Roads (Amy Lowell Poem)
I know a country laced with roads, They join the hills and they span the brooks, They weave like a ...
Poems about paws (31 Poems)
The Jumblies (Edward Lear Poem)
I They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea: In spite of ...
To Failure (Philip Larkin Poem)
You do not come dramatically, with dragons That rear up with my life between their paws And dash me butchered ...
The Truce of the Bear (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Yearly, with tent and rifle, our careless white men go By the Pass called Muttianee, to shoot in the vale ...
Follow Me ‘ome (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
There was no one like 'im, 'Orse or Foot, Nor any o' the Guns I knew; An' because it was ...
Endymion: Book II (John Keats Poem)
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
Jerome (Randall Jarrell Poem)
Each day brings its toad, each night its dragon. Der heilige Hieronymus--his lion is at the zoo-- Listens, listens. All ...
The Glove and The Lions (James Henry Leigh Hunt Poem)
King Francis was a hearty king, and loved a royal sport, And one day as his lions fought, sat looking ...
Jet (Tony Hoagland Poem)
Sometimes I wish I were still out on the back porch, drinking jet fuel with the boys, getting louder and ...
Australia (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
A Nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey In the field uniform of modern wars, Darkens her hills, those ...
The Early Purges (Seamus Heaney Poem)
I was six when I first saw kittens drown. Dan Taggart pitched them, 'the scraggy wee shits', Into a bucket; ...
The Ruined Maid (Thomas Hardy Poem)
"O 'Melia, my dear, this does everything crown! Who could have supposed I should meet you in Town? And whence ...
On The Death Of A Favourite Cat, Drowned In A Tub Of Gold Fishes (Thomas Gray Poem)
'Twas on a lofty vase's side, Where China's gayest art had dyed The azure flowers that blow, Demurest of the ...
Two Wishes XI (Khalil Gibran Poem)
In the silence of the night Death descended from God toward the earth. He hovered above a city and pierced ...
Peace XVIII (Khalil Gibran Poem)
The tempest calmed after bending the branches of the trees and leaning heavily upon the grain in the field. The ...
The Lion For Real (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
"Soyez muette pour moi, Idole contemplative..." I came home and found a lion in my living room Rushed out on ...
The Return of Albert (Marriott Edgar Poem)
You've 'eard 'ow young Albert Ramsbottom, In the Zoo up at Blackpool one year, With a stick and 'orse's 'ead ...
Albert’s Return (Marriott Edgar Poems)
You've `eard `ow young Albert Ramsbottom At the zoo up at Blackpool one year With a stick with an `orse's ...
The Human Face (Paul Eluard Poem)
I. Soon Of all the springtimes of the world This one is the ugliest Of all of my ways of ...
Sweeney among the Nightingales (T. S. Eliot Poem)
APENECK SWEENEY spreads his knees Letting his arms hang down to laugh, The zebra stripes along his jaw Swelling to ...
The Ad-Dressing Of Cats (T. S. Eliot Poem)
You've read of several kinds of Cat, And my opinion now is that You should need no interpreter To understand ...
Metro North (Mark Doty Poem)
Over the terminal, the arms and chest of the god brightened by snow. Formerly mercury, formerly silver, surface yellowed by ...
1. Faith (Mark Doty Poem)
"I've been having these awful dreams, each a little different, though the core's the same- we're walking in a field, ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
‘Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch, (Emily Dickinson Poems)
'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch, That nearer, every Day, Kept narrowing its boiling Wheel Until the Agony Toyed ...
He fumbles at your Soul (Emily Dickinson Poem)
He fumbles at your Soul As Players at the Keys Before they drop full Music on -- He stuns you ...
The Improvisatore (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
Flames (Billy Collins Poem)
Smokey the Bear heads into the autumn woods with a red can of gasoline and a box of wooden matches. ...
Senex (John Betjeman Poem)
Oh would I could subdue the flesh Which sadly troubles me! And then perhaps could view the flesh As though ...
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood (William Cullen Bryant Poem)
Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of ...