Animal Poems

Animal Poems

Pollio, by Virgil

Muses of Sicily, a loftier strain
Be ours: th...

Priam's Fate, by Virgil

Perhaps you may of Priam's fate inquire.
He--w...

Silenus, by Virgil

First breathed my Muse the Syracusan strain,
...

Amsterdam, by Francis Jammes

THE pointed houses lean so you would swear
Tha...

The Cricket's Song, by Francis Jammes

LAST night the cricket sang when all was still....

The Dead Child, by Francis Jammes

A small house with a dog in front..
O my love!...

I Love ..., by Francis Jammes

I LOVE in old days Clara d'Ellé beuse,
...

In the Foliage, by Francis Jammes

As I stand in the foliage
     ...

Love, by Francis Jammes

LASS, when they talk of love, laugh in their ...

The Old Village, by Francis Jammes

THE old village was with roses filled,
And I ...

Dinner at the Hotel de la Tigresse Verte, by Donald Evans

I. TERRACE As they sat sipping their glasses i...

In the Vices, by Donald Evans

Gay and audacious crime glints in his eyes,
A...

Marise Kissing Her Shoulders, by Donald Evans

It is Easter morning,
And my beloved, with a...

The Mother of God: Acute Alcoholism, by Donald Evans

There was a snake in the gutter--
She was posi...

Somnambulist, by Donald Evans

Like a long winding-sheet unrolled
Across the ...

On His Blindness, by John Milton

When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half...

A Psalm of Life, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but ...

Oh, Stay at Home, My Lad, and Plough, by A. E. Housman

Oh stay at home, my lad, and plough
The land...

Marozia, by A. Ferdinand Herold

UPON the terrace where the shadow falls,
Enga...

The Bear Hunt, by Abraham Lincoln

A wild-bear chase, didst never see?
Then hast...

The Suicide’s Soliloquy, by Abraham Lincoln

Here, where the lonely hooting owl
Sends fort...

Aphrodite Speaks, by Aeschylus

The pure, bright heaven still yearns to blend ...

The Price of War, by Aeschylus

From Agamemnon Spectral forms in visions of th...

Bacchanal Eurynome, by Agathias

I, BACCHANAL Eurynome, to roam
The mountain ...

My Partridge, by Agathias

My partridge, wand'rer from the hills forlorn,...