What is the best way of looking at a blackbird?

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Poll Results

OptionVotes
It was evening all afternoon./It was snowing/And it was going to snow./The blackbird sat/In the cedar-limbs.3
The river is moving./The blackbird must be flying. 2
The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds./It was a small part of the pantomime. 2
He rode over Connecticut/In a glass coach./Once, a fear pierced him,/In that he mistook/The shadow of his equipage/For b2
I do not know which to prefer,/The beauty of inflections/Or the beauty of innuendoes,/The blackbird whistling/Or just af1
At the sight of blackbirds/Flying in a green light,/Even the bawds of euphony/Would cry out sharply. 1
When the blackbird flew out of sight,/It marked the edge/Of one of many circles. 1
I know noble accents/And lucid, inescapable rhythms;/But I know, too,/That the blackbird is involved/In what I know. 1
O thin men of Haddam,/Why do you imagine golden birds?/Do you not see how the blackbird/Walks around the feet/Of the wom0
Icicles filled the long window/With barbaric glass./The shadow of the blackbird/Crossed it, to and fro./The mood/Traced 0
A man and a woman/Are one./A man and a woman and a blackbird/Are one. 0
I was of three minds,/Like a tree/In which there are three blackbirds. 0
Among twenty snowy mountains,/The only moving thing/Was the eye of the blackbird. 0


Ol Bertie Dastard, Thursday, 17 April 2008 23:21 (seventeen years ago)

Inflections/innuendoes always been my fav line in this.

Awesome poll btw.

Trayce, Thursday, 17 April 2008 23:31 (seventeen years ago)

autumn winds/pantomime

kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 18 April 2008 01:03 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Saturday, 19 April 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

I always vote equipage

Edward III, Sunday, 20 April 2008 18:12 (seventeen years ago)

While innuendoes and equipage do have an undeniable elegance of expression, they seem a bit curlicued to my tastes. I prefer the cleaner, more classical image of "one of many circles".

Aimless, Sunday, 20 April 2008 18:40 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Sunday, 20 April 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

why is pic of a crow

ledge, Sunday, 20 April 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

How did I miss this one. Nice.

Casuistry, Monday, 21 April 2008 16:25 (seventeen years ago)

thirteen years pass...

good poll, can't argue with the winner

JoeStork, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 23:55 (four years ago)


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