Animal Poems

Animal Poems

In Nature's Realm, by Andrew Downing

The earth is bright and dewy-fresh
As Dian, r...

In Winter Time, by Andrew Downing

Though leafless are my trees--
My trees so tal...

Life's Common Things, by Andrew Downing

The common things of life are best--
The air, ...

October, by Andrew Downing

Full wealth of pleasing sights
October brings ...

The Oriole, by Andrew Downing

In robe of orange, and of black,
With mellow...

The Red Bird, by Andrew Downing

When the summer sky is a tent of blue,
And ro...

Song of the Sand Storm, by Andrew Downing

I am the pitiless Sand Storm,
The whelp of a ...

A Summer Night, by Andrew Downing

The warm, long day is ended,
The cooler nigh...

The Sunflower State, by Andrew Downing

Doubtless you have heard the saying, Kansas la...

Winter Birds, by Andrew Downing

Fair is the sky, for the cloud-rack is lifted-...

Winter Sunshine, by Andrew Downing

It scarcely seems winter, so faint is the bree...

The Mower to the Glo-Worms, by Andrew Marvell

Ye living Lamps, by whose dear light
The Nigh...

To My Books, by André Spire

YOU, you have given me my noblest pleasures,
...

Coming Home from the Fair, by Anna Katherine Green

She thinks she is pretty--look there!
How she ...

A Legend of Antwerp, by Anna Katherine Green

They led him forth. The morning sun
Was shinin...

Myrna, by Anna Katherine Green

When first I saw him, I but saw
The shadow on...

The Nightingale, by Anna Katherine Green

And now soft night hath ta'en her seat on high,...

One Month, by Anna Katherine Green

A little month ago, and in my ear
I heard you...

Premonition, by Anna Katherine Green

The sweetest hour in all love's wond'rous story...

Three Letters, by Anna Katherine Green

I   FROM HIM TO HER Sweet, when I gave m...

Through the Trees, by Anna Katherine Green

If I had known whose face I'd see
Above the he...

Come, Said Jesus, by Anna Letitia Barbauld

Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy la...

Corsica, by Anna Letitia Barbauld

Hail, generous Corsica! Unconquered isle!
The...

The Groans of the Tankard, by Anna Letitia Barbauld

OF strange events I sing, and portents dire;
...