There are 430 Poems about Wildlife

"I was one of the skunks"
By Bernadette Mayer

"Love of My Flesh, Living Death"
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

"Of": An Assay
By Jane Hirshfield

“Birds small enough...”
By Donald Revell

A Caged Bird
By Sarah Orne Jewett

A Cave of Angelfish Huddle Against the Moon
By Ron De Maris

A Day on the Big Branch
By Howard Nemerov

A Late History
By Weldon Kees

A Lay of the Links
By Arthur Conan Doyle

A Letter in October
By Ted Kooser

A Little Language
By Robert Duncan

A Name for All
By Hart Crane

A narrow Fellow in the Grass
By Emily Dickinson

A Noiseless Patient Spider
By Walt Whitman

A Note to La Fontaine
By Jean Garrigue

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

A Serenade at the Villa
By Robert Browning

A toad can die of light!
By Emily Dickinson

A Winter Visit
By Dannie Abse

About the Teeth of Sharks
By John Ciardi

Actaeon
By Frederick Morgan

Adam’s Task
By John Hollander

Advice to a Prophet
By Richard Wilbur

Aesthetics
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa
By Robert Hass

All Summer Long
By Carol Frost

Alzuna
By Alfred Noyes

America: A Prophecy
By William Blake

An African Elegy
By Robert Duncan

An Epiphany
By Ted Kooser

An Owl
By David Bottoms

Animal Graves
By Chase Twichell

Another Night in the Ruins
By Galway Kinnell

Ants on the Melon
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

Ararat
By Mark Doty

Archy's Song from Charles I (A Widow Bird Sate Mourning)
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ardors
By Carol Frost

At Darien Bridge
By James L. Dickey

At the Bomb Testing Site
By William E. Stafford

At the Fishhouses
By Elizabeth Bishop

“My Mother is a Fish”
By Peter Balakian

Bat
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Bat Cave
By Eleanor Wilner

Bixby’s Landing
By Robinson Jeffers

Black Earth
By Marianne Moore

Black Rook in Rainy Weather
By Sylvia Plath

Breakage
By Mary Oliver

from Briggflatts
By Basil Bunting

Brother and Sister
By George Eliot

Brought from Beyond
By Amy Clampitt

Butchering Crabs
By Henry Carlile

Caged Bird
By Maya Angelou

Caliban upon Setebos
By Robert Browning

Captivity
By Louise Erdrich

Cheer
By Stanley Plumly

Cleaning a Fish
By Dave Smith

Cock
By Albert Goldbarth

Cold Blooded Creatures
By Elinor Wylie

Colophon
By Dean Young

Come into Animal Presence
By Denise Levertov

Common Blue
By Melissa Kwasny

Conches on Christmas
By Mike Chasar

Considering the Snail
By Thom Gunn

Corsons Inlet
By A. R. Ammons

Coyote, with Mange
By Mark Wunderlich

Crane and Hawk
By John Kinsella

Crown
By Kay Ryan

Crows in a Strong Wind
By Cornelius Eady

Cruelty and Love / Love on the Farm
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Daddy Longlegs
By Ted Kooser

Damselfly, Trout, Heron
By John Engels

Darwin’s Bestiary
By Philip Appleman

Death, in a bull's pelt
By Miguel Hernández

Deer Skull
By Susan Griffin

Definition of the Frontiers
By Archibald MacLeish

Dog Gospel
By Brian Barker

Dragonflies Mating
By Robert Hass

Dusk
By Rae Armantrout

Dust of Snow
By Robert Frost

Each and All
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eagle Poem
By Joy Harjo

Early Frost
By Scott Cairns

Egg
By Brian Swann

Ephemeroptera
By Miriam Vermilya

Evolution
By Jorie Graham

Ex Libris
By Eleanor Wilner

Explorers Cry Out Unheard
By Marie Ponsot

Extinction of Silence
By A.E. Stallings

Fable for Blackboard
By George Starbuck

Fable of the Ant and the Word
By Mary Barnard

Family Reunion
By Louise Erdrich

Fancy
By John Keats

Far Company
By W. S. Merwin

Fawn
By Mary Barnard

Field Burning: A Full Moon
By Robert Wrigley

Fire
By Francis Ponge

Firefly Under the Tongue
By Coral Bracho

Fish of the Flood
By Emilia Stuart Lorimer

Fishing
By A.E. Stallings

Floating Island
By Dorothy Wordsworth

Flounder
By Natasha Trethewey

Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock
By Galway Kinnell

For the Animals
By Lawrence Raab

For the Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton, 1997
By Fleda Brown

