Read full poem →While Windsor lent us tuneful hours of ease, 70
Our ears the lark, the thrush, the turtle blest,
And Philomela sweetest o'er the rest:
Dictionary Entry
Any of several species of songbirds of the family Turdidae, often with spotted underbellies such as the bluebird, nightingale, and American robin have.
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Common Phrases
. thrushgreen thrushfamily thrushthrush woodthrush hermitthrush songthrush oralthrush brown
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Poetry examples for “thrush”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →These are not pines, but cypress tall and dark;
That is no thrush which sings so rapturously,
But the nightingale in his most passionate mood
Read full poem →Where in the whitethorn
Singeth a thrush,
And a robin sings
Read full poem →In evening's hush
About it talks the heavenly-minded Thrush;
The hill with like remorse
Read full poem →In hasty times and hard;
But chants as of a lonely thrush's throat
At latest eve,
Read full poem →I loathed and hated her for this;
One speckle on a thrush's breast
Was worth a million such; and yet
Read full poem →In the thicket bordering the forest,
All day long a thrush twiddles his song.
Read full poem →Where the sun untroubled by north wind falls,
And single trees where the thrush sings well
His proverbs untranslatable,
Read full poem →At morn and night I hear
When the thrush cock sings
Bright irrelevant things,