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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ANIMALS Matches Found: 3847 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "ON A YOUNG LADY'S FAVOURITE CAT, SELS.", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "happy puss, indulg'd to sip" Last Line: "tho admires, admiring dies" Subject(s): "animals;cats;philips, Ambrose (1674-1749); (MOJ STARY), by MAREK BATEROWICZ Poem Source First Line: My old man, says a mountain woman Last Line: And is silent Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Animals; Horses; Man-woman Relationships; Newspapers 3, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Bats swallow my shadow Last Line: My hand on the horizon %of its tail the scaly sieve Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Fights; Mist; Mountains; Sea 3:05, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Every afternoon at five after three Last Line: It gradually has become, like us %a creature of habit Subject(s): Animals 9 A. M., THE GRITTY OUTSKIRTS, by LAURIE HENRY Poem Source First Line: The great dane prowls his third-floor pied a terre Last Line: To his bald head like that and opened his mouth to howl Subject(s): Animals; Dogs A BEAR FAMILY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wunzt, 'way west in illinoise Last Line: Ferever an' ferever! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Family Life; Mountains; Relatives; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A BELATED MEMORIAL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forty years of varied weather Last Line: He bounds to me. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs A BESTIARY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man who found the aardvark Last Line: Had sneaked off to africa Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals A BESTIARY: THE LION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The lion from a hill doth hear Last Line: And in no way forsake his will Subject(s): Animals;lions A BESTIARY: THE SERPENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A worm thro' the world doth go Last Line: What was given us from on high / let us hold it worthily Subject(s): Animals;snakes; Serpents;vipers A BIRD IN HAND, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look at this ball of intractable fluff Last Line: Not to be plundered, delight of the air! Variant Title(s): A Bird In The Hand Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Nature A BIRD-SCENE AT A RURAL DWELLING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the inmate stirs, the birds retire discreetly Last Line: Just such enactments, just such daybreaks seen. Subject(s): Animals A BROOK IN THE CITY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The farmhouse lingers, though averse to square Last Line: This new-built city from both work and sleep. Subject(s): Animals; Brooks; Rivers; Streams; Creeks A BUSH PROBLEM, by J. A. MUIRHEAD Poem Text First Line: The price I paid for darkey? Well, I'm blowed if I can tell Last Line: An' let me know exactly what he cost. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Trade A CARELESS APE, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The real reason I'm not you Last Line: Drawn aside like music to show the notes glittering quietly below Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans A CAT, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had a name among the children Last Line: She lived long, till god gave her rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Variant Title(s): "she Had A Name""; Subject(s): Animals; Cats A CATALECTIC MONODY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a cat I sing, of famous memory" Last Line: Embodyment of this catastrophe Subject(s): Animals;cats A DEAD MOLE, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strong-shouldered mole Subject(s): Animals; Moles; Mourning; Bereavement A DOG AFTER LOVE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After you left me Last Line: Bring me one of your stockings between its teeth Subject(s): Animals; Dogs A DOG SLEEPING ON MY FEET, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being in his resting place Subject(s): Animals; Dogs A DOG WAS CRYING TONIGHT IN WICKLOW ALSO, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When human beings found out about death Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Dead, The A DOG'S DEATH, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The loose earth falls in the grave like a peaceful regular breathing Last Line: Nor trouble what we do when we do it; nor would have it otherwise. Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs A DOG'S VIGIL, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: There is a friendship that exists between Last Line: Had seen a lonely dog pass by that night. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs A DREAM OF THREE SISTERS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: From night rocks, above an ocean alive with yellow kelp Last Line: Being wholly ordinary. Subject(s): Animals; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Dogs; Murder; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets A FACE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His face was like a snake's - wrinkled and loose Last Line: And withered. Subject(s): Animals; Old Age; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers A FAITHFUL DOG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My merry-hearted comrade on a day Last Line: Fast-locked against a loved one, evermore? Variant Title(s): Faithful Follower, Gentle Friend Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Friendship; Loyalty A FAMILIAR SPIRIT, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a ghost of a dog that comes Last Line: Who says a little dog hasn't a soul? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs A FAMILY FAVORITE, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: Here lies a cat of local fame Last Line: All pure and beautiful. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Comedy; Death; Epitaphs; Reincarnation; Dead, The; Transmigration; Pretas A FROG'S FATE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contemptuous of his home beyond Last Line: Is the one frog we dwell upon. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Frog Subject(s): Animals; Frogs A FROG'S THANKSGIVING, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a frog with a shanty built over each eye Last Line: Well, maybe I am; I'm a frog just the same. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Animals; Cannibals; Frogs; Holidays; Thanksgiving A GIFT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give the kid a dog and you've furnished him a playmate Last Line: Give the kid a dog. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs A GIFT OF GREAT VALUE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Oh that horse I see so high Subject(s): Animals; Gifts & Giving; Horses; Parents; Parenthood A GRIZZLY IN THE ZOO, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A shame to your kin, you good-natured bear Last Line: Of the mighty paw that was meant to slay. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Wilderness; Zoos A HORRIBLE EXAMPLE, by OLIVER MARBLE Poem Text First Line: There was a man who put on airs Last Line: Because they were too ladified. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Dolls; Friends, Religious Society Of; Men; Prayer; Toys; Quakers A HUNDRED A DAY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear 19th century! Give me refuge Last Line: And was not seen as shocking, nor as omen Subject(s): Evolution; Extinct Animals A JELLYFISH, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Visible, invisible Last Line: From you. Variant Title(s): A Jelly-fish Subject(s): Animals; Jellyfish A LITTLE DOG, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A little dog disturbed my trust in heaven Last Line: Gave back my faith in heaven by god's will. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Faith; Belief; Creed A LITTLE GIRL AND A PUSSY-CAT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said a little girl to a pussy-cat Last Line: "o little maid!"" said the pussy-cat." Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Cats; Girls; Animal Abuse; Vivisection A LITTLE LANGUAGE, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a little language of my cat, tho dante says Last Line: As if crouching, springs / to life Variant Title(s): A Little Language Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Language; Words; Vocabulary A MALTESE DOG, by TYMNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He came from malta; and eumelus says Last Line: Along those roads we cannot hear him bark. Alternate Author Name(s): Carian Subject(s): Animals; Dogs A MARE, by MNASALCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bred on the dry land with the winds to race Last Line: And take her leagues of travel like a bird. Subject(s): Animals; Horses A MOUSE, A CAT, AND AN IRISH BULL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little mouse nibbled a limburger cheese Last Line: "I should die if I lived on such diet." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Mice A NEW SONG OF THE MILL, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: In youth we sang 'the song of the mill' Last Line: And heaving booms across the bay. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Horses A NUBIAN LION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Monarch dethroned, with eyes where smouldering fires Last Line: With kings we yet may walk among the stars. Subject(s): Animals; Cages; Lions; Nile (river); Wilderness A POET'S APPEAL FOR THE NATURAL: 4. THE HORSE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: For native rhythm, and poetry Last Line: Across the trembling firmament. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Native Americans - History; Poetry & Poets; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A POOR OLD DOG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pity the sorrows of a poor old dog Last Line: Spare, and be spared: -- or who shall plead for thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): A Word For The Dumb Subject(s): Animals; Pity A POPULAR PERSONAGE AT HOME, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I live here: 'wessex' is my name Last Line: "yet, will this pass, and pass shall I?" Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Wessex, England A PORTRAIT OF MY ROOF, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My steel roof mirrors clouds Last Line: Unlike anything one finds in reflection Subject(s): Animals; Clouds; Grass; Snakes; Steel; Serpents; Vipers A PRE-ADAMITE ON EVOLUTION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: An aged king of gorillas sat Last Line: Nor dreamed that her kind could be free. Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Nature; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans A RABBIT AS KING OF THE GHOSTS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The difficulty to think at the end of day Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Rabbits; Hares A ROMANCE, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A calm, delightful autumn night Last Line: A wild, delirious autumn night! Subject(s): Animals; Autumn; Dogs; Love; Moon; Night; Seasons; Fall; Bedtime A RUNNABLE STAG, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the pods went pop on the broom, green broom Last Line: The stag, the runnable stag. Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Hunters A SCORPION UNDER EVERY STONE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "beware the lurking scorpion, friend" Last Line: Leave mysteries alone Subject(s): Animals;snakes; Serpents;vipers A SESSION WITH UNCLE SIDNEY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, tudens, you sit on this knee Last Line: And then came down in his parachute. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Singing & Singers A SNAKE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the swamp with its secrets Last Line: And guile is where it goes. Variant Title(s): Poem: 1740;poem: 1780 Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers A SNAKE ..., by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A snake no bigger Last Line: On the open clasp. Variant Title(s): A Snake Subject(s): Animals; Death; Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Snakes; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers A SNAKE YARN, by W. T. GOODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You talk of snakes,' said jack the rat Last Line: "it was a log!" Alternate Author Name(s): Goodge, William Thomas Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Trees; Serpents; Vipers A SONG OF A GARDEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a thing a garden is Last Line: To bid grow, to increase! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Birds; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Herbs; Insects; Medicine; Quiet Life; Beekeeping; Nightmares; Bugs; Drugs, Prescription A SONG OF THE SEASON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am a moth ball Last Line: But out! Subject(s): Animals;environment;insects;moths; Environmental Protection;ecology;conservation;bugs A TELL-TALE TRYST, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O who was it saddled white star last night Last Line: Who rode to the moonlight tryst! Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Love A THANKSGIVING FABLE, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a hungry pussy cat, upon thanksgiving morning Last Line: But the little mouse had overheard and declined (with thanks) to stay. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day A TOAD CAN DIE OF LIGHT!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which ruby's mine? Subject(s): Death; Animals A WASTED MORNING, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And let god's free verse sing to me. Subject(s): Animals A WIDOW IN WINTERTIME, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night a baby gargled in the throes Last Line: Or waken in a caterwaul of dying. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Self-consciousness; Widows & Widowers; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism A WINTER TWILIGHT, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The year has reached december days Last Line: And so he dreams himself to rest. Subject(s): Animals; December; Dogs; Friendship; Man-woman Relationships; Winter; Male-female Relations A WOUNDED PTARMIGAN, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haunter of the herbless peak Last Line: Painted but—in air. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Hunting; Wilderness; Wings; Hunters ABANDONED HOUSE IN LATE LIGHT, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sparrow lights Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Animals ABBIE BEN ADAMS, MAY HER LIFE BE SPARED, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Animals; Cats ABORTED WHALE WATCH, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The tent-sized umbrella I have foolishly brought Last Line: Spouts mingling with the mist, then in the hush %create sound waves, create language, create music Subject(s): Marine Animals; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sea Voyages; Seasickness; Tourists; Travel; Whales ABOUT CATS AND DOGS, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: When its about cats Last Line: It's about heart Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ABOUT MUSKRAT, LET'S SAY ..., by ISABEL JOSHLIN GLASER Poem Source First Line: You stroll along the stream Last Line: Small but, nonetheless, a wonder Subject(s): Animals; Muskrats ABOUT THE DOGS OF DACHAU, by RICHARD JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: About the hearts of dusk that could make Last Line: From which no song must ever be finished Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ACROSS THE KITCHEN FLOOR, by RICHARD MOORE Poem Source First Line: Strut, %swing- %ing %gut Last Line: Likes %cat %food Subject(s): Animals; Cats AD-DRESSING OF CATS, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've read of several kinds of cat Last Line: And there's how you ad-dress a cat Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats ADAM NAMING THE CREATURES, by SUZANNE E. BERGER Poem Source First Line: My tongue, the new spade to dig through Last Line: Oh son, misbegotten, oh daughter, ours Subject(s): Animals ADAM'S TASK, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, paw-paw-paw; thou, glurd; thou, spotted Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Animals; Bible; Language; Mythology; Eve; Words; Vocabulary ADAM'S TASK, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, paw-paw-paw; thou, glurd; thou, spotted Last Line: Thou, sproal; thou, zant; thou, lily-eater. %naming's over. Day is done Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Animals; Bible; Language; Mythology ADDIS ABABA, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Buffaloes, %assorted and gelded Last Line: Of the abyssinian lake Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animals; Leadership; Lions ADDRESS TO MR. CROSS, OF EXETER 'CHANGE ON THE DEATH OF AN ELEPHANT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mr. Cross! Last Line: Shoot me! Subject(s): Animals; Elephants ADDRESS TO TYGER ON HIS STEALING THE AUTHOR'S STEAK, by JAMES AUSTEN Poem Source First Line: Sure you are tyger rightly named Last Line: Nor dare to steal a mutton steak Subject(s): Animals; Cats ADMIRAL GUARINOS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The day of roncesvalles was a dismal day for you Last Line: Slay, slay, and gallop for thy life: the land of france lies there Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Knights And Knighthood; Prisons And Prisoners ADVENTURE, by MYRTA FENTON Poem Text First Line: The kitten has had an adventure, bold Last Line: Proud in the knowledge of brave deeds done. Subject(s): Animals; Cats AFTER IKKYU: 34, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It wasn't until the sixth century that the christians Last Line: Evangelists on television, shadowy as viruses. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals AFTER MY LAST PAYCHECK FROM THE FACTORY, TWO THIN COUPONS, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I ordered vegetables and he ordered dog Last Line: And he as dead as the four-legged he ate %two short kilometers before home Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AFTER THAT, by ROBERT COOPERMAN Poem Source First Line: The woman who runs Last Line: She smiled, a small woman, %soft spoken and polite Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fear AFTER THE CAMANCHES, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saddle, saddle, saddle! / mount and gallop away! Last Line: A scalp on either side! Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AFTERNOON WALK, by RON EZZIE Poem Source First Line: There are snakes everywhere, she says Last Line: Where more trees than houses %crowd my mind Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AGAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: That tree again Last Line: Prowl Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Night; Summer; Trees AGAINST QUARRELLING AND FIGHTING, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let dogs delight to bark and bite Last Line: And marks them for his own. Variant Title(s): Quarrelling Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Quarrels; Childhood; Arguments; Disagreements AGING TOGETHER, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch myself aging in your eyes Subject(s): Animals; Old Age AGRICULTURE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the rain can't stand up straight, but once Last Line: But a window sailing through the night Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Farm Life; Horses; Rain; Agriculture; Farmers AJAX, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old ajax was a faithful dog Last Line: And then must give it up! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ALIX, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mare alix breaks the world's trotting record one day Last Line: And I want to rub my nose against the nose of the mare alix. Subject(s): Animals; Horses ALL AFTERNOON I HOPE, by GILLIAN CLARKE Poem Source Last Line: Of flame, a flamboyance Subject(s): Animals; Riddles; Snakes ALL THE BEASTS OF THE FOREST, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Full Text Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Animals; Night ALL THE PRETTY LITTLE HORSES, by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: When you wake Last Line: All the pretty horses Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Animals; Horses ALL THE WIDE GRIN OF HIM, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is hovering in the air, there, in the highest Last Line: Soft, unsuspecting, milk rimming its grin. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Animals; Bombs; Cats; Smiles; Teeth; Toothaches ALL THINGS WAIT UPON THEE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Innocent eyes not ours Last Line: As queens of kings. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): These All Wait Upon Thee Subject(s): Animals ALL THY WORKS PRAISE THEE, O LORD; A PROCESSIONAL OF CREATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I all-creation sing my song of praise Last Line: Praise god, praise god, praise god, his creature saith. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Animals; Creation ALLEY CAT, by ESTHER VALCK GEORGNS Poem Source First Line: A bit of jungle in the street Last Line: And slinking through the shadows, stalks %imaginary foes Subject(s): Animals; Cats ALLEY CAT, by FRANK STEVENS Poem Source First Line: I hope for nothing better than your smile Subject(s): Animals; Cats ALLEY CAT, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mangy and gaunt I walk the tiles tonight Last Line: Hot from the hand of ramses the third! Subject(s): Animals; Cats ALLI DYING, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shifts from one patch of shadow to another Subject(s): Cats; Death - Animals ALLIGATOR, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old bull of the waters Last Line: In dreams, long ago? Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Animals ALONG THE NILE, by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source First Line: What delight %to swim along the oozy, snoozy nile Last Line: Not - %so - %snoozy nile Subject(s): Animals; Fathers ALPHABESTIARY: O, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O is for ox, by which word we Last Line: Even it would blush for shame Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Oxen ALWAYS BE KIND TO ANIMALS, by JOHN GARDNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Last Line: And furthermore they bite! Subject(s): Animals AMANDA, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source First Line: Amanda was an alley cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats AMANDA ANACONDA, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Amanda anaconda is our pet for letter a Last Line: And at story time, each one of us can use %her for a pillow Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools AMBER SLEEPING, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: On the railing sleeps my cat Last Line: And waits his real meal at the door Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs AMBIGUOUS DOG, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dog beneath the cherry-tree Last Line: His bite is at the growly end Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AMEN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone calls duchess, our fawn great dane, back Last Line: Rising from ethel rosenberg's hair. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Deer; Dogs; Hunting; Primitive Man; Rosenberg Case; Dead, The; Hunters; Cavemen; Rosenberg, Ethel; Rosenberg, Julius AMERICAN ALLIGATOR, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: They seek one another in the sedges Last Line: The slits of their eyes Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals AMERICAN BURYING BEETLE (2), by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: They kill nothing, but fly to the site Last Line: Death diminished, pulled out from under, undone Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals AMERICAN CROCODILE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Even before she slits the egg she is Last Line: Making the surface dance Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals AMERICAN PEREGRINE FALCON, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: The tercel transports meat Last Line: On separate ledges in the dark Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals AMERICANS ALL, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: Zebras we, a plait of black and lighter Last Line: Our legs and bodies striped, but the belly plain Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Zebras AMPHISBAENA, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: Amphisbaena Last Line: When you have to do things double! Subject(s): Mythical Animals AN AMERICAN LOVE-ODE; TAKEN FROM SECOND VOLUME OF MONTAGNE'S ESSAYS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, stay, thou lovely, fearful snake Last Line: Stay, lovely, fearful adder stay. Subject(s): Animals; Love; Montaigne, Michel De (1533-1592); Snakes; United States; Serpents; Vipers; America AN APPEAL TO CATS IN THE BUSINESS OF LOVE; SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye cats that at midnight spit love at each other Last Line: Keep their feet, mount their tails, and away! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Love AN APPEAL TO OUR BOY, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Here is a friend, my little man Last Line: Hail to you, little generous knight! Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Friendship; Childhood AN ELEGY ON A LAP-DOG, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shock's fate I mourn; poor shock is now no more Last Line: Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.' Variant Title(s): On A Lap-dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Good people all, of every sort Last Line: The dog it was that died! Variant Title(s): On The Death Of A Mad Dog Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF DOBBIN, THE BUTTERWOMAN'S HORSE, by FRANCIS FAWKES Poem Text First Line: The death of faithful dobbin I deplore Last Line: Dame jolt's brown horse, old dobbin, is no more. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Hunting; Dead, The; Hunters AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF ROMEO, A LADY'S LAP-DOG, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If, when the stern unpitying hand of fate Last Line: Copious bedew the consecrated urn. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AN EPIGRAM ON JOHN MARSTON, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ask't phisitions what their counsell was Last Line: Whether thou be a mad dog, or a mankind asse. Subject(s): Animals; Asses & Mules; Dogs; Mankind; Mules; Human Race AN EPITAPH, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes Last Line: Mine eyes the tail that wagg'd contempt at fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AN EPITAPH ON TRUE, HER MAJESTY'S DOG, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If wit or honesty cou'd save Last Line: And mend your own, by true's behaviour. Variant Title(s): True's Epitaph Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Epitaphs; Faith; Honesty; Belief; Creed AN EVENING IN DANDALOO, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was while we held our races Last Line: Wade in, dandaloo!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Cattle; Horses; Love; Night; Racing; Bedtime AN IDYLL OF DANDALOO, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On western plains, where shade is not Last Line: The atmosphere of dandaloo. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Life; Racing; Towns AN INCONVENIENCE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To his cousin the bat Last Line: "but nothing to sit on have I." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Rats AN INSECTARIAN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot wash my dog,' she said Last Line: "may find no other home." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fleas AN OLD CAT'S CONFESSIONS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a very old pussy Last Line: And occasional herring and mouse. Subject(s): Animals; Cats AN OLD CAT'S DYING SOLILOQUY, by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Years saw me still acasto's mansion grace Last Line: Since thou, her more loved master, art not there.' Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Variant Title(s): A Favorite Cat's Dying Soliloquy Subject(s): Animals; Cats AN OX PAST SERVICE, by ADDAEUS Poem Text First Line: With weight of years and yoke forspent Last Line: To graze and rest and low. Subject(s): Animals; Oxen ANACONDA, by JUAN CARLOS GALEANO Poem Source First Line: An anaconda lives happily, wrapped around the body of a man %every night Last Line: Has to sleep. A snake has to sleep Subject(s): Animals; Night; Sleep; Snakes ANANSI THE SPIDER, by GERALD MCDERMOTT Poem Source First Line: Anansi. %he is 'spider' Last Line: He tumbles into %many troubles Subject(s): Mythical Animals ANCIENT BASS, by GRACE TABER HALLOCK Poem Source First Line: Long and black and swift and narrow Last Line: Down among the lily roots Subject(s): Animals; Fishing And Fishermen AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALES, AND EVERY LIVING CREATURE THAT MOVETH, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source Last Line: Which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind Subject(s): Animals AND GOD MADE THE ANIMALS, by ALBA NORA MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: God made the cow Last Line: And filled 'em up with antifreeze Subject(s): Animals AND PIGS MAY FLY, by PARTRIDGE BOSWELL Poem Source First Line: I'm boarding my flight home from the heartland Last Line: Door opens, whips out a playboy and begins reading Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Travel AND WHEN THEY ALL MEET!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come to the love feast, pussie. We want you right away Last Line: When no one of the guests could find an animal to slay! Subject(s): Animals; War ANGLEFISH, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Lurking on the ocean floor Last Line: And make the ocean one fish fewer Subject(s): Marine Animals ANIMAL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the very earliest time Last Line: All spoke the same language Subject(s): Animals; Eskimos; Language; Native Americans ANIMAL ACTS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bear who eats with a silver spoon. Subject(s): Animals ANIMAL ALPHABET, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The absolutlely abstemious ass Last Line: Who carried five monkeys on his back all %the way to jellibolee Subject(s): Animals; Nonsense ANIMAL AND INSECT ACT, by CECIL RAJENDRA Poem Source First Line: Finally, in order to ensure Last Line: There was now total security Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Discipline; Human Rights; Law And Lawyers; Riots ANIMAL CONTROL, by JOHN DICKSON Poem Source First Line: It's seldom I get this close to stark Last Line: Or lies round and flat on the interstate highway - %a victoral record no one can hear Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Cats ANIMAL DISPUTANS, by MILTON SAWYER ROSE Poem Text First Line: Green passions rise in me like monstrous frogs Last Line: Yet they breathe air, and may one day be birds. Subject(s): Animals; Frogs ANIMAL GRAVES, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mower flipped it belly up Subject(s): Graves; Death - Animals; Tombs; Tombstones ANIMAL LIFE ON THE GREAT PLAINS, by VICTOR CONTOSKI Poem Source First Line: Before man came to the great plains Last Line: And dream of the second coming of water Subject(s): Animals; United States ANIMAL LOOSE ALONG THE PARKWAY, by JOHN BENSKO Poem Source First Line: Unlike you, they know I'm up here Last Line: We are unretracted like a claw Subject(s): Animals; Roads ANIMAL SONG, by KATHLEEN CONYNGHAM GREENE Poem Source First Line: These are your brothers; listening you have heard Subject(s): Animals ANIMAL SPIRITS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was five and Subject(s): Animals; Children; Childhood ANIMAL SPIRITS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was five and Last Line: Wanting some absolute, some exhaustion Subject(s): Animals; Children ANIMAL SPIRITS, by JOHN E. SMELCER Poem Source First Line: Old indian men teach me Last Line: And found only my tracks %in the fresh crushed snow Subject(s): Animals; Native Americans ANIMAL STORE, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a hundred dollars to spend Last Line: Or maybe a little more Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ANIMAL TRANQUILITY AND DECAY; A SKETCH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little hedgerow birds Last Line: And there is dying in an hospital. --' Variant Title(s): Old Man Travelling Subject(s): Animals ANIMAL, VEGETABLE AND MINERAL, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On gypsum slabs of preternatural whiteness Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals ANIMALS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn a knot of sea-lions lies off the shore Subject(s): Animals ANIMALS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn a knot of sea-lions lies off the shore Last Line: Besides the slow oxidation of carbohydrates and amino-acids Subject(s): Animals ANIMALS, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What animal you are Last Line: But inside? Subject(s): Animals ANIMALS AND ART, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I was saying that sometimes I feel sorry for wild animals, out there in the dark, looking Subject(s): Animals ANIMALS ARE PASSING FROM OUR LIVES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's wonderful how I jog Subject(s): Animals; Hate; Men ANIMALS ARE PASSING FROM OUR LIVES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's wonderful how I jog Last Line: Cleverly to hook his teeth %with my teeth. No. Not this pig Subject(s): Animals; Hate; Men ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that country the animals Last Line: They have faces of %no-one Subject(s): Animals ANIMALS PONDER, by KARIN WISIOL Poem Source First Line: In our passing, tufts Last Line: Death teaching us %its most direct way Subject(s): Animals ANIMALS' RETURN, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: Mostly deer. Walking around the back yard Last Line: Won't believe the future means exactly us, ourselves Subject(s): Animals; Deer; Survival ANIMALS, AND THEIR COUNTRIES, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oe'r afric's sand the tawny lion stalks Last Line: And seals and spouting-whales sport in the northern main. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Animals ANIMOOSH, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: A girl surrounded by brothers Last Line: Bounding through the long field of goldenrod and sun Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets ANOTHER DOG'S DEATH, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For days the good old bitch had been dying, her back Last Line: In a wheelbarrow up to the hole, her warm fur shone Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ANOTHER DOG'S DEATH, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For days the good old bitch had been dying, her back Last Line: In the wheelbarrow up to the hole, her fur took the sun Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ANOTHER MOUTH THE FEED, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We've got another mouth to feed Last Line: Now buddy's got a pup. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ANSWER, by S. ST. G. LAWRENCE Poem Source First Line: You call them 'beasts that perish,' and you say Subject(s): Animals ANT, by ZOE BAILEY Poem Source First Line: Black is his color Last Line: Towards some crack in an enormous ark Subject(s): Animals; Ants; Insects ANT, by CLARENCE DAY Poem Source First Line: The ant is knowing and wise; but Last Line: He doesn't know enough to take a vacation Subject(s): Animals ANT, by BARRY WALLENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The ant walks around Last Line: Finds his path home- %hands it over: %a festival in the tunnels Subject(s): Animals ANTEATER, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: Imagine overturning Last Line: Or black caviar Subject(s): Animals ANTELOPE COW, by MICHAEL SLORY Poem Source First Line: A shawl of stars %between Last Line: From berries %between velvet prongs Subject(s): Animals; Antelopes ANTI-POSTCARD FROM RIO DE JANEIRO, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Moths attempt crimes against property Last Line: They see only white-hot rock %and this world, ending Subject(s): Animals ANTOMOLOGY, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: The ants scurrying back and forth along a path beneath the Last Line: This world not become another antless desert Subject(s): Animals ANTS, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wonder strikes the curious while he views Subject(s): Animals ANTS CRAWL, by ELEANOR SCHICK Poem Source Last Line: To them Subject(s): Animals; Ants; Insects APARTMENT CATS, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girls wake, stretch, and pad up to the door Last Line: How to stalk off in wise indifference Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Animals; Cats APE, by ROLAND YOUNG Poem Source First Line: The sacred ape, now, children, see Subject(s): Animals; Apes APOLOGY TO A SMALL DOG, by TEDDY WEBB Poem Source First Line: Little gray dog, don't run, don't fear Subject(s): Animals; Dogs APPALACHIAN MONKEYFACE PEARLY MUSSEL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Unrooted, she can extend her only foot Last Line: They bind themselves to the barrio of shells Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals APPARITION, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea-hooves whiten on the far horizon Last Line: A spume-flect pegasus of ocean's spawning. Subject(s): Animals; Horses APPROPRIATE NAMES, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: James three horses breeding Last Line: Tempus, edax, rerum. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Animals; Horses APRIL, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little goat Last Line: He walks away Subject(s): Animals APRIL, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little goat Last Line: He walks away Subject(s): Animals APRIL IN THE CITY, by ELISABETH SCOLLARD Poem Source First Line: Her lyric laughter ripples down the street Subject(s): Animals AQUARIUM, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: Behind glass we're learning Last Line: The true air and we dive %in earnest Subject(s): Aquariums; Marine Animals; Oysters ARCHEOPTERYX, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred forty million years Last Line: One knotty question: which came first, %archeopteryx or egg? Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals ARCHY AND MEHITABEL, SELS., by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Cockroaches ARE THERE NO FISH UNDER THE ICE?, by JENNIFER SNYDER Poem Source First Line: There are fringes of mist Last Line: Are there no fish under the ice? Subject(s): Animals ARF, by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dogs give commands to me in one syllable Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ARIEL, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Stasis in darkness Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Horses ARIEL, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stasis in darkness Last Line: Into the red %eye, the cauldron of morning Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Horses ARISTOTLE'S LANTERN, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: In tidepools and hollows in mudstone rock Last Line: Life was already moving from them, into the salt air Subject(s): Diving And Divers; Harbors; Labor And Laborers; Marine Animals; Sea ARMADILLO, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ancient armadillo Last Line: But spends his time in contemplative, %armadyllic thought Subject(s): Animals; Armadillos ARMADILLO; FOR ROBERT LOWELL, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the time of year Last Line: And a weak mailed fist %clenched ignorant against the sky Subject(s): Animals; Armadillos; Birds; Brazil; Owls ARMADILLOS, POUR JUICES!, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Amigos, tonight we'll swing %without any sleepiness Subject(s): Desert Animals ARMFULS OF COLOR, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of plinging guitar strings Subject(s): Desert Animals ARMY HORSE, by FLORENCE MCLANDBURGH Poem Source First Line: Once they ploughed the fruitful field Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Mclandburgh Subject(s): Animals ARSINOE'S CATS, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Arsinoe, the fair, the amber-tressed Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Animals; Cats ARTIST AND THE APES, by EDWARD BOCCIA Poem Source First Line: When apes believed in the scriptures Last Line: And nobody believes in anything Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Paintings And Painters ARTIST'S BARN CAR, by RACHEL BARENBLAT Poem Source First Line: How bad a life can it be? Look Last Line: They hum without need %for vowels, just %like us Subject(s): Animals; Barns; Cats AS I STAND ON THE SODDEN MOSS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Into my handkerchief, walk on Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals AS IN A SUCCESSION OF RUSSIAN DOLLS, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A furry lump like the back of a brown creeper Last Line: Inside another, the husk of things to come Subject(s): Animals; Bats AS THE YEARS PASS', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To thousands of generations of men Subject(s): Animals; Mankind; Time AS YOU WERE SAYING, by ALICE ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Telling me about rosebud Last Line: And sail downstream, %like gamblers, headed for reno Subject(s): Animals; Cats ASKING FOR A CAT, by HUANG CHING-JEN+(1) Poem Source First Line: Since autumn the rodents have taken Last Line: I purchased a fish strung on a willow twig %to beseech you for a kitty Subject(s): Animals; Cats; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278) ASOLANDO: THE CARDINAL AND THE DOG, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crescenzio, the pope's legate at the high council, trent Last Line: Heaven keep us protestants from harm: the rest ... No ill betide! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ASOLANDO: WHITE WITCHCRAFT, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you and I could change to beasts, what beast should Last Line: "but see his eyes that follow mine -- love lasts there, anyhow." Subject(s): Animals ASSAULT, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I had forgotten how the frogs must sound Last Line: From one house to another! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Frogs AT A DOG'S RESTING-PLACE (JACK, MON PAUVRE CHIEN), by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Part of the sylvan scene Last Line: And hearts are glad and ache. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Memory AT BREAKFAST, by IDA M. MILLS Poem Source First Line: When I sit up to bread and milk Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AT DAWN, A RABBIT STRETCHES TALL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To eat the red asparagus berries Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Rabbits AT NIGHT, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On moony nights the dogs bark shrill Variant Title(s): Night Son Subject(s): Animals AT THE CABIN I LEFT HE CANOLA BOTTLE OPEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I had invented the mouse atom bomb Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death - Animals; Mice; Nature AT THE DOG SHOW, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long and grey and gaunt he lies Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Animals AT THE MANGER, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: She has come a long way Last Line: She has come a long way %seeking Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AT THE POUND, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Eyes bore %deep Last Line: What we cannot bear %to know Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AT THE ZOO, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It must be hard for you, porcupine Last Line: Instead of my tiny self. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Zoos; Childhood AT THE ZOO, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is gray with rain that will not fall Subject(s): Animals ATLANTIC RIDLEY SEA TURTLE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: In the give and take of water, she swims Last Line: Quaking in that first disorder Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 6, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet perchance 'tis beneficial Last Line: "what there is of public taste." Subject(s): Animals; Jews; Judaism ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 9, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the tongue as red as scarlet Last Line: "sprang from moses mendelssohn!" Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Mendelssohn, Moses (1729-1786) ATTENDANTS, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mild-eyed oxen and the gentle ass Last Line: Something that chanced because the inn was full. Subject(s): Animals; Asses & Mules; Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Oxen; Nativity, The AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To see a world in a grain of sand Last Line: To those who dwell in realms of day Variant Title(s): Blake's Testament;what A Wonderful World Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Freedom; Imagination; Innocence; Mythology; Religion; Vision; Liberty; Fancy; Theology AUGURY, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Until just recently I was awakened by the sound of birds Last Line: Mexico city is dying, and have flown away before the final ruin Subject(s): Animals AUGUST AND FEBRUARY, by TANIKAWA SHUNTARO Poem Source First Line: The boy put the puppy in a basket Last Line: The boy that night couldn't stop crying Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AUK IN FLIGHT, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: An auk walks aukwardly Subject(s): Animals AUNT JENNIFER'S TIGERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt jennifer's tigers prance across a screen Subject(s): Animals; Aunts; Imagination; Love - Marital; Tapestries; Tigers; Women's Rights; Fancy; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Feminism AUNT JENNIFER'S TIGERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt jennifer's tigers prance across a screen Last Line: Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid Subject(s): Animals; Aunts; Imagination; Love - Marital; Tapestries; Tigers; Women's Rights AUNT SOPHIE'S THOUGHTS ON RABBIT, by TAYLOR GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: How lucy's lived so long with a man Last Line: How she's lived so long Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Relationships AUSTRALIAN TRANSCRIPTS: MID-NOON IN JANUARY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a fibry fern-tree bough Last Line: Breathes 'mid the green fern-spaces round Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Australia; January AUTOPHAGIA IN TRAUMATIZED RATS DURING INANITION, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: Carroll blue nash and his traumatized rats Last Line: (nash said) themselves 'from this source' Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Rats; Science AUTUMN NIGHTFALL, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: In the vacant lot, amid jewelweed Last Line: To there, like a run for an old spayed bitch Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AVE CAESAR!, by RUDOLPH CHAMBERS LEHMANN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Full in the splendor of this morning's hour Subject(s): Animals; Dogs AXOLOTL, by COLIN WEST Poem Source First Line: The axolotl acts a little Last Line: Is still not clear to me Subject(s): Animals BABIECA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The king looked on him kindly, as on a vassal true Last Line: By any mortal but bivar, -- mount, mount again, my cid!' Variant Title(s): The Cid And Baviec Subject(s): Animals; Cid, El (1043-1099); Heroism; Horseback Riding; Horses; Knights And Knighthood BABOON, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At eight o'clock in the evening Subject(s): Animals; Baboons BABOON BABBLE, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Born here in this cage, the first lesson Last Line: Will I be carried outside these brutal bars Subject(s): Animals BABY CHICK, by AILEEN FISHER Poem Source First Line: Peck %peck %peck %on the warm brown egg Last Line: Of how to get out? Subject(s): Animals BACCHUS AND THE FROGS, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chorus of frogs: croak - croak - croak! / bacchus: well, well, - you may choke Last Line: Croak—croak—croak! Subject(s): Animals; Bacchus; Frogs; Mythology - Classical BACK TO MAKE THE BEARS SICK, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: I saw a big trashy Last Line: Bony children back %to make the bears sick Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Family Life; Rudeness BAD DOG, by LAWRENCE RAAB Poem Source First Line: Just remember, my friend told me Last Line: Every day when we talk to each other Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BAD DOGS, by DAVID GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: Oh yes, they were bad, my childhood dogs Last Line: Harried in unison the flushing weeds %like brutal, exuberant owners Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BADGER, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The badger grunting on his woodland track Last Line: And runs away from noise in hollow trees %burnt by the boys to get a swarm of bees Subject(s): Animals; Badgers BADGERS, by RICHARD+(2) EDWARDS Poem Source First Line: Badgers come creeping from dark under ground Last Line: Badgers have secrets to keep Subject(s): Animals; Badgers BALD EAGLE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Architect of twigs and sorrow Last Line: Asks for nothing more Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals BALLAD OF HADJI AND THE BOAR, by IAIN HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: As I rode over the dusty waste Subject(s): Animals; Horses BALLAD OF THE CATS OF BYGONE DAYS, by MICHAEL SCOT Poem Source First Line: Where is the cat with the fiddle gone? Subject(s): Animals; Cats BALLAD OF THE DOGS, by LARS GUSTAFSSON Poem Source First Line: When ibn batutta, arabian traveller Last Line: And the dogs go on, with sure and swishing steps, %deeper into the darkness Subject(s): Animals; Arabia; Dogs; Travel BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: LAMENT OF THE LITTLE WHITE HORSE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The little horse 'mid winter's height, ah, what a gallant heart he Last Line: Is dead without seeing the sunny skies either behind or before. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Lament; Dead, The BALTIMORE ORIOLE, by SARA V. PRUESER Poem Text First Line: An oriole made / his flaming flight Last Line: In the dusky pine. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Orioles; Wings BALTO, THE DOG, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: A trackless stretch of icy snow, Last Line: "comes the grateful cry: ""you can trust a dog!" Subject(s): Animals; Arctic; Dogs BARBED WIRE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One summer afternoon when nothing much Subject(s): Barbed Wire; Horses; Death - Animals BARK WITH AUTHORITY, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: I tell my dog, bete noire of the backyard Last Line: And ushers in snoozing and supper and silence? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BARN-OWL, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: They say that the barn-owl Last Line: With the virgin light-giving oil Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Owls BARRACUDA, by JOHN GARDNER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Slowly, slowly he cruises Last Line: They all %swim %in' Subject(s): Animals BASHO'S FROG, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: A frog went plop in a pond three hundred years Last Line: It sits squat on that luminous leafpad Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Frogs; Memory BASILISK/COCKATRICE, by LAURA WHIPPLE Poem Source First Line: Head and body of a cock Last Line: A cockatrice.) %hissssss! Subject(s): Mythical Animals BAST, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had green eyes, that excellent seer Subject(s): Animals; Cats BAT, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All day bats drowse in houses eaves Last Line: A bat to clear the air Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Animals BAT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At evening, sitting on this terrace Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Florence, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips BAT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At evening, sitting on this terrace Last Line: In china the bat is symbol of happiness. %not for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Florence, Italy; Travel BAT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark air-life looping Last Line: Like a glove, a black glove thrown up at the light, %and falling back Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals BAT, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lightless, unholy, eldritch thing Subject(s): Animals BAT, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By day the bat is cousin to the mouse Last Line: For something is amiss or out of place %when mice with wings can wear a human face Subject(s): Animals; Supernatural BAT OUT OF HELL, by MAX GOODLEY Poem Text First Line: The children scream and rush inside the house Last Line: Her swollen breasts with wings veiled womanly. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Fear BAT-WINGS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flitter, flitter, through the twilight Last Line: Pipistrello. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Gnats; Rome, Italy BATEESE AND HIS LITTLE DECOYS, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND Poem Text First Line: O I'm very very tire marie Last Line: For showin' dem de lesson! Ole jean bateese belair. Subject(s): Animals; Beavers; Mink; Trapping & Trappers; Traps; Snares; Trappers BATH, by NANCY HEWITT Poem Source First Line: Something as simple as a cat's bath - Last Line: Out from between them %as if they were wings to fly Subject(s): Animals; Cats BATH, by RUDOLPH CHAMBERS LEHMANN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hang garlands on the bathroom door Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BATS, by ROBERT DE MONTESQUIOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O bats! / gnats Last Line: Syntheses! Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Wings BATTLE BUNNY; MALVERN HILL, 1864, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bunny, lying in the grass Last Line: Twixt a rabbit's god and man's. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; Animals; Rabbits; United States - History; Hares BATTLE OF THE PEKES AND THE POLLICLES, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pekes and the pollicles, everyone knows Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BATTLESHIPS, by LORI PETRI Poem Text First Line: They rock and ride like great grey gulls Last Line: The black lusts of the primal slime. Subject(s): Animals; Battleships; Bears; Navy - United States; American Navy BAY BILLY, by FRANK HARRISON GASSAWAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You may talk of horses of renown Last Line: "the whole line answered, ""here!" Alternate Author Name(s): Derrick Dogg Subject(s): American Civil War; Animals; Horses; United States - History; War BEAGLE SPEAKS OF NOSES, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: I should be good Last Line: My nose is boss Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Noses BEAR, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bear puts both arms round the tree above her Last Line: A baggy figure, equally pathetic %when sedentary and when peripatetic Subject(s): Animals; Bears BEAR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bear died standing up Last Line: To give up again this human shape. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Death; Dead, The BEAR, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the huge, wide-open, sleeping eye of the mountain Last Line: His price is everything Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Animals; Bears BEAR, by VLADIMIR LUGOVSKOI Poem Source First Line: The little girl's new present was a bear Last Line: Knocking. For, with no midnight fairy-tales, %there'd be no life for men or beasts at all Alternate Author Name(s): Lugovskoy, Vladimir Subject(s): Animals; Bears BEAR HUNT, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I played I was two polar bears Last Line: But it was teatime, anyway! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Animals; Bears BEAR ON THE DELHI ROAD, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Unreal, tall as a myth %by the road the himalayan bear Last Line: To lurch, lurch with them %in the tranced dancing of men Subject(s): Animals; Bears BEAR PIT; AT THE ZOLLOGICAL GARDENS, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We liked the bear's serio-comical face Last Line: Yet if you pursue it you'll certainly catch it Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Animals; Bears BEAR STANDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Now the sun is coming Subject(s): Animals BEAR'S BLOOD, by ILEANA MALANCIOIU Poem Source First Line: To heal you hieronymus I had brought you Last Line: Your shattered bones gathered hastily in one spot %the bear's blood unable to heal them Subject(s): Animals; Bears BEARS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wonderful bears that walked my room all night Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Night; Bedtime BEARS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wonderful bears that walked my room all night Last Line: My bears, who keeps you now, in pride and fear? Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Night BEAST, by MARIE HOWE Poem Source First Line: When I ask her what it sounds like Subject(s): Animals BEAST AND MAN IN INDIA, by JOHN LOCKWOOD KIPLING Poem Source First Line: They killed a child to please the gods Subject(s): Animals BEASTS, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh think - the stain-skinned, the dapple Subject(s): Animals BEASTS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beasts in their major freedom Subject(s): Animals BEASTS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beasts in their major freedom Last Line: Navies fed to the fish in the dark %unbridled waters Subject(s): Animals BEASTS, SELS., by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: The ant-heaps furthest in Last Line: And they get the better of deepest winters %in another deep Subject(s): Animals; Ants; Insects BEAU'S REPLY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, when I flew to seize the bird Last Line: With verse addressed to me? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her fur new-licked, the whitetail fawn Last Line: As they depart, and curse them. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Animals; Beauty And The Beast; Cruelty; Zoos BEAUVAIS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gigantic spiky head without a body Last Line: It counted, leaving god his vaults of air Subject(s): Animals BEAVER, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up in the north if thou sail with me Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Animals BEAVER, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beaver is fat Last Line: For his children, himself, and his wife Subject(s): Animals; Beavers BEAVER'S STORY, by VERNON WATKINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The violent praise the destructive rites of the hawk Last Line: I do not sprawl. I saw to the level of need Subject(s): Animals; Beavers BEAVERHOUSE DOWNRIVER, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: In the old forever-never days Last Line: And all the grown-ups died Subject(s): Animals; Beavers; Childhood Memories BEAVERS, by GERALD VIZENOR Poem Source First Line: Turn the sixth card over at dawn Last Line: Beaver near the end in the city Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Beavers; Fur Trade; Hunting; Native Americans - History BEAVERS IN NOVEMBER, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: This stick here Last Line: Mud, more mud, add mud, good mud Subject(s): Animals BECAUSE THE DOG DEMANDS, by SIV CEDERING Poem Source First Line: I leave the lamplit lane and walk into the dark Last Line: And the windows lit up %waiting Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BEDTIME STORY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was twelve, a horse appeared Subject(s): Animals; Childhood Memories; Horses; Imagination; Fancy BEDTIME STORY, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was twelve, a horse appeared Last Line: Could her the clash of armor when I closed my eyes Subject(s): Animals; Childhood Memories; Horses; Imagination BEDTIME STORY, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The generator hums like a distant ding an sich Last Line: I think we should, love, I think we should Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Animals; Compassion; Dogs BEE, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You want to make some honey? Last Line: Through the sweet tooth of a bee Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals BEE IN CHURCH, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nestling church at ovingdean Subject(s): Animals BEE SETS SAIL, by KATHARINE DUNCAN MORSE Poem Source First Line: The wind blows east, the wind blows storm Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Insects BEE SONG, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bees in the late summer sun Subject(s): Animals BEE SONG, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bees in the late summer sun Last Line: Droning, droning a sleepysong Subject(s): Animals BEE! I'M EXPECTING YOU!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or better, be with me, %yours, fly Variant Title(s): Poem: 1035; Poem: 98 Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Imagination; Insects BEES BUZZ RIPE FRUIT, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Setting the table %for the hullabaloo Subject(s): Desert Animals BEETLE, by CHARLOTTE SHAPIRO ZOLOTOW Poem Source First Line: Shining japanese beetle Last Line: Like a small rainbow %in the sun Subject(s): Animals BEFORE DAWN WE BOARD THE JONESPORT BOAT, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: We are hungry for, the each to each Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals BEHIND BARS, by NO CHUN-MYUNG Poem Source First Line: I hear a dog's barking Last Line: The world outside is pure happiness %to those dumped behind bars Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BEHIND THE MUZZLE, by WILLIAM LIVINGSTON LARNED Poem Source First Line: I am feeling ache-and-ouchy Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BEHOLD THE HOUSE YOU DIG, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Against the betrayal of my hand Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals BEING AS I WAS, HOW COULD I HELP, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the noise that drew me first Last Line: I would give it again. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Animals; Forgiveness; Hunger; Tigers; Wolves; Clemency BENCH-LEGGED FYCE, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speakin' of dorgs, my bench-legged fyce Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BENGAL TIGER, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bengal tiger likes to eat Last Line: Avoid the bengal tiger's glances Subject(s): Animals; Tigers BESS, by ORRICK JOHNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The collie girl had the sense bred out of her Last Line: Well, he broke up for days that time, and cried. Subject(s): Animals; Collies; Dogs BEST DOG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Yes, I went to see the bow-wows, and I Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BEST FRIEND, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My daddy is the truest friend Subject(s): Animals BESTIARY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Did he learn this on barefoot walks through wet fields Last Line: And petulant of her creatures Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Vegetarians; Zoos BESTIARY, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: An arkfull she is Subject(s): Animals BESTIARY, by ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God breathe a blessing on Last Line: The beast nebuchadnezzar. Alternate Author Name(s): Klein, A. M. Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Hunters BESTIARY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man who found the aardvark Last Line: Or a thief's colors at ascot Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals BESTIARY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Kiden I wille oe ernes kinde Last Line: He sal him folgen to helle dim Subject(s): Animals BESTIARY / BESTIARIO, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could speak with birds Last Line: What was the name of the cat Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Animals; Insects; Nature BESTIARY U.S.A.: STAR-NOSED MOLE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mole, angel-dog of the pit Last Line: Wearing your cross on your nose Subject(s): Animals; God; Moles; Religion BETE HUMAINE, by FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Riding through ruwu swamp, about sunrise Subject(s): Animals BETSEY TROTWOOD'S CAT, by LOUELLA C. POOLE Poem Source First Line: Yes, I love cats, I don't deny Subject(s): Animals; Cats BETWEEN, by JOHN CIARDI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I threw a stick. The dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BETWEEN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I threw a stick. The dog Last Line: And I threw, and he fetched Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BETWEEN THE FOUR PADS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The fragrance of grass Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Grass; Nature BEWARE OUR LOVING DOG, by LUCRETIA PENNY Poem Source First Line: Postmen and milkmen %and workers on the job Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BEWITCHED, by HAMLEN HUNT Poem Text First Line: Now that the trap you laid Last Line: No more of life. Subject(s): Animals; Life; Trapping & Trappers; Traps; Snares; Trappers BEYOND THE BLUE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speak of you, sir? You bet he did. Ben fields was far too sound Last Line: Of seeing ben some day again, 'way up beyond the blue. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Animals; Despair; Dogs; Loyalty; Pets BEYOND THE GRAVE, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: How often have we known a dog to be Last Line: Will grant him life again beyond the grave, %to meet with friends - where death can play no part Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BIG DOG, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bring you / this head Last Line: Be a man again. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets BIG FAT GARTER SNAKE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For warmth on a cold night Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Cold; Nature; Snakes BIG FISHES, by LARRY R. BROOKS Poem Source First Line: All the big fishes are gone Last Line: And none of them will return %until we are-gone Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Marine Animals BIG MARE, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grass is deep in the field, and her four legs Last Line: To-morrow will come a boy. Is she to forget? Subject(s): Animals; Horses BIG QUIET SPACE IN THE BED FOR ALMOST AN HOUR AFTER MIDNIGHT, by HEATHER SELLERS Poem Source First Line: The lover and I are lying squarely Last Line: Pant. No one with the gift of speech. In this bed %tonight, breath a soaking rain Subject(s): Animals; Beds; Dogs; Relationships BIG TURTLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A big turtle sat on the end of a log Last Line: Watching a tadpole turn into a frog Subject(s): Animals; Frogs BILLY'S ALPHABETICAL ANIMAL SHOW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A was an elegant ape Last Line: Right at the end of your visit? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Circus BINGO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The miller's mill-dog lay at the mill-door Last Line: And he bought a wedding ring-o! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Mills And Millers BIOLOGY OF THE FALCON, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Falcons are eagles that can be tamed Last Line: Our impotent envy of wings Subject(s): Animals BIRD, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: There are south-facing studios Last Line: Where the dried bird %itself built its dead nest Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Wings BIRD MAN, by LUCY BRANCH ALLEN Poem Source First Line: His summer fled, but winter's chill Subject(s): Animals BIRD OF NIGHT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shadow is floating through the moonlight Subject(s): Animals BIRDELLO, by LAUREN SMITH Poem Source First Line: There were ten birds, each of which hated us differently Last Line: And all the others accountrements of love Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Dreams; Imagination BIRDS, by KATHARINE DUNCAN MORSE Poem Source First Line: A bluebird in an apple-tree Subject(s): Animals BIRDS, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: My earliest memory of veracruz Last Line: Of those living bodies snuffed out in the flames Subject(s): Animals BIRDS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I dreamed that blood flowed from his mouth Last Line: Gather in flocks and come near Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Feathers; Wings BIRDS, BEASTS, AND FISHES, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dog will come when he is called Last Line: For youth can come but once. Subject(s): Animals BIRTH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The moment he glimpsed the cat under the tree Last Line: To sink his teeth deep %into a neighbouring smartalec rat. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Self; Wishes BIRTH OF THE FOAL, by FERENC JUHASZ Poem Source First Line: As may was opening the rosebuds Last Line: Like golden flowers %envy with the last stars Subject(s): Animals; Horses BIRTHDAY COW, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy mooday to you Last Line: Happy mooday to you Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Animals BIRTHDAY GIFT, by ETHEL BARNETT DE VITO Poem Source First Line: He entered the shop Alternate Author Name(s): De Vito, E. B. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BISHOP DOANE'S TRIBUTE TO HIS DOG CLUNY, by WILLIAM CROSWELL DOANE Poem Source First Line: I am quite sure he thinks that I am god Last Line: Tells me what I unto my god should be Variant Title(s): Clun Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BITCH, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, when he and I meet, after all these years Last Line: "saying, ""good-bye! Good-bye! Nice to have seen you again." Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Ill-tempered; Language; Love; Women; Women's Rights; Words; Vocabulary; Feminism BITCH ON EARTH, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: A pack of dogs is following a bitch Last Line: This errant atom %we call the earth Subject(s): Animals BITCHING LIFE, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: We scorn the dog for letting itself %be tamed, for its obedience Last Line: For vowing obedience to the most powerful Subject(s): Animals BLACK ANIMALS, by ELIZABETH SEYDEL MORGAN Poem Source First Line: If it had been a dream Last Line: Can you realize that is the end of my story, and yours Subject(s): Animals; Dreams BLACK BEAR, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the summer, fall and spring Last Line: And there he snores - and snores - and snores Subject(s): Animals; Bears BLACK CAT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A ghost, though invisible, still is like a place Last Line: Inside the golden amber of her eyeballs %suspended, like a prehistoric fly Subject(s): Animals; Cats BLACK CAT IN PRUNUS-TREE, by JOSEPH BRADDOCK Poem Source First Line: Dark demon angel, by royal right Subject(s): Animals; Cats BLACK DOG, RIVER, MOON, by REYES GARCIA Poem Source First Line: I had a huge black dog then Last Line: Willing to trust in the pulse of the land in our blood Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BLACK DOG: ON BEING A POET, by JOAN+(1) MURRAY Poem Source First Line: So that coming to the low wall near the foreman's house Last Line: As he does. Till a door closes. Or opens Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BLACK FRIDAY, by LOUELLA C. POOLE Poem Source First Line: Each friday morning, sharp at eight Subject(s): Animals; Cats BLACK LAGOON, by BRYAN D. DIETRICH Poem Source First Line: Living, he'd found, was about breathing. Deep Last Line: As long in this earth as the deep and its two %new faces would allow Subject(s): Animals; Black (color); Water BLACK MOTH, by FRANK STEWART Poem Source First Line: Large as a hand, the black mosaic moth Last Line: And the faithfulness which they cannot help Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BLACK SNAKE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the black snake %flashed onto the morning road Last Line: Happily all spring through the green leaves before %he came to the road Subject(s): Animals; Snakes BLACK SNAKE DINES, by VICTORIA ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Under the tree that shades our table Last Line: In the direction that all of us fear Subject(s): Animals; Snakes BLACK-FOOTED FERRET, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Thief of darkness, her body Last Line: Into that black-masked equipoise Subject(s): Endangered Species; Ferrets; Rare Animals BLENNY, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: There are uglier fish than a blenny Last Line: But not many Subject(s): Marine Animals BLIND CAT BLACK, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: An absent-minded tightrope walker comes. From the sea Last Line: Too big. The old hawker cries. A pirate ship. Has entered the port Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death - Children BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT, by WILLIAM WENTHE Poem Source First Line: Six blind men came upon an elephant Last Line: And said, there remains the slight matter of the bill Subject(s): Animals; Elephants BLOOD SUGAR, by KANDIE ST. GERMAIN Poem Source First Line: This is the year of the crow Last Line: Inside the flower, %inside the vine Subject(s): Animals BLOODHOUND, by EDWARD ANTHONY Poem Source First Line: I am the dog world's best detective Last Line: Or my face my nasal accusation Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BLOODHOUND, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come, herod, my hound, from the stranger's Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BLOODLESS SPORTSMAN, by SAM WALTER FOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I go a-gunning, but take no gun Subject(s): Animals BLUE HARE, by KEVIN BLACK Poem Source First Line: In the resuscitation room Last Line: And he leapt the fence out of the bog %into the green meadow Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Survival BLUE HOURS: 1. CLOUD-HORSE, by RICK BAROT Poem Text First Line: Knowing exactly what it needs Subject(s): Animals; Freedom; Horses; Liberty BLUE JAY, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blue jay with a crest on his head Last Line: You copper-sulphate blue bird Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals BLUE MOLES, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They're out of the dark's ragbag, these two / moles dead in the pebbled rut Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Moles BLUE MOLES, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They're out of the dark's ragbag, these two %moles dead in the pebbled rut Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Moles BLUE OF THE SNAKE IS UNUSUALLY PALE, by KATALIN LADIK Poem Source Last Line: Bitting his own tail and beating pale eggs Subject(s): Animals; Snakes BLUE PERSIAN, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Source First Line: I have two servants Subject(s): Animals; Cats BLUE RIBBON CATS, by LALIA MITCHELL THORNTON Poem Source First Line: With folded claws, with eyes unblinking Subject(s): Animals; Cats BLUE WHALE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Only the dorsal fin is comprehensible Last Line: To warmth, and back to ice again Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals BLUE-BUTTERFLY DAY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is blue-butterfly day here in spring Last Line: Where wheels have freshly sliced the april mire. Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BLUE-TIT, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He is nothing but a blue-tit Subject(s): Animals BLUEBIRD, by AILEEN FISHER Poem Source First Line: In the woods a piece of sky Last Line: I heard a bluebird sing Subject(s): Animals BOA-CONSTRICTOR'S DREAM, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Within his knots a strength mysterious lies Last Line: With grace about a fair arm, round and white Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Reptiles; Snakes BOAR: WILD PIG, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: A wild boar, a dart Last Line: And plug the frenzied heads %of the wild pigs that have murdered him Subject(s): Animals BOB WHITE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out near the links where I go to play Last Line: May your food be plenty and skies be bright %to the end of your days, good friend bob %white! Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Animals BODY OF THE GREAT CAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All praise to thee, o ra Last Line: Truly the embodiment of the great cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats BOLTS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I've a head like a violin-case; I've a jaw Subject(s): Animals; Horses BOMBAY THE LABRADOR, by JOHN B. LEE Poem Source First Line: Bombay the labrador is a big black buckle-high boy Last Line: Like laughter echoes crossing %voices into joy Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Labrador BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#68), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man, that man, consorted with canines in the turmoil Last Line: He bestirs the dead man's fortitude Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BOOKS OF ST. ALBANS: THE HARE, by JULIANA BERNERS Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Barnes, Juliana; Bernes, Julia Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Rabbits BORING BEETLE BILL, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Our boring beetle's name is bill Last Line: He's our pencil sharpener Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools BORN WORRIER, by NANCY EIMERS Poem Source First Line: The afghan folds around my sleeping cat, lapping her back and belly Last Line: Before sleep blows the candle out Subject(s): Animals; Cats BOSTON CATS, by ARTHUR MACY Poem Source First Line: A little cat played on a silver flute Subject(s): Animals; Cats BOUNCE TO FOP; AN HEROIC EPISTLE FROM A DOG ... TO A DOG, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, sweet fop, these lines I send Last Line: And roar in numbers worthy bounce Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BOUNCE TO FOP; EPISTLE .. DOG AT TWICKENHAM TO DOG AT COURT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, sweet fop, these lines I send Last Line: And roar in numbers worthy bounce. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BOX-CAR RACER, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: At the top of high street Last Line: Jickety jackety %w h e e e! Subject(s): Animals; Cats BOY AND A PUP, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The boy wears a grin Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BOY AND HIS DOG, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Animals BOY LEADING A HORSE, by MARTIN MOONEY Poem Source First Line: I am fourteen years old, not a hair Last Line: His side, his thighs, his chest. %feed him apples Subject(s): Animals; Boys; Horses BRAVES OF THE HUNT, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Braves! That go out with your guides and gold and the Subject(s): Animals BREAKAGE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go down to the edge of the sea Subject(s): Leisure; Marine Animals; Sea; Ocean BREAKAGE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go down to the edge of the sea Last Line: Then you begin, slowly, to read the whole story Subject(s): Leisure; Marine Animals; Sea BREAKFAST AND PUSS, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here's my baby's bread and milk Subject(s): Animals; Cats BREAKFAST AND PUSS, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here's my baby's bread and milk Subject(s): Animals; Cats BREKEKEKEX KOAX KOAX, by ROBERT FULLER MURRAY Poem Text First Line: I love the inoffensive frog Last Line: If other inward parts exist. Subject(s): Animals; Aristophanes (450-388 B.c.); Dramatists; Frogs; Plays & Playwrights BRER RABBIT, YOU'S DE CUTES' OF 'EM ALL, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once der was a meetin' in de wilderness Last Line: Brer rabbit, you's de cutes' of 'em all. Subject(s): Animals BRIEF WORSHIP, by VIRGINIA SCOTT MINER Poem Text First Line: So short a time they have Last Line: They'd bark at god! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BRIGHT BIRD OF WEATHER, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Ice from a glacier melts in a glass Last Line: C-flat across the flat sea %where no birds fly tonight Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Wings BRINDLED DOG, BLACK DOG AND BLUE SHAGGY DOG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Any dogs for sale?' I will tie you up %tight and sell you Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BROCK, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Small wonder Subject(s): Animals; Badgers BROCK, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Small wonder Last Line: Patrolling his now-diminished estate %and taking stock of this and that Subject(s): Animals; Badgers BRONCHO VERSUS BICYCLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The first that we saw of the high-tone tramp Subject(s): Animals;bicycles;competition;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Cycling;southwest;pacific States BROODY, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ideally, they like to get the hole dug, then lead Last Line: Given in with her blind eyes open Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Horses BROTHER BEASTS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter is here / and there are no leaves Last Line: May have some goal. Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Soul; Stars; Winter; Nightmares BROTHER BRUIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dancing bear grotesque and funny Last Line: The hard old man may have repented. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Animals; Bears BROTHER OF A WEED, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have shut up my soul with vehemence Subject(s): Animals BROWN BEAR, by MARY HUNTER AUSTIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the wild bees that hive in the rocks Last Line: Old honey-paw sleeps in the wood Subject(s): Animals; Bears BROWN EYES, by MRS. S. L. DEMPSEY Poem Source First Line: In early youth I made a vow Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BROWN FROG, by MARY K. ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: To-day as I went out to play Subject(s): Animals; Frogs BRUMBY'S RUN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It lies beyond the western pines Last Line: And yard his mob again. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses BUBBA, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Lisa drove to syracuse Last Line: Fence tops dividing %neighboring yards Subject(s): Animals; Cats BUCKED OFF ITS BRAND, by ROBERT ALEXANDER FAIRLY Poem Text First Line: Take my word! He could buck, could brown baron Last Line: That a horse couldn't buck off its brand! Alternate Author Name(s): F., R. A. Subject(s): Animals; Crime & Criminals; Horses; Trials BUCOLIC, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having enough plowshares, %the best in the world, and fat pastures Last Line: Nodding, whether in agreement or sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Animals; Fields; Sheep BUCOLIC COMEDY: COUNTRY COUSIN: VARIATION 1, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In summer when the rose-bushes Last Line: But oh, the treasure heaven gains. Subject(s): Hens; Death – Animals BUCOLIC COMEDY: THE BEAR, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water-green is the flowing pollard Last Line: Down. Subject(s): Animals; Bears BUDGIE BABIES, by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Budgie babies slumber soundly Last Line: Dream of daddy in their sleep Subject(s): Animals; Fathers BUFFALO, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are the earth we have forgotten Last Line: Of bones, and in the chalky cliffs of the skulls Subject(s): Animals; Buffaloes; Nebraska BUFFALO CLOUDS OVER THE MAESTRO HOON, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a useless thing to do with the morning Last Line: Still strange to one another while on their honeymoons. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Courage; Ignorance; Lions; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls; Valor; Bravery; Dullness; Stupdity BUIE ANNAJOHN, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Buie annajohn's was the king's black mare Last Line: But half of the heave was buie annajohn, %buie, buie, buie annajohn! Subject(s): Animals; Horses BULL RETURNS, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bull returns from his day of work in the ring Last Line: Dry and gray, as though from a split mattress Subject(s): Animals BULLDOG, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: My dog and my favorite baseball glove Last Line: Could be they're from the same %leathery litter Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BULLDOG SPEAKS, by EDWARD ANTHONY Poem Source First Line: I agree that I'm no beauty Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BULLFROG, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With their lithe, long, strong legs Last Line: In your little old woman hands Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Animals; Frogs BULLFROG GROANS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Under the cold often rises Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Nature BUM, by W. DAYTON WEDGEFARTH Poem Text First Line: He's a little dog, with a stubby tail Last Line: For the good lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs BUMBLE BEE, by MARGARET WISE BROWN Poem Source First Line: Black and yellow Subject(s): Animals BUNCH: A CAT, by CLAUDE COLLEER ABBOTT Poem Source First Line: I opened a book Subject(s): Animals; Cats BUNKY, by BILLIE MARIE CRABB Poem Text First Line: With a crumpled ear and a crooked tail Last Line: I caught a mouse . . . Last year! Subject(s): Animals BUNYIP, by JENNY WAGNER Poem Source First Line: What do bunyips look like?' asked the bunyip Last Line: What a pity,' he murmured. 'what a pity, what a pity' Subject(s): Mythical Animals BURNING THE CAT, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the spring, by the big shuck-pile Last Line: Death, however reckoned, is hard to dispose of Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Corpses BURRO, by O. R. Poem Source First Line: Beloved vagrant of the ample ear Subject(s): Animals; Horses BURROS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The burros lazily infest the mountain Last Line: With tears. No beast can be a standing jest, and find in life much joy or zest, Subject(s): Animals; Donkeys; Horses; Burros BURYING PETS, by BRUCE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: We had to bury cal and uncle lou Last Line: We buried fluffy because we wanted to Subject(s): Animals; Children; Death - Animals BUSTOPHER JONES: THE CAT ABOUT TOWN, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bustopher jones is not skin and bones Last Line: It must and it shall be spring in pall mall %while bustopher jones wears his white spats! Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats BUSY, by PHYLLIS HALLORAN Poem Source First Line: Busy, busy, busy, busy Last Line: Busy little squirrel Subject(s): Animals BUSY FLAME, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: Oh, child, with what a will Last Line: Still as a dog before a fire! Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fire BUTTERFLIES, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Butterflies have no wings Last Line: So that the butterfly shall be harder to swallow Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Survival; Wings BUTTERFLIES, by NAKAMICHI Poem Source First Line: Fallen petals rise Last Line: Oh - butterflies Subject(s): Animals BUTTERFLY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Poem Source First Line: What is a butterfly? At best Last Line: He's but a caterpillar dressed Subject(s): Animals BUZZARD, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: It is not an affront to the kingdom of the birds Last Line: And now that buzzards are extinct %garbage is about to engulf the world Subject(s): Animals BY THE WELL OF LIVING AND SEEING (1 - 12), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dying gull %alone on a rock Last Line: Now and then - %with a sharp cry Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Gulls BYWAY IN BIOGRAPHY, by MAURICE EVAN HARE Poem Text First Line: Alfred de musset %used to call his cat pusset Last Line: His accent was affected. %that was only to be expected Variant Title(s): Alfred De Musse Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Musset, Alfred De (1810-1857) CADENCES, by SAMUEL TRAVERS CLOVER Poem Source First Line: I am riding, riding, riding, on the hard dirt road Alternate Author Name(s): Clover, Sam T. Subject(s): Animals; Horses CAELICA: 20, by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, how now cupid, do you covet change? Last Line: Let me first make your dog an unicorn. