The article deals with the symbolism of bird images in the chosen poetry of the famous English Romantic poets of the so called Lake School - Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. Its task is to compare bird images and bird kinds which appear in their poetry. The poems were written at almost same time, by two authors of the same artistic stream, but the symbolism differs a lot. The symbolism of the used bird images may tell a lot about the character of the chosen poems by both authors and their work as such.