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Animals have a lot to tell us about ourselves... or at least many poets think so.

Have a look also at the poems about birds.

1. His Camel by Alqamah
2. The Grasshopper by Anakreon

   surely the grasshopper must be the happiest of insects

3. The Bad Child's Book of Beasts by Hilaire Belloc

   The Moral of this priceless work
   (If rightly understood)
   Will make you -- from a little Turk --
   Unnaturally good.
   

4. The Lamb by William Blake

   Who made the lamb?

5. The Tyger by William Blake

   Did he who made the lamb make thee?
   

6. To A Louse by Robert Burns

   to see ourselves as others see us

7. To a Mouse by Robert Burns

   the uncertainties of life

8. The Dromedary by A.Y. Campbell
9. The Donkey by G. K. Chesterton
10. The Badger by John Clare
11. Address to Certain Goldfishes by Hartley Coleridge
12. Arachne by Rose Terry Cooke
13. The Ant Explorer by Clarence James Dennis
14. Megalosaurus by Babette Deutsch
15. A Narrow Fellow in the Grass by Emily Dickinson

    the snake makes us feel "zero at the bone"

16. The Town Rabbit in the Country by Camilla Doyle
17. Deer by John Drinkwater
18. Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith

    dog bites man and dies

19. On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes by Thomas Gray

    the lure of false gold

20. Coyote by Bret Harte

    not even a friend of his kin the dog

21. The Chimpanzee, Hippopotamus, Platypus, Mongoos by Oliver Herford
22. Ode to a Butterfly by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
23. Octopus by Arthur Clement Hilton

    a parody of A. C. Swinburne

24. The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes

    Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul
    

25. To a Fish, and A Fish Answers by James Leigh Hunt

    what is the life of a fish like?

26. To the Grasshopper and the Cricket by James Leigh Hunt

    both were sent to teach men mirth

27. On the Grasshopper and the Cricket by John Keats

    Summer's grasshopper and Winter's cricket reveal the continuity of Nature

28. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear

    The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea
    In a beautiful pea-green boat
    

29. The Maldive Shark by Herman Melville

    the "pale ravener" seeks its prey guided by its pilot fish

30. Milk for the Cat by Harold Monro
31. The Andante of Snakes by Arthur Symons
32. A Night With a Wolf by Bayard Taylor
33. Verses on a Butterfly by Joseph Warton
34. The Pekingese by Elinor Wylie

    imagination is not limited by size

35. The Eagle and the Mole by Elinor Wylie