Statistics From College Classes In Bird Study (1906)
by Edward L Rice
A Bird Came Down the Walk - Selected Bird Poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
My Heart is Like a Singing Bird - Selected Bird Poems of Christina Rossetti
by Christina Rossetti
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is widely acknowledged as the greatest of all the Japanese haiku poets. In the original Japanese, the two defining features of the haiku form are its 5-7-5 sound unit format (the syllable being the corresponding unit in English) and its rhythm. This selection of three hundred of Basho's finest haiku represents the first successful strict translation into English haiku of what was actually written, some 350 years ago, by a genius of the form. The renditions are beautiful;...