Potential Titles: Hen

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And the hens are cackling all in riot - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XLVIII: The Sultaness" transl. by Sir John Bowring

The hen her tiny flock enfolds - Paul Gerhardt "Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud" transl. by James W. Alexander

Song of a nutbrown hen - Donika Kelly "Bower"

The hen returned into the road - Giacomo Leopardi "Calm After Storm" transl. by Frederick Townsend

Hens grow teeth in graveyards - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"

Of sinister sepulchral hens - Pablo Neruda "General Franco in Hell" translated by Richard Schaaf

Back to the house of muttering hens - Naomi Shihab Nye "Boy and Egg"

The hen vouchsafes no safety - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"


Of raids on the pantry and hen-coop - Lucy Larcom "The Cat's Questions" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]


His kingdom of hen-scratched earth - Simon Armitage "Miniatures"


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