Potential Titles: Parrot

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Parrots that kept diving into creeks - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"

Appointed of parrots five - Howard Futhey Brinton "Jumbo's Dream"

The parrots leading the cheering - Howard Futhey Brinton "Jumbo's Dream"

In the cage of the Parrot to be confined - Ellen C. Clayton "Alf and the Parrot"

Exile like a parrot plucked bald - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Tempts Medusa"

Parrots of sapphire and sulphur and amber - Walter de la Mare "The Isle of Lone"

A parrot's privilege forbidden - John Gay "Fable XXV: The Scold and Parrot" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Parrots for prattling words are prized - John Gay "Fable XXV: The Scold and Parrot" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Cranes and gaudy parrots go up and down - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

In whose limbs the parrots sleep - Ida Lee "The Bush Fire"

Faint rings the parrot's cry - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"

Parrots and a bowl of peaches - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

We sailed to the isle of parrots - Pe Kin-yi "A Lady from Afar" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Like parrots from an opera - Kiki Petrosino "Witch Wife"

A crow in the cage with a parrot - Saadi "They Put a Crow in the Cage" transl. by Coleman Barks

And rivaled a parrot for swearing - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "We're in the Chorus Now"

Parrots of the summer sun - L.A.G. Strong "The Bird Man"

Drinking the symphony of the galactic parrot - Ruperta Bautista Vázquez "Jícara | Boch" transl. by Morgan L. Ventura

A pair of wild parrots startle up - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"


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