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Sympathy
I know why the caged bird sings!
- Paul Lawrence Dunbar

Children's Bells
Morning has broken
Like the first morning,
Blackbird has spoken
Like the first bird.
Praise for the singing!
Praise for the morning!
Praise for them, springing
Fresh from the Lord!
- Eleanor Farjeon

She's a bird in a gilded cage.
- A J Lamb

Campaspe
What bird so sings, yet so does wail?
O 'tis the ravished nightingale.
Jug, jug, jug, jug, tereu, she cries,
And still her woes at midnight rise.
- John Lyly

Il Penseroso
Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
- John Milton

To the Cuckoo
Thrice welcome, darling of the spring!
Even yet thou art to me
No bird, but an invisible thing,
A Voice, a mystery.
- William Wordsworth

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendos,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.
- Wallace Stevens

Green Mountain, Black Mountain
Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.
- Anne Stevenson

The White Cliffs of Dover
There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow, just you wait and see.
- Nat Burton

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau

The Canary
The song of canaries
Never varies,
And when they're moulting
They're pretty revolting.
- Ogden Nash

L'Allegro
While the cock with lively din
Scatters the rear of darkness thin,
And to the stack, or the barn door,
Stoutly struts his dames before.
- John Milton

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
- William Henry Hudson

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.
- John Lyly

of John Dryden
His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.
- Baron (Thomas Babington) Macauley

The House at Pooh Corner
He respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.
- A A Milne

Winnie-the-Pooh
Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.
- A A Milne
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