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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CATS Matches Found: 625 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "ON A YOUNG LADY'S FAVOURITE CAT, SELS.", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "happy puss, indulg'd to sip" Last Line: "tho admires, admiring dies" Subject(s): "animals;cats;philips, Ambrose (1674-1749); 1990 SPECIAL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Year-worn Subject(s): Death; Cats; Dead, The A CAT, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had a name among the children Last Line: She lived long, till god gave her rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Variant Title(s): "she Had A Name""; Subject(s): Animals; Cats A CAT MIGHT SIT UP IN A TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: I would hardly think him so Subject(s): Cats A CAT/A FUTURE, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cat can draw Subject(s): Cats A CATALECTIC MONODY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a cat I sing, of famous memory" Last Line: Embodyment of this catastrophe Subject(s): Animals;cats A FAMILY FAVORITE, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: Here lies a cat of local fame Last Line: All pure and beautiful. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Comedy; Death; Epitaphs; Reincarnation; Dead, The; Transmigration; Pretas A FUR PIECE, by PAMELA ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A likely story. The cat in the first sentence Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam Subject(s): Cats A LITTLE GIRL AND A PUSSY-CAT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said a little girl to a pussy-cat Last Line: "o little maid!"" said the pussy-cat." Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Cats; Girls; Animal Abuse; Vivisection A LITTLE LANGUAGE, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a little language of my cat, tho dante says Last Line: As if crouching, springs / to life Variant Title(s): A Little Language Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Language; Words; Vocabulary A MOUSE, A CAT, AND AN IRISH BULL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little mouse nibbled a limburger cheese Last Line: "I should die if I lived on such diet." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Mice A RABBIT AS KING OF THE GHOSTS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The difficulty to think at the end of day Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Rabbits; Hares A THANKSGIVING FABLE, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a hungry pussy cat, upon thanksgiving morning Last Line: But the little mouse had overheard and declined (with thanks) to stay. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day A WIDOW IN WINTERTIME, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night a baby gargled in the throes Last Line: Or waken in a caterwaul of dying. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Self-consciousness; Widows & Widowers; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism ABBIE BEN ADAMS, MAY HER LIFE BE SPARED, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Animals; Cats ACROSS THE KITCHEN FLOOR, by RICHARD MOORE Poem Source First Line: Strut, %swing- %ing %gut Last Line: Likes %cat %food Subject(s): Animals; Cats AD-DRESSING OF CATS, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've read of several kinds of cat Last Line: And there's how you ad-dress a cat Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats ADDRESS TO TYGER ON HIS STEALING THE AUTHOR'S STEAK, by JAMES AUSTEN Poem Source First Line: Sure you are tyger rightly named Last Line: Nor dare to steal a mutton steak Subject(s): Animals; Cats ADVENTURE, by MYRTA FENTON Poem Text First Line: The kitten has had an adventure, bold Last Line: Proud in the knowledge of brave deeds done. Subject(s): Animals; Cats AGAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: That tree again Last Line: Prowl Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Night; Summer; Trees ALL THE WIDE GRIN OF HIM, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is hovering in the air, there, in the highest Last Line: Soft, unsuspecting, milk rimming its grin. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Animals; Bombs; Cats; Smiles; Teeth; Toothaches ALLEY CAT, by ESTHER VALCK GEORGNS Poem Source First Line: A bit of jungle in the street Last Line: And slinking through the shadows, stalks %imaginary foes Subject(s): Animals; Cats ALLEY CAT, by FRANK STEVENS Poem Source First Line: I hope for nothing better than your smile Subject(s): Animals; Cats ALLEY CAT, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mangy and gaunt I walk the tiles tonight Last Line: Hot from the hand of ramses the third! Subject(s): Animals; Cats ALLI DYING, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shifts from one patch of shadow to another Subject(s): Cats; Death - Animals AMANDA, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source First Line: Amanda was an alley cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats AMBER SLEEPING, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: On the railing sleeps my cat Last Line: And waits his real meal at the door Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs AN APPEAL TO CATS IN THE BUSINESS OF LOVE; SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye cats that at midnight spit love at each other Last Line: Keep their feet, mount their tails, and away! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Love AN ENIGMATIC SIGNIFIER, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers; Cats AN OLD CAT'S CONFESSIONS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a very old pussy Last Line: And occasional herring and mouse. Subject(s): Animals; Cats AN OLD CAT'S DYING SOLILOQUY, by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Years saw me still acasto's mansion grace Last Line: Since thou, her more loved master, art not there.' Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Variant Title(s): A Favorite Cat's Dying Soliloquy Subject(s): Animals; Cats ANIMAL CONTROL, by JOHN DICKSON Poem Source First Line: It's seldom I get this close to stark Last Line: Or lies round and flat on the interstate highway - %a victoral record no one can hear Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Cats ANOTHER INSANE DEVOTION, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love - Lost; Cats; Food & Eating; Hunger APARTMENT CATS, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girls wake, stretch, and pad up to the door Last Line: How to stalk off in wise indifference Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Animals; Cats ARCHY AND MEHITABEL, SELS., by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Cockroaches ARMY CATS, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over by the cemetery next to the cp Subject(s): Lebanon; War; Bombs; Cats ARSINOE'S CATS, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Arsinoe, the fair, the amber-tressed Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Animals; Cats ARTIST'S BARN CAR, by RACHEL BARENBLAT Poem Source First Line: How bad a life can it be? Look Last Line: They hum without need %for vowels, just %like us Subject(s): Animals; Barns; Cats AS YOU WERE SAYING, by ALICE ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Telling me about rosebud Last Line: And sail downstream, %like gamblers, headed for reno Subject(s): Animals; Cats ASKING FOR A CAT, by HUANG CHING-JEN+(1) Poem Source First Line: Since autumn the rodents have taken Last Line: I purchased a fish strung on a willow twig %to beseech you for a kitty Subject(s): Animals; Cats; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278) BALLAD OF THE CATS OF BYGONE DAYS, by MICHAEL SCOT Poem Source First Line: Where is the cat with the fiddle gone? Subject(s): Animals; Cats BAST, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had green eyes, that excellent seer Subject(s): Animals; Cats BATH, by NANCY HEWITT Poem Source First Line: Something as simple as a cat's bath - Last Line: Out from between them %as if they were wings to fly Subject(s): Animals; Cats BETSEY TROTWOOD'S CAT, by LOUELLA C. POOLE Poem Source First Line: Yes, I love cats, I don't deny Subject(s): Animals; Cats BIRTH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The moment he glimpsed the cat under the tree Last Line: To sink his teeth deep %into a neighbouring smartalec rat. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Self; Wishes BLACK CAT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A ghost, though invisible, still is like a place Last Line: Inside the golden amber of her eyeballs %suspended, like a prehistoric fly Subject(s): Animals; Cats BLACK CAT IN PRUNUS-TREE, by JOSEPH BRADDOCK Poem Source First Line: Dark demon angel, by royal right Subject(s): Animals; Cats BLACK FRIDAY, by LOUELLA C. POOLE Poem Source First Line: Each friday morning, sharp at eight Subject(s): Animals; Cats BLIND CAT BLACK, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: An absent-minded tightrope walker comes. From the sea Last Line: Too big. The old hawker cries. A pirate ship. Has entered the port Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death - Children BLUE PERSIAN, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Source First Line: I have two servants Subject(s): Animals; Cats BLUE RIBBON CATS, by LALIA MITCHELL THORNTON Poem Source First Line: With folded claws, with eyes unblinking Subject(s): Animals; Cats BODY OF THE GREAT CAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All praise to thee, o ra Last Line: Truly the embodiment of the great cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats BORN WORRIER, by NANCY EIMERS Poem Source First Line: The afghan folds around my sleeping cat, lapping her back and belly Last Line: Before sleep blows the candle out Subject(s): Animals; Cats BOSTON CATS, by ARTHUR MACY Poem Source First Line: A little cat played on a silver flute Subject(s): Animals; Cats BOX-CAR RACER, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: At the top of high street Last Line: Jickety jackety %w h e e e! Subject(s): Animals; Cats BREAKFAST AND PUSS, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here's my baby's bread and milk Subject(s): Animals; Cats BREAKFAST AND PUSS, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here's my baby's bread and milk Subject(s): Animals; Cats BUBBA, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Lisa drove to syracuse Last Line: Fence tops dividing %neighboring yards Subject(s): Animals; Cats BUNCH: A CAT, by CLAUDE COLLEER ABBOTT Poem Source First Line: I opened a book Subject(s): Animals; Cats BURNING THE CAT, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the spring, by the big shuck-pile Last Line: Death, however reckoned, is hard to dispose of Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Corpses BUSTOPHER JONES: THE CAT ABOUT TOWN, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bustopher jones is not skin and bones Last Line: It must and it shall be spring in pall mall %while bustopher jones wears his white spats! Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats BYWAY IN BIOGRAPHY, by MAURICE EVAN HARE Poem Text First Line: Alfred de musset %used to call his cat pusset Last Line: His accent was affected. %that was only to be expected Variant Title(s): Alfred De Musse Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Musset, Alfred De (1810-1857) CARTOUCHE, by GREGORY N. GABBARD Poem Source First Line: The wedding of the cat Last Line: Darkening, %dilates Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by SUTARDJI CALZOUM BACHRI Poem Source First Line: Meow! There's a cat in my blood he roars he runs Last Line: And a slice for me shush pussy shush meow Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scholars and ardent lovers Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the hallways of my thought Last Line: Which comtemplate me fixedly Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by JEAN COCTEAU Poem Source First Line: By the fire, like drifting reddish goldfish Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sights a bird -- she chuckles Last Line: And fled with every one Variant Title(s): She Sights A Bird -- She Chuckles; Poem: 50 Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soft cat and the scratchy cat Last Line: Are data. -- imperviouness. -- integrity Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by RUSSELL EDSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An old man is dressed in lingerie. He does this to amuse his cat Last Line: Oh, that old thing, it died Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by MIROSLAV HOLUB Poem Source First Line: Outside it was night Last Line: To your own self Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cat %sleeps Last Line: Exists for the purposes of love Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by KUSATAO Poem Source First Line: Flourishing his head around Last Line: The moonlight cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by FRANCOIS ELIE JULES LEMAITRE Poem Source First Line: Philosopher and comrade, not for thee Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You get a wife, you get a house Last Line: You should have bought another mouse Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by NGUYEN TRAI Poem Source First Line: Well, cat, did you find enlightenment in the western paradise Last Line: Because we loathe mice, we put up with the likes of you Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by MARTHA OSTENSO Poem Source First Line: How many ages %of chinese ancestry Last Line: Who purred at an emperor's %overthrow? Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by WALTER ADOLPHE ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pleasures that I most enviously sense Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cats are not at all like people Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cats are not at all like people Last Line: People, of course, will always be people, %but cats are cats Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, by GILES LYTTON STRACHEY Poem Source First Line: Dear creature by the fire a-purr Last Line: Mysteriously gleams and glares Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT & THE WEATHER, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cat takes a look at the weather Last Line: He'll go right to sleep %until it puts itself right Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT AND MOUSE, by ELIZABETH PRATT Poem Text First Line: The claws of life at times remain Last Line: Then you can love and sing -- and pray. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Faith; Life; Mice; Belief; Creed CAT AND NORTHERN LIGHTS, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To think our cat was wandering Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT AND THE FOX, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With pious mien, a fox and a tom-cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables CAT AND THE LUTE, by THOMAS MASTER Poem Source First Line: Are these the strings that poets say Last Line: Hast played on them, I've played on you Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT AND THE MAN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Source First Line: Braith fach - a half-stone in the scales Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT AND THE MOON, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat went here and there Last Line: And lifts to the changing moon %his changing eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dancing And Dancers; Moon CAT AND THE PARTRIDGE, by DAMOCHARIS THE GRAMMARIAN Poem Source First Line: Your master grieved as though you'd savaged him Last Line: The mice can dance and rob your dainty bowl Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT AND THE SEA, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a matter of a black cat Last Line: With the cold interiors %of the sea's mirror Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Sea CAT AND THE WIND, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A small wind Last Line: When the wind bustles already %three gardens off Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT AS CAT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat on my bosom Last Line: Not mine. I-thou, cat, I-thou Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT AT NIGHT, by ADRIEN STOUTENBURG Poem Source First Line: The cat in moonlight Last Line: And loses it under the cottonwoods Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT CALLS, SELECTION, by ROBERT DE MONTESQUIOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night all cats are gray Last Line: At whom pelion recoils. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Terror CAT CHANGED INTO A WOMAN, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A man loved, heart and soul, his favorite cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables CAT CHANGED TO A WOMAN, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A man one time became dementedly fond of his cat Last Line: They will open a window and return Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT HAS THE LAST WORD, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: If you'd learn the way of cats Last Line: Carry the moon in your eyes Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT HEARD THE CAT-BIRD, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day, a fine day, a high-flying-sky day Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT IN AN EMPTY APARTMENT, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dying -- you wouldn't do that to a cat Subject(s): Cats CAT IN AN EMPTY APARTMENT, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dying -- you wouldn't do that to a cat Last Line: And no jumping, purring at first Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT IN THE PARK, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: If the cat had dragged himself into the cannas Last Line: But petals blown from the cannas, tongues of fire Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Relationships CAT INTO LADY, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A man possessed a cat on which he doted Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables CAT MORGAN INTRODUCES HIMSELF, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I once was a pirate what sailed the 'igh seas Last Line: If jist you make friends with the cat at the door Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT OF CATS, by VIVIEN BULKLEY Poem Source First Line: Now tom's translated, not a mouse Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT ON THE LEDGE, by LYDIA PENDER Poem Source First Line: Nonchalant cat Last Line: Somnolent cat! Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT ON THE MAT, by JOHN RONALD RENEL TOLKIEN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The fat cat on the mat Last Line: But fat cat on the mat %kept as pet %he does not forget Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT REVIEWS HIS FIRST FOUR LIVES, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Of my earliest life I just recall Last Line: I'd gladly live them all again Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT SCAT, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am watching cleo listening, our cat Last Line: Does , or can, the cat Subject(s): Cats; Music & Musicians CAT SITS AT THE MILL DOOR SPINNIN', SPINNIN', by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT STRIKE, by NOVICA TADIC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night the cats' cough wakes him up Last Line: The cats are on strike Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT TO HIS DINNER, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fern and flower, safely keep Last Line: Send me another as good as the first Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT UP A TREE, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Girl: come and see! There's a cat up a tree! Last Line: Some goldfish! A long-tailed shrew! Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT!, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cat! %scat! Last Line: That's %that! Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT'S CONSCIENCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The dog will often steal a bone Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT'S DREAM, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How neatly a cat sleeps Last Line: And the great ruff of your tail Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT'S EYE, by YORIE Poem Source First Line: In the eyes of the cat Last Line: On a sunny day, in winter Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT'S MEAT, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, all you cats in all the street Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT'S PRAYER, by HARRY SINCLAIR LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is a cat that sleeps at night Last Line: Thy tail is the comets' cause, %king of all cattery! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Sinclair Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT'S TONGUE, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT'S TONGUE, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT'S VERSION, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: In the beginning %when the cat could fly Last Line: Stuck to her whisker Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT'S WORLD, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I come in, you must leave the door ajar Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, CAT, HE WEARS A HAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: The cat you love - or so you say! Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT-GODDESSES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A perverse habit of cat-goddesses Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT-GODDESSES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A perverse habit of cat-goddesses Last Line: As soon they shall be happy to desert Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT-GODDESSES, by JOHN MONTAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A perverse habit of cat-goddesses Last Line: As soon they shall be happy to desert Subject(s): Animals; Cats CAT-TAIL, by C. A. F. MACBETH Poem Text First Line: Southward from old memphis, down the storied nile Last Line: Bast the cat has picked another tail! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Egypt CAT-TAILS, by KEN HUGHES Poem Text First Line: They stand in opaque dark Last Line: As onyx waters caress their feet. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Heads CAT: CHRISTMAS, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: There's always Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATALOG [CATALOGUE], SELS., by ROSALIE GERTRUDE MOORE Poem Source First Line: Cats sleep fat and walk thin Last Line: As if he were the city hall %after that Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATEGORICAL COURTSHIP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I sat one night beside a blue-eyed girl Last Line: And here's the catastrophe of my story Subject(s): Animals;cats;courtship CATNIP, by VALERIE WORTH Poem Source First Line: Musky mint Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lovers, scholars -- the fervent, the austere Last Line: Glisten in those enigmatic eyes Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are alike, prim scholar and perfervid lover Last Line: Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The feverent lover and the sage austere Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS, by EDITH RICHMOND BLANCHARD Poem Source First Line: They are not born secret, moon-eyed and still Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS, by FAZIL HUSNU DAGLARCA Poem Source First Line: The widow's %cat Last Line: Than the bride's Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS, by GUNNAR EKELOF Poem Source First Line: A cat is not a person, you say Last Line: Without wounds other than small claw-marks %little love-bites Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They fought like demons of the night Last Line: With fiddle-strings was strewn. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS, by ARTHUR SEYMOUR JOHN TESSIMOND Poem Source First Line: Cats, no less liquid than their shadows Last Line: Offer no angles to the wind Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Life Change Events CATS, by WILLIAM WALLACE WHITELOCK Poem Source First Line: Who are you, gray mysterious visitors Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS AND CROCUSES, by EVA MARTIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the crocus-bed I saw her Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS AND HUMANS - ALL THE SAME, by ANTHONY EUWER Poem Source First Line: Of all the beasts that live, we must Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS AND KINGS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With wide unblinking stare Last Line: The cat looked; but she never saw the king Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS HAVE COME TO TEA, by KATE GREENAWAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What did she see - oh, what did she see Last Line: Dear me - oh, dear me, %all the cats had come to tea Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS OF BADDECK ARE SO SATIN AND LEAN, by PHOEBE W. HOFFMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS OF KILKENNY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There once were two cats of kilkenny Last Line: Instead of two cats, there weren't any Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS OF ROME', by PAUL D. MCKERRY Poem Source Last Line: Thus leaving me %with these 'gatti.' Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Rome, Italy CATS OF SANTA ANNA, by TORQUATO TASSO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So many cats so often multiply Last Line: Unless it resembles cats and has a tail Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATS OF ST. NICHOLAS, by GEORGE SEFERIS Poem Source First Line: That's the cape of cats ahead,' the captain said to me Last Line: Steady as you go,' indifferently echoed the helmsman Subject(s): Animals; Cats CATSNEST, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tread %tread Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Animals; Cats CHANG MCTANG MCQUARTER CAT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Cats; Mathematics CHANG TUAN'S CATS, by WANG CHIH Poem Source First Line: Scholar chang tuan was fond of cats Last Line: And nothing could persuade chang %to part with them Subject(s): Animals; Cats CHANGE, by LALIA MITCHELL THORNTON Poem Source First Line: My kitten slept in a cushioned chair Subject(s): Animals; Cats CHARCOAL SKETCH, by MICHAEL SCOT Poem Source First Line: Uplifting suddenly slim fiery-golden anthers Subject(s): Animals; Cats CHARLEMAGNE, by VIKRAM SETH Poem Source First Line: Why scratch a scratching post when trousers Last Line: The hybrid vigor of the great Subject(s): Animals; Cats CHILDREN'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Cock-a-doodle-doo! I want my leftover rice Last Line: It has all dried up Subject(s): Animals; Cats CHRYSOBERYL: THE EYE OF THE CAT, by FELICITY BAST Poem Source First Line: At the crest of the arch of the timbrel Last Line: Of the changes of the moon Subject(s): Animals; Cats CLOUD FANTASIES: 1, by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A black enormous cat Last Line: Of the palpitant, covetous cat. Subject(s): Animals; Cats COLD MOUNTAIN POEMS: 158, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In other days, I was poor enough to suit Last Line: Around the rice-jar, rats wait hungrily Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Animals; Cats COMPANIONSHIP AT NIGHT, by AGNES STEWART BECK Poem Text First Line: An owl's weird cry comes across the hill Last Line: Keeps coming across the hill all night. Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats; Night; Owls; Trees; Bedtime COMPLAINT ON HER CAT (A MIDDLE-ENGLISH BALLAD), by DIANE ACKERMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Upon my trouthe, I saye you faithfully Last Line: When that he straieth from his moder tonge Subject(s): Animals; Cats CONCERNING KINSHIP OF CAT AND BIRD, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat's on the windowsill Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats CONCERNING KINSHIP OF CAT AND BIRD, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat's on the windowsill Last Line: Both protest and accusation as old as the elements Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats CONCERNING LOVE, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish she would not ask me if I love the Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Cats CONNOISSEURS, by DUGALD SUTHERLAND MACCOLL Poem Source First Line: Under a tree I read a latin book Subject(s): Animals; Cats CORPSE OF A CAT, by HAGIWARA SAKUTARO Poem Source First Line: In a spongelike landscape Subject(s): Animals; Cats COUNCIL HELD BY THE RATS (2), by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A tyrant cat, by surname nibblelard Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables CRUEL BOY AND THE KITTENS, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What! Go to see the kittens drowned Subject(s): Animals; Cats CRUEL BOY AND THE KITTENS, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What! Go to see the kittens drowned Subject(s): Animals; Cats CRUEL CLEVER CAT, by GEOFFREY TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Sally, having swallowed cheese Last Line: Enticing thus with baited breath %nice mice to an untimely death Subject(s): Animals; Cats CRUELTY, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: She crouched outside my door at break of dawn Subject(s): Animals; Cats CURIOSITY, by ALASTAIR REID Poem Source First Line: May have killed the cat; more likely Last Line: That dying is what, to live, each has to do Subject(s): Animals; Cats DAFFY WILL, by LADD FRISBY MORSE Poem Text First Line: Little he was / little an' bent Last Line: Like he's poorin' a cat. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Faces; Houses DAMASCUS, by EDNA HOLROYD YELLAND Poem Source First Line: Long-haired kittens of damascus, why are you Subject(s): Animals; Cats DANDY CAT, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To sir green-eyes grimalkin de tabby de sly Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E. Subject(s): Animals; Cats DANTE: BOOK ONE, 3 (1), by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a little language of my cat, tho dante says Last Line: As if crouching, springs %to life Variant Title(s): A Little Languag Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Language DE BLACK CAT CROSSED HIS LUCK', by JAMES D. CARROTHERS First Line: O, de black cat cotch ole sambo lee Subject(s): Cats DEAD PUSSY CAT, by JOHN BENNETT (1865-1956) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You's as stiff an' as cold as a stone Subject(s): Animals; Cats DEATH COMES TO AN ALLEY CAT, by MARY C. SLEVIN Poem Text First Line: All sickened, sad, revolted - angry, too Last Line: Above the little cat. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death; Dead, The DEATH OF A CAT, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since then, those months ago, these rooms miss something Last Line: For you and me, darling, this is an epitaph Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Animals; Cats DEDICATION [FOR MAU MAU KITTY WHOSE NAME CONTAINS THE MANTRA AUM], by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: Who wiped out every pigeon on our roof save two so that the plenty Last Line: Whose white paws are wisdom and black paws are gentleness who %can shift his shape at night who can Subject(s): Animals; Cats DESCENT INTO THE HOURS OF THE PEREGRINE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A wet umbrella is open in the tub. It's midnight Last Line: Streaming from the corners of its mouth. Subject(s): Animals; Aviation & Aviators; Cats; Children; Night; Paper; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Childhood; Bedtime DESIRE TO BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE, by CHARLES HENRI FORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stones watch the sea like cats: -- the stone of sleep Last Line: I; stone and cat: -- both mine to wonder at Alternate Author Name(s): Ford, Charles Henry Subject(s): Animals; Cats DESK-TALK, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The least generous and most ungrateful Last Line: For you if I do! Subject(s): Animals; Cats DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND, by EWART MILNE Poem Source First Line: Two cats %one up a tree Last Line: And one cat under %a witch elm %tree Subject(s): Animals; Cats DING, DONG, BELL / PUSSY'S IN THE WELL, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: But killed the mice in his father's barn! Subject(s): Cats DIRGE FOR A RIGHTEOUS CAT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong. %here lies a kitten good, who kept Last Line: He washed behind his ears. %ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Animals; Cats DOG AND CAT, by RUTH ANDERSON BARNETT Poem Text First Line: The dog is not to lunge Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs DOG AND THE CAT, AND THE DUCK AND THE RAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Once on a time in rainy-weather Subject(s): Animals; Cats DOG DREAMS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: A scrabble of nail Last Line: Chasing the hare Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs DOMESTICITY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the cat is hungry I must not nap Subject(s): Cats DOOMED', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One day a statistician great Subject(s): Animals; Cats DREADFUL STORY OF PAULINE AND THE MATCHES, by AUGUST HEINRICH HOFFMANN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mamma and nurse went out one day Alternate Author Name(s): Hoffmann Von Fallersleben Subject(s): Animals; Cats DREAM:, by RAPHAEL RUDNICK Poem Source First Line: A cat on gold-glowing black coals Last Line: Pale and shiny as a scar, insane, particular Subject(s): Animals; Cats DUST, by HENRY CARLILE Poem Source First Line: Where it cleared the roadway in a single bound Last Line: And where the bobcat's been, the dust still hangs Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dust; Hunting EARLY VENEZIAN DETAIL, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little cat of an angel Last Line: For her skirts to spill. Subject(s): Animals; Cats EGYPTIAN CAT, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: How harsh the change, since those plump halcyon days Last Line: Cast a light and lasting beauty over life itself - you, %templed beneath the chair, tearing a fresh Variant Title(s): Januar Subject(s): Animals; Cats ELEGY, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: We knew that he was not a model cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats ELEGY TO OSCAR, A DEAD CAT, by HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT Poem Source First Line: Damn'd be this harsh mechanick age Last Line: And, having curst the juggernaut, %inscribe: oscarvs fvit! Subject(s): Animals; Cats ELLEN MASON AND HER ELEVEN CATS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old ella mason keeps cats, eleven at last count Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Cats; Spinsters; Old Maids EMPRESS' CAT, by CHANG TSU Poem Source First Line: Long ago, the empress wu tse-t'ien Last Line: Nor the ambition of the ruler Subject(s): Animals; Cats ENTRY IN A CAT'S JOURNAL, by WILLIAM EUGENE HARROLD Poem Source First Line: The love I sent was flying fish Last Line: Stamped and airmailed, %s-w-I-s-h Subject(s): Animals; Cats EPITAPH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bathsheba %to whom none ever said scat Subject(s): Animals; Cats EPITAPH FOR A CAT, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: If in som far off, future day Subject(s): Animals; Cats EPITAPH FOR A KITTEN, by MIRIAM VEDDER Poem Source First Line: Death, who one day taketh all Subject(s): Animals; Cats EPITAPH FOR BELAUD, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are cats (not he) Last Line: While cats keep the world from rats secure Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim Subject(s): Animals; Cats EPITAPH OF FELIS, by JOHN JORTIN Poem Source First Line: I most gentle of cats through long-drawn sickness aweary Last Line: Even when over the styx, felis is faithful to thee Subject(s): Animals; Cats EPITAPH ON A CAT, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life I can no longer live Last Line: Wage unceasing war on rats. Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim Subject(s): Animals; Cats EPITAPH ON A PET CAT, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My life seems dull and flat Last Line: That you may live while cats %wage mortal war on rats Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim Subject(s): Animals; Cats EPITAPH ON THE DUCHESS OF MAINE'S CAT, by FRANCOIS LA MOTHE LE VAYER Poem Source First Line: Puss passer-by, within this simple tomb Last Line: To live a simple pussy by her side %was nobler far than to be deified Subject(s): Animals; Cats EPITAPHIUM FELIS, by JOHN JORTIN Poem Source First Line: By weight of the wearying years, and by grievous illness Subject(s): Animals; Cats EROL GUNEY'S CAT, by ORHAN VELI KANIK Poem Source First Line: Poem on the attitude adopted Last Line: Thinking and worrying %your head off Subject(s): Animals; Cats ESTHER'S TOMCAT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daylong this tomcat lies stretched flat Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Animals; Cats ESTHER'S TOMCAT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daylong this tomcat lies stretched flat Last Line: Nightly over the round world of men, %over the roofs go his eyes and outcry Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Animals; Cats ETCHED CATASTROPHE, by EDWARD NOBLES Poem Source First Line: A sunday night, the most predestined Last Line: Has no more pressing duty %than to sleep Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Chaos ETERNAL QUESTION, by D. B. VAN BUREN Poem Source First Line: Bewhiskered raticide, whose velvet paw Subject(s): Animals; Cats FABLE OF THE WIDOW AND HER CAT, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A widow kept a favorite cat Last Line: Here, towser! - do him justice Subject(s): Animals; Cats FABLE: THE MICE AND FELIS, by JOHN KENDRICK Poem Source First Line: Felis sedit by a hole Variant Title(s): Very Felis-itou Subject(s): Animals; Cats FABLE: THE SCHOLAR AND THE CAT, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Labour entitles man to eat Last Line: Instruct vain supercilious man.' Subject(s): Activity; Animals; Cats; Fables; Reason; Scholarship & Scholars; Virtue; Exercise; Allegories; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals FABLES: 1ST SER. 21. THE RATCATCHER AND CATS, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rats by night such mischief did Last Line: There's game enough for us and you. Subject(s): Animals; Cats FABLES: 1ST SER. 23. THE OLD WOMAN AND HER CATS, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who friendship with a knave hath made Last Line: Because, 'tis said, your cats have nine. Subject(s): Animals; Cats FABULA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Probe foramini a cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats FALLEN AND THE CHOSEN, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: I find myself in a room full of strangers Last Line: I must hold myself lightly Subject(s): Animals; Cats FAMILIARITY DANGEROUS, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As in her ancient mistress' lap Last Line: Should bear a kitten's joke. Subject(s): Animals; Cats FAMILY, by JAMEY DUNHAM Poem Source First Line: A child who always gets his way decides he wants to trade places with the Last Line: Stoop for the son who disappeared into the night Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Family Life FEBRUARY, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter. Time to eat fat Subject(s): Winter; Cats; Food & Eating FELIS DOMESTICA, by JESSIE YOUNG NORTON Poem Text First Line: She is above disparagement or praise Last Line: There broods the slumberous wisdom of the nile. Subject(s): Animals; Cats FEMME ET CHATTE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O she was playing with her cat Last Line: By four bright stars of phosphorus Subject(s): Animals; Cats FEMME ET CHATTE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were just playing, lady and cat Last Line: Four dazzling points of phosphor gleamed Subject(s): Animals; Cats FEMME ET CHATTE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O she was playing with her cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats FIND THE FAVORITE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our three cats is maltese cats Last Line: In where katy's at! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Deafness FIRELIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Musing, I sit on my cushioned settle Subject(s): Animals; Cats FIREMAN'S LAMENT, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: You can't catch a cat with a ladder of rope Last Line: To the prince of lost spaces, the uncatchable cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats FIRESIDE KITTEN, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ashes in the fire stir Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Cats FIRST ENCOUNTER (SIAMESE), by MELPO DENNIS SCOTESE Poem Source First Line: For me? Subject(s): Animals; Cats FISH-DAY, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Matilda postures on the window-sill Subject(s): Animals; Cats FIVE EYES, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In hans' old mill his three black cats Last Line: Jekkel, and jessup, and one-eyed jill. