Oh, black Persian cat! Was not your life already cursed with offspring? We took you for rest to that old Yankee farm, -- so lonely and with so many field mice in the long grass -- and you return to us in this condition --! Oh, black Persian cat. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BRAVEST BATTLE by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER THE DYING SWAN by ALFRED TENNYSON THE PERSIANS (PERSAE): XERXES DEFEATED by AESCHYLUS THE RHYME OF SIR LAUNCELOT BOGLE; A LEGEND OF GLASGOW by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN THE IVY; ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG FRIEND by BERNARD BARTON |