Poems about talking animals

narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe

cycle of Old French fables

thumb|Obverse and reverse|Reverse of a commemorative 50 [[Moldovan lei coin dedicated to Miorița|alt=A coin face featuring a shepherd sitting on the ground playing a flute. A sheep looks up to a round astral object in the sky. A curved line on the background suggests a mountain range. The word MIORIȚA in an archaic print type follows the curve of the coin edge.]] "Miorița" (ad. mioriță, lit. 'The Little Ewe Lamb'), also transliterated as "Mioritza", is an old Romanian pastoral ballad considered to be one of the most important pieces of Romanian folklore. It has numerous versions with quite dif

fairy tale by Alexander Pushkin

Russian fairy tale

the Middle Dutch version of the story of Reynard

poem by Lewis Carroll

upright=1.35|thumb|Ysengrimus, from a 12th-century MS in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

1871 poem by Edward Lear

collection of Roald Dahl poems published in 1982

Chrząszcz (beetle, chafer) by Jan Brzechwa is a tongue-twister poem famous for being considered one of the hardest-to-pronounce texts in Polish literature. It may cause problems even for adult, native Polish speakers.

1989 poetry collection by Roald Dahl

fairy tale poem by Korney Chukovsky