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Animals; Cats FOR A DEAF ANGORA CAT, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jungle lies about you, and the ground Subject(s): Cats; Deafness FOR GUY DAVENPORT'S TOMCAT HUMPHREY DIED .. PURSUIT OF LOVE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through many nights of many years invincible Last Line: Still erect Subject(s): Animals; Cats FRAGMENT, by JAMI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though decked the tray, two things afar and near Alternate Author Name(s): Mowlana Nur Od-din Abd Or-rahm; Jami, Nuru'ddin Abdu 'r-rahman; Deschami Subject(s): Animals; Cats FRESCO-SONNETS TO CHRISTIAN S.: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of savage devils'-brats, my friend, beware Last Line: And could my life-blood meanwhile cease to drip! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Love - Complaints FROM A PAINTING OF A CAT, by CHU TA Poem Source First Line: Nan ch'uan wanted to be reborn as a water buffalo, Last Line: It took thirty years for clouds to disperse, snow to melt Subject(s): Animals; Cats FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF A CAT-CATCHER: ITEM: FELINE ANATOMY, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Half a pound of water Last Line: Two of purr Subject(s): Animals; Cats FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF A CAT-CATCHER: ITEM: SHOPPING LIST, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Trout heads, carp tails Last Line: Or butcher drops Subject(s): Animals; Cats FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF A CAT-CATCHER: ITEM: SKILLS REQUIRED FOR THE JOB, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: The muscle, wit, and nerve Last Line: Or ability to fly Subject(s): Animals; Cats FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF A CAT-CATCHER: ITEM: THE PERSONALITY OF A CAT, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Conceited, fickle Last Line: Confoundingly mysterious Subject(s): Animals; Cats FROST EYEBROWS, by WANG T'UNG-KUEI Poem Source First Line: Frost eyebrows was the favorite cat Last Line: Here lies a veritable dragon Subject(s): Animals; Cats GHOSTRIES, by HENRY CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL Poem Source First Line: Did you ever hear a rustling Alternate Author Name(s): Pennell, Henry Cholmondeley Subject(s): Animals; Cats GIVING RABBIT TO MY CAT BONNIE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pretty bonnie, you are quick as a rabbit Subject(s): Animals; Cats GIVING RABBIT TO MY CAT BONNIE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pretty bonnie, you are quick as a rabbit Last Line: Bonnie. What are you eating? Dear bonnie, consider Subject(s): Animals; Cats GOING HOME, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: I'll build a treehouse roofed with stars Last Line: When I landed in his net Subject(s): Animals; Cats GORBY AND THE RATS, by OBEYD-I-ZAKANI Poem Source First Line: Long long agi %when god was, for without him nothing was Last Line: And as in every chestnut lies %truth's kernel -- so in every tale Subject(s): Animals; Cats GREATER CATS WITH GOLDEN EYES, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And night with different stars Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita Subject(s): Animals; Cats GRISETTE DINES, by ANTOINETTE DU LIGIER DE LA GARDE DESHOULIERES Poem Source First Line: Always well behaved am I Subject(s): Animals; Cats GROCERY STORE CAT, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: I'm just the grocery store cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats GROWLTIGER'S LAST STAND, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Growltiger was a bravo cat, who lived upon a barge Last Line: And a day of celebration was commanded at bangkok Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats HAIKU, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rainy afternoon Last Line: Teach that cat to dance Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Animals; Cats HAIKU, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Placing the kitten Last Line: She went on playing Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Animals; Cats HAIKU, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why so scrawny, cat? Last Line: Or backyard love? Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Animals; Cats HAIKU, by SHIKO+1 Poem Source First Line: Oh sorry tom-cat Last Line: Have knocked you out! Subject(s): Animals; Cats HAIKU, by TAN TAIGI Poem Source First Line: Rash tom-cat lover Last Line: Stuck to your whiskers Subject(s): Animals; Cats HAIKU, by TAN TAIGI Poem Source First Line: Look at the stray cat Last Line: In the whistling snow Subject(s): Animals; Cats HAIKU, by YAHA Poem Source First Line: Amorous cat, alas Last Line: You must yowl with your love - %or even worse, without! Subject(s): Animals; Cats HAIKU, by YOSA BUSON Poem Source First Line: Ultra-pink peony - %silver siamese soft cat Last Line: God-dust butterfly Alternate Author Name(s): Buson; Taniguchi Buson Subject(s): Animals; Cats HAPPY CAT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat's asleep; I whisper kitten Last Line: Men aren't happy; why are you? Subject(s): Animals; Cats HAZARD FACES A SUNDAY IN THE DECLINE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We need the ceremony of one another, Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Aging; Family Life; Cats; Dogs; Food & Eating; Relatives HERALDIC BLAZONS OF FOSS THE CAT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fop couchant Last Line: Fojs pafsant Subject(s): Animals; Cats HERE'S A LAZY PUSSY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Here's a lazy pussy with his coat still on Last Line: For warm spring is here to-day Subject(s): Cats; Idleness HIGH BARBAREE, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As I was sailing down the coast Last Line: For you may save the life of %a pretty muffin bird! Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E. Subject(s): Animals; Cats HIGH ON A RIDGE OF TILES, by MAURICE JAMES CRAIG Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Cats HIGHER EDUCATION, by KRISTINE A. SOMERVILLE Poem Source First Line: A man on whom I have a crush said that tomcats lead a Last Line: Frizzy haired. And still I thought myself pretty Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Politics; Schools HISTORY OF RELIGION, by MAREK BATEROWICZ Poem Source First Line: In the shadow of the pines Last Line: Sun worship Subject(s): Animals; Cats; History; Religion; Roman Empire; Rome, Italy HODGE, THE CAT, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Burly and big, his books among Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Animals; Cats HOME OF THE RADIOACTIVE CATS, by JANET MCCANN Poem Source First Line: In the home of the radioactive cats Last Line: Dreamcat, why are you here %in the real?) Subject(s): Animals; Cats HOPPER, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The disappearance of a cat is a good omen, Subject(s): Cats HOUSE DOG SPEAKS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I'm a hearth dog Last Line: Who's any good at that Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs HOW A CAT WAS ANNOYED AND A POET WAS BOOTED, by GUY WETMORE CARRYL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A poet had a cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats HOW THE FEUD STARTED, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before there were pineapples, peaches or plums Last Line: Has chosen the mouse as his favorite ration.) Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs HOW THE MIRROR LOOKS THIS MORNING, by HICOK. BOB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Probably the size of the six volt Last Line: As a happy person Subject(s): Cats; Death; Happiness HUNGRY MASTER AND HUNGRY CAT, by ABU SHAMAQMAQ Poem Source First Line: When my house was bare of skins and pots of meal Last Line: Even if the spider spins in my wine jar, in the jug, and the pot Subject(s): Animals; Cats HUNTING SONG, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Black hound and blue hound Last Line: And so is the day Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs HYWEL THE GOOD WEIGHS THE WORTH OF A CAT, by HYWEL AB OWAIN GWYNEDD Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The worth of a cat and her Last Line: There's a refund: a third of your money back Subject(s): Animals; Cats I AM CAT, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I am silk and velvet Last Line: I am whispers landing, %I am... %I Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs I AM DOG, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I am tweed and carpet Last Line: I am stone and fortress, %I am... %I Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs I AM THE CAT, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: I am the cat in the easy chair Last Line: Delicately onto the %book I am reading Subject(s): Animals; Cats I AM THE CAT, by LEILA USHER Poem Text First Line: In egypt they worshipped me Last Line: I am the cat. Subject(s): Animals; Cats I DRIBBLED CATSUP ON MY PET, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And that is why my cat's upset Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Ketchup I KILT ER CAT, by VIRGINIA FRAZER BOYLE Poem Source First Line: Dar's a shakin' an' er achin' amongst dese old bones Subject(s): Animals; Cats I THINK HUMAN NATURE IS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME ALL ALONG, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On the whole perhaps pussycat nature is the best Subject(s): Animals; Cats IF I WERE A CAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Cats IL ETAIT UN BERGERE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A little shepherd maiden Subject(s): Animals; Cats IN A MUSEUM, by ANNE ELIZABETH WILSON Poem Source First Line: So there you lie Subject(s): Animals; Cats IN AUGUST ONCE, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Cats IN HONOR OF TAFFY TOPAZ, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taffy, the topaz-colored cat Last Line: What fun to be a cat! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Animals; Cats IN MEMORIAM: LEO, A YELLOW CAT, by MARGARET SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: If, to your twilight land of dream Last Line: Of gentle words and gentle hands. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death - Animals; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College IN SEVERAL COLORS, by JANE KENYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning, cup of coffee Last Line: For a part in the opera Subject(s): Colors; Cats IN THE HOUSE THE LIZARD'S ENEMY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Warren, the cat, finds them there Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Lizards; Nature IN THE OLD STONE AGE: A DREADED VISITOR, by JACK MELONE Poem Text First Line: At times, returning from the chase Last Line: To stretch content upon the floor! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Hunger; Hunting; Tigers; Hunters IN THE OLD STONE AGE: CONFLICT 'TWIXT MAN AND BEAST, by JACK MELONE Poem Text First Line: Often, before the foe was downed Last Line: As bengal tiger ne'er has matched! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Hunting; Tigers; Hunters INHIBITED PERSIAN, by RICHARD HARRY HART Poem Source First Line: The days pace by in weary seemliness Subject(s): Animals; Cats INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE CAT'S CEMETERY AT BUBASTIS IN LOWER EGYPT: 1., by GREGORY N. GABBARD Poem Source First Line: Oh, she would bound across the sand Last Line: The mice of the desert and small brown serpents %trembled at her name! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Egypt INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE CAT'S CEMETERY AT BUBASTIS IN LOWER EGYPT: 2., by GREGORY N. GABBARD Poem Source First Line: She who paced beneath the royal lintels Last Line: Again together, with naked feet stalking %upon the floor of time Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Cemeteries; Egypt INTERN HOUSECAT, by DONNA DICKEY GUYER Poem Source First Line: Samson stun-guns Last Line: Hopefully soon? Subject(s): Animals; Cats INVITATION, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Suppose the cat had lingered on the ground Last Line: Come among the leaves and take your chances Subject(s): Animals; Cats IT WAS THE CAT, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carefully on tiptoe stealing Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats IT'S NOT FAIR, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: A cat can scratch Last Line: It really isn't %very fair Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs JUBILATE AGNO, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I prophesy that we shall have our horns again Last Line: For I pray god be gracious to the bees and the beeves this day Variant Title(s): Jubliate Agno, Sels Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Cats; Depression, Mental; Religion JUBILATE AGNO: MY CAT JEOFFREY, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I will consider my cat jeoffrey Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Winter JUBILATE AGNO: MY CAT JEOFFREY, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I will consider my cat jeoffrey Last Line: For he can creep Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Winter JUSTICE, by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS Poem Source First Line: You expect, puss-in-boots Last Line: Over the corpse of achilles Alternate Author Name(s): Agathias Scholasticos Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Punishment KENNER'S CAT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On whom I sat went by the Last Line: Was he just another cat? Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fuller, Buckminster (1895-1983); Kenner, Hugh (1923-2003) KENSINGTON CATS, by DOROTHY DUERSON HORN Poem Source First Line: When the sun slants low over london town Last Line: Then ho! For a night on the tiles Subject(s): Animals; Cats; London KING OF CATS SENDS A POSTCARD TO HIS WIFE, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Keep your whiskers crisp and clean Last Line: Catnip from the other side Subject(s): Animals; Cats KITTEN, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trouble with a kitten is Last Line: Eventually it becomes a %cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats KITTEN, by WILLIAM WRIGHTSON EUSTACE ROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always it's pouncing at nothing Last Line: And what beyond this is the ultimate %the divine purpose of cats? Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, W. W. E. Subject(s): Animals; Cats KITTEN AND FALLEN LEAVES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See the kitten on the wall Last Line: For the plaudits of the crowd? Subject(s): Animals; Cats KITTEN AND FIREFLY, by MARIE GRIMES Poem Source First Line: Mixed flower fragrance hung about Subject(s): Animals; Cats KITTEN'S ECLOGUE, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tell now, good kit, of three month's age, or less Last Line: O felis semper felix! %mud Subject(s): Animals; Cats KITTENS, by CATHERINE PARMENTER NEWELL Poem Source First Line: Five kittens in the haynow Subject(s): Animals; Cats KITTENS, by MICHAEL SCOT Poem Source First Line: Airy as leaves blown by the autumn storm Subject(s): Animals; Cats KITTY: HOW TO TREAT HER, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like little pussy, her coat is so warm Last Line: But pussy and I very gently will play. Subject(s): Animals; Cats LAMENT FOR TABBY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: And art thou fallen and lowly laid Subject(s): Animals; Cats LAST WORDS TO A DUMB FRIEND, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pet was never mourned as you Last Line: That you moulder where you played. Subject(s): Animals; Cats LATE OCTOBER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight. The cats under the open window Last Line: On end, afraid of what I might do next. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dreams; October; Violence; Nightmares LAWS, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A black cat wanders out into Last Line: The mice are constantly surprised Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Mice LAYS OF TOM-CAT HIDDIGEIGEI, by JOSEPH VICTOR VON SCHEFFEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When through valley and o'er mountain Subject(s): Animals; Cats LE HIBOU ET LA POUSSIQUETTE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hibou et minou allerent a la mer Last Line: Dansa au clair de la lune Subject(s): Animals; Cats LE PETIT CHAT, by EDMOND ROSTAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pert as any young page-boy, the small black cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats LEO TO HIS MISTRESS, by HENRY DWIGHT SEDGWICK Poem Text First Line: Dear mistress, do not grieve for me Last Line: I almost scratch persephone. Subject(s): Animals; Cats LISY'S PARTING WITH HER CAT, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dreadful hour with leaden pace approached Subject(s): Animals; Cats LITTLE BABY PUSSIES, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Littler baby pussies, swinging in the trees Last Line: Like a million pussy-cats – pussies, was it you? Subject(s): Cats LITTLE DOG THAT WAGS HIS TAIL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Beseech each little boy Variant Title(s): Poem: 1185; Poem: 123 Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs LITTLE PUSS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sleek coat, eyes of fire Last Line: That's puss Subject(s): Animals; Babies; Cats LITTLE TIGER CAT, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Little tiger cat, with the spotted face Last Line: And so, there's no use trying to be like your wild relation Subject(s): Cats LITTLE UNWRITTEN BOOK, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rocky was a regular guy, a loyal friend Subject(s): Animals; Cats LITTLE UNWRITTEN BOOK, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rocky was a regular guy, a loyal friend Last Line: And now the bird is silent too Subject(s): Animals; Cats LOOK AT ME (SIAMESE), by MELPO DENNIS SCOTESE Poem Source First Line: In amazing wonder, as you deliberate Subject(s): Animals; Cats LOST CAT, by EMILE VICTOR RIEU Poem Source First Line: She took a last and simple meal when there were none to see Last Line: And all the cream that's meant for me -- and not a word of t Subject(s): Animals; Cats LOST CAT, by LILIAN WHITING Poem Source First Line: Little and brown have lost their cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats LOULOU AND HER CAT, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good pastry is vended Last Line: I'm giving to you! Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Desserts LOVER, WHOSE MISTRESS FEARED A MOUSE .. BECOME A CAT, by GEORGE TURBERVILLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I might alter kind Last Line: All this would I doe if I were %converted to a cat Alternate Author Name(s): Turbervile, George Subject(s): Animals; Cats LULLABY FOR THE CAT, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Minnow, go to sleep and dream Last Line: Sleep, and let them come Subject(s): Animals; Cats LULLABY FOR THE CAT, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Minnow, go to sleep and dream Last Line: Sleep, and let them come Subject(s): Animals; Cats MACAVITY: THE MYSTERY CAT, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Macavity's a mystery cat: he's called the hidden paw Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Crime & Criminals; Villains In Literature MACAVITY: THE MYSTERY CAT, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Macavity's a mystery cat: he's called the hidden paw Last Line: Are nothing more than agents for the cat who all the time %just controls their operations: the napol Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Crime And Criminals; Villains In Literature MAGGIE'S VISIT TO OXFORD, SELS., by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To worcester gardens next they strolled Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Subject(s): Animals; Cats MAINSTAY, by THEODORE RUSSELL WEISS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You, hoppy, crept out Last Line: Strength engrossing you - %a help of sorts, mainstay Alternate Author Name(s): Weiss, T. Subject(s): Animals; Cats MARIGOLD, by RICHARD GARNETT (1835-1906) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She moved through the garden in glory because Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Flowers; Marigolds MARMALADE LOST, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: Her honey fur pointed down her back Subject(s): Animals; Cats MATILDA'S MANNERS, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My cat, matilda, sits upon her floor Subject(s): Animals; Cats MATILDA, MATRIARCH, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Matilda's grown granmotherly these days Subject(s): Animals; Cats MEMORY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's either the prize or a terminal worry Last Line: But the cat, the cat is in clover Subject(s): Animals; Cats MEND IT NOW, by RUTH MCGRAIL Poem Text First Line: I had a bowl of thick rich cream Last Line: I'll eat my cream, myself. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids MERE MICHEL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mere michel is calling, calling, from her window high Subject(s): Animals; Cats METEMPSYCHOSIS, by LOUELLA C. POOLE Poem Source First Line: Little white face that looks into mine Subject(s): Animals; Cats MIKE, by F. C. W. HILEY Poem Source First Line: All ye that learned hours beguile Subject(s): Animals; Cats MILK FOR THE CAT, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the tea is brought at five o'clock Last Line: Three or four hours unconscious there. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids MINIMUM WAGE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No one called but a cat Last Line: With the eraser of a chewed pencil [or, I never got a single step closer] Subject(s): Animals; Cats; San Joaquin Valley, California; Unemployment MISS TIBBLES, by IAN SERRAILLIER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Miss tibbles is my kitten; white Subject(s): Animals; Cats MISTRESS GURTON'S CAT; A DOMESTIC TALE, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old mistress gurton had a cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats MONKEY AND THE CAT, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bertrand and raton - a monkey and a cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables; Monkeys MONTAIGNE AND HIS KITTEN, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hither, blanche! 'tis you and I Last Line: Wise ones fool it while they may! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Montaigne, Michel De (1533-1592) MOON, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a white cat whose name is moon Subject(s): Animals; Authors And Authorship; Cats; Poetry & Poets MOON, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a white cat whose name is moon Last Line: And in moon's eyes I see the moon Subject(s): Animals; Authors And Authorship; Cats; Poetry And Poets MOON SOLITARY, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Who seeks to climb beyond his range Last Line: Than for all eternity reflect another's fire Subject(s): Animals; Cats MOONLIGHT, by RAJASHEKHARA Poem Source First Line: The cat at his dish licks rays of moonlight Last Line: Confuses the currents of this world Subject(s): Animals; Cats MORNING, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Salt shining behind its glass cylinder Subject(s): Morning; Cats MOTHER CAT, by JOHN MONTAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The mother cat %opens her claws Last Line: Already fierce %at the trough Subject(s): Animals; Cats MOTHER CAT'S PURR, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Sleep the half-sleep Last Line: That's what sleep is -- %for a cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs MOTHER WITH YOUNG KITTENS, by RICHARD HARRY HART Poem Source First Line: Torn between hunger and maternal care Subject(s): Animals; Cats MOTHERING, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Matilda's busy mothering these days Subject(s): Animals; Cats MOURNFUL CHIRPING, by KIKAKU Poem Source First Line: Eaten by the cat! Last Line: May be wailing that! Subject(s): Animals; Cats MUJER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, black persian cat Last Line: Oh, black persian cat. Subject(s): Animals; Cats MUSICAL EVENING, by JOSEPH G. FRANCIS Poem Source First Line: Song, sing! What shall we sing? Subject(s): Animals; Cats MY CAT (1), by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in my brain walks to and fro Subject(s): Animals; Cats MY CAT (2), by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My pretty cat to my heart I hold Last Line: Breathes round her, and from head to feet %envelopes my brunette Subject(s): Animals; Cats MY CAT AND I, by EDNA GEARHART Poem Source First Line: With persian cat beside my cheek Subject(s): Animals; Cats MY CAT JACK, by HUNT HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: For I will consider my cat jack Last Line: For he curls about himself with his head %upside-down %for h Subject(s): Animals; Cats MY CAT, MRS. LICK-A-CHIN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some of the cats I know about Last Line: No one knows it less than my cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats MY CAT, MRS. LICK-A-CHIN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some of the cats I know about Last Line: And I'll tell you something about that: %no one knows it less than my cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats MY CAT, ROBIN HOOD, by EMANUEL DI PASQUALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My cat is a tough hood Alternate Author Name(s): Pasquale, Emanuel Di Subject(s): Animals; Cats MY FRIEND, THE CAT, by CARRIE W. STRYKER Poem Source First Line: Outstretched at ease his furry form Subject(s): Animals; Cats MY HOUND'S NOSE, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: What a wonderful thing Last Line: Just when master goes Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs MY LORD'S MOTORING, by VINCENT STARRETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was an arrogant cat, my lord Subject(s): Animals; Cats NAPS & PURRS OF MY CAT, TOM, by RONALD JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Stretch sublime %sunshine and me! Last Line: Leap to a snap %furred purrer! Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats NATIVITE, by ANDRE SPIRE Poem Source First Line: The cat lies on her back Last Line: No wind. A leaf falls Subject(s): Animals; Cats NATURAL SELECTION, by JESS WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Chickadees should never Last Line: A scatter of feathers %marked the spot Subject(s): Animals; Cats NATURE NOTES: CATS, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Incorrigible, uncommitted Last Line: Make the way of their lovers lighter Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Animals; Cats NEBAMUN'S CAT; AFTER A FRESCO FROM - EGYPT (2600-250 B.C.E), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Taking recreation, seeing pleasant things Last Line: I, nebamun Subject(s): Animals; Cats NEITHER CAN THE FLOODS DROWN IT, by ELIZABETH BILLER CHAPMAN Poem Source First Line: We catch only glimpses of you Last Line: Leftward, into what was and will be %your green world Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Daughters; Family Life NEVER GET OUT!, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a little serval cat Last Line: Never get out!... Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Animals; Cats NIGHT HOWLS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Outside the house Last Line: Beneath the light. %goodnight Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs NIGHT PIECE TO ANOTHER JULIA, by PAUL FEARON Poem Source First Line: Tonight I sing, though all mankind forbid it Subject(s): Animals; Cats NIGHT RISING, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Ancient alchemist, wake! Arise Last Line: So I will do once more Subject(s): Animals; Cats NINE FAT CATS IN LITTLE ITALY, by HERBERT MITGANG Poem Source First Line: Say buon giorn to fatso toni Last Line: Risotto, ragu, rigatoni %and yankee doodle macaroni! Subject(s): Animals; Cats NO ELEGY, by JOHN RIDLAND Poem Source First Line: Old jack cranked up his elegy machine Last Line: And went and wrung the thankless creature's neck Subject(s): Animals; Cats NO TRAVELER, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd love to ride on railroads every day Last Line: I never want to travel with a kitty any more. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Railroads; Travel; Childhood; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips NONSENSE RHYMES: 15, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Would you have me chat Last Line: (let me tell it to you again.) Subject(s): Animals;cats;nonsense ODE ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a lofty vase's side Last Line: Nor all, that glisters, gold. Variant Title(s): Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat, Drowned In A Tub Of Gold Fishes;gray's Elegy On Horace Walpole's Cat;on The Death Of A Favourite Cat;on A Favorite Cat Drowned In A Tub Of Goldfishes Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death; Death - Animals; Goldfish; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement ODE TO A BOB-TAILED CAT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Felis infelix! Cat unfortunate Last Line: Follow your fashion Subject(s): Animals;cats ODE TO EIGHT CATS BELONGING TO ISRAEL MENDEZ, A JEW, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Singers of israel, o ye singers sweet Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Animals; Cats ODE TO THE CAT, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The animals were %imperfect Last Line: My understanding slips on his indifference, %his eyes hold golden numbers Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Animals; Cats OFFERING FOR THE CAT, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Since I got my cat five white Last Line: Only cry for you a little Subject(s): Animals; Cats OLD CAT AND THE YOUNG MOUSE, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A young mouse, small and innocent Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables OLD CAT AND THE YOUNG MOUSE, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A young mouse, with little experience Last Line: Old age is ruthless and inflexible Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables OLD CAT MEDITATES, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: Now that I'm old I do not venture far Subject(s): Animals; Cats OLD FOSS (THE CAT) RECALLS HIS LIFE WITH MR. LEAR, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: You'd say when we ate a late breakfast Last Line: I bow to the king of high bosh Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Lear, Edward (1812-1888) OLD SCOTS NURSERY RHYME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was a wee bit mousikie Last Line: O' cheetie-poussie-cattie, o Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Mice OLD SOOT, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: His fur is black; we call him soot Last Line: When it is ime to go Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs ON A CAT AGING, by ALEXANDER GRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He blinks upon the hearth-rug Last Line: The times are somehow breeding %a nimbler race of mice Subject(s): Animals; Cats ON A NIGHT OF SNOW, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cat, if you go outdoors, you must walk in the snow Last Line: And things that are yet to be done. Open the door! Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Cats ON DIGNITY, by DANIEL T. MORAN Poem Source First Line: When the first one came Last Line: At having to be cats no more Subject(s): Animals; Cats ON LUTESTRINGS CATT-EATEN, by THOMAS MASTER Poem Source First Line: Are these the strings that poets feigne Last Line: Soe I've but scratch'd these notes of mine Subject(s): Animals; Cats ON MAOU DYING AT THE AGE OF SIX MONTHS, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange sickness fell upon this perfect creature Subject(s): Animals; Cats ON THE DEATH OF A CAT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall tell the lady's grief? Last Line: Nor disturb her narrow bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE DEATH OF A FAVORITE CAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: She died when earth was fair beyond all price Subject(s): Animals; Cats OPEN DOOR, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the dark Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Cats OPENING HER JEWEL BOX, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She discovers a finish Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): School; Cats; Jewels; Memory; Hair ORANGE CAT, by CAROLINE BERRY Poem Source First Line: My cat is a hand my cat Last Line: Says my cat it happens however many again and again Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Pets OTHELLO: TOMCAT, by LAURA SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: His claw against the world, he prowls athwart Subject(s): Animals; Cats OUR CAT ON THE OTHER ROCKING CHAIR, by CHARLOTTE GORDON Poem Source First Line: If he would just stay Last Line: And the slippage of cats and time %infinitesimally more bearable Subject(s): Animals; Cats OUR KITTY, by CAROL ANNE MUSKE Poem Source First Line: She is swinging in a contraption above the heads Last Line: Living hand, warm, capable - as ever, untaken Subject(s): Animals; Cats OUR MOTHER WAS THE PUSSY-CAT, OUR FATHER WAS THE OWL, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Because we take no interest in politix of the day Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats; Owls OUT ON A LIMB, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: What these citizens need,' said the mayor Last Line: To follow a path of his own Subject(s): Animals; Cats PANGUR BAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I myself and pangur ban Last Line: Bringing darkness into light %is the work that I do best Subject(s): Animals; Cats PANGUR BAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I and pangur ban, my cat Last Line: I get wisdom day and night %turning darkness into light Variant Title(s): The White Cat And The Studen Subject(s): Animals; Cats PARK AVENUE CAT, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This was a thing the saints never knew Subject(s): Animals; Cats PARLOR CAT, by LOUELLA C. POOLE Poem Source First Line: There lives a cat across the way Subject(s): Animals; Cats PARODY OF LISTON'S 'BEAUTIFUL MAID.', by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My fishmonger told me that soles were most dear Last Line: You've eat up my beautiful maid! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fish & Fishing; Anglers PASSAGE ON, by CEDRIC MORRIS Poem Source First Line: Farewell, most charming of females Subject(s): Animals; Cats PETER, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strong and slippery, built for the midnight grass-party Last Line: Tionthis is life; to do less would be nothing but dishonesty. Subject(s): Animals; Cats PHIL, THE BLACK PERSIAN, by HERBERT EDWARD PALMER Poem Source First Line: Philander's a king, a dandy king Subject(s): Animals; Cats PHILOSOPHICAL POEM ON CATS, by FILLMORE HYDE Poem Source First Line: Some twenty cats repose Subject(s): Animals; Cats PIOUS CAT, by OBAID-E ZAKANI Poem Source First Line: Sagacious and circumspect persons, attend! Last Line: You're wrong, I never. It wasn't me, %it was obaid-e zakani Subject(s): Animals; Cats PLEA FOR A CAT, by JEWELL BOTHWELL TULL Poem Source First Line: Could you care for me, as I care for my cat? Subject(s): Animals; Cats POEM, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the cat %climbed over Last Line: The empty %flowerpot Subject(s): Animals; Cats POOR MATTHIAS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor matthias! - found him lying Subject(s): Animals; Cats POOR MATTHIAS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor matthias! - found him lying Last Line: What are left, will hardly be %better than we spent with thee Subject(s): Animals; Cats PRAYER OF THE CAT, by CARMEN BERNOS DE GASZTOLD Poem Source First Line: Lord, %I am the cat Last Line: If so I should say Subject(s): Animals; Cats PRIZE CAT, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pure blood domestic, guaranteed Last Line: I thought an abyssianian child %had cried out in the whiteth roat's scream Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Animals; Cats PROPRIETY, by KAWAI CHIGETSU-NI Poem Source First Line: Cats making love in the temple Last Line: A man and wife for mating in such a place Subject(s): Animals; Cats PUSS-PUSS!, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, auntie, isn't he a beauty! And is he a gentleman or a lady? Last Line: It saves him from so many undesirable associations Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Cats PUSSY CAT, by ANN HAWKSHAW Poem Text First Line: Pussy cat lives in the servants' hall Last Line: And caught them all with her claws. Alternate Author Name(s): Aunt Effie; Hawkshawe, Ann; Jackson, Ann Subject(s): Animals; Cats PUSSY CAT WHO VISITED THE QUEEN, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tim and tilly sauntered on Subject(s): Animals; Cats PUSSY CAT, PUSSY CAT, WHERE ARE YOU GOING?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Cats PUSSY CAT, PUSSY CAT, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Cats PUSSY IN THE BED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Why is pussy in bed, pray? Subject(s): Animals; Cats PUSSY SITS BY [OR, BEHIND] THE FIRE, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I fare as well as you Subject(s): Animals; Cats PUSSYCAT SITS ON A CHAIR, by EDWARD NEWMAN HORN Poem Source Last Line: Against the austere defense Subject(s): Animals; Cats PUSSYCAT, PUSSYCAT, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I frightened a little mouse under the chair Subject(s): Cats QUORUM PORUM, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a dark garden, by a dreadful tree Subject(s): Animals; Cats RABBIT AS KING OF THE GHOSTS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The difficulty to think at the end of day Last Line: You sit with your head like a carving in space %and the little green cat is a bug in the grass Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Rabbits RAIN, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the cats? Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Cats RAINING CATS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: It's raining cats Last Line: They're purring down %on top of me Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs RAINING DOGS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: It's raining dogs Last Line: And cur-rents cover %half the town Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs REALITY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, it is nice to lie in bed Last Line: With straight, brown hair that will not curl! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Girls; Childhood RED CLOUD, by ALAN WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: The cat %had to come into restaurants. She was too rare Last Line: The world is bare as a piece of sheet iron. And no work %was not once contained in some youthful bod Subject(s): Animals; Art And Artists; Cats; Life RED SLIPPERS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wicked cat, grown old and gray Last Line: Than buy slippers of cats, however they talk. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers REFLECTIONS ON AN IDEAL EXISTENCE, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Life should be very pleasant for Subject(s): Animals; Cats REMEMBERING A CAT'S FUNERAL, 1926, by WILMA ELIZABETH MCDANIEL Poem Source First Line: My brother harol Last Line: Post oak hill %where we laid poor andrew %down in a crackerbox Subject(s): Animals; Cats ROBBER KITTEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A kitten once to its mother said Last Line: I'll never more be bad Subject(s): Animals; Cats ROBIN REDBREAST, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little robin redbreast sat upon a tree Last Line: Pussy cat said, new, and robin jumped away. Variant Title(s): Catch Subject(s): Animals; Cats ROBIN'S CRY, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Danger! Hide! A cat is coming! Last Line: Look: I hold it out to you Subject(s): Animals; Cats ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 6. RETROSPECT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pearl for the first and the case for the second Last Line: But the kitten, the kitten was saved. