Poems by Arthur Guiterman

Boulders huge and dales encumber
Where, in necromantic slumber
Arthur lies with all his peers
...

A FOSSILIFEROUS FABLE The Great Tyrannosaurus
Lived centuries ago;
Through marshes wet and po...

When Hercules, beside the Lake
Of Lerna, cut to pieces
The many-headed water snake--
(That v...

The Cormorant builds on a ledge by the sea;
The Coot, on the bank of a runnel;
The Woodpecke...

There's a pine-built lodge in a rocky mountain glen
In the shag-breasted motherland that bore me...

AN INDIAN LEGEND All summer long the forest trees
Had raised their leaves for dew and breeze;
...

From "The Mahabharata" The end drew nigh. Forspent with battle's rage,
His wife and brothers g...

The summer day was long and hot;
King Arthur rode from Camelot; And worn with court-cr...

"And there thou liest, Lancelot!
The bravest sword in Christenesse;
And I must speak that tru...

Since Walton first in sport began
To lure the scaly prey,
Was ever any Fisherman
To match wit...

The Dog beneath the Cherry-tree
Has ways that sorely puzzle me: Behind, he wags a frie...

The Captain of the Neversweats was rooted in his place,
One foot upon the tattered coat that se...

Airy-mouse, hairy mouse,
Keen-eared contrary mouse,
Come from your cavern--a star's in the s...

Little chemic-artisan,
Doing work no other can,
Deep in dewy nectaries,
Petal-walled refect...

Now this is the story (and all of ye hark!)
Of what was the Best and Worst Nail in the Ark:
Wh...