Page 5 - Poetry-Animals

CONTENTS

Introduction, by Moira Allen ............................................................... 5
The Two Mice ....................................................................................... 7
Natural History of the Peacock ........................................................... 9
Home from the Show ........................................................................... 10
The Ambitious Pullet ........................................................................... 12
A Useful Bird ......................................................................................... 13
Pairing-Time Anticipated, by William Cowper .................................. 14
Signs of Spring ...................................................................................... 16
A Dialogue in Low Life, by Palmer Cox .............................................. 17
Fable, by Ximena .................................................................................. 20
The Mouse and the Lion, by Robert S. Talcott .................................. 22
A Hen on Her Eggs, by Cupid Jones ....................................................23
My Rival, by Bessie Chandler .............................................................. 24
Unsatisfied Yearning, by R.K. Munkittrick ........................................ 25
My Pet, by Sydney Grey ....................................................................... 26
The Ass’s Flight .................................................................................... 28
Remonstrance with the Snails ............................................................ 29
To Our Editor, by Jetty Vogel .............................................................. 31
Mr. Smith, by Wilfred Woollam .......................................................... 31
What the Knowing Poet Heard Puss Say, by John P. Lyons ............. 33
To Wilding, My Polo-Pony, by John Eliot Bowen.............................. 34
To My Lost Luray, by John Eliot Bowen ............................................. 36
Grimalkin, by Clinton Scollard ........................................................... 39
A Difference of Opinion, by C.P. and Sarah Doudney ...................... 40
Mike, by M.S. Haycott ......................................................................... 42
Ode to Kittenhood .............................................................................. 44
The Boastful Butterfly, by Oliver Herford .......................................... 46
RE - The Hubbard Dog, by Flora Klickmann .................................... 48
The Thankful Mouse ........................................................................... 49
The Tale of a Tailless Cat, by Margaret Lee ....................................... 50
The Mountain and the Squirrel, by Ralph Waldo Emerson ............. 52
The Kitten, by Oliver Herford ..............................................................53
How Many Cats Have We? by Belle R. Harrison................................55