Animal Poems

Animal Poems

The First Fire of the Season, by Edith Matilda Thomas

The first fire of the season warms my hearth:
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The Life of a Bird, by Edith Matilda Thomas

Thou art clothed on with plumes, as with leave...

The Little Brown Bat, by Edith Matilda Thomas

Quoth the little brown bat: "I rise with the ow...

The Naturalist, by Edith Matilda Thomas

He bides at home, and treasures all
That to h...

Nature and Man, by Edith Matilda Thomas

Oh, the glance of the dew! Oh, the flame of t...

On the Eve of Sleep, by Edith Matilda Thomas

What is softer than two snowflakes meeting
In ...

Peace, by Edith Matilda Thomas

Much I desired when Youth did fire my veins,
...

Thefts of the Morning, by Edith Matilda Thomas

Bund us the Morning, mother of the stars
And ...

Tip's Kitten, by Edith Matilda Thomas

The master--he loved my kitten, my kitten;
S...

The Witch's Child, by Edith Matilda Thomas

'Tis Elfinell--a witch's child,
From holy min...

The Young of Spring, by Edith Matilda Thomas

There are so many, many young!
So many, in t...

The Angel of the Annunciation, by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

A holy angel came one night
With lilies in her...

Autumn, by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

The hazel tips that yellow in the light
Along ...

Bluebird, by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

Bright bird on yonder dreary, leafless tree,
...

Contoocook River, by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

Fair Contoocook, singing river,
Flowing over...

A Dream, by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

The world had long been sleeping;
The earth w...

Helen of Troy, by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

Helen of Troy, hard was thy ruling fate!
Woma...

A Landscape in Oils, by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

Though autumn, yet you somehow feel
That blue...

A May Evening, by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

A star that glimmers in the far-off gray
Of ev...

Memory, by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

Earth's memories pass like sands that run the h...

Night-Blooming Cereus, by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

Bride of the Night, clad in such fitting robes...

November, by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

Lush summer had her lavish treasure hurled
On ...

A Rejected Lover's Thought, by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

One moment I have held her to my breast
And lo...

The Snow, by Edith Willis Linn Forbes

Folding the earth in its mantle
Pure and undef...

Pan in Wall Street, by Edmund Clarence Stedman

Just where the Treasury's marble front
Looks o...