The poet W. S. Merwin wrote a lot about birds: birds singing, birds dying, birds “ whirled in a rising cloud … dissolving, ...

In Poe's poem of grieving for the lost lover, Lenore, ... Birds of Death . Perhaps because they can fly and we can't, humans ...

White also wrote some now mostly forgotten poetry, but his sonnet, “Night and Death,” orginally dedicated to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, should not be allowed to fade away. More or less Shakespearian in ...

The poet W. S. Merwin wrote a lot about birds: birds singing, birds dying, birds “whirled in a rising cloud … dissolving, streamering out.” This poem, “Shore Birds,” was included in ...

Of lately A little before dusk I take a book out to the porch And read ‘til it’s too dark to see And then I sit and watch And listen As the robins and the cardinals And the others Grab one ...

Andrew Bird has enlisted the help of Phoebe Bridgers to create a tender folk interpretation of Emily Dickinson’s 1861 poem, “I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain.”. Bird and Bridgers recorded the ...

For more than a century, the United States Postal Service has shipped baby birds through the mail. Breeders, hatcheries and customers blame postal slowdowns and delays for birds now dying in transit.

We found several interesting poems about this unique bird that dives and skillfully catches fish while under water. The cormorant seems to be caught in an interesting tradeoff with nature though.

Birds Are Dying Mysterious, Violent Deaths in This Northern California Neighborhood—and No One Can Explain Why Residents of Richmond, a city in the Bay Area, say they have watched dozens of ...

The Carter Center has shared a heartfelt poem written in 1995 by former President Jimmy Carter, 99, to his beloved wife Rosalynn, 96, ahead of her funeral in Plains, Georgia.

Among Gray’s published poems, there’s also today’s Poem of the Day: his sonnet on the death of Richard West, from 1742. While at Eton, he formed close friendships with Horace Walpole, Thomas Ashton, ...