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Famous Cat Poems | Examples of Famous Cat Poetry

These are examples of famous Cat poems written by famous poets. PoetrySoup is a great resource of famous Cat poems about Cat. These examples illustrate what famous Cat poems looks like and its form.

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Famous PoemPoet
Lady Lazarus Sylvia Plath
DON JUAN George (Lord) Byron
A little Dog that wags his tail Emily Dickinson
The Old Gumbie Cat Thomas Stearns Eliot (T S) Eliot
Gus: The Theatre Cat Thomas Stearns Eliot (T S) Eliot
Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat Thomas Stearns Eliot (T S) Eliot
Growltiger's Last Stand Thomas Stearns Eliot (T S) Eliot
Mr. Mistoffelees Thomas Stearns Eliot (T S) Eliot
Rhapsody on a Windy Night Thomas Stearns Eliot (T S) Eliot
Macavity: The Mystery Cat Thomas Stearns Eliot (T S) Eliot
I Come Home Wanting To Touch Everyone Stephen Dunn
With No Experience In Such Matters Stephen Dunn
The Miller's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer
Love Robert Creeley
The Three Voices Lewis Carroll
The Cat in the Kitchen Robert Bly
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 07: Porcelain Conrad Aiken
The House Of Dust: Part 02: 02: The Fulfilled Dream Conrad Aiken
The Most Charles Bukowski
The History Of One Tough Motherfucker Charles Bukowski
The Night I Was Going To Die Charles Bukowski
Shit List; Or, Omnium-gatherum Of Diversity Into Unity A R Ammons
from "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"
Happy As The Day Is Long Edward Taylor
The Sugar-Plum Tree Eugene Field
Of The Ever-Changing Agitation In The Air Jorie Graham
An old life Donald Hall
The Alligator Bride Donald Hall
Having slept, the cat gets up Kobayashi Issa
Grammar Tony Hoagland
Number 20 Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Pennycandystore Beyond The El Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Mollymook Dale Harcombe
Prospect NSW (For Anita Cobby) Dale Harcombe
Gunner Randall Jarrell
Hurt Hawks Robinson Jeffers
Eternity James Lee Jobe
The Ballad of the "Bolivar" Rudyard Kipling
Fuzzy-Wuzzy Rudyard Kipling
An Imperial Rescript Rudyard Kipling
The Cellist Galway Kinnell
The Intruder Carolyn Kizer
The Naming Of Cats Thomas Stearns Eliot (T S) Eliot
Lines On A Young Lady's Photograph Album Philip Larkin
The Booker Washington Trilogy Vachel Lindsay
Silence Marianne Moore
Spenser's Ireland Marianne Moore
Lament Edna St Vincent Millay
A Child's Christmas In Wales Dylan Thomas
That Day Anne Sexton
A Case Of Murder Vernon Scannell
The Moon William Henry Davies
Peleg Poague Edgar Lee Masters
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Cat's Dream Pablo Neruda
A Letter From the Front Sir Henry Newbolt
Curse of the Cat Woman Edward Field
SECOND POEM Peter Orlovsky
Snail Poem Peter Orlovsky
The Sausage Candidate-A Tale of the Elections Andrew Barton Paterson
What Are Big Girls Made Of? Marge Piercy
The Cat's Song Marge Piercy
Traveling Dream Marge Piercy
Belly Good Marge Piercy
Always Unsuitable Marge Piercy
Toad Dreams Marge Piercy
The duel Eugene Field
New England Edwin Arlington Robinson
London Bridge Edwin Arlington Robinson
Tasker Norcross Edwin Arlington Robinson
Fog Carl Sandburg
Boy and Father Carl Sandburg
Jabberers Carl Sandburg
Remorse Carl Sandburg
Three Balls Carl Sandburg
A Rabbit As King Of The Ghosts Wallace Stevens
Mother, Among The Dustbins Stevie Smith
Tenuous And Precarious Stevie Smith
The Sewing-Girl Robert William Service
The Ad-Dressing Of Cats Thomas Stearns Eliot (T S) Eliot
Old Deuteronomy Thomas Stearns Eliot (T S) Eliot
Sensibility Robert William Service
Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town Thomas Stearns Eliot (T S) Eliot
The Cat With Wings Robert William Service
A Year Ago Robert William Service
The Ballad Of The Black Fox Skin Robert William Service
The Something Charles Simic
A Description of a City Shower Jonathan Swift
Phillis, Or, the Progress of Love Jonathan Swift
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 1 Christopher Smart
For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry (excerpt, Jubilate Agno) Christopher Smart
Jubilate Agno (excerpt) Christopher Smart
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 3 Christopher Smart
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 4 Christopher Smart
from Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, lines 695-768 Christopher Smart
Cat J R R Tolkien
The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon J R R Tolkien
Happy As The Day Is Long James Tate
Quickstep A S J Tessimond