William Blake
from Auguries of Innocence

John Heath-Stubbs
The History of the Flood

Walt Whitman
Rrom Miracles

D. H. Lawrence
Humming-Bird

William Blake
The Tyger

Mary Kingsley
In those tropical forests

F. T. Prince
The Babiaantje

Kenneth Clark
from Animals and Men

W. J. Turner
from In the Caves of the Auvergne

Kenneth Clark
from Animals and Men

D. H. Lawrence
Mountain Lion

James Stephens
The Snare

Robinson Jeffers
from Hurt Hawks

Alfred Tennyson
The Eagle

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty

William Shakespeare
The Proud Horse from Venus and Adonis

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge Op.10, Aria Italiana

Paul Gallico
Honorable Cat

Robert Frost
The Span of Life

Eleanor Farjeon
Cats sleep anywhere

Alexander Pope
Engraved on the Collar of a Dog which I gave to His Royal Highness

Edward Lear
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

Edward Lear
The Pelican Chorus

A story about St. Francis of Assisi told by Princess Grace

Seamus Heaney
St. Francis and the Birds

Humbert Wolfe
St. Francis

Thomas Hardy
Proud Songsters

Martin Armstrong
A Bird's Epitaph

Dorothy Osborne in a letter to Sir William Temple July 1653

Thomas Carew
Ask me no more

17th Century Anon.
On a Rosebud sent to Her Lover

William Browne
On a Rose

William Shakespeare
Sonnet LIV

17th Century Herbal
The Damask Rose

Andrew Marvell
The Garden

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Binsey Poplars

Louis Simpson
The Redwoods

Walt Whitman
From Song of Myself

The King James Bible
Four Things

Denise Levertov
Come into Animal Presence

James Dickey
From The Heaven of Animals

Adam Fisher