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Drowning ROVING ALLEY-CAT, by MARY COCKBURN BOMKE Poem Source First Line: I'm an alley-cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats SAFETY-VALVE, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now baby-talk for babies is taboo Subject(s): Animals; Cats SALMON CANS, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Cats were all right in their place Last Line: More particular, for sunday breakfast Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Salmon SAVOIR FAIRE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My black cat doesn't know Last Line: The way I did Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Cats SAVOIR FAIRE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My black cat doesn't know Last Line: By a single love %the way I did Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Cats SCHOLAR AND HIS CAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Each of us pursues his trade Last Line: I, too, making dark things clear, %am of my trade a master Subject(s): Animals; Cats SCHOLAR AND THE CAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Each of us pursues his trade Last Line: Am of my trade a master Subject(s): Animals; Cats SECRET LIFE OF A CAT, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Embers in the palm of night Last Line: Africa is mine Subject(s): Animals; Cats SEKHMET THE LION-HEADED, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dark night I heard a stirring Last Line: That sekhmet purred. Subject(s): Animals; Cats SENSIBILITY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, when a boy, I killed a cat Last Line: O fellow-sinner, be the same. Subject(s): Animals; Boys; Cats; Death; Murder SERENADE, by PAUL FEARON Poem Source First Line: High in the dark the moon rides white Subject(s): Animals; Cats SERIOUS QUESTION, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A kitten went a-walking Subject(s): Animals; Cats SEVEN WAYS OF DIVINATION: 5. FELIDOMANCY-DIVINATION BY CATS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: It is not true cats have nine lives Last Line: The answer was always no Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Superstition SHRINE, by ETHNA MACCARTHY Poem Source First Line: My silver cat with burning eyes Subject(s): Animals; Cats SIAN, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can one make love %to a kitten? Sian Last Line: That all too often manages %to invest my heart Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats SIGN BY THE ROAD: KITTENS FOR SALE, by BETTIE SALE Poem Text First Line: Can you imagine anyone selling his kittens? Last Line: But never, not ever black, white, tabby or calico kittens! Subject(s): Animals; Cats SILENCE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My father used to say Last Line: Inns are not residences. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fathers; Guests; Home; Silence; Visiting SILHOUETTE, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY Poem Source First Line: Of course, I thought I'd never let him stay Subject(s): Animals; Cats SING, SING, WHAT SHALL I SING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Cats SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 60, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pussy has a whiskered face Last Line: And has a heart to love us all. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Four Pets Subject(s): Animals; Cats SINGING CAT, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a little captive cat Last Line: In the love his beauty bringeth Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Animals; Cats SINGULAR INJUSTICE, by JANET LLOYD Poem Source First Line: I find it most peculiar that Last Line: Each time the bachelor walks his dog Subject(s): Animals; Cats SIX LITTLE MICE SAT DOWN TO SPIN, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: That may be so, but you don't come in! Subject(s): Cats; Mice SKIMBLESHANKS: THE RAILWAY CAT, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a whisper down the line at 11:39 Last Line: You'll meet without fail on the midnight mail %the cat of the railway train Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats SLEEPING CAT; FOR LINDA ULRICH, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My cat is asleep on his haunches Last Line: Into the blinding, bright rooms of his eyes Subject(s): Cats SOME DOGS, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: Some dogs guard Last Line: He's sure some pet Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs SONG OF FAIRLY UTTER DESPAIR (2), by SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: For sheer urbanity, I deem Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Despair SONG OF THE BALLOON LADY, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: Wayfarers in worlds apart Last Line: In spirit, how alike we are Subject(s): Animals; Cats SONG OF THE CAT, by TRISTAN LECLERE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cat, cat, cat, %cat black, or white, or grey Last Line: A white, or black, or grey house-cat Alternate Author Name(s): Klingsor, Tristan Subject(s): Animals; Cats SONG OF THE JELLICLES, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jellicle cats come out tonight Last Line: They are resting and saving themselves to be right %for the jellicle moon and the jellicle ball Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Imagination SONNET, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: There have been many cats I loved and lost Subject(s): Animals; Cats SONNET TO A CAT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beware, my friend, of fiends and their grimaces Subject(s): Animals; Cats SONNET TO AN OLD MOUSER, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child of lubricious art! Of sanguine sport! Last Line: To sport with sorrow first, and then destroy. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Della Cruscanism (poetic Style) SONNET TO MRS. REYNOLD'S CAT, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cat! Who hast pass'd thy grand climacteric Last Line: In youth thou enter'dst on glass bottled wall. Variant Title(s): To A Cat;on Mrs. Reynold's Cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats SOPHIE, WHO TAUNTED THE DOGS, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: Sophie the cat %took peculiar delight Last Line: Ankles, lapping in soft gray %waves against my legs Subject(s): Animals; Cats SOUVENIRS, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: My table shows the tracks of tiny feet Subject(s): Animals; Cats SPORT FOR GODS, by JEWELL BOTHWELL TULL Poem Source First Line: I like to sit and watch my cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats SPRING IS A CAT, by JANG-HI LEE Poem Source First Line: On a cat's fur soft as pollen Last Line: The green spring's life dances Subject(s): Animals; Cats SPRING IS A CAT, by YI CHANGHUI Poem Source First Line: The cat's coat, soft as pollen Last Line: On the sharp whiskers of the cat %leaps the sparkling life of green spring Subject(s): Animals; Cats STALKING, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: A tremble of grass Last Line: And the crunching of bones %after Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs STARS, by OKTAY RIFAT Poem Source First Line: Near the book a notebook Last Line: And far away the stars Subject(s): Animals; Cats STILL UNDAUNTED, by GEORGE B. RYAN Poem Source First Line: I grieved to learn 'twas just a myth Subject(s): Animals; Cats STRATEGY, by VIRGINIA WOODS MACKALL Poem Text First Line: When my poor pussy died, I took Last Line: And let her in to heaven for me. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death - Animals SUCH SIMPLE LOVE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All night long I hear the sleepers toss Last Line: No one is warm Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Love; Sleep SUMMER CAT, by ELLA AUGUSTA FANNING Poem Source First Line: Something is happening - that he seems to sense Subject(s): Animals; Cats SURRENDER, by EVELYN HICKMAN Poem Source First Line: Let others praise the cat Last Line: Which is a bit more cheerful - %now, that I have cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats TABITHA SOLILOQUIZES, by MINNIE LEONA UPTON Poem Source First Line: I see they're packing up once more Subject(s): Animals; Cats TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AS WALT MASON WOULD DO IT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh listen to this obese bard whose muscles are composed of lard Last Line: Was an awful cat, you take it from a bard who's fat! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Mason, Walt (1862-1939) TEH LOVER, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is enough left, he says Last Line: Come in cold and content from his quest. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Love Affairs; Men TEN LITTLE MICE SAT DOWN TO SPIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Animals; Cats TEN SONGS: 5, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The single creature leads a partial life Last Line: In all his walks I follow at his side, %his faithful servant and his loving shade Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): The Single Creature; Cats And Dog Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs THAT CAT, by ROBIN FRANCIS BLASER Poem Source Last Line: Disconsolate on both sides-musically noted, I suppose Subject(s): Animals; Cats THAT CAT, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cat that comes to my window sill Last Line: That cat gits out. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE BACKYARD MERMAID, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The backyard mermaid slumps across the birdbath, tired of fighting birds for seeds Last Line: She wants to get lost in that sad glowing square of blue. Don’t you? Subject(s): Cats THE BAD CHILD'S BOOK OF BEASTS: INTRODUCTION, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I call you bad, my little child Last Line: "and as the owl discreet." Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE BLUE BOWL, by JANE KENYON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Like primitives we buried the cat Last Line: But always says the wrong thing Subject(s): Death - Animals; Cats THE CAMERONIAN CAT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a cameronian cat Subject(s): Animals;cats;clergy;mice;sabbath; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;sunday THE CAT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within that porch, across the way Last Line: I'm not so sure a body's there! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE CAT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The cat/licks its paws Subject(s): Cats THE CAT AND THE BIRD, by GEORGE CANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, tell me, gentle robin Last Line: That's flat. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Robins THE CAT AND THE MOON, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat went here and there Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dancing & Dancers; Moon THE CAT AS CAT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat on my bosom Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE CAT HEARD THE CAT-BIRD, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day, a fine day, a high-flying-sky day Last Line: I don't see any cat-bird here Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE CAT O' NINE TAILS, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old cat o' nine tails is comin' 'round agin Last Line: In. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE CAT OF CATS, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the cat of cats. I am Last Line: The everlasting cat! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry Variant Title(s): The Kitten Speaks Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE CAT'S EARS, by LARRY EIGNER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Cats THE CAT'S SONG, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine, says the cat, putting out his paw of darkness Subject(s): Cats THE CATS' MONTH, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your frosty hands Last Line: Where deep snow lies. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE CATS' TEA-PARTY, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five little pussy-cats, invited out to tea Last Line: Then knocked the tea-cups over, and scampered through the door. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE COLUBRIAD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close by the threshold of a door nailed fast Last Line: And taught him never to come there no more. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE COUNCIL HELD BY THE RATS (1), by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Old rodilard, a certain cat Last Line: Fell through like this precisely. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables; Allegories THE DEAD PUSSY CAT [OR KITTEN], by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: You's as stiff an' as cold as a stone Last Line: And forget all de kicks of de town Subject(s): Animal Rights;animals;cats;cold;death;grief; "animal Abuse;vivisection;dead, The;sorrow;sadness; THE FARMER, THE SPANIEL, AND THE CAT, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why knits my dear her angry brow? Last Line: And spurn'd the snarler from his side. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Cats; Dogs; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE GARDENER'S CAT, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: The gardener's cat's called mignonette Last Line: Dreams splendidly, at any rate! Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE HAPPY CAT, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat's asleep; I whisper kitten Last Line: Men aren't happy. Why are you? Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE KILKENNY CATS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There wanst was two cats of kilkenny Last Line: "and the tips of their tails, / instead of two cats, there warnt any" Subject(s): Animals;cats THE KITTEN, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wanton droll, whose harmless play Last Line: The place where poor old pussy lies. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE KITTEN, by OGDEN NASH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trouble with a kitten is Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE KITTEN, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More amazed than anything Subject(s): Cats THE KITTEN AND THE FALLING LEAVES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: That way look, my infant, lo Last Line: To gambol with life's falling leaf. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE KITTEN AT PLAY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See the kitten on the wall Last Line: What would little tabby care? Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE KITTEN OF THE REGIMENT, by JAMES BUCKHAM Poem Text First Line: This kitten, sir, of the colonel's? I'll tell the story Last Line: And she'd a brother who died for the old flag too! Alternate Author Name(s): Pastnor, Paul Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE LAST DYING SPEECH AND CONFESSION OF POOR PUSS, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kind masters and misses, whoever you be Last Line: She stopped, gave a sigh, and a struggle, and died! