“Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,—
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.”

“Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.”

“On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening”

“We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.”

“A tired flying bird
Has to perch somewhere to rest.
So should my old knees.”

“MIRRORMENT
Birds are flowers flying
and flowers perched birds.”

“A few months before the murder [of Domitian] a raven perched on the Capitol and croaked out the words: "All will be well!" – a portent which some wag explained in the following verse:
There was a raven, strange to tell,
Perched upon Jove's own gable, whence
He tried to tell us "All is well!" –
But had to use the future tense.”
Ante paucos quam occideretur menses cornix in Capitolino elocuta est: εσται πάντα καλως, nec defuit qui ostentum sic interpretaretur: <br/>Nuper Tarpeio quae sedit culmine cornix, <br/>"Est bene" non potuit dicere, dixit: "Erit."

“We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears
You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years.”

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”

“Ella is nervous,” the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. “The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella.”