Animal Poems

Animal Poems

The Witch of York, by George Houghton

Up o'er the hill and broken wall
There stole a...

Wynhilda, by George Houghton

I Thou shalt not whimper, daughter mine!
No ...

Keenan's Charge, by George Parsons Lathrop

The Battle of Chancellorsville, 1863 The sun ...

The Last Monster, by George Sterling

In backward vision, from the primal dusk
I sa...

Nightfall, by George Sterling

Pure and argent, westward far,
Burns a solit...

War, by George Sterling

The night was on the world, and in my sleep
I...

A Winter Sunset, by George Sterling

There seems no wind in all the land.
Austere a...

A Gospel, by Georges Duhamel

O HAPPY feelings coming from outside,
You hav...

Water, by Georges Duhamel

THIS water hardly keeps a memory of its sources...

Long Expected, by Gerald Massey

O many and many a day before we met,
I knew s...

A Lover's Fancy, by Gerald Massey

Sweet Heaven! I do love a maiden,
Radiant, r...

This World is Full of Beauty, by Gerald Massey

There lives a voice within me, a guest-angel o...

To My Wife, by Gerald Massey

Like those Ambassadors of old, that went
To t...

Wedded Love, by Gerald Massey

The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth, ...

Charlie Sings the Blues, by Geraldine O'Kane

I don't care
if you have found a sitter,
for...

North for the Winter, by Greg Vovos

I was talking to this bird
and he was really p...

Ours, by Greg Vovos

We all have our own Nessie.   Mine if you ...

Spiked, by Greg Vovos

He wasn’ t sure what to do.
He couldn&rs...

I Dreamed of a Cruel Lad, by Gustave Kahn

I DREAMED of a cruel lad
torturing a little bi...

Homage, by Gustave Kahn

THY arms with bracelets I will deck,
and with...

The Fog, by Guy Wetmore Carryl

MARBLEHEAD, 1901. The fog slunk down from Lab...

Gloria Mundi, by Guy Wetmore Carryl

PARIS, 1900. Magician hands through long, la...

June, by Guy Wetmore Carryl

Lightsome, laughter-loving June,
Days that s...

Narcissus, by Guy Wetmore Carryl

Since the great, glad greeting of dawn from th...

The Passing of Pan, by Guy Wetmore Carryl

Laughter, velvet-lipped, runs ringing
All al...