Horace's Poetry
http://www.corpex.com/users/akademia/hor...
This is my all-time favorite rat poetry site. Horace speaks to the rat in all of us with such classics as On the Possibility of Winning the National Lottery and A Poem about Going up People's Sleeves. And, of course, who could forget his classic short but oh-so-poignant A Love Poem:
that Freya's a bit of all right
she comes to see me every night.
Lisa's Poetry Page
http://www.xs4all.nl/~tirion/poetry.html
Not only does she rescue tons of needy ratties, but she also writes some terrific poetry! Lisa's poetry commemorates many of the rats she has known and loved. If I had to choose, I'd say the touching Ode to Frodo is my favorite. Also on the page are poems by lots of other rat owners. Here's a sample from The Snack Taken:
Two snacks emerged from my ratty hoard,
And sorry I could not eat them both
And be one ratty, long I stood
And licked at one as hard as I could...
The Mudcat Café
http://www.mudcat.org/threads.cfm
This site is home to a terrific folk song database with a super search engine! If you do a search for rat, you'll find that rats have been popular subjects of folk music for a long, long time. The earliest one I found was a ballad from 1731 in which a rat makes off with someone's Band-Aid ("plaister" in the song) - a habit which many rats indulge in to this day. My absolute favorite of the bunch is Emily's Animals which has the following verse:
I have a little pet, my pet's name is Pat
I love my little pet, she's a stinky sewer rat
She used to have bubonic plague, but doesn't any more
And I wonder why nobody comes to visit any more
Two of my other faves at this site are Intoxicated Rat and Happy Family.
The Poetry Archives
http://library.thinkquest.org/3247/index...
This site looks to be still under construction, but has a long list of poetry available for perusal. Unfortunately the search engine isn't too good, but if you know what you're looking for, things are not hard to find. It's worth a visit to read the full text of Robert Browning's wonderful version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, which includes the following delightful verse:
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