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Owls to sing their own dark songs - Duane Ackerson "What If"

This is also true for the owl - Etel Adnan "Night"

Where the white owl sits and blinks - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Echo-Song"

Green jacket, red cap, and white owl's feather - William Allingham "The Fairies"

With holes that look like the eyes of owls - Nina Bagley "Gathering"

The owl's and the dragon's dow'r - Thomas Bailey "Ireton"

Dark owls sit in solemn state - Charles Baudelaire "The Owls" transl. not credited

An owl's soft, pulsing calls - Terry Blackhawk "Along Waite Road"

The owl that silent flits - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"

Briar's rose and midnight owls - Anna Cates "Three Triolets"

Brother to the owl and toad - Willa Cather "The Poor Minstrel"

Eyes of owl and feet of fox - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"

An owl came to my lodge - Chia Yi "Rhyme-Prose on the Owl" transl. by Burton Watson

Harmony with the owl's screech - Onyedikachi Chinedu "Snail-Picking"

To summon owls and bats upon the wing - Mary Coleridge "In Dispraise of the Moon"

Owls buried against the black roofs - Tyree Daye "There's a Whole Lot of Love round Here"

Each lonely owl hath ceas'd to call - Irving Sidney Dix "Starlight Lake"

From all the wood came but the owl's hoot - John Freeman "Stone Trees"

Six owls cloaked with age and dream - Louis Golding "Numbers"

An owl to be my mirror - Rigoberto Gonzalez "La Pelona as Birdwoman"

An owl from nowhere with no sound - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

And these owls in the rafters - Laura Kasischke "The Owls"

Under the memory of owls - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"

Haunted palace of the bat and owl - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Owl and gibbering ghost - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Lift the frowsy ruff of owls - Hailey Leithauser "Fever"

Night of open obsidian and owls - Ada Limon "Territory"

And owls in the ivy blink - Kate Seymour MacLean "Ballad of the Mad Ladye"

Pay their nightly homage to the Owls - William Manning "A Child's Dream of the Zoo"

Heed not what the owls may say - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"

A night that owls inhabit most - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Heard the owl go hunting by - John Masefield "Reynard the Fox"

The owl who just witnessed another tree fall - Jeffrey McDaniel "Compulsively Allergic to the Truth"

Shadows deeper with the breath of owls - Anne Haven McDonnell "Owl"

Charged by the sight of an owl - Michael McGriff "Inversion"

Two owls above the meeting - Claire Meuschke "Caught Sight"

Here serpents and owls from daylight hide - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ruins of Balaclava" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Owls swell the shadows - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Murdered by owls and bats - Gregory Orr "The Nocturnal Picnic"

The owl that dwells in the hollow tree - Winthrop Mackworth Praed "The Bridal of Belmont"

Wide-eyed as Athena's wired owl - Diane Raptosh "American Amnesiac [Is it possible to let the sleeping life seep into day--]

Till the owl's long cry dies down - Rennell Rodd "In the Coliseum"

A love-lorn nightingale among owls - Rumi "Thou Didst Go to the Rose-Garden" transl. by R.A. Nicholson

Sing with the owl to the harvest moon - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #39"

The owl from the steeple sing welcome - Sir Walter Scott "Proud Maisie"

The owl from the steeple sing - Sir Walter Scott "Proud Maisie"

An owl has a skeleton of three letters - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"

White silent owls of snow - L.A.G. Strong "The Bird Man"

An owl dazzled by a brilliant light - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 60: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

An owl refuses to believe in the sun - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 223: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The forest where the owl rides - Alison Swan "Lake Effect"

As the crows harass an owl - Alison Swan "The Old Days"

The owl who's been here for years - Amber Tamblyn "Epilogue"
Guarded by the demon owl - Bayard Taylor "Ariel in the Cloven Pine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

Did we invent the beneficence of owls - Keith Taylor "After Goya's Dream"

The owls were bearing the farm away - Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill"

The sadness of the owl's last cry - Edward Thomas "Ambition"

Kites and owls screech at the carriage yoke - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson

Death flickered in an owl's far cry - W.J. Turner "Death"


Owl-calls over its empty track - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"


Only the frogs and the gray owl know - Don Marquis "In the Bayou"


Awakened by a great horned owl - Alison Swan "Before the Snow Moon"

Great horned owls have not returned to the heron rookery - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"


The little night-owl make her throne - Oscar Wilde "The Grave of Shelley"


Again the screech-owl shrieks - Robert Blair "The Grave"


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