Best Loved Pig Poems
“…therefore would I rather be a swineherd on Amager, and be understood by the swine than a poet, and misunderstood by men.”
— Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Danish existentialist philosopher writing in Either/Or (1843).
Index by
Author Title First Line
- Baker, Aaron
- Berry, Wendell
- Bishop, Elizabeth
- Blake, William
- Bloomfield, Robert
- Blount, Roy, Jr.
- Blunden, Edmund
- Brant, Sebastian
- Brooks, Walter L.
- Buck, Janet
- Carroll, Lewis
- Clark, Badger
- Collins, Billy
- Coward, Noël
- Cowlan, Paul F.
- Chuilleanáin, Eiléan Ní
- Cotton, John
- Cowper, William
- Dahl, Roald
- Davis, Brian
- de la Mare, Walter John
- Dickey, James
- Doinas, Stefan Augustin
- Dyson, John P.
- Lampman, Archibald
- Lape, Fred
- Lee, David
- Leslie, Sir Shane
- Levertov, Denise
- Levine, Philip
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Loy, Mina
- Machine (e), Hay
- Mansfield, Charlie
- Marks, Corey
- Meyers, Jeff
- Moore, Clement Clarke
- Moreton, Diana
- Morris, Ash
- Murray, Charles
Index by
Author Title First Line
- A caramel pig
- An Ode to a Quest for the Black Pig Dike
- Analogy of a Poem Forming called Pig
- Any Part of Piggy
- A Partial History of Swine
- A Performance At Hog Theater
- A PIG in a WIG
- A Pindaricque, On the Grunting of a Hog
- A Porcine Panegyric
- Approaching Prayer
- A Prodigal
- Argument (The)
- Animals Are Passing From Our Lives
- Farmer’s Boy (The) [exerpt]
- Fear and Desire
- For the Hog Killing
- Four (formally Three) Pig Poems
- Frogs Eat Butterflies, Snakes Eat Frogs, Hogs Eat Snakes, Men Eat Hogs
- Ode to the Pig: His Tail
- Ode 12, Book 3
- Ode to Bacon Grease
- Ode To A Swine
- Of Coarse Fools
- Offering (The)
- Old Man and His Three Sons (The)
- On Buying A New Harley
- Pig (The) [Dahl]
- Pig (Hughes)
- [Pig] (Hughes)
- Pig (The) [Nash]
- Pig (The) [Smart]
- Pig (The) [Southey]
- Pig and the Rooster (The)
- Pigfoot Rebellion (The)
- Pig Family Game
- Pigs (Ghigna)
- Pigs and the Charcoal–burner (The)
- Pigs (Four ways of looking at)
- Pigs Played Football (The)
- Pig’s Ear
- Pig’s Tale (The)
- Pig Song
- Pig Sty
- Pig Thoughts at Noon
- Pig Truck Love Affair
- pig who thinks in english (the)
- Poor Man's Pig (The)
- Porcine Principle
- Prodigal Son (The)
- A caramel pig once sat on the throne
- “A fox!” cried God’s Son,
- A Gadarene.
- A little pig once lived its life
- A moment tries to come in
- A PIG in a WIG, with a Blue–Ribbon WIN,
- A pig is poised at the edge of a rushing river
- A wolf is reading a book of fairy tales.
- A WHITE star born in the evening glow
- a vegetarian stroked at noon behind my ears
- Ah, (cough, cough) got me a truck to use fer haulin’ pigs.
- Already fallen plum-bloom stars the green
- And came forth like Venus from an ocean of
- Anthony Trollope wrote in heart–beating detail
- Any part of piggy
- As soon as we let him into the pasture…
- Dangerous, them lot,
- “Dear Lord,” said his servants and buglemen tame,
- Does your soul find sweet release
- Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns?
- I am the Pig.
- I can be doing something better than this
- I never turned anyone into a pig.
- I Ride the Flying Pig
- I saw a chapel all of gold
- I steal back the half–chewed pig’s ear
- I try to make eye contact with a pig.
- I was the sow, she was the boar.
- In England once there lived a big
- In ev’ry age, and each profession,
- In the legends of Ireland one with great might
- It is true that the rivers went nosing like swine,
- IT was the stalwart butcher man,
- It’s wonderful how I jog
- NOO that cauldrife Winter’s here
- Oh, heavy day! oh, day of woe!
- O those poor sad little ladies,
- Old Sir Robert Bolton had three sons,
- On a warm sunny day, in the midst of July,
- One after one the high emotions fade;
- Pigs are playful
- Pigs don’t care for bacon.
- Peevish but intimate as if we had raised you in the house,…
- Peregrine Percival Pocklington Pig
- Said Jock McBrown to Tam McSmith,
- Scrubbed pink
- Spawn of Fantasies
- Standing in front of the smile
- “Sweet boy,” she says, “this night I’ll waste in sorrow,
- Swine gobble dead men’s flesh.
- The animal I really dig,
- The brown enormous odor he lived by
- The bud
- The day was like pewter.
- The dews drop slowly and dreams gather:
- The Junior God looked from his place
- The gods have taken alien shapes upon them
- The Laughing Faces of Pigs
- The moon is a sow
- The old Pig said to the little pigs,
- The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
- The pig lay on a barrow dead.
- The pig who thinks in English takes his ease
- The pigs played football
- THE Queen of Birds, t’encrease the Regal Stock,
- The Question
- There was once a hog theater where hogs performed
- They sought it with thimbles,
- Though Ham was one of Noah’s sons
- Thus says the prophet of the Turk,
- To buy, or not to buy, that is the question.
- To the somethingness