Bat Poems

Bat Poems

The Coliseum, by Edgar Allan Poe

Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquary
Of lo...

Ode Inscribed to W. H. Channing, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though loath to grieve
The evil time's sole pa...

The Pauper Witch of Grafton, by Robert Frost

NOW that they've got it settled whose I be,
I...

Waiting, Afield at Dusk, by Robert Frost

WHAT things for dream there are when spectre-li...

Lover's Complaint , by William Shakespeare

FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded
A ...

Where The Bee Sucks (from The Tempest) , by William Shakespeare

WHERE the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cows...

Witches Chant (From Macbeth) , by William Shakespeare

Round about the couldron go:
In the poisones e...

Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman

1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And...

Song of the Open Road, by Walt Whitman

1 Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open ...

An Evening Walk, by William Wordsworth

Far from my dearest Friend, 'tis mine to rove
...

The Ring and the Castle, by Amy Lowell

"BENJAMIN BAILEY, Benjamin Bailey, why do you...

An Evening Walk, by William Wordsworth

Far from my dearest Friend, 'tis mine to rove
...

Visions of the Daughters of Albion, by William Blake

The Argument I lovè d Theotormon,
An...

The Bat, by Arthur Guiterman

Airy-mouse, hairy mouse,
Keen-eared contrary...

Homes, by Arthur Guiterman

The Cormorant builds on a ledge by the sea;
T...

The Bad Lands, by Badger Clark

No fresh green things in the Bad Lands bide;
...

My Boyish Days, by C. B. Langston

My boyish days are long past now,
Time's sile...

On Caragh Lake, by Clinton Scollard

I On Caragh lake the evening light
Is violet ...

Rahinane, by Clinton Scollard

Wrapt in mist and washed with rain
Is the hill...

The Little Brown Bat, by Edith Matilda Thomas

Quoth the little brown bat: "I rise with the ow...

The Winter Court at Nidaros, by George Houghton

Long were the night-times on that slip of shore...

War, by George Sterling

The night was on the world, and in my sleep
I...

The Skeleton in Armor, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Speak! Speak I thou fearful guest
Who, with ...

Descent, by Keith Holyoak

I. The Bank “ It goes in ninety seconds!...