The Ugly Little Bird
by Admiral Mahic
Someone has pulled me out of the grass
Because I had fallen
From a black branch.
O sweet! O wild!
The cats are evil here!
O am an ugly little bird – with my soft beak
I keep pecking at the running brook
And I screech when at someone
Bruuised by the brute force I look!
My wings still cannot fly
But I love to travel.
My little feet I can hardly raise.
Restraining my wild little shudders
I feebly into the sky gaze.
I do not want to be in the nest
In which darkness keeps me warm.
Alone and all my own
Weak and strong,
I remain out, in the storm!
Admiral
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Admiral Mahic

A few random poems:
- The Eagle and the Dove by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Высоцкий – В белье плотной вязки
- Sonnet 6: Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface by William Shakespeare
- Man’s Knowledge – Ingorance in the Mysteries of God by William Drummond
- Юнна Мориц – Снег в ноябре
- Olney Hymn 27: Welcome To The Table by William Cowper
- Before by Robert Browning
- Robert Burns: Lines Inscribed In A Lady’s Pocket Almanac:
- Olney Hymn 5: Jehovah-Shalom: The Lord Send Peace by William Cowper
- Summer Stillness poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Late Leaves by Walter Savage Landor
- Sonnet LXVI by William Shakespeare
- Song—The Birks of Aberfeldy by Robert Burns
- Safety-Clutch poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 99. ’Twas One of Those Dreams. Томас Мур.
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Poems in English
- The Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
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