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First Line: The sun %came up wearing
Last Line: Frisky white one gave vanilla %milk shakes
Subject(s): Cows


A COW, by JUDY VAN DER VEER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cows aren't clumsy
Last Line: New-born -- and dead.
Subject(s): Cows


APPEARANCES, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: De man dat wahs de slickest tile
Last Line: Yo' 's walkin' 'roun' behin'.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Cows


BEING HERDED PAST THE PRISON'S HONOR FARM, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The closer I come to their huge black-and-white sides
Subject(s): Cows


BLURRY COW, by CHASE TWICHELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two cows stand transfixed
Subject(s): Cows


BROWN DRIMIN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh say, my brown drimin, thou silk of the kine"
Last Line: When the flint-hearted saxon they've chased far away
Subject(s): Cows;nationalism - Ireland


BUCOLICS, by CORA MIRANDA BAGGERLY OLDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shut up, old sandy jersey cow
Last Line: You are only a beast.
Subject(s): Cows


BULL, by ALICE SCHERTLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do they watch me trot to the top of the hill
Last Line: (are they watching whatever I'm doing?
Subject(s): Cows


BUNCH QUITTER, by SUE WALLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She is a proud half-brahma mama in the middle of a mindless herd
Last Line: And far too unreliable %for trust
Subject(s): Cows; Ranch Life


BUTTERCUP COW, by ELIZABETH RENDALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Buttercup cow has milk for me
Subject(s): Cows


CALF, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: If it is being fattened for food
Last Line: Have not been inspired to jump for joy in years
Subject(s): Animals; Cows; Farm Life


CLEVER COWS, by ALICE SCHERTLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The clever cows %in single-file
Last Line: And %walk %back %down
Subject(s): Cows


CONSIDER COW, by ALICE SCHERTLE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And through %and mough... %er, moo
Subject(s): Cows


COW, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A greensweet breathing
Last Line: In a foreground of the hills
Subject(s): Cows


COW, by DESALES HARRISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eight maybe nine skinnies some with aks
Last Line: That's what I did
Subject(s): Animals; Cows


COW, by KIM JONGGIL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your larhe eyes darken
Last Line: The way you shut your gentle eyes
Subject(s): Cows


COW, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cow is of the bovine ilk
Last Line: One end is moo, the other, milk
Subject(s): Cows


COW, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cow mainly moos as she chooses
Last Line: Or may chew just to chew as she muses
Subject(s): Cows


COW, by ALICE SCHERTLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: You come across her standing there
Last Line: The gentle softness of her eyes
Subject(s): Cows


COW, by KNUTE SKINNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a white cow standing upon the hill
Last Line: And would she and I eat grass for the rest of our lives?
Subject(s): Cows


COW AT SULLINGTON, by CHARLES WILLIAM DALMON    Poem Source                    
First Line: She leaves the puddle where she drinks
Subject(s): Animals; Cows


COW DANCE, by BRUCE VICTOR BEAVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I came across her browsing on a slope
Subject(s): Cows


COW LOOKS DOWN THE HIGHWAY, by ALICE SCHERTLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poor silly things %they never see
Last Line: The grass won't last %until tomorrow?
Subject(s): Cows


COW TRADIN' BY THE RIO GRANDE, by DRUMMOND HADLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Phil statler had a bunch of cows sold to red robb
Last Line: But they was dead sons-of-bitches while they was a walkin'
Subject(s): Cows; Ranch Life


COW'S COMPLAINT, by ALICE SCHERTLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: How unkind to keep me here
Last Line: When, over there, the grass is greener
Subject(s): Cows


COWLICK LIMERICK, by CHRISTOPHER SCRIBNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You stare in the mirror, mouth foaming
Last Line: And mind to just clip it's what I've a
Subject(s): Cows


COWS, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who's afraid of a cow?
Last Line: But I wish, o I wish that my daddy was here!
Subject(s): Children; Cows; Fear; Childhood


