
109
1
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Philomela
110
2
Matthew Arnold
Pain or Joy
112
3
Christina Rossetti
THE PEACOCK
I Saw a Peacock
115
1
Anon.
On a Peacock
116
1
Thomas Heyrick
The Peacock's Eye
117
1
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Domination of Black
118
2
Wallace Stevens
The Peacock
120
2
James Merrill
Peacock Display
122
3
David Wagoner
THE OWL
Owls
125
1
Charles Baudelaire
The Owl
126
2
Walter De La Mare
The Owl
128
1
Edward Thomas
Owl
129
1
Sylvia Plath
Owl
130
7
John Hollander
THE HAWK
The Man-of-War Hawk
137
1
Herman Melville
Hawk Roosting
138
2
Ted Hughes
Evening Hawk
140
1
Robert Penn Warren
Hurt Hawks
141
2
Robinson Jeffers
Hawk
143
4
Mary Oliver
THE SWAN
The Silver Swan
147
1
Orlando Gibbons
Two Swans
148
1
Edmund Spenser
The Dying Swan
149
2
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
The Swan
151
1
Rainer Maria Rilke
Winter Swan
152
1
Louise Bogan
The Wild Swans at Coole
153
2
William Butler Yeats
Wild Swans
155
4
Edna St. Vincent Millay
NESTS AND CAGES
Birds' Nests
159
1
John Clare
Birds' Nests
160
1
Edward Thomas
A Robin's Nest
161
3
Mary Jo Salter
The Cage
164
1
Geoffrey Chaucer
Three Things to Remember
165
1
William Blake
The Caged Goldfinch
166
1
Thomas Hardy
The Caged Skylark
167
1
Gerald Manley Hopkins
Marche aux Oiseaux
168
1
Richard Wilbur
Fly
169
4
W. S. Merwin
BIRDSONG
Never Again Would Birds' Song be the Same
173
1
Robert Frost
Bird-Language
174
1
W. H. Auden
The Saddest Noise
175
1
Emily Dickinson
The Dove
176
1
Walter De La Mare
A Minor Bird
177
4
Robert Frost
FLIGHTS OF FANCY
The Death and Burial of Cock Robbin
181
3
Anon.
Rondel
184
2
Geoffrey Chaucer
Magpies
186
1
Anon.
Little Birds are Playing
187
2
Lewis Carroll
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
189
2
Edward Lear
The Sea-Gull
191
1
Ogden Nash
The Penguin Jane Austen
192
2
Debora Greger
A Listener's Guide to the Birds
194
4
E. B. White
The Bird
198
5
St.-John Perse
LEGENDARY AND EMBLEMATIC BIRDS
The Harpies
203
2
Virgil
Hundred-Sunned Phenix
205
1
George Darley
Leda and the Swan
206
1
William Butler Yeats
The Living Quetzalcoatl
207
2
D. H. Lawrence
Persuasion
209
1
William Wordsworth
from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
210
2
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Albatross
212
1
Charles Baudelaire
To a Skylark
213
5
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to a Nightingale
218
4
John Keats
The Darkling Thrush
222
2
Thomas Hardy
The Windhover
224
1
Gerard Manley Hopkins
To a Waterfowl
225
2
William Cullen Bryant
The Raven
227
5
Edgar Allan Poe
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
232
3
Wallace Stevens
The Oven Bird
235
1
Robert Frost
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
236
7
Walt Whitman
Sailing to Byzantium
243
2
William Butler Yeats
Acknowledgments
245
5
Index of Authors
250