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Ghost House Robert Frost	black bats tumble and...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
Coming Home Barre (Barry) Gonzalez	And the whippoorwill that becons the days last rays, Pierces the silence in my...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Good Night Douglas Noel	But one whippoorwill slicing incessantly through the...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Time Races CJ Williams	I might have listened to the whippoorwill more intently at dusk to capture his melody for the building of dreams that are today's...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
"That Lonesome Train(In My Mind" Time T. Tallent	Brings back the memory of hank's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A feather from the Whippoorwill Emily Dickinson	A feather from the Whippoorwill That...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Glance Paul Weaver	I can hear a whippoorwill...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Moment's Glory Barbara A. Cooper	Flower petals dotted with dew The whippoorwill's distant song A cloudless sky of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Discover The Meadowlark Wallace Dean LaBenne	Discover the whippoorwill Identify their flight Discover the small...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Family Birds Wallace Dean LaBenne	My father is a whippoorwill who plants his cants by...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hiawatha's Friends Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	" And the whippoorwill, Wawonaissa, Sobbing, said, "O Chibiabos, Teach me tones as melancholy, Teach me songs as...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hiawatha's Lamentation Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	And at night through all the forest Went the whippoorwill complaining, Wailing went the Wawonaissa,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
I am ashamed—I hide Emily Dickinson	Skill to hold my Brow like an Earl— Plead—like a Whippoorwill— Prove—like a Pearl— Then, for Character— Fashion My Spirit quaint—white— Quick—like a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
I've Been With Me So Long Wallace Dean LaBenne	I first saw a whippoorwill or listened to a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Judith James Whitcomb Riley	If she laugh--it is the trill Of the wayward whippoorwill Over upland pastures, heard Echoed by the mocking-bird In dim thickets dense with bloom...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Lula Johnson's Song Edward Smyth Jones	Save the awe-provoking shrilling of the ghastly whippoorwill, As the moonbeams pour down brightly on the woodland, hill and dale, I oft listen at my window...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mad Bird Rachel Vitale	At night I lay with Whippoorwill song And every star, conversation had ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Many a phrase has the English language Emily Dickinson	Saying itself in new infection— Like a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Migrations Jimmys Scanlon	As if they too have heard, The whippoorwill from the Dark behind the Oaks In the early light of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Night-Fliers Padraic Colum	The owl, the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sarah Brown Edgar Lee Masters	The stars sparkle, the whippoorwill calls, But thou grievest, while my soul lies rapturous In the blest Nirvana of eternal...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
September Dark James Whitcomb Riley	The air falls chill; The whippoorwill Pipes lonesomely behind the Hill: The dusk...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Boys James Whitcomb Riley	in the dust lies the clover; The whippoorwill's call has a sorrowful tone, And the dove's--I have wept at it over and over;-- I want the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Countersign Anonymous Americas	And in the marshes far below I hear the bearded whippoorwill; I scarce can see a yard ahead, My ears are strained to catch each sound; I hear the leaves...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Ghosts of the Buffaloes Vachel Lindsay	I heard the whippoorwill's soft...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)