COWS, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Cows; Ireland; Irish


COWS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn breaks
Last Line: Ahead to the good, as your father knew you would
Subject(s): Cows


COWS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn breaks
Last Line: Ahead to the good, as your father knew you would
Subject(s): Cows


COWS, by JAMES REEVES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Half the time they munched the grass, and all the time they lay
Last Line: To pass the hours away
Subject(s): Cows


COWS COMING HOME, by ALICE SCHERTLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just here %part the grass
Last Line: Cows coming home %at sundown
Subject(s): Cows


COWS LIVE HERE, by ALICE SCHERTLE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And every spring a %thousand %thousand %buttercups
Subject(s): Cows


CULLING THE HERD, by JENNIFER OLDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the new chick flopped
Last Line: And bundled him close %and nursed him
Subject(s): Cows; Ranch Life


DAIRY COWS AT CRAWFORD FARM, by SHEROD SANTOS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still road-weary but quite warmly stowed
Subject(s): Cows


DIVERSIONS OF THE RE-ECHO CLUB, by CAROLYN WELLS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hence, vain, deluding cows
Last Line: Than to be one, anyhow.
Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Cows; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Keats, John (1795-1821); Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry & Poets; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


DO NOT ASK, by GREG KEELER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do not ask for whom they moo
Last Line: The same earth, by the way, which one %fine day will melt into the sun
Subject(s): Cows; Ranch Life


DR. JONSON'S PICTURE COW, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Got a sliver in my hand
Last Line: Picture cows could kick at you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Cows; Physicians; Doctors


DRIMIN DONN DILIS (THE DEAR BROWN COW), by JOHN WALSH (1835-1881)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! Drimin donn dilis! The landlord has come
Last Line: With a blight on his life, and a brand on his brow.
Subject(s): Cows; Ireland - Famine


DRIVIN' THE COWS, by ALICE SCHERTLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Drivin' the cows to wyomin'
Last Line: Gonna be drivin' these cows
Subject(s): Cows


DRIVING HOME THE COWS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The creek flames and the stunted willows all
Last Line: Black stands the barn against a flawless sky.
Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers


FETCHING COWS, by NORMAN MACCAIG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The black one, last as usual, swings her head
Subject(s): Cows; Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


FETCHING COWS, by NORMAN MACCAIG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The black one, last as usual, swings her head
Last Line: The black cow is two native carriers %bringing its belly home, slung from a pole
Subject(s): Cows; Environment; Fields


FIELD MAGIC, by DOROTHY DOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: A black velvet cow
Last Line: Could be heaven, too!
Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; Fields; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


FODDER-TIME, by ELIZABETH    Poem Text                    
First Line: How sweet the manger smells! The cows all listen
Last Line: To feed the kine that know no base emotion!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sylva, Carmen; Pauline Elizabeth Ottilie Luis
Subject(s): Cows


GATHERING CATTLE ... JACKSON HOLE 1979, WYOMING, by DRUMMOND HADLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A few snow flakes falling here
Last Line: Just as smooth as a school marm's leg
Subject(s): Cows; Ranch Life


GOING TO BUY SOME HEIFERS; THE DEATH OF JESSE PARKER, by DRUMMOND HADLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We turn onto a dirt road. Calves scamper away
Last Line: Nobody knows what happened
Subject(s): Cows; Ranch Life


GREASING BOOTS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To keep a feller's boots in trim
Last Line: When settled weather struck your boots.
Subject(s): Animals; Cows; Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers


HABITATION, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High up in the sky there, now, you know
Last Line: But we are there -- we are waiting ourselves who come.
Subject(s): Cows; May (month)


HOW NOW, BROWN COW?, by ALICE SCHERTLE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Good to have %this moo %together
Subject(s): Cows


HOW PEARL STREET WAS PAVED, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In wouter van twiller's manorial pale
Last Line: We manage the streets of the city to-day.
Subject(s): Cows; New York City - Dutch Period; Streets; Avenues


