Theodore Roosevelt's Pets Poem by Sheena Blackhall

A conglomeration of guinea pigs
Bishop Doane, Dr. Johnson, my Dutch Reformed pastor; Father G. Grady, Fighting Bob Evans, and Admiral Dewey
Imagine the squeaks and squabbles
Worse than Noah's Ark, and all in the White House!

Eli Yale the Hyacinth Macaw, shared home
With two white rabbits, and buck called Peter
Josiah the badger, and Algonquin the pony

There was, furthermore,
Asmall bear named Jonathan Edwards
A lizard named Bill
A pig named Maud
And Baron Spreckle the hen

Not to mention
a one-legged rooster, a barn owl, and a hyena;
Emile Spinach, a pet garter snake
Sailor Boy, a Chesapeake retriever,
Jack and Pete, the terriers,
Skip the mongrel

And a small black Pekingese named Manchu
A gift from the last empress of China
Which danced on its hind legs
In the moonlight on the White House lawn.