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A Pastoral Ode. To the Hon. Sir Richard Lyttleton William Shenstone	And moorcocks shun the day; While caitiff bitterns, undismay'd, Remark the swain's familiar shade, And scorn to quit their...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alphonso Of Castile Ralph Waldo Emerson	Yon pale scrawny fisher fools, Gaunt as bitterns in the pools, Are no brothers of my blood,— They discredit...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Amherst Island Paul Cameron Brown	butterflies, miniature bitterns ever more shadowy strewn across the Barrens, an unbridled strength from that Faraway...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Old Bush Road Arthur Bayldon	Here the booming bitterns nested; Here we heard the curlews...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Old Bush Road Jennings Carmichael	Here the booming bitterns nested; Here we heard the curlews call Climb this hill and we have rambled To the last turn...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Christmas At The Round Table John Hookham Frere	Herons and bitterns, peacocks, swan, and bustard, Teal, mallard, pigeons, widgeons, and, in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Gotham. Book II. Charles Churchill	And on the sails of Commerce bitterns rest; Be all, though princes in the earth before, Her merchants bankrupts, and her marts no...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In the Wilderness Robert Graves	He heard the bitterns call From ruined palace-wall, Answered them...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Apollyonists - Canto 1 Phineas Fletcher	Their hoarse bass-horns like fenny bitterns sound; The earth shakes, dogs howl, and heaven itself, astound, Shuts all his eyes; the stars...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Old Bush Road Jenning Carmichael	Here the booming bitterns nested; Here we heard the curlews...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The South Emma Lazarus	Strange insects whir, and stalking bitterns boom- Where from stale waters dead Oft looms the great-jawed alligator's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To A Lady That Desired Me I Would Beare My Part With Her In A Song Madam A. L. Richard Lovelace	Which (as it through my pipe doth speed) Bitterns do carol through a reed; In the same key with monkeys jiggs, Or dirges of proscribed piggs, Or...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Robert Nichols Robert Graves	In scrapen holes we shiver, And like old bitterns we Boom to you plaintively: Robert, how can I rhyme Verses for your desire— Sleek fauns...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Wolf and Hound Adam Lindsay Gordon	We breasted the swell of the Bitterns'...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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