From The Children's Newspaper, 1934.

From St. Nicholas, 1915.

From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.

How would you define "cooeting" in this nonsense poem?  From Peterborough Teachers' College's 1970 yearbook.

From Poems By a Little Girl by Hilda Conkling, 1920.

From Barnard College's 1897 yearbook.

From Chatterbox, 1913.

From Chatterbox, 1913.  This poem features in a haunting song: https://youtu.be/BiTp3BXCnkQ

From Hampden-Sydney College's 1908 yearbook.

Only eight lives of a cat may be scandal-free, for in its ninth incarnation it roams to witches' midnight orgies.  From Christopher Cricket On Cats by Anthony Henderson Euwer, 1909.

From Eastern Mennonite College's 1966 yearbook.

From Around a Toadstool Table by Rowena Bennett, 1930.

From Purple Parrot, 1921.

A handy tip for keeping the wolf from the door -- read poetry to it.  From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1896.

By Marjorie Semonian.  From Emerson's 1943 yearbook.

A composite of a dozen neighborhood cats.  From St. Nicholas, 1888.

From Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 1907.

From Bluff Your Way In Poetry by Nick Yapp, 1989.

From Toike Oike, 1942.

Here's why more poems don't get published.  From Hampden-Sydney College's 1911 yearbook.