There are 268 Poems about Pets & Animals

"Quick! quick! ..."
By Anonymous

a 340 dollar horse and a hundred dollar whore
By Charles Bukowski

A Blessing
By James Wright

A Boat
By Richard Brautigan

A Caged Bird
By Sarah Orne Jewett

A Chapter from the Garden
By Diane Ackerman

A Dog Has Died
By Pablo Neruda

A Dog's Life
By Daniel Groves

A Little Language
By Robert Duncan

A Prayer to Go to Paradise with the Donkeys
By Francis Jammes

A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts
By Wallace Stevens

A Real-Life Drama
By Michael Collier

A Twenty-fourth Poem about Horses
By John Peck

About the Teeth of Sharks
By John Ciardi

After the Wilderness
By Andrew Hudgins

All Summer Long
By Carol Frost

America: A Prophecy
By William Blake

Animal Graves
By Chase Twichell

Animals Are Passing from Our Lives
By Philip Levine

Another Insane Devotion
By Gerald Stern

Ants
By Joanie V. Mackowski

At the Fishhouses
By Elizabeth Bishop

Atlantis
By Mark Doty

Auguries of Innocence
By William Blake

“My Mother is a Fish”
By Peter Balakian

Bats
By Amanda Jernigan

Bears at Raspberry Time
By Hayden Carruth

Becune Point
By Derek Walcott

Benjamin Pantier
By Edgar Lee Masters

Break of Day in the Trenches
By Isaac Rosenberg

Burning
By Galway Kinnell

Caged Bird
By Maya Angelou

Cat, Failing
By Robin Robertson

Chester
By John Koethe

Chez Jane
By Frank O'Hara

Chicken Pig
By Jennifer Michael Hecht

Complete Destruction
By William Carlos Williams

Courtship
By Talvikki Ansel

Darwin’s Bestiary
By Philip Appleman

Dead Doe
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Deer Skull
By Susan Griffin

Do You Love Me?
By Robert Wrigley

Dog
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Dog Music
By Paul Zimmer

Dogs Are Shakespearean, Children Are Strangers
By Delmore Schwartz

Domes
By John Koethe

Dusting
By Rita Dove

Eagle Plain
By Robert Francis

Early Frost
By Scott Cairns

Eating the Pig
By Donald Hall

Electrocuting an Elephant
By George Bradley

Factory
By Charles Simic

February
By Margaret Atwood

Feeding the Ducks at the Howard Johnson Motel
By Susan Mitchell

Felix Crow
By Kay Ryan

Fiduciary
By Randall Mann

First Job
By Joseph Campana

First the Dog
By Zbigniew Herbert

Flamingo Watching
By Kay Ryan

Flamingos Have Arrived in Ashtabula
By Andrew Hudgins

Fog
By Carl Sandburg

For the Last Wolverine
By James L. Dickey

Four Questions Regarding the Dreams of Animals
By Susan Stewart

Fox Sleep
By W. S. Merwin

Frère Jacques, Frère Antoine
By John Peck

From Violence to Peace
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Ginger
By Carl Rakosi

Goblin Market
By Christina Rossetti

Golden Retrievals
By Mark Doty

Goose
By Richard Emil Braun

Grimalkin
By Thomas P. Lynch

Gwine to Run All Night, or De Camptown Races
By Stephen C. Foster

Heart’s Needle
By W. D. Snodgrass

Heat
By Jane Hirshfield

Hedgehog
By Paul Muldoon

Hello
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Horse
By Louise Glück

Horses
By Wendell Berry

Horses in Snow
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

How the Pope is Chosen
By James Tate

Hunting, Hazards, and Holiness
By Henry Carlile

I Know, I Remember, But How Can I Help You
By Hayden Carruth

I Saw a Chapel
By William Blake

I’uni Kwi Athi? Hiatho.
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

If I Were an Elephant
By N. M. Bodecker

Impossible Dream
By Tony Hoagland

In Houston
By Gail Mazur

Janet Waking
By John Crowe Ransom

from Jubilate Agno
By Christopher Smart

Jubilate Agno, 1975
By David Lee

Killing Chickens
By Bruce Weigl

Kissing a Horse
By Robert Wrigley

Laughing Time
By William Jay Smith

Light Thickens
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

Little Robin Redbreast
By Anonymous

Love Song
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Love the Wild Swan
By Robinson Jeffers

