Animal Poems

Animal Poems

The Slave's Dream, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Beside the ungathered rice he lay,
His sickle...

The Spirit of Poetry, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is a quiet spirit in these woods,
That ...

Suspiria, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Take them, O Death! And bear away
Whatever th...

Tegner's Drapa, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I heard a voice, that cried,
"Balder the Bea...

To a Child, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Dear child! How radiant on thy mother's knee,
...

To the Driving Cloud, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Gloomy and dark art thou, O chief of the might...

The Village Blacksmith, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village sm...

The Warning, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Beware! The Israelite of old, who tore
The li...

The Wreck of the Hesperus, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It was the schooner Hesperus,
That sailed th...

The Maldive Shark, by Herman Melville

About the Shark, phlegmatical one,
Pale sot ...

Stonewall Jackson, by Herman Melville

Mortally wounded at Chancellorsville
--May, 1...

Atlantis, by Herman Scheffauer

Westward the pillars slender
Of Hercules it la...

3:21 am, by Hicham Bensassi

Traffic was stirring;
Slow hum was red carria...

Atlantis, by Horace G. Groser

Far out beyond the furrowed seas they lie,
Th...

In Quest of Summer, by Horace G. Groser

So long the rain-clouds saddening lay
Across t...

Peace, by Horace G. Groser

Buffeted by the world's unequal strife,
And h...

The Immortality of Verse, by Horace

Lest you should think that verse shall die,
W...

To Mæcenas, by Horace

Descended of an ancient line,
That long the T...

The Wing of Separation, by Ibn Darraj Al-Andalûsi

The wing of separation
Bore me away;
The flu...

African Scenery, Birds, and Fruits, by Isaac McLellan

Enchanting scenes o'er Afric's mystic land
Sin...

The Antiquary's Armory, by Isaac McLellan

WEAPONS OF WAR AND CHASE They hang on the carv...

Autumn, by Isaac McLellan

Now in the fading woods, the Autumn blast
Cha...

Christmas Time, by Isaac McLellan

The year is well-nigh ended, the leaf is sere ...

The Death of Napoleon, by Isaac McLellan

Wild was the night, yet a wilder night,
Hung...

The Decayed Chapel, by Isaac McLellan

Grey Church! The Twilight's dying fire
Hath fa...