Animal Poems

Animal Poems

To a Cat Which Had Killed a Favorite Bird, by Agathias

O CAT in semblance, but in heart akin
To cani...

Paris, by Alan Seeger

I First, London, for its myriads; for its he...

The Ballad of Ruth Blay, by Albert Laighton

An old lady, who was present at the execution ...

Ebb and Flow, by Albert Laighton

I wandered alone beside the stream;
The tide ...

In the Woods, by Albert Laighton

I walked alone in depths of Autumn woods;
The...

The Love of God, by Albert Laighton

All human love is a faint type of God's;
An e...

May-Flowers, by Albert Laighton

Children of the pathless wood,
Dwelling in de...

The Missing Ships, by Albert Laighton

O, thou ever restless sea,
"God's half-utter...

My Native River, by Albert Laighton

Like an azure vein from the heart of the main, ...

Oak and Vine, by Albert Laighton

Far out upon the lonely wold
There stands an o...

The Summer Shower, by Albert Laighton

A white haze glimmered on the hills,
The vale...

The Sunbeam, by Albert Laighton

A sunbeam through an open door
Streamed down t...

To My Soul, by Albert Laighton

Guest from a holier world,
O, tell me where ...

Sunset in Arkansas, by Albert Pike

Sunset again! Behind the massy green
Of the co...

Tennessee, by Albert Pike

WRITTEN FOR MRS. W. BARROW. The sunset flings ...

The Black Goat, by Albert Samain

THE Black Goat passes, looking for his bitches...

Cleopatra, by Albert Samain

I LEANING in silence on the tower-rampart,
T...

The Extreme Orient, by Albert Samain

AN evening music in the reed was heard.
I went...

October, by Albert Samain

TOWARD sweet October pilgrim winter creeps,
B...

The Orient, by Albert Samain

LIFE is a flower I scarcely breathe, for pain
...

Summer Hours, by Albert Samain

I PROLONG our love's contents
With a pallid w...

Visions, by Albert Samain

I I DREAMED of a jungle flowered with burning ...

The Dinosaur at Old Faithful, by Albert Whipple Hadley

A Dinosaur reared to his uttermost height
and ...

In Summer, by Alcaeus

Come, wet thy chest with wine: the dog-star no...

No More for Lycus, by Alcaeus

No more for Lycus will I sigh,
Or seek his fo...