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CAGE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It tried to get from out the cage Last Line: To escape from out of the cage %by the edges and the side Subject(s): Animals CAGED, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was born behind bars, but it knew it had wings Last Line: But not one understood. Subject(s): Animals CAGED SQUIRREL, by JANET GARGAN Poem Source First Line: As 'round and 'round he spins the wheel Subject(s): Animals CALF, by ELEANOR BALDWIN Poem Source First Line: In a pasture toward the sun, o my brothers Subject(s): Animals CALF, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: If it is being fattened for food Last Line: Have not been inspired to jump for joy in years Subject(s): Animals; Cows; Farm Life CALIFORNIA BROWN PELICAN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: From adults she has learned Last Line: A heavy creature, mute but for the heart Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals CALIFORNIA CONDOR, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Who comforts the jeffrey pines Last Line: Carry us away again, sleepng Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals CALL, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is more sign of invasion Last Line: We choose to imagine it is love Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CALL FOR THE SNAKES, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: Call for the snakes to bear your wrath to the ends of the earth Last Line: Call for the clouds to bear your sorrows to the open seas Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Animals; Snakes CALL TO THE COW PONIES, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They sent us from coorong and cooper Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Horses CALLIGRAPHY, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Duck Last Line: A salutation to spring Subject(s): Animals; Birds CALLING IN THE HAWK, by HARRY HUMES Poem Source First Line: I should have a dead mouse in my hands Subject(s): Animals CAMEL, by SYLVIA CASSEDY Poem Source First Line: Tan %leather seats Last Line: Is this passenger mammal Subject(s): Animals; Camels CAMPAIGNER, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: A small white terrier greeted me Last Line: I asked the darling dog. %the tail wagged yes, %and her eyes agreed Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANADIAN GEESE ON COONAMESSETT INN POND, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Soldiers with webbed feet Last Line: First a line, then a circle, %they pair off in two's, %a well choreographed ballet Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANINE CELEBRITY, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: A blase schnauzer ignored me Last Line: When you are named after ogden phipps %you don't have time for small bark-talk Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANINE DAY, by LAUREN SMITH Poem Source First Line: The day came in on the backs of dogs Last Line: Have acquired property somewhere Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANINE HOW-TO BOOKLET, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: In a world of human mistrust Last Line: You never know what surprise may be in store. %she may offer you a taste treat Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANINE JEWEL IN SAKS FIFTH AVENUE, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Tiffany greeted me with generous licks Last Line: Her persian lamb coat %and iridescent manicured nails Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANINE MOVIE STAR, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Don't be discouraged if you're not a beauty queen Last Line: He'd probably be disqualified at the dog show, %lacking perfect markings as we all know Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANINE RECEPTIONIST, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: The sign said 'magoo is on vacation,' Last Line: I must always have what it takes, %even if I'm not in the pink Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANINE RESUME, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: See how pretty I am Last Line: And don't fight with other dogs. %I can list two pet shops for references Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANINE ROULETTE, by MIKE CLUFF Poem Source First Line: Puppies %pomeranians in beds of Last Line: Above my valley home Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANIS MAJOR, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The great overdog Last Line: That romps through the dark Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANIS MAJOR, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great overdog Last Line: That romps through the dark Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CANTICLE OF THE CREATURES [OR, SUN], by FRANCIS OF ASSISI Poem Source First Line: O most high, omnipotent, good lord; thine be the praise, the glory and the hono Last Line: Give praises and blessings and render thanks to my %lord, and serve him with great humility Alternate Author Name(s): Moriconi, Giovanni; Saint Francis; Francesco D'assisi, San Subject(s): Animals CAPTIVE BUTTERFLY, by HELEN GRANVILLE-BARKER Poem Source First Line: If I lie quite still in their net Subject(s): Animals CAPTIVE KNIGHT, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent I sit by the prison's high window Last Line: Then my cold face from this visor uncloaking. Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Animals; Fights; Horses; Knights & Knighthood; Prisons & Prisoners; Swords; Convicts CAPTIVE LION, by JUNE DALY Poem Source First Line: Sunset - and his anxious eyes Subject(s): Animals; Lions CAPTIVE POLAR BEAR, by STEPHEN LUCIUS GWYNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His dam lay, powerless not to help Subject(s): Animals CAPTURED EAGLE, by JANET GARGAN Poem Source First Line: He broods upon the highest perch Subject(s): Animals CARDINAL, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: Red as a shout Last Line: In the whole city %pale and dusted with %snow %only his wings are ablaze %with poppies! Subject(s): Animals; Seasons CARING FOR ANIMALS, by JON SILKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I ask sometimes why these small animals Last Line: And your love grows. Your great love grows and grows Subject(s): Animals CARMINA: MY LADY'S PET, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On her lap one of the matted terriers Last Line: It grinned I grinned back. %it's the one she calls little bottle after deng xiaoping Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Animals; Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997); Dogs CAROL FOR CHRISTMAS TIDE, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ox he openeth wide the doore Last Line: Between her bosom and his hayre! Variant Title(s): Tryste Noel Subject(s): Animals; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Oxen; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CARTOUCHE, by GREGORY N. GABBARD Poem Source First Line: The wedding of the cat Last Line: Darkening, %dilates Subject(s): Animals; Cats CASSOWARY, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the scraggly cassowary Last Line: Or eat the cassowary's egg Subject(s): Animals CASUALTIES: 13. THE LOCUST HUNT, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Locusts were discovered outside city walls Last Line: Lights up a stockpile Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Locusts CASUALTIES: 3. VULTURE'S CHOICE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The vulture wanted a child Last Line: To be married and no child! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Death; Food And Eating; Vultures CASUALTIES: 6. THE COCKEREL IN THE TALE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the desert end of a great road Last Line: His name, that morning he lent them forever Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animals; Hunting CASUALTIES: 7. THE REIGN OF THE CROCODILE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They say, %because the alligator is stark deaf Last Line: Not one knew the song Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animals; Crocodiles; Leadership; Swamps CASUALTIES: 9. WHAT THE SQUIRREL SAID, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They killed the lion in his den Last Line: Of it about us, about our necks Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Bulls; Death - Animals; Hunting; Leopards CAT, by SUTARDJI CALZOUM BACHRI Poem Source First Line: Meow! There's a cat in my blood he roars he runs Last Line: And a slice for me shush pussy shush meow Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scholars and ardent lovers Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the hallways of my thought Last Line: Which comtemplate me fixedly Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by JEAN COCTEAU Poem Source First Line: By the fire, like drifting reddish goldfish Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sights a bird -- she chuckles Last Line: And fled with every one Variant Title(s): She Sights A Bird -- She Chuckles; Poem: 50 Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soft cat and the scratchy cat Last Line: Are data. -- imperviouness. -- integrity Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by RUSSELL EDSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An old man is dressed in lingerie. He does this to amuse his cat Last Line: Oh, that old thing, it died Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by MIROSLAV HOLUB Poem Source First Line: Outside it was night Last Line: To your own self Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cat %sleeps Last Line: Exists for the purposes of love Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by KUSATAO Poem Source First Line: Flourishing his head around Last Line: The moonlight cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by FRANCOIS ELIE JULES LEMAITRE Poem Source First Line: Philosopher and comrade, not for thee Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You get a wife, you get a house Last Line: You should have bought another mouse Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by NGUYEN TRAI Poem Source First Line: Well, cat, did you find enlightenment in the western paradise Last Line: Because we loathe mice, we put up with the likes of you Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by MARTHA OSTENSO Poem Source First Line: How many ages %of chinese ancestry Last Line: Who purred at an emperor's %overthrow? Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by WALTER ADOLPHE ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pleasures that I most enviously sense Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cats are not at all like people Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cats are not at all like people Last Line: People, of course, will always be people, %but cats are cats Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by GILES LYTTON STRACHEY Poem Source First Line: Dear creature by the fire a-purr Last Line: Mysteriously gleams and glares Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT & THE WEATHER, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cat takes a look at the weather Last Line: He'll go right to sleep %until it puts itself right Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT AND MOUSE, by ELIZABETH PRATT Poem Text First Line: The claws of life at times remain Last Line: Then you can love and sing -- and pray. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Faith; Life; Mice; Belief; Creed CAT AND NORTHERN LIGHTS, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To think our cat was wandering Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT AND THE FOX, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With pious mien, a fox and a tom-cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables CAT AND THE LUTE, by THOMAS MASTER Poem Source First Line: Are these the strings that poets say Last Line: Hast played on them, I've played on you Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT AND THE MAN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Source First Line: Braith fach - a half-stone in the scales Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT AND THE MOON, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat went here and there Last Line: And lifts to the changing moon %his changing eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dancing And Dancers; Moon CAT AND THE PARTRIDGE, by DAMOCHARIS THE GRAMMARIAN Poem Source First Line: Your master grieved as though you'd savaged him Last Line: The mice can dance and rob your dainty bowl Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT AND THE SEA, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a matter of a black cat Last Line: With the cold interiors %of the sea's mirror Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Sea CAT AND THE WIND, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A small wind Last Line: When the wind bustles already %three gardens off Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT AS CAT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat on my bosom Last Line: Not mine. I-thou, cat, I-thou Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT AT NIGHT, by ADRIEN STOUTENBURG Poem Source First Line: The cat in moonlight Last Line: And loses it under the cottonwoods Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT CALLS, SELECTION, by ROBERT DE MONTESQUIOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night all cats are gray Last Line: At whom pelion recoils. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Terror CAT CHANGED INTO A WOMAN, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A man loved, heart and soul, his favorite cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables CAT CHANGED TO A WOMAN, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A man one time became dementedly fond of his cat Last Line: They will open a window and return Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT HAS THE LAST WORD, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: If you'd learn the way of cats Last Line: Carry the moon in your eyes Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT HEARD THE CAT-BIRD, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day, a fine day, a high-flying-sky day Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT IN AN EMPTY APARTMENT, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dying -- you wouldn't do that to a cat Last Line: And no jumping, purring at first Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT IN MOONLIGHT, by DOUGLAS GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Through moonlight's milk Last Line: And which is her Subject(s): Animals CAT IN THE PARK, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: If the cat had dragged himself into the cannas Last Line: But petals blown from the cannas, tongues of fire Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Relationships CAT INTO LADY, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A man possessed a cat on which he doted Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables CAT MAY LOOK AT A KING, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cat %came and sat Last Line: On tabby tom instead!' Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E. Subject(s): Animals CAT MORGAN INTRODUCES HIMSELF, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I once was a pirate what sailed the 'igh seas Last Line: If jist you make friends with the cat at the door Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT OF CATS, by VIVIEN BULKLEY Poem Source First Line: Now tom's translated, not a mouse Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT ON THE LEDGE, by LYDIA PENDER Poem Source First Line: Nonchalant cat Last Line: Somnolent cat! Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT ON THE MAT, by JOHN RONALD RENEL TOLKIEN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The fat cat on the mat Last Line: But fat cat on the mat %kept as pet %he does not forget Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT REVIEWS HIS FIRST FOUR LIVES, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Of my earliest life I just recall Last Line: I'd gladly live them all again Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT SITS AT THE MILL DOOR SPINNIN', SPINNIN', by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT STRIKE, by NOVICA TADIC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night the cats' cough wakes him up Last Line: The cats are on strike Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT TO HIS DINNER, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fern and flower, safely keep Last Line: Send me another as good as the first Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT UP A TREE, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Girl: come and see! There's a cat up a tree! Last Line: Some goldfish! A long-tailed shrew! Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT!, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cat! %scat! Last Line: That's %that! Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT'S CONSCIENCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The dog will often steal a bone Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT'S DREAM, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How neatly a cat sleeps Last Line: And the great ruff of your tail Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT'S EYE, by YORIE Poem Source First Line: In the eyes of the cat Last Line: On a sunny day, in winter Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT'S MEAT, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, all you cats in all the street Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT'S PRAYER, by HARRY SINCLAIR LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is a cat that sleeps at night Last Line: Thy tail is the comets' cause, %king of all cattery! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Sinclair Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT'S TONGUE, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT'S TONGUE, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT'S VERSION, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: In the beginning %when the cat could fly Last Line: Stuck to her whisker Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT'S WORLD, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I come in, you must leave the door ajar Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, CAT, HE WEARS A HAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: The cat you love - or so you say! Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT-GODDESSES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A perverse habit of cat-goddesses Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT-GODDESSES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A perverse habit of cat-goddesses Last Line: As soon they shall be happy to desert Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT-GODDESSES, by JOHN MONTAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A perverse habit of cat-goddesses Last Line: As soon they shall be happy to desert Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT-TAIL, by C. A. F. MACBETH Poem Text First Line: Southward from old memphis, down the storied nile Last Line: Bast the cat has picked another tail! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Egypt CAT-TAILS, by KEN HUGHES Poem Text First Line: They stand in opaque dark Last Line: As onyx waters caress their feet. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Heads CAT: CHRISTMAS, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: There's always Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATALOG [CATALOGUE], SELS., by ROSALIE GERTRUDE MOORE Poem Source First Line: Cats sleep fat and walk thin Last Line: As if he were the city hall %after that Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATCH, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've enjoyed the chase today Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Animals CATCH, by BEN JONSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Buzz! Quoth the blue fly Variant Title(s): Buzz And Hum; Satyres Catc Subject(s): Animals CATEGORICAL COURTSHIP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I sat one night beside a blue-eyed girl Last Line: And here's the catastrophe of my story Subject(s): Animals;cats;courtship CATERPILLAR'S APOLOGY FOR EATING A FAVORITE GLADIOLUS, by CHARLES WILLIAM DALMON Poem Source First Line: Confuse me not with impious things Subject(s): Animals; Caterpillars; Insects CATERPILLARS, by BROD BAGERT Poem Source First Line: They came like dewdrops overnight Last Line: Someday they'll all be butterfiles Subject(s): Animals CATFISH, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: I cannot purr Last Line: To be a cat. %that's that! Subject(s): Marine Animals CATFISH, by J. F. HENDRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The leopard eye of a murderer Last Line: That has a grip like steel Subject(s): Animals CATNIP, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: Musky mint Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lovers, scholars -- the fervent, the austere Last Line: Glisten in those enigmatic eyes Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are alike, prim scholar and perfervid lover Last Line: Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The feverent lover and the sage austere Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS, by EDITH RICHMOND BLANCHARD Poem Source First Line: They are not born secret, moon-eyed and still Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS, by FAZIL HUSNU DAGLARCA Poem Source First Line: The widow's %cat Last Line: Than the bride's Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS, by GUNNAR EKELOF Poem Source First Line: A cat is not a person, you say Last Line: Without wounds other than small claw-marks %little love-bites Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They fought like demons of the night Last Line: With fiddle-strings was strewn. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS, by ARTHUR SEYMOUR JOHN TESSIMOND Poem Source First Line: Cats, no less liquid than their shadows Last Line: Offer no angles to the wind Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Life Change Events CATS, by WILLIAM WALLACE WHITELOCK Poem Source First Line: Who are you, gray mysterious visitors Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS AND CROCUSES, by EVA MARTIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the crocus-bed I saw her Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS AND HUMANS - ALL THE SAME, by ANTHONY EUWER Poem Source First Line: Of all the beasts that live, we must Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS AND KINGS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With wide unblinking stare Last Line: The cat looked; but she never saw the king Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS HAVE COME TO TEA, by KATE GREENAWAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What did she see - oh, what did she see Last Line: Dear me - oh, dear me, %all the cats had come to tea Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS OF BADDECK ARE SO SATIN AND LEAN, by PHOEBE W. HOFFMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS OF KILKENNY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There once were two cats of kilkenny Last Line: Instead of two cats, there weren't any Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS OF ROME', by PAUL D. MCKERRY Poem Source Last Line: Thus leaving me %with these 'gatti.' Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Rome, Italy CATS OF SANTA ANNA, by TORQUATO TASSO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So many cats so often multiply Last Line: Unless it resembles cats and has a tail Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS OF ST. NICHOLAS, by GEORGE SEFERIS Poem Source First Line: That's the cape of cats ahead,' the captain said to me Last Line: Steady as you go,' indifferently echoed the helmsman Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATSNEST, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tread %tread Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATTLE, by ? BANKO Poem Source First Line: How cool the cattle seem Last Line: Knee-deep within the stream Subject(s): Animals; Cattle CATTLE BEFORE THE STORM, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Source First Line: About the water hole, half dried Subject(s): Animals CATTLE TRAIN, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Below my window goes the cattle train Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Animals CAUCHEMAR IS A WHITE HORSE, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: Wear your hair like a skull cap Last Line: Come christ and cauchemar, %my sweet mares till morning Subject(s): Animals; Horses CAVALRY CHARGE, by FOLGER MCKINSEY Poem Source First Line: After the tanks and gun machines Subject(s): Animals; Horses CAVE CRAYFISH, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: At noon she walks the bottom Last Line: The other, her hollow twin Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals CAVE PAINTING, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Might he (cro-magnon) have drawn bison ...' Last Line: Is this knowledge of loss Subject(s): Extinct Animals; Poetry & Poets CAVE PAINTING, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: What story to tell on the stone flank Last Line: Bison. Bear. Deer. Hawk. %man. Dog. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CELEBRITY, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: A chestnut brown celebrity neighs Last Line: The beast breaks into a trot %and leaves the world of people Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CENTIPEDE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I objurgate the centipede Last Line: Or, if he is, he makes a spot Subject(s): Animals; Centipedes CERBERUS, by N. B. TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: There! %that terrible three-necked Last Line: He barred the way to pluto's house Subject(s): Mythical Animals CEREZAS DULCES, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For our fiesta evening.' Subject(s): Desert Animals CHAMELEON'S A SHADOW NO ONE KNOWS, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source Last Line: But never leave a forwarding address Subject(s): Animals CHANCE, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sixty miles from a homestead, straight as Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CHANCE TO LOVE EVERYTHING, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All summer I made friends Subject(s): Animals CHANG TUAN'S CATS, by WANG CHIH Poem Source First Line: Scholar chang tuan was fond of cats Last Line: And nothing could persuade chang %to part with them Subject(s): Animals; Cats CHANGE, by LALIA MITCHELL THORNTON Poem Source First Line: My kitten slept in a cushioned chair Subject(s): Animals; Cats CHANT TO A WERE-BEAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "were-bear, why are you not in hell?" Subject(s): Animals;bears;mythology - Native American;native Americans;superstition; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America CHANTICLEER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the birds from east to west Last Line: He summons back the light! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Morning; Roosters; Cocks CHARCOAL SKETCH, by MICHAEL SCOT Poem Source First Line: Uplifting suddenly slim fiery-golden anthers Subject(s): Animals; Cats CHARITY'S EYE, by WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE ALGER Poem Source First Line: One evening jesus lingered in the market Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CHARLEMAGNE, by VIKRAM SETH Poem Source First Line: Why scratch a scratching post when trousers Last Line: The hybrid vigor of the great Subject(s): Animals; Cats CHARME FR. THE MASQUE OF QUEENES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The owle is abroad, the bat, and the toad Subject(s): Animals CHEETAH, by DARREN COYLES Poem Source First Line: A cheetah mas metal girder teeth Last Line: Throwing out its fear Subject(s): Animals; Cheetahs CHESHIRE DAWN, by VICTORIA FORRESTER Poem Source First Line: They pounced on me Subject(s): Animals CHICKADEE, by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chickadee in the appletree Last Line: Chick-a-dee-dee-dee . . . Subject(s): Animals CHILD'S DREAM, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a little dog, and my dog was very small Last Line: All among its petals, was his hairy face Variant Title(s): The Little Do Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CHILDREN'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Cock-a-doodle-doo! I want my leftover rice Last Line: It has all dried up Subject(s): Animals; Cats CHIMERA, by PENELOPE SCAMBLY SCHOTT Poem Source First Line: Do you always act polite? Last Line: He turned that chimera into a word Subject(s): Mythical Animals CHINESE DRAGON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As the sun came up, a ball of red Last Line: But I rode a dragon as swift as the wind! Subject(s): Mythical Animals CHIPMUNK'S DAY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In and out the bushes, up the ivy Last Line: Dives to his rest Subject(s): Animals; Chipmunks CHIQUITA, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful! Sir, you may say so. Thar isn't her match in the county Last Line: -- well, hosses is hosses! Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Animals; Horses CHOOSING A DOG, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's love,' they say. You touch Last Line: They see time going on and someone alone, %but they don't say anything Subject(s): Animals; Change; Dogs CHOOSING A PART, by JULIE LARIOS Poem Source First Line: It might be the neck of a giraffe Last Line: Straight up through me and out Subject(s): Animals CHOW OUTSIDE GRAMERCY PARK, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: My bark sounds vicious Last Line: Perhaps some lonely person would even enjoy %patting me Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 31. THE BRINDLED HARE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: By grange and castle when the fields were cool Last Line: Bearing against his breast the wounded hare. Subject(s): Animals; Anselm Of Canterbury, Saint (1033-1109); Great Britain - History; Rabbits; English History; Hares CHRIST TO DUMB CREATURES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For man or for your fellows die Last Line: With my humanity are one. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry CHRISTOPHER SINGING, by VICTORIA WYTTENBERG Poem Source First Line: My black shepherd rises at the sound Last Line: Shingled and mossy, past tree branches %polished by moonlight Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CHRYSOBERYL: THE EYE OF THE CAT, by FELICITY BAST Poem Source First Line: At the crest of the arch of the timbrel Last Line: Of the changes of the moon Subject(s): Animals; Cats CHUMASH MAN, by GEORGIANA VALOYCE SANCHEZ Poem Source First Line: Shoo-mash,' he says Last Line: Above the constant breaking %of the waves Subject(s): Hunting; Seals (animals) CHUTZPAH--IN NAME ONLY, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: They call me chutzpah Last Line: I would have barked %till they let me sit with my master Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CID: PART 4, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of the king right Last Line: To a man of valor Subject(s): Animals; Cid, El (1043-1099); Heroism; Horses; Spain - History; War CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION, by KAY RYAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They hade been taken far Subject(s): Animals; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sought a theme and sought for it in vain Last Line: In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Memory; Past; Poetry And Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) CIRCUS-POSTERED BARN, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When dobbin and robin, unharnessed from the plow Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals CITY HORSES, by HELEN MYERS MELDRUM Poem Source First Line: Their fiery spirits tamed, heads meekly bent Subject(s): Animals; Horses CLAM, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: They say, 'as happy as a clam,' Last Line: And furthermore: I think clams smell Subject(s): Marine Animals CLASSIC OF POETRY: 23. 'DEAD ROE DEER', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A roe deer dead in the meadow Last Line: And don't set the cur to barking Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Death - Animals; Deer CLAUDE THE CAT, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Presenting claude, our classroom cat Last Line: Curls up, and purrs, and takes a nap Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools CLEANING, by ANN TURNER Poem Source First Line: The owl has vacuumed Last Line: Rolled in their own %coughed-up fur Subject(s): Animals CLEOPATRA, by BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD Poem Source First Line: In %africa %the strange beasts Subject(s): Animals CLOUD FANTASIES: 1, by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A black enormous cat Last Line: Of the palpitant, covetous cat. Subject(s): Animals; Cats COBRA, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This creature fills its mouth with venum Last Line: He who attempts to tease the cobra %is soon a sadder he, and sobra Subject(s): Animals; Cobras; Snakes COCHERO AND THE HORSE, by NORBERT LYONS Poem Source First Line: Every country has its troubles Subject(s): Animals; Horses COCOON, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The little caterpillar creeps Last Line: And that's the end of three good tries Subject(s): Animals; Caterpillars; Insects COIGN OF VANTAGE, by BRIAN HENRY Poem Source First Line: A horse and a mule stand head to tail in a pasture Last Line: The horse and the mule know better Subject(s): Animals; Asses And Mules; Horses COKE AND SNOW, BLACK AND WHITE TERRIERS, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: We don't even like scotch whiskey Last Line: We'll bring much joy to our new home, %and promise that we shall never roam Subject(s): Animals; Dogs COLD MOUNTAIN POEMS: 158, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In other days, I was poor enough to suit Last Line: Around the rice-jar, rats wait hungrily Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Animals; Cats COLD-BLOODED CREATURES, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, the egregious egoist Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Mankind; Snakes; Human Race; Serpents; Vipers COLD-BLOODED CREATURES, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, the egregious egoist Last Line: Where lidless fishes, broad awake, %swim staring at a night-mare doom Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Mankind; Snakes COMBE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The combe was ever dark, ancient and dark Last Line: Dug him out and gave him to the hounds, %that most ancient briton of english beasts Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Animals; Environment; Trees COME HITHER, LITTLE PUPPY-DOG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Dogs COME HITHER, SWEET ROBIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals COME INTO ANIMAL PRESENCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: An old joy returns in holy presence Subject(s): Animals; Nature COMING HOME FROM THE TAVERN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Doglike, the snake is getting comfortable Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Snakes COMMISSARIAT CAMELS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We haven't a camelty tune of our own Last Line: Pass it along the line! Subject(s): Animals; Noises; Sound COMPANIONSHIP AT NIGHT, by AGNES STEWART BECK Poem Text First Line: An owl's weird cry comes across the hill Last Line: Keeps coming across the hill all night. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats; Night; Owls; Trees; Bedtime COMPASS FOR DANCE STEPS, by EMILY BEYER Poem Source First Line: Coyotes push %down the door Last Line: With summer still on their tongues Subject(s): Animals; Dancing And Dancers COMPLAINT ON HER CAT (A MIDDLE-ENGLISH BALLAD), by DIANE ACKERMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Upon my trouthe, I saye you faithfully Last Line: When that he straieth from his moder tonge Subject(s): Animals; Cats COMPLETION, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday was tomorrow Subject(s): Goats; Death - Animals CONCERNING KINSHIP OF CAT AND BIRD, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat's on the windowsill Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats CONCERNING KINSHIP OF CAT AND BIRD, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat's on the windowsill Last Line: Both protest and accusation as old as the elements Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats CONCERNING LOVE, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish she would not ask me if I love the Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Cats CONCH SHELL, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: You, like all of us, are what you conceal. Beneath Last Line: For, like all of us, you are what you conceal Subject(s): Animals CONFESSION OF A GLUTTON, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After I ate my dinner then I ate Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 10. BIRDIES SING AND EVERYTHING, by GILBERT SORRENTINO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Friends, one of the facts Last Line: Doth glint. Or smiling jump off same Subject(s): Diving And Divers; Food And Eating; Marine Animals; Restaurants; San Francisco Bay, California CONNOISSEURS, by DUGALD SUTHERLAND MACCOLL Poem Source First Line: Under a tree I read a latin book Subject(s): Animals; Cats CONROY'S GAP, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This was the way of it, don't you know Last Line: The end of the story of conroy's gap Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses CONSCRIPTS, by ANNA M. FIELDING Poem Source First Line: On a smooth, white road in a neutral land Subject(s): Animals; Horses CONSOLATION, by PAMELA ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The violence in civilized parts is worrisome. We have old Last Line: & tide flats we travel wear them urgently Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CONSUL ROMANUS, by BERTRAND SHADWELL Poem Source First Line: Shod with gold, %and bitted with gold Subject(s): Animals; Horses CONTENTMENT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I like the way that the world is made Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CONTRA MORTEM: THE VILLAGE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight drivels down the mountain. There below Last Line: In the hostel its eyes too dead for pity Subject(s): Animals; Extinct Animals COON DOGS, by MICHAEL PETTIT Poem Source First Line: Red bone %still hound Last Line: Into death %its secret home Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CORNEY'S HUT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Old corney built in deadman's gap Last Line: Upon the dog that mourned his master Subject(s): Animals;death;dogs;funerals;solitude; "dead, The;burials;loneliness; CORPSE OF A CAT, by HAGIWARA SAKUTARO Poem Source First Line: In a spongelike landscape Subject(s): Animals; Cats CORRAL, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight I'm watching the news Last Line: When the kids got shocked. The wire is thin, %almost invisible Subject(s): Animals; Horses; News COSMIC MICROBE, by BERNARD SEEMAN Poem Text First Line: Today / rears like a / powerful blue-gray Last Line: Even by yourself. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Past COUNCIL HELD BY THE RATS (2), by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A tyrant cat, by surname nibblelard Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables COUNTRY FAIR, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If you didn't see the six-legged dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs COUNTRY FAIR, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you didn't see the six-legged dog Last Line: And that was the whole show Subject(s): Animals; Dogs COUNTRYSIDE CAMP, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gypsy man and gypsy woman drinking tea Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Farm Life; Horses; Wagons; Camps; Summer Camps; Agriculture; Farmers COUNTRYSIDE CAMP, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the blue shadow of the wagon Last Line: Round and round the marigold Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Farm Life; Horses; Wagons COW, by DESALES HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Eight maybe nine skinnies some with aks Last Line: That's what I did Subject(s): Animals; Cows COW AT SULLINGTON, by CHARLES WILLIAM DALMON Poem Source First Line: She leaves the puddle where she drinks Subject(s): Animals; Cows COW DOGS, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: The ranchers I knew as a boy Last Line: Dust rising from the baked earth, %night settling on the silent ranch Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Ranch Life COWBIRD'S PARADISE?, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source Last Line: Branch. %ranch Subject(s): Animals COWBOY VERSUS BRONCHO, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haven't got no special likin' fur the toney sorts o' Last Line: An' mistook the proper time to have it out. Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States COWDOGS CAUGHT THEIR FIRST JACKRABBIT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Growling to protect his trophy, the bloody ears Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Nature; Rabbits COWPER'S THREE HARES, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They know not of their mission from above Last Line: And mix your woodland breath with cowper's sighs. Subject(s): Animals; Cowper, William (1731-1800); Poetry & Poets; Rabbits; Hares COYOTE PROWLED, by ANNIE ELIZABETH CHENEY Poem Source First Line: A coyote came one night to the sea Subject(s): Animals CRAB, by J. F. HENDRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All his savings are sunk in his claws Last Line: Supplies safeguarded, a real crab Subject(s): Animals CRAB DANCE, by GRACE NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: Play moonlight Last Line: Their last crab dance Subject(s): Animals CRANE'S LEGS, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Patiently the crane fishes in the lake Last Line: His long red legs shortened since the rains Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Animals CRANKY CANINE, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Hug me if you must Last Line: But with a name like herr chips %I should get some respect Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CRAWLING OUT AT PARTIES, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My old reptile loves the scotch Last Line: The stagnant, sobering water. Subject(s): Animals; Human Behavior; Parties; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CREATURE'S REST, by ALCMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now sleep mountain-top and chasm Last Line: Now sleep, and tribes, %too, of the wide-winged birds Alternate Author Name(s): Alkman Subject(s): Animals CREATURES PLAYING CHEQUERS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Animals CRESTS OF MY COLTS, by KARIN WISIOL Poem Source First Line: Now my colts curve Last Line: The crests of my colts as we %flash down Subject(s): Animals; Horses CRICKET SINGING IN THE MARKETPLACE, by LOUELLA C. POOLE Poem Source First Line: Down in the city's market-place Subject(s): Animals CRICKETS, by HARRY BEHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot say that crickets sing Last Line: Then peacefully they chirp all night %remembering delight, delight Subject(s): Animals CRICKETS, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: I borrow an allusion from crickets Last Line: The night would not be night Subject(s): Animals CRICKETT, A CANINE CRITIC, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: What shrill sounds pierce my ears Last Line: Next time tell her you're already engaged, %even if rejection causes her to be enraged Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CRIES IN THE NIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked in the pines. A coyote Last Line: And knew that his cry was my cry. Subject(s): Animals; Night; Voices; Bedtime CROCODILE, by MICHAEL FLANDERS Poem Source First Line: This is a crocodile, my boy Last Line: You have just been eaten by Subject(s): Animals CROCODILE, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The crocodile's a social sort Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals CROSSING THE PLAINS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What great yoked brutes with briskets low Last Line: Kings even in captivity. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Variant Title(s): Ship In The Desert Subject(s): Animals; Patriotism; Pioneers CROTALUS, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No life in earth, or air, or sky Last Line: To lie, untrodden, in the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers CROWS, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I like to walk Last Line: Of crows for my good night Subject(s): Animals CRUEL BOY AND THE KITTENS, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What! Go to see the kittens drowned Subject(s): Animals; Cats CRUEL BOY AND THE KITTENS, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What! Go to see the kittens drowned Subject(s): Animals; Cats CRUEL CLEVER CAT, by GEOFFREY TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Sally, having swallowed cheese Last Line: Enticing thus with baited breath %nice mice to an untimely death Subject(s): Animals; Cats CRUELTY, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: She crouched outside my door at break of dawn Subject(s): Animals; Cats CRYING WOLF, by MARY CROW Poem Source First Line: Something seems to be moving Last Line: No wolf anywhere in sight Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CUCKOO, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The voice of spring is heard in the forest Last Line: Soon he will board out his son Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cuckoos CUORED O' SKEERIN', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lish, you rickollect that-air Last Line: Little traction-engine there! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Horses CURIOSITY, by ALASTAIR REID Poem Source First Line: May have killed the cat; more likely Last Line: That dying is what, to live, each has to do Subject(s): Animals; Cats CURSE, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: May whoever left Last Line: May he know %lonely Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CUSTODIAN, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every spring when the ice goes out Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CUSTOMS INSPECTOR, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Jackpot was sporting a coat grass-green Last Line: So I waved goodbye to my beagle friend %as he passed out of sight around the bend Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CYNOTAPHIUM (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When some dear human friend to death doth bow Last Line: I laid thy sightless head full gently there. Variant Title(s): The Tear Of Friendship Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Dead, The CYNOTAPHIUM (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot think thine all is buried here Last Line: How much on such dark ground a gleaming thread can do! Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Dead, The D IS FOR DOG, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My dog went mad and bit my hand Last Line: I was bitten to the heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DA PUP EEN DA SNOW, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Deed you evra see joy Last Line: Ees first play een da snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DACHSHUND, by JOHN E. DONOVAN Poem Source First Line: A dachshund sniffing round a tree Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DACHSHUND, by CLIVE SANSOM Poem Source First Line: Sharp nose raised Last Line: Bringing up the rear Subject(s): Animals DADDYLONGLEGS, by MARY ANN HOBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Daddylonglegs need not worry Last Line: Seven legs will do for dad Subject(s): Animals DAFFY WILL, by LADD FRISBY MORSE Poem Text First Line: Little he was / little an' bent Last Line: Like he's poorin' a cat. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Faces; Houses DALEY'S DORG WATTLE, by W. T. GOODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You can talk about yer sheep dorgs,' said the man from allan's creek Last Line: "that there dorg had got that inseck in the bottle." Alternate Author Name(s): Goodge, William Thomas Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Insects; Bugs DAMASCUS, by EDNA HOLROYD YELLAND Poem Source First Line: Long-haired kittens of damascus, why are you Subject(s): Animals; Cats DAMELUS' SONG TO HIS FLOCK, by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Feed on, my flocks, securely Subject(s): Animals DAN, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early may, after cold rain the sun Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DAN, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early may, after cold rain the sun Last Line: Against each other on his paws %and head Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DANCE OF DEATH: HUNTSMAN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blew %in the cold furrow Last Line: Et, ecce, nunc in pulvere dormio Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Animals; Foxes; Hunting DANDIE DINMONTS, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pepper or mustard- what's the odds? Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DANDY CAT, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To sir green-eyes grimalkin de tabby de sly Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E. Subject(s): Animals; Cats DANIEL WEBSTER'S HORSES, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If when the wind blows Last Line: "see their shoes fit." Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Fantasy; Horses; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) DANSE MACABRE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The broken oarshaft was stuck in the hill Last Line: Its cruel nail to its true pencil. Subject(s): Animals; Boats; Horses DANTE: BOOK ONE, 3 (1), by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a little language of my cat, tho dante says Last Line: As if crouching, springs %to life Variant Title(s): A Little Languag Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Language DAPPLEDUN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little boy who, strange to say Last Line: Poor dappledun was dead! Subject(s): Animals; Horses DAT OL' MARE O' MINE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Want to trade me, do you, mistah? Oh, well, now, I reckon not Last Line: Dat ol' mare o' mine. Subject(s): Animals; Horses DAVY, HER KNIGHT, HER DEAR, WAS DEAD, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DAWN, by WILLIAM FREELAND Poem Text First Line: In the cool star-glimmer, night's dream of dawn Last Line: To bathe in the solar surge of fire! Subject(s): Animals; Dawn; Sunrise DAY AFTER CHASING PORCUPINES, by JAMES WELCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rain came. Fog out of the slough and horses Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DAYBREAK, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard an ancient sound: a cock that crew Subject(s): Animals DAYS INN, by M. B. MCLATCHEY Poem Source First Line: Everything about it says economy Last Line: To choruses like this. Love wants a jungle shower Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Animals; Apes; Motion Pictures DEAD 'WESSEX,' THE DOG, TO THE HOUSEHOLD, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you think of me at all Subject(s): Animals DEAD BIRD, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, that was but the wind Subject(s): Animals DEAD BIRDS AND EASTER, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH Poem Source First Line: God thought it worth his while to make a bird Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley Subject(s): Animals DEAD BOY'S PORTRAIT AND HIS DOG, by GERALD MASSEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Day after day I have come and sat Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DEAD FISH ON THE SHORE WITH CLAMS, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: It is winter Last Line: To abandon hope Subject(s): Absence; Boats; Clams; Cuba; Death; Marine Animals; Sea Voyages DEAD HORSE, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the fence line, I was about to call him in when Subject(s): Horses; Death - Animals; Food & Eating DEAD HORSE, by CECILIA MEIRELES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the early morning mist Last Line: O heavy breast of the dead horse! Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Skeletons DEAD HORSE, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Seeing it there in the flat you would not at first have said it was a carcass Last Line: Soon now a nocturnal animal will approach, implacably, to strip flesh from bone Subject(s): Animals DEAD MOLE, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Strong-shouldered mole Last Line: Buried within the blue vault of the air? Subject(s): Animals; Moles; Mourning DEAD PUSSY CAT, by JOHN BENNETT (1865-1956) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You's as stiff an' as cold as a stone Subject(s): Animals; Cats DEAD RACCOON, LEGS IN THE AIR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Washes his paws in the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death - Animals; Nature; Raccoons DEAD SHEEP, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was blacksmith in my breast Subject(s): Animals DEAD-HORSE GATE, by RODERIC JOSEPH QUINN Poem Text First Line: The track that ran through hunthaway Last Line: Along the lachlan-side. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Drought; Horses; Legends; Dead, The DEAR MARVIN, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I merge with your message wherever Last Line: There, your very best friend Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DEATH COMES TO AN ALLEY CAT, by MARY C. SLEVIN Poem Text First Line: All sickened, sad, revolted - angry, too Last Line: Above the little cat. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death; Dead, The DEATH IS AN ANIMAL, by VIOLETA PARRA Poem Source Subject(s): Animals DEATH OF A CAT, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since then, those months ago, these rooms miss something Last Line: For you and me, darling, this is an epitaph Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Animals; Cats DEATH OF A DOG, by BIN RAMKE Poem Source First Line: The wearng of time on the wrist Last Line: He loved me like clockwork while he lived Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DEATH OF PLINY THE ELDER: LULL, by CHRISTOPHER PATTON Poem Source First Line: Because the lion loves Last Line: Come upon me %an uncommon calm Subject(s): Animals; Lions; Nature DEATH OF THE HORSES BY FIRE, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We have seen a house in the sleeping time Last Line: And called to each other to save them Subject(s): Horses; Death - Animals DEDICATION [FOR MAU MAU KITTY WHOSE NAME CONTAINS THE MANTRA AUM], by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: Who wiped out every pigeon on our roof save two so that the plenty Last Line: Whose white paws are wisdom and black paws are gentleness who %can shift his shape at night who can Subject(s): Animals; Cats DEER, by ALIKI BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: Beautiful deer Last Line: Do not tire till dawn Subject(s): Animals DEER HUNG FLAPPING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Pushed by an inner wind Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death - Animals; Deer; Nature DEER-TRAPPER, by FRANCIS STERNE PALMER Poem Source First Line: At sight of him the birds berate Alternate Author Name(s): Palmer, F. S. Subject(s): Animals DELIA AND I, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Delia and I are driving alone Last Line: Learning the roads that lead lovers to rome! Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Lent; Love; Pleasure; Wagons DESCENT INTO THE HOURS OF THE PEREGRINE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A wet umbrella is open in the tub. It's midnight Last Line: Streaming from the corners of its mouth. Subject(s): Animals; Aviation & Aviators; Cats; Children; Night; Paper; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Childhood; Bedtime DESCRIPTION OF A PLAZA, A MONUMENT AND ALLEGORIES IN BRONZE, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: The horse, a liberator Last Line: Black truncheons, green helmets %whitened by birdshit Subject(s): Animals; Freedom; Horses; Monuments; Patriotism DESCRIPTION OF A SALAMANDER, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As mastiff dogs in modern phrase are Last Line: If this be not a salamander Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Salamanders DESIRE TO BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE, by CHARLES HENRI FORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stones watch the sea like cats: -- the stone of sleep Last Line: I; stone and cat: -- both mine to wonder at Alternate Author Name(s): Ford, Charles Henry Subject(s): Animals; Cats DESK-TALK, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The least generous and most ungrateful Last Line: For you if I do! Subject(s): Animals; Cats DESPAIRING POOCH WAITING FOR A TAXI, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Why won't you pick us up? Last Line: I won't annoy you with barking comments, %so you see the ride will be very quiet Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DIALOGUE .. OLD BLACK HORSE AT CHARING CROSS AND NEW ONE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In london late happen'd a pleasant discourse Last Line: Since this h-er beast you'll not find worth your care %let him go to grass, and the man have his mar Subject(s): Animals; Horses DIALOGUE OF THE HORSES, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are the pets of men Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will Subject(s): Animals DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND, by EWART MILNE Poem Source First Line: Two cats %one up a tree Last Line: And one cat under %a witch elm %tree Subject(s): Animals; Cats DIFFERENCE OF ZOOS, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the hotel broog Last Line: I went to the zoo %and oh thank god the simple elephant Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Animals DIFFICULT BODY, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Death - Animals DIGGING, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Digging is a thing I love to do Last Line: Dirt is riddled with old bones to chew Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DINAH, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our dinah is a persian cat Subject(s): Animals DINGO, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dingo's not much of a dog Last Line: I'd overlook the dingo Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals DIRGE FOR A RIGHTEOUS CAT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong. %here lies a kitten good, who kept Last Line: He washed behind his ears. %ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Animals; Cats DIRGE TO A DEAD OWL, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Silent, mysterious, on wings of down Last Line: You for the sweepstakes woodcock. Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Owls DISCOURSE ON CRABS, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Along the shore it is said that crabs %are animals bewitched Last Line: Merely the mention of its name casts %fear across the face of all those present Subject(s): Animals DISGRUNTLED ACTOR, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: I thought I was the star of this movie Last Line: I think I'll organize a union for dogs, %to demand our rights from these human snobs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DISGRUNTLED DOG AND SUSPECTED SPY, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Why are they staring at me? Last Line: Can't I please just have my bone? %and let my master conduct his deals Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DISKY SEASIDE SPARROW, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Search the corners of the cage: begin with Last Line: To perish in his dish Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals DISPARATES: 1., by GORAN SONNEVI Poem Source First Line: Saw a butterfly Last Line: A small tortoiseshell- Subject(s): Animals; Nature DISTANT RUNNERS, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ferdinand de soto lies Last Line: The legs are locked; the sky is dead Subject(s): Animals; De Soto, Hernando (1500-1542); Horses DIVINE RIGHT, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mao says sit Last Line: About political alternatives %he's king Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DO YOU SUPPOSE ANYONE KNOWS, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source Last Line: Creature comforts. Turn the page! Subject(s): Animals DOES A SNAKE HAVE EARS?', by TILLIE FRIEDENBERG Poem Source First Line: No,' the article states Last Line: Lying here in your earthly arms? Subject(s): Animals; Snakes DOG, by JOHN ALLMAN Poem Source First Line: We could hear him out there past the lilacs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear him out in the kitchen Last Line: Like a strange naked hermit in a cave Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear him out in the kitchen Last Line: His tongue hidden in his long mouth %like a strange naked hermit in a cave Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by RUSSELL EDSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dog hangs in a kitchen, his back stuck to the ceiling. An old woman Last Line: The dog, says the old man Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Grief for her absent master in her wrought Subject(s): Animals DOG, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The dog trots freely in the street Subject(s): Dogs; Animals; Dogs DOG, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The dog trots freely in the street Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dog trots freely in the street Last Line: Some victorious answer %to everything Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis pity not to have a dog Last Line: Man's toil by day, a dog will stay %his ever-constant friend Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like a dog at my feet when I read Last Line: But still, as I opened my door, I should &see %my dog wag his tail with a welcome for %me Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dog is black or white or brown Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: When moon drifts %through the dream Last Line: At moonrise %he remembers he is wolf Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you first felt the foul dog walking Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When adam quitted the garden Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He does not look fierce at all, propped scarcely erect Last Line: From the vain distance he is the power of Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by VICTOR MONTEJO Poem Source First Line: Near the military barracks Last Line: On the barracks posts of the frightened colonels Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Politics DOG, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The truth I do not stretch or shove Last Line: A wet dog is the lovingest Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: The cosmos and all its mysteries so ample Last Line: Quick forgiveness he taught me Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dog!' a friend exclaimed; and hearing Subject(s): Animals DOG, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was I doing with my white teeth exposed Last Line: As you have taught me, oh distant and brilliant and lonely Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by TANIKAWA SHUNTARO Poem Source First Line: Sadder than myself Last Line: Never begging for pity %merely %there Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I've never known a dog to wag Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Except for the dog, that she wouldn't have him put away, wouldn't Last Line: Also, I'd found a girl to be in love with: all we wanted was to live %together, so we did Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: Under a maple tree %the dog lies down Last Line: All afternoon in his loose skin Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fantailed dog of the end, the lights out Last Line: He'd whistle me down, and down, but not yet Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, by CHARLOTTE SHAPIRO ZOLOTOW Poem Source First Line: I am alone Last Line: Nuzzles %my empty hand Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG - LOST, by HELEN BROSI MCLEOD Poem Source First Line: A small boy went away, and so Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG ABANDONED, by INEZ CLARK THORSON Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG AFTER LOVE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After you left me Last Line: Bring me one of your stockings between its teeth Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG AND A BOY, by RICHARD KATROVAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Joe brickhouse saw his dog Last Line: Who had learned so young %how to talk to the dead Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG AND ALL, by KARIN WISIOL Poem Source First Line: Between light, see Last Line: Cradling %the dog and all Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG AND CAT, by RUTH ANDERSON BARNETT Poem Text First Line: The dog is not to lunge Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs DOG AND THE CAT, AND THE DUCK AND THE RAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Once on a time in rainy-weather Subject(s): Animals; Cats DOG AROUND THE BLOCK, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Tangle, sniff, untangle, %dog around the block, sniff Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG ASLEEP, by MARGARET MACKAY Poem Source First Line: You sprawl upon you special bed Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE, by PAMELA ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Husky-masked, bologna-tongued, pfoxer Last Line: In her sights, too Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG AT THE SCHOOLHOUSE DOOR, by GOLDIE CAPERS SMITH Poem Source First Line: Forlorn, he waits beside the schoolhouse door Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG BEING PATTED, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Why are you fondling me? Last Line: You seem so happy touching me, %how can I deny you this pleasure? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG BISCUITS, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Dog biscuits, you entice me Last Line: You are shaped so nicely Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG DAYS, by SIV CEDERING Poem Source First Line: The farmers in vermont Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG DREAMING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The paws twitch in a place of chasing Last Line: A sleeping beast knows who you are Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Animals; Corpses; Dogs; Sleep DOG DREAMS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: A scrabble of nail Last Line: Chasing the hare Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs DOG DYING, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Dog dying in the hot sun Last Line: And the mortality of nerves and meat Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs DOG EYE'S VIEW, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Source First Line: The people whom I take to walk Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG I LOVED YOU SO', by ZITELLA COCKE Poem Source First Line: The noblest, truest friend I had Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG IN A CAR, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He grins a little as they drive him by Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG IN A CORNFIELD, by JAMES WRIGHT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fallow between the horny trees Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG IN A CORNFIELD, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fallow between the horny trees Last Line: The man quick to a joy he understands Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG IN CHAIR, by MARGARET MACKAY Poem Source First Line: Aha! I've caught you there Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG IN KIVULU, by RALPH BITAMAZIRE Poem Source Last Line: And drinks the water from the cattleshed Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG IN THE BAR-ROOM MIRROR, by FREYA MANFRED Poem Source First Line: Unexpectedly a mirror reveals me Last Line: I turn to go, but first I bend %to give myself a quick, consoling pat Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG LIGHT, by WILLIAM CLIPMAN Poem Source First Line: Ignored, like the green flash of the fly Last Line: White teeth, bone light, dog's eyes Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG MEETS CAT, by MARGARET MACKAY Poem Source First Line: What a fluffy little kitty! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG MUSIC, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA Poem Source First Line: Was it worth it, I ask myself Last Line: Smoke. How much do you need Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG NAMED BENJI, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: My famous name is a strain Last Line: Perhaps I'll change my name some day %and live my life a different way Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG NAMED EGO, THE SNOWFLAKES AS KISSES, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And left me no recourse, far from my home Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG NAMED RUDOLF RABINOWITZ, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Don't think I don't have my likes and dislikes Last Line: I like hearing it so much I become very nice Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG OF ART, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That dog with daisies for eyes Last Line: Of art turns to the world %the quietness of his eyes Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG ON DIAMOND ROW: 47TH STREET, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: A man stooped down to pat the akita Last Line: Giving licks and love in full measure, %this sparkling dog better than any toy Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG PARADE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In times of calm or hurricane, in days of sun or shower Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG PARADE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, mrs. Chutney, no, I am not going to madison square garden Last Line: I just want to say that I don't think they are any better than I am Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG PARTED FROM HER MASTER, by HUSEH T'AO Poem Source First Line: Yes, she's a good dog Last Line: Now she no longer sleeps %upon his red silk rugs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG POEM, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce and stupid all dogs are Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG POEM, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce and stupid all dogs are Last Line: Five days a week. Give them my life Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG POISONER, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: To this day, no one knows who he was or she was Last Line: Raining or some other miracle had happened Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG SALESMAN, by J. HARVEY HAGGARD Poem Source First Line: Ten bucks, he's yours. That dog,' said he Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG SLEEPING ON MY FEET, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being in his resting place Last Line: Sleeping to grow back my legs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our sings begin at nightfall Last Line: See the horsemen come laughing Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG THAT HOWLS AT NIGHT, by HERBERT J. BRYCE Poem Source First Line: There are canines old and mangy Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG UNDER FALSE PRETENSES, by WILLIAM DICKEY Poem Source First Line: Not very affectionate; she likes to kiss Last Line: To play with her. It may be enough Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG WANTED, by MARGARET MACKAY Poem Text First Line: I don't want a dog that is wee and effeminate Last Line: Just a portable, washable, lovable pup! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG WAS CRYING TONIGHT IN WICKLOW ALSO, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When human beings found out about death Last Line: The dog crying out all night behind the corpse house Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs DOG WILL COME WHEN HE IS CALLED, by ADELAIDE O'KEEFFE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The swan he has a bosom fair, %and who so proud as he? Alternate Author Name(s): O'keefe, Adelaide Subject(s): Animals DOG'S ANSWER, by VICTORIA WYTTENBERG Poem Source First Line: A woman, her dog by her side, bends Last Line: The dog says, let's have biscuits and cheese. %and they do Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG'S BEST FRIEND IS HIS ILLITERACY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It has been well said that quietness is what a grecian urn is the still Last Line: And if I ended up with raccoons every guest would turn out to be a racconteur Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG'S COLD NOSE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When noah, perceiving 'twas time to embark Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG'S DEATH, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: She must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Dead, The DOG'S DEATH, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car Last Line: To a newspaper carelessly left there. Good dog Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs DOG'S GAMBOL, by NOVICA TADIC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here's what I see Last Line: A truly monstruous world %will hatch Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG'S GRAVE, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sleeps where he would wish, in easy call Subject(s): Animals DOG'S HOWL, by LOWE W. WREN Poem Source First Line: You've seen men whose pipes keep going out? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG'S LIFE, by LEW SARETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Such captivating quantities of dirt Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG'S LIFE, by UNKNOWN+24 Poem Source First Line: Nappy, springer spaniel, leads a busy life Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG'S LIFE, by MILLY WALTON Poem Source First Line: I'm sick of all this silly rot Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG'S MUSIC, by RUSSELL EDSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rich hire orchestras, and have the musicians climb into trees to sit Last Line: Into history with all its marvelous music! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG'S TALE, by JEFF AVANTS Poem Source First Line: How well must I Last Line: What my dog didn't eat Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG, ON THE OTHER HAND, by JOANNA CATHERINE SCOTT Poem Source First Line: You can cling to. A dog is not like an abandoned child Last Line: For my dead dog, for those abandoned little bodies %in the babies' home Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Sickness DOG, SELS., by SAMUEL WESLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His colours strange, what mortal painter's hand Last Line: As tail of memphian crocodile full-grown Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Milton, John (1608-1674) DOG-GREL VERSES, BY A POOR BLIND, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what shall I do for a dog? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOG-STAR PUP, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the silver edge of a vacant star near Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGALYPSE, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I trust every animal Last Line: A six-foot collie will explain it all, %fangs bared! Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGFIGHT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's a runt %he snarls and scratches Last Line: He ought to know better than to cross %the railroad tracks Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGGING HIS STEPS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To dog his steps' -- there's libel in the phrase Last Line: "that is to ""dog his steps"" the doggish way!" Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGS, by SONDRA AUDIN ARMER Poem Source First Line: Fence in the dogs Last Line: Their human lusts Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When I was once a wandering man Last Line: Was threatened with a stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Love DOGS, by ROBERT WINTHROP WATSON Poem Source First Line: I hear them bark outside my window, dogs Last Line: Unlock his gate. He looks long-eared and furry. %I hear him growl, snap his jaws. I bark back Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Dogs DOGS, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I bought a bar girl in saigon Last Line: Warm, and pour it slow Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGS ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS, by CLARISSA BUCKLIN Poem Text First Line: The dogs that go on errands of their own Last Line: Their very tails expressing sweet content. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGS AND DOGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The mastiff is a stately brute Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGS ARE SHAKESPEAREAN, CHILDREN ARE STRANGERS, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We are shakespearean, we are strangers Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Dramatists; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939); Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) DOGS AT DOG BEACH, by JOSEPH DUEMER Poem Source First Line: My dog hs found some other dogs to romp Last Line: Trotting through the features of a simple universe Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGS AT LIVE OAK BEACH, SANTA CRUZ, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if there could be a world Last Line: For absolutely nothing but joy Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Seashore DOGS IN SHOW, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They stand in vocal ranks upon their benches Last Line: Where are the dogs of yesteryear? Subject(s): Animals; Dog Shows DOGS IN THE STORM, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When this slow heart was raging Last Line: Who howls for us both in such savage moonlight? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Romance DOGS OF BETHLEHEM, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many a starry night had they known Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGS OF CHINLE, by GREG PAPE Poem Source First Line: Once, camped at the mouth of the canyon Last Line: Out of the canyon, in the morning air stilled %in the weeds along roadsides and ditches Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGS OF WAR, by NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH Poem Source First Line: Time was, and not so long ago, as men count time Subject(s): Animals DOGS OF ZIMMER, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tether of the aeons holds them Last Line: The wild lights in their eyes grown dim, %they bang the doorway with their tails Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGS ON THE CLIFFS, by MICHAEL BURKARD Poem Source First Line: They are there Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOGS, HER DREAMING, by PAMELA STEWART Poem Source First Line: The always of it is that she falls Last Line: What they know of rising from the red-eyed dark Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOING THE ROCK-HOP SKITTER, by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Up on the kopje, way up high Last Line: Doing the rock-hop skitter! Subject(s): Animals; Fathers DOLLAR DOG (1), by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dollar dog is all mixed up Last Line: Flap-eared, bull-faced, bumble-paw, %stub-tailed, short-haired, biscuit hound Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DOLLAR DOG (2), by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a dollar dog named spot Last Line: But a lot of kinds to get for a dollar Subject(s): Animals DOLPHIN SONG, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: Your hands on my body Last Line: My whole body glistens Subject(s): Dolphins; Marine Animals; Seashore DOLPHINS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I love the river dolphins Last Line: Through its mirrors %of water Subject(s): Dolphins; Marine Animals; Seashore DOMESTICATION, by HAROLD WILLARD GLEASON Poem Text First Line: A man learned much who looked in brimby's eyes! Last Line: The humble horse (or jackass) and the cow . . . Subject(s): Animals DON, by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is don, the dog of all dogs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DON'T CALL ME MISHA, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: My name is mikhail baryshnikov Last Line: I know mikhail baryshnikov (my human counterpart) %will understand Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DON'T YOU SEE?, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day was hotter than words can tell Last Line: Till the whale was obliged to whale them all. Subject(s): Crabs; Fish & Fishing; Jellyfish; Marine Animals; Sea; Anglers; Ocean DONE FOR, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old ben bailey %he's been and done Last Line: Bound for ben bailey's %smoking pot Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Rabbits DOOMED', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One day a statistician great Subject(s): Animals; Cats DOUGLAS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's an old, old song with a sweet refrain Last Line: Douglas, douglas, tender and true.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Animals; Collies; Dogs; Singing & Singers DOVE, by ANNE SZUMIGALSKI Poem Source First Line: It troubles the boy that, if you want to draw a white bird, you Last Line: Will never be able to escape again Subject(s): Animals; Children; Doves; Drawing; Feathers; Wings DR. EGG: 3 SESSION 25: CHICKEN KILLING, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: I follow my father Last Line: Are twitching %like small, involuntary muscles Subject(s): Chickens; Death - Animals; Fathers DRAFT HORSE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a lantern that wouldn't burn Last Line: Wanted us to get down %and walk the rest of the way Subject(s): Animals; Horses DRAGGING HORSES, by M. REBECCA RANSOM Poem Source First Line: If it's your own horse, you don't want to watch Last Line: Curled in thier baskets, safe, nestled, held Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Horses DRAGON, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source First Line: Let me tell you about me Last Line: Do not pet me very much Subject(s): Mythical Animals DRAGON, by ANNE MCCAFFREY Poem Source First Line: Oh, tongue, give sound to joy and sing Last Line: Of hope and promise on dragonwing! Subject(s): Mythical Animals DRAGON FLY, by JESSIE BELL RITTENHOUSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The day was set to a beautiful theme Alternate Author Name(s): Scollard, Clinton, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals DRAGON'S HOME, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source Last Line: Four sprinklers and a %smoke alarm! Subject(s): Animals DRAGONFLY, by ROBERT S. OLIVER Poem Source First Line: Glassy wings Last Line: Waiting -- Subject(s): Animals; Dragonflies DREADFUL STORY OF PAULINE AND THE MATCHES, by AUGUST HEINRICH HOFFMANN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mamma and nurse went out one day Alternate Author Name(s): Hoffmann Von Fallersleben Subject(s): Animals; Cats DREAM DOG, by LOUIS PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: Dream dog leaps out of the moon with nothing Last Line: In its muzzle but bones of yellow light Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DREAM VISION FROM THE BOOK OF DOGS, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: A man was talking to a dog Last Line: Not now, there's more, I promise... Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Dreams DREAM:, by RAPHAEL RUDNICK Poem Source First Line: A cat on gold-glowing black coals Last Line: Pale and shiny as a scar, insane, particular Subject(s): Animals; Cats DREAMS, by S. VIRGINIA SHERWOOD Poem Source First Line: I sing of a dog, the dearest dog Subject(s): Animals DREAMS OF THE ANIMALS, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly the animals dream / of other animals Last Line: Dreams of sawdust Subject(s): Animals; Dreams DREAMS OF THE ANIMALS, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly the animals dream %of other animals Last Line: Dreams of sawdust Subject(s): Animals DREAMS: ON THE HUNTING GROUND, by DANIEL CHAUNCEY BREWER Poem Text First Line: We sleep upon fir-tree boughs at night Last Line: For the coming by and by. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Dreams; Love; Nightmares DREAMTIGERS, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my childhood I was a fervent worshipper of the tiger Subject(s): Animals DROMEDARY, by ARCHIBALD YOUNG CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In dreams I see the dromedary still Subject(s): Animals; Camels; Dromedaries DROUGHT, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had never before seen anything die Last Line: Of water too cruel to be spoken aloud Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Death - Animals; Drought DUCK, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the duck Last Line: When it dines or sups, %it bottoms up Subject(s): Animals; Ducks DUCK-BILLED PLATYPUS, by ARNOLD SUNDGAARD Poem Source First Line: The duck-billed platypus isn't easy to imagine Last Line: An oddity of nature and a very charming freak! Subject(s): Animals DUCKS, by MARTHA ZWEIG Poem Source First Line: Maybe a murder Last Line: Wacks in preamble, %backtalk & sass Subject(s): Animals; Ducks; Survival DUG A DUG, by WILLIAM KEYS Poem Source First Line: Hey, daddy, wid ye get us a dug? Last Line: Aw, daddy! A dug! A dug! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Glasgow, Scotland DUGAN--A SCHNAUZER DOG, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Dugan always gave me a lick Last Line: He stared and gave me a canine pout, %as I told his mistress a story Subject(s): Animals; Dogs DUINO ELEGIES: 8, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All other creatures look into the open Subject(s): Animals DUMB APPEAR, by JESSIE POPE Poem Source First Line: She was a pretty, nicely-mannered mare Subject(s): Animals; Horses DUN-COLOUR, by RUTH PITTER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Subtle almost beyond thought are these dim colours Subject(s): Animals; Colors DUN-COLOUR, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Subtle almost beyond thought are these dim colours Last Line: O that I too were attired in such dun-colours! Subject(s): Animals; Colors DUSK OF HORSES, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right under their noses, the green Last Line: Quiet, fragrant, and relieved Subject(s): Animals; Horses DUST, by HENRY CARLILE Poem Source First Line: Where it cleared the roadway in a single bound Last Line: And where the bobcat's been, the dust still hangs Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dust; Hunting DUTCHMAN'S BREECHES, by MARY LYNCH SWANDER Poem Source First Line: Van dry, van wilt, van sickle -- Last Line: The shrew impaled on the locust thorn Subject(s): Shrews (animals) DYING VIPER, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lethargy of evil in her eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Animals EACH DEFEAT, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Please! Keep / reading me Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Friendship; Relationships; Death - Animals; Failure EAGLE, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Big wings dawns dark Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Animals EAGLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The sun's rays %lie along my wings Last Line: And stretch beyond their tips Subject(s): Animals EARLY MORNING RIDE, by DOROTHEA GILROY Poem Source First Line: The dawn has left a rosy light Subject(s): Animals; Horses EARLY VENEZIAN DETAIL, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little cat of an angel Last Line: For her skirts to spill. Subject(s): Animals; Cats EARTHWORM WRIGGLES, by J. W. HACKETT Poem Source First Line: The earthworm wriggles Last Line: Knows where it's going Subject(s): Animals EASTER DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Rabbits, chicks, and everything Last Line: And so—the world keeps easter day! Subject(s): Animals; April; Easter; Holidays; Rabbits; The Resurrection; Hares ECHOLOCATION, by DEBORAH A. MIRANDA Poem Source First Line: All day long you flutter through artificial night Last Line: Reverberate against your blood and bone Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Nature EEL, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Some people make %a big mistake Last Line: An eel is a fish - %it's eel-ementary! Subject(s): Marine Animals EEL, by ROBERT S. OLIVER Poem Source First Line: The feel %of an eel Last Line: Out of sight Subject(s): Animals; Eels EF UNCLE REMUS PLEASE TER 'SCUSEN ME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dey wunce wuz er time which I Last Line: He'd des a-kilt off ev'y dawg dat's chasin' him dis minute! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Uncles EGG BUSINESS, by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Busy, busy: %I've got eggs Last Line: Empty eggs. %what to do? %need more eggs Subject(s): Animals; Fathers EGGSTRAX FROM THE MALOJA GAZETTE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is our painful duty to denounce to a repugnant public, a most fearful Last Line: Qed as a mucilaginous but merited motto, worked in periwinkle %shells Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Disasters; Fear; News; Travel EGRETS, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once as I traveled through a quiet evening Last Line: And, whiter yet, those egrets wading Subject(s): Animals; Egrets EGYPTIAN CAT, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: How harsh the change, since those plump halcyon days Last Line: Cast a light and lasting beauty over life itself - you, %templed beneath the chair, tearing a fresh Variant Title(s): Januar Subject(s): Animals; Cats EL HIJO DEL MAR, by CHARLES HOWARD SHINN Poem Source First Line: This is a story of long ago Subject(s): Animals; Horses EL-AZREK, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My only sequin served to bribe Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Animals; Horses ELECTRIC EEL, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some think electric eel lacks looks Last Line: If it were long enough Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals ELECTRIC EEL, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Please don't ask t feel Last Line: We cannot unplug him Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools ELEGY, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: We knew that he was not a model cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats ELEGY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gnu up at the zoo Last Line: Not close their eyes by night or day - %no, not even in death Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Death - Animals; Gnus; Zoos ELEGY ASKING THAT IT BE THE LAST; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a bird the color of mustard. The bird Last Line: This is a world set apart from ours. It is not! Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Horses; Lament; Scotland; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ELEGY FOR A BEAGLE MUTT, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What a season this is Last Line: Under my fist -- wait for me Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ELEGY FOR A TRAPPER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eighteen below in plains, montana Last Line: Frozen upright on a stump. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Montana; Mourning; Trapping & Trappers; Bereavement; Traps; Snares; Trappers ELEGY FOR JOG, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stiff-dog death, all froth on a bloody chin Last Line: He had to bite the tire. Fools have no luck Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ELEGY FOR JOG, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stiff-dog death, all froth on a bloody chin Last Line: He had to bite the tire. Fools have no luck Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ELEGY FOR WRIGHT & HUGO, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Saint jerome lived with a community Last Line: He was a saint. It was like that... Subject(s): Animals; Donkeys; Hugo, Richard (1923-1982); Jerome, Saint (347-419); Lament; Lions; Wright, James (1927-1980); Burros ELEGY ON A YOUNG AIREDALE BITCH LOST TWO YEARS SINCE IN THE SALT-MARSH, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low to the water's edge Last Line: And cast ashore to dry Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ELEGY ON A YOUNG AIREDALE BITCH LOST TWO YEARS SINCE IN THE SALT-MARSH, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low to the water's edge Last Line: And cast ashore to dry Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF PEG NICHOLSON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peg nicholson was a gude bay mare Last Line: As priest-rid cattle are, - &c. &c. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Horses ELEGY TO A DISSECTED PUPPY, SELS., by GEORGIA BAILEY PARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: Sweet dog! Now cold and stiff in death Last Line: Explore the contents of thy chest Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs ELEGY TO OSCAR, A DEAD CAT, by HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT Poem Source First Line: Damn'd be this harsh mechanick age Last Line: And, having curst the juggernaut, %inscribe: oscarvs fvit! Subject(s): Animals; Cats ELEPHANT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: A prehistoric boulder Last Line: Walks in the circus parade. Subject(s): Animals; Circus; Elephants ELEPHANT, by ARNOLD SUNDGAARD Poem Source First Line: The elephant is quite a beast Last Line: Long may the elephant endure! Subject(s): Animals ELEPHANT SEALS, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Normally, they measure five meters in length Last Line: Family of phocidae %mirounga angustirostris Subject(s): Animals ELEPHANT SEALS ARE JUMPING OFF CLIFFS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Since they lug 2000 pounds of soft blubber Last Line: Heroin tempts me most. Anything to stop the pain Subject(s): Machismo; Seals (animals) ELEPHANT SEALS, ANO NUEVO, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: There they lie, fasting and molting Last Line: This place, we won't return to it Subject(s): Seals (animals) ELEPHANT, DOG, RIVER, by GILES MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: When I was a boy, proud small-molded ministers Last Line: When I sit down to rest Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ELEPHANTS PLODDING, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plod! Plod! Last Line: The worn arches of their spines support Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals ELIZABETH'S WAR WITH THE CHRISTMAS BEAR: 1601, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The bears are kept by hundreds within fences, are fed cracked / eggs Last Line: Every inch of you, a terrible vision, not bear, but virgin! Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Bones; Christmas; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Nativity, The ELKRIDGE HUNT CLUB, by D. S. G. Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Horses EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 43. ALL GRASP, ALL LOSE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One at a time's enough, one puss pursue Last Line: Then gape, and stare, and wonder where they're gone. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Love; Hunters EMPEROR PENGUINS, by BARRY LOUIS POLISAR Poem Source First Line: Huddled closed together Last Line: Gently, on their toes Subject(s): Animals; Penguins EMPRESS' CAT, by CHANG TSU Poem Source First Line: Long ago, the empress wu tse-t'ien Last Line: Nor the ambition of the ruler Subject(s): Animals; Cats ENCOUNTER, by CHRISTINE GARREN Poem Source First Line: It was dawn, and there was still blood on the earth, on the Last Line: And to a plane's heavy passage overhead Subject(s): Animals; Nature END OF THE SEASON, by W. G. TINCKOM-FERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: There's a keen wind searching the marshes Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ENGLISH COCKER: OLD AND BLIND, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With what painful deliberation he comes down the stair Last Line: The kinship of all flesh defined by a hlting paradigm Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ENGLISH COCKER: OLD AND BLIND, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With what painful deliberation he comes down the stair Last Line: The kinship of all flesh defined by a halting paradigm Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ENIGMA SARTORIAL, by LUCY W. RHU Poem Source First Line: Consider the penguin Last Line: Or just going out! Subject(s): Animals ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE BAT, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Bats have not heard a word of their literary reputation Last Line: Will cause its cave to be burned to ashes Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Blood; Caves; Vampires; Wings ENTRY IN A CAT'S JOURNAL, by WILLIAM EUGENE HARROLD Poem Source First Line: The love I sent was flying fish Last Line: Stamped and airmailed, %s-w-I-s-h Subject(s): Animals; Cats EPIGRAM ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am his highness' dog at kew Last Line: Pray tell me sir, whose dog are you? Variant Title(s): Inscribed On The Collar Of A Dog;on The Collar Of A Dog Presented By Mr. Pope;engraved On The Collar Of A Dog [which I Gave To His Royal Highness] Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EPISTLE TO MR. FOX, FROM HAMPTON COURT: NATURE QUERIES, by JOHN HERVEY (1696-1743) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will the wise elephant desert the wood Last Line: And eat when hungry, and when am'rous love? Alternate Author Name(s): Hervey Of Ickworth, Baron Subject(s): Animals; Elephants; Hunger; Nature; Taste (sense) EPITAPH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bathsheba %to whom none ever said scat Subject(s): Animals; Cats EPITAPH FOR A CAT, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: If in som far off, future day Subject(s): Animals; Cats EPITAPH FOR A HORSEMAN, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: Let no one mourn his mount, upholstered bone Last Line: Bit, reins and riding-crop for friends to gather. %none but a beast's remains lie buried here Subject(s): Animals; Horses EPITAPH FOR A KITTEN, by MIRIAM VEDDER Poem Source First Line: Death, who one day taketh all Subject(s): Animals; Cats EPITAPH FOR A SCOTCH TERRIER, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pause a moment by this spot Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EPITAPH FOR A STRAY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quite a nice dog is laid below Last Line: We were the only folks he had! Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs EPITAPH FOR A VISITOR'S DOG .. AT TUNBRIDGE WELLS, 1702, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This scratch I make that you may know %on this rock lyes ye beauteous bow Last Line: Reader, this rock is the bow's bell, %strike't with thy stick, and ring his knell Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EPITAPH FOR BELAUD, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are cats (not he) Last Line: While cats keep the world from rats secure Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim Subject(s): Animals; Cats EPITAPH OF FELIS, by JOHN JORTIN Poem Source First Line: I most gentle of cats through long-drawn sickness aweary Last Line: Even when over the styx, felis is faithful to thee Subject(s): Animals; Cats EPITAPH ON A CAT, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life I can no longer live Last Line: Wage unceasing war on rats. Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim Subject(s): Animals; Cats EPITAPH ON A HARE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue, / nor swifter greyhound follow Last Line: Must soon partake his grave. Subject(s): Animals; Mourning; Rabbits; Bereavement; Hares EPITAPH ON A PET CAT, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My life seems dull and flat Last Line: That you may live while cats %wage mortal war on rats Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim Subject(s): Animals; Cats EPITAPH ON FOP, A DOG BELONGING TO LADY THROCKMORTON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though once a puppy, and though fop by name Last Line: "and worn with vain pursuit man also dies." Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EPITAPH ON THE DUCHESS OF MAINE'S CAT, by FRANCOIS LA MOTHE LE VAYER Poem Source First Line: Puss passer-by, within this simple tomb Last Line: To live a simple pussy by her side %was nobler far than to be deified Subject(s): Animals; Cats EPITAPH ON THE LAP-DOG OF LADY FRAIL (LADY VANE), by JOHN WILKES Poem Text First Line: At thieves I bark'd, at lovers wagg'd my tail Last Line: And thus I pleased both lord and lady frail. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Epitaphs EPITAPH TO A DOG, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near this spot Last Line: I never knew but one -- and here he lies. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs EPITAPHIUM FELIS, by JOHN JORTIN Poem Source First Line: By weight of the wearying years, and by grievous illness Subject(s): Animals; Cats EPITAPHS: A SMALL DOG, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here fearless lies: with asian pride Last Line: Now hear his bark in the rising tide Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EPRIGRAM. ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pope's dog bounce had, to the poet's sorrow Subject(s): Animals EQUATION TO THE FIRST DEGREE, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: In the city's last river, through error Last Line: Omnipotent language of our mother, death Subject(s): Animals EROL GUNEY'S CAT, by ORHAN VELI KANIK Poem Source First Line: Poem on the attitude adopted Last Line: Thinking and worrying %your head off Subject(s): Animals; Cats ESSAY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So many poems about the deaths of animals Last Line: But clearly they do not bother to say good-bye Subject(s): Animal Rights; Biology & Biologists; Extinct Animals; Animal Abuse; Vivisection ESSAY: DUCKS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Break what is the / nectarine - word Last Line: Of the thought: dusks reflect you Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Ducks; Lakes; Mallards; Drakes; Pools; Ponds ESTHER'S TOMCAT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daylong this tomcat lies stretched flat Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Animals; Cats ESTHER'S TOMCAT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daylong this tomcat lies stretched flat Last Line: Nightly over the round world of men, %over the roofs go his eyes and outcry Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Animals; Cats ETCHED CATASTROPHE, by EDWARD NOBLES Poem Source First Line: A sunday night, the most predestined Last Line: Has no more pressing duty %than to sleep Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Chaos ETERNAL QUESTION, by D. B. VAN BUREN Poem Source First Line: Bewhiskered raticide, whose velvet paw Subject(s): Animals; Cats EULOGY FOR A SNAKE HANDLER KILLED BY A CANEBRAKE, by DELISA MULKEY Poem Source First Line: Brothers and sisters, the first time I seen buford shoupe was 1953 Last Line: Defeated death by the sweet kiss of this snake Subject(s): Animals; Death; Snakes EUMELOS HAD A MALTESE DOG, by TYMNES Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Lost on the night-bound roads Alternate Author Name(s): Carian Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I sit at the door, / sick to gaze within Last Line: His tongue out with its fork. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Animals; Bible; Religion; Eve; Theology EVE NAMES THE ANIMALS, by SUSAN DONNELLY Poem Source First Line: To me, lion was sun on a wing %over the garden. Dove Last Line: As garlands on my long walks %the next day %I'd find them withered %I liked change Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Animals; Bible; Names EVENING [KNELL], by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherds all, and maidens fair Last Line: Thus I end my evening knell. Variant Title(s): Folding The Flocks;pastoral Evening Hymn;the Priest's Chant;the Priest's Evening Song;song Of The Priest Of Pan Subject(s): Animals; Shepherds & Shepherdesses EVERY BOOKSHELF HOLDS YOUR TROPHIES, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Flippers, the scutes of throats Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals EVERY INSECT, by DOROTHY ALDIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every insect (ant, fly, bee Last Line: With all those legs to manage: six Subject(s): Animals EVERY TIME I SEE ELEPHANTS I THINK OF THE PUNIC WARS, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Observe their nearly temple-like construction Last Line: The english language %...Nor the west Subject(s): Animals EVERYWHERE, ANGELS: 5, by DAINIS HAZNERS Poem Source First Line: I too want Last Line: So the buck will go around the world and %come back again next year Subject(s): Animals; Hunting EVOLUTION, by JESSICA NELSON NORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of chaos, dust and flame Last Line: "look at how the thing turned out!" Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonald, Reed I., Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Evolution; Nature EVOLUTION, by LANGDON SMITH Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When you were a tadpole and I was a fish Last Line: Were a tadpole and I was a fish. Subject(s): Evolution; Mammoths; Prehistoric Animals EXAMPLE, by MARTY HALE Poem Source First Line: I want my boy to have a dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EXHORTING OTHERS, by LIAO HSING Poem Source First Line: A pair of white birds soars into the sky Last Line: Straight is the way, beyond this orb Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Wings; Zen Buddhism EXPERIMENT DEGUSTATORY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gourmet challenged me to eat Last Line: Because it tastes like rattlesnake meat Subject(s): Animals; Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Snakes EXPLOSION AT THE CLUB, by RUSSELL EDSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ape is accepted, and sits quietly smoking a cigar and reading a Last Line: Something fummy about him Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Mammals EXTRA AT THE HOUSE, by BUD CORNISH Poem Source First Line: His pedigree - from a dogdom tree Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EXTRAORDINARY DOG, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When mother takes me calling Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EYE WITNESS, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: At the edge of the sea, curving sand Last Line: The sea recovers what is hers Subject(s): Animals EYES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The owl has come Last Line: Have I not proved his wisdom is no fable? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals FABLE FOR SLUMBER, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An animal dwelt Last Line: An animal dwelt Subject(s): Animals; Children FABLE OF THE WIDOW AND HER CAT, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A widow kept a favorite cat Last Line: Here, towser! - do him justice Subject(s): Animals; Cats FABLE: THE BEAU AND THE VIPER, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All wise philosophers maintain Last Line: Be still, be humble, and adore!' Subject(s): Animals; Creation; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature FABLE: THE FARMER AND THE HORSE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a vain world, and all things show it Last Line: But take the world as he shall find it.' Subject(s): Animals; Fables; Farm Life; Horses; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers FABLE: THE MICE AND FELIS, by JOHN KENDRICK Poem Source First Line: Felis sedit by a hole Variant Title(s): Very Felis-itou Subject(s): Animals; Cats FABLE: THE SCHOLAR AND THE CAT, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Labour entitles man to eat Last Line: Instruct vain supercilious man.' Subject(s): Activity; Animals; Cats; Fables; Reason; Scholarship & Scholars; Virtue; Exercise; Allegories; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE PANTHER, HORSE, AND OTHER BEASTS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man who seeks to win the fair Last Line: Spurn'd at the crowd, and sought the plain. Subject(s): Animals; Fables; Horses; Panthers; Women; Allegories FABLES: 1ST SER. 17. THE SHEPHERD'S DOG AND THE WOLF, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wolf, with hunger fierce and bold Last Line: But a pretended friend is worse. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FABLES: 1ST SER. 21. THE RATCATCHER AND CATS, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rats by night such mischief did Last Line: There's game enough for us and you. Subject(s): Animals; Cats FABLES: 1ST SER. 23. THE OLD WOMAN AND HER CATS, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who friendship with a knave hath made Last Line: Because, 'tis said, your cats have nine. Subject(s): Animals; Cats FABLES: 1ST SER. 26. THE CUR AND THE MASTIFF, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sneaking cur, the master's spy Last Line: The cur was hang'd, the mastiff clear'd. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Truth FABLES: 1ST SER. 30. THE SETTING-DOG AND THE PARTRIDGE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ranging dog the stubble tries Last Line: She said, and to the covey flew. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Hunters FABLES: 1ST SER. 34. THE MASTIFF, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those, who in quarrels interpose Last Line: By both sides mangled, sneak'd away. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FABLES: 1ST SER. 43. THE COUNCIL OF HORSES, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a time a neighing steed Last Line: And, like his ancestors, was bitted. Subject(s): Animals; Horses FABLES: 1ST SER. 44. THE HOUND AND THE HUNTSMAN, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Impertinence at first is born Last Line: Are sure to make their follies known. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Hunters FABLES: 1ST SER. 50. THE HARE WITH MANY FRIENDS, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friendship, like love, is but a name Last Line: For see the hounds are just in view. Subject(s): Animals; Friendship; Rabbits; Hares FABLES: 2ND SER. 5. THE BEAR IN A BOAT, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That man must daily wiser grow Last Line: Derision shouts along the strand. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Boats FABLES: 2ND SER. 6. THE SQUIRE AND HIS CUR, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man of pure and simple heart Last Line: The dog was cudgell'd out of place. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Truth FABULA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Probe foramini a cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats FACADE: 17. DARK SONG, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fire was furry as a bear Last Line: Grumbled too! Subject(s): Animals FACADE: 2. THE BAT, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Castellated, tall, / from battlements fall Last Line: Quacks, clacks, afraid. Subject(s): Animals; Bats FACE OF THE HORSE, by NIKOLAI ALEXEYEVICH ZABOLOTSKY Poem Source First Line: Animals do not sleep. At night Last Line: Gazes out of its meek eyes, %upon the egnimatic, stationary world Alternate Author Name(s): Zabolotsky, Nikolay Alexeyevich Subject(s): Animals; Horses FAITHFUL DOG, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My admiration for buffon has never made me blush Last Line: Summers and the beauty of women past their prime Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FAITHFUL FRIEND, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: I know a faithful dog who sits beside Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FALA, by EDWARD ANTHONY Poem Source First Line: A friend of mine, a st. Bernard Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FALLEN AND THE CHOSEN, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: I find myself in a room full of strangers Last Line: I must hold myself lightly Subject(s): Animals; Cats FALLING DOG, by MICHAEL MOOS Poem Source First Line: I am lying on a giant dead sequoia Last Line: An inch or so measured in this dead tree's rings Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FAMILIAR FRIENDS, by JAMES STERLING TIPPETT Poem Source First Line: The horses, the pigs Last Line: With five pups to give me %a surprise Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FAMILIAR OXEN, by OUMAR BA Poem Source First Line: You tell me you have right on your side? Last Line: They will respond to their baptismal names Subject(s): Animals; Oxen FAMILIARITY DANGEROUS, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As in her ancient mistress' lap Last Line: Should bear a kitten's joke. Subject(s): Animals; Cats FAMILY, by JAMEY DUNHAM Poem Source First Line: A child who always gets his way decides he wants to trade places with the Last Line: Stoop for the son who disappeared into the night Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Family Life FAMILY MONKEY, by RUSSELL EDSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We bought an electric monkey, experimenting rather recklessly with Last Line: We had electrocuted the family monkey Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Monkeys FARM ANIMALS' DESERTION, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where have you gone, o cherished lexington Last Line: Like all the million acres of new england %that bear no crop except these rags, these bones Subject(s): Animals; New England FARMER'S DOG LEAPED OVER THE STILE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And his name was bingo Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FAT SNAKE'S GONE THIS YEAR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: When she emerges from the strove top Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Snakes FATE OF THE FUR FOLK, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early, while the east is pale Subject(s): Animals FATHER RILEY'S HORSE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the horse thief, andy regan, that was hunted like a / dog Last Line: For the steeplechase on father riley's horse! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Racing FAUST BOOK: DISCOURSES ON SUBJECT OF TRAINING & HEREDITY, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Out for a healthy walk, faustus picks Last Line: The dog assumes a toothy smile Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Faust FAUST BOOK: MEPHISTOPHELES ENLIGHTENS DR FAUST, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Why, if I may ask, did you appear Last Line: What would you like to do with yours Subject(s): Animals; Devil; Dogs; Faust FEBRUARY: THE BOY BREUGHEL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birches stand in their beggar's row Last Line: A sunrise. The snow. Subject(s): Animals; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Foxes; Rabbits; Red (color); Violence; White (color); Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Hares FEEDIN' THE STOCK, by HOLMAN F. DAY Poem Source First Line: Hear the chorus in that tie-up, runch gerrunch, and Subject(s): Animals FELIS DOMESTICA, by JESSIE YOUNG NORTON Poem Text First Line: She is above disparagement or praise Last Line: There broods the slumberous wisdom of the nile. Subject(s): Animals; Cats FEMME ET CHATTE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O she was playing with her cat Last Line: By four bright stars of phosphorus Subject(s): Animals; Cats FEMME ET CHATTE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were just playing, lady and cat Last Line: Four dazzling points of phosphor gleamed Subject(s): Animals; Cats FEMME ET CHATTE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O she was playing with her cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats FENCE, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Outside the locked enclosure of the wallabies Last Line: Raising the dead to an even twenty-six Subject(s): Animals; Wallabies; Zoos FETCH, by JIM SIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: The marrow it's this Last Line: Takes you again and again Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FICE, by EDWARD LODI Poem Source First Line: Most agree a pedigree Last Line: Though lacking symmetry %suits me Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FIDELITY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A barking sound the shepherd hears Last Line: Above all human estimate! Variant Title(s): Helvellyn Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Helvellyn (mountain), England FIDO, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Sleek and black she sleeps Last Line: As the bones %of the fire Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FIELD, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Crows land like horses neighs Last Line: Rain quiet as wings %on her back Subject(s): Angels; Animals; Death; Fields; San Francisco; Vietnam FIERCE LOYALTY, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: A paw grips the man's leg Last Line: Pepe's ears remain alert %and bright eyes focus intently %toprotect his owner Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FIGHT CHOIR WITH CHOIR, by LAWRENCE SCHIMEL Poem Source First Line: I turned. I tossed Last Line: Our landlord vowed: %no pets aloud Subject(s): Animals; Noises FIGURE OF A HORSEMAN, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: The frieze of life forces Last Line: Or an illusion caused by the winds %warm april wind? Subject(s): Absence; Animals; Hallucinations And Illusions; Horses; Prisons And Prisoners FIGURE OF SPEECH, by GEORGE PALMER GARRETT JR. Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: For years my litter of wounds Alternate Author Name(s): Garrett, George Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FIGURE OF SPEECH, by GEORGE PALMER GARRETT JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For years my litter of wounds Last Line: Each other, killing for my choicest parts Alternate Author Name(s): Garrett, George Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FIND THE FAVORITE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our three cats is maltese cats Last Line: In where katy's at! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Deafness FIREFLIES IN THE GARDEN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here come real stars to fill the upper skies Last Line: Only, of course, they can't sustain the part Subject(s): Animals FIREFLIES IN THE GARDEN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here come real stars to fill the upper skies Last Line: Only, of course, they can't sustain the part Subject(s): Animals FIRELIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Musing, I sit on my cushioned settle Subject(s): Animals; Cats FIREMAN'S LAMENT, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: You can't catch a cat with a ladder of rope Last Line: To the prince of lost spaces, the uncatchable cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats FIRESIDE KITTEN, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ashes in the fire stir Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Cats FIRST AIRING, by JOHN E. DONOVAN Poem Source First Line: Little, little puppy on a great big street Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FIRST BLUEBIRDS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poor earth was so winter-marred Subject(s): Animals FIRST DOG, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Out of the darkness Last Line: It was faithful %and stayed Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FIRST ENCOUNTER (SIAMESE), by MELPO DENNIS SCOTESE Poem Source First Line: For me? Subject(s): Animals; Cats FIRST PERSON, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One lies on one's back in the woods Last Line: The last one / to die Subject(s): Forests; Aging; Animals; Poetry & Poets; Mortality FIRST SNOWFALL, by MURIEL DOE THURNEYSEN Poem Text First Line: The calves stand in one corner of the yard Last Line: To tell the puzzled youngsters: this is snow! Subject(s): Animals; Barns; Snow FIRST WASP, by JOHN GAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the plagues that heaven has sent Last Line: A wasp is most impertinent Subject(s): Animals FISH, by MARY ANN HOBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Look at them flit Last Line: Tiniest %sound Subject(s): Animals FISH HEADS, by ORLANDO RICARDO MENES Poem Source First Line: A glowing crucifix (five Last Line: Burn your shark's -jaw crown Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Marine Animals; Sea FISH'S WARNING, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Stay by the water, stand on your shadow, stare Last Line: I am frail for your finding but one whom only the night can drown Subject(s): Animals FISH-DAY, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Matilda postures on the window-sill Subject(s): Animals; Cats FIVE EYES, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In hans' old mill his three black cats Last Line: Jekkel, and jessup, and one-eyed jill. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Animals; Cats FIVE HUNDRED A YEAR, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That gilt middle path, which the poet of rome Last Line: I'd gladly give up my five hundred a year. Subject(s): Animals; Life; Love; Poetry & Poets; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers FIVE LITTLE OWLS IN THE OLD ELM TREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Yes, mouse for supper, hoo hoo. Hoo hoo!' Subject(s): Animals FLAME, SPEECH, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read in a poem Subject(s): Animals FLAME, SPEECH, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read in a poem Last Line: To talk is human Subject(s): Animals FLETCHER, FRASIER, FRED, AND FLOYD, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: They fly through the air Last Line: No, it isn't much fun having fleas Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools FLICK, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She's another goner Last Line: Like the shy snake's %after dinner. Subject(s): Animals; Relationships; Snakes FLIES, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fly sleeps on the field of a green curtain. I sit by my grandmother's side Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Grandparents; Agriculture; Farmers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers FLIES, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fly sleeps on the field of a green curtain. I sit by my grandmother's side Last Line: I planned long ago I would live here, somebody's grandfather Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Grandparents FLIES, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: While I am upon you Last Line: They do their thing without a thought of death Subject(s): Animals FLORIDA PANTHER, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: High-browed, slim as a cypress Last Line: Untrusting, side by side Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals FLOUNDERS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Flat as a pancake Last Line: These flattish, mattish %living dishes Subject(s): Marine Animals FLOWER-PATTERNED SNAKE, by SUH JUNG-JU Poem Source First Line: A back path, steeped in musk and mint Last Line: Twenty-year-old sunie's mouth, beautiful %as a cat's ... Sink down, my snake! Subject(s): Animals; Snakes FLUSH OR FAUNUS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You see this dog. It was but yesterday Last Line: Who by low creatures leads to heights of love. Subject(s): Animals; Consolation; Dogs; Friendship; Love FLY, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flies seem to think the world is theirs Last Line: And gracefully grows older Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals FLYING DOGS, by PHILIP SCHULTZ Poem Source First Line: In early spring color pokes its chilly nose through the earth Last Line: & the horizon vibrate like a violin string Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Spring FLYING FISH, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: We don't wish to brag or boast Last Line: And by the way, we also swim! Subject(s): Marine Animals FLYING LESSON, by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source First Line: This time, father says Last Line: That I can almost see Subject(s): Animals; Fathers FLYING SQUIRREL, by JOHN GARDNER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The flying squirrel is crazy Last Line: Admire it child, but don't try it Subject(s): Animals FOAL, by MARY BRITTON MILLER Poem Source First Line: Come rotting up Last Line: Child, after all %little foal Subject(s): Animals FOLDING HIS USA TODAY HE MAKES HIS POINT IN THE BLUE STAR CAFE, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's this bird I saw in the paper, they said Last Line: Anyone's cooked a sparrow, raise your hand Subject(s): Extinct Animals; Newspapers FOLDING ITS HANDS, by YAMAZAKI SOKAN Poem Source Last Line: The bullfrog Subject(s): Animals; Frogs FOR A CERTAIN DOG, by CATHERINE PARMENTER NEWELL Poem Source First Line: Full well I know that you are gone - and yet Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FOR A COMING EXTINCTION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gray whale / now that we are sending you to the end Last Line: That it is we who are important Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Environment; Extinct Animals; Whales; Dead, The; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation FOR A GOOD DAY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some dogs are brats Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FOR A GOOD DOG, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little dog ten years ago Last Line: And lie in dust with hector's pup; %so, presently, must I Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Life Change Events FOR A LITTLE BROWN DOG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals FOR AN AMOROUS LADY, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pensive gnu, the staid aardvark, Subject(s): Women; Animals; Love FOR ELI, A LOST DOG, by SCOTT SPENCER Poem Source First Line: I've known grief and, naturally, fear Last Line: Canine %answers to the name of eli %please contace me thro ugh the publisher of this book %generous Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FOR GUY DAVENPORT'S TOMCAT HUMPHREY DIED .. PURSUIT OF LOVE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through many nights of many years invincible Last Line: Still erect Subject(s): Animals; Cats FOR MUGS, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: He is gone now, he is dead Last Line: He used to snuggle on my bed %but now he's gone, he died. He's dead Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FOR MY DAUGHTER WHO LOVES ANIMALS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a week, whether the money is there Last Line: Even the slightest of their calls. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Love; Mothers & Daughters FOR SALE, A HORSE, by CHARLES EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: In good condition Last Line: He'll aid your reading of horatius. Subject(s): Animals; Horses FOR VANITY, by HANNAH J. DAWTREY Poem Source First Line: I would the scene might flash before your eye Subject(s): Animals FORBIDDEN LOVES, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: I knew a youth who, out of love for a rhinoceros, committed Last Line: The neck of his tall companion Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Rhinoceroses FOREST CLEARING, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Year after year the deer come Last Line: A word that to them means hounds %and high-powered rifles Subject(s): Animals FORTY-ONE, ALONE, NO GERBIL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the strange quiet, I realize Subject(s): Death - Animals; Solitude FOUND, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: I found a funny little dog Last Line: Then write: 'found dog. It's mexican.' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FOUR QUESTIONS REGARDING THE DREAMS OF ANIMALS, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is true, for the spaces of night surround them with shape and purpose, Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Nightmares FOX, by DEBORAH CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Down from the mountains Last Line: Till she slipped away with the stars Subject(s): Animals FOX, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After we peeled and dipped and sucked Last Line: However naked and heart-rending, however %impotent and wild Subject(s): Animals; Childhood Memories; Foxes FOX AND THE GRAPES, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fox of gascon, though some say of norman descent Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals FOX FARM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the pasture a shire Last Line: Woman's neck. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Foxes; Horses; Wilderness; Agriculture; Farmers FOXHUNTER'S DREAM, by G. C. SCHEU Poem Source First Line: I sit and close my eyelids and I dream I Subject(s): Animals; Horses FRAGMENT, by JAMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though decked the tray, two things afar and near Alternate Author Name(s): Mowlana Nur Od-din Abd Or-rahm; Jami, Nuru'ddin Abdu 'r-rahman; Deschami Subject(s): Animals; Cats FRAGMENT OF A POEM EATEN BY MICE, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: A community of primitive rituals Last Line: Forever spying on those who spy upon them Subject(s): Animals FRANCES', by RICHARD WIGHTMAN Poem Source First Line: You were a dog, frances, a dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FRENCHIE, by FRANK C. MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: I found him in a shell hole Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FRESCO-SONNETS TO CHRISTIAN S.: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of savage devils'-brats, my friend, beware Last Line: And could my life-blood meanwhile cease to drip! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Love - Complaints FRIEND, by ESTHER BIRDSALL DARLING Poem Source First Line: Sometimes when life has gone wrong with you Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FRIEND DOG, SELS., by ARNOLD ADOFF Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FRIEND IN NEED, by JACK BURROUGHS Poem Source First Line: There is a public garden in bordeaux Subject(s): Animals FRIENDSHIP, by MARTY HALE Poem Source First Line: My dreams were crumbled, and my house Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FROG, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First memory / of swimming underwater Last Line: And croaking in the reeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Authors & Authorship; Frogs; Poetry & Poets FROG, by MARY ANN HOBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Pollywiggle Last Line: Pollywiggle %pollywog Subject(s): Animals FROG, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When he looks at me Last Line: That frog over there! Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Animals; Frogs FROG, by CHRISTIAN NAGLE Poem Source First Line: Where a high window frame encounters brick Last Line: My throat balloons with an ecstatic pulse Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Life FROG, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Better my grandson's crayoned easter pasteup Last Line: Up in volleys toward the watery %sun of first hatch Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Poetry And Poets FROG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What a wonderful bird the frog are Last Line: When he sit, he sit on what he ain't got almost Subject(s): Animals; Frogs FROG COUNTRY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Where there's a will Last Line: With a pardon in my pocket Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Frogs FROG FINDS HIS HOME IN THE DAMP, DAMP WORLD, by TODD HELDT Poem Source First Line: At the bottom of the swamp out back Last Line: Pinned to nowhere on a map %anyone will ever find Subject(s): Animals; Earth; Frogs FROG IN THE SWIMMING POOL, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: A wet green velvet scums the swimming pool Last Line: Halfheartedly, the slide slid into rust, %the old griefs waiting burial by the new Subject(s): Animals; Frogs FROG MUSIC, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Frogs by the ditch Last Line: Frogs spring %into every song Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Music And Musicians FROG-MAKING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said frog papa to frog mamma Last Line: Their tails off all around her. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Frogs FROGGY-BACK, by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source First Line: This little froglet never Last Line: To swim all on his froggy own Subject(s): Animals; Fathers FROGS IN SPRING, by AILEEN FISHER Poem Source First Line: Maybe they're glad Last Line: That's what I %would be gladdest for Subject(s): Animals FROM A PAINTING OF A CAT, by CHU TA Poem Source First Line: Nan ch'uan wanted to be reborn as a water buffalo, Last Line: It took thirty years for clouds to disperse, snow to melt Subject(s): Animals; Cats FROM A PET-SHOP WINDOW, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981) Poem Source First Line: His eyes said, 'come and buy me' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FROM FIELD SPORTS, by WILLIAM SOMERVILE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When autumn smiles, all beauteous in decay Alternate Author Name(s): Somerville, William Subject(s): Animals FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF A CAT-CATCHER: ITEM: FELINE ANATOMY, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Half a pound of water Last Line: Two of purr Subject(s): Animals; Cats FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF A CAT-CATCHER: ITEM: SHOPPING LIST, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Trout heads, carp tails Last Line: Or butcher drops Subject(s): Animals; Cats FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF A CAT-CATCHER: ITEM: SKILLS REQUIRED FOR THE JOB, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: The muscle, wit, and nerve Last Line: Or ability to fly Subject(s): Animals; Cats FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF A CAT-CATCHER: ITEM: THE PERSONALITY OF A CAT, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Conceited, fickle Last Line: Confoundingly mysterious Subject(s): Animals; Cats FROM THE WRECK, by ADAM LINDSAY GORDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turn out, boys!' - 'what's up with our super tonight?' Last Line: How much for her hide? She had never worn shoes. Subject(s): Animals; Horses FROST EYEBROWS, by WANG T'UNG-KUEI Poem Source First Line: Frost eyebrows was the favorite cat Last Line: Here lies a veritable dragon Subject(s): Animals; Cats FULL OF THE MOON, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source First Line: It's full of the moon Last Line: And chase their tails till dawn Subject(s): Animals; Dogs FULL PARDON, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: I am magnanimous. I have just curbed my instincts and Last Line: Beneath my foot -- as I always do -- I was stopped by its %fear. I let it go on its way Subject(s): Animals FUR BEARERS, by ELISABETH KUSKULIS Poem Text First Line: Grayshadow, what is that strange thing I see Last Line: How soft chinchilla is! . . . God, traps are slow! Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Hunters FURY'S UKELELE, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Couldn't my giant agitate a vat of music Last Line: One-zero, a milky stream of all that singing Subject(s): Animals; Music And Musicians FUSILIERS' DOG, by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Go lift him gently form the wheels Subject(s): Animals FUTILE QUESTION, by DEZSO TANDORI Poem Source First Line: Why does he stand there, this short penguin Last Line: The real question: what could he do instead? Subject(s): Animals; Penguins; Picture Books; Statues GAINING WINGS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A twig where clung two soft cocoons Last Line: That free the folded wings! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Cocoons; Death - Animals; Moths GANESHA, GANESH, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source Last Line: And maybe your wish will come true Subject(s): Mythical Animals GARDEN APARTMENT?, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source Last Line: And broccoli trees- %in a raisin yard Subject(s): Animals GARDEN SNAKE, by KATHRYN WINOGRAD Poem Source First Line: Yes, I know the garden Last Line: The whole husk %of me Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Snakes GARDEN SNAKES, by ROBERT MOORE Poem Source First Line: Every summer since we bought this house Last Line: I'd ask him %but just imagine the look I'd get Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Summer GARDEN SPIDER, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though fear'd by many, scorn'd by all Subject(s): Animals GARTER SNAKE IN SPRING, by MICHAEL A. SCHAFFNER Poem Source First Line: Coiled as if to strike, it licks Last Line: It doesn't know how small it is Subject(s): Animals; Snakes GARUDA, by DEBORAH CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: He perches in the dusty tamarind tree Last Line: Feather by bright feather, disappears Subject(s): Mythical Animals GAUGUIN'S WHITE HORSE, by VICKI HEARNE Poem Source First Line: There he stood, quite suddenly Last Line: Bends to, compelled to answer Subject(s): Animals; Art And Artists; Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903); Horses; Paintings And Painters GAY WAG, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When bosses grow censorious Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GEIST'S GRAVE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four years! - and didst thou stay above Last Line: The dachs-hound, geist, their little friend. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Pets GENTLE JILL, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: We have a guinea pig named jill Last Line: Bam! Shazam! We're feeling better Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools GEO-BESTIARY: 26, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In montana the badger looks at me in fear Last Line: His thicket, his secret room in his powerful claws. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Badgers; Death; Dead, The GEO-BESTIARY: 31, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few long miles up hog canyon Last Line: To my breast, a truly inventive suicide. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Fear; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers GEORGE KNIGHT TO HIS DOG PINCHER, by GEORGE KNIGHT Poem Source First Line: Gentle pincher, cock thy tail Last Line: Make the temple of delight Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GEORGICS: SNAKES, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I look out at the fields Last Line: Cattle, sheep, goats, dogs, men Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Animals; Snakes GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 15, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fine and prickly rain now descends Last Line: "the roman proverb famous." Subject(s): Animals; Germany; Horses; Rain; Soldiers; Germans GETTING RID OF THE DOG BY TAKING IT AROUND THE MOUNTAIN, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swoop over rainless land Last Line: On the far side of the mountain Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GETTING THROUGH, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to apologize Last Line: If there's an april %in the last frail snow of april %they will knock hard to be born Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Snow; Survival GHAZALS: 21, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sings from the bottom of a well but she can hear him up Last Line: Drags the dead horse away to hollow swelling growls. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Death; Imaginary Conversations; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs GHAZALS: 50, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boot called botte sauvage renders rattlers harmless but they Last Line: Edges are jagged; when cold, the skin peels off the tongue at touch. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Animals; Snakes; Women; Serpents; Vipers GHOST, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Threading through silken surliness Last Line: Leaps onto the bed where you lie naked Subject(s): Animals GHOST DOG, by BARBARA HURD Poem Source First Line: A week after your death Last Line: What unfinished gestures of gratitude Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Ghosts; Supernatural GHOSTRIES, by HENRY CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL Poem Source First Line: Did you ever hear a rustling Alternate Author Name(s): Pennell, Henry Cholmondeley Subject(s): Animals; Cats GIACOMETTI'S DOG, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She moves so gracefully on her bronze legs Last Line: To shore in this dog-eat-dog world Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GIANT BEAR, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: There once was a giant bear Last Line: Monster one minute, food the next Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion GIANT KANGAROO RAT, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Against the wall of her burrow Last Line: Her body's alchemy %turns into wine Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals GIANT PANDA, by KABIRU ABDU KILA Poem Source First Line: My folklore has it that you were confined to poles Subject(s): Animals GIDEON'S BAND, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what is this unearthly noise Last Line: For every dog must have his day. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Life; Music & Musicians GIFT, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, you may not recognize me Last Line: In love's name, your emissary Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GIFT, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Madame woo, robed in silk, roams Last Line: The chance for me to hold her on my lap Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GIFT, by MARIJANE OSBORN Poem Source First Line: We walk by the river and Last Line: Of elsewhere as I hold it to the sun Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Snakes GIFT OF GREAT VALUE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh that horse I see so high Last Line: Sterile vision -- and a great %wind we ride Subject(s): Animals; Gifts And Giving; Horses; Parents GIRAFFES, by MARY ANN HOBERMAN Poem Source First Line: I like them %ask me why Last Line: I like giraffes Subject(s): Animals; Giraffes GIRAFFES, by SY KAHN Poem Source First Line: Stilted giraffes Last Line: Brushing of the clouds Subject(s): Animals; Giraffes GIRL IN NEW ORLEANS, by APRIL DENONNO Poem Source First Line: They city is not Last Line: Inside us like it was our own Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Omens GIVE A BOY A DAWG, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Give to pa a horse to drive Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GIVING RABBIT TO MY CAT BONNIE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pretty bonnie, you are quick as a rabbit Subject(s): Animals; Cats GIVING RABBIT TO MY CAT BONNIE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pretty bonnie, you are quick as a rabbit Last Line: Bonnie. What are you eating? Dear bonnie, consider Subject(s): Animals; Cats GLACIER PARK, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: At last we've reached the famous place Last Line: When the tenderfeet intrude. Subject(s): Animals; Hotels; Parks; Tourists; Travel; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Journeys; Trips GLAMOUR GIRL, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: A furry glamour girl with four legs Last Line: And the tongue of the dog %run neck and neck %for my stare Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GNATS, by ODETTE TCHERNINE Poem Source First Line: The gnats are dancing in the sun Last Line: The gnats are limbering up to bite Subject(s): Animals; Gnats GOAT, by UMBERTO SABA Poem Source First Line: I have spoken with a goat Last Line: Of all living things and their trouble Subject(s): Animals; Fields; Goats GOATS, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Wherever the earth is rugged and poor, there they are Last Line: She was my horse, and perhaps my first woman, as well Subject(s): Animals; Goats; Hunting GOD'S VENGEANCE, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: For it is the day of the lord's vengeance Subject(s): Animals GODHORSE, by KOJO LAING Poem Source First Line: The horse with birds on its mane, doubt on its tail Last Line: Carrying their expanding beauty still, still Subject(s): Animals; Horses GOING HOME, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: I'll build a treehouse roofed with stars Last Line: When I landed in his net Subject(s): Animals; Cats GOING TO THE DOGS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The head of the german shepherd I have now Last Line: Even by a gut that pretends love Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GOLDEN RETRIEVER, by JEFFREY HARRISON Poem Source First Line: ... Bounding again into those childhood fields Last Line: And smear all over your golden fur. Go on Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GOLDFISH, by JOHN TRAVERS MOORE Poem Source First Line: Hidden by the lily pots Last Line: Then down again Subject(s): Animals GONE, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: My little dog is gone Last Line: To feed a stray cat Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GONE, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've looked behind the shed Last Line: A bark? You hear a bark? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GONE TO HER HEAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "there was a young lady, quite rich" Last Line: Had fallen asleep at the switch Subject(s): Animals;heads;rats GONE TO HIS REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Would have it so Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Mortality; Death – Animals GONE TO THE DOGS, by WILLIAM HANKINS CHITWOOD Poem Source First Line: This country has literally gone to the dogs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GOOD BUCKSKIN HORSE, by JAY DUSARD Poem Source First Line: Yellow trimmed in black Last Line: Cow-huntin' mother Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ranch Life GOOD COMPANY, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees Last Line: Lord, who am I that they should stoop -- these holy folk of thine? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Animals; Religion; Trees; Theology GOODBYE, OLD FRIEND', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Only a dying horse! Pull off the gear Subject(s): Animals GOOFY YOUNG BALD EAGLE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A barrel of fish heads and guts Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Eagles; Gulls; Nature; Ravens GORBY AND THE RATS, by OBEYD-I-ZAKANI Poem Source First Line: Long long agi %when god was, for without him nothing was Last Line: And as in every chestnut lies %truth's kernel -- so in every tale Subject(s): Animals; Cats GOSHAWK, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Golden goshawk, %slowly twist Last Line: Come dream inside %your leather hood Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals GRAMMAR, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A garter snake's head pressed to the pavement- Last Line: Around a letter destined for the fire, %and in the tar a striped snake warms itself. Subject(s): Animals; Snakes GRASSHOPPER, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grasshopper %grasshopper Last Line: To fall in grass again %and sing Subject(s): Animals GRASSHOPPER, by WILFRED ROWLAND CHILDE Poem Source First Line: Upon a viol of carven jade Subject(s): Animals GRASSHOPPER SPRINGS, by J. W. HACKETT Poem Source Last Line: With his outstretched wings Subject(s): Animals GRAY BAT, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Born in synchrony, the infants gasp Last Line: The solid shape of things Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals GRAY WOLF, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: They do not wander but know Last Line: The other walks away Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals GREASING BOOTS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To keep a feller's boots in trim Last Line: When settled weather struck your boots. Subject(s): Animals; Cows; Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers GREATER CATS WITH GOLDEN EYES, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And night with different stars Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita Subject(s): Animals; Cats GREEN LEAVES, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, how sublime Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Animals GREEN NOSTALGIA; SOLILOQUY OF A TIGER IN A ZOO, by NGUYEN THU LE Poem Source First Line: I chew a bitter cud, lying Last Line: O my terrible wilderness! Subject(s): Animals; Freedom; Tigers; Zoos GREETINGS FROM A BLIND DOG, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little pilgrim through a night Last Line: Happy greetings from us two! Subject(s): Animals; Blindness; Dogs; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Love; Visually Handicapped GREY, OR TURTLE, SONG, by CAROL PEPPIS BERGE Poem Source First Line: There are just so many ways a sea-turtle can show affection. Or, for that Last Line: And the one across species Subject(s): Marine Animals; Turtles GREYHOUND SPEAKS, by EDWARD ANTHONY Poem Source First Line: I'm a racing success Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GRIFFIN, by ARNOLD SUNDGAARD Poem Source First Line: Protector of pharaohs Last Line: Or else you may not! Subject(s): Mythical Animals GRISETTE DINES, by ANTOINETTE DU LIGIER DE LA GARDE DESHOULIERES Poem Source First Line: Always well behaved am I Subject(s): Animals; Cats GRIZZLY, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coward, - of heroic size Last Line: Yet remain an outlaw still! Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Animals; Bears GRIZZLY BEAR, by MARY HUNTER AUSTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you ever, ever, ever meet a grizzly bear Subject(s): Animals; Bears GRIZZLY BEAR, by MARY HUNTER AUSTIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you ever, ever, ever meet a grizzly bear Last Line: To stop a grizzly bear %you will never meet another grizzly bear Subject(s): Animals; Bears GRIZZLY BEAR, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Lethargy settles into her heartbeat Last Line: As nervous as water, as kind Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals GROCERY STORE CAT, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: I'm just the grocery store cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats GROOMER, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: On saturdays I take maurice Last Line: Here come that little bitin' dog.' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GROSSIER'S THE PASSENGER PIGEONS, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Is only painted-over cloth %muffling the steps of t he painted hunters Last Line: In a gesture the oldest hunter makes %to his friends Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Paintings And Painters GROVE, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was no road at all to that high place Last Line: There was no road except the smothering grove Subject(s): Animals GROWLTIGER'S LAST STAND, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Growltiger was a bravo cat, who lived upon a barge Last Line: And a day of celebration was commanded at bangkok Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats GUARDIAN TANYA, by THOMAS CARPER Poem Source First Line: Sensing when I must travel, she refuses Last Line: Coming gladly with a leash to link us %so we can go to death as on a walk Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GUIDE DOG, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: She's just a plain dog Last Line: She's just a plain dog. %she's my eyes Subject(s): Animals; Dogs GUINEY-PIGS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Guiney-pigs is awful cute Last Line: When they's company! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Food & Eating; Pigs; Boars; Hogs GULL, by FELICE HOLMAN Poem Source First Line: Immobile Last Line: To tear its living from a shell Subject(s): Animals GULLS LAND AND CEASE TO BE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spread back across the air, wings wide Last Line: And are aground Subject(s): Death – Animals; Gulls GUN-TEAMS (LOOS, SEPTEMBER 1915), by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Source First Line: Their rugs are sodden, their heads are down, their tails Last Line: Know the worth of humble servants, foolish-faithful to their gun Subject(s): Animals; War HABITS OF THE HIPPOPOTAMUS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hippopotamus is strong Last Line: And other hippopotomusses. Subject(s): Animals; Hippopotamuses HAIKU, by CHISOKU Poem Source First Line: The face of the dragonfly Last Line: Is practically nothing but eyes Subject(s): Animals HAIKU, by DEMARU Poem Source First Line: Butterflies dancing through falling snow! Last Line: What a wonderful sight it would be! Subject(s): Animals HAIKU, by J. W. HACKETT Poem Source First Line: A bitter morning Last Line: Without any necks Subject(s): Animals HAIKU, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rainy afternoon Last Line: Teach that cat to dance Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Animals; Cats HAIKU, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Placing the kitten Last Line: She went on playing Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Animals; Cats HAIKU, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How sadly the bird in his cage Last Line: Watches the butterflies Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Animals HAIKU, by KYORAI Poem Source First Line: Galloping pony Last Line: On a whitened beach Subject(s): Animals HAIKU, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why so scrawny, cat? Last Line: Or backyard love? Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Animals; Cats HAIKU, by SHIKO+1 Poem Source First Line: Oh sorry tom-cat Last Line: Have knocked you out! Subject(s): Animals; Cats HAIKU, by TAKAHAMA KYOSHI Poem Source First Line: The snake fled Last Line: Still in the grass Subject(s): Animals; Snakes HAIKU, by TAN TAIGI Poem Source First Line: Rash tom-cat lover Last Line: Stuck to your whiskers Subject(s): Animals; Cats HAIKU, by TAN TAIGI Poem Source First Line: Look at the stray cat Last Line: In the whistling snow Subject(s): Animals; Cats HAIKU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Leaping flying fish! Last Line: As I sail for home Subject(s): Animals HAIKU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A discovery! Last Line: There sits no button Subject(s): Animals HAIKU, by YAHA Poem Source First Line: Amorous cat, alas Last Line: You must yowl with your love - %or even worse, without! Subject(s): Animals; Cats HAIKU, by YOSA BUSON Poem Source First Line: Ultra-pink peony - %silver siamese soft cat Last Line: God-dust butterfly Alternate Author Name(s): Buson; Taniguchi Buson Subject(s): Animals; Cats HALF PAST TEARS, by EDITH OGDEN Poem Source First Line: Over the pond and down the road Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HANDFUL DOES NOT SATISFY A LION, by TALMUD Poem Source Subject(s): Animals HANGIN', by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Mom's a mess %dad says she's tired Last Line: Hangin'. %just us two. %hangin' all day long Subject(s): Animals; Fathers HANSI, by HARRY BEHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our dog is not stupid, but stubborn, and so Last Line: It's different, though, when out he goes %each morning to read the news with his nose! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HAPPY CAT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat's asleep; I whisper kitten Last Line: Men aren't happy; why are you? Subject(s): Animals; Cats HARE, by DEBORAH RANDALL Poem Source First Line: The hare might almost be a concept Last Line: Up and down the spine, from a time before %words outsped their meaning Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits HARE-BELLS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ring! The little rabbits' eyes Last Line: For the bells are dumb. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares HARES AT PLAY, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The birds are gone to bed, the cows are still Last Line: Sturts quick as fear, and seeks its hidden lair. Subject(s): Animals; Environment; Fields; Rabbits; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hares HARMONY STONEWORKS, LATE WINTER, by BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday is silence in the pit, the gate locked Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HARPY EAGLE, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: Hunger's keen eye slits the green Last Line: M %e %a %l Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Eagles HARVEST, by YU KYONGHWAN Poem Source First Line: In the golden stubble of paddy field Last Line: A pride of lions Subject(s): Animals; Lions HASSAN TO HIS MARE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my beauty! Come, my desert darling! Last Line: With thy glossy neck laid close to mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Animals; Horses HAWAIIAN MONK SEAL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: She swam the whole earth through Last Line: Unwilling to learn the preservng power of fear Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals HAWK AND SNAKE, by LESLIE MARMON SILKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go back again Last Line: I peer out from my rocks %coiled in noontime shade Subject(s): Animals; Snakes HAWK, THE SERPENTS AND THE CLOUD, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In writing, he moved from the word I Last Line: Each is bird and sky to the other, soil and flower Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Religion; Writing And Writers HAWKING FOR PARTRIDGES, by LORENZO DE' MEDICI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was already pink across the east Last Line: And so, my friend, we passed our happy time %with rhymes, sweet rhymes in sugar, keeping time Alternate Author Name(s): Lorenzo The Magnificent Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Dogs; Hawks; Hunting; Landscape HAY AND HELL AND BOOLIGAL, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You come and see me, boys,' he said Last Line: Deliver us from booligal!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Variant Title(s): Hay And Hell Booligal Subject(s): Animals; Towns HE'S JUST A DOG, by JOSEPH M. ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Here is a friend who proves his worth Last Line: Without some borrowed traits, to make %a decent dog! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HEALING OF THE WOOD, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To heal mine aching moods Subject(s): Animals HEAPS OF HAMSTERS, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Have you seen our baby hamsters? Last Line: And they want us to take them home Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools HEAR THE MUSIC, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To bring their appetite Subject(s): Desert Animals HEARD, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: Heard in the middle of the night Last Line: But it was not the lark %and not the icy swan Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Feathers; Singing And Singers; Wings HEARSE-HORSE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Said the hearse-horse to the coffin Last Line: Said the coffin to the hearse-horse, %'worms!' Subject(s): Animals; Coffins; Horses HEAT, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My mare, when she was in heat Last Line: But desire, desire is long Subject(s): Desire; Animals; Horses HEAT, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My mare, when she was in heat Subject(s): Animals; Horses HEAT, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mare, when she was in heat Subject(s): Animals; Horses HEAVEN OF ANIMALS, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here they are. The soft eyes open Last Line: They rise, they walk again Subject(s): Animals HECTOR'S DAY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Hector is one dog that can't stand Last Line: In the overture to william tell Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HELEN AND THE ANIMALS, by GERALD WILLIAM BARRAX Poem Source First Line: We curse them with terrifying, hybrid names Last Line: And god's, neither ennobled by human heirs Subject(s): Animals HELVELLYN, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I climbed the drak brow of the mighty helvellyn Last Line: In the arms of helvellyn and catchedicam. Variant Title(s): Hellvellyn Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Dogs; Helvellyn (mountain), England; Mountain Climbing; Valor; Bravery HENRY VIII'S DOGS, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: When henry tudor was the king Last Line: And hoped he'd never learn to eat Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HER GERMAN POLICE DOG, by RUTH DURHAM CUNNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: So faithfully, for fifteen years or more Last Line: And watched you as your faithful spirit flew. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Sonnet (as Literary Form) HER PET, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk the floor, read, watch a cop-show, drink Last Line: And labored with it to bring on its end. Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Montague, John (b. 1929) HERALDIC BLAZONS OF FOSS THE CAT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fop couchant Last Line: Fojs pafsant Subject(s): Animals; Cats HERD, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How calmy cows move to the milking sheds Subject(s): Animals HERE COME THE MUSICIANS, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We'll soon start to sway Subject(s): Desert Animals HERE'S WHAT TO DO: READ SLOWLY, CHEW, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source Last Line: In wonderland-a cheshire bookworm's %curiouser word palace' Subject(s): Animals HERITAGE, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: Place not your faith in blood. We are controlled Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source Last Line: Leap through the door Subject(s): Animals HIGH BARBAREE, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As I was sailing down the coast Last Line: For you may save the life of %a pretty muffin bird! Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E. Subject(s): Animals; Cats HIGH ON A RIDGE OF TILES, by MAURICE JAMES CRAIG Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Cats HIGH PASTURES, by WALKER WINSLOW Poem Text First Line: They got their mounts the hard way Last Line: In the high pastures of his mind. Subject(s): Animals; Horses HIGH PITCHES, by ROBERT GRUNST Poem Source First Line: A little brown bat was waiting for dark Last Line: And every flying insect that it loved Subject(s): Animals; Bats HIGHER EDUCATION, by KRISTINE A. SOMERVILLE Poem Source First Line: A man on whom I have a crush said that tomcats lead a Last Line: Frizzy haired. And still I thought myself pretty Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Politics; Schools HILL MAN'S BURIAL, by LILLIAN M. (PETTES) AINSWORTH Poem Text First Line: Over the wind-blown snow, drifting drearily Last Line: The long black box to the grave in the hollow. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Graves; Horses; Snow; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones HIMALAYA APE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Now listen, evolutionists Last Line: Or of the missing link. Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Pets; Science; Teaching & Teachers; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Scientists; Educators; Professors HIMMY'S OUTING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Himmy went to market Last Line: For his breakfast food. Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Escapes; Forests; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Fugitives; Woods HIPPOCAMP, by ARNOLD SUNDGAARD Poem Source First Line: Oh, fabrous horse that's half a fish Last Line: Engraved upon a monolith? Subject(s): Mythical Animals HIPPOGRIFF, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To look at this fictitious steed Last Line: It's not real. %but oh, if...! Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals HIPPOGRIFF, by ARNOLD SUNDGAARD Poem Source First Line: When mare and griffin meet and mate Last Line: The hippogriff this beast is called Subject(s): Mythical Animals HIPPOPOTAMUS, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shoot the hippopotamus Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Animals; Hippopotamuses HIPPOPOTAMUS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the hippopotamus Last Line: As you no doubt delight the eye %of other hippopotami Subject(s): Animals; Hippopotamuses HIPPOPOTAMUS, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The huge hippopotamus hasn't a hair Last Line: And a permanent grin on his face Subject(s): Animals; Hippopotamuses HIPPOPOTAMUS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hippopotamus -- hippo for short Last Line: Then sinks back under, and disappears Subject(s): Animals HIPPOPOTAMUS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hippopotamus -- hippo for short Last Line: Then sinks back under, and disappears Subject(s): Animals HIPPOPOTAMUSN'T, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: A hippopotamusn't sit Last Line: As important as the lawful things %a hippopotamust Subject(s): Animals; Hippopotamuses HIS CODE OF HONOR, by ZITELLA COCKE Poem Source First Line: His scanty raiment stained and rent Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HIS DOG, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pete bristles when the doorbell rings Last Line: Has felt the blow the worst of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HIS DOG, by ETHEL M. KELLEY Poem Source First Line: Yes, he's my dog. He knows a lot Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HIS EPITAPH, by CLARENCE E. FLYNN Poem Source First Line: He wasn't rich; he wasn't great Subject(s): Animals HIS GOOD POINTS, by WILLIAM LIVINGSTON LARNED Poem Source First Line: The judges all agree that I'm Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HIS GRANGE, OR PRIVATE WEALTH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though clock, / to tell how night drawes hence, I've none Last Line: None is, slight things do lightly please. Subject(s): Animals; Contentment HIS MAJESTY, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: I came to wish ziggy a happy new year Last Line: He allowed me the pleasure of much stroking Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HIS NAME WAS BOB, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A little mongrel dog - he couldn't boast Subject(s): Animals HIS NAME WAS KEKO, by THEODORE BRIDGMAN Poem Text First Line: Under the kiawe he lies - Last Line: Sleep well -- little keko -- Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Seashore; Speech Disorders; Beach; Coast; Shore; Stuttering; Muteness HISTORY, by MARK COX Poem Source First Line: Solitude is a cold pear I eat Last Line: In the grain of the floor Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HISTORY OF RELIGION, by MAREK BATEROWICZ Poem Source First Line: In the shadow of the pines Last Line: Sun worship Subject(s): Animals; Cats; History; Religion; Roman Empire; Rome, Italy HISTORY OF THE SEVEN FAMILIES OF THE LAKE PIPPLE-POPPLE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In former days-that is to say, once upon a time, there lived in the land Last Line: Building; for if you do not, you certainly will not see them Subject(s): Animals; Geography; History; Museums; Nature HIT OR MISS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One morn - it was the very morn Last Line: Who would but hit or miss a post. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Hunters HOBO'S DOG, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: A box-car held a motley group of men Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HODGE, THE CAT, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Burly and big, his books among Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Animals; Cats HOG, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: Tired by the sheer size of himself Last Line: When they and the log were about the same size Subject(s): Animals; Food And Eating; Hunting HOG MEETING ITS GOD, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: I am seven. On the farm, I watch Last Line: But I shall not cross myself at table Subject(s): Animals HOLY DAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was in the queensland drought Last Line: And holy dan was drowned Subject(s): Animals;death;drought;horses;piety; "dead, The; HOMAGE OF BEASTS, by AUGUSTA LARNED Poem Source First Line: King solomon, as I have heard Subject(s): Animals HOMAGE TO OUR LADY OF THE STRAYS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How terribly wrong some love Last Line: Of old ones made to live and die alone Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HOME BRUNT, by KAY RILEY Poem Source First Line: Your pets, we know Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Midnight %and the house is breathing Last Line: Oh, my girls! My girls! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HOME OF THE RADIOACTIVE CATS, by JANET MCCANN Poem Source First Line: In the home of the radioactive cats Last Line: Dreamcat, why are you here %in the real?) Subject(s): Animals; Cats HOMER'S SEEING-EYE DOG, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most of the time he wrote, a sort of sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey HOMER'S SEEING-EYE DOG, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most of the time he wrote, a sort of sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry And Poets HOMO SAPIENS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine a morning moon the color of cream Last Line: A residue still too ancient to name Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Creation; Evolution; Skulls; Wilderness HONG, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hong we brought from far off china Last Line: In his heart was only love. Subject(s): Animals; China; Dogs HONG KONG CHOW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hong kong chow is dead, his loving heart hath ceased / to beat Last Line: In loved paownyc he doth sleep, at rest forevermore. Subject(s): Absence; Animals; Death; Dogs; Silence; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The HOPE, by WILLIAM DICKEY Poem Source First Line: At the foot of the stairs Last Line: Of his mind - immense. %hope ruling him %past sense Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HORSE, by VALERIE PATTERSON NAPANANGKA Poem Source First Line: A horse is running, %running scared Last Line: Day by day, it just goes on, %poor horse, it makes me feel sad Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Animals; Horses HORSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I know two things about the horse Last Line: And that's what sits upon its torse %and says, 'giddyap!' to the poor horse Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSE, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The first horse I ever saw Last Line: While power gathered in his thigh %surged like language into my thumb Subject(s): Animals; Horseback Riding HORSE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man who ges into the fight Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals HORSE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horse moves %independently Last Line: Like fumes from %the twin %exhausts of a car Subject(s): Animals HORSE (1), by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A / quarter horse, no rider Last Line: To knock me off? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Deception; Friendship; Horses HORSE (2), by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if it were our privilege Last Line: Around, under the ground? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Horses; Dead, The; Nightmares HORSE AND ASS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A train was rushing along one day Last Line: Will never want his oats and hay. Subject(s): Animals; Asses & Mules; Hearts; Horses; Nature; Railroads; Mules; Railways; Trains HORSE CALLED TRADITION, by WILLIAM BRAY Poem Source First Line: A dreamed of a man who could Last Line: Moving in space. %on horse bolts Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSE CALLIGRAM, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You will find here a new representation og the universe Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSE CURSED BY THE SUN, by UNKNOWN+11 Poem Source First Line: From today thou shalt have a (certain) time of dying Last Line: Since that day the horse's (certain) time of dying %commenced Subject(s): Animals; Curses; Horses HORSE DIARY, by ENDI FELICIA HARTIGAN Poem Source First Line: Not the not-so-secret passage through the fence, the bottom wire Last Line: Weight -- part of the rain, pressing on the grass, where horses aren't Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSE IN THE LINOLEUM, by LIA PURPURA Poem Source Last Line: Two peppercorns in a field of clover Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSE IS A HORSE, by DOROTHY WALTER BARUCH Poem Source First Line: I would like to be Last Line: Hear %when anyone %calls Subject(s): Animals HORSE IS LOOSE, by OJIBE KUROME Poem Source Last Line: On foot over tama brow Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSE OF PETE LAREAU, by IVAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Sacre! You laugh ma ol' paree? Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSE RHYMEL STOKEINTEIGNHEAD, DEVON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If you hace a horse with four white legs Last Line: Keep him to the end Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSE SENSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A horse can't pull while kicking Last Line: There'll be no time for kicking Subject(s): Animals;horses HORSE STANDING IN SUNLIGHT, by DENNIS HINRICHSEN Poem Source First Line: Witless to think such grazing could wound the sun and Last Line: The colt awaken and take the apple from her hand Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSE WITH TWO WHEELS, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: My son and his friend benjamin. Couldn't fly for years Last Line: You roar in winters, oh, women who shed their leaves Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ruins HORSE'S EPITAPH, by ROBERT LOWE Poem Source First Line: Soft lies the turf on those who find their rest Alternate Author Name(s): Sherbrooke, Viscount Subject(s): Animals HORSE'S PETITION TO HIS DRIVER; A PLACARD ON WALLS, 1885, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Up hill - whip me not Last Line: When you are angry - strike me not Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSE, DOG, AND MAN, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Source First Line: The horse and the dog had tamed a man ... Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HORSE-BATHING PARADE, by W. KERSLEY HOLMES Poem Text First Line: A few clouds float across the grand blue sky Last Line: And hear the surf rush hissing up the sand. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War HORSE-BELLS, by D. G. G. Poem Text First Line: I love to lie and listen to the horse bells' merry sound Last Line: Tinkle! Tonkle! Tankle! Tong! Subject(s): Animals; Bells; Cattle; Horses HORSEFLIES, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: After the horse went down Subject(s): Horses; Death - Animals HORSEFLY, by ALICE HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: On the edge of the prairie so wide it was called the sea of Last Line: Neighbors on days like this, and no one has disagreed with him yet Subject(s): Animals; Fear; Grandparents; Horses HORSES, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1,000 ponies, the united states cavalry stole 1,000 ponies Last Line: No horses I own / no horses Subject(s): Animals; Cavalry; Cowboys; Horses; Native Americans - Reservations; Native Americans - Wars; Revenge HORSES, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1,000 ponies, the united states cavalry stole 1,000 ponies Last Line: No horses, I own %no horses Subject(s): Animals; Cavalry; Cowboys; Horses; Native Americans - Reservations; Native Americans - Wars; Revenge HORSES, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was our share in the sinning Subject(s): Animals HORSES, by ZEKHARYE-KHONE BERGNER Poem Source First Line: Eighteen years %of hauling heavy loads Last Line: And now their lives are spent Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSES, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: During the restless hours of certain mornings I hear them Last Line: Horses with no one to dream them Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Poetry And Poets HORSES, by MURILO MENDES Poem Source First Line: Horses gallop over the vast plain Last Line: Wakening trumpets in the dawn Subject(s): Animals HORSES, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those lumbering horses in the steady plough Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSES, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those lumbering horses in the steady plough Last Line: Were bright and fearful presences to me Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSES, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Barely a twelvemonth after Last Line: But that free servitude still can pierce our hearts %our life is changed; their coming our beginning Subject(s): Animals; Horses; War HORSES, by PAUL NELSON Poem Source First Line: The stallion and mares, appaloosas Last Line: Inheriting, the meek %won't be horses Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSES, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I brace my knee against Last Line: Heaving between my thighs. Subject(s): Animals; Barns; Horses HORSES, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was the first animal Last Line: Are never tamed, never entirely tamed Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSES, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was the first animal Last Line: Now when they stop, bent %to our oated hands, muzzles so soft, the horses %are never tamed, never en Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSES ABOARD, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horses in horseclothes stand in a row Last Line: From the scheme nature planned for them, -- wondering why. Subject(s): Animals HORSES AT VALLEY STORE, by LESLIE MARMON SILKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every day I meet the horses Last Line: So they pause and from their distance outside of time %they wait Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSES IN FLOWERS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come out of crete Last Line: Our dancing and mortal wine Subject(s): Animals; Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Horses; Love; Mythology - Classical HORSES IN SPRING, by CONNIE WANEK Poem Source First Line: Beware too much happiness! Last Line: And didn't like it, too cold, too soft, too unpredictable Subject(s): Animals; Happiness; Horses; Spring HORSES IN THE LAKE, by PABLO ANTONIO CUADRA Poem Source First Line: The horses go down at dawn Last Line: The wind's %asleep Subject(s): Animals; Horses HORSES OF ACHILLES, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When they saw that patroclus was slain Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P. Subject(s): Animals HORSES ON THE CAMARGUE, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the grey wastes of dread Last Line: And loved to course with tempests through the night Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Animals; Horses HOUND AND HARE, by F. B. SUTHERLAND Poem Text First Line: The hounds of earth have chased their prey Last Line: You hunters of the hare. Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Hunters HOUND ON THE CHURCH PORCH, by ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The farmer knew each time a friend went past Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HOUND SONG, by DONALD FINKEL Poem Source First Line: Three nights in a row Last Line: We let him out again Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HOUSE A SKUNK WOULD CALL A HOME, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source Last Line: Rises through a thick aroma Subject(s): Animals HOUSE DOG, by GEORGE BOAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have achieved the life of contemplation Last Line: Feel it to be themselves they thus bedeck. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HOUSE DOG SPEAKS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I'm a hearth dog Last Line: Who's any good at that Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs HOUSE THAT SUITS A POLAR BEAR, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source Last Line: Has very, very central air Subject(s): Animals HOUSE WOULD MAKE, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source Last Line: A launching pad Subject(s): Animals HOUSES MEANT FOR PORCUPINES, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source Last Line: Always carry 'warning!' signs Subject(s): Animals HOUSES THAT PLEASE COUNTRY CATS, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source Last Line: He calls his house... %the cottage cheese Subject(s): Animals HOUSTON TOAD, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: She comes out in rain, listens to insects hum Last Line: Until she touches that sound Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals; Toads HOW A CAT WAS ANNOYED AND A POET WAS BOOTED, by GUY WETMORE CARRYL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A poet had a cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats HOW ATTENTIVE THE BIG BEAR RESTING HIS CHIN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To see if he has permission for sunflower seeds Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Nature HOW HARRY KILLED THE SNAKE, by CECIL JAMES KELLY Poem Text First Line: You've heard the tales of droving Last Line: When harry killed the snake. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Snakes; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers HOW IT GOES ON, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I trade my last unwise %ewe lamb, the one who won't leave home Last Line: O lambs! The whole wolf-world sits down to eat %and cleans is muzzle after Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Animals HOW MCDOUGAL TOPPED THE SCORE, by THOMAS E. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: A peaceful spot is piper's flat. The folk that live around Last Line: For we played molongo cricket—and mcdougal topped the score! Subject(s): Animals; Cricket (game); Dogs; Practical Jokes; Sports; Pranks HOW THE FAVOURITE BEAT US, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, said the boozer, I tell you, it's true, sir Last Line: To win when you're able, and keep your hands down.' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Fortune; Horses HOW THE FEUD STARTED, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before there were pineapples, peaches or plums Last Line: Has chosen the mouse as his favorite ration.) Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs HOW THE FIRE QUEEN CROSSED THE SWAMP, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flood was down in the wilga swamps, three feet over the mud Last Line: "him through!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Devil; Floods; Horses; Swamps; Trucks & Trucking; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Bogs; Fens; Marshes HOW THE SAILOR RODE THE BRUMBY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was an agile sailor lad Last Line: To many still bring tears Subject(s): Animals;horses;sailing & Sailors HOW THEY COMMUNICATE, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even the dumb beasts Last Line: At least by his voice to mark %distinctions between objects Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Animals HOW TO CATCH A BIRD, by LELAND B. JACOBS Poem Source First Line: Don't hunt him with a sling or gun Subject(s): Animals HOW TO CHOOSE A HORSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "one white foot, try him" Last Line: Take off his hide and feed him to the crows Subject(s): Animals;horses;mnemonics HOW TO LIKE IT, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: These are the first days of fall. The wind Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Memory HOW TO LIKE IT, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the first days of fall. The wind Last Line: Answers to what comes next and how to like it Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Memory HOW WE KNOW ABOUT ANIMALS, by NALUNGIAQ Poem Source First Line: There was once a wise man Last Line: And taught us all we know about them Subject(s): Animals; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion HOWL, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: They were sitting across from each other. To stay detached Last Line: It's just dog's blood? Nothing more' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HUGHES, TED, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: Woodpecker Last Line: Woodpecker is rubber-necked Subject(s): Animals HUGHIE THE GRAEME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Gude lord scroope's to the hunting gane Subject(s): Animals;death;horses; "dead, The; HUMMING BIRD, by PAUL GROVES Poem Source First Line: The humming bird refuels Last Line: Or give you a second heart Subject(s): Animals; Hummingbirds HUMMINGBIRDS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They will be without arms like god Last Line: Who are wretched. Subject(s): Death - Animals; God; Hummingbirds HUNDRED A DAY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear 19th century! Give me refuge Last Line: And was not seen as shocking, nor as omen Subject(s): Evolution; Extinct Animals HUNGER OF THE LEMUR, by MATT ROHRER Poem Source First Line: On a hill he had climbed all winter Last Line: These are only the slimy bones of trees, %not trees Subject(s): Animals; Hunger; Winter HUNGRY HOUNDS OF WINTER, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: The hounds of winter now are here, they bare Last Line: You blast frail life, with black and certain death. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Winter HUNGRY MASTER AND HUNGRY CAT, by ABU SHAMAQMAQ Poem Source First Line: When my house was bare of skins and pots of meal Last Line: Even if the spider spins in my wine jar, in the jug, and the pot Subject(s): Animals; Cats HUNT, by GERTRUDE HUNTINGTON MCGIFFERT Poem Source First Line: Crash and off and away together Subject(s): Animals HUNTER MIND, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Good luck, hunter mind, trailing through field Last Line: By flight of the plumaged implausible bird. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Fields; Food & Eating; Hunting; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hunters HUNTER POEMS OF THE YORUBA, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Animals; Antelopes; Hunting; Monkeys HUNTER'S MOON, by MARIE E. REDDY Poem Text First Line: Unleash the hounds Last Line: Far music glides. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Hunters HUNTIN' WIT' OL' ROVER, by J. FARLEY RAGLAND Poem Text First Line: When things git too distressin' Last Line: Dan huntin' in de lowgrouds wit' ol' rover. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Hunters HUNTING DOG, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know that comical Last Line: A lesson from our dog %who only hunts for fun! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs HUNTING DOGS, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: No other animal, not dog nor bull Last Line: Flashed, like man's steel, the savage teeth of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Hunters HUNTING MANUAL, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The unicorn is an easy prey: its horn Last Line: In the dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Unicorns; Hunters HUNTING SEASON, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A bird in the wildwood is singing Last Line: Life redeemed shall abide in his love. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Birds; Forests; Hunting; Wings; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Woods; Hunters HUNTING SONG, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Black hound and blue hound Last Line: And so is the day Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs HUNTING-SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Comes the deer to my singing Last Line: Comes the deer to my singing Subject(s): Animals;hunting; Hunters HURT HAWKS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder Last Line: Before it was quite unsheathed from reality Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Euthanasia; Hawks HURT HAWKS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder Last Line: Fear at its rising %before it was quite unsheathed from reality Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Euthanasia; Hawks HYMN TO THE SPIRIT OF THE AIR, by IGPAKUHAK Poem Source First Line: I stand here humbly Subject(s): Animals HYWEL THE GOOD WEIGHS THE WORTH OF A CAT, by HYWEL AB OWAIN GWYNEDD Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The worth of a cat and her Last Line: There's a refund: a third of your money back Subject(s): Animals; Cats I AM A SNAKE, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source Last Line: The snake is slow to make a friend Subject(s): Animals I AM CAT, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I am silk and velvet Last Line: I am whispers landing, %I am... %I Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs I AM DOG, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I am tweed and carpet Last Line: I am stone and fortress, %I am... %I Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs I AM LYNX, by JONATHAN PAUL LONDON Poem Source Last Line: I am quiet as the approaching night Subject(s): Animals I AM THE CAT, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: I am the cat in the easy chair Last Line: Delicately onto the %book I am reading Subject(s): Animals; Cats I AM THE CAT, by LEILA USHER Poem Text First Line: In egypt they worshipped me Last Line: I am the cat. Subject(s): Animals; Cats I AM THE MULE, FOR EARS WHICH CATCH THE GALE, by WILL CHAMBERLAIN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals I CATCH A FIREFLY, by REBECCA CAUDILL Poem Source Last Line: With imprisoned fire Subject(s): Animals I DRIBBLED CATSUP ON MY PET, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And that is why my cat's upset Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Ketchup I FEEL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In her footprints Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Footprints; Nature I HAD A DOG, by O. R. Poem Source First Line: Bewhiskered sprite %of unrestrained delight Subject(s): Animals; Dogs I HAD A DUCK, by ARCHIBALD STODART-WALKER Poem Source First Line: I had a duck and the young duck died Subject(s): Animals I HAD WANDERED FOR YEARS, by GEORGE BURNS Poem Source First Line: Trying to become a bird Last Line: I am pulling the morning sun %into the sky Subject(s): Animals I HAPPEN TO KNOW, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the locusts in their shrill armadas Last Line: I'll stand on the buffalo, the seal and the locust Subject(s): Animals I HAVE SEEN YOU WRESTLE A FISHHOOK, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Otherness, I remembered a lullaby, sang Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals I KILT ER CAT, by VIRGINIA FRAZER BOYLE Poem Source First Line: Dar's a shakin' an' er achin' amongst dese old bones Subject(s): Animals; Cats I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When the shy snake hisses Last Line: I remember certain kisses. Subject(s): Animals; Kisses; Snakes I THINK HUMAN NATURE IS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME ALL ALONG, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On the whole perhaps pussycat nature is the best Subject(s): Animals; Cats I THINK I KNOW NO FINER THINGS THAN DOGS, by HALLY CARRINGTON BRENT Poem Text First Line: Though prejudice perhaps my mind befogs Last Line: I think I know no finer things than dogs. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs I THROW MYSELF TO THE LEFT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Everything lives, everything dances, everything sings Subject(s): Animals I VENT MY WRATH ON ANIMALS, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came alive Subject(s): Animals I WATERED MY HORSE AT A SPRING BY THE WALL; IMITATING THE OLD BALLAD, by YU SHI-NAN Poem Source First Line: We galloped our horses across river's edge Last Line: Yet by this I may repay him for a single meal Subject(s): Animals; Frontier And Pioneer Life; Horses I WILL NOT CHANGE MY HORSE WITH ANY TREADS, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it Subject(s): Animals I'M A PARROT, by GRACE NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: I'm a parrot %I live in a cage Last Line: I want to be free %can't you understand Subject(s): Animals I'M THE DOG, by GRENVILLE KLEISER Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Dogs I'VE GOT A DOG, by ETHEL M. KELLEY Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Dogs I'VE GOT THEM CALVES TO VEAL, by HOLMAN F. DAY Poem Source First Line: It's a jolly sort of season, is the spring - is the spring Subject(s): Animals IBIS, by TERENCE HANBURY WHITE Poem Source First Line: There is a bird called the ibis Last Line: Because it cannot swim Subject(s): Animals IF A ROOSTER CROWS WHEN HE GOES TO BED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: He'll get up with rain on his head Subject(s): Animals IF BIRD GETS NOISY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bird! Queen of the night! Last Line: Put sarong over cage) Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Loss; Nature; Parrots; Silence IF EVER I SEE, by LYDIA MARIA CHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Animals IF FEELING ISN'T IN IT, by JOHN BREHM Poem Source First Line: Dogs will also lick your face if you let them Last Line: On the shoulder and a voice like no other Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IF I MIGHT BE AN OX, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: But I would have my love Subject(s): Animals;love;oxen IF I WERE A CAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Cats IF I WERE A HAWK, by MARY ANN COLEMAN Poem Source Last Line: If I were a hawk Subject(s): Animals IF I WERE AN EGG, by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source Last Line: Me: big daddy's big bad %emperor penguin-to-be Subject(s): Animals; Fathers IF JOAN OF ARC HAD A DOG, by ROBIN CLARK Poem Source First Line: Would she have heard, would she Last Line: Would not bark at the wrong time Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IF THE OWL CALLS AGAIN, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis First Line: At dusk / from the island Last Line: Cold world awakens. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Environment; Owls; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation IF WE SHADOWS HAVE OFFENDED, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: No more yielding but a dream Subject(s): Mythical Animals IF YOU HAVE A DOG, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Loss may grieve you, love may leave you Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IGGY IGUANA, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Meg put iggy on her shoulder Last Line: And her head is now his bed! Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools IGUANA, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Iguana demonstrates the signs Last Line: And play its great-grandpappy Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals IL ETAIT UN BERGERE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A little shepherd maiden Subject(s): Animals; Cats IMMORTALITY OF THE CRAB, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: And among immortalities, I believe only %in yours, friend crab Last Line: The crab immortal %take the beach Subject(s): Animals IMPASSE, by LEW SARETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Six little sheep Last Line: For sheep to know Subject(s): Animals IMPLICATIONS FOR MODERN LIFE, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The ham flowers have veins and are rimmed in rind, each petal a little meat sunset. I Last Line: Mud. If you stay, I will find you fresh hay Subject(s): Flowers; Animals IMPORTANT VOICE, by JESSIE M. DOWLIN Poem Text First Line: Quiet held the house, and all Last Line: Until the important cock had spoken? Subject(s): Animals; Houses; Silence; Sleep; Voices IN A DREAM OF HORSES, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I think I loved the palomino best Last Line: In a dream of such obvious charm, %if I could help it Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Animals; Horses IN A FOREST, by SHERKO BEKAS Poem Source First Line: Darkness came %and in its lair, a lion thought Last Line: How could she, she wondered Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Human Rights; Hunger; Hunting; Survival IN A LABORATORY, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A most intelligent dog I took Last Line: For sometimes I see him and shudder still! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IN A MUSEUM, by ANNE ELIZABETH WILSON Poem Source First Line: So there you lie Subject(s): Animals; Cats IN A SHOP WINDOW, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981) Poem Source First Line: He was such a little puppy, in a window of a sho p Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IN AN OLD BARN, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tons upon tons the brown-green fragrant hay Last Line: In day-long contemplation of their dreams. Subject(s): Animals; Barns IN ANCIENT TIMES, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The oxen bring us power and bring us love! Subject(s): Animals; Oxen; Past IN AUGUST, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sultry afternoon. The old dog Last Line: Ahead of the rattling linestorm Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IN AUGUST ONCE, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Cats IN COOL, GREEN HAUNTS, by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER Poem Source First Line: A sweet, deep sense of mystery filled the wood Subject(s): Animals IN GLENCULLEN, by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thrush, linnet, stare and wren Alternate Author Name(s): Synge, J. M. Subject(s): Animals IN HONOR OF TAFFY TOPAZ, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taffy, the topaz-colored cat Last Line: What fun to be a cat! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Animals; Cats IN LOVE WITH THE BEARS, by GREG KUZMA Poem Source First Line: To see them coming headstrong Last Line: Sometimes afraid to meet me with their eyes Subject(s): Animals; Bears IN MEMORIAM: LEO, A YELLOW CAT, by MARGARET SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: If, to your twilight land of dream Last Line: Of gentle words and gentle hands. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death - Animals; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College IN MEMORY OF A DUMB FRIEND, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Strange that so small mortality should leave Last Line: And all god gave to you, to us you gave. Subject(s): Animals IN MEMORY OF NANCY HANKS, by WILLIAM J. LAMPTON Poem Source First Line: Dead is the famous nancy, %one time queen Subject(s): Animals; Horses IN MONUMENT VALLEY, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One spring twilight, during a lull in the war Last Line: Little more to speak of can be done Subject(s): Animals IN MY GARDEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Through a rabbit's ears Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Rabbits; Sun IN OUR ABSENCE, THE NEW DOG SHREDS A FEW THINGS, by MICHAEL J. ROSEN Poem Source First Line: First to be sacrificed: a pencil, a souvenir Last Line: The second-hand sweep of his wagging tail Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IN REGENT'S PARK, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Dear friends of feather, fin and fur Last Line: A special dinner too. Subject(s): Animals; Gardens & Gardening; Regent's Park, London; Zoos IN THE 9TH YEAR OF THE LITERARY WAR, by HENRI COULETTE Poem Source First Line: Well, poetry lovers of america Last Line: Dog to coyote to wolf, %the cry went forth, %able to baker to you Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IN THE BEGINNING, by ROBERT LEOPOLD WOLF Poem Text First Line: This is how he made the snake Last Line: It was dark of the sixth day. Subject(s): Animals; Creation; God; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers IN THE COURT OF THE LIONS; BY MOONLIGHT, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These lions were sculptured centuries ago Last Line: Still on those courts the white moon shines, but they are gone! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Alhambra, The; Animals; Lions; Sculpture & Sculptors IN THE DROVING DAYS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a pound, said the auctioneer Last Line: He can take me back to the droving days. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Hearts; Horses; Life; Nature IN THE HOUSE THE LIZARD'S ENEMY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Warren, the cat, finds them there Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Lizards; Nature IN THE KNOWN WORLD, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did the heron I saw swimming in the small pond by the highway Subject(s): Animals; Nature IN THE MANSION YARD, by WILLIAM HERVEY WOODS Poem Source First Line: There's no need to look about my feet Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IN THE MEADOW THAT SKIRTS THE MOUNTAIN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Severed it's hard to imagine the fall Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals IN THE MOHAVE, by PATRICK ORR Poem Text First Line: As I rode down the arroyo through yuccas belled with bloom Last Line: Where beat the heart of life so brief, so brief a while! Subject(s): Coyotes; Death - Animals; Mohave Desert; Mojave Desert IN THE OLD STONE AGE: A DEARLY BOUGHT VICTORY, by JACK MELONE Poem Text First Line: Mid raucous cheers the hunters bore Last Line: The forbears of our aryan race! Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Wilderness; Hunters IN THE OLD STONE AGE: A DREADED VISITOR, by JACK MELONE Poem Text First Line: At times, returning from the chase Last Line: To stretch content upon the floor! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Hunger; Hunting; Tigers; Hunters IN THE OLD STONE AGE: CONFLICT 'TWIXT MAN AND BEAST, by JACK MELONE Poem Text First Line: Often, before the foe was downed Last Line: As bengal tiger ne'er has matched! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Hunting; Tigers; Hunters IN THE PRESENCE OF SNAKES, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Shot from the bow of his insistence Last Line: In opposition -- for me! For me! Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals IN THE RICH FARMER'S FIELD, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A black stallion and a white mare Last Line: Too obvious to invent or not to know Subject(s): Animals; Horses IN THE RICH FARMER'S FIELD, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A black stallion and a white mare Last Line: Original energy in its place below, %too obvious or not to know Subject(s): Animals; Horses IN THE STABLE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What! You don't like him; well maybe - we all have our fancies / of course Last Line: Was the ride when that old fellow saved me from gilbert, o'meally and hall! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Stables IN THE ZOO, by GEORGE TRACY MARSH Poem Source First Line: Exiles, they tread their narrow bounds Subject(s): Animals INCIDENT CHARACTERISTIC OF A FAVOURITE DOG, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On his morning rounds the master Last Line: Until her fellow sinks to re-appear no more. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs INDIA, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They hunt, the velvet tigers in the jungle Last Line: Two pairs of eyes meet one another glowing-- %they hunt, the velvet tigers in the jungle Subject(s): Animals; Tigers INDIAN SLEEP-SONG, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zhoo ... Zhoo, zhoo Last Line: Sleep softly till dawn. Subject(s): Animals; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDIFFERENCE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The cat is in the parlour Subject(s): Animals;indifference INDIFFERENCE, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Over my garden Subject(s): Animals INFINITE HORSES, by SILVINA OCAMPO Poem Source First Line: I have seen them asleep on the grass Last Line: In peaceful grottoes from a distance Subject(s): Animals; Horses INHIBITED PERSIAN, by RICHARD HARRY HART Poem Source First Line: The days pace by in weary seemliness Subject(s): Animals; Cats INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUMENT OF A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When some proud son of man returns to earth Last Line: I never knew but one, -- and here he lies. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Epitaph To A Dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Nottinghamshire, England INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE CAT'S CEMETERY AT BUBASTIS IN LOWER EGYPT: 1., by GREGORY N. GABBARD Poem Source First Line: Oh, she would bound across the sand Last Line: The mice of the desert and small brown serpents %trembled at her name! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Egypt INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE CAT'S CEMETERY AT BUBASTIS IN LOWER EGYPT: 2., by GREGORY N. GABBARD Poem Source First Line: She who paced beneath the royal lintels Last Line: Again together, with naked feet stalking %upon the floor of time Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Cemeteries; Egypt INSECT LIFE OF FLORIDA, by LYNDA HULL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In those days I thought their endless thrum Last Line: And dangerous as the human heart Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Florida; Family Life; Insects; Animals; Relatives; Bugs INSTANCES, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nice place ya got here Last Line: In malinche's country Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Travel; Journeys; Trips INSTRUCTIONS: THE DOG (RAY SPEAKS), by SYDNEY LEA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He's not a pet, not meant to be Last Line: Quickly as a man can make it, in the ground Subject(s): Animals; Dogs INTERIOR DECORATOR, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: What fun I'm having unrolling this toilet paper Last Line: I'm a canine decorator making use of space Subject(s): Animals; Dogs INTERN HOUSECAT, by DONNA DICKEY GUYER Poem Source First Line: Samson stun-guns Last Line: Hopefully soon? Subject(s): Animals; Cats INTERNAL FIRESIDES, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bewilderingly, from wildly shaken cloud Last Line: Lank camels lounge against transparent skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Animals INTERRUPTION TO A JOURNEY, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hare we had run over Last Line: It was left in that landscape. %it left us in another Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits INTRODUCTION OF THE BROWN TREE SNAKE, by SARAH LINDSAY Poem Source First Line: The trees fill with silk and the space between trees Last Line: There's another one forty-eight %and a thread breaks over her lips Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Trees INTRODUCTION TO DOGS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dog is man's best friend Subject(s): Animals; Dogs INVESTIGATION ON THE SUBJECT OF THE BAT, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Bats know not a word of their literary reputation Last Line: It does not want to see the light: it knows that one day light %will incinerate the cavern Subject(s): Animals INVITATION, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Suppose the cat had lingered on the ground Last Line: Come among the leaves and take your chances Subject(s): Animals; Cats INVOCATION OF THE GREAT BEAR, by INGEBORG BACHMANN Poem Source First Line: Great bear, come down, shaggy night Last Line: Hurled down from paradise Subject(s): Animals; Bears IPECACUANHA, THE EMETIC, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: The tryst in the labyrinth is slaked and duped by the divi Last Line: Other. Passing one inevitable sea Subject(s): Animals; Horses ISAIAH, SELS., by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Subject(s): Animals ISEULT AND THE BADGER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ink we use to write seeps in through our fingers Last Line: We are porous to the piled leaves on the ground Subject(s): Animals; Badgers; Poetry & Poets ISEULT AND THE BADGER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ink we use to write seeps in through our fingers Last Line: We are porous to the piled leaves on the ground Subject(s): Animals; Badgers; Poetry And Poets IT WAS NIGHT, AND ON THE MOUNTAINS, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Time; Grief; Death - Animals; Sorrow; Sadness IT WAS THE CAT, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carefully on tiptoe stealing Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats IT'S FUN TO BE A PUP, by JAMES J. MONTAGUE Poem Source First Line: Man thinks he plays a lot of parts Subject(s): Animals; Dogs IT'S NOT FAIR, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: A cat can scratch Last Line: It really isn't %very fair Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs JACK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He ain't much of a dog to look at Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JACKRABBIT, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Thrives on the prairie, out in the empty Last Line: That's why they raise from the wild this wail Subject(s): Animals; Prairies; Rabbits JAGUAR, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Born blind in a thicket of thorns Last Line: The authority of her spine Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals JANE - A TERRIER, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: She's short in the leg and she's long in the jaw Last Line: Does good little sister jane! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets JANE WAS WITH ME, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: If jane were with me Subject(s): Death – Animals; Squirrels JANUARY DEER, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: I am a january deer Last Line: With wide-open eyes Subject(s): Animals JEALOUS CANINE, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Bravo was playing hard to get Last Line: When she walked away, so did he %and I was able to continue my jog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JEALOUS DOGGEREL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Too much of charity's a sin! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JEALOUSIE IS THE RAGE OF A MAN, by ANNE FINCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst with his falling wings, the courtly dove Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Animals JEAN HARLOW, by GORDON HICKEY Poem Source First Line: From the window king kong is staring at his bed. It is a boig bed, king Last Line: King kong takes a small step toward the bed Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Beauty; King Kong; Poetry And Poets JELLYFISH, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Thin %as a drape Last Line: In its vain search %for peanut %butter Subject(s): Marine Animals JERBOA, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tale is told that when the ark Last Line: All right now. Let it flood.' Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals JEROME, by JACK STEWART Poem Source First Line: The lion has hunted today Subject(s): Animals; Jerome, Saint (347-419); Lions JIM, WHO RAN AWAY FROM HIS NURSE, AND WAS EATEN BY A LION, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a boy whose name was jim Last Line: For fear of finding something worse. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Animals; Lions JIM-DOG, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981) Poem Source First Line: He wasn't, well, a fancy kind o' dog Last Line: They'd find some corner, touched with love, fer him Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JINNY--A COLLIE AND GOLDEN RETRIEVER MIX, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: I felt the rub of a cold nose Last Line: It was the time for her to run, %impatiently her eyes met mine Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JOB, SELS., by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Death; Social Protest JOGGING WITH TANYA, by THOMAS CARPER Poem Source First Line: There are disadvantages, for tanya Last Line: And though when we turn finally at our driveway %we both are glad to walk, and I am sweating Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JOHN ROUAT THE FISHERMAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Margaret simpson was the daughter of humble parents in the county of ayr Last Line: And on a rude pallet lay poor margaret rouat cold and dead. Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Marine Animals; Water JOHN DAVIS, by R. F. MCEWEN Poem Source First Line: It was the three dogs came and then the boy Last Line: When light began to thin I shot the dog Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs JOHN PEEL, by MARK ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Do ye ken john peel with his coat so gay Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JOHNSON'S ANTIDOTE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down along the snakebite river where the overlanders camp Last Line: Somehow seems to dodge the subject of the snakebite antidote. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Life; Snakes; Camps; Summer Camps; Serpents; Vipers JOY OF A DOG, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ma says no, it's too much care Last Line: A dog meant to a little boy %who loved it in the long ago, %the joy that's now his right to know Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JOY OF PEDIGREE, by WILLIAM LIVINGSTON LARNED Poem Source First Line: Some dogs I know play in the street Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JUBILATE AGNO, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I prophesy that we shall have our horns again Last Line: For I pray god be gracious to the bees and the beeves this day Variant Title(s): Jubliate Agno, Sels Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Cats; Depression, Mental; Religion JUBILATE AGNO: MY CAT JEOFFREY, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I will consider my cat jeoffrey Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Winter JUBILATE AGNO: MY CAT JEOFFREY, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I will consider my cat jeoffrey Last Line: For he can creep Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Winter JUBILATE CANIS, by ERICA MANN JONG Poem Source First Line: For I will consider my dog poochkin Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JUGGED HARE, by JEAN EARLE Poem Source First Line: She mourned the long-ears Last Line: In years to come, %I understood Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits JULY 30, ANDRAZ, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: My brother strides naked Last Line: Immovable, unalterable itch Subject(s): Animals; Food And Eating; Hunting; Lambs JUNGLE PEST, by ROLAND YOUNG Poem Source First Line: This cheerful picture shows the fate Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Jungles; Lions JUNGLE POOL, by FRANCES SAWYER Poem Text First Line: There was a doe that came for water Last Line: I am the lion waiting there. Subject(s): Animals; Deer; Lions JUNKYARD DOG, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Watch thou and wake Last Line: Watchful even in sleep! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JUPITER'S HORSES; OR, THE MODERN LOCOMOTIVE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: How often at night I have stood on the hill Last Line: "old jupiter's horses are coming to drink." Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Locomotives; San Francisco Earthquake & Fire (1906) JUST A-RIDIN'!, by ELWOOD ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Oh, for me a horse and saddle Last Line: And a snowdrift in your hair. Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States JUST PLAIN DOG, by LYLA MYERS Poem Source First Line: It may be you don't care for dogs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JUST PLAIN YELLOW, by ANNA HADLEY MIDDLEMAS Poem Source First Line: He's just plain yellow: no 'blue-ribbon' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs JUSTICE, by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS Poem Source First Line: You expect, puss-in-boots Last Line: Over the corpse of achilles Alternate Author Name(s): Agathias Scholasticos Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Punishment KAISER DEAD APRIL 6, 1887, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, kaiser dead? The heavy news Subject(s): Animals; Dogs KANGAROO, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is a curious thing that you Last Line: That where they go there's none to say Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals KANGAROO, by VENO TAUFER Poem Source First Line: The kangaroo never sleeps Last Line: With the belly full of night it rattles Subject(s): Animals; Kangaroos KANSAS PETE, by G. A. JEWETT-TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I sit in the old armchair Last Line: "hold steady, old fellow! I'm a-comin' pete." Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Hunters KAPPA, by HIROAKI SATO Poem Source First Line: Saucer on his head, carapace on his back Last Line: To keep his carapace cucumber-fresh Subject(s): Mythical Animals KATY KATYDID, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Our katydid kicked off the lid Last Line: Did-katy-katy did!' Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools KENNER'S CAT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On whom I sat went by the Last Line: Was he just another cat? Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fuller, Buckminster (1895-1983); Kenner, Hugh (1923-2003) KENSINGTON CATS, by DOROTHY DUERSON HORN Poem Source First Line: When the sun slants low over london town Last Line: Then ho! For a night on the tiles Subject(s): Animals; Cats; London KENTUCKY THOROUGHBRED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the hoss from hoof to head Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Horses KERRY COW, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's in connacht or in munster that yourself might travel wide Subject(s): Animals; Cows KEY DEER, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Toughening begins at conception Last Line: Of watching when to run Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals KID AND HIS DOG, by LEROY J. FLEURY Poem Source First Line: Honest, mom, I didn't coax him Subject(s): Animals; Dogs KILLING MACHINE, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: The spider spins a colony in what you abandon. It builds its Last Line: In streets or polluted rivers, the battered corpses of the tortured Subject(s): Animals KILLING THE SNAKE ON SUMMER'S CUSP, by CATHRYN HANKLA Poem Source First Line: A thin, spotted teenager-still, the copperhead's Last Line: I pretend holds back the beasts Subject(s): Animals; Danger; Poisons And Poisoning; Reptiles; Snakes KILTY SUE, by MARCK LEWIS BEGGS-UEMA Poem Source First Line: Instincts jammed by lack of sleep Last Line: You are safe. She is protecting you Subject(s): Animals; Dogs KIND LADY'S FURS, by STRICKLAND GILLILAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The white wolves belled on the ermine's trail Subject(s): Animals KINDLY ADVICE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Be kind to the panther! For when thou wert young Subject(s): Advice;animals;kindness KINDNESS TO ANIMALS, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Riddle cum diddle cum dido, %my little dog's name is fido Last Line: And I rinse him all off in the sinkie Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E. Subject(s): Animals KING OF CATS SENDS A POSTCARD TO HIS WIFE, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Keep your whiskers crisp and clean Last Line: Catnip from the other side Subject(s): Animals; Cats KINGS AND CUBBING, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: They built rosy castles, / and big, winged bulls Last Line: A long time ago! Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Lions; Hunters KISSES, by RICHARD FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When edna, our cleaning lady, arrives, she kisses Last Line: I don't know where I could get anything better Subject(s): Animals; Dogs KITTEN, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trouble with a kitten is Last Line: Eventually it becomes a %cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats KITTEN, by WILLIAM WRIGHTSON EUSTACE ROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always it's pouncing at nothing Last Line: And what beyond this is the ultimate %the divine purpose of cats? Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, W. W. E. Subject(s): Animals; Cats KITTEN AND FALLEN LEAVES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See the kitten on the wall Last Line: For the plaudits of the crowd? Subject(s): Animals; Cats KITTEN AND FIREFLY, by MARIE GRIMES Poem Source First Line: Mixed flower fragrance hung about Subject(s): Animals; Cats KITTEN'S ECLOGUE, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tell now, good kit, of three month's age, or less Last Line: O felis semper felix! %mud Subject(s): Animals; Cats KITTENS, by CATHERINE PARMENTER NEWELL Poem Source First Line: Five kittens in the haynow Subject(s): Animals; Cats KITTENS, by MICHAEL SCOT Poem Source First Line: Airy as leaves blown by the autumn storm Subject(s): Animals; Cats KITTY: HOW TO TREAT HER, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like little pussy, her coat is so warm Last Line: But pussy and I very gently will play. Subject(s): Animals; Cats KLAUER'S DOG, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: The early sun all mane Last Line: Praying, praying to grow big & never die Subject(s): Animals; Dogs KNOWING BITCHES, by JOHN CIARDI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was spading a flower bed while the old dog Last Line: The thing about bitches is knowing who you are Subject(s): Animals; Dogs KNOWING BITCHES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was spading a flower bed while the old dog Last Line: The thing about bitches is knowing who you are Subject(s): Animals; Dogs KOAN FOR A DYING BIRD DOG, by ROBERT TREMMEL Poem Source First Line: Near the end of winter Last Line: I would guess. %mu this, old joshu Subject(s): Animals; Buddhism; Dogs KRAKEN [OR, KRACKEN], by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Neath icelocked waves the kraken lies Last Line: For an emerging kraken Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals KYTO CHIN GEISHA, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Kyto chin geisha, princess japanese Last Line: For hearts that have truly loved never forget. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LABRADOR RETRIEVER IN A FLOWER SHOP, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Sniffing inside is more fun than outdoors Last Line: How could I have liked sidewalk odors before? %I must surely be in dog heaven now Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LABYRINTH, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've lost the clue -- somewhere Last Line: The long climb down. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Animals; Monsters; Stones; Granite; Rocks LAD'S EPITAPH, by ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some people are wise enough to know that Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LADDIE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lowly the soul that waits Subject(s): Animals LADDIE, by DANA BURNET Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: E's a bit of a vagabond, same as me Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LADDIE'S LONG SLEEP, by JAMES CLARENCE HARVEY Poem Source First Line: He wagged his tail to the very last Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LADY GODIVA'S HORSE, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: She rides me tamely through the town Last Line: Pulling us toward the sea Subject(s): Animals; Horseback Riding; Horses; Women LADYBUG, by J. W. HACKETT Poem Source First Line: Ladybug, you turn Last Line: An amber jewel Subject(s): Animals LAMENT FOR TABBY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: And art thou fallen and lowly laid Subject(s): Animals; Cats LAMENT FOR THE FEET, by H. L. HIX Poem Source First Line: Except a six-year pony penned from birth Last Line: At the price of perpetual peregrination Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LAMENTATION OF AN OLD HORSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My clothing was once linsey wolsey fine Last Line: "it was over hedges, ditches, likewise gates and stiles" Subject(s): Aging;animals;horses;lament LAND-HORSES AND SEA-HORSES, by GRACE E. TOLLEMACHE Poem Text First Line: The patient horses of the plough Last Line: The deathless horses of the deep! Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Sea Horses LANDSCAPE WITH DOG, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often up the back steps he came Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Nature LANDSCAPE WITH DOG, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often up the back steps he came Last Line: Somewhere in the woods to die Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Nature LARGO, by JOHANNES EDFELT Poem Source First Line: Reverence and fear fill us when we are confronted Last Line: Clamor and the eternity of absolute silence Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Death - Animals; Hunting; Rabbits LARGO, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bought him of the navajos- shadow of a pony Subject(s): Animals; Horses LAS TENDEDERAS/ CLOTHESLINES, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day my mother stood in the kitchen Last Line: About how much debris time & distance %have kicked up into my eyes Variant Title(s): Clothesline Subject(s): Animals; Clothing And Dress; Family Life; Slaughterhouses LAST HORSE SHOW, by MELINDA WEINSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Even before the first jump she knew it was over Last Line: Speake rannounced she must collect herself, and dismount Subject(s): Animals; Horses LAST NIGHT YOU ARE GONE, by RENEE A. ASHLEY Poem Source First Line: The dogs Last Line: Like black %shadows of dogs %against a too bright %moon Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LAST WORDS TO A DUMB FRIEND, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pet was never mourned as you Last Line: That you moulder where you played. Subject(s): Animals; Cats LAST YEAR THE SNAKE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But not her flesh Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Bodies; Girls; Nature; Snakes LATE OCTOBER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight. The cats under the open window Last Line: On end, afraid of what I might do next. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dreams; October; Violence; Nightmares LATER HISTORY OF THE OWL AND THE PUSSY-CAT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear miss violet Last Line: Believe me, %yours sincerely, %edward lear Subject(s): Animals; Boats; Grief; Sailors And Sailing; Tourists; Travel LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 9. GOING TO THE FAIR, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere yet the sun has dried on hedge and furze Last Line: And biddy enters lisnamoy in pride; Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Festivals; Poverty; Fairs; Pageants LAURIE'S HOUSE, by JAMEY DUNHAM Poem Source First Line: The sea otter strokes its beard and flies in through Last Line: The seven years that followed were the happiest of her life Subject(s): Animals; Houses; Sea LAWN LESSONS, by ELIZABETH BANCROFT Poem Source First Line: Lord, how we laughed Last Line: Why they thought being wet %would matter to those dogs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Ranch Life LAWS, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A black cat wanders out into Last Line: The mice are constantly surprised Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Mice LAY OF THE HOSPITAL RACE, by HUGH EDMUND KEOUGH Poem Source First Line: The ambulance stood near the paddock gate Subject(s): Animals; Horses LAYS OF TOM-CAT HIDDIGEIGEI, by JOSEPH VICTOR VON SCHEFFEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When through valley and o'er mountain Subject(s): Animals; Cats LAZY LIZARD, by MICHELLE KRUEGER Poem Source First Line: A lazy lizard lying Last Line: To sun and when to stop Subject(s): Animals LAZY SLEEPING DOGS, by JR. SIDNEY HALL Poem Source First Line: There are lazy Last Line: What I keep feeding them Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LE HIBOU ET LA POUSSIQUETTE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hibou et minou allerent a la mer Last Line: Dansa au clair de la lune Subject(s): Animals; Cats LE PETIT CHAT, by EDMOND ROSTAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pert as any young page-boy, the small black cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats LEA, SYDNEY, by GREG KUZMA Poem Source First Line: He's not a pet, not meant to be Last Line: And if you swing the gun too fast or slow Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LEAPING DOLPHINS, by FRANCESC PARCERISAS Poem Source First Line: Dolphins leaping at prows in tagomago's Last Line: Of men's rare happiness Subject(s): Dolphins; Marine Animals; Sea LEAR'S ADVENTURES ON HORSEBACK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: L(ear) & k(night) leave frascati-july 28th 1842.-villa taverna Last Line: K. & l. Are attacked by several very venomous dogs in the vicinity %of colonna Subject(s): Animals; Horseback Riding; Horses; Travel LEO TO HIS MISTRESS, by HENRY DWIGHT SEDGWICK Poem Text First Line: Dear mistress, do not grieve for me Last Line: I almost scratch persephone. Subject(s): Animals; Cats LEONARDO DA VINCI'S, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint jerome and his lion Subject(s): Animals; Jerome, Saint (347-419); Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Lions; Paintings & Painters LEONARDO DA VINCI'S, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint jerome and his lion Last Line: Lions as symbols of sovereignty Subject(s): Animals; Jerome, Saint (347-419); Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Lions; Paintings And Painters LEOPARD-NURSER, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since children hear what they will hear, I heard Subject(s): Animals LEOPARDS, by PAULINE CLARKE Poem Source First Line: While monkeys nod Last Line: The jackal howls Subject(s): Animals; Leopards LESS AND LESS HUMAN, O SAVAGE SPIRIT, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If there must be a god in the house, must be Subject(s): Animals LESS AND LESS HUMAN, O SAVAGE SPIRIT, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there must be a god in the house, must be Last Line: Of which we are too distantly a part Subject(s): Animals LESSON OF A TREE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should not take either the biggest or the most picturesque Subject(s): Animals LET ANY BEE FLY INTO THE KITCHEN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: The thing you mean so hard to know Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals LET US NOW PRAISE WISE ANTS (1982), by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: In march the ants appeared Last Line: That they have far more foresight than we Subject(s): Animals LETTERS TO YESENIN: 14, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine being a dog and never knowing what you're doing. You're Last Line: Groin hopes. You pray not to see her again. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Desire; Dogs; Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925) LEVIATHAN, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: He makes the deep to boil like a pot: he makes the sea Last Line: Upon the earth there is not his like Subject(s): Mythical Animals LIBERACE'S DOGS, by CHERYL A. RICE Poem Source First Line: Their manicured and polished claws Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LIBRARY DOVE, by JOHN RUSSELL HAYES Poem Source First Line: One day a dove in at our window flew Subject(s): Animals LIFE MARKS ITS EQUATIONS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Of twilight are the constant %everything obeys Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals LIFE WITH FROG MAN, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: A tendency to want certain things Last Line: And fix old lace cornbread Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Mankind LIGHT, by BRIDGET MEEDS Poem Source First Line: At the big house new year's eve karaoke Last Line: And the rush begins once again. %belfast, winter 1994 Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Holidays; Light; New Year; Women LIGHTING BUGS, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: In my childhood I discover lighting bugs Last Line: Wounded star in the prison of a hand Subject(s): Animals LIKE A PARENT WHOSE CHILD, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: The dog and I await the return of our family Last Line: Thinly across the uncorked, billowing night Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LIKE DE OLE MULE BES', by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some folks is so't o' pa'shal to de cattle roun' de Last Line: I so't o' like de ole mule bes'. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Chickens; Cows; Dogs; Farm Life; Goats; Love; Agriculture; Farmers LIKE DOGS AT A CONCERT, by STAN JAMES Poem Source First Line: Sometimes we're at our lives Last Line: Some dogs are that Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LIKE FEELINGS, by CHRISTOPHER HOWELL Poem Source First Line: Moonlight is all over the sycamores Last Line: But he knows that Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LIKE HORSES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In their long black coat they love the back roads Last Line: They never will Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Human Behavior; Trust LILLIE, AN IRISH SETTER AT THE WESTMINSTER DOG SHOW, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Lillie--oh--lillie, you've captured my heart Last Line: Your glistening silky coat flops up and down, %as you strut your stuff grasping for the crown Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LIMERICK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a young lady of niger Last Line: With the lady inside / and the smile on the face of the tiger Subject(s): Animals;tigers LIMERICK, by COSMO MONKHOUSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was a young lady of niger Last Line: And a smile on the face of the tiger Alternate Author Name(s): Monkhouse, William Cosmo Variant Title(s): The Satisfied Tige Subject(s): Animals; Tigers LIMITS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who knows this or that Subject(s): Animals LINDISFAIRE, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horses go down the dingy lane Last Line: You'll find the old bay hunter there. Subject(s): Animals; Caregivers; Despair; Horses; Luck; Patience; Poverty LINE, by BROOK HOLMES Poem Source First Line: Sentient as animals, the shadows assemble around the body Last Line: Speaking through you in their singular, nearly material, voice Subject(s): Animals; Love LINES FOR TOPS, by JOHN P. MULGREW Poem Source First Line: It's foolish to mourn for a dog, I guess Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LINES I TOLD MYSELF I WOULDN'T WRITE, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nebuchadnezzar, von hoffman the great, then Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LINES I TOLD MYSELF I WOULDN'T WRITE, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nebuchadnezzar, von hoffman the great, then Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LINES ON A DOG'S FACE, by MICHAEL GESSNER Poem Source First Line: Wallace said, what the eye beholds may be Last Line: The repetitions that govern her earth, and mine Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LINES ON BOUNCE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah bounce! Ah gentle beast! Why wouldst thou dye Last Line: When thou had'st meat enough, and orrery? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LINES ON THE DEATH OF A PET DOG; BELONGING TO LADY DOROTHY NEVILL, by WILLIAM HURRELL MALLOCK Poem Source First Line: Where are you now, little wandering Last Line: One little grave and a pang to us? Alternate Author Name(s): Mallock, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs LINES ON THE SUMMER OF THE CATTLE PLAGUE: 1865, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer long, and bright, and glowing Last Line: Lord, remove thy chast'ning hand! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cattle; Death - Animals; Nature; Plague; Summer LINES TO A LATE LAMENTED RABBIT, by BILLIE MARIE CRABB Poem Text First Line: You lie / not where in madcap youth Last Line: In my protesting stomach! Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares LION, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: The name opens wide Subject(s): Animals LION, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not that grand, not that masklike Last Line: I say, who have %never known him Subject(s): Animals; Lions LION, by MARY ANN HOBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Look! %a lion! %mighty beast Last Line: He's over there Subject(s): Animals LION, by MARY HOWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lion, thou art girt with might! Last Line: All the region is your own! Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Animals; Lions LION, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who bounded headfirst from the ark? Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals LION, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lion is a kingly beast Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Animals; Lions LION, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, weep for mr. And mrs. Bryan! %he was eaten by a lion Last Line: Up and swallowed bryan's bryaness Subject(s): Animals; Lions LION, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lion has a golden mane Last Line: And lets the lioness do the chores Subject(s): Animals; Lions LION AND LIONESS, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One night we were together, you and I Subject(s): Animals; Lions LION AND LIONESS, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One night we were together, you and I Subject(s): Animals; Lions LION AND THE WAVE, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A haughty lion, from his burning sand Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Animals LION FOR REAL, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came home and found a lion in my living room Last Line: Your starved and ancient presence o lord I wait in my room at your mercy Subject(s): Animals; Homosexuality; Lions LION IN LOVE (FABLES OF LA FONTAINE, BOOK 4, 1), by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madamoiselle -- goddess instead Last Line: One can but say 'farewell, good sense' Subject(s): Animals LION LION, by THOMAS MOORE RAWORTH Poem Source First Line: The happy hunters are coming back Last Line: In the book they found in the lions' lair Subject(s): Animals; Lions LION PATH, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dare not!- %look! The road is very dark Last Line: Some spitting kittens, maybe, in the grass Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Animals; Lions LIONESS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scent of her beauty draws me to her place Subject(s): Animals LIONS, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Like the courtiers of louis xv Last Line: Another life of hard work that ends up %thrown to the lions Subject(s): Animals LIONS AND ANTS, by WALT MASON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once a hunter met a lion near the hungry critter's lair, and the Last Line: Gray, and break our hearts Subject(s): Animals; Lions LIONS ARE INTERESTING, by JOEL BROUWER Poem Source First Line: Each morning in the little white cabin Last Line: His black eyes bottomless and bright with hate Subject(s): Animals; Lions LIPPIZANERS, by EDVARD KOCBEK Poem Source First Line: A newspaper reports: %the lippizaners collaborated Last Line: Our road is a long one, %and it is too far to walk Subject(s): Animals; Horseback Riding LISY'S PARTING WITH HER CAT, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dreadful hour with leaden pace approached Subject(s): Animals; Cats LITTLE BIRD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A little bird sits in our cottonwood tree Subject(s): Animals LITTLE BIRD, by ELLEN M. HUNTINGTON GALES Poem Source First Line: I know a little bird that sings Subject(s): Animals LITTLE BLACK DOG, by ELIZABETH GARDNER REYNOLDS Poem Source First Line: I wonder if christ had a little black dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LITTLE CORNER WHERE HER BIG BONES NEVER FIT, by NANCY L. HOLT Poem Source First Line: Not far from the lake, a girl Last Line: While I crawled into the freezer Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LITTLE DEATHS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every minute to two, another moth Subject(s): Death - Animals; Fish & Fishing; Moths; Anglers LITTLE DOG BARKED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LITTLE DOG OF AMUSEMENT ZOO, by ALICE JEAN CLEATOR Poem Source Subject(s): Animals LITTLE DOG THAT WAGS HIS TAIL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Beseech each little boy Variant Title(s): Poem: 1185; Poem: 123 Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs LITTLE ELEGY WITH BOOKS AND BEASTS, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winters when the gosling froze to its nest Subject(s): Animals LITTLE ELEGY WITH BOOKS AND BEASTS, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Winters when the gosling froze to its nest Last Line: The chapter called joy in the book of creation Subject(s): Animals LITTLE FISH, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tiny fish enjoy themselves Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Fish & Fishing; Anglers LITTLE FISH, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tiny fish enjoy themselves Last Line: Their little lives are fun to them %in the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Fishing And Fishermen LITTLE FRENCH DOG, by TOM ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: There's a little dog on the doorstep next Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LITTLE FRIENDS IN FAIRYLAND, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a child I used to roam Subject(s): Animals LITTLE GUSTAVA, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little gustava sits in the sun Last Line: To happy little gustava! Subject(s): Animals LITTLE JOHN AND THE RED FRIAR; A LAY OF SHERWOOD, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deer may leap within the glade Last Line: What sherwood once hath been? Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Animals; Forests; Hunting; Robin Hood; Woods; Hunters LITTLE LOAF OF DOG, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Little loaf of dog. Let's go for a walk Last Line: Great tall oaf of man, that is just my plan Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LITTLE LOST PUP, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was lost!-not a shade of a doubt of that Last Line: Is a gay little pup with his tail in the air! Subject(s): Animals LITTLE LOST PUP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He was lost! - not a shade of doubt of that Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LITTLE PONY, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The little pony is locked in the pound Last Line: What is it you hear? What is it you see? Subject(s): Animals; Horses LITTLE PUPPY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Little puppy with the black spots Last Line: Waiting our return Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LITTLE PUSS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sleek coat, eyes of fire Last Line: That's puss Subject(s): Animals; Babies; Cats LITTLE RED BULLOCK, by HERBERT TREMAINE Poem Source First Line: Collen, under the thorn-tree Subject(s): Animals LITTLE SAMARIAN, by ELEANOR HALBROOK ZIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: I've entered every gateway Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LITTLE SEAL-SKIN, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fisherman walked up the hill Last Line: "she slipped into the sea!" Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Seals (animals); Anglers LITTLE TRAMP DOG, by RENA M. MANNING Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LITTLE UNWRITTEN BOOK, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rocky was a regular guy, a loyal friend Subject(s): Animals; Cats LITTLE UNWRITTEN BOOK, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rocky was a regular guy, a loyal friend Last Line: And now the bird is silent too Subject(s): Animals; Cats LIVE BAIT, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: How many minutes are left %to undo what's been begun? Last Line: Terrible, absurd, glorious life %we would not exchange (even on the hook) for anything Subject(s): Animals LIVING SNOW, by BRENDA SHAW Poem Source First Line: The gulls arrive in a white cloud Last Line: Back into the sky Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LIVING TENDERLY, by MAY SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My body a rounded stone Subject(s): Animals LIVING TENDERLY, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My body a rounded stone Last Line: My flesh lives tenderly %inside its bone Subject(s): Animals LIZARD, by JOHN GARDNER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The lizard is a timid thing Last Line: And longs to be a dinosaur Subject(s): Animals LIZARDS STIR TASTY DISHES, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Lizards plot and plan %our delicious hullabaloo Subject(s): Desert Animals LOADING FEED IN THE GARAGE PARKING LOT, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Bright sunlight on the grange parking lot Last Line: He would be right here at the grange again, this instant, no Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Fields; Harvest; Horses; Labor And Laborers LOGICAL ENGLISH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I said, 'this horse, sir, will you shoe?'" Subject(s): Animals;horses;language; Words;vocabulary LONE DOG, by IRENE RUTHERFORD MCLEOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a lean dog, a keen dog, a wild dog, and lone Last Line: Wide wind, and wild stars, and hunger of the quest! Alternate Author Name(s): De Selincourt, Aubrey, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LONELY I GO FARING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, friend, ten years did you and I Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LONG FLAPPING V, by JOANNE RYDER Poem Source Last Line: No one can see Subject(s): Animals LONG GONE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't waste your time in looking for Subject(s): Animals; Dinosaurs LONG GONE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't waste your time in looking for Last Line: They all lived here before us Subject(s): Animals; Dinosaurs LOOK AT ME (SIAMESE), by MELPO DENNIS SCOTESE Poem Source First Line: In amazing wonder, as you deliberate Subject(s): Animals; Cats LOON, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Source First Line: Where shaken shallows multiply the moon Subject(s): Animals LOON, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The loon, the loon Last Line: Were trying to die Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Animals LOREINE: A HORSE, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lifted up her head Last Line: And she is beautiful. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Animals; Horses LOSS, by PATRICIA ZONTELLI Poem Source First Line: Digging up the bones. Reburying them Last Line: In a place where even I can't find them Subject(s): Animals; Bones; Death - Animals; Dogs; Loss LOSSES, by CATHY SMITH BOWERS Poem Source First Line: Each morning, as sun calls back Last Line: Carrying deep into shadow the body's chronic losses Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LOST, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the grey wilderness - a dog! Last Line: To home, chase out that look: 'I'm lost!'? Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LOST CAT, by EMILE VICTOR RIEU Poem Source First Line: She took a last and simple meal when there were none to see Last Line: And all the cream that's meant for me -- and not a word of t Subject(s): Animals; Cats LOST CAT, by LILIAN WHITING Poem Source First Line: Little and brown have lost their cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats LOST DOG, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981) Poem Source First Line: I saw a little dog today Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LOST DOGS, by RENEE A. ASHLEY Poem Source First Line: Sweetheart Last Line: Keep from getting lost Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LOST TRAIL, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Born rangers both of us and we were young Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LOULOU AND HER CAT, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good pastry is vended Last Line: I'm giving to you! Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Desserts LOVE, by SAMAR SEN Poem Source First Line: Like a poisonous snake in my blood Last Line: My desire for you %unwinds like a poisonous snake Subject(s): Animals; Love - Nature Of; Snakes LOVE FOR A HARE, by MELVIN WALKER LA FOLLETTE Poem Source First Line: Nameless, he crept from the hutch of creation Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits LOVE FOR THE DOG, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before he opened his eyes, as he lay there under the window Last Line: As if there was not life still pouring out voluptously %likewild water through all his troubled vein Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LOVE LETTER FROM A RUSSIAN WOLFOUND TO A SIBERIAN HUSKY, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Your letter arrived Last Line: I'll think of you as they remove my stitches Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LOVE SONG FOR A JELLYFISH, by SANDRA HOCHMAN Poem Source First Line: How amazed I was, when I was a child Last Line: The stinging world Subject(s): Animals LOVER, WHOSE MISTRESS FEARED A MOUSE .. BECOME A CAT, by GEORGE TURBERVILLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I might alter kind Last Line: All this would I doe if I were %converted to a cat Alternate Author Name(s): Turbervile, George Subject(s): Animals; Cats LOVESICK DOG PINING FOR HIS FAVORITE TROUT, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: I can't understand why she left me Last Line: I suppose they're just trying to make me feel %better %by inventing this fishy tale of her death Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LOYAL, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They gave him an overdose Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LOYAL, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They gave him an overdose Last Line: That there is work to be done, %and almost inconsolably Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LUGETE O VENERES CUPIDINESQUE, by GODFREY ELTON Poem Source First Line: Now that my little dog is dead Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LUKANNON, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met my mates in the morning (and oh, but I am old!) Subject(s): Animals LULLABY FOR THE CAT, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Minnow, go to sleep and dream Last Line: Sleep, and let them come Subject(s): Animals; Cats LULLABY FOR THE CAT, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Minnow, go to sleep and dream Last Line: Sleep, and let them come Subject(s): Animals; Cats LUNCH-BOX LEMUR, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: There's a lemur in my lunch box Last Line: It was nice of her to share Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools LUPERCALIA, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dog loved its churlish life Last Line: Age to age while the body hold, %touch this frozen one Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs MACAVITY: THE MYSTERY CAT, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Macavity's a mystery cat: he's called the hidden paw Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Crime & Criminals; Villains In Literature MACAVITY: THE MYSTERY CAT, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Macavity's a mystery cat: he's called the hidden paw Last Line: Are nothing more than agents for the cat who all the time %just controls their operations: the napol Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Crime And Criminals; Villains In Literature MAD YAK, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am watching them churn the last milk Last Line: And that beautiful tail! %how many shoelaces will they make of that! Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Animals; Yaks MADDY'S WOODS, by JIM SIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: That crusty, good man john fife Last Line: That ran so hard, that grew %too big for this world Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MADNESS, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wardrobe towers above the table lamp Last Line: Who rearranges with impartial feet %the silence in the caverns of a skull Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Variant Title(s): Longitud Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Old Age; Rooms MAGGIE'S STAR, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White star! That travellest at old maggie's pace Last Line: Albeit thy path is scarce above the mole's. Subject(s): Animals; Horses MAGGIE'S VISIT TO OXFORD, SELS., by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To worcester gardens next they strolled Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Subject(s): Animals; Cats MAGIC IN LITCHFIELD (DAIRY FARM), by PEARL LEITA PATTERSON Poem Text First Line: This hour the day slopes into dusk, as sky Last Line: The land that knows again new england calm. Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Agriculture; Farmers MAINSTAY, by THEODORE RUSSELL WEISS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You, hoppy, crept out Last Line: Strength engrossing you - %a help of sorts, mainstay Alternate Author Name(s): Weiss, T. Subject(s): Animals; Cats MAKE BARE THE LEG, UNCOVER THE THIGH' IS. 47:2, by ZOE REED Poem Source First Line: I am faded Last Line: 11 o'clock. %time runs out Subject(s): Animals; Insomnia; Rabbits MAKING A FRIEND, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: He wouldn't come at first Last Line: Because it meant %he understood Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MALAGUENA, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Death Last Line: Leaving and coming in Subject(s): Animals; Black (color); Death; Horses MALE AND FEMALE WHEATON TERRIER, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: She's such an obvious flirt Last Line: A man's world is a thing of the past; %the female canines have taken over fast Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MAN AND BAT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I went into my room, at mid-morning Last Line: But I am greater that he - %I escaped him Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Bats MAN AND DOG, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twill take some getting.' 'sir, I think 'twill so' Last Line: Together in the twilight of the wood Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Animals; World War I MAN ON A CORNER, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: The man with the golden retreiver is still sitting Last Line: Of love; it shifts, sighs, lays its head close Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Men MAN WENT A-HUNTING AT REIGATE, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Source Poet's Biography Variant Title(s): A Man Went A-hunting At Rygat Subject(s): Animals MAN-MOTH, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, above, %cracks in the buildings are filled with battered moonlight Last Line: Cool as from underground springs and pure enough to drink Subject(s): Animals; Human Rights MANATEE, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: The manatee is not a man Last Line: At times to be a manateam Subject(s): Marine Animals MANATEE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Born underwater, she mates Last Line: Keeps her world from being whole Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals MANBEAST, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A beast doesn't know he's a beast Last Line: Is better able to play the game Subject(s): Animals; Masculinity (psychology) MANDRILL, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the mandrill Last Line: I fear poor mandrill %has %no %hope Subject(s): Animals MANITOWOC, by CAROLYN AHRENS Poem Source First Line: I did what my father told me to do Last Line: I was going, asked %if I wanted the meat Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Death - Animals; Deer MANTICORE, by JEANNE STEIG Poem Source First Line: A mythic beast, the manticore Last Line: The creatures in the list above Subject(s): Mythical Animals MARCH BEAR, by MARILYN SINGER Poem Source First Line: Who I? Last Line: New morning %remember it then Subject(s): Animals MARE, by KATE BARNES Poem Source First Line: Lovely fia was the summer queen Last Line: I cannot find your peer in any pasture Subject(s): Animals; Horses MARE, by JUDITH THURMAN Poem Source First Line: When the mare shows you Last Line: And takes it with velvet lips Subject(s): Animals MARGOT, MY PAGE: MOONLIGHT, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: As an apen quivers, 'gainst this heart of mine be a ray that shivers Last Line: Dian's archery? Subject(s): Animals; Moon; Nudity; Rabbits; Nakedness; Hares MARIGOLD, by RICHARD GARNETT (1835-1906) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She moved through the garden in glory because Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Flowers; Marigolds MARLBOROUGH FAIR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I warr'nt our street be near so wide Last Line: And the long down is whispering low 'goodnight.' Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Abandonment; Amusement Parks; Animals; Children; Churchyards; Circus; Country Dances; Country Life; Entertainers; Festivals; Fiddles; Games; Guns; Lions; Marlborough, England; Merry-go-grounds; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Night; Pleasure; Desertion; C MARMALADE LOST, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: Her honey fur pointed down her back Subject(s): Animals; Cats MARRIAGE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The neighbors' dogs have howled at the last Last Line: Animals trot by outside our window %for the blesing of names Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Prairies - Texas MARRIED IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Negative proof, as in: you believe Last Line: Like crazy at the door when she comes back Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MARSH, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Source First Line: Farmlands about the marsh are dreary Subject(s): Animals MARTA OF MILRONE, by HERMAN GEORGE SCHEFFAUER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shot him where the rio flows Last Line: O marta of milrone! Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Death; Horses; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Mexico; Ranch Life; Revenge; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Southwest; Pacific States MARTIN CAT LONG SHAGED OF COURAGE GOOD, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The martin cat long shaged of courage good Subject(s): Animals MASCOT, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the glow of their youth they have come, and they pass Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MASTER AND THE DOG, by IGNACY KRASICKI Poem Source First Line: Because of thieves, a dog barked all night through Last Line: The silent dog was beaten all the same Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MASTER OF THE HORSE, by GEORGE A. FOTHERGILL Poem Source First Line: Horses, like men, ned a fair bit of schooling Subject(s): Animals; Horses MASTER,' QUOTH THE AULD HOUND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Fra a' folk in the town Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MASTIFF, by JOHN GREY Poem Source First Line: He's angry as a truck engine Last Line: Wagging our tail. There's pleasure to be %had in defending the indefensible Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MATILDA'S MANNERS, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My cat, matilda, sits upon her floor Subject(s): Animals; Cats MATILDA, MATRIARCH, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Matilda's grown granmotherly these days Subject(s): Animals; Cats MAY, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to stay with my dog Last Line: And then on the world Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MAY-DAY, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of heaven and earth, coy spring Last Line: Through earth to ripen, through heaven endure. Subject(s): Animals; Spring ME AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: At the bottom of the sea Last Line: Flare in the dusk Subject(s): Marine Animals; Seashore MEADOW TALK, by NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH Poem Source First Line: Don't pick all the flowers!' cried daisy one day Subject(s): Animals; Fields MEADOW-FROGS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere yet the earliest warbler wakes Last Line: Are chanting their rain prophecies. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Frogs MEAL, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: From the white plate %somewhat chipped Last Line: And with no fear of the night Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunger; Pets MEDITATIO, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogs Last Line: I confess, my friend, I am puzzled. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MEDITATIONS OF MAN'S MORTALITIE: ADAM AND EVE, by ALICE SUTCLIFFE Poem Text First Line: Of all the trees that in the garden grew Last Line: And both must dye and turned be to dust. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Animals; Bible; Eden; Religion; Snakes; Theology; Serpents; Vipers MEETING, by ARTHUR CHAPMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When walkin' down a city street Subject(s): Animals MEMORIES, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No, no! If a man does not soon pass Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MEMORY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's either the prize or a terminal worry Last Line: But the cat, the cat is in clover Subject(s): Animals; Cats MEN IN LOVE, by DREW TEN EYCK Poem Source First Line: We are met dogs come in from the lake Last Line: Bury it in a shallow grave Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Love; Men MENAGERIE AT VERSAILLES IN 1775, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cygnets dark; their black feet Last Line: And turned his long bill sidewise Subject(s): Animals; Versailles, Frances MENAPHON: DORON'S JIG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the shrubs as I can crack Last Line: Shepherds' loves. Subject(s): Animals; Lambs; Shepherds & Shepherdesses MEND IT NOW, by RUTH MCGRAIL Poem Text First Line: I had a bowl of thick rich cream Last Line: I'll eat my cream, myself. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids MENTAL PATIENT MAULED BY POLAR BEAR IN VILAS PARK ZOO, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Father stood in the doorway Last Line: And I taste iron in my mouth %and my feet grow wings Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Fathers; Insanity MERE MICHEL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mere michel is calling, calling, from her window high Subject(s): Animals; Cats MESSAGE OF ONAN, by MICHAEL+(2) HOGAN Poem Source First Line: In the galapagos is a sea turtle who falls in love with a rock. Early in Last Line: As pubescent maidens is the message of onan, ironically named Subject(s): Animals; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Galapagos Islands; Science MESSAGES FROM A ZUNI FETISH, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: An alabaster bear Last Line: To the heart of the continent Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Hunting METAMORPHOSES: 6. MEDUSA, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to be afraid of horses - and then I rode Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Imagination; Fancy METAMORPHOSES: 6. MEDUSA, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to be afraid of horses - and then I rode Last Line: The cottage was in carmel - on a bluff - nextdoor to bob hope Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Imagination METAMORPHOSIS, by CECIL J. MULLINS Poem Source First Line: These bats remind me of a child I knew Last Line: The storm stopped as thy picked tom from the ice. %and bats,I've learned since then, are also nice Subject(s): Animals; Bats METAPHOR CROSSES THE ROAD, by MARTHA DEAN MCFERREN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes super cool %is nothing more than Last Line: But I'm worth something too. %let's both watch out, dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs METEMPSYCHOSIS, by LOUELLA C. POOLE Poem Source First Line: Little white face that looks into mine Subject(s): Animals; Cats MEXICAN SERENADE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the little armadillo Last Line: So I guess that you had better go to sleep. Subject(s): Animals; Armadillos; Birds; Love; Singing & Singers; Songs MIDNIGHT AT THE FARM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A distant sheep-dog barks: beyond the bank Last Line: Flung him, that gave and took, her blasphemies. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Farm Life; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fairies; Supernatural; Winter MIKE, by F. C. W. HILEY Poem Source First Line: All ye that learned hours beguile Subject(s): Animals; Cats MILES KEOGH'S HORSE, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the bluff of the little big-horn Last Line: Have not yet perished from earth. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Little Bighorn, Battle Of MILK FOR THE CAT, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the tea is brought at five o'clock Last Line: Three or four hours unconscious there. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids MILK-WHITE MOON, PUT THE COWS TO SLEEP, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Put the cows to sleep Subject(s): Animals MILKMAN'S HORSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On summer mornings when it's hot Last Line: And then he goes like this - %klippity-klip, klippity-klip, klippity-klip Subject(s): Animals; Horses MIMI, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For all the grackles are despised Subject(s): Grackles; Nature; Animals MIND, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mind in its purest play is like some bat Subject(s): Animals; Bats MIND, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mind in its purest play is like some bat Last Line: A graceful error may correct the cave Subject(s): Animals; Bats MINETTA WATER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deer-hoof dint and moccasin print Last Line: Through the crumbled homes of men. Subject(s): Animals; Brooks; Hunting; New York City - Dutch Period; Streams; Creeks; Hunters MINIMUM WAGE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No one called but a cat Last Line: With the eraser of a chewed pencil [or, I never got a single step closer] Subject(s): Animals; Cats; San Joaquin Valley, California; Unemployment MINNOW CAUGHT, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: The minnow in the quaker oats Last Line: And he is killed with interest, starved with air Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Marine Animals; Minnows; Swimming MINOTAUR, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: King minos had a minotaur Last Line: Swung sword and swished red cape Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Mythical Animals MIREIO: THE MARES OF THE CAMARGUE, by FREDERIC MISTRAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred mares, all white! Their manes Last Line: The stallions of camargue, all joyful in the roar. Subject(s): Animals; Horses MIRROR OF ENIGMAS: MONKEYS, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: When the monkey locks you in its gaze Last Line: Its funhouse mirror %we, its buffoons Subject(s): Animals MISCEGENOUS ZEBRA, by ROLAND YOUNG Poem Source First Line: The zebra, born both black and white Subject(s): Animals; Jungles; Lions; Zebras MISCHIEVOUS MORNING GLORY, by MARY MCNEIL SCOTT FENOLLOSA Poem Source First Line: It was the rosy flush of dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Mccall, Sidney; Scott, Mary Mcneil Subject(s): Animals; Flowers; Morning Glories MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER ACCIDENT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horse that carried miss kilmansegg Last Line: With singleton's 'golden ointment'. Subject(s): Accidents; Animals; Horses MISS TIBBLES, by IAN SERRAILLIER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Miss tibbles is my kitten; white Subject(s): Animals; Cats MISTER HORSE, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mmmm / I get up and am seized by the present Last Line: If I send him to visit you sometime Subject(s): Animals; Horses MISTRESS GURTON'S CAT; A DOMESTIC TALE, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old mistress gurton had a cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats MIXED BREED, by JANE M. MCCLELLAN Poem Source First Line: As temperately as this spring morning unfolds Last Line: The pair sets off at an old dog's pace, %headed for afternoon Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MIZZ NOAH, by ELIZABETH EVELYN MOORE Poem Text First Line: Mr. Noah he build him an ark Last Line: An' start clean up de mud! Subject(s): Animals MOJAVE COONTAIL, by JOHN QUINN Poem Source First Line: A muscular buzz in the creosote brush Last Line: Go home to your own troubled lives Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Snakes MOLE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mole's a solitary soul Last Line: The mole is right at home Subject(s): Animals; Moles MOLE, by JEANNE STEIG Poem Source First Line: One rarely gets to meet the mole Last Line: Not even other moles amuse him Subject(s): Animals MOLE AND THE EAGLE, by SARAH JOSEPHA BUELL HALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Sara; Hale, Sarah Josepha Subject(s): Animals; Moles MOLE CATCHER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With coat like any mole's, as soft and black Last Line: There's not a peal in england sounds so well. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Animals; England; Labor & Laborers; Landscape; Moles; English; Work; Workers MOLECATCHER, by ALBERT D. MACKIE Poem Text First Line: Strampin' the bent, like the angel o' daith Last Line: Binnae the mowdie-man's. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackie, A. D. Subject(s): Animals; Moles MOLES, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They shrink in, as moles Last Line: The natural alien of their negative eye. Subject(s): Animals; Moles MOLES, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every day that their sky droops Last Line: They shrug dirt along their way, %and I rumble on through sorrows Subject(s): Animals; Moles MOM'S DOG RULE, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Mom would cringe if Last Line: Special privileges with %years of good behavior Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Mothers MONGREL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In havenpool harbour the ebb was strong Last Line: Turned to much like a curse as he sank to die, %and a loathing of mankind Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MONKEY, by NANCY CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw you hunched and shivering on the stones Subject(s): Animals MONKEY, by ROBERT S. OLIVER Poem Source First Line: Mischievous monkey; behavior cantankerous Last Line: You don't like us, and we sure don't like you! Subject(s): Animals; Monkeys MONKEY AND THE CAT, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bertrand and raton - a monkey and a cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables; Monkeys MONKEY'S CHILDREN, by SIV CEDERING Poem Source First Line: Here is a story for you Last Line: And caught my love in the air Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Monkeys MONKEYS SEARCH EACH OTHER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of our advancement Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Human Behavior; Monkeys; Nature MONTAIGNE AND HIS KITTEN, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hither, blanche! 'tis you and I Last Line: Wise ones fool it while they may! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Montaigne, Michel De (1533-1592) MOON, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a white cat whose name is moon Subject(s): Animals; Authors And Authorship; Cats; Poetry & Poets MOON, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a white cat whose name is moon Last Line: And in moon's eyes I see the moon Subject(s): Animals; Authors And Authorship; Cats; Poetry And Poets MOON SOLITARY, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Who seeks to climb beyond his range Last Line: Than for all eternity reflect another's fire Subject(s): Animals; Cats MOONLIGHT, by RAJASHEKHARA Poem Source First Line: The cat at his dish licks rays of moonlight Last Line: Confuses the currents of this world Subject(s): Animals; Cats MOOSE, by JEAN MCNEIL Poem Source First Line: I missed that son of a bitch Last Line: Is the shape he gave %my fears Subject(s): Animals; Fear; Horses MOOSETAKE, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: We asked the pet shop for a mouse Last Line: And usually, he doesn't charge Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools MORAL, by WILLIAM SOMERVILE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The body politic must soon decay Alternate Author Name(s): Somerville, William Subject(s): Animals MORS LEONIS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When o'er the aged lion steals Last Line: Yet hast thou perished like a king! Subject(s): Animals; Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Death; Earth; Lions; Sleep; Dead, The; World MOSQUITO, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: There is more Last Line: Sees the swatter %glitters Subject(s): Animals MOSQUITOS, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Born in the marshland of insomnia Last Line: A light brigade with devil's pitchforks Subject(s): Animals MOSS WAS A LITTLE MAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: He put the halter round her neck - so moss caught his mare Subject(s): Animals;fields;horseback Riding;travel; Pastures;meadows;leas;journeys;trips MOTH AND THE LAMP, by PAUL ELDRIDGE Poem Source First Line: The moth Last Line: The lamp burns on %tranquilly Subject(s): Animals MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKEN, by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot brook thy gaze, beloved bird Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore Subject(s): Animals MOTHER CAT, by JOHN MONTAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The mother cat %opens her claws Last Line: Already fierce %at the trough Subject(s): Animals; Cats MOTHER CAT'S PURR, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Sleep the half-sleep Last Line: That's what sleep is -- %for a cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs MOTHER DOESN'T WANT A DOG, by JUDITH STAHL VIORST Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: She will not want this snake Subject(s): Animals MOTHER EARTH: HER WHALES, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An owl winks in the shadows Subject(s): Animals MOTHER EARTH: HER WHALES, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An owl winks in the shadows Last Line: In the sparkling whorls %of living light Subject(s): Animals MOTHER WITH YOUNG KITTENS, by RICHARD HARRY HART Poem Source First Line: Torn between hunger and maternal care Subject(s): Animals; Cats MOTHERHOOD, by MAY SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat on a shelf Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Mothers; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans MOTHERHOOD, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat on a shelf Last Line: Clean, soft and shining %on her chest Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Mothers MOTHERING, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Matilda's busy mothering these days Subject(s): Animals; Cats MOTTO FOR A DOG HOUSE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love this little house because Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MOUNT FUJI, OPUS 5, by KUSANO SHIMPEI Poem Source First Line: Flame of fire mountain Subject(s): Animals MOUNTAIN GOAT, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Languidly resting on the edge of a precipice Last Line: What a lesson for humans %tranquilized on bottled relaxers Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MOUNTAIN LION, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing through the january snow, into the lobo canyon Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Lions; Travel; Journeys; Trips MOUNTAIN LION, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing through the january snow, into the lobo canyon Last Line: Of that slim yellow mountain lion Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Lions; Travel MOUNTED POLICE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watchful, grave, he sits astride his horse Last Line: "say, that's a helva place to park your car!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Police MOURNFUL CHIRPING, by KIKAKU Poem Source First Line: Eaten by the cat! Last Line: May be wailing that! Subject(s): Animals; Cats MOUSE AT NIGHT, by LELAND B. JACOBS Poem Source First Line: Never a sound in the dark Last Line: Busy and unafraid Subject(s): Animals MOUSE HAIKU, by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Blind and tissue-skinned Last Line: Of fluttering hearts Subject(s): Animals; Fathers MOUTHFULS OF FLAVORS, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With friends and family Subject(s): Desert Animals MR. LINCOLN'S DOCTOR'S DOG, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source Last Line: The night that mr. Lincoln died Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MRS BLUE DICKEY-BIRD, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the sixth little chickey bird walked on his head, to save his feet Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Wings MRS. FRICK'S ANECDOTE, by ELSIE K. HOPWOOD Poem Text First Line: It was the middle of the morning Last Line: Bob's little boat moved on. Subject(s): Animals; Frogs MUD, by MARTY HALE Poem Source First Line: My neighbor shooed him out because Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MUD CREEK BEAVER, by LAURIE WAGNER BUYER Poem Source First Line: Little worker I've walked a mile in these hot, floppy Last Line: I raise my rifle slowly, so very cold and heavny, %so uncompromising in my trembling, hesitant hands Subject(s): Animals; Beavers; Ranch Life MUD TURTLES, by GRACE TABER HALLOCK Poem Source First Line: On the rock the turtles get Last Line: When they are tired of being dried Subject(s): Animals; Turtles MUJER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, black persian cat Last Line: Oh, black persian cat. Subject(s): Animals; Cats MULEYKEH, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If a stranger passed the tent of hoseyn, he Last Line: "you never have loved my pearl." Subject(s): Animals; Horses MULLIGAN'S MARE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mulligan's bar was the deuce of a place Last Line: And send you a flyer like mulligan's mare. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Bars & Bartenders; Drinks & Drinking; Horses; Racing; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Wine MULLY OF MOUNTOWN, SELS., by WILLIAM KING Subject(s): Animals; Beer; Drinks And Drinking; Food And Eating; Travel MULTILINGUAL MYNAH BIRD, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Birds are known to cheep and chirp Last Line: You'll never find a finer bird %than the multilingual mynah bird Subject(s): Animals; Mynah Birds MUSHERS, by JOSEPH BLETHEN Poem Source First Line: Where crawls the northern mail still Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MUSIC OF THE HOUNDS, by JAMES BUCKHAM Poem Source First Line: O! Hark how it swells on the clear morning Alternate Author Name(s): Pastnor, Paul Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MUSICAL EVENING, by JOSEPH G. FRANCIS Poem Source First Line: Song, sing! What shall we sing? Subject(s): Animals; Cats MUSTANG, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chaparral grew you Last Line: Fade to the stars! It is time for rest. Subject(s): Animals; Horses MY AIREDALE DOG, by W. L. MASON Poem Source First Line: I have a funny airedale dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY ANGELINE, by HARRY BACHE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She kept her secret well, oh, yes Last Line: My human snake, my angeline! Subject(s): Animals; Marriage; Secrets; Snakes; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Serpents; Vipers MY BULL TERRIER, by WEX JONES Poem Source First Line: Bull terrier? Sure: she's a white 'un - there ain't no other Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY CAT (1), by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in my brain walks to and fro Subject(s): Animals; Cats MY CAT (2), by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My pretty cat to my heart I hold Last Line: Breathes round her, and from head to feet %envelopes my brunette Subject(s): Animals; Cats MY CAT AND I, by EDNA GEARHART Poem Source First Line: With persian cat beside my cheek Subject(s): Animals; Cats MY CAT JACK, by HUNT HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: For I will consider my cat jack Last Line: For he curls about himself with his head %upside-down %for h Subject(s): Animals; Cats MY CAT, MRS. LICK-A-CHIN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some of the cats I know about Last Line: No one knows it less than my cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats MY CAT, MRS. LICK-A-CHIN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some of the cats I know about Last Line: And I'll tell you something about that: %no one knows it less than my cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats MY CAT, ROBIN HOOD, by EMANUEL DI PASQUALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My cat is a tough hood Alternate Author Name(s): Pasquale, Emanuel Di Subject(s): Animals; Cats MY DOG, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have no dog, but it must be Last Line: His master coming through the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Animals MY DOG, by WILLIAM GRIFFITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today hell chuckled at another lie Variant Title(s): The Reproac Subject(s): Animals MY DOG, by MARTY HALE Poem Source First Line: A timid cringing little thing Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY DOG AND I, by ALICE JEAN CLEATOR Poem Source First Line: When living seems but little worth Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY DOG AND I, by NORAH M. HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: My dog and I, the hills we know Subject(s): Animals MY DOG AND I, by GENEVIEVE W. MASON Poem Source First Line: Oh I am weary of tongues a-clacking Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY DOG AND I, by ISLA PASCHAL RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: You sit beside my chair, you gaze Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY DOG AND I GROW FAT, by JAMES SEAY Poem Source First Line: His true grace, the dog books hold Last Line: To work off fat and keep from growing dull Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY DOG DASH, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have a dog of blenheim birth Subject(s): Animals MY DOG GIRLFRIEND ROSE WAS LOST, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: During which I uncontrollably sobbed Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Loss; Nature MY DOG JERRY, by H. DENLINGER Poem Text First Line: I have a fine dog, his name is jerry Last Line: By shaking his coat on the floor. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Friendship; Tails MY DOG PONTO, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I say you come, ponto, want some meat Subject(s): Animals MY DOG PONTO, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I say you come, ponto, want some meat Subject(s): Animals MY DOG'S TAIL, by ARTHUR WALLACE PEACH Poem Source First Line: What puts the wiggle in a little dog's tail Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY ENEMY, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All mornin' in the mesa's glare Last Line: My enemy! My enemy!! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Coyotes; Enemies; Wilderness MY FATHER KEPT A HORSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My father kept a horse and my mother kept a mare Last Line: "had a nip from the flea, had a bite from the louse" Subject(s): Animals;family Life;horses; Relatives MY FAVORITE FELINE, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Mr. Bigelow was nowhere to be found Last Line: Now fully aroused, he nuzzled against me. %that he wanted a stroke was easy to see Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY FIRST PIECE OF BEAR, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: In the fall of '95, / while the boys were on the drive Last Line: And not struggle with your first piece of bear. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Hunger; Hunting; Hunters MY FOX TERRIER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A little demon in defense Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY FRIEND THE BEAR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the bone myth of the cellar Last Line: Her breathing like god's. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Friendship MY FRIEND, THE CAT, by CARRIE W. STRYKER Poem Source First Line: Outstretched at ease his furry form Subject(s): Animals; Cats MY GENTLEMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I own a dog who is a gentleman Last Line: God grant I may be worthy of my dog!' Subject(s): Animals;dogs;friendship;gentility;honesty;loyalty MY GRANDFATHER'S AND FATHER'S HORSES, by SHADD PIEHL Poem Source First Line: The two old-timers stand out west of town Last Line: Every cowboy has a horse that's not for sale Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ranch Life MY HOUND'S NOSE, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: What a wonderful thing Last Line: Just when master goes Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs MY LADY'S FUR, by F. URSULA PAYNE Poem Source First Line: Tis midnight in the forest cold and bleak Subject(s): Animals MY LEGACY, by AGNES ETHELWYN WETHERALD Poem Source First Line: The little tree I planted out Alternate Author Name(s): Wetherald, Ethelwyn Subject(s): Animals MY LEGENDS: ORPHEUS CHARMING THE ANIMALS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Neath dawn's caress a silvery mountain shone Last Line: That drunk with song the world more swiftly whirled through space. Subject(s): Animals; Legends; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Singing & Singers; Songs MY LIFE, by JOE WENDEROTH Poem Source First Line: Somehow it got into my room Last Line: Together, we will not get through this Subject(s): Animals; Life MY LITTLE DOG AND ME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little dog knows just as much Last Line: Don't hafter care fer me. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Pets; Childhood MY LITTLE YORKSHIRE TERRIER, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Dear little bundle of fluff and fun Last Line: A calm and lovely flame. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Friendship MY LORD'S MOTORING, by VINCENT STARRETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was an arrogant cat, my lord Subject(s): Animals; Cats MY OLD DAWG, by COURTNEY RYLEY COOPER Poem Source First Line: There's some o' the setter about him Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY OLD HOUND PACK, by ARCHIBALD HAMILTON RUTLEDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Riverward they took him flying Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY OX DUKE, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a summer noon, in stainsford mead Last Line: The honest ox, rejoiced, into the shade. Subject(s): Animals; Oxen MY PONY, by EUNICE J. MILES Poem Text First Line: I have a pony all my own Last Line: When riding on his back. Subject(s): Animals; Horses MY TERRIER, by ALFRED COCHRANE Poem Text First Line: A scotch patrician, sandy-haired Last Line: His tail to a contented wagging. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MY TWELVE OXEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I have twelve oxen that are fair and brown Subject(s): Animals; Oxen MY WIFE'S LOVELY DOG, MARY, KILLS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I wonder if buddha had dog nature Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Nature MY YEAR AS A HORSE, by SHERRY FAIRCHOK Poem Source First Line: One morning just before I turned twelve, a horse's long face Last Line: You can't do this. I'm a horse. I'm a wild horse Subject(s): Animals; Growth; Horses; Imagination MYSTICAL INTENTION OF THINGS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Wind ripples the steely blue surface of a lake Last Line: How things at last return to their source Subject(s): Marine Animals; Seashore; Shells MYTHOLOGICAL COD, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: Soft-finned and waiting Last Line: An arc of liquid fire-the cod Subject(s): Cape Cod; Fishing And Fishermen; Mythical Animals MYXOMATOSIS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caught in the centre of a soundless field Subject(s): Animals; Disease; Rabbits; Hares MYXOMATOSIS, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caught in the centre of a soundless field Last Line: You may have thought things would come right again %if you could only keep quite still and wait Subject(s): Animals; Disease; Rabbits NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ostrich and giraffe peek Last Line: In embakasi plain Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animals; Baboons; National Parks; Prairies NAKED HIDES, by RICHARD J. FEIN Poem Source First Line: They emerged from tree and bush and forest Last Line: Stucco on the house planted alongside the lot Variant Title(s): Untitle Subject(s): Animals; Change; Evolution; Modern Man NAME FOR ALL, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonmoth and grasshopper that flee our page Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Animals NAME OF THE AIR, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It could be like that then the beloved Last Line: Ask and then standing there without asking Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Animals; Breath; Dogs NAMES OF THE HARE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The man the hare has met Last Line: With me: come to me dead %in either onion or bread Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits NAMING THE ANIMALS, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having commanded adam to bestow Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Names; Religion; Theology NAMING THE ANIMALS, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having commanded adam to bestow Last Line: And shyly ventured, 'thou shalt be called 'fred'' Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Names; Religion NAMING THE ANIMALS, by STEPHEN MITCHELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first few were east. The dog looked just like a 'dog,' the cat Last Line: Capybara. Pangolin. Gnu. %('is that spelled n-u?' god asked.%'g-n-u.') Subject(s): Animals; Names NAMING THE TURTLE, by PATRICIA HUBBELL Poem Source First Line: Slowpod Last Line: Logloving %rockstone Subject(s): Animals NAPS & PURRS OF MY CAT, TOM, by RONALD JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Stretch sublime %sunshine and me! Last Line: Leap to a snap %furred purrer! Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats NARWHAL, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Around their igloo fires with glee Last Line: Hold high its ivory lance Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals NATIVITE, by ANDRE SPIRE Poem Source First Line: The cat lies on her back Last Line: No wind. A leaf falls Subject(s): Animals; Cats NATURAL SELECTION, by JESS WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Chickadees should never Last Line: A scatter of feathers %marked the spot Subject(s): Animals; Cats NATURAL WORLD: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is almost round. The seas Last Line: For a man to sleep in. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Extinct Animals; Whales; Dead, The NATURE NOTES: CATS, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Incorrigible, uncommitted Last Line: Make the way of their lovers lighter Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Animals; Cats NATURE'S FRIEND, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Say what you like Last Line: Bird, moth and bee. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Nature NAVAJO LEGEND, by WILLARD JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Is it true, mother, that the mountain sun Last Line: By god-like boys. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Deserts; Food & Eating; Horses; Mothers; Mountains; Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America NEAR YARMOUTH; TO EDWARD J. O'BRIEN, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river holds no more the fishing boats Last Line: The river sleeps, the boats are gone again. Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Marine Animals; Sea; Anglers; Ocean NEBAMUN'S CAT; AFTER A FRESCO FROM - EGYPT (2600-250 B.C.E), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Taking recreation, seeing pleasant things Last Line: I, nebamun Subject(s): Animals; Cats NEEDLESS ALARM, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Among the rushes lived a mouse Subject(s): Animals NEIGHBOR'S DOG, by GEORGIE STARBUCK GALBRAITH Poem Source First Line: O small black puppy with angel eyes Subject(s): Animals; Dogs NEIGHBOUR, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lord almighty chose to give Subject(s): Animals NEITHER CAN THE FLOODS DROWN IT, by ELIZABETH BILLER CHAPMAN Poem Source First Line: We catch only glimpses of you Last Line: Leftward, into what was and will be %your green world Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Daughters; Family Life NEON HORSES, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To come upon one, driving toward your lover Subject(s): Animals; Art & Artists; Hearts; Horses; Love; Women NEON HORSES, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To come upon one, driving toward your lover Last Line: Of dream, lit chimera distilled from liquid air Subject(s): Animals; Art And Artists; Hearts; Horses; Love; Women NEVER BE THE HORSE, by BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: Night on night a horse stood in the hull Last Line: Then in each ankle a bell clapped for the mud Subject(s): Animals; Horses NEVER GET OUT!, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a little serval cat Last Line: Never get out!... Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Animals; Cats NEW DOG: VARIATIONS ON A TEXT BY JULES LAFORGUE, by CAROL FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The new dog's sugary breath warms my neck Last Line: You cover up his final stare Subject(s): Animals; Dogs NEW MEXICAN RIDGE-NOSED RATTLESNAKE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: The face of the snake mirrors the earth Last Line: Rubbed off, abandoned inside-out Subject(s): Animals; Endangered Species; Rare Animals; Snakes NEW MOTHER, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: When the kittens were born Last Line: To warm them - %great ungainly hen Subject(s): Animals; Dogs NEWFOUNDLAND PRAISE, by PAMELA STEWART Poem Source First Line: On days I don't feel pretty I go downstairs Last Line: Molly undoes my vanities and fear so I feel almost safe Subject(s): Animals; Dogs NEWS, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Rufus brought the paper in Last Line: I think I know where rufus went Subject(s): Animals; Dogs NEXT!, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought that I would like to see Last Line: It's kind of fun to be extinct Subject(s): Extinct Animals NICHOLAS NYE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Thistle and darnel and dock grew there Last Line: Old nicholas nye. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Animals NICK THE NEWT, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Mister smoot, our substitute Last Line: Nick rides the waves on a popsicle stick! Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools NIGHT HOWLS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Outside the house Last Line: Beneath the light. %goodnight Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs NIGHT PIECE TO ANOTHER JULIA, by PAUL FEARON Poem Source First Line: Tonight I sing, though all mankind forbid it Subject(s): Animals; Cats NIGHT RISING, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Ancient alchemist, wake! Arise Last Line: So I will do once more Subject(s): Animals; Cats NIGHT SONG, by LELAND B. JACOBS Poem Source First Line: When the sun has set Last Line: Singing their praises %of the night Subject(s): Animals NIGHT THOUGHTS, by HENRI COULETTE Poem Source First Line: Your kind of night, david, your kind of night Last Line: And in our dreams when we are somehow you. %what are we if not wholly catholic? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs NIGHTMARE, by NGUYEN QUANG THIEU Poem Source First Line: His dog licks and licks his chest Last Line: His dog licks and licks %and licks and licks Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Dreams NIGHTSHADE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dog lay under the house, having crawled Subject(s): Animals; Dogs NIGHTSHADE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dog lay under the house, having crawled Subject(s): Animals; Dogs NINE FAT CATS IN LITTLE ITALY, by HERBERT MITGANG Poem Source First Line: Say buon giorn to fatso toni Last Line: Risotto, ragu, rigatoni %and yankee doodle macaroni! Subject(s): Animals; Cats NIP AND TUCK, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Both nip and tuck are spaniel pups Last Line: Or bones beneath the ground! Subject(s): Animals; Bones; Dogs NO ELEGY, by JOHN RIDLAND Poem Source First Line: Old jack cranked up his elegy machine Last Line: And went and wrung the thankless creature's neck Subject(s): Animals; Cats NO REST FOR THE HORSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There's a union for teamster and waiter Subject(s): Animals; Horses NO SANCTUARY, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the hills with terror-cry Subject(s): Animals NO SEX FOR PRIESTS, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horse in harness suffers Subject(s): Animals; Religion; Theology NO THANKS: 13, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: R-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r Last Line: Rea(be)rran(com)gi(e)ngly %grasshopper Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Animals; Grasshoppers NO TRAVELER, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd love to ride on railroads every day Last Line: I never want to travel with a kitty any more. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Railroads; Travel; Childhood; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips NOAH AND THE RABBIT, by HUGH CHESTERMAN Poem Source First Line: No land,' said noah Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits NOCTURNAL, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If animals think Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dead, The NOISE IN THE MOUNTAINS, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: The yak is an old chatterbox of an ox Last Line: The racket you hear in the mountains all day is %the yackety-yackety yaks Subject(s): Animals; Yaks NONSENSE RHYMES: 15, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Would you have me chat Last Line: (let me tell it to you again.) Subject(s): Animals;cats;nonsense NONSENSE RHYMES: 9, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Down the hill the waters cascade Last Line: And now my horses will have to wade Subject(s): Animals;horses;nonsense NORTH AMERICAN BEAR, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early november in the soul Last Line: And like him, too, with something red and inviolate %under my feet Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Animals; Bears NORTHERN SPOTTED OWL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: She sleeps all day, taunted by crows, mobbed Last Line: The once and broken covenant of fir Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals NORTHERN SWIFT FOX, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: She circles into wind, lies down Last Line: Herself in the famine between kills Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals NOTA BENE', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Boys, to the hunting field! Though't is Subject(s): Animals; Horses NOTATION ON IMMORTALITY, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We sat debating many things together Subject(s): Animals; Dogs NOTICE GIVEN, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm in disgrace Subject(s): Animals; Dogs NOVEMBER 24, IN THE HILLS OUTSIDE FAIRBANKS, by JOHN KOOISTRA Poem Source First Line: This morning cold and calm Last Line: Of the barely rising sun, %this is the early service Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Morning; November NOVEMBER POEM, by ROCHELLE RATNER Poem Source First Line: This morning all the hunters Last Line: Then he says be careful Subject(s): Animals; Deer; Fields; Hunting; Rifles NOW I WATCH YOU, INTENT, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Beside the sea for miles Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals NOW THAT I'M OLDER I PERFECTLY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the whale's eye that blinked Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Eyes; Nature NUMBER 7', by EDITH MUSGRAVE Poem Source First Line: Behold me, bound between the shafts Subject(s): Animals; Horses NURSERY SNAIL, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: The garden snail, %moist in its bed Last Line: Capture-soft %hand of you Subject(s): Animals; Insects; Nature; Snails NUTHATCH, by CHARLES NORMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The nuthatch, when it climbs a tree Last Line: Tail pointing up to higher things Subject(s): Animals NUTRITION ON TAP, by ROBERT N. FEINSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Our retriever delivered a litter on ten Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OATS FOR PEGASUS, by W. C. A. WALLAR Poem Text First Line: Why mute your music, critic-frightened soul? Last Line: On strength-of-heart and blood-of-life he soars. Subject(s): Mythical Animals; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Fictious Animals OBITUARY, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boris is dead. The fatalist parrot Last Line: And a black wreath decorates the door Subject(s): Parrots; Death - Animals OBITUARY, by THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Finding francesca full of tears, I said Last Line: But -- kiss me, darling! -- dear old smiler's dead. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OBLIQUE SENSORIAL SAVAGERY, by WILL ALEXANDER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are green Subject(s): Animals; Wilderness OBLIQUE SENSORIAL SAVAGERY, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are green Last Line: Always cooking in your nostrils %a wayward blend of hot photinos & selvas Subject(s): Animals; Wilderness OCTOPUS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, o octopus, I begs Last Line: If I were thou, I'd call me us Subject(s): Animals; Octopuses; Sea OCTOPUS, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Dark god of the deep Last Line: As slowly, slowly, the octopus dies Subject(s): Animals OCTOPUS, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: Marvel at the Last Line: In solitary grace Subject(s): Animals ODE ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a lofty vase's side Last Line: Nor all, that glisters, gold. Variant Title(s): Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat, Drowned In A Tub Of Gold Fishes;gray's Elegy On Horace Walpole's Cat;on The Death Of A Favourite Cat;on A Favorite Cat Drowned In A Tub Of Goldfishes Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death; Death - Animals; Goldfish; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement ODE ON THE DOG, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My pitch-dark angel with a rosy tongue! Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ODE TO A BOB-TAILED CAT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Felis infelix! Cat unfortunate Last Line: Follow your fashion Subject(s): Animals;cats ODE TO A DAWG, by ELOISE BURTIS Poem Source First Line: He's not so fine nor is he proud Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ODE TO A DOG, by GEORGE H. COPPAGE Poem Source First Line: How well remembers %my heart Last Line: When I bow out Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ODE TO A FROG, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the hindered freshest cloaked with slime Subject(s): Animals; Frogs ODE TO DAPHNIS A PUPPY, PLAYING WITH MIRTILLA IN BED, SELS., by JOHN STACIE Poem Source First Line: Happy daphnis, which can be Last Line: Happiest thou of sons of bitches Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749) ODE TO EIGHT CATS BELONGING TO ISRAEL MENDEZ, A JEW, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Singers of israel, o ye singers sweet Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Animals; Cats ODE TO THE CAT, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The animals were %imperfect Last Line: My understanding slips on his indifference, %his eyes hold golden numbers Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Animals; Cats ODE TO THE CHINESE PAPER SNAKE, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Held on the slightest of bamboo poles Last Line: You are the structure of his massive eye, %and you increase his invioability Subject(s): Animals; Snakes ODES II, 13, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shame of thy mother soyle! Ill-nurtur'd tree Last Line: And cheated of their paines; orion thinkes %of lions now noemore, or spotted linx Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Variant Title(s): A Narrow Escap Subject(s): Animals OF A FAIR LADY PLAYING WITH A SNAKE, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange that such horror and such grace Last Line: A marble one so warmed would speak. Variant Title(s): To A Fair Lady Playing With A Snake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers OF ALL THE BRAVE BIRDS THAT ERE I DID SEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Nutmegs and cloves; and who gave thee that jolly red nose? Subject(s): Animals;birds;singing & Singers;wings OF AN ANCIENT SPANIEL IN HER FIFTEENTH YEAR, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was never a dog that had much sense Last Line: Await us both, eternally, %but I was always ready to bark-- %and so was she Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OF FANGS SWIPES FROM THE EARTH AND AIR, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Their first time out all fledgling Last Line: Always at risk - malarial for life %one bout of flu or grippe can revive the sleeping microbe Variant Title(s): Work Chants Of The Diamond Miner: Of Fangs, Swipes From The Earth An Subject(s): Animals; Mines And Miners; Snakes OF HORSES, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hold power between thy knees; yea, string Last Line: Loose tender mouth would make thee dumbly man's. Subject(s): Animals; Horses OFFERING FOR THE CAT, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Since I got my cat five white Last Line: Only cry for you a little Subject(s): Animals; Cats OH THE TOE-TEST, by NORMA FARBER Poem Source First Line: The fly, the fly Last Line: As he tastes as he goes Subject(s): Animals OH! FOR A STEED, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! For a steed, a rushing steed, and a blazing scimitar Last Line: To conquer if then to fall. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Nationalism - Ireland OH, TO BE AN EARTHWORM, by LILLIAN MORRISON Poem Source Last Line: To the full, savoring it %inch by inch Subject(s): Animals OH, WHERE WOULD A FLAMINGO GO?, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source Last Line: Beside the steamy jungle-o Subject(s): Animals OKOLO THE LEOPARD WARRIOR, by CHRISTINE PRICE Poem Source First Line: He comes! Last Line: That leaps on its prey Subject(s): Mythical Animals OL' HOUND DOG, by UNKNOWN+58 Poem Source First Line: My houn' dog's gettin' anxious Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OLD BOB' - 'FRIEND', by MARTY HALE Poem Source First Line: To some folks he was just a dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OLD BRINDLE COW, by THOMAS O'HAGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of all old memories that cluster round my heart Subject(s): Animals OLD CAT AND THE YOUNG MOUSE, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A young mouse, small and innocent Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables OLD CAT AND THE YOUNG MOUSE, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A young mouse, with little experience Last Line: Old age is ruthless and inflexible Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables OLD CAT MEDITATES, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: Now that I'm old I do not venture far Subject(s): Animals; Cats OLD DOG, by CELIA DUFFIN Poem Source First Line: Now that no shrill hunting horn Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OLD DOG, by PATRICIA HUBBELL Poem Source First Line: Old dog! Old dog! %why do you hold your paw so? Last Line: Breathe deep. Breathe deep Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OLD DOG, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: His memory is dim Last Line: He comes back here %to lie down Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OLD DOG, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: The dog gazes at his food Last Line: The scorned bowl glows Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OLD DOG, by NANCY B. WALL Poem Source First Line: When her rabies tag arrived in the mail Last Line: Can hold back time Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Rabies OLD DOG IN THE RUINS OF THE GRAVES AT ARLES, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard tell somewhere Last Line: The old dogs don't know Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OLD DOG TRAY, by STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The morn of life is past Last Line: A better friend than old dog tray. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OLD DOG'S SONG, SELS., by LESLIE NORRIS Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OLD DOGS, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those trotskys of relationships Last Line: Famous for not letting you down Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Relationships OLD FOSS (THE CAT) RECALLS HIS LIFE WITH MR. LEAR, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: You'd say when we ate a late breakfast Last Line: I bow to the king of high bosh Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Lear, Edward (1812-1888) OLD GRANNY DUSK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old granny dusk, when the sun Last Line: Er kisses the face you're a-bendin' down. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Dusk; Katydids OLD GRAY MARE, by RUDOLPH CHAMBERS LEHMANN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's a line of rails on an up-land green Subject(s): Animals; Horses OLD HORSE, by PHOEBE HESKETH Poem Source First Line: He's worked out Last Line: Wrong side of the gate Subject(s): Animals OLD LIZARDS WHISPER CUENTOS, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Long after our bedtime.' Subject(s): Desert Animals OLD MAJOR, by BIANCA BRADBURY Poem Source First Line: No one of us can keep him in his stall Subject(s): Animals; Horses OLD MAN AND THE APE, by EDWARD BOCCIA Poem Source First Line: The ape paints like he's never Last Line: Don't you ever go to the museum Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Paintings And Painters OLD PAINT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "goodbye, old paint, I'm a-leavin' cheyenne" Last Line: "goodbye, old paint, I'm a-leaving cheyenne" Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States OLD PARDON, THE SON OF REPRIEVE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You never heard tell of the story? Last Line: For pardon, the son of reprieve. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Racing OLD PINCHER, SELECTION, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I gave to old dobbin his song and his due Last Line: Though he said 't was a dew-drop, I know 't was a tear. Subject(s): Animals; Horses OLD PLOUGH-HORSE, by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER Poem Source First Line: Worn-out and useless, lone, he stands and dreams Subject(s): Animals OLD POLLY PARROT, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Old polly parrot's the smartest of birds Last Line: She only repeats words she hears from our teacher Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools OLD POND, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The sound of water Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Animals; Frogs OLD PONE, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather once had a horse that was known Last Line: To trot pretty fast up the lane to the stable! Subject(s): Animals; Horseback Riding; Horses OLD SCOTS NURSERY RHYME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was a wee bit mousikie Last Line: O' cheetie-poussie-cattie, o Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Mice OLD SHEEP WAGON, by ARTHUR CHAPMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard men for a palace but I want no Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OLD SONNY, by ALVIN DAVID GREENBERG Poem Source First Line: Took old sonny into a bar one time Last Line: Speak, always speak up: a dog's an act of belief Subject(s): Animals; Bars And Bartenders; Dogs OLD SOOT, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: His fur is black; we call him soot Last Line: When it is ime to go Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs OLD SQUIERS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Old squiers weighed two hundred pounds Last Line: Must ride up every time. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Knights & Knighthood OLD-TIMER, by ARTHUR CHAPMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He showed up in the springtime, when the Subject(s): Animals; Horses OMAR MEETS A TOY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Quite gentle is a st. Bernard Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON 'SHEP,' A PET DOG, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: We live in separate worlds, I cannot pierce Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON A BOARD BY A HORSE-TROUGH, ROAD SALISBURY TO MARLBOROUGH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A man of kindness to his steed is kind Last Line: He was designed thy servant, not thy drudge, %remember his creator is thy judge Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Horses ON A CAPE MAY WARBLER WHO FLEW AGAINST MY WINDOW, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She's stopped in her southern tracks Last Line: Ghosts come nest in my branches Subject(s): Birds; Death – Animals; Children; Burial; Parents ON A CAT AGING, by ALEXANDER GRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He blinks upon the hearth-rug Last Line: The times are somehow breeding %a nimbler race of mice Subject(s): Animals; Cats ON A CLERGYMAN'S HORSE BITING HIM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The steed bit his master Last Line: "he heard the good pastor / cry, 'all flesh is grass'" Subject(s): Animals;clergy;horses; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops ON A DOG'S COLLAR, SALTASH FAIR, CORNWALL (19TH CENTURY), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Fools have been peeping and wanting to see! Last Line: So mind your own business and leave me alone Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON A FAVOURITE DOG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Thou who passest on the path Last Line: Likewise engraved those words on my tomb Subject(s): Animals;death - Animals;dogs;epitaphs ON A LITTLE DOG, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cattullus of a sparrow sung Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON A MALTESE WATCH-DOG, by TYMNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here the stone says it holds the white dog Last Line: Voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of night. Alternate Author Name(s): Carian Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Epitaphs ON A NIGHT OF SNOW, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cat, if you go outdoors, you must walk in the snow Last Line: And things that are yet to be done. Open the door! Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Cats ON A PICTURE BY J.M. WRIGHT, ESQ, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky-lark hath perceived his prison-door Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Larks ON A SMALL DOG, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Animula vagula blandula, foundling dear Last Line: And so to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Tokyo ON A SPANIEL, CALLED BEAU, KILLING A YOUNG BIRD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A spaniel, beau, that fares like you Last Line: So much resemble man? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON A WALK, by JORGE J. RODRIGUEZ-FLORIDO Poem Source First Line: Today I go the the zoo Last Line: Toward the street Subject(s): Animals; Tourists; Travel; Zoos ON ACTIVE SERVICE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Where's glossy bess, the carmen's mare? Subject(s): Animals; Horses ON AN INDIAN TOMINEOIS, THE LEAST OF BIRDS, by THOMAS HEYRICK Poem Source First Line: I'm made in sport by nature Last Line: But in return did make the work more rare Subject(s): Animals ON BAITING THE LION, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering his taste for blood Last Line: And felled him flying through the air Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Lions ON BUYING A HORSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One white foot, try him Last Line: Take off his hide and feed him to the crows Subject(s): Animals; Horses ON DIGNITY, by DANIEL T. MORAN Poem Source First Line: When the first one came Last Line: At having to be cats no more Subject(s): Animals; Cats ON DONNE'S POEM TO A FLEA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be proud as spaniards! Leap for pride ye fleas Subject(s): Animals; Poetry And Poets ON FINDING A DEAD BIRD UNDER MY WINDOW, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Here you lie, with feathers cold and wet Last Line: And be the first to wish a friend 'good morning'. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Feathers; Wings ON JEAN FRERON, by VOLTAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The other day while in the dale our friend did fare on Last Line: The serpent burst in agony and died of biting! Alternate Author Name(s): Arouet, Francoise Marie Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers ON LUTESTRINGS CATT-EATEN, by THOMAS MASTER Poem Source First Line: Are these the strings that poets feigne Last Line: Soe I've but scratch'd these notes of mine Subject(s): Animals; Cats ON MAOU DYING AT THE AGE OF SIX MONTHS, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange sickness fell upon this perfect creature Subject(s): Animals; Cats ON MEETING FATHER GOOSE, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gray old man, / as webbed as moss, Last Line: "you gol dern fool!" Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Agriculture; Farmers ON MITES. TO A LADY, by STEPHEN DUCK Poem Source First Line: Dear madam, did you never gaze Subject(s): Animals; Cheese ON MY DOG'S DEATH, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: My friend has gone Last Line: I am learning to listen. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Faith; Friendship; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness ON OUR SYMPATHY WITH THE UNDER DOG, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First under up and then again down under Last Line: Lest both should bite him in the toga-togs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Politics & Government ON OUR SYMPATHY WITH THE UNDER DOG, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First under up and then again down under Last Line: Lest both should bite him in the toga-togs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Politics ON PARTING WITH SPOT, by HELEN LOUISE WELSHIMER Poem Source First Line: Won't somebody please take care of spot? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON PETS, by AUGUST STRINDBERG Poem Source First Line: I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards Last Line: Who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON SEEING A PIGEON MAKE LOVE, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is not the picture strangely like Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Animals ON SHOOTING A SWALLOW IN EARLY YOUTH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hoard a little spring of secret tears Last Line: I seem to love the little ghost I made. Subject(s): Death - Animals; Swallows ON THE COLLAR OF MRS. DINGLEY'S LAP-DOG, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pray steal me not, I'm mrs. Dingley's Last Line: Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON THE COMPANIONSHIP WITH NATURE, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let us be much with nature; not as they Subject(s): Animals ON THE CROCODILE, by THOMAS HEYRICK Poem Source First Line: I am the terrour of the sea Subject(s): Animals ON THE DEATH OF A CAT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall tell the lady's grief? Last Line: Nor disturb her narrow bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE DEATH OF A FAVORITE CAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: She died when earth was fair beyond all price Subject(s): Animals; Cats ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE OLD SPANIEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And they have drowned thee then at last! Poor phillis Last Line: Of their own charity, may envy thee! Subject(s): Aging; Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Drowning; Future Life; Grief; Loss; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE DEATH OF A LAP-DOG, ECHO, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In wood and wild, ye warbling throng Last Line: With echo silent lies. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs ON THE DEATH OF A LAP-DOG, SELS., by JONATHAN SMEDLEY Poem Source First Line: Erigone, celestial maid Last Line: Cou'd take a pinch; or relish tea Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs ON THE DEATH OF A MONKEY, by THOMAS HEYRICK Poem Source First Line: Here busy and yet innocent lyes dead Subject(s): Animals; Mourning ON THE DEATH OF CYNTHIA'S HORSE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whate'er the world could boast of fair or good Last Line: When carrying her who to the sun gave light. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Horses ON THE DEATH OF ECHO, A FAVOURITE BEAGLE, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent at last, beneath the silent ground Last Line: But now dumb death has chok'd poor echo's cry %and to no call can echo more reply Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON THE DEDICATION OF A DRINKING FOUNTAIN, by CHARLES AUGUSTUS KEELER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The skies yielded up their bounty unto the earth Subject(s): Animals ON THE DOG ANGEL, by MIROSLAV HOLUB Poem Source First Line: False tears of light on macadam Last Line: Gnawing the bones of shooting stars Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ON THE FIELDS OF FRANCE, by THOMAS H. HERNDON Poem Source First Line: God speed the horse on the fields of france Subject(s): Animals; Horses ON THE MOWING, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What you saw - flash of a feral tail - leapt Last Line: And the fox slipped through the chinks Subject(s): Animals ON THE PASSING OF THE LAST FIRE HORSE FROM MANHATTAN ISLAND, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: I remember the cleared streets, the strange suspense Last Line: They came, and they are gone, and unreturning. Subject(s): Animals; Firefighters; Horses; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ON THE RANGE, by BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On nungar the mists of the morning hung low Last Line: Marks the last resting-place of the lord of the hills. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Love; Dead, The ON THE SKELETON OF A HOUND, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nightfall, that saw the morning-glories float Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Skeletons; Dogs; Death - Animals ONCE, I WATCHED A PARAKEET, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Past their season, green Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals ONE AND ONLY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Someone stole a darling snake Last Line: We don't know who. Subject(s): Animals; Crime And Criminals; Snakes; Zoos ONE BARRED OWL HARRIED BY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A thief besieged by thieves Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Human Behavior; Nature ONE BITE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The shy snake is too polite Last Line: One bite is all that's needed. Subject(s): Animals; Prudence; Snakes ONE GIGANTIC LOVE NEST, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source Last Line: And the hippopotamrs Subject(s): Animals ONE OF THE ANIMALS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why does a dog get sick Last Line: — you tell me. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Dead, The ONE WITNESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The secretary was a presence grim Last Line: His little dog watched for him at the gate Subject(s): Animals;dogs;eyes;friendship;presence ONLY A DOG, by MARTY HALE Poem Source First Line: He left no relatives,' they said Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ONLY A DOG, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just now a little group stood on the shore Last Line: Whence is the star?' I said; 'the dog, where gone?' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ONLY A DOG, by GRENVILLE KLEISER Poem Source First Line: I'm only a dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ONLY A JOCKEY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Richard bennison, a jockey, aged fourteen, while riding Last Line: Draw the shroud over the jockey-boy's face. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; God; Horses; Soul ONLY EACH OTHER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are not called human by deer Last Line: Not clubs to beat them with at night, %but sticks we toss on the fire Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Animals; Names ONLY MULES, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No matter; we are only mules Subject(s): Animals ONLY MY OPINION, by MONICA SHANNON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is a caterpillar ticklish? Subject(s): Animals; Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs ONLY MY OPINION, by MONICA SHANNON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is a caterpillar ticklish? Last Line: That he giggles, as he wiggles %across a hairy leaf Subject(s): Animals; Caterpillars; Insects OPEN DOOR, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the dark Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Cats OPPIAN'S HALIEUTICKS, SELS, by WILLIAM DIAPER Poem Source First Line: The shelly crawlers each returning year Subject(s): Animals ORANGE CAT, by CAROLINE BERRY Poem Source First Line: My cat is a hand my cat Last Line: Says my cat it happens however many again and again Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Pets ORANGUTAN REHAB, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A circle of unbarbered redheads round Last Line: Limb toward a cultivated taste for freedom. Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Freedom; Indonesia; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Liberty; Dutch East Indies ORATION: HALF-MOON IN VERMONT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A horse is shivering flies off its ribs, grazing Last Line: Doesn't poverty just fucking break your heart? Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Girls; Politics & Government; Horses; Owls; Poverty; Vermont ORDINARY DOG, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When brother takes me walking Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ORGAN SONGS: AN OLD STORY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ancient house of ages Last Line: And a child for king! Subject(s): Animals; Birth; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The ORIGIN OF CENTAURS; FRP DIMTRI HADZI, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This mild september mist recalls the soul Last Line: Those powerful, clear hoofprints on the path Subject(s): Animals ORIGIN OF THE SNAKE (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Up de hill an' down de level Last Line: Devil come an' gits his own Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Animals; Black Songs; Snakes ORIOLE, by LOUISE HELEN COBURN Poem Source First Line: Hark! Do you hear that note, sustained and clear? Subject(s): Animals ORPHEUS TO BEASTS; SONG, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, here, oh here, eurydice Last Line: Than now you hear. Subject(s): Animals; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus OSTRA, by ELLEN FRANCES BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: Ostara! Ostara! Strange voices crept Last Line: The noble frankincense of springtime again. Subject(s): Animals; Nature OSTRICH, by ROLAND YOUNG Poem Source First Line: His beak and skull are both so thick Last Line: He hasn't ant brain at all Subject(s): Animals OTHELLO: TOMCAT, by LAURA SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: His claw against the world, he prowls athwart Subject(s): Animals; Cats OTHER TIGER, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tiger comes to mind. The twilight here Last Line: Another tiger, the beast not found in verse Subject(s): Animals; Books; Librarians And Libraries; Mythical Animals; Poetry And Poets; Tigers OTTER, by BRIAN CARTER Poem Source First Line: Sun-flickery Last Line: In dark liquefaction Subject(s): Animals; Otters OTTO OCTOPUS, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Otto is an octopus from underneath the sea Last Line: We spent two hours untangling our %otto octopuzzle Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools OULD HOUND, by ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT STRINGER Poem Source First Line: When shamus made shift wid a turf-hut Alternate Author Name(s): Arbuthnott, John Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OUNCE, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ounce, a brand of spotted cat Last Line: Goes into sixteen ounces Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals OUR BROTHERS OF THE FIELDS AND TREES, by CHARLES AUGUSTUS KEELER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that I was francis of assisi Subject(s): Animals OUR CAT ON THE OTHER ROCKING CHAIR, by CHARLOTTE GORDON Poem Source First Line: If he would just stay Last Line: And the slippage of cats and time %infinitesimally more bearable Subject(s): Animals; Cats OUR DOG CHASING SWIFTS, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A border collie has been bred to keep Last Line: To herd the screaming black sheep of the skies Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A. Subject(s): Animals OUR DOG, DOUG, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Do you think this is a rug? Last Line: What our dog, doug, does best is hug Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools OUR HORSES, by F. M. W. Poem Source First Line: This is our english stable lad Subject(s): Animals; Horses OUR KITTY, by CAROL ANNE MUSKE Poem Source First Line: She is swinging in a contraption above the heads Last Line: Living hand, warm, capable - as ever, untaken Subject(s): Animals; Cats OUR MOTHER WAS THE PUSSY-CAT, OUR FATHER WAS THE OWL, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Because we take no interest in politix of the day Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats; Owls OUR NEW HORSE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boys had come back from the races Last Line: With fifty pounds loss on the deal. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Life; Racing OUR RAT RALPH, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Our ralph's laboratory rat Last Line: Your project must be cheesy Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools OUT FROM ITS FINE CAGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Out from its fine cage flies the nightingale Last Line: Come back to my garden, oh, sweet nightingale Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Nightingales; Singing And Singers; Wings OUT OF SIGHT, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They held a polo meeting at a little country town Last Line: For he was in the ambulance, and safely 'out of sight'. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Polo OUT ON A LIMB, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: What these citizens need,' said the mayor Last Line: To follow a path of his own Subject(s): Animals; Cats OUTCAST, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With thrill of birds adown the dawn there came Subject(s): Animals OUTCAST IN HELL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: During a lull in the stygian flames Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OUTLAW, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wild and woeful race he ran Last Line: For mercy at my judgment seat Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Paris, France OVER THE HILLS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old hound wags his shaggy tail Last Line: Over the hills and away. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Forests; Hunting; Woods; Hunters OWL, by PIE CORBETT Poem Source First Line: Owl %was darker Last Line: Owl flew -- who -- who --who Subject(s): Animals OWL, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Unblinking eye %fish of terra firma Last Line: All that constitutes the venerated glory of the west? Subject(s): Animals OWL TURNS HIS HEAD ALL THE WAY AROUND, by HOLLY PRADO Poem Source First Line: Some hunters come to our fire to get warm after being in the hills all Last Line: Been doing the right thing for a long time Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Hunting; Owls OWLE, SELS., by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And ever bird shew'd in his proper kind Subject(s): Animals OWLS, by HELEN GRANVILLE-BARKER Poem Source First Line: Three little feathery owls flew overhead Subject(s): Animals OWNERSHIP, by ISLA PASCHAL RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: It's quite the vogue to own a dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs OX, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ox is an honest beast Last Line: Fiercely the dumb ox yearns Subject(s): Animals OX, by OU YANGXIU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As the sun comes over the eastern hedge Last Line: And leading a calf, it walks Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Animals; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Oxen OX LOOKS AT MAN, by CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are more delicate even than shrubs and they run Last Line: And after this it is hard to keep chewing away at our truth Subject(s): Animals OXEN, by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER Poem Text First Line: Weary, they plod the ploughlands of the world Last Line: Serve him, complaintless, who hath made them slaves. Subject(s): Animals; Oxen OYSTER, by ROLAND FLINT Poem Source First Line: He lives in washington, d.C., and he goes all the way to georgia by car Last Line: Ats fuckin oyrsters.' Subject(s): Marine Animals; Oysters; Shells OYSTERS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Did you know the ocean's oysters Last Line: (are the girls the ones with pearls? Subject(s): Marine Animals OYSTERS, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our shells clacked on the plates Last Line: Might quicken me all into verb, pure verb Subject(s): Marine Animals; Poetry And Poets PACE OF THE OX, by CULLEN GOULDSBURY Poem Source First Line: What do we know - and what do we care - of time Subject(s): Animals; Oxen PAIN FOR A DAUGHTER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind with love, my daughter Last Line: And I saw her, at that moment, %in her own death and I knew that she knew Subject(s): Animals; God; Horses; Mothers And Daughters; Religion PAINT, by SHADD PIEHL Poem Source First Line: Until she saw the horse, stuffed and saddled Last Line: Finds him still tied to her bedpost Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ranch Life PAINTING OF PRINCE FELIPE PROSPERO BY VELASQUEZ, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: The little prince stands behind the royal chair Last Line: The sovereign makes a royal splash, %then the prince %tucks him in bed Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PALS, by JOHN E. DONOVAN Poem Source First Line: You see us every morning Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PAN, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, sweet, sweet, o pan! Last Line: Came back to dream on the river Subject(s): Mythical Animals PANDA-MONIUM, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: My trip to washington wasn't complete Last Line: He showed off his beautiful black and white coat, %in a manner that showed he was trying to gloat Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PANEGYRIC FOR GEE, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The anachronistic face of the bulldog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PANEGYRIC FOR GEE, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The anachronistic face of the bulldog Last Line: Whose singing sober voice alone breaks hearts Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PANGOLIN, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why in the world does a pangolin Last Line: And let out its ants Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals PANGUR BAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I myself and pangur ban Last Line: Bringing darkness into light %is the work that I do best Subject(s): Animals; Cats PANGUR BAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I and pangur ban, my cat Last Line: I get wisdom day and night %turning darkness into light Variant Title(s): The White Cat And The Studen Subject(s): Animals; Cats PANTHER, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The panther is like a leopard Last Line: Better yet, if called by a panther, %don't anther Subject(s): Animals; Panthers PAPER TIGER, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Regard the tiger %its cool pose of complacent vanity Last Line: The peacock of the predators Subject(s): Animals PARDNERS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You bad-eyed, tough-mouthed son-of-a-gun Last Line: You ugly ol' scoundrel, you! Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States PARDON, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dog lay dead five days without a grave Last Line: But whether this was false or honest dreaming %I beg death's pardon now. And mourn the dead Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Mourning PARK AVENUE CAT, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This was a thing the saints never knew Subject(s): Animals; Cats PARLEY OF BEASTS, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auld noah was at hame wi' them a' Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Love; Religion; Theology PARLEY OF BEASTS, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auld noah was at hame wi' them a' Last Line: At hame it's hard to feel Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Love; Religion PARLOR CAT, by LOUELLA C. POOLE Poem Source First Line: There lives a cat across the way Subject(s): Animals; Cats PARODY OF LISTON'S 'BEAUTIFUL MAID.', by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My fishmonger told me that soles were most dear Last Line: You've eat up my beautiful maid! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fish & Fishing; Anglers PARTRIDGES, by ALONZO TEALL WORDEN Poem Source First Line: Under the alders, along the brooks Subject(s): Animals PASSAGE ON, by CEDRIC MORRIS Poem Source First Line: Farewell, most charming of females Subject(s): Animals; Cats PASSING OF THE HORSE, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Source First Line: Every little while they tell use that the Subject(s): Animals; Horses PASSING OF THISTLE, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is our first summer without a dog Last Line: The weekends that we spent in the house together %letting each other in and out of doors Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PASSION CONCH, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No sun today, the rainy %season barely begun, so Last Line: Of flame, a gift, %a name. %hua hin thailand Subject(s): Marine Animals; Mollusks; Seashore; Tourists; Travel PAST AND PRESENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On four-horse coach, whose luggage pierced the sky Last Line: Shot like a pellet from his own pop-gun. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Past; Progress; Schools; Time; Travel; Vacation; Students; Journeys; Trips PATSY, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Puppy dog, rough as a bramble Last Line: Rats, little hound of beelzebub, rats! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets PAVLOV'S DOG, by MICHAEL PETTIT Poem Source First Line: Last night, late, a light rain Last Line: And brutal as a bell ringing, %always ringing, for sorrow Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PEACE OF WILD THINGS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When despair for the world grows in me Last Line: I rest in the grace of the world, and am free Subject(s): Animals; Anxiety; Despair; Nature; Peace; Wilderness PEACOCK'S EYE, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mark you how the peacock's eye Last Line: To win a look of violet Subject(s): Animals; Birds PEACOCKS, by PAULINE CLARKE Poem Source First Line: A muster of peacocks Last Line: Staring with surprise Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Peacocks PEARL AND I ARE FAR TOO FAT, by ELIZABETH M. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: My granddaughters named her pearl, not me Last Line: Hopefully, she covered me with kisses Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PEARL SEVENTY-EIGHT, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High noon it was, and the hot khamseen's breath Subject(s): Animals PEDIGREES, by EM. PIERCE Poem Source First Line: The stock farms are booming Subject(s): Animals; Horses PEGASUS, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He could not be captured Last Line: Who sings as he flies Subject(s): Mythical Animals PEGASUS, by PIERRE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: His pure feet striking sparks of flint that rise Last Line: The white beast in forbidden heavens leap. Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Horses; Orion (constellation); Soul; Nightmares PELICAN CHORUS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King and queen of the pelicans we Last Line: We think so then, and we thought so still! Subject(s): Animals; Nonsense PENGUIN, by MARY ANN HOBERMAN Poem Source First Line: O penguin, do you ever try Last Line: Their realm is sea instead of sky Subject(s): Animals PENSIONERS, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My pensioners who daily Subject(s): Animals PET STORE, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: No one looking - %the homeless boy Last Line: Pats a puppy Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PETE AT THE SEASHORE, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I ran along the yellow sand Last Line: And play beside the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PETE'S HOLIDAY, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We found a hill all green with grass Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PETE'S THEOLOGY, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God made seas to play beside Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PETER, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strong and slippery, built for the midnight grass-party Last Line: Tion—this is life; to do less would be nothing but dishonesty. Subject(s): Animals; Cats PETRONIUS, by FREDERIC P. LADD Poem Source First Line: A dog there was, petronius by name Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PETS, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Frog 3b Last Line: Parakeet p Subject(s): Animals; Pets PETS' CHRISTMAS CAROL, by WINIFRED SACKVILLE STONER Poem Source First Line: Tweet-tweet-tweet!' sang the canary Subject(s): Animals PHANTOM DOG, by ANGELA BALL Poem Source First Line: A woman heard something being torn Last Line: With green, even in january Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PHANTOM HOOFS, by CALVIN DILL WILSON Poem Text First Line: Only, - / man will be more lonely Last Line: The beat and rhythm of the hoofs. Subject(s): Animals; Horses PHAR LAP, by JANET A. HABAS Poem Source First Line: The lunge of Subject(s): Animals; Phar Lap (race Horse) PHAR LAP IN THE MELBOURNE MUSEUM, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A masterpiece of the taxidermist's art Subject(s): Animals; Museums; Phar Lap (race Horse); Taxidermy And Taxidermists PHIL, THE BLACK PERSIAN, by HERBERT EDWARD PALMER Poem Source First Line: Philander's a king, a dandy king Subject(s): Animals; Cats PHILOMELA, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Ah, the nightingale Last Line: Eternal pain! Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Nightingales PHILOSOPHICAL POEM ON CATS, by FILLMORE HYDE Poem Source First Line: Some twenty cats repose Subject(s): Animals; Cats PHOENIX, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN Poem Source First Line: I am phoenix Last Line: There have never been more Subject(s): Mythical Animals PHYSIOLOGY OF THE SLUG, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: The slug %a subtle creature Last Line: Someone will come %and over his shoulder throw salt on it Subject(s): Animals PICTURE OF A BULL, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, morn by morn, when snowy mountains flamed Last Line: And make them hear him still when they had fain forgot. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Variant Title(s): A Bison-king Subject(s): Animals; Bulls PICTURES, by SARAH BEAUMONT KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: The vet says, either you can give her a shot Last Line: And I say yes, yes, I do, even though I wasn't there Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Family Life; Horses; Sickness PIG, by JOAN OLIVER Poem Source First Line: I need a system for losing weight Last Line: They're already talking about st. Martin's day Subject(s): Animals; Pigs PIG DELIGHTS, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source Last Line: Can track some mud into Subject(s): Animals PIGEONS, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: They paddle with staccato feet Last Line: With one quick gust %they fountain into air Subject(s): Animals; Birds PIGEONS, by LILIAN MOORE Poem Source First Line: Pigeons are city folk Last Line: Oh pigeon, what a waste of wings? Subject(s): Animals; Cities PIGEONS, by CHARLOTTE SHAPIRO ZOLOTOW Poem Source First Line: A gray-blue pigeon Last Line: In a blue and silver wave Subject(s): Animals PIGS, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do look at those pigs as they lie in the straw Subject(s): Animals PILGRIM'S GUIDE TO CHAOS IN THE HEARTLAND: 3. GRASSLA6NDS, by JESSICA GOODFELLOW Poem Source First Line: We haven't pass7ed another car all day Last Line: Lost: where pointle7ssness %is the po36nt Subject(s): Animals; Fields; Goats PINK DOG, by JOANNE LOWERY Poem Source First Line: His stage is a circle of printed snow Last Line: Into a suffusion of passing light where he flies on gravity's tip: %a pink dog above a pink snow Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PINK DOG (RIO DE JANEIRO), by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is blazing and the sky is blue Subject(s): Animals; Carnivals; Dogs; Rio De Janeiro PINK DOG (RIO DE JANEIRO), by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is blazing and the sky is blue Last Line: Dress up! Dress up and dance at carnival! Subject(s): Animals; Carnivals; Dogs; Rio De Janeiro PIOUS CAT, by OBAID-E ZAKANI Poem Source First Line: Sagacious and circumspect persons, attend! Last Line: You're wrong, I never. It wasn't me, %it was obaid-e zakani Subject(s): Animals; Cats PIRANHAS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: It's widely known Last Line: But short on manners Subject(s): Marine Animals PIT VIPER, by GEORGE STARBUCK Poem Source First Line: A slow buwn %in cold blood Last Line: That joined up Subject(s): Animals; Snakes PITIFUL, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When god made man to live his hour Last Line: Alack! We know not what we do! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Animals PLACE IN THE WOODS, by NANCY JESSER Poem Source First Line: After I found the dogs Last Line: The house made dark with it %and losing color Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs PLATO'S BAD HORSE, by DEBORAH WOODARD Poem Source First Line: I wanted plato's bad horse Last Line: To join the halves of what I still don't know Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Plato (428-348 B.c.) PLEA FOR A CAT, by JEWELL BOTHWELL TULL Poem Source First Line: Could you care for me, as I care for my cat? Subject(s): Animals; Cats PLEASE PASS THE BISCUIT, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a little dog Last Line: Spangle, I wish you %a ripe old dortage Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PLOWMAN ON HORSEBACK, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: The sun has sucked all fire from the blood Last Line: The swirled dust does not say. Subject(s): Animals; Horseback Riding; Horses; United States; America POCHO POEM, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: My perro's named semaforo Last Line: But when his eyes glow, %everybody %stops Subject(s): Animals; Dogs POEM, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the cat %climbed over Last Line: The empty %flowerpot Subject(s): Animals; Cats POEM ABOUT HOPPING, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rabbits in alabama hop Last Line: But, down sir, down sir, down? Subject(s): Animals; Movement POEM FOR LITTLE DOGS, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For all the faithful little dogs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs POEM FOR PICTURE: TO A DRAWING OF A HORSE BY GEORGIO DI CHIRICO, by FRANK ANKENBRAND JR. Poem Text First Line: Out of what stabled brain have you pranced Last Line: Carrying me back to that lost age of beauty. Subject(s): Animals; Chirico, Giorgio De (1888-1978); Horses; Paintings & Painters POEM FOR PRUE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bound, hare, bound! Subject(s): Animals POEM TO BEGIN THE SECOND DECADE OF AIDS, by BOYER RICKEL Poem Source First Line: The dog, alive, lucy, my light, sleeps Last Line: Simply drape across a reclining form Subject(s): Aids (disease); Animals; Dogs; Sickness POETIC TALE, by GRACE MADDOCK MILLER Poem Source First Line: Oh give me a pup Subject(s): Animals; Dogs POINCIANA, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: Eternity temporarily %partitioned into days of revelatory blue Last Line: Rather than the shade %of a red flowering tree Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Poincianas POINT ARENA MOUNTAIN BEAVER, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Not a beaver, she builds no dams Last Line: Ignoring nothing, leaving nothing out Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals POLAR BEAR, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The polar bear by being white Last Line: To set out after polar bears Subject(s): Animals; Bears POLAR BEAR, by SYLVIA READ Poem Source First Line: White are the snows upon the sea Last Line: In white fleece walks the polar bear Subject(s): Animals POLLYWOGS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Down in maine at camp wohelo Last Line: "they'll make monkeys out of man." Subject(s): Animals; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Nature; Science; Wilderness; Scientists POLO PONIES, by ELEANOR BALDWIN Poem Source First Line: Has pegasus, then, visited the earth Subject(s): Animals PONY EXPRESS, by ARTHUR CHAPMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The eddies swirl in the treacherous ford Subject(s): Animals; Horses POOR BLACK BESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "when fortune, blind goddess, she fled my abode" Last Line: "then farewell for ever, my poor black bess" Subject(s): Animals;crimes & Criminals;despair;fortune;horses POOR MATTHIAS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor matthias! - found him lying Subject(s): Animals; Cats POOR MATTHIAS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor matthias! - found him lying Last Line: What are left, will hardly be %better than we spent with thee Subject(s): Animals; Cats POOR OLD HORSE (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o once I lay in stable, a hunter well and warm" Last Line: "poor old horse, till he die" Subject(s): Animals;horses PORCUPINE, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source First Line: A porcupine looks somewhat silly Last Line: To be my loving valentine Subject(s): Animals PORTOLA CANNERY POEM, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Bells ring furiously Last Line: In a medieval drawing Subject(s): Marine Animals; Poetry And Poets; Sea PORTRAIT OF THE GREAT WHITE HUNTER FOXHUNTING IN THE ABSENCE OF BIG..., by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open the stable gate! Last Line: Out of a hole in my head Subject(s): Animals; Ducks; Hunting; Portraits; Rifles; Mallards; Drakes; Hunters PORTRAIT OF THE GREAT WHITE HUNTER FOXHUNTING IN THE ABSENCE OF BIG..., by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open the stable gate! Last Line: These words are coming %out of a hole in my head Subject(s): Animals; Ducks; Hunting; Portraits; Rifles PORTRAITES OF THE INDITCHENOUS BEESTES OF NEW OLLAND, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Ye greate blacke deville Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Wilderness; Zoos POSSESSION, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When soft I lay in the mossy bed Last Line: "we all belong to the sweet, green woods!" Subject(s): Animals; Forests; Love; New York City - Dutch Period; Woods POTATO BUG, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rumors of it kept my doors sealed Last Line: Nina de la tierra: child of the earth, %as we all can't help but be Subject(s): Animals; Insects; Mosquitoes; Wings PRACTICALITY, by JIM HAMMONS Poem Source First Line: If he humps up to buck Last Line: Isn't done by a broken hand Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ranch Life PRAISE OF A COLLIE, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was a small dog, neat and fluid Last Line: I grieved for pollochan when he took her a stroll %and put his gun to the back of her head Subject(s): Animals; Collies; Dogs; Mourning PRAISE OF CREATED THINGS, by FRANCIS OF ASSISI Poem Text First Line: Be thou praised, my lord, with all thy creatures Last Line: And produces divers fruits with colored flowers, and herbs. Alternate Author Name(s): Moriconi, Giovanni; Saint Francis; Francesco D'assisi, San Subject(s): Animals; Earth; Moon; Plants; Sun; World; Planting; Planters PRAYER, by C. S. PURVES Poem Source First Line: Thine are the cattle on a thousand hills Subject(s): Animals; Horses PRAYER FOR DOGS, by GOLDIE CAPERS SMITH Poem Source First Line: Good master, bless each dog that no one owns Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PRAYER FOR PRINCE, by BETSEY MANN COLLINS Poem Source First Line: Dear god, way up there in the sky Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PRAYER FOR THE DOGS IN WAR, by MRS. E. WORTHING Poem Source First Line: Oh god, in your highest glory Subject(s): Animals; Dogs - War Use PRAYER FOR THE OLD BALLPLAYER, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: May dog heaven %abound Last Line: Angels %to throw them Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PRAYER OF THE CAT, by CARMEN BERNOS DE GASZTOLD Poem Source First Line: Lord, %I am the cat Last Line: If so I should say Subject(s): Animals; Cats PRAYER OF THE DONKEY, by CARMEN BERNOS DE GASZTOLD Poem Source First Line: O god, who made me Last Line: All danger is driven away Subject(s): Animals; Christmas; Dogs; Donkeys PREDICTIONS ABOUT A BLACK CAT, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four boys have been arrested for killing geese. This is how it Subject(s): Death - Animals; Automobile Accidents; Storms PREFERENCE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those little woolly insect things Last Line: I like a dog as is a dog! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PREGNANCY, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside the pomegranate is the blue sky Subject(s): Wisconsin; Paris, France; Animals; City & Town Life; Country Life PREHISTORIC, by SHELBY SILVERSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These lizards, toads and turtles, dear, with which you love to play Last Line: They turned into us, for goodness sakes Alternate Author Name(s): Silverstein, Shel Subject(s): Prehistoric Animals PREHISTORIC HORSES, by STEPHEN TAPSCOTT First Line: This is not a dream Subject(s): Prehistoric Animals PREY, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're walking through stubble and rain Last Line: His meat, as the sun that rises is his fire Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Nature; Hunters PRISONER, by JOSEPH O'CONNOR Poem Text First Line: In a cage of iron and stone Last Line: To pelt with stones. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Prisons & Prisoners; Zoos PRIVATE PARTS OF ANIMALS, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: The ad boasts of something called Last Line: With ribbon Subject(s): Animals; Bulls PRIZE CAT, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pure blood domestic, guaranteed Last Line: I thought an abyssianian child %had cried out in the whiteth roat's scream Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Animals; Cats PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUE TO A BIRD MASQUE: EPILOGUE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gentles, if you have followed me Last Line: And tacita her dreams! — our masque is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Robins; Wings PROPRIETY, by KAWAI CHIGETSU-NI Poem Source First Line: Cats making love in the temple Last Line: A man and wife for mating in such a place Subject(s): Animals; Cats PRUDENCE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Help! Mad dog! Cried some one Last Line: In the opposite direction. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Wisdom PSALM OF CREATURES, by FRANCIS OF ASSISI Poem Source First Line: O highest lord, all-powerful and good Last Line: Praise and bless my lord and give him thanks, %and be his servants as humbly as we can Alternate Author Name(s): Moriconi, Giovanni; Saint Francis; Francesco D'assisi, San Subject(s): Animals; Landscape PSALM: 8, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How noble is thy mighty name Last Line: 9 how noble each-where is thy name! Subject(s): Angels; Animals; Names; Praise PUP DOG'S OPINION OF THE QUICK TEMPERED MAN, by ROWLAND C. BOWMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm a pup dog and I know it Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PUP IN THE SNOWSTORM, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My lop eared pup looking up at me Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Snow PUPPY, by LEE BENNETT HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: We brought our puppy Last Line: Waking me up %tickling my toes Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PUPPY, by ROBERT L. TYLER Poem Source First Line: Catch and shake the cobra garden hose Last Line: Rainbows to the yap yap sun Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PUSS-PUSS!, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, auntie, isn't he a beauty! And is he a gentleman or a lady? Last Line: It saves him from so many undesirable associations Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Cats PUSSY CAT, by ANN HAWKSHAW Poem Text First Line: Pussy cat lives in the servants' hall Last Line: And caught them all with her claws. Alternate Author Name(s): Aunt Effie; Hawkshawe, Ann; Jackson, Ann Subject(s): Animals; Cats PUSSY CAT WHO VISITED THE QUEEN, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tim and tilly sauntered on Subject(s): Animals; Cats PUSSY CAT, PUSSY CAT, WHERE ARE YOU GOING?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Cats PUSSY CAT, PUSSY CAT, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Cats PUSSY IN THE BED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Why is pussy in bed, pray? Subject(s): Animals; Cats PUSSY SITS BY [OR, BEHIND] THE FIRE, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I fare as well as you Subject(s): Animals; Cats PUSSY'S PLEA, by HENRY COYLE Poem Source First Line: Now is the winter of my discontent Subject(s): Animals PUSSYCAT SITS ON A CHAIR, by EDWARD NEWMAN HORN Poem Source Last Line: Against the austere defense Subject(s): Animals; Cats PYGMY HUT, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy drops %fell from the trees Last Line: Heavy drops %fell from the trees %& made a %plopping %sound %as they hit %the poodles Subject(s): Animals; Dogs PYTHAGORAS AND THE DOG, by XENOPHANES Poem Text First Line: Once he was passing by an ill-used pup Last Line: I recognized it when I heard it yell.' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pythagorus (580-500 B.c.) PYTHON, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A lithe beautiful fear Last Line: It is I who am fugitive %from paradise Subject(s): Animals; Snakes QUACK?, by MARY O'NEILL Poem Source First Line: Quack sound is crisp Last Line: Just one word Subject(s): Animals QUAILS, by FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG Poem Source First Line: All through the night Subject(s): Animals QUALITY, by MARTY HALE Poem Source First Line: My little dog lies curled asleep Subject(s): Animals; Dogs QUEROQUE THE FROG: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by KUSANO SHINPEI Poem Source First Line: I was born in the suburbs of bologna Subject(s): Animals; Frogs QUESTION, by FAIRMONT SNYDER Poem Source First Line: When you go to get a drink Subject(s): Animals QUESTIONS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there not something in the pleading eye Subject(s): Animals QUESTIONS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the secret of your life, browsing ox Last Line: If for you death will gain no life's creating? Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Animals; Oxen QUESTIONS ABOUT PIGS AND CURSES VISITED UPON THE AFOREMENTIONED, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Why are all their names insults? Last Line: What pigs, what filthy slobs, what swine Subject(s): Animals QUETZAL, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The crested quetzal seldom tours Last Line: Is, 'polly, want a pretzel?' Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals QUETZALCOATL, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: In the world's young days Last Line: And the serpent whispered, %maize Subject(s): Mythical Animals QUIET QUAHOG, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: We do not know our quahog well Last Line: He's such an antisocial clam Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools QUORUM PORUM, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a dark garden, by a dreadful tree Subject(s): Animals; Cats RABBIT, by GEORGIA ROBERTS DURSTON Poem Source First Line: The rabbit has a habit Last Line: Twisting in and out and round about, %as safe as it can be Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits RABBIT, by EDITH KING Poem Source First Line: Brown bunny sits inside his burrow Last Line: As down his hidy-hole he dashes %and disappears from sight Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits RABBIT, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hip-hop hoppity, hip-hop hoppity Last Line: They let him hear the slightest sounds Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits RABBIT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I s'pose it takes a feller 'at's be'n Last Line: Fer eatin' purposes! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Rabbits; Youth; Hares RABBIT, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Snakes have polyvinyl shoulders on their backs Last Line: And say, damned stupid rabbit -- is much difference between footprints Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits RABBIT AS KING OF THE GHOSTS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The difficulty to think at the end of day Last Line: You sit with your head like a carving in space %and the little green cat is a bug in the grass Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Rabbits RABBIT CRY, by EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH Poem Source First Line: The season? Not yet spring. The place Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits RABBIT HABIT, by BOB MCKENTY Poem Source First Line: The fretful little bunny rabbit Last Line: If you were pregnant every year Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits RABBIT IS BORN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The poet just for talk Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Poetry And Poets; Rabbits RABBIT TRANSIT: THE FIRST SUBWAY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long ago, before the ark was freighted Last Line: And that's the origin of rabbit transit. Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares RABBITS, by DOROTHY WALTER BARUCH Poem Source First Line: My two white rabbits Last Line: With their noses %up and down Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits RACCOON, by CHARLOTTE SHAPIRO ZOLOTOW Poem Source Last Line: Is full %of treasure Subject(s): Animals RACE OF THE YEAR, by W. PHILLPOTTS WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Come down to the derby, come down to the race Subject(s): Animals; Horses RADIO, by DOROTHY BEEDY Poem Text First Line: All afternoon wind and rain Last Line: And brought your slippers to your chair. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs RAGGED ROVER, by LESLIE CLARE MANCHESTER Poem Source First Line: I have still a vision of him Subject(s): Animals; Dogs RAGGLES, by ROBERT C. V. MEYERS Poem Source First Line: Says the colonel to the sergeant, 'I was kept awake all night' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs RAGS, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Text First Line: We called him 'rags,' he was just a cur Last Line: I'll take my chance in hell. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs RAIN, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the cats? Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Cats RAIN, by KAJETAN KOVIC Poem Source First Line: Rain is making a racket in the gutter Last Line: And their own tight unknown bodies Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting RAIN, by JOANNE RYDER Poem Source First Line: Rain %bends Last Line: Bridges %for ant Subject(s): Animals RAINBOW CROW, by NANCY VAN LAAN Poem Source First Line: I will go. I will stop the snow Last Line: Aiya, aiya, aiya, aiya Subject(s): Mythical Animals RAINBOW TROUT, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: So suave! %so chic! Last Line: Too bad you're a fish Subject(s): Marine Animals RAINING CATS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: It's raining cats Last Line: They're purring down %on top of me Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs RAINING DOGS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: It's raining dogs Last Line: And cur-rents cover %half the town Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs RANGE RIDER, by SHARLOT MABRIDTH HALL Poem Source First Line: Up and saddle at daybreak Subject(s): Animals; Horses RAPTURE, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tongue wagging, mumbling and moaning Last Line: A sensation dimly lit, scored like film and fluttering Subject(s): Animals RATTLESNAKE DREAM, by SYBIL ESTESS Poem Source First Line: The dream you had about the six-foot rattler Last Line: The better one as much as you consciously could Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Snakes RATTUS NORVEGICUS, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Happy with the fear it has evoked, the brown norwegian rat Last Line: Nothing but a heap of horror, blood, and throbbing flesh Subject(s): Animals RAVENESQUE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a golden snake Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Religion; Snakes; Nightmares; Theology; Serpents; Vipers RAVENESQUE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a golden snake Last Line: Which was the unbroken surrender of god Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Religion; Snakes RAY, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Grand and gray %the regal ray Last Line: Make way! %make way! Subject(s): Marine Animals RCA VICTOR, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dog is seated by the victrola Last Line: The dog wonders %trembling slightly Subject(s): Animals; Dogs READING HIM TO SLEEP, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source First Line: We study prehistoric animals Subject(s): Prehistoric Animals; Sleep REAL LIFE, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Here we talk without wallets Last Line: Translucency in my hand Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Snakes REALITY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, it is nice to lie in bed Last Line: With straight, brown hair that will not curl! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Girls; Childhood RED CLOUD, by ALAN WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: The cat %had to come into restaurants. She was too rare Last Line: The world is bare as a piece of sheet iron. And no work %was not once contained in some youthful bod Subject(s): Animals; Art And Artists; Cats; Life RED DOG, by GRACE GRAFTON Poem Source First Line: She sits at attention Last Line: Begins to whisper again %the story of seeds Subject(s): Animals; Dogs RED FOX AT DAWN, by DAHLOV IPCAR Poem Source First Line: The fox glides like a flame through frozen fields of morning Last Line: On feet of night Subject(s): Animals; Foxes RED HEN, by JAMES STERLING TIPPETT Poem Source First Line: She turned her head to this side Last Line: Flew off to eat again Subject(s): Animals RED JACK, by MARY DURACK Poem Text First Line: She rises clear to memory's eye Last Line: Went all their ways alone. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Solitude; Women; Loneliness RED SLIPPERS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wicked cat, grown old and gray Last Line: Than buy slippers of cats, however they talk. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers REDBREAST, by ANTHONY RYE Poem Source First Line: The redbreast smoulders in the waste of snow Last Line: Between the dark boughs and the freezing ground Subject(s): Animals REFLECTION, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Geraniums Last Line: With such unsubtle gaiety at their belts. Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Flowers; Geraniums REFLECTIONS OF A PROUD PEDESTRIAN, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the curl of his waving lash Last Line: With the tandem that nature gave me! Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Pedestrians REFLECTIONS ON AN IDEAL EXISTENCE, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Life should be very pleasant for Subject(s): Animals; Cats REINDEER, by KARL KOPP Poem Source First Line: I see them big with young steadily going Last Line: My wolves awwaiting the tumultuous %summer birth Subject(s): Animals REINDEER, by SYLVIA READ Poem Source First Line: When icicles hang from the trees Last Line: And gallops through the dark Subject(s): Animals REMARKS FROM THE PUP, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She's taught me that I mustn't bark Subject(s): Animals; Dogs REMARKS TO MY GROWN-UP PUP, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By rules of fitness and of tense Subject(s): Animals; Dogs REMEMBERING A CAT'S FUNERAL, 1926, by WILMA ELIZABETH MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: My brother harol Last Line: Post oak hill %where we laid poor andrew %down in a crackerbox Subject(s): Animals; Cats REMEMBERING THAT CITY BUS RIDE IN QUITO, EQUADOR, by WILLIAM JOSEPH MEISSNER Poem Source First Line: I saw it first: a black dog Last Line: Like a blanket of exhaust Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Driving And Drivers; Equador REMORSE ON KILLING A SQUIRREL IN A GARDEN, by WILLIAM RAY Poem Source First Line: Rash was the hand, and foul the deed Subject(s): Animals REMOUNTS, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the rosy red of the dawning your hoof Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Horses REPETITIVE HEART: 9, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heavy bear who goes with me Last Line: Amid the hundred millions of his kind, %the scrimmage of appetite everywhere Variant Title(s): The Heavy Bea Subject(s): Animals; Bodies; Mortality REPRISALS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our words were spoken, and our hate found tongue Last Line: But with the hissing of a thousand snakes! Subject(s): Anger; Animals; Hate; Malice; Mankind; Poisons & Poisoning; Snakes; Human Race; Serpents; Vipers REQUIEM TO A DOG IN THE RAIN, by ASHER REICH Poem Source First Line: A winter-haunted sky Last Line: Death embraces the dog. %cars continue to honk Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs RETURN, by GREG KUZMA Poem Source First Line: Upon reaching home I wrote this poem sitting in the car Last Line: Black dog I love you %who owns no objects Subject(s): Animals; Dogs RETURN OF REX AND ETHEL, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: In our town there is a quiet street that runs to the edge of open fields Last Line: Pepper and belle get on their bus to school. %another day begins Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Grief RETURN TO SENDER: JAGUARUNDI, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Special delivery! Jaguarundi!' Last Line: Let's get a jellyfish instead.' Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools RHAPSODY ON A DOG'S INTELLIGENCE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear dog that seems to stand and gravely Subject(s): Animals; Dogs RHINOCEROS, by MARY ANN HOBERMAN Poem Source First Line: I often wonder whether Last Line: As it is upon the skinside Subject(s): Animals RHINOCEROS, by JUDITH NICHOLLS Poem Source First Line: There is no rush Last Line: My horn beckons Subject(s): Animals RHINOCEROS, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: When the rhinoceros Last Line: Airy tail %that flicks and flows Subject(s): Animals RIBANDS AND PIGS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Set him a yawning & see how he yawns! Subject(s): Animals; Pigs RICH LIZARD, by DEBORAH CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: The rich lizard Last Line: His wealth of cold coins Subject(s): Animals RICKSHA BOY, by IDA HOYT CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Running trotting in the shafts Last Line: Wanchee one good ricksha boy? Subject(s): Animals; Boys; Horses; Laughter RIDERS IN THE STAND, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's some that ride the robbo style, and bump at every stride Last Line: Ride like a bag of flour, and win -- they'll cheer you in the stand. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Racing RIDING CAMEL, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know no word of the quarrel, the Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Horses RIDING SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Let us ride together Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horseback Riding;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States RINGERS, by EM. PIERCE Poem Source First Line: Yes, I've traveled with a ringer Subject(s): Animals; Horses RIO GRANDE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now this was what macpherson told Last Line: The race the dead men ride. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Horses; Racing; Rivers; Sleep; Nightmares RITO, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Short for el rito. The town dog Last Line: For rito, the town dog - a free spirit! Subject(s): Animals; Bones; Death - Animals; Dogs; Graves RIVER-LOVERS, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Beaver: river-weaver Last Line: Spider: water-writer %bullfrog: burper-burper %owl: night-delighter Subject(s): Animals; Water ROAD TO VAGABONDIA, by DANA BURNET Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was sitting on a doorstep Last Line: And all the stars to spend! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Wanderers And Wandering ROADKILL, by PRISCILLA FRAKE Poem Source First Line: My first boss's hobby was roadkill Last Line: As simple, as dense with meaning, as clean as bones Subject(s): Death - Animals; Roads ROBBER KITTEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A kitten once to its mother said Last Line: I'll never more be bad Subject(s): Animals; Cats ROBIN, by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crumbs for the robin; well he knew Subject(s): Animals ROBIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There came to my window, one morning Subject(s): Animals ROBIN REDBREAST, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little robin redbreast sat upon a tree Last Line: Pussy cat said, new, and robin jumped away. Variant Title(s): Catch Subject(s): Animals; Cats ROBIN'S CRY, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Danger! Hide! A cat is coming! Last Line: Look: I hold it out to you Subject(s): Animals; Cats ROC, by RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON Poem Source First Line: Behold the sun Last Line: Feedeth its young %on elephants Subject(s): Mythical Animals ROC, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The roc, when snacks are what it wants Last Line: You'll have rocs in your head Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals RODGERSON'S DOUG, by WILLIAM AITKEN Poem Text First Line: In oor famed sugar city o' tierces and bags Last Line: Had some men the judgment o' rodgerson's doug. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers ROGER AND I, by JULIAN S. CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Well, roger, my dear old doggie, they say Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 6. RETROSPECT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pearl for the first and the case for the second Last Line: But the kitten, the kitten was saved. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Drowning ROMANTIC MOMENTS, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: After the nature documentary we walk down Last Line: To get some ice cream cones and eat them Subject(s): Romance; Animals RON, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: His name is ron Last Line: Like air, like dreams Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ROOSTERS, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Get out of my way!' Last Line: You're right!' %says rooster two Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals ROSEATE TERN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Drifting sideways before a heavy rain Last Line: Smelling the hunger of the young Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals ROSY, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you walked in with your suitcase, leaving Last Line: You understand, the animal means nothing to me Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ROTTWEILERS, by MARGOT K. JUBY Poem Source First Line: The rottweilers at number forty have gone Last Line: They didn't belong here. And nor do I Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ROUTINE DRIVE THROUGH IOWA, by RONALD E. MCFARLAND Poem Source First Line: Something startled a pheasant west of des moines Last Line: Confident only in august %when there's not enough breeze to rustle the cornstalks Subject(s): Animals; Iowa ROVER, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No classic warrior tempts my pen Last Line: We'll keep the nook for rover. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ROVING ALLEY-CAT, by MARY COCKBURN BOMKE Poem Source First Line: I'm an alley-cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats ROYALTY, by ORRICK JOHNS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two tall dogs on the road to georgetown Subject(s): Animals; Dogs RUBY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor ruby is dead! And before her no more Last Line: When they look at thy hearthrug-'poor ruby is dead!' Subject(s): Accidents; Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Murder RULES OF THE PACK, by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Nose low, tail high Last Line: Cubs like to play! %dads do, too Subject(s): Animals; Fathers RUNIC BIRDS, by VICTORIA FORRESTER Poem Source First Line: Sandpiper steps Subject(s): Animals RUNNING, by JOHN ALLMAN Poem Source First Line: Up into mist before dawn, panting on the dark Subject(s): Animals; Dogs RURAL SPORTS: CANTO 1, SELS., by JOHN GAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a brisk gale against the current blows Subject(s): Animals SABBATH, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waking on the seventh day of creation Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Animals SACRED EPIGRAM: I HAVE BOUGHT YOKES OF OXEN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I call you to the feast, which the master's orders wished Last Line: The feast would, I think, rather have your oxen [than you] Subject(s): Animals; Oxen SAD MEMORIES, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me I am beautiful: they praise my silken hair Last Line: In dreams I see that rampant he, and tremble at that miaow. Subject(s): Animals SADDLE-SONG, by SHARLOT MABRIDTH HALL Poem Source First Line: To horse! As rode the knights of old Subject(s): Animals; Horses SAFE, WARM, AND SNUG, by STEPHEN R. SWINBURNE Poem Source First Line: Fish fry swimming tight Last Line: Mama bat soars tonight Subject(s): Animals; Parents SAFETY-VALVE, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now baby-talk for babies is taboo Subject(s): Animals; Cats SAID THE FIRST KITCHEN MOUSE, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source Last Line: To win the good mousekeeping prize' Subject(s): Animals SAINT BERNARD, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: The fundamental things that owners need Last Line: It slobbers on all objects in its path Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SAINT FRANCIS AND THE SOW, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bud / stands for all things Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Saints; Agriculture; Farmers SAINT FRANCIS AND THE SOW, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bud %stands for all things Last Line: The long, perfect loveliness of sow Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Saints SAINT FRANCIS TO THE BIRDS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Birds, - birds of the air Last Line: Forgetful of the little worm and mole! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); God; Religion; Saints; Theology SALAMANDER, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: The light has gone from this night. The flame Last Line: Of the salamander of the heavens' fire Subject(s): Animals SALMON, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Could do with legs! Last Line: We bound! %we spring! Subject(s): Marine Animals SALMON CANS, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Cats were all right in their place Last Line: More particular, for sunday breakfast Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Salmon SALT MARSH HARVEST MOUSE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Instrument of earth's diversion, she Last Line: Is a seed, heaving. She hardly exists at all Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals SALTBUSH BILL ON THE PATRIARCHS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come all you little rouseabouts and climb upon my knee Last Line: How jacob bred them strawberry calves three thousand years ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Christmas; Horses; Nativity, The SALTBUSH BILL, J. P., by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the land where leichhardt went Last Line: Their saltbush bill, j.P. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Horses; Camps; Summer Camps SAME OLD STORY, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Old moon rising %white as bone Last Line: Same old hound dog. %same old coon Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SAMSON, by RICK BURSKY Poem Source First Line: Whoever said a butterfly couldn't be trained Last Line: And I did. Love creates obedience Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Love; Obedience SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 2. OUTSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A ROCKING..., by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow of lighthouse along the beach Subject(s): Admiration; Marine Animals; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Whales; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 2. OUTSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A ROCKING..., by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow of lighthouse along the beach Last Line: Blue smoke snaking up the pink sky Subject(s): Admiration; Marine Animals; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Whales SANCTUARY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Neighbour! For pity a hound cries on your steps Last Line: "off from my door! I have no place for you." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Rejection SANDHILL CRANE, by MARY HUNTER AUSTIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever the days are cool and clear Last Line: When the sandhill crane goes walking Subject(s): Animals SANDPIPER, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the edge of tide Last Line: The atlantic ocean Subject(s): Animals SANDRA: AT THE BEAVER TRAP, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nose only above water Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SANDRA: AT THE BEAVER TRAP, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nose only above water Last Line: Last of her line Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SANTA CLAUS IN THE BUSH, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It chanced out back at the christmas time Last Line: But the dour guidwife gat nane. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Christmas; Horses; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint SAVE THE TIGER!, by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When lady jane refused to be %the wife of viscount fiddledee Last Line: Poor dumb tiger, %save that buffalo - be good! Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P. Subject(s): Animals; Tigers SAVOIR FAIRE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My black cat doesn't know Last Line: The way I did Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Cats SAVOIR FAIRE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My black cat doesn't know Last Line: By a single love %the way I did Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Cats SAWESTE NOT YOU MY OXEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I have twelfe oxen, that be faire and brown Subject(s): Animals; Oxen SAWFISH, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: You'll see a saw Last Line: And don't do dishes Subject(s): Marine Animals SCARLET SNAKE, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Scarlet snake is feeling scummy Last Line: What happened to kim's birthday cake Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools SCHAUS SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: By true and false legs, a larva Last Line: The adult it must become Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals SCHERZO, by JACQUES LECLERCQ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You do not know what wonder Last Line: Will you care? Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Jokes SCHOLAR AND HIS CAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Each of us pursues his trade Last Line: I, too, making dark things clear, %am of my trade a master Subject(s): Animals; Cats SCHOLAR AND THE CAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Each of us pursues his trade Last Line: Am of my trade a master Subject(s): Animals; Cats SCHOLAR AND THE [OR HIS] DOG, by JOHN MARSTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a scholar: seven useful springs Last Line: At length he waked and yawned: and by yon sky %for aught I knew he knew as much as I Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SCHOLARLY POOCH, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: A silky, white west-highland terrier Last Line: Perhaps he's solving the dilemma %of overcrowding in the kennels Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SCORPIONS, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: The scorpion attracts its mate Last Line: -- who the preacher said %is more bitter than death Subject(s): Animals SCORPIONS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How easy, lazy in this light-struck country Last Line: To gaze into the shadows in his shoes. %los Subject(s): Animals; Deserts; Food And Eating; Poisons And Poisoning; Zoos SCOUTING HIGH SIERRA, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Slowly walking migration Last Line: Boy for over 30 years %don't come close Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Nature; Walking SCROOBIOUS PIP, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scroobious pip went out one day Last Line: Its only name is the scroobious pip Subject(s): Animals SEA DRIFT, by EILEEN BERRY Poem Source First Line: They would sit, two or three of them as a rule, on the cast-iron seat Last Line: The slow pace of nature's change gave them some kind of peace Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Marine Animals; Sea; Shrimp SEA HORSE, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: You have %no hooves Last Line: I call that silly Subject(s): Marine Animals SEA TURTLE, by ELLEN KORT Poem Source First Line: Tonight she lumbers up from the sea as though she knows I am wait Last Line: Morning Subject(s): Marine Animals; Seashore; Turtles SEA TURTLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Paddling, we saw that turtle; saw its eyes open Last Line: Seawater lapped at its shell, spreading across its back Subject(s): Animals SEA-ELEPHANT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trundled from %the strangeness of the sea Last Line: The bounty %of...And spring %they say %spring is icummen in Subject(s): Animals SEAL, by GILLIAN CLARKE Poem Source First Line: When the milk-arrow stabs she comes Last Line: A gleaming ring on sand %like the noose she slips on the sea Subject(s): Seals (animals) SEAL, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty's a stallion plunging in your mind Last Line: Neigh in the flowery chasm. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Horses SEAL, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how he dives Subject(s): Animals SEAL, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how he dives Last Line: With a mouthful of fish Subject(s): Animals SEAL AND THE SEAGULL, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: Even now, survival is godhead, a dim red glow warming the water Last Line: You could have chosen pity, feeding the tide the broken bones to see what %might come back Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seals (animals); Seashore; Water SEAL IN NATURE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Observed from down the beach, the seal Last Line: For the silent observer supreme Subject(s): Seals (animals) SEAL LULLABY, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us Variant Title(s): The White Seal's Lullaby Subject(s): Animals; Seals (animals) SEAL LULLABY, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us Last Line: Asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging seas Variant Title(s): The White Seal's Lullab Subject(s): Animals; Seals (animals) SEALS AT HIGH ISLAND, by RICHARD MURPHY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The calamity of seals begins with jaws Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Islands; Seals (animals) SEALS AT HIGH ISLAND, by RICHARD MURPHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The calamity of seals begins with jaws Last Line: Swells in their cove, and smothers their sweet song Subject(s): Erotic Love; Islands; Seals (animals) SEASON OF OMENS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poet's Biography First Line: When [the] calabashes held petrol and men Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animals; Cattle; Hunting; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Hunters SEASON OF OMENS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When [the] calabashes held petrol and men Last Line: And all around was the blood of hounds Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animals; Cattle; Hunting; Shepherds And Shepherdesses SEASONS: AUTUMN, by HARRY BEHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across cold, moon-bright Last Line: And then another Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SECOND SKIN, by GARY SHORT Poem Source First Line: The snake was a gleam twisted Last Line: And what was I? %just a boy in a sack Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SECRET LIFE OF A CAT, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Embers in the palm of night Last Line: Africa is mine Subject(s): Animals; Cats SEE. SEE?, by ELIZABETH MACKLIN Poem Source First Line: See where the frog Last Line: Too green. He had to leap Subject(s): Animals; Frogs SEED, by MARY MCNEIL SCOTT FENOLLOSA Poem Source First Line: Here's a sleepy little seed Alternate Author Name(s): Mccall, Sidney; Scott, Mary Mcneil Subject(s): Animals SEEING EYE, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Small thing and humble greatest lessons hold Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Animals SEEING THE FROG [OR, THE FROG], by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing the frog %and on its back Last Line: Patched, the warts %of water mine! Subject(s): Animals; Frogs SEKHMET THE LION-HEADED, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dark night I heard a stirring Last Line: That sekhmet purred. Subject(s): Animals; Cats SELF, by DAN CHIASSON Poem Source First Line: Found not founded. Attacking only Last Line: Like the tiger, founded on owned ground Subject(s): Animals; Tigers SELLING A COW IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoa! Whitey; morning, neighbor bell Last Line: They're passing not to come again. Subject(s): Animals; Cows; Farm Life; Trade; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers SELLING A DOG, by IRWIN RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: H'yat, pot-liquor! What you at? You heah me callin' you? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SENRYU (68), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A famous horse Last Line: Forgotten Subject(s): Animals; Horses SENSEMAYA; CHANT FOR KILLING A SNAKE, by NICOLAS GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: Mayombe-bombe-mayombe! Last Line: Sensemaya, it's dead Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SENSIBILITY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, when a boy, I killed a cat Last Line: O fellow-sinner, be the same. Subject(s): Animals; Boys; Cats; Death; Murder SEQUENCE: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead haloed in gladiolus Last Line: Snaps its neck, horse cowered before crop. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dead, The SERENADE, by PAUL FEARON Poem Source First Line: High in the dark the moon rides white Subject(s): Animals; Cats SERENADE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dogs on a summer nights Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SERIOUS QUESTION, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A kitten went a-walking Subject(s): Animals; Cats SERMONS IN TREES, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Source First Line: The purple of early november Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Animals SERPENT, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a serpent who had to sing Last Line: As the birds flew off to the end of next week Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SERPENT'S HISS, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sliding over stones Last Line: Ancient synonym for %sibylline %mystery Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Animals SEVEN MEXICAN CHILDREN, by TOM SCHMIDT Poem Source First Line: I saw them at games every day Subject(s): Animals; Bats SEVEN WAYS OF DIVINATION: 5. FELIDOMANCY-DIVINATION BY CATS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: It is not true cats have nine lives Last Line: The answer was always no Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Superstition SHADOW, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Who knows where the grooming brush Last Line: In the yards of men? %shadow knows Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SHAKESPEREAN BEAR, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When, on our casual way Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Winter SHAR-PEI STORE DETECTIVE, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: The sign said 'magoo is on vacation.' Last Line: But suddenly I appear on the scene %and what startled looks my presence brings Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SHARK, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, let me tall you about the shark Last Line: Be careful where you swim, my sweet Subject(s): Animals SHARK, by ALFRED BRUCE DOUGLAS Poem Source First Line: A treacherous monster is the shark Last Line: He has a very dangerous bite Subject(s): Animals SHARKS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Sharks can park %wherever they wish Last Line: On this each other %fish agrees Subject(s): Marine Animals SHEARED BEAVER BOMBER JACKET .... OCTOBER, by LISA RAE Poem Source First Line: The coat: %the colour is taupe. Last Line: That are happening in the woods with the dying of the light Subject(s): Animals; Beavers; Clothing And Dress SHED LIGHT, by ALICE B. FOGEL Poem Source First Line: Snakeskin spiraling like flute music Last Line: Transparent now as what it housed Subject(s): Animals; Light; Snakes SHEEP IN THE SHADE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In summer time, I took my road Subject(s): Animals; Landscape SHEEP IN THE WINTER NIGHT, by TOM HENNEN Poem Source First Line: Inside the barn the sheep were standing, pushed close to one another Last Line: Stand on end was keeping the answer to itself Subject(s): Animals; Barns; Fields; Sheep SHEEP-HERDING, by SHARLOT MABRIDTH HALL Poem Source First Line: A gray, slow-moving, dust-powered wave, Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SHEEPDOG TRIALS IN HYDE PARK; FOR ROBERT FROST, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shepherd stands at one end of the arena Last Line: Controlled woolgathering is my work too Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Shepherds & Sheperdesses SHEEPDOG TRIALS IN HYDE PARK; FOR ROBERT FROST, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shepherd stands at one end of the arena Last Line: Of shepherding the unruly, for a kind of %controlled woolgathering is my work too Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SHELTER, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: Her hooves Last Line: Side, his small hooves denting the wet prairie Subject(s): Animals; Birth; Cows SHERIDAN'S RIDE [DECEMBER 19, 1864], by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the south, at break of day Last Line: "from winchester, -- twenty miles away!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Animals; Cedar Creek, Battle Of (1864); Courage; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888); United States - History; War; Valor; Bravery; Declaration Day SHOE THE HORSE, SHOE THE MARE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals SHOOTING WHALES, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the shoals of plankton Subject(s): Animals SHOOTING WHALES, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the shoals of plankton Last Line: They were luring me %downward and downward %into the murmurous %waters of sleep Subject(s): Animals SHREW, by MARY ANN HOBERMAN Poem Source First Line: The shrew is so busy she makes me quite dizzy Last Line: And finally %stops Subject(s): Shrews (animals) SHREW, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange as it seems, the smallest mammal Last Line: Or wish to know, about the shrew Subject(s): Shrews (animals) SHREW, by JULIA OLDER Poem Source First Line: Beneath the snow the shrew molests his god. Last Line: Of shrewd small giants who rule cosmogony Subject(s): Shrews (animals) SHRINE, by ETHNA MACCARTHY Poem Source First Line: My silver cat with burning eyes Subject(s): Animals; Cats SIAN, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can one make love %to a kitten? Sian Last Line: That all too often manages %to invest my heart Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats SIGN BY THE ROAD: KITTENS FOR SALE, by BETTIE SALE Poem Text First Line: Can you imagine anyone selling his kittens? Last Line: But never, not ever black, white, tabby or calico kittens! Subject(s): Animals; Cats SIGNALS, by PATRICIA ZONTELLI Poem Source First Line: I have heard that the dead Last Line: You know, you really deserve this good life.' Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs SIGNS OF SIGNS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: To have been bitten once by a dog is quite enough Last Line: I look for signs of signs everywhere Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Restaurants; Signs And Signboards SIGNS OF STORM, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With broadened nostrils to the sky upturned Last Line: And forest-rustling mountain comes a voice %that, solemn-sounding, bids the world prepare Subject(s): Animals; Storms SILA, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upgrade, past snow-tangled bramble, past Last Line: The dog exploded Subject(s): Animals; Death; Deer; Dogs; Eskimos; Native Americans; Dead, The; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SILA, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upgrade, past snow-tangled bramble, past Last Line: Heart straining, to utter that cry? - but %cannot, breath short Subject(s): Animals; Death; Deer; Dogs; Eskimos; Native Americans SILENCE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My father used to say Last Line: Inns are not residences. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fathers; Guests; Home; Silence; Visiting SILHOUETTE, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY Poem Source First Line: Of course, I thought I'd never let him stay Subject(s): Animals; Cats SILVER, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought silver must have snaked logs Last Line: And dried to streaks of salt leaked white from the hair Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Animals; Horses SILVER SEALS, by FLORENCE WENNER Poem Text First Line: My restless thoughts take leave of me Last Line: Ride on the unknown breakers, ride! Subject(s): Seals (animals) SILVERHEELS ARISTOCRAT, by JOHN ALLISON HAINING Poem Text First Line: Not of the herds that were drifting, aimlessly over the range Last Line: He was born free, among horses, proud aristocrat in his right. Subject(s): Animals; Horses SING, SING, WHAT SHALL I SING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Cats SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 51, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hopping frog, hop here and be seen Last Line: You won't hurt me, and I won't hurt you. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Frog And Toad Subject(s): Animals; Frogs SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 60, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pussy has a whiskered face Last Line: And has a heart to love us all. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Four Pets Subject(s): Animals; Cats SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 91, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horses of the sea Last Line: Toss and turn over. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Sea Horses SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 97, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hurt no living thing Last Line: Nor harmless worms that creep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Environment; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SINGING AND BARKING, by NINA CASSIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sleeps in my bed like an enormous lizard, he says Last Line: Take my word for it Subject(s): Animals; Beds; Dogs; Singing And Singers SINGING CAT, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a little captive cat Last Line: In the love his beauty bringeth Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Animals; Cats SINGULAR INJUSTICE, by JANET LLOYD Poem Source First Line: I find it most peculiar that Last Line: Each time the bachelor walks his dog Subject(s): Animals; Cats SIOUX SONGS: A FLYING HORSE (THE SPOTTED HORSE), by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: Friend like a flying bird is my horse Last Line: Like a thunderbird streaked with the lightning he flies! Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SIOUX SONGS: SIYAKA TO HIS HORSE, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: We are in danger, the crows are surrounding us! Last Line: Here is a horse that has aided a man! Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SIR BAT-EARS WAS A DOG OF BIRTH, by HELEN PARRY EDEN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals SIR WALTER'S FRIEND, by ZITELLA COCKE Poem Source First Line: Your invitation, sir, to dine %with you ...' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SIREN, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Sunday in the plaza, the fair Last Line: The true tragedy, that they are inconceivable Subject(s): Animals SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES 8TH GRADE: EVERY DAY ANOTHER SNAKE, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And god gave adam hands, fingers Last Line: God's forced to make another snake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SISTER MARY APPASSIONATE LECTURES ZOOLOGY CLASS: DOCTRINES OF BEAST, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Go to the ant, thou sluggard. Ants can't sleep Last Line: Blooming above each field, life's bright sweet love Subject(s): Animals SIX FEET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My little rough dog and I Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SKATES, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: The skinny skates are flat as plates Last Line: Then skate along to find some more Subject(s): Marine Animals SKIMBLESHANKS: THE RAILWAY CAT, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a whisper down the line at 11:39 Last Line: You'll meet without fail on the midnight mail %the cat of the railway train Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats SKIN, by ANN SPIERS Poem Source First Line: Through a plastic tube Last Line: Only then are we sorry we came Subject(s): Animals; Growth; Skin; Snakes SKUNK, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Skunk's footfall plods padded Last Line: Her blackest, whitest rose Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Animals SKY-LARK CAGED, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beat, little breast, against the wires Subject(s): Animals SLAUGHTER OF A LOVESICK SPECIES, by MIRIAM A. COHEN Poem Source First Line: A fur seal would really Last Line: But do skin hunters %permit life %over greed? Subject(s): Hunting; Seals (animals) SLEEPING IN THE LIGHT, by MARK GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: Summer nights in the street under the arc light Last Line: Milk-toast or drink whiskey anymore Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Light; Night SLEWED!, by HENRY (HARRY) HARBORD MORANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was threatening to rain as the red sun sank down Last Line: Like paddy, my mate, in the dark get astray. Alternate Author Name(s): Breaker, The; Lumpkin, Tony Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Animals; Drinks & Drinking; Horses; Travel; Wine; Journeys; Trips SLOTH, by MICHAEL BALDWIN Poem Source First Line: In moving slow he has no peer Last Line: And you just know he knows he knows Subject(s): Animals SMALL BROWN BEAR, by MICHAEL BALDWIN Poem Source Last Line: Till his teeth ache Subject(s): Animals SMALL DEFEATS: BURYING A DOG, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: See how, in death, it seems to grin Last Line: Fears are not banished by a grin Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs SMALL ELEGY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a bird pasted to muck Last Line: We leave him guessing our first laws Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals SMALL, SMALLER, by RUSSELL HOBAN Poem Source First Line: I thought that I knew all there was to know Last Line: And jump again and fall, the hole too deep, the walls too tall Subject(s): Animals SMOKING FROG, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three men I saw beside a bar Last Line: The gods must have their laughter. Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Smoking SNAIL, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snail upon the wall Last Line: It's all I've got. Subject(s): Animals; Snails SNAIL, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The snail is skilled at going slow Last Line: It curls itself inside it Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals SNAIL, by JAMES REEVES Poem Source First Line: At sunset, when the night-dews fall Last Line: She travels on as best she can %like a toppling caravan Subject(s): Animals; Snails SNAILS, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: In early autumn %when the brief age of snails Last Line: Where death has his hut Subject(s): Animals; Snails SNAKE, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, the reptilian Last Line: Do not fear me Subject(s): Animals SNAKE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A snake came to my water-trough Last Line: A pettiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SNAKE, by SVETLANA MAKAROVIC Poem Source First Line: Like a noble fire, %poison flares in it Last Line: The grater of summer would %never consume it to the end Subject(s): Animals; Poisons And Poisoning; Reptiles; Snakes SNAKE, by JOHN RUSSELL MCCARTHY Poem Text First Line: Poor unpardonable length Last Line: And went on creating. Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SNAKE, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Close by the creepered wall Last Line: Of the garden, sulking rows that say %the snake is named disorder Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D. Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SNAKE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And here is the serpent again Variant Title(s): Spring Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SNAKE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And here is the serpent again Last Line: I follow the snake down to the pond, %thick and musky he is %as circular as hope Variant Title(s): Sprin Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SNAKE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't ever make Last Line: Might be awake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SNAKE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a young snake glide Last Line: And I may be, some time Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SNAKE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Made of old rags of tongues Last Line: And allow all our body hair to turn green with envy Subject(s): Animals; God; Religion; Snakes SNAKE GAME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Henry looked like a shoeclerk but was a spellbinder Last Line: Had to take her to the hospital emergency room Subject(s): Animals; Miller, Henry (1891-1980); Pentastichs; Snakes SNAKE IN AUTUMN, by JEFFERY BEAM Poem Source First Line: I could have stood there Last Line: Coiling and un- %coiling Subject(s): Animals; Autumn; Seasons; Snakes SNAKE OF A MAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Somebody poisoned my dog today Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SNAKE ON THE ETOWAH, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kicking through woods and fields, I'd spooked several Last Line: The surface, sidling against the current. Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SNAKE SONG, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Toad gots measles Last Line: Pay no mind %these creepy items %close my eyes I %bite 'ems,bite 'ems Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SNAKE SONG, by JOHN S. MBITI Poem Source First Line: Neither legs nor arms have I Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SNAKE STORY, by HENRY JOHNSTONE Poem Source First Line: There was a little serpent and he wouldn't go Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SNAKE WOMAN, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was once the snake woman Last Line: Now I'd consider the snake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SNAKE WOMAN, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was once the snake woman Last Line: Now, I don't know. %now I'd consider the snake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SNAKE-BITE, by CATHERINE FISHER Poem Source First Line: Today is the day she will shed her skin Last Line: The grasses whisper. And look, %her eyes are open Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SNAKEBITE, by MORRIS CREECH Poem Source First Line: For a moment, hunched in his body's glistening fever Last Line: Of the terrible acts by which love is painstakingly known Subject(s): Animals; Grandparents; Snakes SNAKES, by ATTIPAT KRISHNASWAMI RAMANUJAN Poem Source First Line: No, it does not happen Last Line: And I can walk through the woods Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SNAKES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Knowing nothing about snakes, I fear them all Last Line: Can easily overwhelm us. %costa rica Subject(s): Animals; Danger; Death; Poisons And Poisoning; Reptiles; Snakes SNAKES, MONGOOSES, SNAKE-CHARMERS, AND THE LIKE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a friend who would give a price for those long fingers all Last Line: Distaste which takes no credit to itself is best. Subject(s): Animals SO BUSY, by JOANNE RYDER Poem Source Last Line: She will %always call %home Subject(s): Animals SO TERMITE WOULD CHEW ON A RICKETY HOUSE, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source Last Line: It's more than enough for me' Subject(s): Animals SO WHAT'S WRONG?, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here it is, a green world, / and all of these millions Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Life SO WHAT'S WRONG?, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here it is, a green world, %and all of these millions Last Line: The strange reflected light %of a dead moon Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Life SO YOU PUT THE DOG TO SLEEP, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You love your dog and carve his steaks Last Line: So you put the dog to sleep. Bad dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SOCKEYE SALMON, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Salmon hatch strong, perceiving pain Last Line: Bodies turned into wheels Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals SOCRATES, A MINIATURE SCHNAUZER, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: My wisdom is known far and wide Last Line: The defendant was reduced to uncontrollable tears, %when I sent him to prison for many years Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SOFT WEAR $299., by JOAN PAYNE KINCAID Poem Source First Line: Today at the pet store Last Line: Possibly hoping it was a flower Subject(s): Animals SOLDIER'S DOG, by ETHEL BARNETT DE VITO Poem Source First Line: Oftener than he'd like it known Alternate Author Name(s): De Vito, E. B. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SOLITUDE, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As we drove one day through the lignum swamp Last Line: Is the old grey solitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Horse Racing; Horses SOME BEASTS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was twilight of the iguana Last Line: Covered with ceremonies of mud, %devouring, religious Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Animals SOME DOGS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Some dogs guard Last Line: He's sure some pet Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs SOME NIGHTS THE DARK HILL, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: When, walking in the park at twilight Last Line: Walks at evening with his three black dogs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Night SOMETHING LIKE HAPPINESS, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night joan sutherland was nuancing Last Line: Imagine! The journey, the delicacy of the arrival Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SOMETHING SORTO' HEALING, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: One time when I sat talking to a friend Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SONG, by THOMAS HOLCROFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When o'er the wold the heedless lamb Last Line: And bounds with pleasure when they meet! Subject(s): Animals; Lambs SONG (1), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me in any shape Last Line: Come, my own! Subject(s): Animals; Death; Love; Snakes; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers SONG CALLED HIS HIDE IS COVERED WITH HAIR, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dog is a faithful, intelligent friend Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Variant Title(s): East And Wes Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hair SONG OF FAIRLY UTTER DESPAIR (2), by SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: For sheer urbanity, I deem Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Despair SONG OF HIAWATHA, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should you ask me, whence these stories? Last Line: To the land of the hereafter Subject(s): Animals; Canoes And Canoeing; Native Americans; Religion SONG OF MYSELF, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I celebrate myself, and sing myself Last Line: I stop somewhere waiting for you. Variant Title(s): Walt Whitman Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Valor; Bravery; Theology; Ocean SONG OF SOLOMON JONES, by ROBERT LEOPOLD WOLF Poem Text First Line: My love is like a milk-white mare Last Line: Where I was, here I am. Subject(s): Animals; Fish & Fishing; Horses; Love SONG OF THE BALLOON LADY, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Wayfarers in worlds apart Last Line: In spirit, how alike we are Subject(s): Animals; Cats SONG OF THE BLACK DOG, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When my black dog sings Last Line: In the south woods almost rise %in alarm to bound away Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SONG OF THE CAT, by TRISTAN LECLERE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cat, cat, cat, %cat black, or white, or grey Last Line: A white, or black, or grey house-cat Alternate Author Name(s): Klingsor, Tristan Subject(s): Animals; Cats SONG OF THE HORSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How joyous his neigh! Last Line: How joyous his neigh! Subject(s): Animals;horses;native Americans; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America SONG OF THE JELLICLES, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jellicle cats come out tonight Last Line: They are resting and saving themselves to be right %for the jellicle moon and the jellicle ball Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Imagination SONG OF THE MISCHIEVOUS DOG, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are many who say that a dog has his day Last Line: And if I indulge in a bite at a bulge, %let's hope you won't think me too vicious Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SONG OF THE NIGHT, by JOYCE SIDMAN Poem Source First Line: I am ancient, %two-toed Last Line: I am...Me. %I am yours Subject(s): Animals; Fathers SONG OF THE NORTH, by FRANK ASCH Poem Source First Line: Salmon knows how to spawn in northern lakes Last Line: Who hears the song she sings? Subject(s): Animals; Arctic SONG OF THE RABBITS OUTSIDE THE TAVERN, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We who play under the pines Last Line: Under a winter's moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares SONG OF THE RIDER, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Cordoba Last Line: Distant and alone Subject(s): Animals; Black (color); Horseback Riding; Travel SONG OF THE SERPENT-CHARMERS, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come forth, oh snake! Come forth, oh, glittering snake Last Line: It costs thee dear! Subject(s): Animals; India; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SONG OF THE SILVER FISH, by MARGARET WISE BROWN Poem Source First Line: Little fishes in the sea Subject(s): Animals SONG OF THE SNAKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o, snake! Stay, stay, o snake! That my sister" Last Line: "o, snake! Stay, stay, o snake!" Subject(s): Animals;snakes; Serpents;vipers SONG OF THE TROUT-FISHER, by IKINLIK Poem Source First Line: Oft do I return Subject(s): Animals SONG OF VELOCIPEDING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Queer sights we every day do find Last Line: And bruise your latter end Subject(s): Animals;horses;singing & Singers SONG-THRUSH, by JUDITH NICHOLLS Poem Source First Line: Slug-slayer, snail-snatcher Last Line: Beats out her dizzy solo %on execution block Subject(s): Animals SONG: 110, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must go walk the woods so wild Last Line: And all for your love, my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Forests; Life; Love; Nature; Trust; Woods SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; CHILD AND BOATMAN, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Martin, I wonder who makes all the songs Last Line: Not I.' Subject(s): Animals; Children; Singing & Singers; Voices; Childhood; Songs SONNET, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: There have been many cats I loved and lost Subject(s): Animals; Cats SONNET, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the bat circles on the breeze of eve Last Line: Dimming her lonely visions of despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Despair SONNET, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took the dappled partridge flecked with blood Last Line: To make my love an immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Love - Nature Of; Partridge; Rabbits; Hares SONNET FOR MY DOG, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: In distant lands the statesmen scheme and plot Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SONNET OF INTIMACY, by VINICIUS DE MORAES Poem Source First Line: Farm afternoons, there's too much blue air Last Line: All of us, animals, unemotionally %partake together of a pleasant piss Subject(s): Animals SONNET TO A CAT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beware, my friend, of fiends and their grimaces Subject(s): Animals; Cats SONNET TO AN OLD MOUSER, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child of lubricious art! Of sanguine sport! Last Line: To sport with sorrow first, and then destroy. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Della Cruscanism (poetic Style) SONNET TO MRS. REYNOLD'S CAT, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cat! Who hast pass'd thy grand climacteric Last Line: In youth thou enter'dst on glass bottled wall. Variant Title(s): To A Cat;on Mrs. Reynold's Cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats SONNET TO TARTAR, A TERRIER BEAUTY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snowdrop of dogs, with ear of brownest dye Last Line: Solicitudes canine, four-footed amities. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SONNET TO THE KYNGE, by THEODORE AGRIPPA D' AUBIGNE Poem Text First Line: Sire, your dogge lemon, once your bed-fellowe Last Line: On your devotion waits a like rewarde. Subject(s): Animals; Courts & Courtiers; Dogs; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SONNETS FROM ONE STATE WEST: 2. SUNBATHING, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbor's new store-bought dog yaps again Last Line: All burning down to ash and grime %quickly enough on their own sweet time Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 4, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh this beast is the one that never was Last Line: And was, inside the mirror and in her Variant Title(s): Unicorn; This Is The Creatur Subject(s): Animals; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Unicorns SONORAN PRONGHORN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Native of an ancient family, the one Last Line: Of the decimated carousel Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals SOPHIE, WHO TAUNTED THE DOGS, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: Sophie the cat %took peculiar delight Last Line: Ankles, lapping in soft gray %waves against my legs Subject(s): Animals; Cats SOULS IN THE BALANCE: 5. THE DOGS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My desires are upon me like dogs, I beat them back Last Line: And my soul be these dogs' meat. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Soul SOUND IN SILENCE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Walking when all the ways seemed wondrous still Last Line: With many musics, for my solacement. Subject(s): Animals; Faces; Music & Musicians; Silence; Sound SOUVENIRS, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: My table shows the tracks of tiny feet Subject(s): Animals; Cats SPADE-FOOT TOAD, by EVE GANSON Poem Source First Line: The spade-foot toad lives underground Last Line: And no rain came, that toad would croak! Subject(s): Animals; Toads SPAN OF LIFE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old dog barks backward without getting up Last Line: I remember when he was a pup Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SPARKLING BRANDY, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Brandy tumbled, rolled, and jumped on me Last Line: But I surrendered to his eager display of love, %'come brandy, up again!' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SPARROW, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: In our quiet garden, it alights Last Line: Preferring its liberty to our maze Subject(s): Animals SPARROW, by KAYE STARBIRD Poem Source First Line: A hummingbird hums Last Line: A sparrow just hangs around Subject(s): Animals SPARROW, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: Nothing is less Last Line: Os as good a bird %as anyone needs Subject(s): Animals SPARROW HAWK, by RUSSELL HOBAN Poem Source First Line: Wings like pistols flashing at his sides Last Line: Holds fast the small purse of his life, and hides Subject(s): Animals SPARROW HAWK, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wings like pistols flashing at his sides Last Line: Holds fast the small purse of his life, and hides Subject(s): Animals SPEAKING TOURS, by GORDON HICKEY Poem Source First Line: Kong, at his kitchen table, peers around himself and sees linoleum Last Line: King kong wants to go back home. Wants it all to go away Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Jungles; King Kong SPECKLE-BLACK TOAD AND FRECKLE-GREEN FROG, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Toads SPECTATORS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We watched the monkeys in the cage Last Line: They turned and gravely laughed at us. Subject(s): Animals; April; Cages; Monkeys; Zoos SPELL, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: It is the eyes Last Line: I give him a treat - %again Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SPHINX, by DEBORAH CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: As the sun %is going down Last Line: Ground out like powered rock Subject(s): Mythical Animals SPHINX-MOTH AND DADDY LONGLEGS, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening when dark is settling down Last Line: Man, the seeker, seeks himself Subject(s): Animals; Flowers; Forests; Hummingbirds; Insects; Moths SPIDER, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spider, sly and talented Last Line: To whom she'll not apologize Subject(s): Animals SPIDER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a huge spider, which can no longer move Last Line: And what a strange pain that traveler has given me Subject(s): Animals; Men SPIDER DOESN'T FLY, by MICHAEL ROSEN Poem Source Last Line: Spinning through the blue Subject(s): Animals SPIDER HANGS TOO FAR FROM THE GROUND, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source Last Line: Before they bury me Subject(s): Animals; Insects; Spiders SPILL OF MOON, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source Last Line: On the bedroom floor - %silver retriever Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SPLINTER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The voice of the last cricket Subject(s): Animals SPLINTER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The voice of the last cricket Last Line: It is so thin a splinter of singing Subject(s): Animals SPORT FOR GODS, by JEWELL BOTHWELL TULL Poem Source First Line: I like to sit and watch my cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats SPOTTED LEOPARD, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: You fix your tired gaze over our heads Last Line: Almost remember who you are Subject(s): Animals; Leopards SPRING, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A little mountain spring I found Last Line: Belonged by rights to him Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Springs (water) SPRING IS A CAT, by JANG-HI LEE Poem Source First Line: On a cat's fur soft as pollen Last Line: The green spring's life dances Subject(s): Animals; Cats SPRING IS A CAT, by YI CHANGHUI Poem Source First Line: The cat's coat, soft as pollen Last Line: On the sharp whiskers of the cat %leaps the sparkling life of green spring Subject(s): Animals; Cats SPRINGER SPANIEL NAMED FRECKLES, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: A springer spaniel with large brown eyes beckoned me Last Line: But found no treasure %to equal the canine treat I had Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SPUN GOLD FOX, by PATRICIA HUBBELL Poem Source First Line: Sing in the silver fog of night Last Line: Bay me the run of the spun gold fox Subject(s): Animals SQUIRREL, by FELICE HOLMAN Poem Source First Line: Scolding Last Line: And forgetting Subject(s): Animals SSSSSSSS, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Keep in shape %use to run in the woods Last Line: He is the subject that %stole urbi's jelly beans Subject(s): Animals; Evil; Fear; Snakes ST. ANTHONY AND HIS PIG; A CANTATA, by FREDERICK FORREST Poem Text First Line: Let clownish cymon, in fond rustic strains Last Line: But best of all I love my pig. Subject(s): Animals; Pigs; Boars; Hogs STACCATO, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not even birds fear me Last Line: For removing my growths. Subject(s): Animals; Critics & Criticism STALKING, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: A tremble of grass Last Line: And the crunching of bones %after Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs STALLION, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Walking the dry winter woods Last Line: I felt a wonderful violence Subject(s): Animals; Horses STARFISH, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Although it seems %that I'm all arms Last Line: I'm still a star - %I can't complain Subject(s): Marine Animals STARLINGS, by LYDIA PENDER Poem Source First Line: Like crumbs from someone's shaken tablecloth Last Line: A cloud of birds, into the cloudless sky Subject(s): Animals; Starlings STARS, by OKTAY RIFAT Poem Source First Line: Near the book a notebook Last Line: And far away the stars Subject(s): Animals; Cats STATE OF THE UNION: 9. PHAEMON'S DOG, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A race at one time across country Last Line: With so much meat in their mouths Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Dogs STATUE OF A DOG, by MACEDONIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This hound (no chase too stern for such a creature) Last Line: He's barking, I'll be bound, -- good dog, go home!' Alternate Author Name(s): Macedonius Of Thessalonica; Macedonius Consul Subject(s): Animals; Dogs STILL LIFE IN A HANGAR WITH A LION AND A WOMAN, by STEVE LANGAN Poem Source First Line: Lion's in its cage resting Last Line: On their faces, %on their luxurious cheeks Subject(s): Animals; Lions STILL UNDAUNTED, by GEORGE B. RYAN Poem Source First Line: I grieved to learn 'twas just a myth Subject(s): Animals; Cats STILLBIRTH, by VIVIENNE JOSEPH Poem Source First Line: That time (in ignorance) I held the pig Last Line: Watching a dying animal %& the man who stood over it %smiling, wiping his knife Subject(s): Death - Animals STOCK IN THE TIE-UP, by HOLMAN F. DAY Poem Source First Line: I'm workin' this week in the wood-lot; a hearty old job Subject(s): Animals STOLEN, by ANEGLA REGAS Poem Source First Line: It was the horses that did it. I never seen em Last Line: It was that first, wild breath -- Subject(s): Animals; Horses STONE SAYS THAT IT COVERS HERE THE WHITE DOG., by TYMNES Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of night contain that creature's barking voice Alternate Author Name(s): Carian Subject(s): Animals; Dogs STOPPED TO STUDY THE COWS, I FIND, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Go beyond the gold fur of the tail Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals STORM, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Outside, the night %is drowning Last Line: Leaps %into my lap Subject(s): Animals; Dogs STORY FROM EASTER: HE HAS RISEN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a mouse under the sink Last Line: Buries mouse next day Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Easter; Grief; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Loss; Resurrection, The STORY IN THE SNOW, by PEARL RIGGS CROUCH Poem Source First Line: This morning, as I walked to school Last Line: And there within a grassy clump %shone bunny's twinkling eye! Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits STORY OF MONGREL GREY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the story the stockman told Last Line: The purchase money of mongrel grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Dogs; Forests; Moon; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods STRATEGY, by VIRGINIA WOODS MACKALL Poem Text First Line: When my poor pussy died, I took Last Line: And let her in to heaven for me. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death - Animals STRAY CAT, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's just an old alley cat Last Line: Beauty, come in Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Animals; Cities STRAY DOG BY THE SUMMERHOUSE, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning, down Last Line: And it was sweet Subject(s): Animals; Dogs STRAY HORSES, by ANN E. MICHAEL Poem Source First Line: The black and the brown Last Line: And appear so sharp in this cold light Subject(s): Animals; Horses STRIPPERS, by DICK KING-SMITH Poem Source First Line: If you fall into a river that's full of piranha Last Line: In forty-five seconds you're nothing but bones Subject(s): Animals STUPIDITY STREET, by RALPH HODGSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw with open eyes Subject(s): Animals; Freedom; Liberty STUPIDITY STREET, by RALPH HODGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw with open eyes Last Line: Nothing for sale in %stupidity street Subject(s): Animals; Freedom SUBMARINE BADINAGE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a little oyster and he met a Last Line: Is because I can't supply them with another word to say! Subject(s): Marine Animals; Submarines; Submarine Warfare; U-boats SUBSIDY, by WILLIAM M. BRONK Poem Source First Line: Well, I don't know: that crazy dog Last Line: Is elsewhere. Welcome morning. Give me joy Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SUBURBAN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday mrs. Friar phoned. 'mr ciardi Last Line: When even these suburbs will give up their dead Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Suburbs SUBURBAN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday mrs. Friar phoned. 'mr ciardi Last Line: When even these suburbs shall give up their dead Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Suburbs SUCH AN ASS, by ANA CASTILLO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I'm such an ass %ugly ass Last Line: For having been born such %an ass, an ass Subject(s): Animals; Asses And Mules SUCH MASHING AND SMASHING, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As the musicians play Subject(s): Desert Animals SUCH SIMPLE LOVE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All night long I hear the sleepers toss Last Line: No one is warm Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Love; Sleep SUMMER, by PATRICIA HUBBELL Poem Source First Line: Wait! Last Line: The summer night crawls by Subject(s): Animals SUMMER CAT, by ELLA AUGUSTA FANNING Poem Source First Line: Something is happening - that he seems to sense Subject(s): Animals; Cats SUMMER DAWN, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some summer mornings - when you've taken tea Last Line: Has opened. Let the bards of old go rest. Subject(s): Animals; Morning; Night; Poetry & Poets; Summer; Bedtime SUMMER EVENING, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sandy cat by the farmer's chair Last Line: Gone is another summer's day. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Animals SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE ALLIGATOR GRILL, by INGRID PROESCHER Poem Source First Line: This afternoon we watched the black flock Last Line: Hanging on by the tips of their toes Subject(s): Animals; Bats SUNLIGHT, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sunlight, a colt from the ranges, glossy Subject(s): Animals; Horses SUNNING, by JAMES STERLING TIPPETT Poem Source First Line: Old dog lay in the summer sun Last Line: Much too lazy to rise and run Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SUNSET WINGS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-night this sunset spreads two golden wings Last Line: As will not fly away? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Animals SURRENDER, by EVELYN HICKMAN Poem Source First Line: Let others praise the cat Last Line: Which is a bit more cheerful - %now, that I have cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats SURVIVAL, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the church of giraffes Subject(s): Love; Death - Animals SUSIE, KIKI, ANNIE: 2, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The situation is an image of her gathering a toy horse from Last Line: The horse takes a small jump in the air, and her head and shoulders arch back Subject(s): Animals; Girls; Horses; Toys SUSIE, KIKI, ANNIE: 2, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The situation is an image of her gathering a toy horse from Last Line: The horse takes a small jump in the air, and her head and %shoulders arch back Subject(s): Animals; Girls; Horses; Toys SUSQUEHANNA COUNTRY, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those many dark nights in our wedding house Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SUSQUEHANNA COUNTRY, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those many dark nights in our wedding house Last Line: I thought I could not %run out of them Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SWAN, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: Nothing more serene that the fluid neck Last Line: And terror swirls the surface of the lake Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Swans; Wings SWAN, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Voraciously the swan Last Line: Coldly as a snake about the bay of dreams Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Swans SWAN SONG, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bunch of old snakeheads down by the pond Last Line: Bolts of wisdom from their foreheads Subject(s): Animals SWAN SONG, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bunch of old snakeheads down by the pond Subject(s): Animals SWANS IN THE NIGHT, by JOAN MELLINGS Poem Source First Line: Three swans Last Line: From the dark lagoon Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Swans SWEEP, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Auld sweep, your muzzle's grey Last Line: Sweep, the noo! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs SWIMMER, by DOROTHY ALDIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wading out of streams and lakes Last Line: On shore he plants his feet and shakes Subject(s): Animals SYCAMORE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pecooliarity of his bark Last Line: "he never'll sic 'em more." Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Plane Trees; Dead, The; Sycamores SYMPATHETIC, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I start out to walk, our dog he seems to know Last Line: He leaves me sittin' somewheres and a-feelin' just that way! Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Sympathy; Childhood; Empathy SYMPHONY NO. 3, IN D MINOR, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Nature; Writering & Writers; Animals; Words; Vocabulary TABITHA SOLILOQUIZES, by MINNIE LEONA UPTON Poem Source First Line: I see they're packing up once more Subject(s): Animals; Cats TAFFY, by MARY KINZIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were tired of the easter chicks Last Line: Usn to remember, once forget Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TAIL OF A FOX WILL SHOW NO MATTER HOW HARD HE TRIES TO HIDE IT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals TAKE HER, BREAK HER, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah tell me why you turn and fly Last Line: To mount the car and manage thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Animals; Horses TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AS WALT MASON WOULD DO IT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh listen to this obese bard whose muscles are composed of lard Last Line: Was an awful cat, you take it from a bard who's fat! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Mason, Walt (1862-1939) TALE OF A DOG, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Curse on all curs!' I heard a cynic cry Last Line: E'en from a dog to learn a christian virtue! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE SECOND DAY: THE BELL OF ATRI, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At atri in abruzzo, a small town Last Line: "the bell of atri famous for all time." Subject(s): Animals TALK TO THE ANIMALS, by ALLAN PETERSON Poem Source First Line: A clever horse adds on the earth %by pawing Last Line: How in alsace a beekeeper's death is announced %among the hives Subject(s): Animals; Horses TALKING TO THE MOON, by JOHN KOOISTRA Poem Source First Line: Out with the dog Last Line: And all that space %that couldn't care less Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Moon; Walking TALLYHO-HUM, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you ever gone visiting for a weekend of revelry Last Line: Much as you do about streptocucci Subject(s): Animals; Horses TAME HARE, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She came to him in dreams - her ears Last Line: Was sweetened by a lunch of docks and lettuce Variant Title(s): Copwer's Tame Har Subject(s): Animals; Cowper, William (1731-1800); Poetry And Poets; Rabbits TANGO, A POODLE DOG, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: He glided smoothly down the street Last Line: That matched his mistress' jacket, %the ginger rogers and fred astaire %of 1983 Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TARANTULAS ON THE LIFEBUOY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: For some semitropical reason Subject(s): Tarantulas; Death - Animals TAT FOR TIT, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shrill, glass-clear notes - titmouse! I sighed, enchanted Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Animals TAXIDERMIST'S DAUGHTER, by GRANT CLAUSER Poem Source First Line: The workshop smells of chemicals Last Line: My father's hands alive in animal dreams %all spinning surly to the sea Subject(s): Animals TEACHING THE APE TO WRITE POEMS, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They didn't have much trouble Last Line: You look like a god sitting there. %why don't you try writing something?' Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Poetry And Poets TEAL'S WING, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About the tide line above the dead Last Line: Still beautiful still poised %still light as feathers Subject(s): Animals; Death; Seashore TEAMS, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud of dust on the long, white road Subject(s): Animals; Oxen TEH LOVER, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is enough left, he says Last Line: Come in cold and content from his quest. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Love Affairs; Men TELEPATHIC CARNIVORE, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fleece of its ubiquitous mineral body Last Line: In a transcendental verbal swagger Subject(s): Animals; Lions TEN BILLION CROWS, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ten billion crows with cracking bills Last Line: I hope they crash and break their beaks Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Animals TEN BROECK, by JAMES TANDY ELLIS Poem Source First Line: Ole man harper's gone to rest Subject(s): Animals; Horses TEN LITTLE MICE SAT DOWN TO SPIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Cats TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: COMING HOME ON THE OX'S BACK, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mount the ox Last Line: The man claims ox. %I claim the man Subject(s): Animals; Oxen; Travel TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: END OF MEDITATION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is Last Line: Ox is %what Subject(s): Animals; Oxen TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: ENTERING THE CITY WITH BLISS-BESTOWING HANDS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have come to the gates Last Line: They tremble as they rise Subject(s): Animals; Cities; Oxen; Urban Life TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: ENTERING THE CITY WITH BLISS-BESTOWING HANDS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have come to the gates Last Line: They tremble as they rise Subject(s): Animals; Cities; Oxen TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: HERDING THE OX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hands refuse to gather Last Line: Is not ox Subject(s): Animals; Oxen TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: HERDING THE OX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hands refuse to gather Last Line: What can be herded %is no ox.' Subject(s): Animals; Oxen TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: SEARCHING FOR THE OX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have waited my lifetime for this Last Line: It is the summons from the ox Subject(s): Animals; Oxen; Photography & Photographers TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: SEARCHING FOR THE OX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have waited my lifetime for this Last Line: It is the summons from the ox Subject(s): Animals; Oxen; Photography And Photographers TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: SEEING THE OX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the flesh Last Line: We are coming to the ox Subject(s): Animals; Oxen TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: SEEING THE OX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the flesh Last Line: We are coming to the ox Subject(s): Animals; Oxen TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: THE OX AND THE MAN BOTH GONE OUT OF SIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man is not ox Last Line: All things are ox Subject(s): Animals; Life; Mankind; Oxen; Human Race TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: THE OX AND THE MAN BOTH GONE OUT OF SIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man is not ox Last Line: All things are ox Subject(s): Animals; Life; Mankind; Oxen TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: THE OX FORGOTTEN, LEAVING THE MAN ALONE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been arriving Last Line: Dearly beloved, %where is ox? Subject(s): Animals; Memory; Oxen TEN SONGS: 5, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The single creature leads a partial life Last Line: In all his walks I follow at his side, %his faithful servant and his loving shade Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): The Single Creature; Cats And Dog Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 1. A DOG SEPARATED FROM ITS MASTER, by XUE TAO Poem Source First Line: Behind crimson gates for four or five years Last Line: Upon the red silk rug Subject(s): Absence; Animals; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Dogs TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 3. A HORSE SEPARATED FROM THE STABLE, by XUE TAO Poem Source First Line: Ears like snow, a russet coat Last Line: Drawing the splendid coach Subject(s): Absence; Animals; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Horses TENDERNESS KILLED THE CAT, by JAN FREEMAN Poem Source First Line: It started with an old train Last Line: Innocence %the cat was dead Subject(s): Death - Animals TENT CIRCUS, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: The cop clown is out back sitting on a hitch, nursing his sciatica while Last Line: The final orphans Subject(s): Animals; Circus; Clowns; Elephants; Entertainers TERMITE WOULD, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source Last Line: That tasted good Subject(s): Animals TETRA, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: The itty-bitty, pretty tetra Last Line: Is small, minute, petite, et cetra Subject(s): Marine Animals TEWKESBURY ROAD, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is good to be out on the road, and going one knows not where Last Line: At the noise of the lambs at play and the dear wild cry of the birds. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Animals; Wandering & Wanderers TEXAS BLIND SALAMANDER, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: At birth she could see light bend Last Line: As if there were someplace else to go Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals THANKS, by MARTY HALE Poem Source First Line: I met them on the trail today Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THAT CAT, by ROBIN FRANCIS BLASER Poem Source Last Line: Disconsolate on both sides-musically noted, I suppose Subject(s): Animals; Cats THAT CAT, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cat that comes to my window sill Last Line: That cat gits out. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Animals; Cats THAT LITTLE DOG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THAT NINE-BANDED ARMADILLO, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: (dasypus novemcinctus) Last Line: Or intellectual envoi Subject(s): Animals; Armadillos; Nature THAT ROAN CAYUSE, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Colt she was when I spied her, stray on Subject(s): Animals; Horses THAW, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Animals; Spring THAW, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed Last Line: What we below could not see, winter pass Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Animals; Spring THE ADVENTURE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day I killed a tiger near my shack Last Line: With clotted blood. Subject(s): Animals; Tigers; World War I; First World War THE AMATEUR RIDER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Him going to ride for us! Him - with the pants and the Last Line: Said. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Racing; Dead, The THE AMULET, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Blackbirds are scribbling in the winter heat of the trees Last Line: If I did. Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Moon; Night; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime THE ANIMAL, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shaking the head from Subject(s): Animals; Human Beings THE ANIMALS, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At night, alone, the animals came and shone. Last Line: Flying with green in her beak; the dove also had come Subject(s): Relationships; Animals THE ANIMALS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I see a suckling pig turn Subject(s): Animals THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Animals; Animals THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that country the animals Subject(s): Animals THE APE AND THE FOX, ON THE FRUITS OF GREEDINESS AND CREDULITY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old esop so famous was certainly right Last Line: That your majesty's grace did not understand trap. Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Cruelty; Fables; Men; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Allegories THE APOCRYPHA OF JACQUES DERRIDA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ruptured underbelly of a black horse flew overhead Last Line: Moving over snow. Subject(s): Animals; Derrida, Jacques (1930-2001); Horses; Loss; Napoleon I (1769-1821) THE ARAB TO HIS FAVORITE STEED, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My beautiful! My beautiful! That standest meekly by Last Line: Away! Who overtakes us now shall claim thee for his pains! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Variant Title(s): The Arab's Farewell To His Horse;the Arab's Farewell To His Steed Subject(s): Animals; Arabs; Horses THE ARABIAN HORSE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: You ask, 'whence came the arab horse Last Line: To the sultan's royal stall. Subject(s): Animals; Arabia; Horses; Islam; Muslims; Moslems THE ARMADILLO, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ancient armadillo Subject(s): Animals; Armadillos THE ARMADILLO; FOR ROBERT LOWELL, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the time of year Subject(s): Animals; Armadillos; Birds; Brazil; Owls; Brazilians THE AULD FARMER'S NEW YEAR MORNING SALUTATION ... AULD MARE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A guid new year I wish thee, maggie Last Line: Wi' sma' fatigue. Subject(s): Animals; Holidays; Horses; New Year; Nature; Friendship THE AZURE FROG: 1. PRAYER TO THE GOOD FORESTER, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Good forester, upon our knees we pray you, tell us, if you please, how, Last Line: "man replied to me, ""by this, because he's never seen." Subject(s): Animals; Forests; Frogs; Prayer; Woods THE BAD CHILD'S BOOK OF BEASTS: INTRODUCTION, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I call you bad, my little child Last Line: "and as the owl discreet." Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE BAD RIDER, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a little pony / his name was dapple gray Last Line: For all the lady's hire. Variant Title(s): Dapple-grey Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE BADGER, by JOHN CLARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The badger grunting on his woodland track Subject(s): Animals; Badgers THE BALLAD OF JENNY THE MARE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I'll sing you a song, and a merry, merry song" Last Line: When the rest could hardly trot Subject(s): Animals;horses THE BALLAD OF THE LITTLE BLACK HOUND, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Who knocks at the geraldine's door tonight Last Line: The laugh of a little child. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE BAT, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the river of sorrow Last Line: As daylight is darkness to thee. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Night; Bedtime THE BAT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: His eccentricities. Subject(s): Animals; Bats THE BAT, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! Last Line: Like a tea-tray in the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Variant Title(s): The Mad Hatter's Song Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Taylor, Jane (1783-1824) THE BAT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou dread, uncanny thing Last Line: Grate not thy teeth at me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Bedtime THE BAT, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By day the bat is cousin to the mouse Subject(s): Animals; Supernatural THE BATH, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the once lovely monster, in the tide Last Line: The foamy lash of the assaulting sea. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Sea; Ocean THE BEAR, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bear puts both arms round the tree above her Last Line: When sedentary and when peripatetic Subject(s): Animals; Bears THE BEAR, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In late winter Last Line: Was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived? Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Blood; Life THE BEAR AND THE MAN, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose there were a bear and a man. The bear Last Line: Coming from far up there, near the north pole. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge THE BEAR ON THE DELHI ROAD, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unreal, tall as a myth / by the road the himalayan bear Subject(s): Animals; Bears THE BEAR STORY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: W'y, wunst they wuz a little boy Last Line: -- an' that's all. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Boy's Bear Story Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Boys; Forests; Woods THE BEAUTIFUL ANIMAL, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the time I recalled that it is also Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Animals THE BEAVER, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beaver is fat Subject(s): Animals; Beavers THE BELLS OF HEAVEN, by RALPH HODGSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twould ring the bells of heaven Last Line: And little hunted hares. Subject(s): Animals; Social Protest THE BENGAL TIGER, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bengal tiger likes to eat Subject(s): Animals; Tigers THE BIRD OF NIGHT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shadow is floating through the moonlight Subject(s): Animals THE BIRD'S NEST, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a place, in the ivy on a tree Last Line: The sound of me watching, if I had been a bird. Subject(s): Animals; Birds' Nests THE BISON TRACK, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strike the tent! The sun has risen Last Line: Howl around each grim-eyed carcass, on the bloody bison track! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Animals; Bison; Death; Horses; Dead, The THE BLACK BEAR, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the summer, fall and spring Subject(s): Animals; Bears THE BLACK SNAKE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the black snake / flashed onto the morning road Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE BLOOD HORSE, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gamarra is a dainty steed Last Line: Where balkh amidst the desert stands. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE BLUE BOWL, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Like primitives we buried the cat Last Line: But always says the wrong thing Subject(s): Death - Animals; Cats THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#67), by MARVIN BELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man, that man, consorted with canines in the turmoil Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE BOOKWORM, by CHARLES WILLIAM PEARSON Poem Text First Line: To heroes who on battlefields win fame Last Line: To be that busy idler — a book-worm. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Lions; Nature THE BOY AND THE SNAKE, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Henry was every morning fed Last Line: Then lightly tripping, ran away. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Variant Title(s): The Children And The Snake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE BRONC THAT WOULDN'T BUST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I've busted bronchos off and on Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States THE BRONCHO THAT WOULD NOT BE BROKEN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little colt-broncho, loaned to the farm Last Line: O broncho that would not be broken of dancing. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE BROWN BEAVER, by FLOSSIE DEANE CRAIG Poem Text First Line: Oh, man, I think I know just why it is you sigh Last Line: That many a brave and daring man has died for less! Subject(s): Animals; Beavers; Fur Trade; Furs THE BUCK, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've tracked you up the wind, my buck Last Line: You gallant little beast! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Deer; Fields; Hunting; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hunters THE BULLFROG, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bullfrog he isn't some beautiful bird Last Line: He could jump in the lake and get out of the wet. Subject(s): Animals; Frogs THE BULLOCKY'S LOVE EPISODE, by A. F. YORK Poem Text First Line: I sez to her - 'gee, boxer, gee' - behind the shed last night Last Line: Agree.' Subject(s): Animals; Desire; Horses THE BURIAL OF THE LINNET, by JULIANA HORATIA GATTY EWING Poem Text First Line: Found in the garden dead in his beauty Last Line: Muffle the dinner-bell, mournfully ring. Subject(s): Death - Animals; Linnets THE BURTHEN OF THE ASS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On christmas night at bethlehem Last Line: My shoulders were his throne. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Religion; Theology THE CAGED COCKATOO, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps,' the little maiden said Last Line: "where gold was hid and men were slain!" Subject(s): Animals; Children; Imagination; Childhood; Fancy THE CAGED LION, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: In prison, to and fro you pace Last Line: Puppet of a grinning fate? Subject(s): Animals; Jungles; Lions THE CAMERONIAN CAT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a cameronian cat Subject(s): Animals;cats;clergy;mice;sabbath; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;sunday THE CAPTIVE LION, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou that in fury with thy knotted tail Last Line: Unburied till an earthquake digs his grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE CAT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within that porch, across the way Last Line: I'm not so sure a body's there! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE CAT AND THE BIRD, by GEORGE CANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, tell me, gentle robin Last Line: That's flat. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Robins THE CAT AND THE MOON, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat went here and there Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dancing & Dancers; Moon THE CAT AS CAT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat on my bosom Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE CAT HEARD THE CAT-BIRD, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day, a fine day, a high-flying-sky day Last Line: I don't see any cat-bird here Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE CAT O' NINE TAILS, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old cat o' nine tails is comin' 'round agin Last Line: In. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE CAT OF CATS, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the cat of cats. I am Last Line: The everlasting cat! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry Variant Title(s): The Kitten Speaks Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE CATS' MONTH, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your frosty hands Last Line: Where deep snow lies. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE CATS' TEA-PARTY, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five little pussy-cats, invited out to tea Last Line: Then knocked the tea-cups over, and scampered through the door. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE CAVALIER'S SONG, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A steed, a steed of matchless speed! Last Line: And hero-like to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Variant Title(s): Song Of The Cavalier Subject(s): Animals; Horses; War THE CENTAURS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Playing upon the hill three centaurs were Last Line: They raced into the wood! Subject(s): Centaurs; Mythical Animals; Fictious Animals THE CHANCE TO LOVE EVERYTHING, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All summer I made friends Subject(s): Animals THE CHARIOT OF CUCHULLIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the car, light moving, I behold" Last Line: "of the wild chafer's dark-brown hues, / the color that his flanks imbues" Subject(s): "animals;horses;legends, Irish; THE CHILDREN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the first wednesday of a scarcity of candles Last Line: That evening in a coffin. Variant Title(s): Psalm 23 Subject(s): Animals; Bombs; Family Life; Horses; Sweden; World War Ii; Relatives; Second World War THE CHIPMUNK'S DAY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In and out the bushes, up the ivy Subject(s): Animals; Chipmunks THE CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sought a theme and sought for it in vain Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Memory; Past; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The THE COBRA CAPELLO, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful - yes! For her basilisk eyes Last Line: She'd crumple it, too, like the innocent fan! Subject(s): Animals; Cobras; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction; Snakes; Male-female Relations; Serpents; Vipers THE COCK AND THE FOX, OR THE TALE OF THE NUN'S PRIEST, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There lived, as authors tell, in days of yore Last Line: So take the corn, and leave the chaff behind. Variant Title(s): Fables Ancient And Modern: The Cock And The Fox Subject(s): Animals; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Fables; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Widows & Widowers; Allegories THE COLLAR-BONE OF A HARE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would I could cast a sail on the water Last Line: Through the white thin bone of a hare. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares THE COLT AND THE FARMER, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, corinna, if you can Last Line: A living death, from year to year.' Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Charm; Farm Life; Horses; Women; Agriculture; Farmers THE COLT; A FABLE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell a tale - how farmer john Last Line: I know it by your smiling. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE COLUBRIAD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close by the threshold of a door nailed fast Last Line: And taught him never to come there no more. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE COMBAT, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was not meant for human eyes Subject(s): Animals THE COMBE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The combe was ever dark, ancient and dark Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Animals; Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE CONGER EEL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters dance on the ocean crest, or swirl in Last Line: That vampire conger eel. Subject(s): Arctic; Bones; Death; Marine Animals; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE CONTRAST, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within her gilded cage confined Last Line: Or nature's darkling of this mossy shed? Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Parrots; Wrens THE COUNCIL HELD BY THE RATS (1), by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Old rodilard, a certain cat Last Line: Fell through like this precisely. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables; Allegories THE COUNTRY FAIR, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The holstein looks at us with big eyes but with no expression Subject(s): Animals; Country Fairs THE COUNTRY WALK, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning's fair, the lusty sun Last Line: And not alone and solitary stray! Variant Title(s): The Yellow Barn Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Wood; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE COYOTE, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trailing the last gleam after Last Line: Voice of the western night! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Coyotes THE CRITICS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon was up and I was young Last Line: Had washed those erring lines away. Subject(s): Animals; Critics & Criticism; Moon; New York City - Dutch Period; Night; Bedtime THE CROCODILE, FR. ALICE IN WONDERLAND, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How doth the little crocodile / improve his shining tail Last Line: With gently smiling jaws! Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Variant Title(s): "how Doth The Little Crocodile""; Subject(s): Animals; Crocodiles; Watts, Isaac (1674-1748) THE CROTALUS, by BAILEY MILLARD Poem Text First Line: A coil of browns, a whirr Last Line: Thy chastening rod? Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE CURATE THINKS YOU HAVE NO SOUL, by ST. JOHN LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The curate thinks you have no soul Last Line: May leap to lick my phantom hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucas-lucas, St. John Welles Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE CYNOTAPH, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Where shall I bury my poor dog tray Last Line: And that put him out of his pain! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE DAINTY DOG, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dainty dog had chanced to note Last Line: "invite me, pray, with you to dine!" Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE DANCING BEAR, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far over elf-land poets stretch their sway Last Line: Atlantic welter reached it from his grave. Subject(s): Animals; Bears THE DANCING BEAR; RECOMMENDED TO THE ADVOCATES OF THE SLAVE TRADE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rare music! I would rather hear cat-courtship Last Line: Hath baffled justice and humanity! Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Slavery; Serfs THE DANCING SEAL, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we were building skua light Last Line: For ever and for evermore. Subject(s): Seals (animals) THE DANGEROUS DOG, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dangerous dog in the drawing-room lay Last Line: A bumble-bee close to his head! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE DEAD CALF, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead at the pasture edge Subject(s): Death-animals THE DEAD CALF, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Snow has fallen Last Line: In the baling arms of the tractor. Subject(s): Cows; Death - Animals; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE DEAD LARK, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the slope, half-hid in grass, and right beneath the sounding wire Last Line: To the carol of his fellows and the sunshine overhead. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Larks; Railroads; Singing & Singers; Skylarks; Railways; Trains; Songs THE DEAD OX, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Smoking in the stubborn plough, the ox Last Line: Their cup: nor one care mars their honest sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Animals; Oxen; Plowing & Plowmen THE DEAD PUSSY CAT [OR KITTEN], by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: You's as stiff an' as cold as a stone Last Line: And forget all de kicks of de town Subject(s): Animal Rights;animals;cats;cold;death;grief; "animal Abuse;vivisection;dead, The;sorrow;sadness; THE DEAD SPARROW, by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not of joy; there's none Last Line: To sing dirges o'er his stone. Variant Title(s): Lesbia Upon Her Sparrow Subject(s): Death - Animals; Sparrows THE DEAD THRUSH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love of nest and mate and young Last Line: Melt in rhapsodies of rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Thrushes THE DEATH OF THE STARTLING, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pity, mourn in plaintive tone Last Line: Softly stroke the stiffened wing. Subject(s): Death - Animals; Starlings THE DINGO-CHASER, by LEX MCLENNAN Poem Text First Line: His camp was warm in the wilgas, the scent of the dew was sweet Last Line: He follows across the midnight the way that the wild dog goes. Subject(s): Animals; Cattle; Death; Dingoes; Dogs; Story-telling; Dead, The THE DISCOVERY, OR THE SQUIRE TURNED FERRET; BALLAD, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most true it is, I dare to say Last Line: He still might shew his own. Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares THE DODO, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dodo used to walk around Last Line: All in the mu-se-um. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Extinct Animals THE DOG, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dog was there, outside her door Last Line: To open them for her! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE DOG, by VICTOR MONTEJO Poem Full Text First Line: Near the military barracks Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Politics & Government THE DOG, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The truth I do not stretch or shove Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE DOG, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What was I doing with my white teeth exposed Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE DOG AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE, by PAMELA ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Husky-masked, bologna-tongued, pfoxer Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam Subject(s): Dogs; Animals; Dogs THE DOG IN THE RIVER, by GAIUS JULIUS PHAEDRUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The churl that wants another's fare Last Line: Both shade and substance, beef and bone. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Gluttony THE DOG OF ART, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That dog with daisies for eyes Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE DOG'S TURN, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They're at me all the day Last Line: I guess what's good for baby boys is good for doggies too. Subject(s): Animals; Baths & Bathing; Boys; Cleanliness; Dogs; Showers & Showering THE DOGS AT LIVE OAK BEACH, SANTA CRUZ, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: As if there could be a world Last Line: Does your smeared forehead out-top the gracious mountain? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE DOUBLE-HEADED SNAKE OF NEWBURY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far away in the twilight time Last Line: "the amphisbaena is living still!" Subject(s): Animals; Newbury, Massachusetts; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE DRAFT HORSE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a lantern that wouldn't burn Last Line: And walk the rest of the way Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE DREAM OF FEBRUARY, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the moonlight, Subject(s): Hunting; Death - Animals; Foxes THE DREAMS OF WILD HORSES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night and full moon Last Line: Moonlight weathering in the dry corn Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Horses; Prairies; Nightmares; Plains THE DROWNED SPANIEL, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day-long bluster of the storm was o'er Last Line: Betwixt the rainbow and the golden sea. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Drowning THE DUCK, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the duck Subject(s): Animals; Ducks; Mallards; Drakes THE DUSK OF HORSES, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right under their noses, the green Last Line: Quiet, fragrant, and relieved Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE EAGLE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between two mighty hills a sheer Last Line: The eagle scans his vast domain. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Eagles THE EAGLE AND THE DOVE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Intent on prey, an eagle spread Last Line: "o wisdom! Thou speakest like a dove!" Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Birds; Eagles; Hunting; Rifles; Wings; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Hunters THE EAGLE AND THE LION, by GEORGE FREDERICK Poem Text First Line: Alone on his rock nigh a hundred years Last Line: Of earth, and of sea, and of air. Subject(s): Animals; Blood; Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE EAGLE AND THE MOLE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Avoid the reeking herd Last Line: And disembodied bones. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Eagles; Misanthropy; Moles THE EMPEROR'S BIRD'S-NEST, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once the emperor charles of spain Last Line: Which the cannon-shot had shattered. Subject(s): Animals THE FAITHFUL BIRD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The greenhouse is my summer seat Last Line: To liberty without. Variant Title(s): The Faithful Friend Subject(s): Animals; Birds THE FAITHFUL DOG, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See! How he strives to rescue from the flood Last Line: Faithful to death. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE FARMER'S BOY: WINTER, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With kindred pleasures moved, and cares opprest Subject(s): Farm Life; Winter; Animals; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER, THE SPANIEL, AND THE CAT, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why knits my dear her angry brow? Last Line: And spurn'd the snarler from his side. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Cats; Dogs; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FASTIDIOUS SERPENT, by HENRY JOHNSTONE Poem Text First Line: There was a snake that dwelt in skye Last Line: His breakfast, dinner and tea, oh. Subject(s): Animals; Food & Eating; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE FATE OF THE FUR FOLK, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early, while the east is pale Subject(s): Animals THE FILBERT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, gather not that filbert, nicholas Last Line: And stoic independence of mankind. Subject(s): Animals THE FIRST FUNERAL, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole field was so smelly; / we smelt the poor dog first Last Line: And said: 'poor dog, amen!' Subject(s): Animals; Corpses; Dogs; World War I; Cadavers; First World War THE FIRST SURVEYOR, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The opening of the railway line! - the governor and all! Last Line: I'm sorry, but I can't come down -- I'm dining out tonight!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Cattle; Horses; Hunting; Camps; Summer Camps; Hunters THE FLEECE: BOOK 1, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The care of sheep, the labours of the loom Last Line: To listen; and to view the joyous scene. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Fields; Food & Eating; Hunting; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hunters THE FOAL, by WILLIAM RENTON Poem Text First Line: The mouse-brown foal that fain had fed Last Line: Ere he can feed. Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE FOUR BEAUS, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Ernest was an elephant, a great big dumbbell Last Line: But I gave 'em all the gate. Subject(s): Animals; Love THE FOWLER, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have an old remembrance - 'tis as old Last Line: Yea, loathed the purpose and the power to kill. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Ducks; Hunting; Wings; Mallards; Drakes; Hunters THE FOX WHO WATCHED FOR THE MIDNIGHT SUN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across the snowy pastures of the estate Last Line: As if the dead hare were soon to awaken. Subject(s): Animals; Dramatists; Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906); Medicine; Plays & Playwrights ; Trapping & Trappers; Writing & Writers; Drugs, Prescription; Dramatists; Traps; Snares; Trappers THE FRIARY AT BLOSSOM, PROLOGUE & INSTRUCTIONS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The pond lilies are like little executions Last Line: — 1967 Subject(s): Animals; Politics & Government; Horses; Lakes; Prisons & Prisoners; Survival; Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-1542); Pools; Ponds; Convicts THE FROG, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be kind and tender to the frog Last Line: They are extremely rare). Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Animals; Frogs THE FROG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who am I but the frog -- the frog Last Line: And grace to his royal whim! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Courts & Courtiers; Frogs; Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes THE FROGS: THE FROGS' SONG, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brekeke-kex ko-ax ko-ax Last Line: Silenced! -- so there! -- who wins -- our croaking bout? Subject(s): Aeschylus (525-456 B.c.); Animals; Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Frogs THE GALLOWS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a weasel lived in the sun Last Line: On the dead oak tree bough. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Variant Title(s): Gallows 1916 Subject(s): Animals; Nature; World War I; First World War THE GAMECOCK, by JAY G. SIGMUND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gorgeously arrayed, the fire-backed Last Line: And become civilized! . . . . Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Hunters THE GARDENER'S CAT, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: The gardener's cat's called mignonette Last Line: Dreams splendidly, at any rate! Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE GEEBUNG POLO CLUB, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was somewhere up the country, in a land of rock and scrub Last Line: He's been haunted by the spectres of the geebung polo club. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Clubs (associations); Horses; Polo THE GIFT, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, you may not recognize me Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE GIPSY PRAISES HIS HORSE, by ZMAI IOVAN IOVANOVICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You're admiring my horse, sir, I see Last Line: Just a little bit damp on the tip of his tail. Alternate Author Name(s): Brankovichera, Vidosava Subject(s): Animals; Gypsies; Horses; Gipsies THE GIRL WHO BURIED SNAKES IN A JAR, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came to see the bones Subject(s): Snakes; Death - Animals; Serpents; Vipers THE GODS OF THE EARTH BENEATH, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the god of things that burrow and creep Last Line: And then's the end of all her mirth. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Animals THE GOOD DOG OF BRETTE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "should you ever go to brette, be sure you don't fail" Last Line: He fares -- the poor man! -- like the poodle of brette! Subject(s): Animals;dogs THE GOOD MAN, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is almost unbearably harmonious Subject(s): Nature; Animals THE GRASSHOPPER, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grasshopper / grasshopper Last Line: To fall in grass again / and sing Subject(s): Animals THE GRAVE OF THE KITCHEN MOUSE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stone says coors Subject(s): Mice; Death - Animals THE GROVE, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was no road at all to that high place Subject(s): Animals THE HAPPY CAT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat's asleep; I whisper kitten Last Line: Men aren't happy. Why are you? Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE HARE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hands were hot upon a hare Last Line: Or need to dread the dreams of night. Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Once on a time a memorable race Last Line: "the race is not gained—always—by the slow." Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Turtles; Victory; Hares; Tortoises THE HARES; A FABLE, by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, yes, I grant the sons of earth Last Line: And all was peace and calm delight. Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares THE HARPER, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the green banks of shannon, when sheelah was nigh Last Line: I can nevermore return with my poor dog tray. Variant Title(s): The Irish Harper And His Dog;poor Dog Tray Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Shannon (river), Ireland THE HEADLINER AND THE BREADWINNER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moko, the educated ape is here Last Line: "moko's, the blest, the educated ape." Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Monkeys; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans THE HEARE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There be the greyhounds! Lo'k! An' there's the heare! Last Line: On rabbits till his hounds do catch thik heare. Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Rabbits; Hunters; Hares THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here they are. The soft eyes open Subject(s): Animals THE HERON, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me tell you, my dear, about the heron I saw Last Line: And why, over and over again, must I write this poem? Subject(s): Animals; Herons; Humanity THE HIGHWAY COW, by EUGENE J. HALL Poem Text First Line: The hue of her hide was dusky brown Last Line: But the highway cow outlived them all. Subject(s): Animals; Cows THE HIPPOPOTAMUS, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shoot the hippopotamus Last Line: His hide is sure to flatten 'em Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Animals; Hippopotamuses THE HIPPOPOTAMUS, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The broad-backed hippopotamus / rests on his belly in the mud Last Line: Wrapt in the old miasmal mist. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Hippopotamuses THE HIPPOPOTAMUS, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The huge hippopotamus hasn't a hair Subject(s): Animals; Hippopotamuses THE HIRED MAN'S DOG-STORY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dogs, I contend; its jes' about Last Line: "how the other gits its livin'!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fantasy THE HOG, THE SHEEP AND GOAT, CARRYING TO A FAIR, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who does not wish ever to judge aright Last Line: Must of the two be held most fortunate and wise.' Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Animals; Butchers THE HORSE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They spoke of the horse alive Last Line: Their bones in one mad dance. Subject(s): Animals; Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Horses; Nuclear Freeze THE HORSE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horse moves / independently Last Line: Exhausts of a car Subject(s): Animals THE HORSE - A CENTURY OF PROGRESS, by MAX GOODLEY Poem Text First Line: A thunderpulse of rhythmic speed encased Last Line: And pluck the insects from his radiator. Subject(s): Animals; Automobiles; Horses; Progress; Cars THE HORSE IN THE TREE, by E. S. SORENSON Poem Text First Line: High in the fork of a gnarled old tree Last Line: "twas a dam' fine leap he made." Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Trees; Dead, The THE HORSE THAT DIED FOR ME, by EDWIN GERARD Poem Text First Line: They gave me a fiery horse to groom, and I rode him on parade Last Line: And the white sand surges down to hide the bones of a trooper's hack. Alternate Author Name(s): Gerardy Subject(s): Animals; Cavalry; Horses; Sacrifices; War THE HORSE THIEF, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There he moved, cropping the grass at the purple canyon's lip Last Line: String me up, dave! Go dig my grave! I rode him across the skies! Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Rustling & Rustlers; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE HORSES, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was our share in the sinning? Subject(s): World War I; Horses; Animals; First World War THE HORSES, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Barely a twelvemonth after Subject(s): Animals; Horses; War THE HOSS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hoss he is a splendud beast Last Line: Down on my knees and love the hoss. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Love THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 3. FEEDING THE RABBITS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He wraps his scarf around my neck Last Line: That howling will chew up your soul! Subject(s): Advice; Animals; Bells; Children; Churches; Paranoia; Rabbits; Relationships; Childhood; Cathedrals; Hares THE HUMBLE HORSE, by GEORGE H. DILLON Poem Text First Line: Who wouldn't ride as high as bellerophon Last Line: The march of thunders driving under him. Subject(s): Animals; Bellerophon; Horses THE HUNTING OF THE HARE, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Betwixt two ridges of plowd- [ploughed-] sat [lay] wat Last Line: Was made for him, to tyrannize upon. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Hunting; Rabbits; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Hunters; Hares THE IDOL, by AUGUSTE BARBIER Poem Text First Line: O limp-haired corsican! Thy france was fair Last Line: Unquiet when she neighed. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Idols THE ILIAD: BOOK 17. THE HORSES OF ACHILLES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And thus they fought; the iron clangour pierced Last Line: Amid the greeks and trojans lightly bore. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE ILIAD: THE HORSES OF ACHILLES, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So now the horses of aiakides, off wide of the war-ground Last Line: Aught over earth's range found that is gifted with breath and has movement.' Subject(s): Achilles; Animals; Horses; Mythology - Classical; Trojan War THE INTRUDER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother - preferring the strange to the tame Last Line: She washed and washed the pity from her hands. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Violence; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE IRON HORSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No song is mine of arab steed Last Line: The world will pat thee on the neck. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Arabs; Horses; Railroads; Railways; Trains THE ISLAND, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN Poem Text First Line: Eastward lies the island Last Line: When the grey seals come up from the sea? Subject(s): Islands; Sea; Seals (animals); Solitude; Ocean; Loneliness THE JACQUERIE: SONG. THE HOUND, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hound was cuffed, the hound was kicked Last Line: (all.) u-lu-lo, howled the hound. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE JUNGLE WALLAH, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jungle wallah, he lives alone Last Line: When the jungle shall call him back. Subject(s): Animals; Jungles; Travel; Wilderness; Journeys; Trips THE KILKENNY CATS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There wanst was two cats of kilkenny Last Line: "and the tips of their tails, / instead of two cats, there warnt any" Subject(s): Animals;cats THE KILLARNEY SNAKE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is the time come? Is it to-morrow yet? Last Line: Is it not come? Is it to-morrow yet? Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Animals; Killarney (lakes), Ireland; Legends, Irish; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE KITTEN, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wanton droll, whose harmless play Last Line: The place where poor old pussy lies. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE KITTEN, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trouble with a kitten is Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE KITTEN AND THE FALLING LEAVES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: That way look, my infant, lo Last Line: To gambol with life's falling leaf. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE KITTEN AT PLAY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See the kitten on the wall Last Line: What would little tabby care? Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE KITTEN OF THE REGIMENT, by JAMES BUCKHAM Poem Text First Line: This kitten, sir, of the colonel's? I'll tell the story Last Line: And she'd a brother who died for the old flag too! Alternate Author Name(s): Pastnor, Paul Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE KROOMBIT BOYS, by LEX MCLENNAN Poem Text First Line: Beyond the broken bloodwoods, over the timbered rise Last Line: Their whooping and their cooees, their songs of long-dead years. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Dead, The THE LAST DYING SPEECH AND CONFESSION OF POOR PUSS, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kind masters and misses, whoever you be Last Line: She stopped, gave a sigh, and a struggle, and died! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death - Animals THE LAST LEAP, by ADAM LINDSAY GORDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All is over! Fleet career Last Line: "and thy fall is best!" Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE OLD GREY MARE, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John cook had a little grey mare Last Line: He, haw, hum! Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE LAST YEARS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: A dog, that has ten years of breath Last Line: And death takes all of us as one. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals THE LAZY PUSSY, by PALMER COX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lives a good-for-nothing cat Last Line: As all the world may see. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE LEOPARD, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In lands where only jackals call Last Line: The jackal's call! Subject(s): Desert Animals; Deserts; Food & Eating; Imagination; Fancy THE LIFE OF TOWNS: WOLF TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let tigers. / kill them bears Last Line: Hear a cloud pass / overhead Subject(s): Death – Animals THE LION, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lion, the lion, he dwells in waste Last Line: And a good little child will not play with him. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE LION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the lines of yellow sunlight burn Last Line: My passion mocks these lines of cinnabar. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE LION, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beasts that be Last Line: Nor ride nor haste. Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE LION, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lion has a golden mane Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE LION FOR REAL, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I came home and found a lion in my living room Subject(s): Animals; Gays & Lesbians; Lions; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE LION HOUSE, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Always the heavy air Last Line: For the delight of whom? Subject(s): Animals; Houses; Lions THE LION IN LOVE (FABLES OF LA FONTAINE, BOOK 4, 1), by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madamoiselle -- goddess instead Subject(s): Animals THE LION OF FLORENCE, by GEORGE DONALD Poem Text First Line: In the fair city of florence, on a time Last Line: Then slowly on its way it quietly went. Subject(s): Animals; Babies; Lions; Infants THE LION'S CUB, by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The whelp that nipped its mother's dug in turning from her breast Last Line: She bore one cub, one only, but it wears the lion's mane! Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE LION'S DEATH, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A hunter old whom once the desert air Last Line: And like the lion make an end of all? Subject(s): Animals; Death; Hearts; Lions; Dead, The THE LION'S RIDE, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lion is the desert's king; through his domain so wide Last Line: Thus nightly, o'er his broad domain, the king of beasts doth ride. Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE LION'S RIDE, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King of deserts reigns the lion; will he through his realm go riding Last Line: Thus the king of beasts his journey nightly through his empire makes. Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE LION'S SKELETON, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long, o lion, hast thou fleshless lain? Last Line: Have sifted out the substance of thy feet. Subject(s): Animals; Decay; Lions; Skeletons; Rot; Decadence THE LITTLE CAT ANGEL, by LEONTINE STANFIELD Poem Text First Line: The ghost of a little white kitten Last Line: For the name of the kitten was love. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE LITTLE DOG BARKED AT THE BUGGY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Downey o'gloom, with pardonable pride Last Line: The terrier barks at our buggy. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE LITTLE DOG'S DAY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in the town were still asleep Subject(s): Dogs; Death - Animals; Soldiers' Writings THE LITTLE DOG-WOGGY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little dog-woggy Last Line: The world. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fantasy; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE LITTLE GIRL FOUND, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the night in woe Last Line: Nor the lion's growl. Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Girls; Lions; Mythology THE LITTLE GIRL LOST, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In futurity / I prophetic see Last Line: To caves the sleeping maid. Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Girls; Loss; Mythology THE LITTLE MOCK-MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little mock-man on the Last Line: An' ever'body ever'wheres! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Stairs THE LITTLE WHITE RABBIT, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May I go to the field,' said the little white rabbit Last Line: So run, my little one, run.' Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Hunting; Man-woman Relationships; Rabbits; Hunters; Male-female Relations; Hares THE LITTLE WORN-OUT PONY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There's a little worn-out pony this side of hogan's shack Last Line: But I doubt if there's his equal in the pony world today Subject(s): Animals;cattle;children;heroism;horses; Childhood;heroes;heroines THE LONELY DOG, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: He often came and stood outside my door Last Line: He only craved an understanding friend. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE LONELY LION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lion was lonely Last Line: "and must I then live forever alone?" Subject(s): Animals; Lions; Solitude; Loneliness THE LOVE KISS OF DERMID AND GRAINNE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When by the twilit sea these twain were come Last Line: Far in a phantom dell against a phantom deer. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Death; Kisses; Love Affairs; Magic; Mythology - Celtic; Snakes; Swallows; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers THE LULL, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The possum lay on the tracks fully dead. Subject(s): Opossums; Death - Animals; Possums THE MAD YAK, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am watching them churn the last milk Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Animals; Yaks THE MAILMAN'S RIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I scanned the dark and lowering sky Last Line: I think of that wild ride Subject(s): Animals;crimes & Criminals;deception;horses;postal Service; Postmen;post Office;mail;mailmen THE MALAMUTE DOG OF ALASKA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Thou, ruler and slave of the frozen plain! Last Line: The snow-halls on valhalla's height. Subject(s): Alaska; Animals; Hunting; Wilderness; Wolves; Hunters THE MAN FORBID, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mankind has cast me out. When I became Last Line: The cliffed escarpment ends in stormclad strength. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Animals; Apes; Books; Death; Education; Exiles; Humanity; Life; Mankind; Estrangement; Outcasts; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Reading; Dead, The; Human Race THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around Last Line: And the stockmen tell the story of his ride. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE MAN-MOTH, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, above, / cracks in the buildings are filled with battered moonlight Subject(s): Animals; Human Rights THE MANDRILL, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the mandrill Last Line: And full of guile Subject(s): Animals THE MANEATER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: James jimpson has a savage pup, and Last Line: Or this old world in which we dwell will furnish rocky sledding. Subject(s): Animals; Danger; Dogs THE MASSASAUGA, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cold coiled line of mottled lead Last Line: Death waits and watches where he lies! Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE MENAGERIE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All living creatures seem to throng the road Last Line: That's suffering to croak. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE MENAGERIE, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god my brain is not inclined to cut Last Line: There may be hidden meaning in his grin. Subject(s): Animals; Circus; Zoos THE MENAGERIE AT VERSAILLES IN 1775, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cygnets dark; their black feet Subject(s): Animals; Versailles, Frances THE MIRACLE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have trod this path a hundred times Last Line: Nay, heaven be witness, -- gave the names. Subject(s): Animals THE MOA, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moa, is, alas, extinct Last Line: By nobody but me and noah. Subject(s): Extinct Animals THE MOCKING BIRD, by FREDERIC SAUSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heat is overwhelming Last Line: And from the cactus the call of the mocking-birds. Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise Subject(s): Animals; Cattle; Fields; Mockingbirds; Singing & Singers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE MOLE, by PATRICIA KATHLEEN PAGE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Are mountains left behind him. Alternate Author Name(s): Page, P. K. Subject(s): Animals; Moles THE MONKEYS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winked too much and were afraid of snakes. The zebras, supreme in Last Line: "rye, flax, horses, platinum, timber, and fur." Variant Title(s): My Apish Cousins Subject(s): Animals THE MOTHER BIRD, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the green twilight of a hedge Last Line: Patient upon her lonely nest. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Animals THE MOUNTAIN SQUATTER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Herein my mountain home Last Line: All west of gundagai!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Horses; Mountains; Sheep; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE MOUSE, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a mouse Last Line: "is spread any more." Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Mice THE MOUSE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the floor of a parking garage Subject(s): Mice; Death - Animals THE MOWER, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found Subject(s): Mowing & Mowers; Death - Animals; Hedgehogs; Lawn Mowers THE MULTILINGUAL MYNAH BIRD, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Birds are known to cheep and chirp Subject(s): Animals; Mynah Birds; Mina Birds; Myna Birds THE MYSTERIOUS CAT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a proud, mysterious cat Last Line: Mew ... Mew ... Mew. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE MYSTERY MAN, by NETTIE PALMER Poem Text First Line: Going home in the dusk from the township Last Line: Dan kelly, the brother of ned! Subject(s): Animals; Crime & Criminals; Dogs; Rumors THE NATURALIST'S SUMMER-EVENING WALK, by GILBERT WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When day declining sheds a milder gleam Last Line: Leander hastened to his hero's bed. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Crickets; Nature; Owls; Wings THE NIGHT HAWK, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds are pillow'd on the waveless deep Last Line: In viewless robe, shall sit enthroned on smoking hills. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Hawks; Sky; Wings THE NIGHT OF THE LION, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their day was at twelve of the night Last Line: His freedom shall not end. Subject(s): Admirals; Animals; Eyes; Freedom; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Lions; Night; Liberty; British Empire; England - Empire; Bedtime THE NIGHTINGALE'S DEATH-SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mournfully, sing mournfully Last Line: With summer I depart! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Nightingales THE NOR'WEST COURIER, by JOHN EDWARD LOGAN Poem Text First Line: Up, my dogs, merrily Last Line: Must buffet the foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Dane, Barry Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Northwest, Pacific THE O'LINCOLN FAMILY, by WILSON FLAGG Poem Text First Line: A flock of merry singing-birds were sporting in Last Line: Bobolincon, wadolincon, winterseeble, follow, follow me! Subject(s): Animals; Bobolinks THE OCTOPUS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, o octopus, I begs Subject(s): Animals; Octopuses; Sea; Ocean THE OL' COW HAWSE, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When it comes to saddle hawses, there's a difference Last Line: Hawse! Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE OLD COOLGARDIE ROAD, by DORHAM DOOLETTE Poem Text First Line: A flitting shadow follows Last Line: Back to her breast again! Alternate Author Name(s): Prodigal, The Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Horses; Nostalgia; Roads; Sorrow; Sadness; Paths; Trails THE OLD DOG, by ANITA GRAY CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: He lies upon the rug before the fire Last Line: He knows, dear dog, our love for him won't fail. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE OLD DOG IN THE RUINS OF THE GRAVES AT ARLES, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard tell somewhere Last Line: The old dogs don’t know Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE OLD FARM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Oh, the old, old farm, and the old farm's joys! Last Line: "across the twilight's dusk and grey, still calls, ""come, boys, come in""!" Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Prairies; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains THE OLD GRAY MARE (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, the old gray mare ain't what she used to be" Last Line: Many long years ago Subject(s): Animals;horses THE OLD SQUIRE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like the hunting of the hare Last Line: In the days ere I was born. Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Nature; Rabbits; Sussex, England; Hunters; Hares THE OLD TIMER'S STEEPLECHASE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sheep were shorn and the wool went down Last Line: When we raced on the mooki river! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Racing; Sheep THE OLD WHIM-HORSE, by EDWARD DYSON Poem Text First Line: He's an old grey horse, with his head bowed sadly Last Line: Are the bleaching bones of the old grey horse. Alternate Author Name(s): Dyson, E. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Memory; Dead, The THE ONE-EYED CAT, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: To the kelp the dame is gone, in guiana is the man, and the little Last Line: Owns the little house all day. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Sea; Ocean THE OPEN STEEPLECHASE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had ridden over hurdles up the country once or twice Last Line: Send us word each race you start in and we'll back you every time.' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Horses; Racing THE OUTLAW, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my rope takes hold on a two-year-old Last Line: That he kaint quite break is himse'f. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE OUTLAW AND THE RIDER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He had come to umarella when the drought of '98 Last Line: "and jim was there astride him, fast asleep" Subject(s): Animals;horses THE OWL AND THE PUSSY CAT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The owl and the pussy cat went to sea Last Line: They danced by the light of the moon. Variant Title(s): The Owl And The Pussy-cat Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats; Children; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Nonsense; Owls; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE OX, by GIOSUE CARDUCCI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love thee, pious ox; a gentle feeling Last Line: All the divine green silence of the plain. Subject(s): Animals; Oxen THE OX, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Why should I pause, poor beast, to praise Last Line: When robin redbreast comes no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Oxen THE OX-TAMER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a far-away northern county in the placid pastoral region Last Line: In the northern county far, in the placid pastoral region. Subject(s): Animals; Oxen THE OXEN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas eve, and twelve of the clock Last Line: Hoping it might be so. Subject(s): Animals; Christianity; Christmas; Mythology; Oxen; Nativity, The THE PACK'S LAST HUNT, by JR. HART IRVING H. Poem Text First Line: No, boy, I haven't had a pack or run Last Line: "seems like I have damn rotten luck with dogs." Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Hunters THE PANTHER, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The panther is like a leopard Subject(s): Animals; Panthers THE PARDON, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dog lay dead five days without a grave Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Mourning; Bereavement THE PASSING OF THISTLE, by PETER DAVISON Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: This is our first summer without a dog. Subject(s): Dogs; Animals; Dogs THE PASTURE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going out to clean the pasture spring Last Line: I sha'n't be gone long. - you come too. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life THE PAUPER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It dawned a morn to make a heart despair Last Line: More swift, more kind, the flow of thames' dark wave. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Animals; Dogs; Thames (river); Estrangement; Outcasts THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When despair for the world grows in me Subject(s): Animals; Anxiety; Despair; Nature; Peace; Wilderness THE PERENNIAL RABBIT, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: The savage by primeval thames Last Line: In moonlit covers still unplanted! Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Rabbits; Hunters; Hares THE PERFECT GREYHOUND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If you would have a good tyke Last Line: And footed like a cat Subject(s): Animals;greyhounds THE PET COON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Noey bixler ketched him, an' fetched him in to me Last Line: "er 'greedy,' next he whips yer dog, shall whip you, too!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets; Raccoons THE PETITION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS FARMER'S DOG TO HIS MASTER, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And must the law's inexorable doom Last Line: And sweet humanity crown all her race. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE PLAYMATE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I barked beneath his window, 'come and play!' Last Line: There's nothing left to do but wait—and wait. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Pets; Play; Childhood THE PLEA OF THE DEFENDANT (ON A PICTURE OF A MUZZLED PUPPY), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, here I'm muzzled, fast and tight Last Line: Was growl a little bit. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 18, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I spur my horse past ruins Last Line: Unnamed in the records of immortals Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Animals; Chinese Literature; Decay; Horses; Lament; Mortality; Ruins; Rot; Decadence THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 61, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see hundreds of dogs Last Line: A pack of dogs can't share Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Animals; Chinese Literature; Dogs; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity THE POET AND HIS DOGS, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come on, my dogs! Come sandy, mozambique Last Line: Home let us wander o'er the dusky hills! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Soul THE POET'S HORSE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Come, show the world your mettle now Last Line: Bareback through heaven, and twice a day! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE POLAR BEAR, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The polar bear by being white Subject(s): Animals; Bears THE POST-DRIVER, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lingering loon flies over the marsh Last Line: Oh, what is it that goes cuhchoo? Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Animals; Bird-watching; Birds; Frogs THE PRESENCES, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here they are as common as pebbles Last Line: Grateful is roughly sufficient? Subject(s): Animals; Clouds THE PRIZE CAT, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pure blood domestic, guaranteed Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE PROTEST, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I say 'e isn't remorse! Last Line: (protest dismissed.) Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Crows; Horses; Remorse THE PROUD FROG, by GAIUS JULIUS PHAEDRUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When poor men to expences run Last Line: She raged and puffed, and burst in two. Subject(s): Animals; Fables; Frogs; Pride; Size And Shape; Allegories; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE PUP, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He tore the curtains yesterday Last Line: She scolds a lot about the pup. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE PUPPY CLASS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I tell them all that a's for appetite Last Line: Who lick your face and bark and tumble down. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Childhood THE RABBIT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Not even when the early birds Last Line: To kill him in the morning light. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares THE RABBIT, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hip-hop hoppity, hip-hop hoppity Last Line: They let him hear the slightest sounds Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares THE RABBIT, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they said the time to hide was mine Last Line: And I looked back very hard at him. Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares THE RABBIT LEAPS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In angry mood Subject(s): Animals; Nature THE RAILWAY TRAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to see it lap the miles Last Line: At its own stable door. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Railroads; Rivers; Railways; Trains THE RAPTURE, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tongue wagging, mumbling and moaning Subject(s): Animals THE REGAL DREAM, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the day that bosworth field was won Last Line: Eternally to mourn a matchless queen. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Grief; Mourning; Prophecy & Prophets; Story-telling; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE RETIRED CAT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet's cat, sedate and grave Last Line: The folly of his expectation. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE RIDING OF PEACEFUL HENRY, by GRACE ATHERTON DENNEN Poem Text First Line: I am the son of the wind and the plain Last Line: One horse there was that I did not ride. Subject(s): Animals; Horseback Riding; Horses THE RING OF DEATH, by C. G. A. COLLES Poem Text First Line: Where the bourke comes down to the level plains and junctions with the wills Last Line: When the ancient coorabulkas fought their last great fight of all. Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Animals; Curses; Death; Drought; Magic; Snakes; Water; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers THE ROAD TO HOGAN'S GAP, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now look, you see. It's this way like Last Line: And hogan's old grey mare! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Roads; Paths; Trails THE ROAN COLT, by KEITH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: His awkward legs have not learned how Last Line: To see a colt become a horse. Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE ROOKERY AT SUNRISE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lofty elm-trees darkly dream Last Line: In one black phalanx towards the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Dawn; Elm Trees; Sunrise THE RUNAWAY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once when the snow of the year was beginning to fall Last Line: "ought to be told to come and take him in." Subject(s): Animals; Escapes; Horses; Fugitives THE SARAJEVO ZOO, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Men had used up their hands, men had Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia; Zoos; Death - Animals THE SCREEN, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk creeps in the parted shutter Last Line: I have lived for, a lonely customer. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Death - Animals THE SEAL, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mist was a face Subject(s): Seals (animals) THE SEALS IN PENOBSCOT BAY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The seals dive in the sun-dimpled bay Last Line: Closest to the meaning of our awe. Subject(s): Happiness; Seals (animals); Joy; Delight THE SEASONS: AUTUMN, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crowned with the sickle, and the wheaten sheaf Last Line: And let me never -- never stray from thee! Subject(s): Animals; Autumn; Seasons; Fall THE SEASONS: SPRING, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, gentle spring, ethereal mildness, come Last Line: To scenes where love and bliss immortal reign. Subject(s): Animals; Gardens & Gardening; Landscape THE SEASONS: WINTER, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See! Winter comes to rule the varied year, / sullen and sad Last Line: And one unbounded spring encircle all. Variant Title(s): Approach Of Winter Subject(s): Animals THE SEEING EYE, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The small dogs look at the big dogs Last Line: That we find minute observation. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE SERPENT, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a serpent who had to sing Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE SEVEN SAGES OF ROME: 2, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The emperor rose at dawn of day / and bade them bring his son straightway Last Line: "his son he back to prison sent, / upon his way the master went" Subject(s): Animals;dogs THE SHEPHERD'S PIPE: SIXTH ECLOGUE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Philos of his dog doth brag Last Line: Make haste again. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE SILENT SNAKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The birds go fluttering in the air Last Line: The silent snakes goes creepy-creep! Subject(s): Animals;snakes; Serpents;vipers THE SILKEN SNAKE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For sport my julia threw a lace Last Line: But though it scar'd, it did not bite. Subject(s): Animals; Practical Jokes; Snakes; Pranks; Serpents; Vipers THE SLAYING OF CONBEG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sore grief to me, conbeg, that you are drowned" Last Line: "a fill of sorrow, alas! Through life to me" Subject(s): Animals;dogs THE SNAKE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A narrow fellow in the grass Last Line: And zero at the bone. Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE SNAKE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love and I, the other day Last Line: "to let it sting one -- don't you think so?" Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE SNAKE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't ever make Last Line: Might be awake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE SNAKE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a young snake glide Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE SNAKE IT WAS THAT DIED, by DEMODOCUS Poem Text First Line: A viper stung a cappadocian's hide Last Line: And poisoned by his blood that instant died. Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE SNAKES, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the snakes that rowdy saw Last Line: But he thinks of the snakes, and—he lets it go by. Subject(s): Animals; Drinks & Drinking; Hallucinations & Illusions; Snakes; Wine; Serpents; Vipers THE SNARE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a sudden cry of pain! Last Line: I am searching everywhere! Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Trapping & Trappers; Hares; Traps; Snares; Trappers THE SONG CALLED HIS HIDE IS COVERED WITH HAIR, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dog is a faithful, intelligent friend Last Line: Whose hide is covered with hair Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Variant Title(s): East And West Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hair THE SONG OF THE BEASTS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come away! Come away Last Line: To the black unresting plains of the calling sea. Subject(s): Animals; Soldiers' Writings THE SONG OF THE JELLICLES, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jellicle cats come out tonight Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Imagination; Fancy THE SONG OF THE LEATHER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my trail stretches out to the edge of the sky Last Line: "go to sleep, pardner mine, go to sleep." Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses THE SONG OF THE MERMAIDS, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Troop home to silent grots and caves Last Line: But we have none! But we have none! Variant Title(s): Chorus Of Sirens;siren Chorus;the Mermaidens' Versper-hymn Subject(s): Mourning; Seals (animals); Silence; Solitude; Bereavement; Loneliness THE SONG OF THE MISCHIEVOUS DOG, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are many who say that a dog has his day Last Line: And that bees never work in their hives Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Cats; Lobsters; Bees THE SPHINX, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy thinks Last Line: And weeps for every soul that dies, and weeps for every soul in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Egypt; Sphinx THE SPIDER, by EDWARD LITTLETON Poem Text First Line: Artist, that underneath my table / thy curious feature hast displayed Last Line: Ends both the spider and the poet. Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Spiders; Wings; Bugs THE SPIDER, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spider, sly and talented Subject(s): Animals THE SPIRIT OF NATURE, by RICHARD REALF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O earth! Thou hast not any wind that blows Last Line: The fringes of the sunsets and the hills. Variant Title(s): The Word;symbolisms: Sonnet 3;the Ever-present Spirit Subject(s): Animals; Religion; Theology THE SPIRIT; FOUNDED ON FACT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now which is the road across the common Last Line: "tis only old gaffer's grey mare!" Subject(s): Animals; Facades; Fear; Ghosts; Horses; Night; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Appearances; Bedtime THE SPRINGTIME PLAINS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart of me, are you hearing Last Line: And the waiting eyes of you! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Prairies; Plains THE STAG LINE, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: There are lions and funny birdies, and enormous goofers that Last Line: Though lots of them have buns on when they want to dance with you! Subject(s): Animals; Dancing & Dancers; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE STEALING OF THE MARE; AN ARABIC EPIC OF THE TENTH CENTURY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the name of god the merciful, the compassionate! Last Line: To god be praise! Subject(s): Animals; Arabia; Horses; Love; Story-telling THE STRAY CAT, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's just an old alley cat Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Animals; Cities; Urban Life THE STRAY DOG BY THE SUMMERHOUSE, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning, down Last Line: And it was sweet Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE SUNDAY QUESTION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! Shut the gardens! Lock the latticed gate! Last Line: But what is your opinion, mrs. Grundy? Variant Title(s): The Open Question Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Wilderness; Zoos THE TEAL'S WING, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About the tide line above the dead Subject(s): Animals; Death; Seashore; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore THE TEAM BULLOCK, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunrays scorched like furnace fires Last Line: "for I have taken none on these!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Death; Desolation; Drought; Horses; Dead, The THE TELEPATHIC CARNIVORE, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fleece of its ubiquitous mineral body Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 7, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think these squalid houses are the ghosts Subject(s): Extinct Animals; Houses THE THOROUGHBRED, by KATE DOWNING GHENT Poem Text First Line: Way out in front just a - breezin' along Last Line: Way out in front just a-breezin' along. Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE THREE JOLLY HUNTERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O there were three jolly hunters Last Line: Looky there! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Hunters THE THREE LITTLE KITTENS (A CAT'S TALE, WITH ADDITIONS), by ELIZA LEE CABOT FOLLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three little kittens lost their mittens Last Line: Mee-ow-mee-ow, mee-ow. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Childhood THE THYROID GLAND, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: If you removed my thyroid gland Last Line: Are all my thyroid gland. Subject(s): Animals; Oxen THE TIGER, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tiger, on the other hand, is kittenish and mild Last Line: Will find a tiger will repay the trouble and expense. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Animals; Tigers THE TIGER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the still jungle of the senses lay Last Line: The wakened tiger will not sleep again. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Fate; Passion; Tigers; Destiny THE TIGER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright / in the forests of the night Last Line: Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? Variant Title(s): The Beauty Of Terror;the Tyger Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Creation; God; Mythology; Terror; Tigers THE TIGRESS, by FLOYD DELL Poem Text First Line: Tigress, tigress, burning bright Last Line: Why, you're just a kitten, after all! Subject(s): Animals; Blake, William (1757-1827); Tigers THE TIGRESS, by RUTH PITTER Poet's Biography First Line: The raging and the ravenous Subject(s): Animals; Tigers THE TOMCAT, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: At midnight in the alley Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE TOTE TEAM, by ARCHIE WILFRED STONE Poem Text First Line: Over the bridge / with heavy tread Last Line: A black and a white and a blood-red bay. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE TRAIN DOGS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the night and the north Last Line: The wolfish blood in their veins. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Native Americans; Roads; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Paths; Trails THE TREE-FROG PEDIGREE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our great ancestor, polly wog Last Line: And the family name, tree-frog. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Frogs THE TROUBLE WITH THE TIMES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this town the shops are all the same Last Line: Given away Subject(s): Animals; Antelopes; Rosary THE TRUST, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something was killing sheep Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE TURTLE AND SPARROW, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Behind an unfrequented glade Last Line: And knaves and prudes are six times married. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Fables; Grief; Sparrows; Turtles; Dead, The; Allegories; Sorrow; Sadness; Tortoises THE TWA DOGS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in that place o' scotland's isle Last Line: Resolv'd to meet some ither day. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE TWELVE OXEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I have twelve oxen that be fair and brown Last Line: "sawest thou not mine oxen, thou litill pretty boy" Subject(s): Animals;oxen THE TWO APES OF BRUEGHEL, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's my dream of a final exam Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans THE TWO LIONS, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two lions stand upon my path Last Line: Yesterday and to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE VAGABONDS, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We are two travellers, roger and I Last Line: The sooner the better for roger and me! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Life; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE VICTOR DOG, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bix to buxtehude to boulez / the little white dog on the victor label Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Music & Musicians; Sound Recordings; Trademarks; Phonograph Records; Recordings; Records; Audiodiscs; Discography THE VIPER, by RUTH PITTER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Barefoot I went and made no sound Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE VOYAGE WITH THE NAUTILUS, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made myself a little boat Last Line: "but I'll sail with thee no more!" Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Marine Animals; Mothers & Sons; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE VULTURE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vulture eats between his meals Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Gluttony; Vultures THE WAR, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were at the border and they were checking Last Line: I was going. We went outside where there was nothing Subject(s): Scorpions (animals); Cruelty THE WAR THAT ISN'T WHAT YOU THINK, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little wind I saw curving and lifting Last Line: Where she grazes the horizon down to nothing Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Horses; Humanity; Nature THE WARGEILAH HANDICAP, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wargeilah town is very small Last Line: He won wargeilah handicap!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Heroism; Horses; Towns; Heroes; Heroines THE WARRIGAL (WILD DOG OF AUSTRALIA), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The warrigal's lair is pent in bare Last Line: Where his mates are torrent and tree. Subject(s): Animals; Dingoes; Dogs THE WASP, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the ripe pears droop heavily Last Line: A tiger-soul on elfin wings. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals THE WATCHERS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With eerie cadence hoots the owl Last Line: The lions wait and watch the hour! Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Animals; Lions THE WHEEL OF LOVE, LIKE ALL WHEELS, COMES FULL CIRCLE, by HARRY BROWN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I killed a wounded gull at tahoe once Subject(s): Gulls; Death - Animals; Seagulls THE WHITE HORSE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What do I stare at - not the colt Last Line: When you come up behind, to mount!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Dead, The THE WHITE HORSE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Silence THE WHITE HORSE OF WESTBURY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As from the dorset shore I travelled home Last Line: He floated upwards, and regained the steep. Subject(s): Animals; Carving (arts); Horses THE WIDOW AND HER CAT, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A widow kept a favourite cat Last Line: Here, towzer! -- do him justice.' Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables; Honor; Mice; Widows & Widowers; Allegories THE WILD BEAST, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One spring as I went walking Last Line: Upon an easter morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fights; Lions THE WILD HORSE, by MARY ANN BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Broad are the palms, whose boughs Last Line: Of human tyranny is on the earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Horses; Human Behavior; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE WILD MARE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a breath that comes and goes Last Line: The challenging scream of the conqueror-stallion. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Horses; Rome, Italy; Sea; Ocean THE WISCONSIN HORSE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One step at a time to return Subject(s): Animals; Horses THE WOLD WAGGON, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girt wold waggon uncle had Last Line: V a-ben a-done vor years agoo. Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Wagons; Agriculture; Farmers THE WOLF, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a grey shadow lurking in the light Last Line: And leaves her bones to bleach upon the plains. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Survival; Wolves; Hunters THE WOLF CALL, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: The cry of the wolf in the forest brings me comfort Last Line: And cry out my own loneliness. Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Hunger; Solitude; Wilderness; Wolves; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness THE WOLVES, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At night while the dogs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE WORKING BULLOCK'S REPRIEVE, by FRANCIS HODGSON NIXON Poem Text First Line: I'm a poor old working bullock Last Line: To 'scape the driver's blow! Subject(s): Animals; Cruelty; Disease; Escapes; Horses; Pain; Trucks & Trucking; Fugitives; Suffering; Misery THE WOUNDED HARE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inhuman man! Curse on thy barbarous art Last Line: And curse the ruffian's aim, and mourn thy hapless fate. Variant Title(s): On Seeing A Wounded Hare Limp By Me Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Rabbits; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Hares THE YAK, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a friend to the children commend me the yak Last Line: (I cannot be positive which.) Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Animals; Yaks THE YOUNG HUNTER AND THE FAWN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Far in a wide and silent forest's shade Last Line: "and every wind doth whisper 'murderer!' " Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Deer; Forests; Hunting; Murder; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Woods; Hunters THE YOUNG LION AND THE APE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true I blame your lover's choice Last Line: And pays with interest scorn for scorn.' Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Beauty; Charm; Fables; Lions; Women; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Allegories THE YOUNG MAN FROM PALL MALL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a young man from pall mall Last Line: And he was eat by a dog in the hall Subject(s): Animals;dogs;errors;imagination;rabbits; Mistakes;fallacies;fancy;hares THE ZOO, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I scarcely think / I like the zoo / as much as other / people do Last Line: People do. Subject(s): Animals; Zoos THEME AND VARIATIONS: INSECTS, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: The cerceris innoculates the grub Last Line: Then devours him, bit by bit Subject(s): Animals THEN MOUSETRAPS IN THE CELLAR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Pretty good odds for living Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Death - Animals; Mice; Nature; Rodents THERE ARE THINGS TO BE SAID, by SIDNEY CORMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals THERE WAS A FROG SWUM IN THE LAKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: If any do it is not I Subject(s): Animals;frogs;lakes; Pools;ponds THERE WAS A LITTLE NOBBY COLT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Horses THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF ANCONA, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That anxious old man of ancona Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF EALING, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which distressed all the people of ealing Subject(s): Animals; Nonsense THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF WARE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He's a moppsikon floppsikon bear! Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Nonsense THERE'S A ZOO IN ROOM 22, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: We asked miss darling, 'may we get Last Line: Let's choose a whole pet alphabet.' Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools THERE'S ANOTHER BLESSED HORSE FELL DOWN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you're lying in your hammock, sleeping soft and / sleeping sound Last Line: It's another blessed horse fell down.' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Sleep; War THEY FEED THEY LION, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Food & Eating; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Lions; Nightmares; Work; Workers THEY FEED THEY LION, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter Last Line: They feed they lion and he comes Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Food And Eating; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Lions THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 7, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think these squalid houses are the ghosts Last Line: Close in upon our heels Subject(s): Extinct Animals; Houses THINKING AHEAD TO POSSIBLE OPTIONS AND A WORST-CASE SCENARIO, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I swerved to avoid hitting a squirrel Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Animals THIS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Face flashing free -- child-arms Last Line: I wanted this from you Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THIS AFTERWARD, by CHRISTOPHER HOWELL Poem Source First Line: The sand in the eye Last Line: And you're just walking and walking %by yourself Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THIS IS MY CHAIR, by PAUL WILLIAM GALLICO Poem Source Last Line: Then why cannot you leave me mine, %and let us have no further argument? Subject(s): Animals; Cats THIS TREE, by WILLIAM HATHAWAY Poem Source First Line: Said the little plaque in sober brass Last Line: I'll never love a god damn stump Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THOR'S FISHING, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy sky and heavy sea, / running cloud and wind-blown crests Last Line: So was lost the midgard snake. Subject(s): Animals; Fish & Fishing; Monsters; Mythology; Snakes; Anglers; Serpents; Vipers THOU LITTLE GOD WITHIN THE BROOK, by PHILIP HENRY SAVAGE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Animals THOUGHTS ABOUT OYSTERS, by KAYE STARBIRD Poem Source First Line: An oyster has no hands or feet Last Line: Is not a life I'd care for Subject(s): Animals THREE CAT POEMS, by MAURICE JAMES CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Like catle-raiding heroes in the tain Subject(s): Animals; Cats THREE ELEGIES: 1. EARL SCHIEB 1907-1992, by NOLA GARRETT Poem Source First Line: Last frieday, earl schieb's horse, 'cause I'm leaving Last Line: That possibility of any car, any color Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horse Racing; Horses THREE EPISTLES TO G. LLOYD ON A PASSAGE FROM HOMER'S ILIAD: 1, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus homer, describing the pestilent lot Last Line: In the next I shall prove it, as clear as a whistle. Subject(s): Animals; Asses & Mules; Cruelty; Wilderness; Mules THREE EPISTLES TO G. LLOYD ON A PASSAGE FROM HOMER'S ILIAD: 2, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your consent I made bold to suppose, in my last Last Line: If it will not make sense in their own mother tongue. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Apollo; Dogs; Mythology - Classical; Wilderness; Animal Abuse; Vivisection THREE FIGURES IN AN INTERIOR, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's so special about shooting an animal? Last Line: To anyone interested in taking it Subject(s): Animals; Guns; Hunting THREE LITTLE KITTENS, by ELIZA COOK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three little kittens lost their mittens Last Line: We smell a rat near by. ' %'mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow' Subject(s): Animals; Cats THREE SWEDISH SPELLS: 1. SPELL AGAINST PREDATORY ANIMALS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I read for wolftooth and bearclaw Last Line: And the raven whitens Subject(s): Animals THREE SWEDISH SPELLS: 2. A SPELL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When meeting a bear, say Last Line: Not me Subject(s): Animals THREE TABBIES TOOK OUT THEIR CATS TO TEA, by KATE GREENAWAY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: How many lives had these cats between them? Subject(s): Animals; Cats THREE TESTIMONIES OF AYACUCHO, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: From a soldier %after the battle Last Line: Of war, hunger, and the horses Subject(s): Animals; Death; Heroism; Horses; Soldiers; War THREE-LEGGED DOG, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Which I wanted as allegory Last Line: At teeth, phlegmatic, the only one of his retinue %attentive Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THRENODY FOR A PET CAT, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And now, to all the other memories Subject(s): Animals; Cats THROES, by DONALD MORRILL Poem Source First Line: In the photograph in the magazine, forty-eight lumberjacks and two Last Line: Their midst are crossed saws, five axes and twelve wedges upright like headstones Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THROUGH FIELDS OF MOONLIGHT, by RAELENE NEWELL WHITE Poem Text First Line: An eager hound through fields of moonlight ran Last Line: Beauty forgotten for little hares of rest? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THRUSHES, by EVELYN UNDERHILL Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I think the thrush's voice is more like god's Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Stuart, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals THUNDER, AND THE MAGPIES BREAK, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Has yet to take the blaze away Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals TIGER, by JOAN E. CASS Poem Source First Line: In the immensity of the jungle Last Line: He crouches low to drink Subject(s): Animals; Tigers TIGER, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The paper tigers roar at noon Last Line: I too am of that royal race %who do what we are born to do Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Animals; Tigers TIGER, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: The tiger %has swallowed Last Line: From the centers %of his eyes Subject(s): Animals TIGER!, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a tiger in our hall Last Line: He's not the boss of me! Subject(s): Animals; Children; Tigers; Childhood TIGERS, by LOUISE MORGAN SILL Poem Source First Line: I saw eight royal tigers in a ring Subject(s): Animals TIGRESS, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The raging and the ravenous Last Line: No beast so hapless as a man Subject(s): Animals; Tigers TIMESWEEP, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in the morning of the world Subject(s): Animals; Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation TIMESWEEP, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is only one horse on the earth Last Line: And his children cover the earth %and they are named all god's children Subject(s): Animals; Environment TIT FOR TAT, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you been catching of fish, tom noddy? Last Line: Till you are cooked yourself! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Animals TITMOUSE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you would happy company win Last Line: Sweet-fed, will flit away. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Animals TO 'SILK', by MARTY HALE Poem Source First Line: I know that my dog has a soul Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A BAT, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: Bat - %I want to praise you for your beauty Last Line: And what you know about the longest night Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Wings TO A BIRD, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bird upon the leafy tree-top Last Line: While I listen to the song. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Singing & Singers; Wings TO A BUFFALO SKULL, by ROBERT V. CARR Poem Source First Line: On a sable wall your great skull gleams Subject(s): Animals TO A BULL-DOG, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We shan't see willie [or, willy] any more, mamie Last Line: And he won't be coming here any more. Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; World War I; First World War TO A BUTTERFLY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have met Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Animals TO A CAGED LION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor conquered monarch! Though that haughty glance Last Line: Must bow thy savage strength, the mockery of a child! Subject(s): Animals; Lions TO A CAT, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nelly, methinks, twixt thee and me Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Animals TO A CAT, by SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: If peace and silence could arise Last Line: Smite the three-score ills I'm heir to Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO A CAT, by IBN ALALAF ALNAHARWANY Poem Source First Line: Poor puss is gone! 'tis fate's decree Last Line: And curst the dainty where we find %destruction lurking in the dish Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO A CAT, by FANNY ELIZABETH PERKINS Poem Source First Line: O, tabby of the yellow eyes Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO A CAT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stately, kindly, lordly friend Last Line: More of heaven's deep heart than we. Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO A CAT PURRING, by FLORENCE SMALL EDSALL Poem Source First Line: Pansy-face and raspberry-paws Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO A CHIMPANZEE IN THE LONDON ZOO, by DURS GRUNBEIN Poem Source First Line: Were they like these, the eyes in which the fever first Last Line: Evil vanity, swallowed withone's features fixed Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Zoos TO A COLLIE PUP, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody had to show you Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A COLLIE PUP, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody had to show you Last Line: And the degree %of master of arts Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A DACHSHOUND, by E. T. HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: My faithful peter, mount upon my knee Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A DEAD THRUSH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though silence shuts the gate of song Last Line: The groves of memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Thrushes TO A DOG, by JOHN JAY CHAPMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Past happiness dissolves. It fades away Last Line: If but his footstep sounded on the stair! Variant Title(s): His Vanished Master Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; World War I - Casualties TO A DOG, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: Though sometimes narrowing as a wolf's might do Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A DOG DREAMING, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What golden rabbits do you chase Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A DOG INJURED IN THE STREET, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is myself / not the poor beast lying there Last Line: To believe it Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A DOG INJURED IN THE STREET, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is myself %not the poor beast lying there Last Line: Let all men believe it, as you have taught me also %to believe it Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A DOG'S MEMORY, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gusty morns are here Last Line: And keep the watch for me. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A DOG, GROWN BLIND, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Safe tethered by his master's loving hand Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A FAVOURITE PONY, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, hie thee on, my gentle gyp Last Line: I'll sing thy praise in better rhyme. Subject(s): Animals; Horses TO A JACK RABBIT, by SQUIRE OMAR BARKER Poem Source First Line: Lean, lanky son of desert sage Alternate Author Name(s): Barker, S. Omar Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits TO A KING SNAKE, by LE GARDE S. DOUGHTY Poem Source First Line: I let you flick your sleek fork-lightning spear Subject(s): Animals; Snakes TO A KITTEN, by MARTHA HASKELL CLARK Poem Source First Line: Little yellow flame of fur Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO A KITTEN, by RENA M. MANNING Poem Source First Line: Did a fairy's fancy spin you Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO A KITTEN, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: You stalk a string, subdue a flannel mouse Last Line: To feel beneath your ribs a tiger's heart Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO A LADY IN HER FURS, by JAMES B. CARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: The furs you wear are rich and rare Subject(s): Animals TO A MONARCH BUTTERFLY, by LOLA SNEYD Poem Source First Line: Traveling jewel of the skies Last Line: I'll remember nature's art Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects TO A PERSIAN CAT, by F. C. W. HILEY Poem Source First Line: So dear, so dainty, so demure Last Line: Then purrs and tucks her little toes up Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO A PET COBRA, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With breath indrawn and every nerve alert Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Animals; Snakes TO A POMERANIAN PUPPY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often as I strain and stew Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A POMERANIAN PUPPY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often as I strain and stew Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A PUPPY, by LEWETTE BEAUCHAMP POLLOCK Poem Source First Line: Oh, puppy with the floppy ears Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A RANGE HORSE, by PATRICE CLOUGH Poem Text First Line: They viewed the long parade of yesteryear Last Line: With me beside you through eternity. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO A RATTLESNAKE, by ROBERT V. CARR Poem Source First Line: You try your best to slip away Subject(s): Animals TO A RIVER HORSE, by FRANCIS LEO GALLAGHER Poem Text First Line: Hippo, so dull of brain and skin Last Line: Whence came bright pink upon your shanks? Subject(s): Animals; Horses TO A SIAMESE CAT, by MICHAEL JOSEPH Poem Source First Line: I shall walk in the sun alone Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO A SMALL-MOUTH BLACK BASS, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: The startled gill, the bass whose throbbing lung Last Line: Breathing the lemon as you breathed the stream Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Food And Eating; Marine Animals TO A SPANIEL, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, daisy! Lift not up thy ear Last Line: These many days, and start and weep. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A STARVED HARE IN THE GARDEN IN WINTER, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft-footed stroller from the herbless wood Last Line: But, hare or robin, it is hunger still. Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares TO A TERRIER, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Crib, on your grave beneath the chestnut boughs Last Line: Ere death the dog-thief carried you afar! Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Pets TO A TREE-FROG, by AMELIE RIVES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Little enchanted leaf Alternate Author Name(s): Troubetskoy, Princess Subject(s): Animals TO A VAUDEVILLE TERRIER SEEN ON A LEASH IN THE PARK, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three times a day - at two, at seven, at nine Last Line: To be -- alas, how seldom -- just a dog! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO A WILD GOOSE OVER DECOYS, by LEW SARETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O lonely trumpeter, coasting down the sky Subject(s): Animals TO A WOOD-RAT, by JAMES LEO DUFF Poem Source First Line: Och, it pulls at me heart to see you afflicted Subject(s): Animals TO A WORM WHICH THE AUTHOR ACCIDENTLY TRODE UPON, by WILLIAM+(2) HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: Methinks thou writhest as in rage Subject(s): Animals TO A WREN ON CALVARY, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the unremarkable that will last, Subject(s): Wrens; Death - Animals; Man-woman Relationships; Jesus Christ; Male-female Relations TO AN ENCHANTRESS, by ALICE BROWN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Little gray, wonder, in pride of fur Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO AN IRISH SETTER PUP, by UNKNOWN+20 Poem Source First Line: Shamus is an irish dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO AN IRISH TERRIER, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Rough is your coat and sharp the bite and bark Last Line: In answer to our call and every need. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets TO AN ORANGE CAT, by JOHN HERSCHEL Poem Source First Line: Warren I've been sleeping badly Last Line: And crossing inside you Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO BUCK, by VERA C. STALLKNECHT Poem Text First Line: Come, lay your velvet head across my knee Last Line: Our god will not resent your presence there. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO CHILDREN: FOR TYRANTS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strike not thy dog with a stick! Last Line: For the hound slain for saving his child. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Guilt; Hunting; Hunters TO EDWARD ON THE DEATH OF HIS FIRST PONY, by JAMES AUSTEN Poem Source First Line: Why weeps my boy?' his father said Last Line: Provide a cure for every ill Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Horses TO FIDO, HIS HORSE, by VITTORIO AMEDEO ALFIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My trusty warhorse, spirited yet mild Last Line: Bore that dear burden proudly on her way Subject(s): Animals; Horses TO FLUSH, MY DOG, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loving friend, the gift of one Last Line: Loving fellow-creature! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO FRIEND FISH, BIRD CHATTERS, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On some yellow daybreak Subject(s): Desert Animals TO HELP THE MONKEY CROSS THE RIVER, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Which he must Subject(s): Animals TO HIS MARE, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My girl has legs as slim and straight Last Line: When I dare to let her go. Variant Title(s): Cowboy To His Mare Subject(s): Animals; Horses TO JOHN, MY COLLIE, by WALTER PEIRCE Poem Source First Line: So you have left me. Here's the end Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO LADY ASTOR, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, beauteous lady, world renowned Last Line: "to ""pussyfoot"" his diet!" Subject(s): Animals; Astor, Nancy, Viscountess (1879-1964); Lions; Politics & Government; Women's Rights; Feminism TO LUATH (ROBERT BURNS' DOG), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, luath, man, when you came prancing Last Line: And yours the blame! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Animals; Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Dogs; Poetry & Poets TO MRS. PROFESSOR IN DEFENSE OF MY CAT'S HONOR AND NOT ONLY, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My valiant helper, a small-sized tiger Last Line: Which makes difficult our walking on this earth Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO MY CAT, by JOHN GNEISENAU NEIHARDT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch you basking sleepy in the light Subject(s): Animals TO MY CAT, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half loving-kindliness, and half-disdain Last Line: With sombre, sea-green gaze inscrutable. Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO MY DEAD DOG, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All is noiseless Last Line: We, like leo, lie at rest! Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TO MY DOG, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dear! When I leave you Last Line: As now you pull my sleeve! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Variant Title(s): Abandonment Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Longing TO MY DOG, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I often wonder why on earth Last Line: That women always fall for. Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO MY DOG BLANCO, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My dear dumb friend, low lying there Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO MY DOG, JOWLER, by JONATHAN DORR BRADLEY Poem Text First Line: Jowler, they have taxed you, honest friend! Last Line: And vote with the majority! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Taxes TO MY LORD BUCKHURST, VERY YOUNG, PLAYING WITH A CAT, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The amorous youth, whose tender breast Last Line: She deep will mark her new disgrace. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Jealousy; Tears; Youth; Childhood TO MY OL' DAWG DRIVE, by ROWLAND EVANS ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: When ye wag y'r tail an' yelp, a snoozin' Last Line: I du, ol' dawg. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO MY PUPPIES, by SUZANNE POPE Poem Text First Line: A funny little bull pup Last Line: God grant they have nine lives. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO MY PUPPY, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I think of you, I think of bones Last Line: You show your love in other ways Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs TO MY SETTER, SCOUT, by FRANK H. SELDEN Poem Text First Line: You are a tried and loyal friend Last Line: We both together there will dwell? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO OUR HOUSE-DOG CAPTAIN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Captain! We often heretofore Last Line: To drive the pauper from the yard. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets; Teeth; Trust; Toothaches TO PENSHURST, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art not, penshurst, built to envious show Last Line: May say their lords have built, but thy lord dwells. Subject(s): Animals; Buildings & Builders; Houses; Penshurst, England; Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) TO PRIAPUS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, in thy green enclosure here Last Line: Let these to enter and to steal be bold! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Animals; Fields; Horses; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TO RALPH LEYCESTER, ESQ. ON HIS SENDING THE AUTHOR A HARE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! Another hare, peter! Well so much the better Last Line: "and then ""to the ladies of toft"" in a bumper." Subject(s): Animals; Gifts & Giving; Rabbits; Hares TO RALPH LEYCESTER, ESQ., IN ANSWER TO A LETTER, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear peter, this tells you as soon as it could Last Line: Of the best of good wishes for the whole of your flock. Subject(s): Animals; Butchers; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Hunting; Rabbits; Hunters; Hares TO RIDE, by EUGENE GRINDEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The street is soon there Last Line: And then you stop Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul Subject(s): Animals; Horses TO RUFUS, A SPANIEL, by RUDOLPH CHAMBERS LEHMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rufus, a bright new year! A savoury stew Last Line: Salute your master as he steps to land. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO SCOTT - A COLLIE, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old friend, your place is empty now Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO SETH, TEN YEARS LATER, by ROBERT HILL LONG Poem Source First Line: A sidewinder spelled the first letter of your name Last Line: Shaping what would be the first letter of your first name Subject(s): Animals; Snakes TO SIGURD, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not one blithe leap of welcome? Last Line: To follow where love calleth? Subject(s): Animals TO SOME PHILADELPHIA SWALLOWS, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Men say unfriendly words of you, poor birds! Subject(s): Animals TO SUP LIKE A PUP, by DOROTHY WALTER BARUCH Poem Source Last Line: What luck! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO THE BAT, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From haunt of man, from day's obtrusive glare Last Line: Twilight thy love -- thy guide her beaming star! Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Animals; Bats TO THE COLORADO DESERT, by MADGE MORRIS WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Thou brown, bare-breasted, voiceless mystery Last Line: God must have made thee in his anger and forgot. Subject(s): Colorado (state); Desert Animals; Deserts; Food & Eating; Heat TO THE DOGS OF THE GREAT ST. BERNARD, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Brave dogs of st, bernard, companions dear Subject(s): Animals TO THE FALLEN GUM-TREE ON MT. BAW-BAW, by DOUGLAS BROOKE WHEELTON SLADEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, you lie there in state unearthly-solem Subject(s): Animals TO THE FOUR COURTS, PLEASE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The driver rubbed at his nettly chin Last Line: And the poor, when they're old, have little of peace. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Poverty TO THE MAKER OF A PEACEABLE KINGDOM, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, or thee, as thou preferred to be addressed Subject(s): Animals TO THE UNWRITTEN POEMS OF YOUNG JOY, by BESMILR BRIGHAM Poem Source First Line: That were. %that were not abstract as language is abstract Last Line: The structure of language Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Language; Poetry And Poets; Wolves TO TIM - AN IRISH TERRIER, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O jewel of my heart, I sing your praise Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO TOWSER, by CYRIL BRETHERTON Poem Source First Line: No pampered pound of peevish fluff Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TO WILDING, MY POLO-PONY, by JOHN ELIOT BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My wilding, I must leave thee! Subject(s): Animals; Horses TO WINKY, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cat, cat / what are you Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO WINKY, by AMY LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cat, cat %what are you Last Line: Really, I do not know Subject(s): Animals; Cats TOAD, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old fellow-loiterer, whither wouldst thou go? Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C. Subject(s): Animals TOAD, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: It is by nature unappealing Last Line: That knows it is doomed to martyrdom Subject(s): Animals TOAD AND THE FROG, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Croak!' said the toad, 'I'm hungry, I think' Subject(s): Animals; Frogs TOAD DREAMS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dream of toads: we rarely Subject(s): Dreams; Animals; Conduct Of Life; Nightmares TOAST, by JUNE PROVINE Poem Source First Line: I raise ... My glass to all good dogs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TOLD TO THE MISSIONARY, by GEORGE ROBERT SIMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just look'ee here, mr. Preacher, you're Alternate Author Name(s): Dagonet Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TOM TIGERCAT, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Tom tigercat is noted %for his manners and his wit Last Line: I guess that's why we like him %and why he likes ocelot Subject(s): Animals; Cats TOMCAT, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At midnight in the alley Last Line: And beat the time for his demon's song %with the swing of his demon's tail Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Animals; Cats TOMCAT IS, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Night watchman of corners Last Line: The dude in the alley %the duke on the couch %affectionate fellow %occasional grouch Subject(s): Animals; Cats TOMMY CORRIGAN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You talk of riders on the flat, of nerve and pluck and pace Last Line: The gallant tommy corrigan will ride lone hand again. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Racing; Dead, The TOMTIT, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight had fallen, austere and grey Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Animals TONIGHT, YOUNG AND OLD, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Join in the fiesta, %the delicious hullabaloo Subject(s): Desert Animals TONY'S GRAVE, by JAMES SULLIVAN STARKEY Poem Source First Line: My golden comrade, since I could not save Alternate Author Name(s): O'sullivan, Seumas Subject(s): Animals; Cats TOOK, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take it bright day first hour Subject(s): Animals TOOK, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take it bright day first hour Last Line: Anybody get there and not one of the angels will ever come %back %as %took Subject(s): Animals TOOTH CAVE SPIDER, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Pale and freshly molted Last Line: To that swaying bridge Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals TOPSFIELD FAIR, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Animals seem so sad to be themselves Last Line: And, stuck like stamps in species. Go out of date Subject(s): Animals TORTOISE, by COLIN WEST Poem Source First Line: The tortoise has a tendency Last Line: How they will look in time Subject(s): Animals TORTOISE AND THE HEDGEHOG, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can't curl, but can swim Last Line: Stickly-prickly, that's him Subject(s): Animals TOUCANS, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: Picking fruit Last Line: Of the jungle trees Subject(s): Animals; Toucans TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE PLOUGHBOY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blackbirds sing so sweetly in the morning Last Line: Lord! It does make you sweat! Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Labor & Laborers; Singing & Singers; Stables; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Songs TOWARDS HORSES, by SHADD PIEHL Poem Source First Line: Near castle butte, the clouds Last Line: Never ending road Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ranch Life TOWSER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I drove a horse for a long, long time Last Line: Down 'neath the buttercups—and it's true of men, just as well as pups. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Friendship; Pets TOWSER SHALL BE TIED TONIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Slow the kansas sun was setting o'er the wheat fields far away Last Line: "take her, boy, and make her happy. Towser shall be tied tonight" Subject(s): Animals;dogs TRACKS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The small birds leave cuneiform Subject(s): Animals; Relationships TRAGEDY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A high bred young puppy from skye Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TRAIL, by MARIA M. HUMMEL Poem Source First Line: First the ox bones and the cherry Last Line: That's what the stones %were saying Subject(s): Animals; Forests; Travel TRAIL OF DEATH, by SHARLOT MABRIDTH HALL Poem Source First Line: We rode from daybreak; white and hot Subject(s): Animals; Horses TRANSPORT [N (1611) 1:AN ACT OR PROCESS OF TRANSPORTING 2:A STRONG, by SUSAN TICHY Poem Source First Line: I keep looking for an animal who could be you looking for flash of fox or Last Line: Years old scientists read our history: this is ecstasy: you magnified to the %size of a finger bone Subject(s): Animals; Longing TRAPPING THE BEAVER, by HELGA SANDBURG Poem Source First Line: He came out of nowhere Last Line: He comes across, the mud, the trees, the glory! Subject(s): Animals; Beavers; Hunting TRAVEL PLANS, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: If I could go anywhere Last Line: And learn to say 'thank you' %in kangarooese Subject(s): Animals TRAVELING DREAM, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am packing to go to the airport Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips TRAVELING DREAM, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am packing to go to the airport Last Line: There is one cat the size of a sofa Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dreams; Travel TRAVERSE CITY ZOO, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I saw a wolf tread a circle in his cage Last Line: Of dope. He grew smaller and sputtered into sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Animals; Prisons & Prisoners; Zoos; Convicts TREAD THE DARK: 51, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sink back upon the ground, expecting to die Subject(s): Animals; Children; Exhibitions; Zebras; Zoos; Childhood; World's Fairs; Expositions TREAD THE DARK: 51, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sink back upon the ground, expecting to die Last Line: And I will learn to love you as a zebra whom I did not love as a human being Subject(s): Animals; Children; Exhibitions; Zebras; Zoos TREATISE ON DESPAIR: FISH, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Water in aquariums forever meditates Last Line: Its neutral solitude %on every side Subject(s): Animals TREE FEELINGS, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder if they like it - being trees? Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Animals; Holidays; Trees TREE TOADS, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down by the old swamp road Last Line: And tree toads in particular Subject(s): Animals TREE'S COMPLAINT, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: A plague upon the race of cats Last Line: When poets sing in praise of me Subject(s): Animals; Cats TREE'S WAY, by GEORGE CRONYN Poem Source First Line: The high trees are honest folk Subject(s): Animals TREE-FROGS, by LIANA SAKELLIOU-SCHULTZ Poem Source First Line: They drive me crazy Last Line: To restrain the needles, %their explosive muscles Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Sound TREES, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a tree Last Line: But only god can make a tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Animals; Courage; Environment; Faith; Gardens & Gardening; Holidays; Religion; Soldiers; Travel; Trees; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Belief; Creed; Theology; Journeys; Trips; First World War TREES, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Source First Line: Trees are astronomers, benign and hoary Subject(s): Animals TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF THE SAME DOG, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lie here, without a record of thy worth Last Line: And, therefore, shalt thou be an honoured name! Subject(s): Animals TROOP HORSES, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through lingering long months idle Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Horses TROPICA; A FRAGMENT, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis night in a far-off clime Last Line: Rouse her from her dreamy rest! Subject(s): Animals; Hunger; Hunting; Jungles; Native Americans; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America TROT ALONG, PONY, by MARION EDEY Poem Source Last Line: Turn again home Subject(s): Animals; Horses TROTTING WONDERS OF 1889, by EM. PIERCE Poem Source First Line: As o'er old '89 the veil was dropped Subject(s): Animals; Horses TROUT, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hangs, a fat gun-barrel Last Line: Ramrodding the current Subject(s): Animals TROY PARK: 5. THE CAT, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His kind velvet bonnet Last Line: With nobody to care. Subject(s): Animals; Cats TRURO, by ROGER FIELD Poem Source First Line: The dog and I stumble on rough cut gravel Last Line: There's only sudden storms in the night, %only the dark road Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Night; Roads TRUST, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something was killing sheep Last Line: Light, %brings him home to his proud husbandry Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TRYING TO WRITE YOU A POEM ON OUR ANNIVERSARY, by MICHAEL J. ROSEN Poem Source First Line: With a vocabulary of imitations Last Line: From their devotion, whether or not they see it %as that, or understand the broken silence Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TURKEY DISCIPLINE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horrid turkeys! What a pother! Last Line: Evil turkeys-down she fell! Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Fear; Monsters; Turkeys TURKEY TOM, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Tom tumbled off the turkey truck Last Line: He's our assistant principal Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools TURKISH TRENCH DOG, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Night held me as I crawled and scrambled near Last Line: And sniffing at my prostrate form unnerved %he licked my face! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Soldiers' Writings; World War I TURN, TURN, TURN, by ADRIAN MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: There is a time for considering elephants Last Line: There is no time for not considering elephants Subject(s): Animals TURTLE LIKES A HUMBLE HOME, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source Last Line: To match his geodesic dome Subject(s): Animals TURTLE TIME, by LILIAN MOORE Poem Source First Line: My time is Last Line: Before there was %people time Subject(s): Animals TWENTY FROGGIES, by GEORGE COOPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty froggies went to school Variant Title(s): Frogs At Schoo Subject(s): Animals; Frogs TWO APES OF BRUEGHEL, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's my dream of a final exam Last Line: She prompts me %with a soft clanging of the chain Subject(s): Animals; Apes TWO CANINE TREASURES, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Chacha and cali raced around me Last Line: Could hardly compare %with these two lively creatures of god Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TWO CATS, by KATHA POLLITT Poem Source First Line: It's better to be a cat than to be a human Subject(s): Animals; Cats TWO CATS ON THE HEARTH, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rest qauietly - the world moves toward its end Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Cats TWO DOGS, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two dogs on bournemouth beach: a mongrel Subject(s): Animals TWO DOGS, by STEPHEN DOWDALL Poem Source First Line: One porcelain white Last Line: I held your razor to my throat %here's mine Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TWO DOGS, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: There were two puppies Last Line: When one dog died so did the other Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TWO DOGS DISCUSSING TELEVISION, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: A black-and-white shitzu and brown-and-white lhassa Last Line: She was always rescuing people, affirms the lhassa Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TWO DOGS HAVE I, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For years we've had a little dog Last Line: And the little dog slept by the big dog, %and her head was on his flank Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TWO FOR SOPHIE DOG: 1. FOR PAINTER/POET ALAN CHONG LAU, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: It was an ink on rice paper day Last Line: Vying with the crows for deepest black Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TWO FOR SOPHIE DOG: 2. FOR MY SISTER, SANDRA HANKINS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: We returned from cancer's kingdom Last Line: Has lapped up sophie dog Subject(s): Animals; Cancer (disease); Death; Death - Animals; Dogs TWO HORSES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, in whose grove have we wakened, the bees Last Line: Porpoises plunging like the necks of horses Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Jackals TWO HORSES PLAYING IN THE ORCHARD, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too soon, too soon, a man will come Last Line: Too soon, too soon, already. Now Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Animals TWO HORSES PLAYING IN THE ORCHARD, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too soon, too soon, a man will come Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Animals TWO PARABLES FROM 'THE OCEAN OF STORY': 1, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A snake who was afraid of the birdgod garuda Last Line: He changed back into his birdlike form, swooped down, killed the %snake and ate him Variant Title(s): Story Of The Snake Who Told His Secret To A Woma Subject(s): Animals; Snakes TWO SIBERIAN HUSKIES, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Tundra followed remus quickly to the door Last Line: Tundra curled up in her soft bed, %on the floor lay remus dreaming only of his sled Subject(s): Animals; Dogs TWO-BITS, by SHARLOT MABRIDTH HALL Poem Source First Line: Where the shimmering sands of the desert beat Subject(s): Animals; Horses TYGER'S LETTER TO CAROLINE, by JAMES AUSTEN Poem Source First Line: Ever honoured mistress mine Last Line: Because she blamed a harmless cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats TYGER: 1., by BERNICE FRIESEN Poem Source First Line: In the national gallery of london Last Line: Against the palm of your hand? Subject(s): Animals; Tigers TYRANNOSAUR, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A mean, late-model dinosaur Last Line: Now in museums -- bones wired -- stand %tyrannosaurus wrecks Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals UBASTI, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the theocratic beasts Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Animals; Cats ULTIMA THULE: MY CATHEDRAL, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like two cathedral towers these stately pines Last Line: And learn there may be worship with out words. Subject(s): Animals; Pine Trees ULUMBO, A CAT, by R. H. VAN DEN HOOFDAKKER Poem Source First Line: Like us he had his Last Line: Sick and as indifferent %to death as to us. %dying he did himself Subject(s): Animals; Cats UMBRELLA BIRD, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Don't say a word Last Line: He might fly off and pull her hair Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools UMM, SMELL THE MANGOES, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hungry lagartijas, %we'll gobble anything Subject(s): Desert Animals UMUGABO MUKAGA, by DERICK BURLESON Poem Source First Line: Here's a man with a problem Last Line: Fingering his machete wondering if it's sharp enough %he's going to have a big problem too Subject(s): Animals; Crocodiles; Lions; Pythons; Rwanda UNCAREFUL COW, WHO WALKED ABOUT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: She rubbed the horn away Subject(s): Animals; Cows UNCLE ABE'S ADVICE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: You great, big loafin' darky! Last Line: Fore de possum is in sight. Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Hunters UNCLE DOG: THE POET AT 9, by ROBERT SWARD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I did not want to be old mr. Last Line: And a bitch at every second can Subject(s): Animals; Dogs UNCLE OUT O' DEBT AN' OUT O' DANGER, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ees; uncle had thik small hwomestead Last Line: Vor the vu'st that do meddle wi' me or my meäre.' Subject(s): Animals; Debt; Farm Life; Horses; Uncles; Agriculture; Farmers UNDER THE SUN, by T. K. ANDRES-EAMES Poem Source First Line: A dying snake gleams upright in the sun Last Line: What darkness makes such oddness of us all Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Snakes UNDERSTANDING, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: Sometimes it seems as if a dog can sense Subject(s): Animals; Dogs UNDERTAKER'S HORSE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eldest son bestrides him Subject(s): Animals; Horses UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 36, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My house, I say, but hark to the sunny doves Last Line: And his late kingdom, only from the road. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): Garden Days Subject(s): Animals UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 6. A VISIT FROM THE SEA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the loud sea beaches Last Line: Why is the sea-gull flying? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Animals; Sea; Ocean UNFORTUNATE MOLE, by MARY KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: In the night the agile mole Subject(s): Animals; Moles UNICORN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh this is the animal that never was Last Line: Looking at them calmly, with clear eyes Subject(s): Mythical Animals UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN WITH HORSE, by GEORGE LOONEY Poem Source First Line: It's how birds mimic the horse's mane, strung in the dead elm Last Line: Maybe the horse is the point of this, the only thing not left Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Nature; Women UNLOST, by OLIVER INGERSOLL Poem Source First Line: Her eyes run Last Line: Cat hurries home Subject(s): Animals; Cats UNOS CABALLOS, by JORGE GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: There are several horses grazing in the field Last Line: In their obliviousness of it, grazing there Subject(s): Animals; Horses UNREPENTANCE, by LILIAN B. FORDE Poem Text First Line: I am a dog. With a rip and a roar Last Line: I am a dog. Good night. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs UNREQUITED LOVE ON THE BACK PIAZZA, by MARGARET FISHBACK Poem Source First Line: I bow, I scrape, I doff my hat Subject(s): Animals; Cats UNSATISFIED YEARNING, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the silent hallway Last Line: In order to get in. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs UNSTRUNG, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a jeweled tapestry Last Line: A face so like its own. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Birds; Bones; Death; Dead, The UNTITLED LITTLE VERSES ..., by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The water is green. The two boats out at a distance Last Line: Of a field beside the green, winter sea. Subject(s): Animals; Fights; Horses; Life; Peasantry UP-STREAM, by KATHERINE KELLEY TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Little brown bear Last Line: Little brown bear lay down to die. Subject(s): Animals; Bears UPON A FRIEND'S PET CAT, BEING SICK, by JOHN WINSTANLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How fickle's health! When sickness thus Subject(s): Animals; Cats UPON HIS SPANIEL [SPANIELL] TRACIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now thou art dead, no eye shall ever see Last Line: Teare, that deserves of me a million. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs UPON SIR JOHN SUCKLING'S HUNDRED HORSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I tell thee, jack, thou'st given the king" Last Line: By carding and dice Subject(s): "animals;gifts & Giving;horses;scotland - Relations With England;suckling, John (1609-1642); UPON THE HORRID PLOT DISCOVERED BY HARLEQUIN ... FRENCH DOG, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I asked a whig the other night Last Line: Your bishops are all dogs indeed Subject(s): Animals; Dogs USED UP, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the new-dropped colts in the time when I was a boy Last Line: Into the earth Subject(s): Animals; Coyotes; Donkeys; Horses; Burros UTAH PRAIRIE DOG, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Hers is a call of pleasure in abundant Last Line: Among her white-tailed coterie, her clan Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals V - IS FOR VICTORY AS YOU CAN PLAINLY SEE, by MARSDEN HARTLEY Poem Source First Line: I never really like this cat though she is Last Line: In each of the cat's eyes is a vast v. %no more songs now in the waving grass Subject(s): Animals; Cats VACANT STALL, by ELIZABETH WILCOX BEASLEY Poem Text First Line: I went into the barn - the west was red Last Line: And feel your velvet nose against my cheek? Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Horses VACATION HINTS FOR YOUNG VERMONTERS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! All you young vermonters Last Line: The state you're living in. Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Country Life; Deer; Hunting; Mountain Life - Vermont; Vacation; Camps; Summer Camps; Hunters VALENTINE'S JANE, by CATHY EISENHOWER Poem Source First Line: To steal a hubcap that %a cat swallowed whole, and Last Line: Can be capped with the %odd, unpredictable hunger of cat Subject(s): Animals; Automobiles; Cats VARIATION ON A SENTENCE, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of white and tawny, black as ink Last Line: Earth's bluish animals are few Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Colors VARIATION ON A SENTENCE, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of white and tawny, black as ink Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals VELVET DUETS, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: A couple seeks a corner table in a restaurant where they may dine unobserved Last Line: Faces aglow as they enter the night air from the sill Subject(s): Animals; Human Behavior; Man-woman Relationships; Sex VENETIAN DOG, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bad day in bellini country, venetian dog high-stepper Last Line: In titian's great altarpiece, in supplication, what indeed? Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Animals; Dogs VENUS AND ADONIS, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even as the sun with purple-colored face Last Line: Means to immure herself and not be seen. Subject(s): Adonis; Animals; Birds; Horses; Larks; Mythology - Classical; Skylarks VENUS SPEAKS TO ADONIS, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hadst been gone, quoth she sweet boy Subject(s): Animals VERMONT MORGANS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I notice in my car, when nearing Last Line: He hands him out a morgan mare. Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers VERN, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When walking in a tiny rain Last Line: Nor mock the tears you have to hide Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Friendship VERN, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When walking in a tiny rain Last Line: And let you snuggle down beside. %nor mock the tears you have to hide Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Friendship VERS LIBRE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the deep blue shadows Last Line: That jumped in the pool Subject(s): Animals;bells;frogs VERSE FOR A CERTAIN DOG, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such glorious faith as fills your limpid eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Animals; Dogs VERSE FOR A CERTAIN DOG, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such glorious faith as fills your limpid eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Animals; Dogs VERSES DESIGNED TO BE SENT TO MR. ADAMS, by ELIZABETH FRANCES AMHERST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Indeed, good sir, you're quite mistaken Last Line: What spirits, pray, possess you men? Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, Mrs. Elizabeth Subject(s): Animals; Evil VERSES FROM THE 'ANNALIA DUBRENSIA', by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You faire assemblies that renowne Last Line: Rarius eveniunt solatia—— Subject(s): Animals; Games; Horseback Riding; Hunting; Rabbits; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Hunters; Hares VERSES ON A CAT, by CHARLES DAUBENY Poem Source First Line: Clubby! Thou art surely art, I ween Subject(s): Animals; Cats VERSES ON A CAT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cat in distress Last Line: To make them hold their jaw! Subject(s): Animals; Cats VERSES UNDER SIR HENRY LEE'S PICTURE AT DITCHLEY PARK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Reason in man can not effect such love Last Line: Only my dog, whereof I made no store, %I find more love, then them I trusted more Subject(s): Animals; Dogs VERY HAPPY FAMILY, by JOSEPH G. FRANCIS Poem Source First Line: The mother sings a song of youth and may Subject(s): Animals; Cats VEXATIONS OF THE THINKER, by CRAIG BURNETT Poem Source First Line: The knight has lost his horse. Many Last Line: The light in the window was like green wax Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Knights And Knighthood VICAR'S TRIBUTE; 'PLUM-PUDDING'S' EPITAPH, by GEORGE ARBUTHNOT Poem Source First Line: Pudding!,' companion of my parish round Subject(s): Animals; Dogs VICTOR DOG, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bix to buxtehude to boulez %the little white dog on the victor label Last Line: No honey for the vanquished? Art is art. %the life it asks of us is a dog's life Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Music And Musicians; Sound Recordings; Trademarks VILLAGE DOGS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Groggy, we watched the ball descend Last Line: In the decades' first hour, who %could deny that the marriage was over? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Marriage; Pets VILLAGE TALK, by CATHERINE MOSS Poem Source First Line: The black cat and I Last Line: His eyes drink %her light Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Conversation; Villages VINCENT VULTURE, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: On our field trip in december Last Line: With a three-week-old school lunch Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools VINEGARROON, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The vinegarroon, a scorpion Last Line: And you are on a diet Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals VIPER, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Viper, viper Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Animals VIPER, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Viper, viper Last Line: Darting poison with a snaky smile Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Animals VIPER, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Barefoot I went and made no sound Last Line: And gazed when she had gone Subject(s): Animals; Snakes VISIT TO THE REST HOME, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: Mrs. Jasper is old and thin Last Line: Like the bold and busy eyes %of a wren Subject(s): Animals; Dogs VISITING THE VET, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: My dog is trembling Last Line: I am here, girl. I am here.' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs VISITORS FROM TIBET, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cock signifying craving & greed Last Line: But I tell them all gettahellouttahere! / the western way Subject(s): Animals VOICE AND FUR, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I touch my dog and she wags Subject(s): Animals; Dogs VOICE AND FUR, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I touch my dog and she wags Last Line: Drizzle across the clouds that are %now starting to separate Subject(s): Animals; Dogs VULTURE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vulture eats between his meals Last Line: Oh! What a lesson for us all %to only eat at dinner! Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Gluttony; Vultures WAITIN' FER THE CAT TO DIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lawzy! Don't I rickollect Last Line: Why you rock so slow?' ... Says I, %'waitin' fer the cat todie!' Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Cats WAITING WITH YOU, by JULIE BROOKS BARBOUR Poem Source Last Line: Tell him we'll paint the bedroom and buy new drapes, %maybe a couch for the den Subject(s): Aging; Animals; Dogs; Life; Waiting WAKING THE DEAF DOG, by MICHAEL DAVID MADONICK Poem Source First Line: It used to be the light would wake him, just Last Line: Does one move a deaf dog who bites Subject(s): Animals; Deafness; Dogs WALK, by NIKOLAI ALEXEYEVICH ZABOLOTSKY Poem Source First Line: Animals have no names Last Line: And the whole of nature laughs, %dying with every instant of the day Alternate Author Name(s): Zabolotsky, Nikolay Alexeyevich Subject(s): Animals WALKING A PUPPY, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will you walk a puppy?' the hunt enquired Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WALKING IN THE ZOO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the stilton, sir, the cheese, the o.K. Thing to do" Last Line: "the horror and the agony, that sunday in the zoo" Subject(s): Animals;sabbath;walking;zoos; Sunday WALKING ON TIPTOE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago we quit lifting our heels Subject(s): Animals; Conduct Of Life WALKING THE DOG, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two universes mosey down the street Last Line: Whereon we both with dignity walk home %and just to show who's master I write the poem Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WALTER VON DE VOGELWEID, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vogelweid the minnesinger, / when he left this world of ours Last Line: And the name of vogelweid. Subject(s): Animals; Walther Von Der Vogelweide (1170-1230) WAR CAT, by DOROTHY LEIGH SAYERS Poem Source First Line: I am sorry, my little cat, I am sorry Subject(s): Animals; Cats WAR DOG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He was only a dog, but he went to war Subject(s): Animals; Dogs - War Use WAR GOD'S HORSE SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I sm the turquoise woman's son Last Line: I am everlasting and peaceful. %I stand for my horse Subject(s): Animals; Horses WAR GOD'S HORSE SONG: 1, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am the turqioise woman's son Last Line: I am everlasting and peaceful %I stand for my horse Subject(s): Animals; Horses WAR IS KIND: 11, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: On the desert / a silence from the moon's deepest valley Last Line: Is in the dance of the whispering snakes. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Snakes; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Serpents; Vipers WAR-HORSE BUYERS, by ARTHUR CHAPMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty of us ridin' bronks, headed for the war Subject(s): Animals WARNING, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little animals from cartoons, talking rabbits, doggies Last Line: World have with the real world. Thinking of this, and tremble Subject(s): Animals; Cartoons And Cartoonists WAS AN ANT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Z! %pretty bright zinc! Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Zoos WASP, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once as I went by rail to epping street Subject(s): Animals; Wasps WASP, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: Like a dark Last Line: Lively and deadly %as the sun Subject(s): Animals WATCH, by SHARLOT MABRIDTH HALL Poem Source First Line: What's that ye say? That yaller dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WATCH DOGS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Peking and heide, two brave dogs Last Line: The waters, sky, and moon! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Guard Duty WATER PIE; TONIGHT, 12/11/72, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the air's too dry, the vents Last Line: His warm waves of stink on the cold wind Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WATER SERPENTS (1), by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the lit silk of your naked body Last Line: The dark sailor's body is found Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Water; Serpents; Vipers WATER SERPENTS (1), by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the lit silk of your naked body Last Line: Those brash & roiling fields of ruby kelp where %the dark sailor's body is found Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Water WATER SERPENTS (2), by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they found her daughter in the river Last Line: & everywhere inside her a gallery of faces clenched against her given name Subject(s): Animals; Daughters; Death; Snakes; Water WAY OF A CAT, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: When first I saw you at my door Subject(s): Animals; Cats WE MEET AT MORN, by HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY Poem Source First Line: Still half in dream, upon the stair I hear Subject(s): Animals WE MUST BE POLITE: 1, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we meet a gorilla Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Etiquette; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Manners; Courtesy WE MUST BE POLITE: 1, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we meet a gorilla Last Line: Where you came from Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Etiquette WE SHOULD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And wait for the door %to open Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Nature; Waiting WE'VE WALKED FOR HOURS BESIDE THE RIVER, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Calm themselves, perched and staying Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals WEEDS, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tina's dog got hit by a cab yesterday Last Line: What can we do but bend down %and shove our hands in it Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Drugs And Drug Abuse; Neighbors; Streets WEIGHT OF THE SHADOW, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Night must have already fallen, the river's skin had darkened Last Line: Upon my heart, pushing me toward waters ever nearer and more deserted Subject(s): Animals; Fire; Hunting; Wolves WELCOME HOME, by LOUELLA C. POOLE Poem Source First Line: I saw him coming up the street Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WELL, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Perhaps deep down we were trying Last Line: Or the substance %of its poisoned filterings Subject(s): Animals WHALE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Gone astray, as in the dreams of love Last Line: Her alluring and robust anatomy Subject(s): Desire; Love; Marine Animals; Whales WHALE, by BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN Poem Source First Line: An evenly balanced Subject(s): Animals WHALE, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: W I d e as a wall Last Line: A wharf. %a w h a l e Subject(s): Marine Animals WHALE GHOST, by LILIAN MOORE Poem Source First Line: When we've emptied Last Line: Echoing %over the water Subject(s): Animals WHALES, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Large floating tribes Last Line: In his neck strength shall dwell %and want goeth before his face Subject(s): Animals WHALES WEEP NOT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals WHALES WEEP NOT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the whales in the wider deeps, hot are they as they urge Last Line: There they blow, there they blow, hot wild white breath out %of the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals WHAT CONSTITUTES A 'TEAM' IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life flows quite smoothly through our house Last Line: "as ride around in half a ""team." Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Vermont WHAT FUN TO BE, by MICHAEL FLANDERS Poem Source Last Line: From top to bottamus Subject(s): Animals WHAT IS A KITTEN, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source Last Line: It's purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs WHAT IS IT?, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who can say / is it a snowy egret? Subject(s): Nature; Animals WHAT IS LONDON'S LAST NEW LION?, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is london's last new lion? Pray, inform me if you can Last Line: What is london's last new lion? Pray, inform me if you can. Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Subject(s): Animals; Lions; London WHAT MATTER?, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sure I'm sorry the crathur was scared, but I Last Line: Ah what matter? Sure what should it matter? What matter, what matter at all? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fields; Pets; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WHAT MIGHT FLY AWAY, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Perpendicular across the path %a wild turkey takes its time, head Last Line: Then it flies inside the walls of night Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Turkey; Wings WHAT THE ANIMALS PAID, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hampshire ewes standing in their wooden pens Last Line: In the farm way, I am writing this poem today Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WHAT THE ANIMALS PAID, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hampshire ewes standing in their wooden pens Last Line: In the farm way, I am writing this poem today Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life WHAT THE CAPTAIN SAID AT THE POINT-TO-POINT, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've had a good bump round, my little horse Last Line: And anyhow I've had a good bump round. Subject(s): Animals; Horses WHAT THE CAT KNOWS, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat sleeps with her, back to back Last Line: Beats, invisible, the heart of a bird Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Sleep WHAT THE CAT KNOWS, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat sleeps with her, back to back Last Line: Beats, invisible, the heart of a bird Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Sleep WHAT THE DOG PERHAPS HEARS, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If an inaudible whistle Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Music & Musicians WHAT THE DOG PERHAPS HEARS, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If an inaudible whistle Last Line: The egg broken, the nest alive, %and we heard nothing when the world changed Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Music And Musicians WHAT THE FROGS SING, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've got such a cold I cannot sing Last Line: There's nobody knows but himself and me. Subject(s): Animals; Frogs WHATEVER IT TAKES (2), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You be a red fox in rocky mountain park Last Line: Or eagle dives, you be the wind Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Animals; Nature WHEN A PEACOCK LOUDLY CALLS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Then look out for rain and squalls Subject(s): Animals WHEN BOB GOT THROWED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: That time when bob got throwed Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;revenge;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States WHEN LIZARDS HEAR MUSIC, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Join us on this orange night.' Subject(s): Desert Animals WHEN THE CAT IS AWAY, THE MICE MAY PLAY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lady once (so stories say Last Line: Lest she again repent it. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Duplicity; Fables; Mice; Play; Deceit; Allegories WHEN THE HEARSE COMES BACK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thing 'at's 'bout as tryin' as a healthy man kin meet Last Line: "back!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Funerals; Hearses; Horses; Dead, The; Burials WHEN WINTER COMES, by NANCY VAN LAAN Poem Source First Line: Where oh where do the leaves all go Last Line: Snuggling deep. %fast asleep Subject(s): Animals; Winter WHEN YOU'RE THROWED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If a feller's been a-straddle Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States WHERE SILENCE REIGNS, by W. A. WOODS Poem Text First Line: Out back, where silence reigneth, on the great grey western plains Last Line: While the ever-creaking saddle is the only sound we hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Drayman, John Subject(s): Animals; Death; Desolation; Horses; Prairies; Dead, The; Plains WHERE THE ANIMALS GO, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beasts in eden Subject(s): Animals WHERE THE ANIMALS GO, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beasts in eden Last Line: Their pricked ears, pinnacles. Their gold eyes, windows Subject(s): Animals WHERE THE DOGS LIE DOWN WITH THE CATS, by GREG KUZMA Poem Source First Line: The old enmity Last Line: Where even the poet is safe Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WHERE THE GRIZZLY DWELLS, by JAMES FOX (20TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: I admire the artificial art of the east Last Line: The indian land,— land of the golden west. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Cowboys; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Rocky Mountain Range; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States WHERE TRAIN TRACKS CROSS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: With a steadiness I've never known Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals WHEREVER YOU ARE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thin silver whistle Last Line: To be death's best friend Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WHIP TAIL OF THE ONE-EYED CHIEF, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: This motley quilt in oils Last Line: Stare of lady field hand Subject(s): Animals; Colonialism; History; Paintings And Painters; Slavery; West Indies; Whips WHISPERED LIES, by SARAH SPENCER ROE Poem Text First Line: Their lies / are snakes, which crawl Last Line: Their sting. Subject(s): Animals; False Accusations; Lies; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers WHITE BUFFALO WOMAN, by JOHN BIERHORST Poem Source First Line: ...A beautiful maiden dressed in sage Last Line: Trotting over the prairie Subject(s): Mythical Animals WHITE CAT OF TRENARREN, by ALFRED LESLIE ROWSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: He was a mighty hunter in his youth Last Line: My cat and I grow old together Subject(s): Animals; Cats WHITE GOAT, WHITE RAM, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gaiety of three winds is a game of green Last Line: Offends, for the ground where we find we stand is holy Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Animals; Goats WHITE HORSE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on Last Line: They are so silent, they are in another world Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Silence WHITE HORSE, by JOHN REIBETANZ Poem Source First Line: 1. This horse, not only tamed but humbled, rests Last Line: Unique and common, never-landing arrow Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Survival WHITE HOUSE REPORTER, by PAULA RIKER Poem Source First Line: Fala's ears stand straighter Last Line: Weighty problems diminished for fdr %with a lick from his dog Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WHITE STALLION, by ABUS SALT Poem Source First Line: Pale as the morning star Last Line: Who bridled dawn with the pleiades? %who saddled lightning with the half moon? Alternate Author Name(s): Abu Salt Umayya; Abu I-salt Umayyah Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Night WHITE TIGER, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was beautiful as god Last Line: Over immensities that will not return Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Tigers WHO'S RIDING OLD HARLEQUIN NOW?, by HENRY (HARRY) HARBORD MORANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are mustering cattle on brigalow vale Last Line: But—who's riding old harlequin now? Alternate Author Name(s): Breaker, The; Lumpkin, Tony Subject(s): Animals; Horses WHOOPING CRANE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: She stands in the ambiguity of mudflats Last Line: More leaping, more elegant bows Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals WHY, by H. P. STEVENS Poem Text First Line: Do you know why the rabbits are caught in the snare Last Line: Do you know? Well, I'll tell you -- it's love. Subject(s): Animals; Love WHY PETS RUN THE WORLD, by ROBERT PARHAM Poem Source First Line: Not much to say about collies Last Line: All there is is to be spared Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WHY SHE MOVED HOUSE (THE DOG MUSES), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why she moved house, without a word Last Line: And I but pause and pass. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Moving & Movers WHY THE DOG'S NOSE IS COLD, by MARGARET (WINSHIP) EYTINGE Poem Source First Line: What makes the dog's nose always cold? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WHY THEY LOVE US, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dogs love us uncomplainingly because Last Line: They don't have sense enought to see our flaws Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Love WHYM CHOW, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, thou art my eternal attribute Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Animals WIDOW, by BILL YAKE Poem Source First Line: You know I've never liked clouds or winter Last Line: Since and hope he's gone under mr hangley's house %it would serve him right for parking by my gladio Subject(s): Animals; Flowers WIDOWED EAGLE, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out from the aerie beloved we flew Subject(s): Animals WILD, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the eagle Last Line: & tuns in hastily %to the weather reports Subject(s): Animals; Nature; News WILD GEESE RETURNING, by TSUMORI KUNIMOTO Poem Source Last Line: In faded ink! Subject(s): Animals; Geese WILD GOOSE, by CURTIS HEATH Poem Source First Line: He climbs the wind above Last Line: That geese are silly Subject(s): Animals; Geese WILD HORSE OF SERENGETI, by BAHADUR TEJANI Poem Source First Line: With savannahs on our left Last Line: That dented to his supremacy Subject(s): Animals; Horses WILD HORSES - ARIZONA, by LILIAN WHITE SPENCER Poem Text First Line: Seeking high shrines of quietude, I found Last Line: Brushing the mane of swift exultant death. Subject(s): Animals; Arizona; Horses WILDEBEEST THEOLOGY, by CHRIS ARTHUR Poem Source First Line: Stands oblivious as abstract seconds tick away Last Line: The dog pack's frantic noises Subject(s): Animals; Religion WILL FOR MR. BRINE'S MARE, WRITTEN ... WILTSHIRE, 1614, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Brine had a mare whosever knew hir Last Line: And I bequeth all other gutts that soe fat and longe %even to john hulber for making a song Subject(s): Animals; Horses WILL WARTHOG, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Will warthog is not handsome Last Line: This less-than-perfect pig! Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools WILLIAM CORBY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I drive my cows to corby Last Line: When william corby's dead! Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WINGS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What was it she taught Last Line: Could flap across a desk and fly away? Subject(s): Birds; Fear; Mythical Animals; Fictious Animals WINTER MEMORY, by GYULA ILLYES Poem Source First Line: We ate you up, little pig Last Line: Under the smoke-laden, ash-filled sky Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Farm Life; Pigs WINTER MIDNIGHT, by FRANCES HALL Poem Text First Line: Watchdogs bark from farm to slumbering farm Last Line: And every living thing returns to peace. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WISCONSIN HORSE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One step at a time to return Last Line: Woman anger and courage risen as the people's voice again Subject(s): Animals; Horses WISDOM BORN OF SPRING, by FLORA WHITE Poem Text First Line: The golden throated frog turning liquidity ... Last Line: As he plunges underneath the darkly shining surface of a pool. Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Spring WISTFUL WAIF, by FAIRMONT SNYDER Poem Source First Line: Edward foun a homeless dog Subject(s): Animals WITH A RAVENOUS SPIKE, by BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: I know that city coyote Last Line: Housefly sipped with the wine Subject(s): Animals; Insects WITH REGARD TO DOGS, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only the human dead may lie Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WITH TRUMPETS AND ZITHERS, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dream shared at night by all people has inhabitants Subject(s): Animals WITHOUT A SIMILAR CONDITION INCLUDING THIS CONDITION, by DARA WIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The father away from the center of power Last Line: Never more than a few feet away %from its friend Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Houses WITHOUT ARE THE DOGS', by EDWARD A. CHURCH Poem Source First Line: If, through some wondrous miracle of grace Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WITHOUT US, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: In the time it takes for a leaf to fall from a maple tree after a hard gust Last Line: Eyes aglow, watching for signs of weakness %red ants running on a bear's tongue. Fields of broccoli Subject(s): Animals; Fields; Nature WITHOUT WINGS, MOTHER, HOW CAN I FLY?, by NORMA FARBER Poem Source Last Line: Here, right here, safe in the curve of my arm Subject(s): Animals; Mothers WOLF, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The iron wolf, the iron wolf Last Line: And leaves his own bones Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Animals WOLF, by JUDITH NICHOLLS Poem Source First Line: Mine is the howl Last Line: I am afraid Subject(s): Animals WOLF AND THE RABBIT, by ANNA CITRINO Poem Source First Line: Ohh,' Last Line: To be, %cast out, %set free Subject(s): Animals; Imagination; Rabbits; Wolves WOLF AND THE STORK, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wolves can outeat anyone Last Line: Shun my paws if you care to live Subject(s): Animals WOLVES, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At night while the dogs Last Line: With their hearts eat out Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WOMAN AND CAT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were just playing, lady and cat Last Line: Four dazzling points of phosphor gleamed Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Nails (body) WOMAN AND CAT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were just playing, lady and cat Last Line: Four dazzling points of phosphor gleamed Subject(s): Animals; Cats WOMAN WHO MARRIED THE BEAR, by NORA MARKS DAUENHAUER Poem Source First Line: There were two women, sisters Last Line: Now that is the end Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Family Life; Hunting; Murder; Native Americans WOMEN AND DOG, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: In bonnard's miniature oil painting, 16 x 12 inches Last Line: You can go anywhere in, that make you feel good Subject(s): Animals; Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947); Dogs; Paintings And Painters; Women WONDERFUL ROAD, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source First Line: He wriggles from dorothy's arms Last Line: Yellow brick road - %toto Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WOOD BISON, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Bulls punish the trees, smash Last Line: So rich, one suck is enough Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals WOOD DUCKS AT YADDO, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: A small, gaudy mandarin Last Line: And see such splendid mockery Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Ducks; Feathers WOOD-MOUSE, by MARY HOWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: D'ye know the little wood-mouse Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Animals WOODEN HORSE, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A real horse is good Last Line: So a fine wooden horse for me! Subject(s): Animals; Horses WOODLAND CARIBOU, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: She has kept her summer antlers Last Line: Into music when she runs Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals WOODPECKER, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woodpecker is rubber-necked Last Line: Amd bouncomg rubber brains Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Animals WORD, by MARK COX Poem Source First Line: I get in between the covers as quietly as I can Last Line: The word sifts deeper into what my life is Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WORDS RISING, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I open my journal, write a few Last Line: His bearded words, and on the setter of songs %who sleeps at night inside his violin case Subject(s): Animals WORK, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The old dog, work, one eye blind as if seeing Last Line: And smoke from your chimney spirals into night Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WORK, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The voice of the laundry says, hang me Last Line: Eating, always eating, in order to waste away Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Activities; Shrews (animals) WORK HORSES, by EDITH NEWLIN CHASE Poem Source First Line: Big strong work horses working every day Last Line: Eat oats, eating hay, munch! Munch! Munch! Subject(s): Animals; Horses WORK OF ART, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: The spider slips down its invisible light Last Line: The intolerant sole of a shoe Subject(s): Animals WORKS AND DAYS: WINTER, by HESIOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aroint the january month! The bad days fit to skin Last Line: And trust your mother earth her various fruitage to renew. Subject(s): Animals; Winter WORLD IS MADE OF COOKIES, by TONY JOHNSTON Poem Source Last Line: My dog wants them all Subject(s): Animals; Dogs WOUNDED, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Source First Line: Let her creep to earth agian, my children Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Animals WOUNDED MAN AND THE SWARM OF FLIES, by WILLIAM SOMERVILE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Squalid with wounds, and many a gaping sore Alternate Author Name(s): Somerville, William Subject(s): Animals WRONG WAY WILL HAUNT YOU (SHOOTING A HOUND), by SYDNEY LEA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spittle beads as ice along Last Line: All cold old ballads on the grave Subject(s): Animals; Dogs XENIA THE X-RAY FISH, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source Last Line: When it is already in her Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools XIPHOSURAN, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The xiphosuran (if you like Last Line: And backbone to endure it Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals YAK, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yickity-yackity, yickity-yak Subject(s): Animals; Yaks YAK, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yickity-yackity, yickity-yak Last Line: Smiggildly-snaggidly, sniggildy-snag Subject(s): Animals; Yaks YAK, by VIRNA SHEARD Poem Source First Line: For hours the princess would not play or sleep Subject(s): Animals; Yaks YELLOW DOG, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a little yellow dog, a wistful thing to see Last Line: He's certain of a friend in need, if he can find %a boy Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Animals YETI, by JOHN GARDNER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The yeti is a manlike beast Last Line: All he can say is, 'maybe' Subject(s): Mythical Animals YOKO, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All today I lie in the bottom of the wardrobe Last Line: I stand with you braced against the wind Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Animals; Dogs YORICK THE YAK, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Yikes! %yorick the yak is on the attack Last Line: So we're very relieved when he misses Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools YOU'RE A DOG, by C. L. GILMAN Poem Source First Line: At the kennel where they bred you were Subject(s): Animals; Dogs YOU'VE DONE IT BEFORE, THE HORSE, by SIMON PERCHIK Poem Source Last Line: Already know what to do Subject(s): Animals; Horses YOUNG BULLFROGS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jimmy wimbleton listened a first week in june Last Line: Jimmy wimbledon listened. Subject(s): Animals; Frogs YOUNG CID, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now rides diego laynez to kiss the good king's hand Last Line: And if their mules behind did stay, with horses they're content Subject(s): Animals; Cid, El (1043-1099); Courts And Courtiers; Horses; Knights And Knighthood YOUNG HORSES, by E. R MURRAY Poem Text First Line: Over the river by gravel and gum Last Line: On hearts that will never know freedom again. Subject(s): Animals; Freedom; Horses; Liberty YOUNG MARTINS, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: None but the mouse-brown wren Subject(s): Animals YOUNG REYNARD, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gracefullest leaper, the dappled fox-cub Last Line: Haply you live a day longer in verse. Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Nature; Hunters YOUR DOG DIES, by RAYMOND CARVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It gets run over by a van Last Line: She screams again. %you wonder how long this can go on Subject(s): Animals; Dogs Z???, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: We entered a contest to win a zorilla Last Line: A better pet that starts with z Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools ZEBRA, by KAREN CHRISTENCE BLIXEN Poem Source First Line: The eagle's shadow runs across the plain Last Line: And to wander to the water-hole Subject(s): Animals ZEN MANQUE, by JACK LENT Poem Source First Line: Thinking of horses Last Line: And of horses, %I eat burnt toast Subject(s): Animals; Food And Eating; Horses ZENO'S LEMUR, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isn't he the man with crimson socks Subject(s): Animals; Mankind; Human Race ZENO'S LEMUR, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isn't he the man with crimson socks Last Line: A word of arrival, recognition hovering before him Subject(s): Animals; Mankind ZIP, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Zip, pomeranian, an oversized pet Last Line: Unless they have autos in dogland as well. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ZOO BATS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the central park zoo, just past the ants Last Line: To the night like a cup of water to the sea Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Zoos ZOO DOINGS, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the zoo do view the zebu Last Line: View what zebus and kudus do Subject(s): Animals; Zoos ZOO GARDENS REVISITED, by ATTIPAT KRISHNASWAMI RAMANUJAN Poem Source First Line: Once flamingoes reminded me of long-legged aunts in white Subject(s): Animals ZOO-KEEPER'S WIFE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can stay awake all night, if need be --- Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Animals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ZOOLOGY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh! Merry is the madrepore that sits beside the sea Last Line: "let tyndall, haeckel, bastian, go wrangle as they will" Subject(s): Animals;zoos ZULIA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zulia, my little cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats ZZZZZZ, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bee begins with letter b Last Line: His flight concludes with %zzzzzz Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals [OLD] MOTHER TABBYSKINS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sitting at her window, in her cloak and hat Last Line: For all doctors are not mice; some are dogs you see! Subject(s): Animals; Cats |
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