Animal Poems

Animal Poems

After the Winter, by Claude McKay

Some day, when trees have shed their leaves
A...

America, by Claude McKay

Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,
An...

Flirtation, by Claude McKay

Upon thy purple mat thy body bare
Is fine and ...

Morning Joy, by Claude McKay

At night the wide and level stretch of wold,
...

A Red Flower, by Claude McKay

Your lips are like a southern lily red,
Wet w...

To a Poet, by Claude McKay

There is a lovely noise about your name,
Abov...

To Winter, by Claude McKay

Stay, season of calm love and soulful snows!
...

The Tropics in New York, by Claude McKay

Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root,
Coc...

Circe, by Walter Wykes

your mansion rises
in the middle of a clearing...

O, Ancient Rulers of the Earth, by Walter Wykes

I. O, ancient rulers of the Earth,
O, rac...

Behind the Blameless Trees, by Rainer Maria Rilke

Behind the blameless trees
old fate slowly bui...

I Live My Life in Spreading Rings, by Rainer Maria Rilke

I live my life in spreading rings
that encompa...

Just As On the Last Day, by Rainer Maria Rilke

Just as on the last day the dead will tear them...

Last Evening, by Rainer Maria Rilke

Night and the sound of distant transport as tro...

The Panther, by Rainer Maria Rilke

His gaze has grown so weary from passing the ba...

Alexis, by Virgil

Alexis, beauteous, and his lord's delight,
...

Gallus, by Virgil

This closing effort, Arethusa, aid;
A few b...

Georgic I, by Virgil

Whence joyful harvests spring, what heav'nly s...

Georgic II, by Virgil

Thus far the tilth of fields and stars of heave...

Georgic III, by Virgil

Thee too, great Pales, will I hymn, and thee...

Georgic IV, by Virgil

Of air-born honey, gift of heaven, I now
Tak...

Meliboeus, by Virgil

Daphnis beneath a whispering holm reclined,
A...

The Messiah, by Virgil

Sicilian Muse, begin a loftier strain!
Tho' l...

O Virgin, by Virgil

O virgin! Or what other name you bear
Above th...

Pharmaceutria, by Virgil

The tale of love Alphesiboeus sung
And Damon, ...