Animal Poems

Animal Poems

The Ride of Collins Graves, by John Boyle O'Reilly

An incident of the flood in Massachusetts, on ...

Star-Gazing, by John Boyle O'Reilly

Let be what is: why should we strive and wrestl...

A Tragedy, by John Boyle O'Reilly

A soft-breasted bird from the sea
Fell in love...

The Trial of the Gods, by John Boyle O'Reilly

"On a regular division of the [Roman] Senate, ...

A White Rose, by John Boyle O'Reilly

The red rose whispers of passion,
And the whi...

The Bluebird, by John Burroughs

A wistful note from out the sky,
"Pure, pure...

Bobolink, by John Burroughs

Daisies, clover, buttercup,
Red-top, trefo...

Columbine, by John Burroughs

I strolled along the beaten way,
Where hoary ...

The Crow, by John Burroughs

I My friend and neighbor through the year,
S...

Early May, by John Burroughs

The time that hints the coming leaf,
When bud...

Hepatica, by John Burroughs

When April's in her genial mood,
And leafy sm...

The Indigo-Bird, by John Burroughs

Oh, late to come but long to sing,
My little...

In October, by John Burroughs

Now comes the sunset of the verdant year,
Che...

A March Glee, by John Burroughs

I hear the wild geese honking
From out the mis...

Midsummer in the Catskills, by John Burroughs

The strident hum of sickle-bar,
Like giant in...

The Partridge, by John Burroughs

List the booming from afar,
Soft as hum of ro...

Snow-Birds, by John Burroughs

From out the white and pulsing storm
I hear th...

The Song of the Toad, by John Burroughs

Have you heard the blinking toad
Sing his solo...

To the Oregon Robin, by John Burroughs

KADIAK, July, 1899 O varied thrush! O robin ...

Guernica, by John Delaney

The main church bell rang
The heavy sound of e...

The Canonization, by John Donne

For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love,...

To His Mistress Going to Bed, by John Donne

Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defy, ...

Farewell, Ungrateful Traitor!, by John Dryden

Farewell, ungrateful traitor!
Farewell, my ...

Sweet William's Farewell to Black-Eyed Susan, by John Gay

All in the Downs the fleet was moored,
The st...

The Blind Men and the Elephant, by John Godfrey Saxe

A HINDU FABLE. I It was six men of Indostan
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