Animal poems
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Mid-America Prayer
© Ortiz Simon Joseph
Standing againwithin and among all things,Standing with each otheras sisters and brothers, mothers and fathers,daughters and sons, grandmothers and grandfathers --the past and present generations of our people,Standing againwith and among all items of life,the land, rivers, the mountains, plants, animals,all life that is around usthat we are included with,Standing within the circle of the horizon,the day sky and the night sky,the sun, moon, the cycle of seasonsand the earth mother which sustains us,Standing againwith all thingsthat have been in the past,that are in the present,and that will be in the futurewe acknowledge ourselvesto be in a relationship that is responsibleand proper, that is loving and compassionate,for the sake of the land and all people;we ask humbly of the creative forces of lifethat we be given a portionwith which to help ourselves so that our struggleand work will also be creativefor the continuance of life,Standing again, within, among all thingswe ask in all sincerity, for hope, courage, peace,strength, vision, unity and continuance
The Little Walls Before China
© Moritz Albert Frank
A courtier speaks to Ch'in Shih-huang-ti, ca. 210 B.C.
Home Again Home Again
© Moritz Albert Frank
Your parents had reached a long slow time,as animals do, the great center of their lives,when they gleam in their fells as though eternally,unchanging
Mary's Lamb
© Hale Sarah Josepha
Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow,And every where that Mary went The lamb was sure to go;He followed her to school one day -- That was against the rule,It made the children laugh and play To see a lamb at school
To The Indifferent Women
© Gilman Charlotte Anna Perkins
You who are happy in a thousand homes,Or overworked therein, to a dumb peace;Whose souls are wholly centered in the lifeOf that small group you personally love;Who told you that you need not know or careAbout the sin and sorrow of the world?
Do you believe the sorrow of the worldDoes not concern you in your little homes? --That you are licensed to avoid the careAnd toil for human progress, human peace,And the enlargement of our power of loveUntil it covers every field of life?
The one first duty of all human lifeIs to promote the progress of the worldIn righteousness, in wisdom, truth and love;And you ignore it, hidden in your homes,Content to keep them in uncertain peace,Content to leave all else without your care
Similar Cases
© Gilman Charlotte Anna Perkins
There was once a little animal, No bigger than a fox,And on five toes he scampered Over Tertiary rocks
Two Bodies
© Annie Finch
Two bodies, balanced in mass and power,move in a bed through the dark,under the earliest human hour.A night rocks, like an ark.
God and the Fifties
© Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
It was shady deals andConnie Francis on jukeboxjunipers and chevy convertiblesparked outside Dino's restaurant;it was brighter skies, manageableskyscrapers, gang-fights and Kennedy;it was gambling at Atlantic City withthe Four Seasons, it was crabs andJohnny Unitas and Connie Arena whoteased my heart through ten schoolyears, her father practicing race-trackcornet every day driving us nuts onsuch bored summers of tee-shirtswith cigarette packs at the sleeve andBeachboys and weights
Les Montreurs
© Leconte de Lisle
Tel qu'un morne animal, meurtri, plein de poussière,La chaîne au cou, hurlant au chaud soleil d'été,Promène qui voudra son cœur ensanglantéSur ton pavé cynique, ô plèbe carnassière!
Pour mettre un feu stérile en ton œil hébété,Pour mendier ton rire ou ta pitié grossière,Déchire qui voudra la robe de lumièreDe la pudeur divine et de la volupté
Les Animaux malades de la peste
© Jean de La Fontaine
Un mal qui répand la terreur, Mal que le Ciel en sa fureurInventa pour punir les crimes de la terre,La peste (puisqu'il faut l'appeler par son nom),Capable d'enrichir en un jour l'Achéron, Faisoit aux animaux la guerre
Le Loup et l'agneau
© Jean de La Fontaine
La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure: Nous l'allons montrer tout à l'heure.
La Grenouille qui se veut faire aussi grosee que le bœuf
© Jean de La Fontaine
Une grenouille vit un bœuf Qui lui sembla de belle taille
