The Book of Birds
eBook - ePub

The Book of Birds

Wordsworth's Poetry on Birds

  1. 51 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Book of Birds

Wordsworth's Poetry on Birds

About this book

This beautiful pocket-sized volume is a compilation of William Wordsworth's poetry on birds. The collection includes lyrical, melancholic poems alongside whimsical pieces that will make readers' heart's soar.

With themes of freedom, hope and love in The Book of Birds Wordsworth uses darker imagery to express his innermost thoughts and views of the world through the beautiful imagery of birds. This carefully curated book collates some of the poet's most inspiring work as well as a few of his seminal pieces.

This collection includes fantastic poems such as:

    - The Green Linnet
    - To a Sky-lark, 1807
    - To the Cuckoo
    - The Sparrow's Nest
    - A Wren's Nest
    - Animal Tranquillity and Decay
    - The Contrast – The Parrot and the Wren

Proudly republished by Read & Co. Books Ragged Hand, Wordsworth's Poetry on Birds is now in a new compact, pocket-sized edition. This collection is completed by an introductory excerpt from Reminiscences, 1881, by Thomas Carlyle, and would make the perfect gift for lovers of birds and collectors of Wordsworth's poetry.

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Table of contents

  1. William Wordsworth
  2. THE GREEN LINNET.
  3. TO A SKY-LARK, 1807.
  4. TO A SKYLARK, 1827.
  5. TO THE CUCKOO.
  6. THE SPARROW'S NEST.
  7. A WREN'S NEST.
  8. ANIMAL TRANQUILLITY AND DECAY.
  9. RESOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE.
  10. THE CONTRAST — THE PARROT AND THE WREN.
  11. SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE OF THE BIRD OF PARADISE.
  12. POOR ROBIN.
  13. TO A REDBREAST — IN SICKNESS.
  14. THE REDBREAST.
  15. THE REDBREAST AND THE BUTTERFLY.
  16. HARK! 'TIS THE THRUSH, UNDAUNTED, UNDEPREST.
  17. THE DUNOLLY EAGLE.
  18. EAGLES.
  19. BIBLIOGRAPHY