For the Last Wolverine
By James L. Dickey

Four Appaloosas
By Stanley Plumly

Four Poems for a Child Son
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Four Questions Regarding the Dreams of Animals
By Susan Stewart

Fox Sleep
By W. S. Merwin

Frenzy
By Clarence Major

From a Daybook
By David St. John

Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Glass-Bottom Boat
By Elizabeth Spires

Glazunoviana
By John Ashbery

Good-bye, and Keep Cold
By Robert Frost

Great As You Are
By Susan Griffin

Gulls
By Jorie Graham

He Said Turn Here
By Dean Young

Hearing
By W. S. Merwin

Heat
By Jane Hirshfield

Her Garden
By Donald Hall

Hinged Double Sonnet for the Luna Moths
By Sean Nevin

Hole, Where Once in Passion We Swam
By Dave Smith

Horses in Snow
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

How Doth the Little Crocodile
By Lewis Carroll

Hundreds of Fireflies
By Brad Leithauser

Hurt Hawks
By Robinson Jeffers

Hymn
By Carl Phillips

Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee
By Howard Nemerov

I Remember Galileo
By Gerald Stern

I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move
By Louise Erdrich

In a Dark Time
By Theodore Roethke

In Kona, Thinking of the Elements
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

In Reference to her Children, 23 June 1659
By Anne Bradstreet

In Tennessee I Found a Firefly
By Mary Szybist

In The Summer After “Issue Year” Winter (1873)
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

In the Tree House at Night
By James L. Dickey

Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Insect
By Annie Finch

Insect Life of Florida
By Lynda Hull

Interesting Times
By Mark Jarman

Itinerary
By James McMichael

Itylus
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

John James Audobon
By Stephen Vincent Benét

from Jubilate Agno
By Christopher Smart

King Bee Blues
By George Elliott Clarke

Land’s End
By Weldon Kees

Leaving
By Cathy Song

Les Très Riches Heures de Florida
By Debora Greger

Letters to a Stranger
By Thomas James

Limits
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lioness Asleep
By Babette Deutsch

Lions
By Sandra McPherson

Lions Are Interesting
By Joel Brouwer

Looking into History
By Richard Wilbur

Love Song
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Love the Wild Swan
By Robinson Jeffers

Luciferin
By Dean Young

Luna Moth
By Carl Phillips

Lyell’s Hypothesis Again
By Kenneth Rexroth

Manfred: Incantation
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Marching
By Jim Harrison

Memorabilia
By Robert Browning

Merlin
By Henry Carlile

Messengers
By Louise Glück

Moby Dick
By Dan Beachy-Quick

More Than Enough
By Marge Piercy

Morning Talk
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Mother Carey's Hen
By David Yezzi

Motherhood
By May Swenson

Moths
By Jennifer O'Grady

My Autumn Leaves
By Bruce Weigl

My Dog Practices Geometry
By Cathryn Essinger

Nabokov’s Blues
By William Matthews

Napa Valley
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Night Singing
By W. S. Merwin

Nine-Panel Yaak River Screen
By Charles Wright

Not Forgotten
By Toi Derricotte

Not Here
By Jane Kenyon

Nullaby
By Atsuro Riley

October
By May Swenson

October 10
By Wendell Berry

Ode on Melancholy
By John Keats

Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market
By Pablo Neruda

Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats

from Odes: 13. Fearful Symmetry
By Basil Bunting

Of Some Renown
By Jean L. Connor

Of the Mean and Sure Estate
By Thomas Wyatt

On Being a Householder
By Alan Dugan

On Munsungun
By Ethan Stebbins

On the Departure of the Nightingale
By Charlotte Smith

Ondine
By Mary Barnard

Ondine
By Mary Barnard

One Afternoon
By Joanie V. Mackowski

One Home
By William E. Stafford

Origin
By Marie Ponsot

Out Here Even Crows Commit Suicide
By Colleen J. McElroy

Paired Things
By Kay Ryan

Part Elegy
By Robert Wrigley

Pastoral
By William Carlos Williams

Peacock Display
By David Wagoner

Perhaps
By Hilda Morley

Pheasant
By Sylvia Plath

Poem by the Charles River
By Robin Blaser

Poetry, a Natural Thing
By Robert Duncan

Prayer
By Jorie Graham

Primitive Road
By Lucas Howell

Psalm
By George Oppen

Pura Vida
By John Updike

Quivira
By Ronald Johnson

Range-finding
By Robert Frost

Reapers
By Jean Toomer

Requiem for a Nest
By Wanda Coleman

Requiem Shark
By Rad Smith

Rest before you sleep
By Dionisio D. Martinez

River Road
By Stanley Kunitz

Robin Redbreast
By Stanley Kunitz

Rock and Hawk
By Robinson Jeffers

Romantic Moment
By Tony Hoagland

Safari, Rift Valley
By Roy Jacobstein

Scree
By Heidy Steidlmayer

Sea Urchin
By J. Allyn Rosser

Seasons
By John Haag

Seaweeds
By Sandra McPherson

Second Adam
By Ben Belitt

Self-Pity
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Semblance: Screens
By Liz Waldner