Lui et Elle
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Man with a Black Dog
By Richard Emil Braun

Matanza to Welcome Spring
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Moly
By Thom Gunn

Mongrel Heart
By David Baker

Moon
By William Jay Smith

Moonlight: Chickens On The Road
By Robert Wrigley

Mr. Edwards and the Spider
By Robert Lowell

Muier
By William Carlos Williams

My Dog Practices Geometry
By Cathryn Essinger

Nikita
By Alberto Ríos

No Children, No Pets
By Sue Ellen Thompson

Nurture
By Maxine W. Kumin

October Arriving
By Charles Simic

Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes
By Thomas Gray

from Odes: 13. Fearful Symmetry
By Basil Bunting

On A Moonstruck Gravel Road
By Rodney Torreson

Out
By Andrew Hudgins

Over and Over Tune
By Ioanna Carlsen

Paired Things
By Kay Ryan

Pangur Bán
By Anonymous

Part Elegy
By Robert Wrigley

Past-Lives Therapy
By Charles Simic

Peter
By Marianne Moore

Philomela
By Matthew Arnold

Pig Song
By Margaret Atwood

Pink Slip at Tool & Dye
By Dave Smith

Preparation
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubbard's Tale
By Edmund Spenser

Rabbits and Fire
By Alberto Ríos

Rat Song
By Margaret Atwood

Read to the Animals, or Orpheus at the SPCA
By Irving Feldman

River Road
By Stanley Kunitz

Robin Redbreast
By Stanley Kunitz

Roosters
By Elizabeth Bishop

Saint Francis and the Sow
By Galway Kinnell

Sandra: At the Beaver Trap
By Michael S. Harper

Searchers
By D. Nurkse

Seele im Raum
By Randall Jarrell

Sheep
By Judy Grahn

Sideshow
By Mark Doty

Signs of the Times
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Skunk Hour
By Robert Lowell

Sleeping with Boa
By May Swenson

Snake
By Dannie Abse

Song
By Brenda Cárdenas

Song
By W. D. Snodgrass

Song: How sweet I roam'd from field to field
By William Blake

Space Station
By Tom Sleigh

Sphere
By Kate Gale

Star
By W. S. Merwin

Stories Are Made of Mistakes
By James Galvin

Strays
By Stanley Plumly

Superstition
By Marin Sorescu

Taking the Thought for the Dog
By Katharine Auchincloss Lorr

Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy
By Thomas Lux

That Pull from the Left
By Louise Erdrich

The Alpaca
By Gabriela Mistral

The Animals
By W. S. Merwin

The animals in that country
By Margaret Atwood

The Appaloosa
By Afaa Michael Weaver

The Astronomical Hen
By Cynthia Zarin

The Bear Hunt
By Abraham Lincoln

The Beasts' Confession
By Jonathan Swift

The Beautiful Animal
By Geoffrey Brock

The Bison
By Hilaire Belloc

The Black Swan
By James Merrill

The Black-Faced Sheep
By Donald Hall

The Blue-Eyed Precinct Worker
By Henri Coulette

The Book of Phillip Sparrow
By John Skelton

The Bumblebee
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Bunny Gives Us a Lesson in Eternity
By Mary Ruefle

