Read full poem →No, Vice, we let thee know
Though thy wild thoughts with sparrows’ wings do fly,
Turtles can chastely die;
Dictionary Entry
The house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. sparrowspoint sparrowssold sparrowssparrows songsparrows housesparrows englishsparrows manysparrows crowned
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Poetry examples for “sparrows”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Philadelphia, Pa. : .50
Sparrows Point, Md. .50 .50
Read full poem →Springing triumphant from the pregnant earth,
The butterflies, and sparrows in brief flight
Chirping and dancing for the season’s birth,
Read full poem →Like one who rests from days of pain.
Outside, the sparrows on the roof
Are chirping in the dripping rain.
Read full poem →There was a time I stood and watched
The small, ill-natured sparrows' fray;
I loved the beggar that I fed,
Read full poem →And makes me such fine bows and arrows,
To shoot at the robins and the sparrows,
And the red squirrels in the wood!
Read full poem →_Jesus._ The shower is over. Let us play,
And make some sparrows out of clay,
Down by the river's side.
Read full poem →That oft are wak’d to mourn a ruin’d nest;
Or sparrows, that delight their nests to leave,
In dust to flutter at the cool of eve.
Read full poem →Tells me of One who had no place of rest:
I think it is of Thee the sparrows sing.
Come rather on some autumn afternoon,
Read full poem →It seemed as if the breezes brought him,
It seemed as if the sparrows taught him;
As if by secret sight he knew