Buffalo Poems

Buffalo Poems

Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman

1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And...

Starting from Paumanok, by Walt Whitman

1 Starting from fish-shape Paumanok where I w...

Funeral Song for the Indian Chief Blackbird, by Amy Lowell

BURIED SITTING UPRIGHT ON A LIVE HORSE ON A BLU...

The Sunflower State, by Andrew Downing

Doubtless you have heard the saying, Kansas la...

California Pioneers of Early Days Crossing the Plains, by August Wilhelm Wern

Many a youth left home and friend
To pioneer a...

The Permian Beds of Texas, by Charles Hazelius Sternberg

In Texas, where the Wichita
Enrodes a gash, ...

To the Driving Cloud, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

African Scenery, Birds, and Fruits, by Isaac McLellan

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

The Flight of the Buffalo, by Isaac McLellan

Where vast and far the rustling grass burns wit...

The Gorilla, by Isaac McLellan

High beats the hunter's heart when all the nigh...

Hunting the Hippopotamus, by Isaac McLellan

'Twas a fair river, fring'd with drooping reed...

Rhinoceros Hunting, by Isaac McLellan

For days the hunter march'd o'er wooded hills
...

The Scenery and Game of Wyoming Territory, by Isaac McLellan

Twilight silently, softly falls,
Touching va...

Fight of a Buffalo with Wolves, by James McIntyre

A buffalo, lord of the plain,
With massive n...

The Plains of Arizona, by Joaquin Miller

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

Indian Mascot, by Joshua Knight

Filling in for an absent teacher
at a middle s...

King George III, by Joshua Knight

He became King of England in 1761,
a sickly ...

The Mississippi, by Watie W. Swanzy

Majestic river! In thy onward course,
Like th...