Animal Poems

Animal Poems

Eunica; or, The Herdsman, by Moschus

When lately I offer'd Eunica to kiss,
She fle...

Europa, by Moschus

Cypris, when all but shone the dawn's glad bea...

Lament for Bion, by Moschus

Ye mountain valleys, pitifully groan!
Rivers ...

Megara, by Moschus

'Why dost thou vex thy spirit, mother mine?
W...

The Ocean, by Moschus

When winds that move not its calm surface sweep...

Pan, Echo, and the Satyr, by Moschus

Pan loved his neighbour Echo--but that child
O...

The Runaway Lover, by Moschus

Her Eros thus proclaimed the Cyprian Queen; --
...

Little Miss Muffet, by Mother Goose

Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet,
Eating h...

Evening, by Mrs. O. M. Livingston

Twilight is gone, and Evening now
Her sable m...

The Evening Rain, by Mrs. O. M. Livingston

Plaintively echoes the evening rain,
Dropping...

The Leaves on the Stream, by Mrs. O. M. Livingston

Flow on, flow on, thou classic stream,
In q...

Morning, by Mrs. O. M. Livingston

The night is melting into day,
The crowing bi...

Mysterious Nature, by Mrs. O. M. Livingston

'Tis a mysterious thing to see the earth
Put o...

The Slave's Soliloquy, by Mrs. O. M. Livingston

I am a slave! Oh why was I born!
Why was I mad...

Sunset, by Mrs. O. M. Livingston

Ye sunset clouds like flakes of gold,
That fl...

To the Delaware River, by Mrs. O. M. Livingston

Thou brightly flowing Delaware,
Whose waters ...

Multiplying the Moon, by Myra Schneider

From Multiplying the Moon (Enitharmon Press 200...

Paula's Bowl, by Myra Schneider

From Circling The Core (Enitharmon Press 2008) ...

Aurora Borealis, by Nellie Seelye Evans

There is a flower of climate rare,
That never...

Spring, by Nellie Seelye Evans

The lawn's green silk is softly drawn
About th...

Summer, by Nellie Seelye Evans

The pollen on a bee's wing,
His hum against t...

A Sunset, by Nellie Seelye Evans

Across a sea of splendor
An emerald ship saile...

The Raven, by Nicarchus

The gloom of death is on the raven's wing,
Th...

The First Phebe, by Obadiah Cyrus Auringer

Sweet latest herald of the spring,
Fresh from...

The Old Balsam, by Obadiah Cyrus Auringer

Year in, year out, unchanged thou standest th...