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The Waste Land T. S. Eliot	Not the cicada And dry grass singing But sound of water over a rock Where the hermit-thrush sings in...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A cicada shell Matsuo Basho	A cicada shell; it sang itself utterly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dorset Idyl Francis Turner Palgrave	One light cicada's simmering cry, Survivor of the summer heat, Chimes faint; the robin, shrill and sweet,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Peaceful Post-War Home Nicodemus	to breathe deep / Listen to the crickets, the cicadas / Collect their shells for later / As a reminder of all the years gone by / A testament to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Tale Robert Browning	napped....	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Tale - Epilogue To "The Two Poets Of Croisic." Robert Browning	ped. All was lost, then! No! a cricket (What "cicada"? Pooh!) Some mad thing that left its thicket For mere love of music flew With its little heart...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
All Night the Lone Cicada Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts	All night the lone cicada Kept shrilling through the rain– A voice of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alsace-Lorraine George Meredith	Snake, cicada, lizard, on lavender slopes up South, Pant for joy of a sunlight driving the fielders to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Among The Timothy Archibald Lampman	That crazy fiddler of the hot mid-year, The dry cicada plies his wiry bow In long-spun cadence, thin and dusty sere: From the green grass the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Old Lesson From The Fields Archibald Lampman	The thin cicada singing overhead, I felt what joyance all this nature has, And saw myself made clear as in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fire in the Heavens Christopher John Brennan	the cicada's torture-point of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Haiku (16-20) James Kirkpatrick	sweltering-summer snowshoe wings, cicada molting 17 with legion new-sprung onomatopoeias stuns the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hollow, Stump, Hidden, Still Cannon Stewart Daughtrey	black scaled, slither fireside beside screaming cicada creeks, they keep the loneliest of my secrets - cypress swimmers in blistered water, but maybe...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In Lupum Robert Louis Stevenson	One shrill cicada hides it with a wing; Where one cucumber covers all the plain; And where one serpent rings...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Nihil Talia Garza Hernandez	symphonia nihilum...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Nocturne Lydia Quattrochi	Peeper frogs draw hearts in air That cicada’s...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
None is travelling Matsuo Basho	In the cicada's cry There's no sign that can foretell How soon it must...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
playground swings. Alexis Esteb	So much peace comes with this place, Cicada calls the only sound, The hawk soars with no one else...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Po Chu-I Linda Arnott	Cicada's enchanted song reflected in the immortal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Road and Hills Stephen Vincent Benet	A cicada's cry deepens the hot...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Stillness Matsuo Basho	cicada's cry drills into the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Summer Noon Christopher John Brennan	the cicada's torture-point of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Tales from .. Pearcemelville	田んぼ rice paddy 畑 vegetable patches Flowers cicada tombo 蜻蛉 dragonflies kabutomushi 甲虫 rhinoceros beetle Japan japan beautiful enigmatic...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Echremistic Cicada or ‘Niangphlang : The Coarse-haired Larva of Laitryngew's Village Mawphniang Napoleon	The Cicada echremistica, a name obscure, A larva of the wild, with hair so coarse, Upon a stem of grass,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Red Zouave Anonymous Americas	The cicada and the whippoorwill, Alone disturbed the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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