Animal Poems

Animal Poems

Night and the Soul, by Christopher Pearse Cranch

I went to bed with Shakespeare's flowing number...

The Rainbow, by Christopher Pearse Cranch

Child of the sunlight,
Flower of the skies,
...

To a Hummingbird, by Christopher Pearse Cranch

Tell us, tell us whence thou comest,
Little ...

Ab Initio--Ad Finem, by Clara Marcelle Farrar Greene

Two children stood on a blackened wharf,
Watc...

The Curse of Conemaugh, by Clara Marcelle Farrar Greene

Where's nature's breast with anguish riven,
U...

Foreshadowing, by Clara Marcelle Farrar Greene

I look within thine eyes,
My little child,
...

Lost Art, by Clara Marcelle Farrar Greene

O LIFE profound! Thine opening ways
Lay clear ...

The Magdalen, by Clara Marcelle Farrar Greene

My beautiful lilies down under the snow,
Hast...

Marah, by Clara Marcelle Farrar Greene

A year ago the moon, as now,
Crossed the sea...

Midsummer Morn, by Clara Marcelle Farrar Greene

A wondrous blue of summer sky,
A dream of fai...

Possession, by Clara Marcelle Farrar Greene

I I look upon the world, beloved,
Thy world...

Question--Answer, by Clara Marcelle Farrar Greene

WINTER. The sun is waning wan and old;
The d...

Spirits in Prison, by Clara Marcelle Farrar Greene

Hedge a lion in his lair,
Bind him fast with ...

Sweet Bells Jangled Out of Tune, by Clara Marcelle Farrar Greene

OPHELIA IN HAMLET. Adown the soft meadow, the...

The Reign of St. Helens (1980), by Clark Crouch

On this spring morning
everything seemed quite...

At Killybegs, by Clinton Scollard

At Killybegs above the crags
The gray gulls pi...

The Call, by Clinton Scollard

O'er violet-dotted height and king-cup hollow
...

A Cicada, by Clinton Scollard

Here's a hail, O brown cicada, tuning
In the...

The Cripple, by Clinton Scollard

I have dreams of the outer islands,
Firths an...

Midsummer Song, by Clinton Scollard

Dawnings of amber and amethyst eves;
Soft in ...

On Caragh Lake, by Clinton Scollard

I On Caragh lake the evening light
Is violet ...

Rahinane, by Clinton Scollard

Wrapt in mist and washed with rain
Is the hill...

A Sea Thrall, by Clinton Scollard

The murmur and the moaning of the sea,
They m...

The Spectral Rowers, by Clinton Scollard

What is that shimmering line of white
Gliding ...

Sylvia in the Springtime, by Clinton Scollard

Voice of the youth of the year,
Wren song and...