Read full poem →There harmless swans feed all abroad the river;
There lives the phoenix, one alone bird ever;
There Juno's bird displays his gorgeous feather,
Dictionary Entry
A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
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Poetry examples for “phoenix”
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Read full poem →As little guessing as the herd
What a strange Phoenix of a bird
Builds in this tree,
Read full poem →Can rake out of the ashes when perchance
The phoenix broods serene above their ken.
But with the best and meanest Englishmen
Read full poem →Can rake out of the ashes when perchance
The phoenix broods serene above their ken.
But with the best and meanest Englishmen
Read full poem →music,
Many instruments, like the sound of young phoenix broods.
The foreman of Kan Chu, drunk, danced
Read full poem →The phoenix are at play on their terrace.
The phoenix are gone, the river flows on alone.
Read full poem →3 Initial Initial Initial Initial Initial Initial Holidays Sat. 8A-11P
Phoenix 64 44 38 O7 25 18 The tax has not been included. e Rates f To 1 Minute 1’Minute 1 Minute 1 Minute 1 Minute 1 Minute 8A-11P Sun. 8A-5P
Little Rock 62 43 37 26 “A ph. subject to change. ; Birmingham 2.17 1.92 1.79 3.62 3.37 3.24 26 18
Read full poem →And we in us find th' eagle and the dove.
The phoenix riddle hath more wit
By us; we two being one, are it;
Read full poem →As when the new-born phoenix takes his way,
His rich paternal regions to survey,
Read full poem →Ala. Birmingham $1.45 $ .70 $ .85
Ariz. Phoenix 1.05 50 .60
Colo. Denver 1.25 65 70