The Sphinx, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Sphinx is drowsy,
Her wings are furled:
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Elephant Poems
The Best and Worst Nail in the Ark, by Arthur Guiterman
Now this is the story (and all of ye hark!)
Of...
To the Moon, by Arthur Guiterman
Beloved of lovers, bards, astronomers,
Myth...
Of Time the Destroyer, by Bhartrhari
Our parents long have passed away,
All old fa...
On Fools, by Bhartrhari
She whom I worship night and day, she loathes ...
The Praise of Self-respect and Valour, by Bhartrhari
Worn with hunger, faint and feeble, shorn of ...
The Death of Yazdagird, by Ferdowsi
From the Shahnameh There was a paladin, a Tur...
Atlantis: Part I, by Frederick Tennyson
I "We sail'd beyond the great gates of the Wor...
The Sacred White Elephant from Siam, by Henry O'Meara
Written in response to an offer by P. T. Barnam...
Elephant Hunting, by Isaac McLellan
Long journeying over Afric's waste,
Fair, fl...
The Gorilla, by Isaac McLellan
High beats the hunter's heart when all the nigh...
Hunting the Hippopotamus, by Isaac McLellan
'Twas a fair river, fring'd with drooping reed...
Rhinoceros Hunting, by Isaac McLellan
For days the hunter march'd o'er wooded hills
...
Tiger Hunting in India with Elephants, by Isaac McLellan
We cross'd a brawling mountain torrent, far
F...
Watching for Elephants at Night in South Africa, by Isaac McLellan
For days the hunter over open plains
Fring'd b...
Tiger and Elephant, by James McIntyre
On Ganges banks roams the tiger,
And lion rul...
The Blind Men and the Elephant, by John Godfrey Saxe
A HINDU FABLE. I It was six men of Indostan
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Circus Clown, by Joshua Knight
Just saw a preview for the movie,
Yes, wher...
Geology Made Easy, by Katharine Lee Bates
I tell a tale which makes me pale
For its dism...