Read full poem →{81a} “Censure pardons the crows and vexes the doves.”—Juvenal.
Dictionary Entry
A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
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Poetry examples for “crows”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The grasshoppers are still; but not so soon
Are still the noisy crows.
Read full poem →Baffled, blasphemes, or, not denied,
Crows from the dunghill of desert,
And wags its ugly wings for pride.
Read full poem →By this time,however,the flight of crows had ceased. I withdrew my
hands from the tennisracket. All was over. One brief convulsive
Read full poem →With a medley of horns, bassoons and piccolos
Stirred in my brain by crows and robins
And the creak of a wind-mill—only these?
Read full poem →While laughing, shaking curls, and flinging back
Her head for rapture, and in little crows.
Read full poem →Entangled in a fowling net,
Which he for carrion crows had set
That in our pear-tree haunted:
Read full poem →With tender memories of the summer-tide,
And mingled voices of the doves and crows.
Read full poem →And heron slow as if it might be caught.
The flopping crows on weary wings go by
And grey beard jackdaws noising as they fly.
Read full poem →As shells of walnuts, split in two
By crows, who with the kernels flew;
Or acorn-cups, by stock-doves plucked,
