Animal Poems

Animal Poems

The Primrose Dance: Tivoli, by Arthur Symons

TO MINNIE CUNNINGHAM Skirts like the amber pet...

The Wood-Nymph, by Arthur Symons

After a picture by Burne Jones The green leave...

California Pioneers of Early Days Crossing the Plains, by August Wilhelm Wern

Many a youth left home and friend
To pioneer a...

Grand Canyon, by August Wilhelm Wern

A wondrous sight that greets our eye
Beyond mo...

My Dream, by August Wilhelm Wern

A dream, and yet--was it a dream?
It vanished...

Silver Wedding Greeting, by August Wilhelm Wern

The wedding day of long ago
Is ever new to hea...

Sun God, by August Wilhelm Wern

Of many gods thus gone before,
That man did w...

Winter's Approach, by August Wilhelm Wern

What means this scampering bustling move?
Why ...

Remembering Permeability, by B. T. Joy

the idea is not to strive to be permeable to e...

Of Happiness to Mortal Man, by Bacchylides

Of happiness to mortal man One is the road, an...

Peace in all Her Sweetness Hail, by Bacchylides

Peace in all her sweetness hail!
No more the c...

Peace on Earth, by Bacchylides

To mortal men Peace giveth these good things:
...

Theseus, by Bacchylides

Blue shadows wreathed the galley's prow that bo...

The Bad Lands, by Badger Clark

No fresh green things in the Bad Lands bide;
...

The Coyote, by Badger Clark

Trailing the last gleam after,
In the valleys...

The Rains, by Badger Clark

You've watched the ground-hog's shadow and the ...

The Springtime Plains, by Badger Clark

Heart of me, are you hearing
The drum of hoof...

My Candy Girl, by Barry Comer

Green mint breath,   with a predator&rsq...

Don't Ever Feed a Dinosaur, by Baudelaire Jones

Don't ever feed a dinosaur.
He might bite off ...

If You Ever Meet a Dinosaur, by Baudelaire Jones

If you ever meet a dinosaur,
I wouldn't stand...

The Smallest Dinosaur, by Baudelaire Jones

It must have been embarrassing
For tiny Compso...

Unseen, by Bee W. Hasler

In the blind darkness of unlit rooms
I was gro...

The Hour Glass, by Ben Jonson

Consider this small dust, here in the glass,
...

The Dogs, by Benjamin Peck Keith

If men in this world were as honest and true:
...