Animal Poems

Animal Poems

The Invitation, by Anna Letitia Barbauld

HEALTH to my friend, and long unbroken years, ...

Life! I Know Not What Thou Art, by Anna Letitia Barbauld

Life! I know not what thou art,
But know tha...

The Mouse's Petition, by Anna Letitia Barbauld

Oh! Hear a pensive captive's prayer,
For libe...

Ode to Spring, by Anna Letitia Barbauld

Sweet daughter of a rough and stormy fire,
Ho...

Dream Catcher, by Anne Deborah Morgan

Blissfully I float
On candy floss clouds  ...

Metamorphosis, by Anne Deborah Morgan

Hope stirs like a diminutive butterfly
In the ...

Sweet Serenity, by Anne Deborah Morgan

Halcyon days
In lush green meadows.   Ca...

The Angel of Death, To the Suicide, by Anne S. Bushby

What would'st thou--mortal rash and blind?
Has...

Angels' Visits, by Anne S. Bushby

A NIGHT SCENE. The midnight hour had struck, ...

Christ's Invitation, by Anne S. Bushby

"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heav...

A Letter from Home, by Anne S. Bushby

In the bright sunny days of halcyon youth,
Wh...

The Mermaid's Song, by Anne S. Bushby

Hark, hark! What sound is yon I hear,
Borne ...

Oh! Such a Heavenly Night as This, by Anne S. Bushby

Oh! Such a heavenly night as this
Might almost...

The Queen of Night, by Anne S. Bushby

Now 'tis moonlight's softest hour,
When fairi...

The Soldier's Funeral, by Anne S. Bushby

Heard ye the sound of the muffled drum
And the...

The Werewolf, by Anne S. Bushby

'Twas at the middle hour of night;
And though...

Alba, by Antarah ibn Shaddad

The poets have muddled all the little fountains...

The Poem of Antara, by Antarah ibn Shaddad

Have the bards who preceded me left any theme u...

A Song of War, by Antarah ibn Shaddad

Go ask the warriors, O daughter of Malec, if ...

The Chain of Life is Perfect, by Ardelia Cotton Barton

Oh, take this pansy blossom,
And study well ...

Reincarnation, by Ardelia Cotton Barton

How strangely familiar all that I see,
The sw...

Tahiti, by Ardelia Cotton Barton

Tahiti fair is Heaven's own land--
A paradise ...

What Thought May Be, by Ardelia Cotton Barton

A blaze of glory, or a demon wild,
A phantom...

Chorus of Birds, by Aristophanes

Come on then, ye, dwellers by Nature in darkn...

The Ambiguous Dog, by Arthur Guiterman

The Dog beneath the Cherry-tree
Has ways that ...