Cow Poems

Cow Poems

Initial, Daemonic and Celestial Love, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I. THE INITIAL LOVE Venus, when her son was l...

The Cow in Apple Time, by Robert Frost

SOMETHING inspires the only cow of late
To mak...

Maple, by Robert Frost

Her teacher's certainty it must be Mabel
Made ...

Cousin Nancy, by T. S. Eliot

Miss Nancy Ellicott Strode across the hills and...

I Sing the Body Electric, by Walt Whitman

1 I sing the body electric,
The armies of t...

Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman

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

There Was a Child Went Forth, by Walt Whitman

There was a child went forth every day,
And t...

This Compost, by Walt Whitman

1 Something startles me where I thought I was...

South State Street: Chicago, by Maxwell Bodenheim

I Rows of blankly box-like buildings
Raise th...

Uneasy Reflections, by Maxwell Bodenheim

Determinedly peppered with signs,
The omnibus...

Roads, by Amy Lowell

I know a country laced with roads,
They join ...

A Tale of Starvation, by Amy Lowell

There once was a man whom the gods didn't love,...

The Book of Thel, by William Blake

I The daughters of Mne Seraphim led round thei...

Remembering Permeability, by B. T. Joy

the idea is not to strive to be permeable to e...

The Praise of Self-respect and Valour, by Bhartrhari

Worn with hunger, faint and feeble, shorn of ...

Wild Flowers, by C. B. Langston

My fancy's queen, the muse, one day,
Presse...

Silent Noon, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass, --...

Pastoral, by Edna St. Vincent Millay

If it were only still!--
With far away the shr...

The Purple Cow, by Gelett Burgess

I Never saw a Purple Cow,
I never hope to see...

Hunting the Hippopotamus, by Isaac McLellan

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

The Witch's Daughter, by John Greenleaf Whittier

It was the pleasant harvest time,
When cellar...

At the Twilight Hour, by Mary Dow Brine

A soft, sweet fragrance in the air
Of dew-wet...

Life in the Country, by Mary T. Lathrap

Spring Arbor, July, 1860. O! Beautiful spot ...

The Cow, by Oliver Herford

The Cow is too well known, I fear,
To need ...

Fight, by Percy MacKaye

The Tale of a Gunner at the Battle of Plattsbur...