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| Searching... Subject: PETS Matches Found: 51 A CHILD'S PET, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I sailed out of baltimore Last Line: Would stroke that sheep's black nose. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Pets; Sheep A MERRY HEART: LOVE SONG, by THELMA LUCILE LULL Poem Text First Line: O my starling, my comic anthropoid Last Line: Because I am affectionut! Subject(s): Lambs; Pets ANIMOOSH, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: A girl surrounded by brothers Last Line: Bounding through the long field of goldenrod and sun Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets BEYOND THE BLUE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speak of you, sir? You bet he did. Ben fields was far too sound Last Line: Of seeing ben some day again, 'way up beyond the blue. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Animals; Despair; Dogs; Loyalty; Pets BIG DOG, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bring you / this head Last Line: Be a man again. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets CITY STREET, by GRACE MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: The old holder woman wears several skirts Last Line: "and calls never a word except -- ""pears!" Subject(s): Pets DISASTER, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas ever thus from childhood's hour Last Line: If some big dog should swallow tiny. Subject(s): Ingenuity; Pets DOMESTIC SONNET, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cat gave birth to an adder. The dog died Last Line: It works somehow, never entirely well Subject(s): Pets DRESSING UP OUR PETS, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I sew a bright hood for my pet mouse Subject(s): Pets; Clothing & Dress FAMILY ROMANCE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He inherits currency worth half its value Subject(s): Pets FAMILY ROMANCE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He inherits currency worth half its value Last Line: Maternal intervention made more alarming by its ambiguity Subject(s): Pets GEIST'S GRAVE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four years! - and didst thou stay above Last Line: The dachs-hound, geist, their little friend. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Pets HIMALAYA APE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Now listen, evolutionists Last Line: Or of the missing link. Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Pets; Science; Teaching & Teachers; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Scientists; Educators; Professors IF YOU, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If you were going to get a pet Subject(s): Pets JANE - A TERRIER, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: She's short in the leg and she's long in the jaw Last Line: Does good little sister jane! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets MAKING FRIENDS, by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eve I came the dog 'gan bark Last Line: And thus their friend all friendly greet. Alternate Author Name(s): Brizeux, Auguste Subject(s): Family Lifel Pets MEAL, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: From the white plate %somewhat chipped Last Line: And with no fear of the night Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunger; Pets MY BROTHER BERT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pets are the hobby of my brother bert Last Line: And what, oh what, would the neighbors say Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Brothers; Pets MY LITTLE DOG AND ME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little dog knows just as much Last Line: Don't hafter care fer me. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Pets; Childhood 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 OZARK ODES: JUDGE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Had a boyhood. Had his own rooster. Name of andy Last Line: Made him bald. This really vexed judge's old daddy Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Pets; Roosters PATSY, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Puppy dog, rough as a bramble Last Line: Rats, little hound of beelzebub, rats! Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets 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 PETS, by MARTIN BELL Poem Source First Line: Domestication for use Subject(s): Pets PETS, by MARGARET BENSON Poem Text First Line: Once on a time I used to dream Last Line: We love you better every day. Subject(s): Pets PETS, by MICHELLE T. CLINTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A hard xmas was the hardest Last Line: But after that caught distemper %& died anyway Subject(s): Pets PETS, by S. C. HAHN Poem Source First Line: He beats his life until it cringes or attacks. He Subject(s): Pets PETS, by JOHN KITCHING Poem Source First Line: I'm a dog %all tail and bark Last Line: And twitching fear Subject(s): Pets PETS, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Frog 3b Last Line: Parakeet p Subject(s): Animals; Pets PETS, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON Poem Source First Line: For most, loving is being led Last Line: When you are half-awake in bed, %breathe your breath, and are content Subject(s): Pets PETS, by BARON WORMSER Poem Source First Line: As lives sprout purposes, animals will enter Subject(s): Pets POEM WITH ONE FACT, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At pet stores in detroit, you can buy Subject(s): Pets; Detroit, Michigan RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It begins with my dog, now dead, who all his long life Last Line: It will snow fiercely enough to fill all these open graves Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Pets SLEEPING WITH BOA, by MAY SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I show her how to put her arms around me Subject(s): Pets THDE NEW AUSTERITY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart is lonely so he buys a bird Last Line: In the new austerity of heart's life, this is enough Subject(s): Pets THE DISASTER, by MARY SAVAGE Poem Text First Line: By sparrows drawn, there's now no chance Last Line: And in my husband's chariot come. Subject(s): Pets; Sparrows THE FEARFUL CHILD, by CAROL FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a child I parleyed with animals, stuffed and real. Subject(s): Children; Pets; Family Life; Fear; Childhood; Relatives THE LINNET; A FABLE, by HELEN LEIGH Poem Text First Line: Young celia was beauteous, and blithe as the morn Last Line: By false notions of freedom betray'd! Subject(s): Linnets; Pets THE LITTLE BIRD'S COMPLAINT TO HIS MISTRESS, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this wiry prison, where I sing Last Line: And sing sweet songs to freedom and to thee. Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Pets; Liberty 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 PET COON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Noey bixler ketched him, an' fetched him in to me Last Line: "er 'greedy,' next he whips yer dog, shall whip you, too!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets; Raccoons THE PLAYMATE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I barked beneath his window, 'come and play!' Last Line: There's nothing left to do but wait—and wait. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Pets; Play; Childhood THE TREASURED THREE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Here with my treasured three I sit Last Line: To leave this little house of joy? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Pets; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO A TERRIER, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Crib, on your grave beneath the chestnut boughs Last Line: Ere death the dog-thief carried you afar! Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Pets TO AN IRISH TERRIER, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Rough is your coat and sharp the bite and bark Last Line: In answer to our call and every need. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets TO OUR HOUSE-DOG CAPTAIN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Captain! We often heretofore Last Line: To drive the pauper from the yard. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets; Teeth; Trust; Toothaches TOWSER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I drove a horse for a long, long time Last Line: Down 'neath the buttercups—and it's true of men, just as well as pups. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Friendship; Pets TWO SONGS OF A FOOL: 1, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A speckled cat and a tame hare Last Line: My great responsibilities? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fools; Pets; Idiots TWO SONGS OF A FOOL: 2, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I slept on my three-legged stool by the fire Last Line: The horn's sweet note and the tooth of the hound. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fools; Pets; Idiots VILLAGE DOGS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Groggy, we watched the ball descend Last Line: In the decades' first hour, who %could deny that the marriage was over? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Marriage; Pets WHAT MATTER?, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sure I'm sorry the crathur was scared, but I Last Line: Ah what matter? Sure what should it matter? What matter, what matter at all? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fields; Pets; Pastures; Meadows; Leas |
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