Animal Poems

Animal Poems

How to Love a Monster, by Sylvia Parker

For Peter Lorre Only when I'm lost in your emb...

Ever Watchful, by Ta' Abbata Sharra

Nor exults he nor complains he; silent bears wh...

If this is how God paints, by Tabitha Bird

If His brush strokes are the green carpet of mo...

Arcadia, by Teresa Hooley

Bareheaded to winds of summer,
Through the su...

Beauty Eternal, by Teresa Hooley

To-day I saw a butterfly,
The first-born of ...

In a Wild Garden, by Teresa Hooley

Men cut down the trees here,
Years ago.
Now ...

Inheritance, by Teresa Hooley

The shadow of a flying bird
Dark on a dew-whit...

September, by Teresa Hooley

The swallows wheel about the sky,
Trying thei...

Easy Friends, by Theognis of Megara

Never engage with a poltroon or craven--
Avoid...

Human Nature, by Theognis of Megara

Learn, Kurnus, learn to bear an easy mind;
...

The Poet and His Muse, by Theognis of Megara

You soar aloft, and over land and wave
Are bo...

Poverty, by Theognis of Megara

For noble minds, the worst of miseries,
Wors...

A Time for Wine, by Theognis of Megara

Now that in mid career, checking his force,
...

The Ghost of Love, by Theophilus Marzials

The wan witch at the creepy midnight hour,
Wh...

The Love Token, by Theophilus Marzials

She has griffins twain to guard her gate,
A m...

The Battle of Naseby, by Thomas Babington Macaulay

Oh! Wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the...

Horatius, by Thomas Babington Macaulay

A Lay Made about the Year of the City CCCLX I ...

Alaska, by Thomas Campbell

ANGEL of life! Thy glittering wings explore
Ea...

Freedom and Love, by Thomas Campbell

How delicious is the winning
Of a kiss at love...

Lord Ullin's Daughter, by Thomas Campbell

A chieftain, to the Highlands bound,
Cries,...

Ask Me No More Where Jove Bestows, by Thomas Carew

Ask me no more where Jove bestows,
When June ...

Arnold at Stillwater, by Thomas Dunn English

Benedict Arnold at the Battle of Stillwater, 1...

A Thunderstorm in Town, by Thomas Hardy

A Reminiscence: 1893 She wore a new 'terra-cot...

Matin Song, by Thomas Heywood

Pack, clouds, away! And welcome, day!
With ...

On the Death of the Giraffe, by Thomas Hood

They say, God wot!
She died upon the spot:
...