The Great Cat: Poems about Cats Book

	From The seventy-five praises of Ra	19
	Chang Tuan's cats	20
	Cat	21
	From Jubilate Agno	23
	Hodge, the cat	28
	A lion in winter	31
	White cats	35
	From The Divan-i Kabir	36
	The spring is a cat	36
	The cat show	37
	White cat blues	38
	Without violence	39
	The singing cat	40
	At the grave of Elizabeth Bishop	42
	The tyger	44
	The cat's eye	46
	The cat	46
	'Ultra-pink peony'	46
	Black cat	49
	To a cat	50
	The cats will know	51
	The cat	53
	The rabbit as king of the ghosts	55
	The thing about cats	57
	Cat	59
	The panther	61
	The sphinx	62
	Cat scat	67
	The cats of Greece	68
	The cat of the house	69
	The vain cat	70
	Sisterhood	71
	From Cat	73
	'Cat, you tumble down the street'	74
	The cats of St. Nicholas	75
	Magic cats	78
	The cat and the moon	83
	Every cat had a story	85
	Poem	86
	The Cheshire cat	87
	This is my chair	88
	The cat and the wind	89
	Cat	90
	From The cat in the hat	91
	Cat jacks	92
	The cats of Kilkenny	93
	Nine fat cats in Little Italy	94
	Pangur Ban	97
	Morning	99
	Apartment cats	100
	From To a cat	101
	From The spinster's sweet-arts	102
	From Dame Wiggins of Lee and her seven wonderful cats	104
	From Two songs of a fool	106
	The flying petunias	107
	Who will feed my cat?	108
	Cat in an empty apartment	109
	From The cat and the cock	111
	The cats have come to tea	112
	The cat	115
	The lover, whose mistresse feared a mouse, declareth that he would become a cat if he might have his desire	116
	My cat and I	118
	Propriety	119
	Pussycat sits on a chair	119
	An appeal to cats in the business of love	120
	'Arise from sleep, old cat'	121
	'Why so scrawny, cat?'	121
	'Amorous cat, alas'	121
	The cats of Balthus	122
	Cats	124
	Alley cat love song	125
	A lost painting by Balthus	126
	Woman and cat	127
	The owl and the pussy-cat	128
	Curse of the cat woman	130
	Lullaby for the cat	135
	The happy cat	136
	Cat on the mat	137
	Cat's dream	138
	From Peter	140
	Cat	141
	Cats sleep fat	142
	Catsnest	143
	Cat & the weather	144
	Verses on a cat	149
	Five eyes	151
	The cat	152
	'Pussy-cat, pussy-cat'	153
	'There was a wee bit mousikie'	153
	The rat-catcher and cats	154
	By threes, by fours	156
	'Lat take a cat' (from The Maunciple's tale)	157
	Cat and mouse	157
	'My hermitage'	158
	The old cat and the young mouse	159
	Cat	160
	Forest	160
	The lazy pussy	161
	'She sights a bird'	162
	A cat	163
	Song of the lioness for her cub	164
	Catnip and dogwood	167
	The prayer of the cat	168
	The single creature	169
	A cat's conscience	170
	Mother Tabbyskins	171
	I married my dog	175
	'Confound the cats!'	179
	A fable of the widow and her cat	180
	The cat and the lute	183
	From Sad memories	185
	Justice	186
	To Mrs. Professor in defense of my cat's honor and not only	187
	From The churlyshe cat	189
	Epitaph	190
	From The kitten and falling leaves	193
	Chaplinesque	195
	The young cat and the chrysanthemums	196
	Beware of kittens	197
	Familiarity dangerous	198
	From Through the looking glass	199
	Dawn	199
	Pinkle purr	200
	The three little kittens	201
	From The kitten	203
	To a cat	207
	On a cat, ageing	208
	Hoppy	209
	A 14-year-old convalescent cat in the winter	211
	Montague Michael	212
	Cat	213
	December cats	213
	My old cat dances	214
	Esther's tomcat	215
	From Nine lives	217
	Putting down the cat	221
	On the death of a cat	222
	From Song for mourning a cat	223
	From Cold mountain poems	224
	An offering for the cat	225
	On the death of a cat, a friend of mine aged ten years and a half	226
	From Matthias	228
	Ode on the death of a favourite cat, drowned in a tub of goldfishes	229
	Last words to a dumb friend	231
	As you were saying	234
	From Chansons innocents	235
	The blue bowl	236
	The epitaph of Felis	237