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| Searching... Subject: ANIMAL RIGHTS Matches Found: 54 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 POEM FOR CHILDREN. ON CRUELTY TO THE IRRATIONAL CREATION, by JANE CAVE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! What a cruel wicked thing / for me, who am a little king Last Line: That I with thee may mercy find. Alternate Author Name(s): Winscom, Mrs. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Cruelty; Animal Abuse; Vivisection ANIMAL AND INSECT ACT, by CECIL RAJENDRA Poem Source First Line: Finally, in order to ensure Last Line: There was now total security Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Discipline; Human Rights; Law And Lawyers; Riots 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 ARTHUR MERVYN; A TALE OF SOCIAL GRIEVANCES: THE PASSING OF ARTHUR, by SAMUEL CARTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have confessed, and by a recent act Last Line: Three months' confinement in the common jail. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Confessions; Murder; Penance; Animal Abuse; Vivisection ARTIC OX, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To wear the artic ox Last Line: I think that we deserve to freeze Subject(s): Animal Rights; Musk Oxen BEAVERS, by GERALD VIZENOR Poem Source First Line: Turn the sixth card over at dawn Last Line: Beaver near the end in the city Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Beavers; Fur Trade; Hunting; Native Americans - History BESTIARY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Did he learn this on barefoot walks through wet fields Last Line: And petulant of her creatures Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Vegetarians; Zoos CASUALTIES: 9. WHAT THE SQUIRREL SAID, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They killed the lion in his den Last Line: Of it about us, about our necks Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Bulls; Death - Animals; Hunting; Leopards COMPASSION; AN ODE IN CELEBRATION ... PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Backward among the dusky years Last Line: Calls a yet mightier one. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Compassion; Animal Abuse; Vivisection DRY AUTUMN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening, just before Last Line: Mountains to eat your tender heart Subject(s): Animal Rights; Autumn; Innocence; Seasons; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Fall DRY AUTUMN, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening, just before Last Line: Mountains to eat your tender heart Subject(s): Animal Rights; Autumn; Innocence; Seasons ELEPHANT, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: I said it was an elephant's turd, but fay, six, didn't believe me. She Last Line: Happier than he already was Subject(s): Animal Rights; Circus; Elephants; Freedom; Happiness ENTERING THE SOUTH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have put on my mother's coat Last Line: Heavy and dark and alive Subject(s): African Americans; Animal Rights; Fur Trade; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Furs; South (u.s.) ENTERING THE SOUTH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have put on my mother's coat Last Line: Heavy and dark and alive Subject(s): African Americans; Animal Rights; Fur Trade; Southern States ESSAY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So many poems about the deaths of animals Last Line: But clearly they do not bother to say good-bye Subject(s): Animal Rights; Biology & Biologists; Extinct Animals; Animal Abuse; Vivisection FOR THE DEATH OF 100 WHALES, by MICHAEL THOMAS MCCLURE Poem Source First Line: Hung midsea %like a boat mid-air Last Line: From the beasts' wet shore Subject(s): Animal Rights; Whales FORBIDDEN LOVES, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: I knew a youth who, out of love for a rhinoceros, committed Last Line: The neck of his tall companion Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Rhinoceroses FORTEMENTE, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the silent, scarcely holy night Last Line: Mouthing our neighbors' worst surmises Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Hunting GOD IS THE COW, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Yoke for beggar-cart and plough Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Begging And Beggars; India HUNTING SEASON, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A bird in the wildwood is singing Last Line: Life redeemed shall abide in his love. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Birds; Forests; Hunting; Wings; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Woods; Hunters IN A FOREST, by SHERKO BEKAS Poem Source First Line: Darkness came %and in its lair, a lion thought Last Line: How could she, she wondered Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Human Rights; Hunger; Hunting; Survival KINDNESS TO ANIMALS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "little children, never give" Last Line: Nor do these gentle creatures wrong Subject(s): Animal Rights;mnemonics; Animal Abuse;vivisection KINDNESS TO ANIMALS, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speak gently to the herring and kindly to the calf Last Line: Be always kind to animals wherever you may be. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animal Abuse; Vivisection LARGO, by JOHANNES EDFELT Poem Source First Line: Reverence and fear fill us when we are confronted Last Line: Clamor and the eternity of absolute silence Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Death - Animals; Hunting; Rabbits LUCKY, by GERDA MAYER Poem Source First Line: All things bright and beautiful Last Line: Is working on %eternal life Subject(s): Animal Rights MARY'S LAMB, by SARAH JOSEPHA BUELL HALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary had a little lamb Last Line: If you are always kind.' Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Sara; Hale, Sarah Josepha Variant Title(s): Mary And Her Lamb;mary's Little Lamb Subject(s): Animal Rights; Lambs; Animal Abuse; Vivisection ON A BOARD BY A HORSE-TROUGH, ROAD SALISBURY TO MARLBOROUGH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A man of kindness to his steed is kind Last Line: He was designed thy servant, not thy drudge, %remember his creator is thy judge Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Horses PET'S PUNISHMENT, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, if my love offended me Last Line: And punish her -- with kisses! Subject(s): Animal Rights; Pets; Women; Animal Abuse; Vivisection PLEA FOR A CAPTIVE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woman with the caught fox Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Foxes; Animal Abuse; Vivisection PLEA FOR A CAPTIVE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Woman with the caught fox Last Line: Kill it at once or let it go Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Foxes PRAYER FOR GENTLENESS TO ALL CREATURES, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To all the humble beasts there be Last Line: Our ways with christ's own gentleness! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animal Abuse; Vivisection SELF PORTRAIT ON A ROCKY MOUNT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am the goat. Caroline by name. Nee 6 january. Domesticated Last Line: This we call industrial poetry. Both of us being bearded, mystic, horned Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Goats SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 97, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hurt no living thing Last Line: Nor harmless worms that creep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Environment; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SOME WINTER SPARROWS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hear you already, choir of small wheels Last Line: To trust, you will not come down Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Death; Fishing And Fishermen; Hunting THE ARTIC OX, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To wear the artic ox Subject(s): Animal Rights; Musk Oxen; Animal Abuse; Vivisection 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 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 EAGLE AND THE DOVE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Intent on prey, an eagle spread Last Line: "o wisdom! Thou speakest like a dove!" Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Birds; Eagles; Hunting; Rifles; Wings; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Hunters THE FLEECE: BOOK 2, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now of the severed lock begin the song Last Line: Who toil and wealth exchange for sloth and pride. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Clothing & Dress; Hunting; Labor & Laborers; Sheep; Trade; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Hunters; Work; Workers THE HUNTING OF THE HARE, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Betwixt two ridges of plowd- [ploughed-] sat [lay] wat Last Line: Was made for him, to tyrannize upon. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Hunting; Rabbits; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Hunters; Hares THE MISTRESS'S REPLY TO HER LITTLE BIRD, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear little bird, don't make this piteous cry Last Line: But now 'twould kill thee soon, to let thee fly. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Freedom; Pets; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Liberty THE TASK: BOOK 6. THE WINTER WALK AT NOON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is in souls a sympathy with sounds Last Line: Whose approbation prosper--even mine. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Bells; Country Life; Winter; Animal Abuse; Vivisection THE VIVISECTOR, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would I the vivisector's hand enclasp? Last Line: The baseness is our own, to us the brutal crimes belong. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Physicians; Schools; Science; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Doctors; Students; Scientists THE WILD HORSE, by MARY ANN BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Broad are the palms, whose boughs Last Line: Of human tyranny is on the earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Horses; Human Behavior; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE WOUNDED HARE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Inhuman man! Curse on thy barbarous art Last Line: And curse the ruffian's aim, and mourn thy hapless fate. Variant Title(s): On Seeing A Wounded Hare Limp By Me Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Rabbits; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Hares THE YOUNG HUNTER AND THE FAWN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Far in a wide and silent forest's shade Last Line: "and every wind doth whisper 'murderer!' " Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Deer; Forests; Hunting; Murder; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Woods; Hunters THOUGHTS ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, by ROD MCKUEN Poem Source First Line: There ought to be capital punishment for cars Last Line: Should await the driver %driving over a beast Subject(s): Animal Rights; Automobiles THREE EPISTLES TO G. LLOYD ON A PASSAGE FROM HOMER'S ILIAD: 2, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your consent I made bold to suppose, in my last Last Line: If it will not make sense in their own mother tongue. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Apollo; Dogs; Mythology - Classical; Wilderness; Animal Abuse; Vivisection TRAY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing me a hero! Quench my thirst Last Line: "how brain secretes dog's soul, we'll see!'" Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animal Abuse; Vivisection VEGETARIAN, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: To 'forswear things of the flesh' I thought meant Last Line: Carnivorous in compassion, my brother ate my portion Subject(s): Animal Rights; Vegetarians VILLAGES, by CORRADO GOVONI Poem Source First Line: From the white campanile a cannonade Last Line: Amid the ranks of burgeoning wheat, take hope Subject(s): Animal Rights; Italian Renaissance; Pigs; Roosters WINTER MEMORY, by GYULA ILLYES Poem Source First Line: We ate you up, little pig Last Line: Under the smoke-laden, ash-filled sky Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Farm Life; Pigs WITNESS, by EMILE KESSLER Poem Text First Line: When I behold in labored fields Last Line: A barren, frigid stall. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animal Abuse; Vivisection |
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