Name the poet, poem... and the bird!

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1. She jabs her wedge head in a cup / of sour cream, drops her [  ] tail, / and will not scare.

2. His beak is focussed; he is preoccupied // looking for something, something, something.

3. Did she put on his knowledge with his power / Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?

4. Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The [  ] cannot hear the [  ]er

5. Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower / the moping [  ] does to the moon complain

6. And for that minute a [  ] sang / Close by, and round him, mistier, /
Farther and farther, all the birds / Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.

7. ‘Why look’st thou so?’ - ‘With my cross-bow / I shot the [  ]’

8. With a cargo of ivory / and apes and [  ]

9. Of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-down-drawn [  ], in his riding

10. While the [  ] sings on the orchard bough / in England – now!

11. ...let us be married! too long we have tarried: But what shall we do for a ring?

12. Where the ring-[  ] broods, / and the badgers roll at ease

13. From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep / of [  ] in a silver-feathered sleep

14. Then the bird said ‘Nevermore’

15. My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains

16. He liked to hear / the first [  ] of the spring / then write to the Times. / I’d usually heard it / days before him / but I never let on.

17. Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, / Forgot the cry of [  ], and the deep sea swell / And the profit and loss.

18. I saw how the night came, / Came striding like the color of the heavy hemlocks / I felt afraid. / And I remembered the cry of the [  ].

19. He is just another poor forked thing / A skin bag plumped with inky putty

20. I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.

21. O [  ]! shall I call thee Bird, / Or but a wandering Voice?

22. It was my thirtieth year to heaven / Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood / And the mussel pooled and the [  ] / Priested shore

23. Higher still and higher / From the earth though springest, / like a cloud of fire

24. The nineteenth autumn has come upon me / Since I first made my count;

25. [  ] and shoal life / vexing their blarnies upon our huddled / camouflage past the vast crumble of scummed / cliffs

26. Gilled like a fish. A common-sense / thumbs down on the [  ]’s mode.

27. A man and a woman / Are one. / A man and a woman and a [  ] / Are one.

28. And nightly under the simple stars / As I rode to sleep the [  ] were bearing the farm away

29. He clasps the crag with crooked hands

30. I saw the veiled face of Maria Concepcion / marrying the ocean, then drifting away / in the widening lace of her bridal train / with white [  ] her bridesmaids
 

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