Yowl: Selected Poems About Cats
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A lovely book with great illustrations! Ferris Cook's touching and amusing charcoal drawings of cats accompany each poem, and the book features the work of Langston Hughes, John Keats, Rainer Maria Rilke, Charles Baudelaire, Pablo Neruda, Amy Lowell, Emily Dickinson and many others.
Released 8 yrs ago (12/14/2015 UTC) at RABCK, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases
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A belated birthday book for eponine38! Sorry it is late:(
Thank you so much for this wishlist book, etherea! I've wanted to read it for some time. I appreciate your kindness.
What a great collection of poems, from the short and humorous to the kind that you have to read two or three times to fully appreciate. And the illustrations are indeed wonderful!
A couple of favorites:
THE CATS
What the cats do
To amuse themselves
When we are gone
I do not know.
They have the yard
And the fences
Of the neighbors,
And, occasionally,
May arrive at the door, miaowing,
With drops of milk
On their chins,
Waving their shining tails
And exhibiting signs of alarm
When the light inside
The refrigerator
Goes on. But what
They do all day
Remains a mystery.
It is a dull neighborhood.
Children scream
From the playground.
The cars go by in a bluish light.
At six o'clock the cats run out
When we come home from work
To greet us, crying, dancing,
After the long day.
--Weldon Kees
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Also (and in honor of St. Patrick's Day)
THE KILKENNY CATS
There wanst was two cats of Kilkenny,
Each thought there was one cat too many,
So they quarrell'd and fit,
They scratch'd and they bit,
Till, barrin' their nails,
And the tips of their tails,
Instead of two cats, there warnt any.
--Anonymous
A couple of favorites:
THE CATS
What the cats do
To amuse themselves
When we are gone
I do not know.
They have the yard
And the fences
Of the neighbors,
And, occasionally,
May arrive at the door, miaowing,
With drops of milk
On their chins,
Waving their shining tails
And exhibiting signs of alarm
When the light inside
The refrigerator
Goes on. But what
They do all day
Remains a mystery.
It is a dull neighborhood.
Children scream
From the playground.
The cars go by in a bluish light.
At six o'clock the cats run out
When we come home from work
To greet us, crying, dancing,
After the long day.
--Weldon Kees
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Also (and in honor of St. Patrick's Day)
THE KILKENNY CATS
There wanst was two cats of Kilkenny,
Each thought there was one cat too many,
So they quarrell'd and fit,
They scratch'd and they bit,
Till, barrin' their nails,
And the tips of their tails,
Instead of two cats, there warnt any.
--Anonymous
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Released for Keep Them Moving Challenge hosted by booklady331.
received this the other day thank you very much