Animal Poems

Animal Poems

Sand Martins, by Jean Ingelow

I passed an inland-cliff precipitate;
From ti...

Shudders of Flowers, by Jean Lahor

IN summer eves the flowers have languors of
Wo...

A Spring Morning, by Jean Lahor

THE crimson morning dazzled me mine eyes,
Thi...

The Investiture, by Jean Moréas

WE will walk by the grating of the park,
When...

The Ruffian, by Jean Moréas

IN the splendid casket of its scarlet lining
H...

Voices Returning, by Jean Moréas

VOICES returning, cradle us, cradling voices:...

California, by Joaquin Miller

I stand beside the mobile sea;
And sails are ...

The Battle Flag at Shenandoah, by Joaquin Miller

The tented field wore a wrinkled frown,
And t...

The Defense of the Alamo, by Joaquin Miller

Santa Anna came storming, as a storm might com...

The Plains of Arizona, by Joaquin Miller

THOU white and dried-up sea! So old!
So strewn...

Christmas Morning, by Jody Azzouni

Originally appeared in Voices International
Vo...

Kill a Rabbit, by Jody Azzouni

Originally appeared in the APA's Newsletter on ...

Odin Gets to See It All, by Jody Azzouni

Originally appeared in California Quarterly
Sp...

Kiss I, by Johannes Secundus

When young Ascanius, by the Queen of Love,
W...

Kiss III, by Johannes Secundus

"One Kiss, enchanting Maid!" (I cry'd; )--
On...

Kiss VI, by Johannes Secundus

Two Thousand Kisses of the sweetest kind,
'Tw...

Kiss VII, by Johannes Secundus

Kisses told by Hundreds o'er!
Thousands told b...

Kiss VIII, by Johannes Secundus

Ah! What ungovern'd rage, declare,
Neæ...

Kiss IX, by Johannes Secundus

Cease thy sweet, thy balmy Kisses;
Cease thy...

Kiss XIV, by Johannes Secundus

Those tempting lips of scarlet glow,
Why pout...

Kiss XVIII, by Johannes Secundus

When Cytherea first beheld
Those lips with rub...

Kiss XIX, by Johannes Secundus

Why wing your flight, ye bees! From flow'r to ...

The Lost Atlantis, by John Alexander Joyce

The night of ages is passing away,
Yet the da...

In Bohemia, by John Boyle O'Reilly

I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other la...

Love, and Be Wise, by John Boyle O'Reilly

Not on the word alone
Let love depend;
Neith...