HUSBANDRY, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: And what does the farmer's daughter think
Last Line: And thinks: 'when I marry, I'll marry a farmer.'
Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; Fathers And Daughters; Girls; Milk


IN ENVY OF COWS, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cow swings her head in a deep drowsy half-circle to / and over
Last Line: No more: they have rose vapors, flushed silence, pulpy milkweed.
Subject(s): Cows


IO IN FLORIDA, by PHILLIP STERLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cows of volusia county
Last Line: Guard their simple lives
Subject(s): Cows; Florida


JOHNNY SPAIN'S WHITE HEIFER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first time ever I saw johnny spain was
Last Line: Of course somewhat more than a mite wild
Subject(s): Cows; Junk & Junkyards


KERRY COW, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's in connacht or in munster that yourself might travel wide
Subject(s): Animals; Cows


LAMENT FOR A DEAD COW, by FRANCIS CAREY SLATER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beautiful was wetu as a blue shadow
Subject(s): Cows


LAMENT FOR COW PATTY, by ALBERT STERBAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: This the elegiac tale
Last Line: Cow patty near the moon
Subject(s): Cows; Poetry And Poets


LEF' DE OLE HOSS OUT, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tween de gusts ob de win'
Last Line: Ter go ter bed ter res' an' leebe de ole hoss out?
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Cows


LIKE DE OLE MULE BES', by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some folks is so't o' pa'shal to de cattle roun' de
Last Line: I so't o' like de ole mule bes'.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Chickens; Cows; Dogs; Farm Life; Goats; Love; Agriculture; Farmers


MARSHALL WASHER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They are cowshit farmers, these new englanders
Last Line: "and flagged aisles saturated with a century’s
Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; New England; Agriculture; Farmers


MEAT AND MEMORY, by NATALIE KENVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When my father receded, I became small
Last Line: The smell of meat and memory
Subject(s): Cows; Death; Fathers; Memory


MILKING, by ALICE SCHERTLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blowing %clouds of white breath
Last Line: Of warm breath into the melting morning
Subject(s): Cows


MILKING KRAAL, by FRANCIS CAREY SLATER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When stars begin softy to spatter
Subject(s): Cows


MILKING THE COW, by MATTHEW LIPPMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've been reading the paper all morning and can't get my eyes of the barn
Last Line: As it races over the brown wheat grass to meet me head on %between the pink udders of one brown cow
Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; News; Storms; Winter


MILKING TIME, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When supper time is almost come
Subject(s): Cows; Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


MILKING TIME, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When supper time is almost come
Last Line: He hands it to me through the fence
Subject(s): Cows; Milk


MOO, by JAMES NORCLIFFE    Poem Source                    
First Line: If only they
Last Line: Grey %& slient
Subject(s): Buffaloes; Cows


MOO, by ALICE SCHERTLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: No matter the time
Last Line: They're probably %thinking of mooing
Subject(s): Cows


MOO COW MOO, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My papa held me up to the moo cow moo
Subject(s): Cows


MOO!, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer is over, the old cow said
Last Line: There's no more grass, there's no more clover; %summer is over, summer is over
Subject(s): Cows


NIGHT OF THE COW DANCING, by VICTORIA ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The night of the cow dancing the moon
Last Line: Creatures without imagination or joy artlessly %ruminating and passing another grazing day
Subject(s): Cows


O BEAUTEOUS ONE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O beauteous one, o cow, o great one
Last Line: Give that he live!
Subject(s): Cows; Goddesses And Gods; Mythology


OLE BOSSIE COW, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Po' ole bossie cow's down in de marsh
Last Line: A wee little bossie comes follerin' on behin'.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Cows; Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


ONE COW, TWO MOOS, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We used to have a single cow
Last Line: She gives us half-and-half
Subject(s): Cows; Milk