Shamanism 101
By Dean Young

Shame
By Joshua Weiner

Shoreline
By Mary Barnard

Sloth
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Snakeskin
By Liz Beasely

Song for Autumn
By Mary Oliver

Song in Barbarous Fumarole of the Japanese Crested Ibis
By Will Alexander

Song of the Witches
By William Shakespeare

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

Sparrow Trapped in the Airport
By Averill Curdy

Speckled Trout
By Ron Rash

Spring
By William Shakespeare

Star
By W. S. Merwin

Starlings
By W. S. Di Piero

Summer
By Ronald Johnson

Summer at North Farm
By Stephen Kuusisto

Sunrise along Shore
By Lucy Maud Montgomery

Swifts
By Gerald Stern

Swimming With A Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle
By Freya Manfred

Swordfish
By Andrew Hudgins

Symphony of a Mexican Garden
By Grace Hazard Conkling

Syrinx
By Amy Clampitt

Take Comfort Where You Can
By Michael Chitwood

Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy
By Thomas Lux

That Child
By David Wagoner

The Abduction
By Stanley Kunitz

The Age of Dinosaurs
By James Scruton

The Alpaca
By Gabriela Mistral

The Bait
By John Donne

The Bat
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

The Bear
By Galway Kinnell

The Bear
By Susan Mitchell

The Bear at the Dump
By William Matthews

The Bearer
By Hayden Carruth

The Beautiful Animal
By Geoffrey Brock

The Berg (A Dream)
By Herman Melville

The Birds
By Linda Pastan

The Blue Booby
By James Tate

The Book of Thel
By William Blake

The Buffalo Coat
By Thomas McGrath

The Butterfly’s Dream
By Hannah F. Gould

The Caged Skylark
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Calves Not Chosen
By Linda Gregg

The Cardinal
By Henry Carlile

The cat’s song
By Marge Piercy

The Caterpillar
By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

The Cave Painters
By Eamon Grennan

The Coming of the Plague
By Weldon Kees

The Cradle Logic of Autumn
By Jay Wright

The Cricket
By Edwin Markham

The Crow
By Kunst Judith McCune

The Darkling Thrush
By Thomas Hardy

The Deer Lay Down Their Bones
By Robinson Jeffers

The Delicacy
By Sandra McPherson

The Dependencies
By Howard Nemerov

The Despairing Man Draws a Serpent
By Alfonso Cortes

The Dipper
By Kathleen Jamie

The Double-Bed Dream Gallows
By Richard Brautigan

The Eagle
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Envoy
By Jane Hirshfield

The Famous Tay Whale
By William McGonagall

The Garbo Cloth
By Lucia Perillo

The Girl Who Buried Snakes in a Jar
By John Haines

The Good
By Michelle Boisseau

The Great Blue Heron
By Carolyn Kizer

The Greatest Grandeur
By Pattiann Rogers

The Green Linnet
By William Wordsworth

The Harbor
By Carl Sandburg

The Heaven of Animals
By James L. Dickey

The Hermit Crab
By Mary Oliver

The Hind and the Panther: Part I
By John Dryden

The Horrid Voice of Science
By Vachel Lindsay

The House Gift
By Joanie V. Mackowski

The Intruder
By Carolyn Kizer

The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi
By William Meredith

The Kingfisher
By Amy Clampitt

The Kingfishers
By Charles Olson

The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
By Richard F. Hugo

The Lark
By Gabriela Mistral

The Little Turtle
By Vachel Lindsay

The Lobster
By Carl Rakosi

The Maldive Shark
By Herman Melville

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
By William Blake

The Minks
By Toi Derricotte

The Moose
By Elizabeth Bishop

The Mountain Cemetery
By Edgar Bowers

The Octopus
By James Merrill

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

The Origin of Order
By Pattiann Rogers

The Oven Bird
By Robert Frost

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
By Edward Lear

The Poet Orders His Tomb
By Edgar Bowers

The Pond
By Amy Lowell

The Pond
By Gregory Orr

The Pool
By H. D.

