Animals

Ass
The charm against the ill of red A charm against the unwed bed A charm against the ill of black A charm against the braying, braying, braying, braying __ass__ The braying __ass__, the braying __ass__

I Have a Charm, //The Amber Gatherers//

Bull
This morning early, my love, I heard a cow low A lonely cow low on yonder hill This morning early I heard a cow low A calfless cow low for a hornless __bull__

The Calfless Cow, //The Amber Gatherers//

Bullfrog
Were I an oak I would creak and I'd croak like a __bullfrog__ My boughs they would break and fall into the lake But its only for you I'd be breaking

Coral and Tar, //The Wyrd Meme//

Coral
Well I took to the drink as if seeking a bog to be mired in To join with the oak and join with the pine in their blood oath To choke up the garden to harden the earth Against any rebirth to crowd out the fennel and sorrel To keep the moon's beams from invading your dreams And making the tarry place __coral__

Coral and Tar, //The Wyrd Meme//

Cow
This morning early, my love, I heard a __cow__ low A lonely __cow__ low on yonder hill This morning early I heard a __cow__ low A calfless __cow__ low for a hornless bull

The Calfless Cow, //The Amber Gatherers//

Deer
Well, it's whispered in the crypt The green wood waxes early Omens go from lip to lip Where the __deer__ go running yearly-o

[& each subsequent verse finishes with the same line]

Brother Seed, //unreleased//

Doe
Then she wore the guise of fallow __doe__, As great with young as she could go

When a Man's in Love He Feels No Cold, //Farewell Sorrow//

Dog
Only mentioned in the context of Dog's Mercury and dogwood (see Vegetation)

Foal
[possibly mentioned in a line in Song Composed in December]

Gazelle
The dagger of the west will never linger long In the scabbard of the east That __gazelle__ will bolt and run like hell From any entombed eden

The Hallucinator and the King of the Silver Ship of Time, //The Wyrd Meme//

Gosling
Then I saw a woman changing From a woman to a __gosling__ Then I saw a woman changing Before my eyes

I Went Hunting, //Farewell Sorrow//

Hound
Go tell your sweet lover, the __hounds__ are out Go tell your sweet lover, the __hounds__ are out Go tell your sweet lover, the __hounds__ are out Go tell your sweet lover, the __hounds__ are out

Join Our Lusty Chorus, //Farewell Sorrow//

Lambskin
Ptarmigan, ptarmigan, under the __lambskin__ While into the darkness our armies are blundering Ptarmigan, ptarmigan, under the __lambskin__ Thanking their god so unloving and humdrum

The Wheels of the World, unreleased

Pony
I dreamed I rode the royal road Spurred on by angry keen of banshees Saw many men endaubed in woad Their ladies held in crimson clenches My __pony__ she was silver shod Born in a thousand avalanches And every step my __pony__ trod There sprung a tangle of briony branches

The Royal Road at the World's End, //The Wyrd Meme//

Ram
Now, the God of old, the God of old The God of old, we must attack him Sterile __rams__, sterile __rams__ Sterile __rams__ and simulacrum And the Crone of old, the Crone of old The Crone of old, we have to break her Sterile __rams__ and simulacra Firebrand and simulacra Sterile __rams__ and simulacra

You Muses Assist, //Spoils//

Sow
And dream of where the __sows__ of England rut and snuffle Where the summer truffles cluster in the hollow Where the stags lock antlers and give joyous bellow If the path should lead me there I'll gladly follow

Where Twines the Path, //The Amber Gatherers//

Stag
And dream of where the sows of England rut and snuffle Where the summer truffles cluster in the hollow Where the __stags__ lock antlers and give joyous bellow If the path should lead me there I'll gladly follow

Where Twines the Path, //The Amber Gatherers//