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Poetry examples for “loon”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Chetowaik, the plover, sang them,
Mahng, the loon, the wild-goose, Wawa,
The blue heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah,
Read full poem →Chetowaik, the plover, sang them,
Mahn, the loon, the wild goose, Wawa,
The blue heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah
Read full poem →Mahnahbe’zee, the swan
Mahng, the loon
Mahnomo’nee, wild rice
Read full poem →And chang'd me at once to an Ostrich's Egg--
But now Heaven be praised in contempt of the Loon,
I am I myself I, the jolly full Moon.
Read full poem →Quoth he, there was a Ship--
“Now get thee hence, thou grey-beard Loon!
“Or my Staff shall make thee skip.”
Read full poem →16, 19, 20, 33, 36, 36n, 37n, 79, 80,
87, 96n, 97n, lOOn, 103n, 109-10,
115n, 118, 119, 120, 140n, 141-2,
Read full poem →Quoth he, there was a Ship--
“Now get thee hence, thou grey-beard Loon!
“Or my Staff shall make thee skip.”