Animals

The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Caught this morning morning's minion, king-
Ode on the death of a favorite cat by Thomas Gray
Twas on a lofty vase's side
Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry] by Christopher Smart
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.
Mother Doesn't Want a Dog by Judith Viorst
Mother doesn't want a dog.
The Paper Nautilus by Marianne Moore
For authorities whose hopes
Leda and the Swan by W. B. Yeats
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
The Tyger by William Blake
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell
Nautilus Island's hermit
The Armadillo by Elizabeth Bishop
This is the time of year
The Moose by Elizabeth Bishop
From narrow provinces
The Return by Frances Richey
What do you say when you've forgotten
27,000 Miles by Albert Goldbarth
These two asleep . . . so indrawn and compact
Turn of a Year by Joan Houlihan
This is regret: or a ferret. Snuffling
Darwin's Finches by Deborah Digges
My mother always called it a nest
Mole by Wyatt Prunty
For weeks he’s tunneled his intricate need
Thing by Rae Armantrout
We love our cat
Bats by Paisley Rekdal
unveil themselves in dark
Nelson, My Dog by Gary Soto
Like the cat he scratches the flea camping in fur
The Eagle by Lord Alfred Tennyson
He clasps the crag with crooked hands
The Crocodile by Lewis Carroll
How doth the little crocodile
The Bear by Galway Kinnell
In late winter
The Kitten and The Falling Leaves by William Wordsworth
See the kitten on the wall, sporting with the leaves that fall
At the Zoo by William Makepeace Thackeray
First I saw the white bear, then I saw the black
The Fly by William Blake
Little fly
The Caterpillar by Robert Graves
Under this loop of honeysuckle
How Doth the Little Busy Bee by Isaac Watts
How doth the little busy bee
Psalm by George Oppen
In the small beauty of the forest
The Dusk of Horses by James Dickey
Right under their noses, the green
The Parakeets by Alberto Blanco
They talk all day
A List of Praises by Anne Porter
Give praise With psalms that tell the trees to sing
Wild Gratitude by Edward Hirsch
Tonight when I knelt down next to our cat, Zooey
Wilderness by Carl Sandburg
There is a wolf in me
Hawk by Daniel Waters
All eyes are fearful of the spotted hawk
Goldfish Are Ordinary by Stacie Cassarino
At the pet store on Court Street
The Snail by William Cowper
To grass, or leaf, or fruit, or wall
Ho Ho Ho Caribou by Joseph Ceravolo
Leaped at the caribou