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Poems About Animals and Pets |
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27,000 Miles
by Albert Goldbarth |
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from The Kitten and Falling Leaves
by William Wordsworth |
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I Am! Said the Lamb [excerpt]
by Theodore Roethke |
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Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry]
by Christopher Smart |
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A Crocodile
by Thomas Lovell Beddoes |
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A List of Praises
by Anne Porter |
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Animals and Art
by Ron Padgett |
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At the Zoo
by William Makepeace Thackeray |
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Bats
by Paisley Rekdal |
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Darwin's Finches
by Deborah Digges |
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Eletelephony
by Laura Elizabeth Richards |
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Epitaph to a Dog
by George Gordon Byron |
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Flamingo Dreams
by William Saphier |
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Freedom in Ohio
by Jennifer Chang |
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Gila
by Rigoberto González |
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Goldfish Are Ordinary
by Stacie Cassarino |
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Grasshopper
by Ron Padgett |
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Hawk
by Daniel Waters |
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Ho Ho Ho Caribou
by Joseph Ceravolo |
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horse vision
by Julian T. Brolaski |
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How Doth the Little Busy Bee
by Isaac Watts |
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Leda and the Swan
by W. B. Yeats |
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Maine Seafood Company
by Matthew Dickman |
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Me and the Otters
by Dorothea Lasky |
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Mole
by Wyatt Prunty |
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Nonsense Alphabet
by Edward Lear |
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Orkney Interior
by Ian Hamilton Finlay |
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Psalm
by George Oppen |
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Quiet the Dog, Tether the Pony
by Marilyn Chin |
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Skunk Hour
by Robert Lowell |
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Testy Pony
by Zachary Schomburg |
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The Armadillo
by Elizabeth Bishop |
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The Bear
by Galway Kinnell |
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The Caterpillar
by Robert Graves |
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The Crocodile
by Lewis Carroll |
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The Dusk of Horses
by James Dickey |
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The Eagle
by Lord Alfred Tennyson |
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The Future is an Animal
by Tina Chang |
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The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me
by Delmore Schwartz |
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The Lorca Variations (XXVIII)
"For Turtles"
by Jerome Rothenberg |
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The Moose
by Elizabeth Bishop |
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The Paper Nautilus
by Marianne Moore |
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The Parakeets
by Alberto Blanco |
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The Purple Cow
by Gelett Burgess |
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The Return
by Frances Richey |
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The Snail
by William Cowper |
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The Tyger
by William Blake |
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The Windhover
by Gerard Manley Hopkins |
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Thing
by Rae Armantrout |
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To a Mouse,
by Robert Burns |
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Turn of a Year
by Joan Houlihan |
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Wild Gratitude
by Edward Hirsch |
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Wilderness
by Carl Sandburg |
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Woodchucks
by Maxine Kumin |
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Poems for Summer |
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Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where the bee sucks, there suck I]
by William Shakespeare |
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A Boat, Beneath a Sunny Sky
by Lewis Carroll |
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A Boy and His Dad
by Edgar Guest |
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A Green Crab's Shell
by Mark Doty |
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A Lesson for This Sunday
by Derek Walcott |
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A Path Between Houses
by Greg Rappleye |
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After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard
by Charles Wright |
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Aftermath
by Tony Connor |
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Alice at Seventeen: Like a Blind Child
by Darcy Cummings |
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Anastasia & Sandman
by Larry Levis |
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And You Thought You Were the Only One
by Mark Bibbins |
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Arms
by Richard Tayson |
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August
by Algernon Charles Swinburne |
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Back Yard
by Carl Sandburg |
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Bed in Summer
by Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Daffy Duck In Hollywood
by John Ashbery |
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Fat Southern Men in Summer Suits
by Liam Rector |
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Fishing on the Susquehanna in July
by Billy Collins |
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For Once, Then, Something
by Robert Frost |
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Ground Swell
by Mark Jarman |
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I know I am but summer to your heart (Sonnet XXVII)
by Edna St. Vincent Millay |
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I see the boys of summer
by Dylan Thomas |
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I, Up they soar
by Inger Christensen |
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Idyll
by Siegfried Sassoon |
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If You Get There Before I Do
by Dick Allen |
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In Summer
by Paul Laurence Dunbar |
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In Summer Time
by Paul Laurence Dunbar |
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In the Mountains on a Summer Day
by Li Po |
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Jack
by Maxine Kumin |
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Jet
by Tony Hoagland |
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June Light
by Richard Wilbur |
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Let Birds
by Linda Gregg |
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Long Island Sound
by Emma Lazarus |
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Making the Bed
by Burt Kimmelman |
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Midsummer
by William Cullen Bryant |
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Mint
by Elaine Terranova |
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Miracles
by Walt Whitman |
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Muffin of Sunsets
by Elaine Equi |
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My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer
by Mark Strand |
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On 52nd Street
by Philip Levine |
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On Summer
by George Moses Horton |
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On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
by John Keats |
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Poem at Thirty
by Michael Ryan |
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Poem for Adlai Stevenson and Yellow Jackets
by David Young |
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Psychoanalysis: An Elegy
by Jack Spicer |
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Rhode Island
by William Meredith |
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Sally's Hair
by John Koethe |
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18)
by William Shakespeare |
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Solstice
by Ellen Dudley |
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Sonnet 7 [The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings]
by Petrarch |
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South
by Jack Gilbert |
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Summer
by Amy Lowell |
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Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina
by Jack Gilbert |
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Summer Holiday
by Robinson Jeffers |
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Summer Images
by John Clare |
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Summer in the South
by Paul Laurence Dunbar |
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Summer Night, Riverside
by Sara Teasdale |
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Summer Nights and Days
by Rachel Hadas |
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Summer Past
by John Gray |
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Summer Song
by William Carlos Williams |
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Summer Stars
by Carl Sandburg |
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Summer X-Rays
by Nina Cassian |
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Swimming in the Presence of Lurid Opposition
by Sawako Nakayasu |
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The Abduction
by Stanley Kunitz |
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The Family Photograph
by Vona Groarke |
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The Fishermen at Guasti Park
by Maurya Simon |
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The Idea of Order at Key West
by Wallace Stevens |
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The Last Slow Days of Summer
by Phillip Lopate |
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The Philosopher in Florida
by C. Dale Young |
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The Summer House
by Tony Connor |
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The White Room
by Charles Simic |
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They'll spend the summer
by Joshua Beckman |
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This Lime Tree Bower My Prison
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Three Songs at the End of Summer
by Jane Kenyon |
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Vacation
by Rita Dove |
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Vertumnal [excerpt]
by Stephen Yenser |
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Vespers
by Louise Glück |
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Warm Summer Sun
by Mark Twain |
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Wildflower
by Stanley Plumly |
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