PATSORAL, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two cows %in a marsh
Last Line: Nothing doing
Subject(s): Cows


PRESENCE, by MILDRED WHITNEY STILLMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I thought that I should miss you on this hill
Last Line: But, no, I do not miss you. You are here.
Subject(s): Absence; Cows; Presence; Separation; Isolation


PRETTY COW, by JANE TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thank you, pretty cow, that made
Last Line: Pretty cow, go there and dine.
Subject(s): Children; Cows; Childhood


RED COW IS DEAD, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Toll the bell, fellow, %this is a sad day at wellow
Last Line: A reminant in death's covenant, %smitten, bitten , gone. %toll the bell, young fellow!
Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B.
Subject(s): Cows


ROSE AND CUSHIE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cow low'd sadly o'er the distant gate
Last Line: Ran home to tell of cushie's broken heart.
Subject(s): Cows


SECOND NATURE, by DEBORAH GORLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Their colors come upon the world, smooth impasto trowelled on
Last Line: Some gorgeous insincerity, their existence purely descriptive
Subject(s): Cows


SELLING A COW IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoa! Whitey; morning, neighbor bell
Last Line: They're passing not to come again.
Subject(s): Animals; Cows; Farm Life; Trade; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers


SHELTER, by ALICE SCHERTLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her hooves
Last Line: Side, his small hooves denting the wet prairie
Subject(s): Animals; Birth; Cows


TARADIDDLE, by ALICE SCHERTLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: She landed hard %they say
Last Line: They never found the dish and spoon
Subject(s): Cows


TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES 1, by MAUREEN SEATON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Watching tess milk the cows turned angel on
Last Line: Girl finishing last, dozing at stonehenge
Subject(s): Cows; Death; Girls


THAT JERSEY COW, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We stood at the bars as the sun went down
Last Line: "as I rubbed her ears, - that jersey cow"
Variant Title(s): A Lovely Scene
Subject(s): Cows


THE BALLAD OF BLOSSOM, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lake is known as west branch pond
Subject(s): Owls; Cows; Nature; Dogs


THE BIRTHDAY COW, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy mooday to you
Last Line: Happy mooday to you
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Cows


THE CANADIAN HERD-BOY (A SONG OF THE BACKWOODS), by SUSANNA STRICKLAND MOODIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the deep woods, at peep of day
Last Line: Quick jingling comes the cattle-bell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Strickland, Susanna
Subject(s): Cows


THE COTSWOLD FARMERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes the ghosts forgotten go
Last Line: No ghostly harvester.
Subject(s): Cows; Fairies; Farm Life; Ghosts; Supernatural; Elves; Agriculture; Farmers


THE COW, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A greensweet breathing
Last Line: In a foreground of the hills
Subject(s): Cows


THE COW, by ANDREW HUDGINS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the red cow
Last Line: With her own creamy butter
Subject(s): Cows


THE COW, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cow is of the bovine ilk
Subject(s): Cows


THE COW, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cow mainly moos as she chooses
Subject(s): Cows


THE COW, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The friendly cow all red and white
Last Line: And eats the meadow flowers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 23
Subject(s): Cows


THE COW AND THE ASS, by JANE TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside [or, hard by] a green meadow a stream used to flow
Last Line: "I really believe that the fellow is right."
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Asses & Mules; Cows; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


THE COW HERD, by DIOTIMUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Uncalled the cattle did at evening go
Last Line: Sleeps the long sleep, hushed by a lightning-stroke.
Subject(s): Cows


THE COW IN APPLE TIME, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Something inspires the only cow of late
Last Line: Her udder shrivels and the milk goes dry.
Subject(s): Cows


THE COW-BOY'S SONG, by ANNA MARIA WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mooly cow, mooly cow, home from the wood
Last Line: "the mooly cow only said, ""moo-o-o!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Wells, A. M.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Cows; Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