The Calves Not Chosen
By Linda Gregg

The Cardinal
By Henry Carlile

The cat’s song
By Marge Piercy

The Chain Letter (An American Tragedy)
By David Lee

The Considerate Soft-Shelled Phizzint
By Shel Silverstein

The Cows on Killing Day
By Les Murray

The Daring One
By Edwin Markham

The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz
By Alicia Ostriker

The Donkey
By G. K. Chesterton

The Double Leash
By Katharine Coles

The Duel
By Eugene Field

The Dying Hunter to his Dog
By Susanna Moodie

The Elephant
By Dan Chiasson

The Enigma
By Anne Stevenson

The Farm
By David Lee

The Fight in the Meadow
By Russell Edson

The Fly
By Karl Shapiro

The Fly
By Lynn Crosbie

The Frog
By Hilaire Belloc

The Glove and the Lions
By Leigh Hunt

The Goose Fish
By Howard Nemerov

The Guinea Pig and the Green Balloon
By Oni Buchanan

The Heaven of Animals
By James L. Dickey

The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me
By Delmore Schwartz

The Horse
By Philip Levine

The Horses Run Back To Their Stalls
By Linda Gregerson

The Inkspots
By Gerald Stern

The Intruder
By Carolyn Kizer

The Invisible Birds of Central America
By Craig Arnold

The Journey
By James Wright

The Lamb
By William Blake

The Little Turtle
By Vachel Lindsay

The Lonely Pipefish
By Barbara Howes

The Maldive Shark
By Herman Melville

The Mosquito
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The Mower
By Philip Larkin

The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn
By Andrew Marvell

The Oldest Living Thing in L.A.
By Larry Levis

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
By Edward Lear

The Panther
By Edwin Markham

The Paris Mouse
By Sandra M. Gilbert

The Pasture
By Robert Frost

The Phoenix and the Turtle
By William Shakespeare

The Pig
By Roald Dahl

The Quangle Wangle's Hat
By Edward Lear

The Razor-Tailed Wren
By Shel Silverstein

The Red Wheelbarrow
By William Carlos Williams

The Rescue
By Robert Creeley

The Retired Cat
By William Cowper

The Secret Garden
By Rita Dove

The Seventeenth Book Of Homer's Odysseys
By George Chapman

The Sheep Child
By James L. Dickey

The Sheep Who Fastened the Sky to the Ground
By Oni Buchanan

The Snail
By Richard Lovelace

The Snail
By Marin Sorescu

The Snow Leopard
By Jason Gray

The Song of the Nightingale is Like the Scent of Syringa
By Mina Loy

The Spider and the Fly
By Mary Howitt

The Spider and the Fly
By Mary Howitt

The Story of Light
By Peggy Shumaker

The Sun-Struck Eagle
By Eleanor Percy Lee, Catherine Ana Warfield

The Truth
By Carl Phillips

The Unknown
By Edgar Lee Masters

The Victor Dog
By James Merrill

The Walrus and the Carpenter
By Lewis Carroll

The Weight
By Linda Gregg

The Whale
By Hilaire Belloc

The Woman at the Washington Zoo
By Randall Jarrell

The Yak
By Hilaire Belloc

There was an Old Man on the Border
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man with a Beard
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Person of Nice
By Edward Lear

Thinking and Feeling
By Cole Swensen

Thoughtless Cruelty
By Charles Lamb

Thoughts in a Zoo
By Countee Cullen

To a Cat
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

To Flush, My Dog
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To John Clare
By John Clare

To Kill a Deer
By Carol Frost

To the Destroyers of Ballots
By Donald Revell

To the Quarry and Back
By Katia Kapovich

To Yvor Winters, 1955
By Thom Gunn

Toad dreams
By Marge Piercy

Too Much of a Good Thing
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Tortoise Gallantry
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Tortoise Shout
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Turtle
By Kay Ryan

Two Old Crows
By Vachel Lindsay

Vesper Sparrows
By Deborah Digges

Vixen
By W. S. Merwin

Waking
By Carol Frost

Walking on Tiptoe
By Ted Kooser

We Had Seen a Pig
By Marvin Bell

What I Saw
By Robert Duncan

White Oxen
By Louis Simpson

Why Nobody Pets the Lion at the Zoo
By John Ciardi

[even with insects]
By Kobayashi Issa

[goes out comes back]
By Kobayashi Issa

[under the evening moon]
By Kobayashi Issa