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“bird” across the centuries

Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced this theme. Click an era to focus the poem list below (click again to show samples from all eras).

pre-1500 0 / 28 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 9 1550s 1 / 89 1600s 0 / 176 1650s 0 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 3 / 162 1800s 20 / 683 1850s 32 / 939 1900s 19 / 1115 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1800s · 20 with this theme Show all eras

A sunny shaft did I behold

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A sunny shaft did I behold

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge · English

21 October 1772 - 25 July 1834 (~62)

Beauty and Song

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Beauty and Song

by Thomas Moore · English

28 May 1779 - 25 February 1852 (~73)

False Poets and True

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False Poets and True

by Thomas Hood · English

23 May 1799 - 3 May 1845 (~46)

Jones! when from Calais southward you and I

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Jones! when from Calais southward you and I

by William Wordsworth · English

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

Misconceptions

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Misconceptions

by Robert Browning · English

7 May 1812 - 12 December 1889 (~77)

O Nightingale!

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O Nightingale!

by William Wordsworth · English

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

Ode to a Nightingale

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Ode to a Nightingale

by John Keats · English

31 October 1795 - 23 February 1821 (~26)

Proud Maisie

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Proud Maisie

by Sir Walter Scott · English

15 August 1771 - 21 September 1832 (~61)

Seaward, white gleaming thro’ the busy scud

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Seaward, white gleaming thro’ the busy scud

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge · English

21 October 1772 - 25 July 1834 (~62)

The Eagle

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The Eagle

by Alfred Lord Tennyson · English

6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892 (~83)

The Emperor's Bird's-Nest

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The Emperor's Bird's-Nest

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

The Great Black Crow

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The Great Black Crow

by Philip James Bailey · English

22 April 1816 - 6 September 1902 (~86)

The Green Linnet

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The Green Linnet

by William Wordsworth · English

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

The Lark

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The Lark

by Charles Mackay · English

27 March 1814 - 24 December 1889 (~75)

The Little Beach-Bird

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The Little Beach-Bird

by Richard Henry Dana · English

15 November 1787 - 2 February 1879 (~92)

The Owl

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The Owl

by Alfred Lord Tennyson · English

6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892 (~83)

The Redbreast

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The Redbreast

by Charlotte Richardson · English

5 March 1775 - 26 September 1825 (~50)

The Redbreast and the Butterfly

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The Redbreast and the Butterfly

by William Wordsworth · English

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

To a Sky-Lark

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To a Sky-Lark

by William Wordsworth · English

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

To the Cuckoo

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To the Cuckoo

by William Wordsworth · English

7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850 (~80)

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