Lion Poems

Lion Poems

What Thought May Be, by Ardelia Cotton Barton

A blaze of glory, or a demon wild,
A phantom...

The First Cat, by Arthur Guiterman

The Ark on the dark, multitudinous waters
Was...

The First Thanksgiving Day, by Arthur Guiterman

BOSTON, 1631 The curse of Cain was on the ear...

Grand Canyon, by August Wilhelm Wern

A wondrous sight that greets our eye
Beyond mo...

A Memory of Arizona, by Benjamin Peck Keith

Do you remember that dark night,
We met upon ...

The Praise of Self-respect and Valour, by Bhartrhari

Worn with hunger, faint and feeble, shorn of ...

San Francisco, by Bret Harte

Serene, indifferent of Fate,
Thou sittest at...

Hymn to Apollo, by Callimachus

What force, what sudden impulse thus can make
...

Four Acres, by David Ray

The new owners call them
virgin--their four ac...

Spirits in Prison, by Clara Marcelle Farrar Greene

Hedge a lion in his lair,
Bind him fast with ...

A Pin, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Oh, I know a certain lady who is reckoned with...

The Death of Yazdagird, by Ferdowsi

From the Shahnameh There was a paladin, a Tur...

Atlantis: Part II, by Frederick Tennyson

I "One day we wander'd to the western side
O'...

Bellerophon, by Henry Abbey

There lives a creature of a dreamer's brain,
...

Science and the Soul, by Henry Abbey

I sought, in sleep, to find the mountain-land...

The Occultation of Orion, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I saw, as in a dream sublime,
The balance in...

The Slave's Dream, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Beside the ungathered rice he lay,
His sickle...

The Warning, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Beware! The Israelite of old, who tore
The li...

To Mæcenas, by Horace

Descended of an ancient line,
That long the T...

The Wing of Separation, by Ibn Darraj Al-Andalûsi

The wing of separation
Bore me away;
The flu...

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...

Grizzly-Bear Hunting, by Isaac McLellan

'Mid scenes magnificently grand
In forest-grou...

The Lion, by Isaac McLellan

In the Mahouna mountain, in the Haracta glen, ...

Lion of South Africa, by Isaac McLellan

Slow pass'd the sultry days in Afric wilds,
S...