Here in one handsome volume is a collection of poems that will delight cat lovers of every age. This book is a poetic celebration of cats in all their graceful, mysterious, and verse-inspiring glory. Throughout the ages, cats have enchanted the master poets, from Chaucer to Ogden Nash. This anthology brings together humorous light verses and touchingly lyrical ones, famous works as well as lesser-known gems. Poems by John Keats, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, Christina Rossetti, T.S. Eliot, Paul Valery, and dozens of others will prompt readers to nod in recognition of familiar feline caprice and pause in appreciation of these poets' special insights. Cat lovers will fondly return again and again to this delightful tribute to the ways and wiles of cats, as they fondly consider the four-legged enigma staring back at them with what Keats called "those bright languid segments green".