Animal Poems

Animal Poems

The Music Lover, by Leonidas of Tarentum

Not solely from the summer's sultry heat
Seek ...

These Spoils Are Not Mine, by Leonidas of Tarentum

These spoils are not mine.
Who has hung up on ...

'Tis Time to Sail, by Leonidas of Tarentum

'Tis time to sail--the swallow's note is heard,...

Fisher of Stars, by Lew Sarett

My wild blood leaped as I watched the falling s...

October Snow, by Lew Sarett

Swiftly the blizzard stretched a frozen arm
Fr...

Old Oak, by Lew Sarett

Oh, you and I, old oak, beneath the leaden s...

Swamp-Owl, by Lew Sarett

A brooding pond in the hush of dusk,
As black...

Teton Mountain, by Lew Sarett

She walks alone against the dusky sky,
With s...

Thunderdrums, by Lew Sarett

An Indian War-medicine Dance I. THE DRUMMERS S...

The Wolf Cry, by Lew Sarett

The Arctic moon hangs overhead;
The wide whit...

Father William, by Lewis Carroll

"You are old, Father William, " the young man ...

The Destruction of Sennacherib, by Lord Byron

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fol...

The Prisoner of Chillon, by Lord Byron

My hair is grey, but not with years,
Nor gre...

She Walks in Beauty, Like the Night, by Lord Byron

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloud...

On the Coast of Maine, by Louisa Brooke

I. Off-Shore The dappled blue of the evening s...

Clean Winter, by Louise Driscoll

Winter comes grimly
And cleans house.
Blowing...

The Desert Has One God, by Louise Driscoll

The desert has one god, the Great Lord Sun.
D...

October, by Louise Driscoll

When my hills stand ablaze with gold and red,
...

Premonition, by Louise Driscoll

The crystal shiver of an icicle
That falls fro...

Against the Fear of Death, by Lucretius

What has this bugbear Death to frighten man,
...

Atomic Motions, by Lucretius

Now come: I will untangle for thy steps
Now by...

Character of the Atoms, by Lucretius

Bodies, again,
Are partly primal germs of th...

Confutation of Other Philosophers, by Lucretius

And on such grounds it is that those who held
...

Infinite Worlds, by Lucretius

Once more, we all from seed celestial spring, ...

The Infinity of the Universe, by Lucretius

Now learn of what remains! More keenly hear!
A...