The Birds and the Beasts Were There Author:William Cole, ed. Animal poems selected by ed., with sections on small animals of the woods and fields, cats, dogs, farmyard animals, buzzers, leapers, flyers, horses and donkeys, birds, "impossible animals," and more. — From the foreword: "One of the great things a poet can do, which no writer of prose really can, is to celebrate the animals, to praise their grac... more »e, their beauty, and the honesty of their instincts. As Walter de la Mare said, 'Animals glorify the earth.' And so do poets."« less