The Possible Advantages of the Expendable Multitudes
By Pattiann Rogers

The Princess: O Swallow
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Prisoner of Chillon
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

The Quangle Wangle's Hat
By Edward Lear

The Real Prayers Are Not the Words,
But the Attention that Comes First
By Mary Oliver

The Redbreast
By Charlotte Richardson

The Reeve's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

from The Return
By Charles Tomlinson

The Reverie of Poor Susan
By William Wordsworth

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The River at Wolf
By Jean Valentine

The Rock in the Sea
By Archibald MacLeish

The Rocky Islands
By Janet Loxley Lewis

The Saint and the Crab
By William Logan

The Search for Lost Lives
By James Tate

from The Seasons: Spring
By James Thomson

The Second Slaughter
By Lucia Perillo

The Skylark
By John Clare

The Snail
By Marin Sorescu

The Snake
By William Matthews

The Snake
By Emily Dickinson

The Song of the Bow
By Arthur Conan Doyle

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

The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly
By Vachel Lindsay

The Sponge
By Joshua Mehigan

The Story of Light
By Peggy Shumaker

The Strange People
By Louise Erdrich

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

The Tables Turned
By William Wordsworth

from The Task, Book V: The Winter Morning Walk
By William Cowper

from The Task, Book VI: The Winter Walk at Noon
By William Cowper

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Tuft of Flowers
By Robert Frost

The Tyger
By William Blake

The Undeniable Pressure of Existence
By Patricia Fargnoli

The Untamed
By R. S. Thomas

The Vegetable Air
By Cathy Song

The Verification of Vulnerability: Bog Turtle
By Pattiann Rogers

the weather is hot on the back of my watch
By Charles Bukowski

The Wheel Revolves
By Kenneth Rexroth

The Wild Swans at Coole
By William Butler Yeats

The Windhover
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Woman at the Washington Zoo
By Randall Jarrell

The Woman Who Loved Worms
By Colette Inez

The Woodpecker Keeps Returning
By Jane Hirshfield

The World below the Brine
By Walt Whitman

The Yellowhammer's Nest
By John Clare

There was a Boy
By William Wordsworth

There was an Old Man with a Beard
By Edward Lear

Thirteen Blackbirds Look at a Man
By R. S. Thomas

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
By Wallace Stevens

This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This Little Glade, Remember
By Pattiann Rogers

Thrushes
By Siegfried Sassoon

To a Captive Owl
By Henry Timrod

To a Farmer Who Hung Five Hawks on His Barbed Wire
By David Wagoner

To a Marsh Hawk in Spring
By Henry David Thoreau

To a Mouse
By Robert Burns

To a Skylark
By William Wordsworth

To a Skylark
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

To a Wren on Calvary
By Larry Levis

To a Young Poet who Killed Himself
By Joyce Kilmer

To Autumn
By John Keats

To Bessie Drennan
By Mark Doty

To Fishermen
By Carol Frost

To Help the Monkey Cross the River
By Thomas Lux

To John Clare
By John Clare

To Kill a Deer
By Carol Frost

To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent
By John Keats

To the Cuckoo
By William Wordsworth

To the Nightingale
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

Toad dreams
By Marge Piercy

Together
By Maxine W. Kumin

Tor House
By Robinson Jeffers

Touch Me
By Stanley Kunitz

Toward an Organic Philosophy
By Kenneth Rexroth

Traveling through the Dark
By William E. Stafford

Tricyclist and a Turtle
By Molly McQuade

Tropics
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Trust
By Susan Kinsolving

Twilight: After Haying
By Jane Kenyon

Under the Dome
By Elise Paschen

Under the Vulture-Tree
By David Bottoms

Understanding the Past, Present, and Future
By Cole Swensen

Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
By Edward Taylor

Valentine
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Visions
By William E. Stafford

Vixen
By W. S. Merwin

vocabulary I
By Robin Blaser

Walking Down Park
By Nikki Giovanni

Walking on Tiptoe
By Ted Kooser

Walking West
By William E. Stafford

Watching the Oregon Whale
By Annie Finch

Waumandee
By Mark Wunderlich

What the Rattlesnake Said
By Vachel Lindsay

When in Wisconsin Where I Once Had Time
By John Engels

White-Eyes
By Mary Oliver

Wild Turkeys: The Dignity of the Damned
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Wind In Mytilene
By Eloise Klein Healy

Work without Hope
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Worms
By Carl Dennis

Yesterday
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

You and I Saw Hawks Exchanging the Prey
By James Wright

[dear dusty moth]
By Robin Blaser

[morning green through ivy]
By Dan Beachy-Quick

[My mother saw the green tree toad]
By Lorine Niedecker

[Record no oiled tongue]
By Dan Beachy-Quick