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		Poems by William Makepeace Thackeray
		The Mahogany Tree


		Poems About Animals and Pets
		27,000 Miles by Albert Goldbarth

		Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry] by Christopher Smart

		A List of Praises by Anne Porter

		Bats by Paisley Rekdal

		Darwin's Finches by Deborah Digges

		Goldfish Are Ordinary by Stacie Cassarino

		Hawk by Daniel Waters

		Ho Ho Ho Caribou by Joseph Ceravolo

		How Doth the Little Busy Bee by Isaac Watts

		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

		Psalm by George Oppen

		Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell

		The Armadillo by Elizabeth Bishop

		The Bear by Galway Kinnell

		The Caterpillar by Robert Graves

		The Crocodile by Lewis Carroll

		The Dusk of Horses by James Dickey

		The Eagle by Lord Alfred Tennyson

		The Fly by William Blake

		The Kitten and The Falling Leaves by William Wordsworth

		The Moose by Elizabeth Bishop

		The Paper Nautilus by Marianne Moore

		The Parakeets by Alberto Blanco

		The Return by Frances Richey

		The Snail by William Cowper

		The Tyger by William Blake

		The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins

		Thing by Rae Armantrout

		Turn of a Year by Joan Houlihan

		Wild Gratitude by Edward Hirsch

		Wilderness by Carl Sandburg


		Poems for Kids
		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

		The Tyger by William Blake

		We never know how high we are (1176) by Emily Dickinson

		Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field

At the Zoo
by William Makepeace Thackeray

First I saw the white bear, then I saw the black; Then I saw the camel with a hump upon his back; Then I saw the grey wolf, with mutton in his maw; Then I saw the wombat waddle in the straw; Then I saw the elephant a-waving of his trunk; Then I saw the monkeys—mercy, how unpleasantly they smelt!
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