THE COW-JUICE CURE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The clover was in blossom, an' the year was at the june
Last Line: In the black sand at the bottom of that wicked milkman's well.
Subject(s): Cows


THE COWS AT NIGHT, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon was like a full cup tonight
Last Line: Very gently it began to rain
Subject(s): Cows; Moon; Night; Bedtime


THE DEAD CALF, by RICHARD JONES    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow has fallen
Last Line: In the baling arms of the tractor.
Subject(s): Cows; Death - Animals; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers


THE DUN COW AND THE HAG, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the river volga near the village of anskijovka
Last Line: Ran off her dress like a lowered hem.
Subject(s): Cows; Drowning; Old Age; Poisons & Poisoning; Volga River, Russia; Women


THE HEIFER, by ANDRE MARIE CHENIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old herder's daughter, thou whose hands are skilled
Last Line: And hold it slung until her store be spent.
Subject(s): Cows; Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


THE HIGHWAY COW, by EUGENE J. HALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hue of her hide was dusky brown
Last Line: But the highway cow outlived them all.
Subject(s): Animals; Cows


THE LILY-POOL AND THE COW, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What sees our mailie in the lily-pool
Last Line: "from off this most sufficient, absolute lily-pool!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Cows; Lakes; Pools; Ponds


THE MILKMAID AND THE BANKER, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A milkmaid, with a very pretty face
Last Line: "will reach acton some minutes before me."
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Cows; Love


THE PURPLE COW, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I never saw a purple cow
Last Line: I'd rather see than be one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett
Subject(s): Cows; Nonsense


THE QUEST OF THE PURPLE COW, by HILDA JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: He girded on his shining sword
Last Line: Cow!
Subject(s): Cows


THE SECOND ANTEMASQUE, by ELIZABETH BRACKLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have lost my melch cow
Last Line: Pr. And our purses they are empty.
Subject(s): Country Life; Cows; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE VERMONT 'HIRED MAN', by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hired man we knew of yore
Last Line: The past and present hired man.
Subject(s): Cattle; Cows; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Milk; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Milkmen; Milkmaids


THREE THINGS, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three things filled this day for me
Last Line: Wondering why they wondered.
Subject(s): Buttercups; Cows; Flowers


TWO TREES IN KATHMANDU, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember, in that garden eastward
Last Line: East of wherever the gate closed on eden.
Subject(s): Cows; Eden; Travel; Journeys; Trips


UNCAREFUL COW, WHO WALKED ABOUT, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: She rubbed the horn away
Subject(s): Animals; Cows


WARNING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dublin is gridlocked, cork crippled
Last Line: There's a loose cow on the road.
Subject(s): Cows; Dublin, Ireland; Traffic


WHAT A DAINTY LIFE THE MILKMAID LEADS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: And merrily passes the time away
Subject(s): Cows;farm Life; Agriculture;farmers


WHEN THE COWS COME HOME, by AGNES E. MITCHELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: With klingle, klangle, klingle, / way down the dusty dingle
Last Line: When the cows come home.
Subject(s): Cows; Home


WHEN THE COWS COME HOME, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Clink, clink, clink-clink, a-clinkety-clink'
Last Line: And the dusk is here and my eyes are wet.
Subject(s): Cows; Nature


WHERE BROKEN (THE DARKNESS, by LIZ WALDNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cows on the spine of the hill like the spine of a book are some letters
Subject(s): Books; Cows; Alphabets; Reading


WHITE, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To move into it again, as it was
Last Line: To look again at the reflection of her huge eye in water.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Cows; Water; White (color)


WRITTEN .. ON SEEING A MAD HEIFER RUN THROUGH THE VILLAGE, by ELIZABETH HANDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When summer smiled, and birds on every spray
Last Line: No more she'll fright our village, I presage.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne
Subject(s): Cows


YOU HAD TO MILK THE COWS AT 5 A.M., by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Even udders can become brutal clocks
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Cows; Milk; Nature