IN addition to bequeathing the books I’ve written, I want to bequeath a list of my favorite poems of all time. Each of the poems speaks to me in a profound, unique way. I hope they do the same for you.
POEMS about the death of various creatures and people (get a hanky!):
Nancy Hanks (a poem about Abraham Lincoln’s mother, who died long before he became President)
O Captain My Captain (written about the death of Abrahan Lincoln by Walt Whitman)
Little Boy Blue by Eugene Field
Prayer for a Very New Angel by Violet Alleyn Storey
Poems About Love and Friendship
To a Friend by Grace Stricker Dawson
Love by Roy Croft
Friendship by Dinae Maria Mulock Craik
SONG by Florence Smith
A FRIEND’S GREETING by Edgar A Guest
Poems of Inspiration
The Right Kind of People by Edwin Markham
Be the Best of Whatever You Are by Douglas Malloch
It Couldn’ t Be Done by Edgar A Guest
Born Without a Chance by Edmond Vance Cooke
The Bridge Builder by Will Allen Dromgoole
POEM ABOUT REVERENCE
The Sin of Omission by Margaret E Sangster
POEM about a MOTHER
Somebody’s Mother by Mary Dow Brine
POEM ABOUT CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH
Making a Man by Nixon Waterman
POEMS ABOUT PATRIOTISM AND WAR
The Unknown Soldier by Billy Rose
IN FLANDERS FIELDS by John McCrae
Mama Look Sharp (from the musical 1776)
POEM OF HUMOR AND WHIMSY
(I wish I had a recording of Mrs. Rossetti reading this poem!!! Alas!!!)
POEMS ABOUT ANIMALS
The Power of a Dog by Rudyard Kipling
The Little Cat Angel by Leontyne Stanfield
POEMS I WROTE THAT I’M PARTCULARLY FOND OF…
Magical Mountain Cat
Gabriel Raccoon
Memory of a Tiger Cub
When Hell Freezes Over
Karma Kat
LEO
LION
Leopard
Natasha Tigress
Ode to My Cats
Serval Song
You’ll find all of the above poems I wrote (and a lot more!) in the new Extended Edition of LET NO DAY DAWN THAT THE ANIMALS CANNOT SHARE.
