Lizard Poems

Lizard Poems

The Coliseum, by Edgar Allan Poe

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

May-Day, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daughter of Heaven and Earth, coy Spring,
Wi...

A Hillside Thaw, by Robert Frost

TO think to know the country and not know
The ...

Witches Chant (From Macbeth) , by William Shakespeare

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

Fort Fuentes, by William Wordsworth

Dread hour! When, upheaved by war's sulphurous...

The Talking Oak, by Alfred Tennyson

Once more the gate behind me falls;
Once more...

The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church, by Robert Browning

ROME, 15 Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity...

The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde, by Amy Lowell

The Bell in the convent tower swung.
High over...

Fort Fuentes, by William Wordsworth

Dread hour! When, upheaved by war's sulphurous...

O, Ancient Rulers of the Earth, by Walter Wykes

I. O, ancient rulers of the Earth,
O, rac...

Alexis, by Virgil

Alexis, beauteous, and his lord's delight,
...

Georgic IV, by Virgil

Of air-born honey, gift of heaven, I now
Tak...

Falsehood and Sin, by Arthur Guiterman

FROM THE TALMUD Among the beasts that thronged...

The Great Tyrannosaurus, by Arthur Guiterman

A FOSSILIFEROUS FABLE The Great Tyrannosaurus
...

Tea with a Dinosaur, by Arthur Guiterman

Thunder-lizard, Brontosaurus,
You that lived...

The Permian Beds of Texas, by Charles Hazelius Sternberg

In Texas, where the Wichita
Enrodes a gash, ...

In the Petrified Forest, Arizona, by Edward Robeson Taylor

All round us here, in myriad number strown,
...

A Lizard of the Petrified Forest, by Edward Robeson Taylor

Upon an age-worn, upright stone
Of gems that ...

The Last Monster, by George Sterling

In backward vision, from the primal dusk
I sa...

Florida Scenes and Sports, by Isaac McLellan

Here in my Northern home I love to muse,
Fair...

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, by Omar Khayyám

I

WAKE! For the Sun, who scatter'd into ...

A Visit to Tusculum, by Richard Chenevix Trench

A solemn thing it is, and full of awe,
Wande...

The Haunts of Ashur, by Robert Elliott Gonzales

'Tis night. And now is Dian seen
Ensconced upo...

Under the Sands, by Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

Suggested by a notice of Sir Douglas Forsyth's ...