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death - Animals THE LAZY PUSSY, by PALMER COX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lives a good-for-nothing cat Last Line: As all the world may see. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE LION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the lines of yellow sunlight burn Last Line: My passion mocks these lines of cinnabar. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE LITTLE CAT ANGEL, by LEONTINE STANFIELD Poem Text First Line: The ghost of a little white kitten Last Line: For the name of the kitten was love. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE LONELY MAN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cat sits on the pavement by the house, a Last Line: Opening in a good firm for a former cat Subject(s): Cats; Solitude THE MYSTERIOUS CAT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a proud, mysterious cat Last Line: Mew ... Mew ... Mew. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE ONE-EYED CAT, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: To the kelp the dame is gone, in guiana is the man, and the little Last Line: Owns the little house all day. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Sea; Ocean THE ORANGE CAT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The orange cat on the porch Subject(s): Cats; Desire THE OWL AND THE PUSSY CAT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The owl and the pussy cat went to sea Last Line: They danced by the light of the moon. Variant Title(s): The Owl And The Pussy-cat Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Cats; Children; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Nonsense; Owls; Childhood; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE PERSIAN KITTEN, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lie still, my love, and do not speak, because Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Cats THE PRIZE CAT, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pure blood domestic, guaranteed Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE RETIRED CAT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet's cat, sedate and grave Last Line: The folly of his expectation. Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE SONG OF THE JELLICLES, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jellicle cats come out tonight Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Imagination; Fancy THE SONG OF THE MISCHIEVOUS DOG, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are many who say that a dog has his day Last Line: And that bees never work in their hives Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Cats; Lobsters; Bees THE SPHINX, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy thinks Last Line: And weeps for every soul that dies, and weeps for every soul in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Egypt; Sphinx THE THREE LITTLE KITTENS (A CAT'S TALE, WITH ADDITIONS), by ELIZA LEE CABOT FOLLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three little kittens lost their mittens Last Line: Mee-ow-mee-ow, mee-ow. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Childhood THE TOMCAT, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At midnight in the alley Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE WIDOW AND HER CAT, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A widow kept a favourite cat Last Line: Here, towzer! -- do him justice.' Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables; Honor; Mice; Widows & Widowers; Allegories THIS IS MY CHAIR, by PAUL WILLIAM GALLICO Poem Source Last Line: Then why cannot you leave me mine, %and let us have no further argument? Subject(s): Animals; Cats THREE CAT POEMS, by MAURICE JAMES CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Like catle-raiding heroes in the tain Subject(s): Animals; Cats THREE LITTLE KITTENS, by ELIZA COOK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three little kittens lost their mittens Last Line: We smell a rat near by. ' %'mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow' Subject(s): Animals; Cats THREE TABBIES TOOK OUT THEIR CATS TO TEA, by KATE GREENAWAY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: How many lives had these cats between them? Subject(s): Animals; Cats THRENODY FOR A PET CAT, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And now, to all the other memories Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO A CAT, by SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: If peace and silence could arise Last Line: Smite the three-score ills I'm heir to Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO A CAT, by IBN ALALAF ALNAHARWANY Poem Source First Line: Poor puss is gone! 'tis fate's decree Last Line: And curst the dainty where we find %destruction lurking in the dish Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO A CAT, by FANNY ELIZABETH PERKINS Poem Source First Line: O, tabby of the yellow eyes Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO A CAT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stately, kindly, lordly friend Last Line: More of heaven's deep heart than we. Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO A CAT PURRING, by FLORENCE SMALL EDSALL Poem Source First Line: Pansy-face and raspberry-paws Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO A KITTEN, by MARTHA HASKELL CLARK Poem Source First Line: Little yellow flame of fur Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO A KITTEN, by RENA M. MANNING Poem Source First Line: Did a fairy's fancy spin you Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO A KITTEN, by ALICE SCHERTLE Poem Source First Line: You stalk a string, subdue a flannel mouse Last Line: To feel beneath your ribs a tiger's heart Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO A PERSIAN CAT, by F. C. W. HILEY Poem Source First Line: So dear, so dainty, so demure Last Line: Then purrs and tucks her little toes up Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO A SIAMESE CAT, by MICHAEL JOSEPH Poem Source First Line: I shall walk in the sun alone Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO AN ENCHANTRESS, by ALICE BROWN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Little gray, wonder, in pride of fur Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO AN ORANGE CAT, by JOHN HERSCHEL Poem Source First Line: Warren I've been sleeping badly Last Line: And crossing inside you Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO MRS. PROFESSOR IN DEFENSE OF MY CAT'S HONOR AND NOT ONLY, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My valiant helper, a small-sized tiger Last Line: Which makes difficult our walking on this earth Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO MY CAT, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half loving-kindliness, and half-disdain Last Line: With sombre, sea-green gaze inscrutable. Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO MY LORD BUCKHURST, VERY YOUNG, PLAYING WITH A CAT, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The amorous youth, whose tender breast Last Line: She deep will mark her new disgrace. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Children; Jealousy; Tears; Youth; Childhood TO MY PUPPY, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source First Line: I think of you, I think of bones Last Line: You show your love in other ways Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs TO WINKY, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cat, cat / what are you Subject(s): Animals; Cats TO WINKY, by AMY LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cat, cat %what are you Last Line: Really, I do not know Subject(s): Animals; Cats TOM TIGERCAT, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Tom tigercat is noted %for his manners and his wit Last Line: I guess that's why we like him %and why he likes ocelot Subject(s): Animals; Cats TOMCAT, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At midnight in the alley Last Line: And beat the time for his demon's song %with the swing of his demon's tail Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Animals; Cats TOMCAT IS, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Night watchman of corners Last Line: The dude in the alley %the duke on the couch %affectionate fellow %occasional grouch Subject(s): Animals; Cats TONY'S GRAVE, by JAMES SULLIVAN STARKEY Poem Source First Line: My golden comrade, since I could not save Alternate Author Name(s): O'sullivan, Seumas Subject(s): Animals; Cats TRAVELING DREAM, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am packing to go to the airport Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips TRAVELING DREAM, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am packing to go to the airport Last Line: There is one cat the size of a sofa Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dreams; Travel TREE'S COMPLAINT, by ANNE ISAACS Poem Source First Line: A plague upon the race of cats Last Line: When poets sing in praise of me Subject(s): Animals; Cats TROY PARK: 5. THE CAT, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His kind velvet bonnet Last Line: With nobody to care. Subject(s): Animals; Cats TWO CATS, by KATHA POLLITT Poem Source First Line: It's better to be a cat than to be a human Subject(s): Animals; Cats TWO CATS ON THE HEARTH, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rest qauietly - the world moves toward its end Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Cats TYGER'S LETTER TO CAROLINE, by JAMES AUSTEN Poem Source First Line: Ever honoured mistress mine Last Line: Because she blamed a harmless cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats UBASTI, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the theocratic beasts Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Animals; Cats ULUMBO, A CAT, by R. H. VAN DEN HOOFDAKKER Poem Source First Line: Like us he had his Last Line: Sick and as indifferent %to death as to us. %dying he did himself Subject(s): Animals; Cats UNLOST, by OLIVER INGERSOLL Poem Source First Line: Her eyes run Last Line: Cat hurries home Subject(s): Animals; Cats UNREQUITED LOVE ON THE BACK PIAZZA, by MARGARET FISHBACK Poem Source First Line: I bow, I scrape, I doff my hat Subject(s): Animals; Cats UPON A FRIEND'S PET CAT, BEING SICK, by JOHN WINSTANLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How fickle's health! When sickness thus Subject(s): Animals; Cats V - IS FOR VICTORY AS YOU CAN PLAINLY SEE, by MARSDEN HARTLEY Poem Source First Line: I never really like this cat though she is Last Line: In each of the cat's eyes is a vast v. %no more songs now in the waving grass Subject(s): Animals; Cats VALENTINE'S JANE, by CATHY EISENHOWER Poem Source First Line: To steal a hubcap that %a cat swallowed whole, and Last Line: Can be capped with the %odd, unpredictable hunger of cat Subject(s): Animals; Automobiles; Cats VERSES ON A CAT, by CHARLES DAUBENY Poem Source First Line: Clubby! Thou art surely art, I ween Subject(s): Animals; Cats VERSES ON A CAT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cat in distress Last Line: To make them hold their jaw! Subject(s): Animals; Cats VERY HAPPY FAMILY, by JOSEPH G. FRANCIS Poem Source First Line: The mother sings a song of youth and may Subject(s): Animals; Cats VILLAGE TALK, by CATHERINE MOSS Poem Source First Line: The black cat and I Last Line: His eyes drink %her light Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Conversation; Villages WAITIN' FER THE CAT TO DIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lawzy! Don't I rickollect Last Line: Why you rock so slow?' ... Says I, %'waitin' fer the cat todie!' Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Cats WAR CAT, by DOROTHY LEIGH SAYERS Poem Source First Line: I am sorry, my little cat, I am sorry Subject(s): Animals; Cats WAY OF A CAT, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Source First Line: When first I saw you at my door Subject(s): Animals; Cats WE SHOULD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And wait for the door %to open Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Nature; Waiting WHAT IS A KITTEN, by JANE YOLEN Poem Source Last Line: It's purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dogs WHAT THE CAT KNOWS, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat sleeps with her, back to back Last Line: Beats, invisible, the heart of a bird Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Sleep WHAT THE CAT KNOWS, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cat sleeps with her, back to back Last Line: Beats, invisible, the heart of a bird Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Sleep WHEN THE CAT IS AWAY, THE MICE MAY PLAY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lady once (so stories say Last Line: Lest she again repent it. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Duplicity; Fables; Mice; Play; Deceit; Allegories WHITE CAT OF TRENARREN, by ALFRED LESLIE ROWSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: He was a mighty hunter in his youth Last Line: My cat and I grow old together Subject(s): Animals; Cats WOMAN AND CAT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were just playing, lady and cat Last Line: Four dazzling points of phosphor gleamed Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Nails (body) WOMAN AND CAT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were just playing, lady and cat Last Line: Four dazzling points of phosphor gleamed Subject(s): Animals; Cats ZULIA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zulia, my little cat Subject(s): Animals; Cats [OLD] MOTHER TABBYSKINS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sitting at her window, in her cloak and hat Last Line: For all doctors are not mice; some are dogs you see! 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