Poems about Animals

• The Eagle

  He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
  Close to the sun in lonely lands,

  by Alfred Lord Tennyson 6 lines, 6 comments
• Cat!

  Atter her, atter her,
  Sleeky flatterer,

  by Eleanor Farjeon 33 lines
• The Dog Lovers

  So they bought you
  And kept you in a

  by Spike Milligan 17 lines, 7 comments
• Little Gorilla

  Little Gorilla, why do you look so sad? . . .
  Are you thinking about the glorious times that you had

  by Cicely Fox Smith 13 lines
• Ham, Shem And Japhet

  Ham, Shem, and Japhet went a-sailing in the Ark,
  With all the kinds of animals that grunt and squeak and bark,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 14 lines
• Wombat

  Ha there! old-pig, old bear, old bristly and gingery
  Wombat out of the red earth peering gingerly,

  by Douglas Alexander Stewart 18 lines
• The Alligator's Children

  The alligator is a creature
  With not a single pleasing feature;

  by Cicely Fox Smith 5 lines, 1 comment
• Hide And Seek

  I rather think I would not wish,
  If I might choose, to be a fish.

  by Cicely Fox Smith 25 lines
• Master Hippo

  The hippo from the banks of Nile,
  How wide and winning is the smile

  by Cicely Fox Smith 20 lines, 1 comment
• The Art Of Catching Flies

  Down in the shadow
  Up in the sun,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 7 lines, 1 comment
• Horses

  Those lumbering horses in the steady plough,
  On the bare field - I wonder, why, just now,

  by Edwin Muir 33 lines, 1 comment
• Penguins

  'Pengwengs,' the bos'n said,
  'They're sailors drowned an' dead —

  by Cicely Fox Smith 8 lines
• The Tortoiseshell Cat

  The tortoiseshell cat,
  She sits on the mat,

  by Patrick R Chalmers 20 lines
• Nests

  Nests are wonderful things . . .
  The rook's high house that swings

  by Cicely Fox Smith 10 lines
• The Changeling

  Look! said the hedge-sparrow, 'isn't he fine?
  Nobody else has a child like mine!

  by Cicely Fox Smith 12 lines, 1 comment
• Milk For The Cat

  When the tea is brought at five o'clock,
  And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,

  by Harold Monro 44 lines, 1 comment
• Giraffes

  Beyond the brassy sun-stare where each shade
  Crouches beneath its substance at mid-noon,

  by Phoebe Hesketh 15 lines
• Master Brock

  Long before the Mammoth died in the ice and snow,
  Master Brocky made his earth snug and warm below.

  by Cicely Fox Smith 16 lines
• Dog

  You little friend, your nose is ready; you sniff,
  Asking for that expected walk,

  by Harold Monro 43 lines
• The Duck and the Kangaroo

  Said the Duck to the Kangaroo,
  "Good gracious! how you hop!

  by Edward Lear 43 lines
• The Dromedary

  In dreams I see the Dromedary still,
  As once in a gay park I saw him stand:

  by Archibald Young Campbell 13 lines, 1 comment
• To A Rhinoceros

  Rhinoceros, your hide looks all undone,
  You do not take my fancy in the least:

  by Hilaire Belloc 3 lines
• The Cow

  THIS is a rune I ravelled in the still, 
  Arrogant stare of an Australian cow— 

  by Bernard O'Dowd 14 lines, 1 comment
• Cattle in Trucks

  Poor cows, poor sheep,
  I weep, I weep

  by Edith L M King 20 lines
• Man's Cruelty To His Beast

  Man's cruel baseness to his beast!
    —Poor uncomplaining brute,

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 59 lines
• The Pelican Chorus

  King and Queen of the Pelicans we;
  No other Birds so grand we see!

  by Edward Lear 78 lines
• Mercy To Animals

  O boys and men of British mould,
    With mother's milk within you

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 89 lines
• The Kingfisher

  Kingfisher blue,
      Was it you

  by Cicely Fox Smith 4 lines, 1 comment
• The Bob-Cat

  The puma is a puss-cat, and a thumping big one too,
  But mostly when you meet one it's a deal more scared than you;

  by Cicely Fox Smith 3 lines
• Mr. Prickles

  Old Prickles he lives in the midst of a wood,
  Where slugs, snails, and beetles abound for his food,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 5 lines

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