Lion Poems

Lion Poems

Tamerlane, by Edgar Allan Poe

Kind solace in a dying hour!
Such, father, i...

Ulalume, by Edgar Allan Poe

The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leav...

Initial, Daemonic and Celestial Love, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I. THE INITIAL LOVE Venus, when her son was l...

Merlin I, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thy trivial harp will never please
Or fill my ...

Mithridates, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot spare water or wine,
Tobacco-leaf, ...

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

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

Woodnotes II, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

As sunbeams stream through liberal space
And n...

Worship, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is he, who, felled by foes,
Sprung har...

From The Rape Of Lucrece , by William Shakespeare

Her lily hand her rosy cheek lies under,
Cozen...

Now The Hungry Lion Roars , by William Shakespeare

From "A Midsummer-Night's Dream, " Act V. Scene...

Sonnet 19: Devouring Time Blunt Thou The Lion's Paws , by William Shakespeare

Devouring Time blunt thou the lion's paws,
And...

With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!, by Walt Whitman

With husky-haughty lips, O sea!
Where day and...

The Affliction of Margaret, by William Wordsworth

I Where art thou, my beloved Son,
Where ar...

Guilt and Sorrow; or, Incidents Upon Salisbury Plain, by William Wordsworth

I A traveller on the skirt of Sarum's Plain
...

Her Eyes Are Wild, by William Wordsworth

I Her eyes are wild, her head is bare,
The...

The Waggoner, by William Wordsworth

Canto the First 'Tis spentthis burning day of ...

Balin and Balan, by Alfred Tennyson

Pellam the King, who held and lost with Lot
I...

A Dream of Fair Women, by Alfred Tennyson

I read, before my eyelids dropt their shade,
...

Gareth and Lynette, by Alfred Tennyson

The last tall son of Lot and Bellicent,
And t...

The Holy Grail, by Alfred Tennyson

From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done
...

Lady Clara Vere de Vere, by Alfred Tennyson

Lady Clara Vere de Vere,
Of me you shall not ...

Locksley Hall, by Alfred Tennyson

Comrades, leave me here a little, while as ye...