Read full poem →Here that rings forth heaven.
If the golden-crested wren
Were a nightingale---why, then,
Dictionary Entry
Any member of a mainly New World passerine bird family Troglodytidae; true wren.
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Poetry examples for “wren”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →theatre with such improvement as might be suggested ;
and for that purpose employed Sir Christopher Wren,
the most celebrated architect of his lime, to draw the
Read full poem →Close packed, they make a thicket fancy alone
Can creep through with the mouse and wren. Next
Spring
Read full poem →Along the road and in the chalk-pit too.
The wren's hole was an eye that looked at him
For recognition. Every nest he knew.
Read full poem →True love, it is no daring bird,
But like the little timid wren,
That in the new-leaved thorns of spring
Read full poem →And will she leave the wild hedge rose,
The redbreast and the wren,
And will she leave her Sunday beaus
Read full poem →Rain as it may, will keep us dryly here:
That little wren knows well his sheltering bower,
Nor leaves his dry house though we come so near.
Read full poem →Down in the blue-bells, or a wren light rustling
Read full poem →With little men;--
Small bat and wren
House in the oak:--
