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William Blake
William Blake
A radical thinker for his day, William Blake privileged imagination over reason in the creation of his poetry and images....
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FURTHER READING
Poems About Animals and Pets
27,000 Miles
by Albert Goldbarth
At the Zoo
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Bats
by Paisley Rekdal
Darwin's Finches
by Deborah Digges
Evening Hawk
by Robert Penn Warren
from Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, lines 695-768
by Christopher Smart
Leda and the Swan
by W. B. Yeats
Mole
by Wyatt Prunty
Mother Doesn't Want a Dog
by Judith Viorst
Nelson, My Dog
by Gary Soto
Ode on the death of a favorite cat
by Thomas Gray
Skunk Hour
by Robert Lowell
The Armadillo
by Elizabeth Bishop
The Bear
by Galway Kinnell
The Crocodile
by Lewis Carroll
The Eagle
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Kitten and The Falling Leaves
by William Wordsworth
The Moose
by Elizabeth Bishop
The Paper Nautilus
by Marianne Moore
The Return
by Frances Richey
Thing
by Rae Armantrout
Turn of a Year
by Joan Houlihan
Poems for Kids
At the Zoo
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face
by Jack Prelutsky
Bleezer's Ice Cream
by Jack Prelutsky
Dream Variations
by Langston Hughes
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280)
by Emily Dickinson
Jabberwocky
by Lewis Carroll
maggie and milly and molly and may
by E. E. Cummings
Mary's Lamb
by Sarah Josepha Hale
Mother Doesn't Want a Dog
by Judith Viorst
Mr. Grumpledump's Song
by Shel Silverstein
My Shadow
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Sick
by Shel Silverstein
Since Hannah Moved Away
by Judith Viorst
The Crocodile
by Lewis Carroll
The Eagle
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Land of Counterpane
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Raven
by Edgar Allan Poe
We never know how high we are (1176)
by Emily Dickinson
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
by Eugene Field
Related Prose
From Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?
by Kenneth Koch
Notes on Ekphrasis
by Alfred Corn
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The Tyger  
by William Blake

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare sieze the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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