Lotus Poems

Lotus Poems

Al Aaraf, by Edgar Allan Poe

I O! Nothing earthly save the ray
(Thrown ...

Bacchus, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bring me wine, but wine which never grew
In t...

Initial, Daemonic and Celestial Love, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The Lotus-Eaters, by Alfred Tennyson

"Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the lan...

Lotus Hurt by the Cold, by D. H. Lawrence

How many times, like lotus lilies risen
Upon ...

The Excursion, by Du Fu

I How delighted, at sunset, to loosen the bo...

Variations: XIV, by Conrad Aiken

Beautiful body made of ivory,
Beautiful body ...

Illusion, by Amy Lowell

Walking beside the tree-peonies,
I saw a beet...

The Book of Thel, by William Blake

I The daughters of Mne Seraphim led round thei...

Requiescat in Pace, by Clark Ashton Smith

White iris on thy bier,
With the white rose, ...

The Fair Queen of Wu, by Li Bai

The breeze passes through the lotus flowers--
...

The Lotus, by Li Bai

In the deep sequestered stream the lotus grows,...

The Women of Yueh, by Li Bai

I She is a southern girl of Chang-kan Town;
...

Georgic II, by Virgil

Thus far the tilth of fields and stars of heave...

Georgic III, by Virgil

Thee too, great Pales, will I hymn, and thee...

On Himself, by Anacreon

On this verdant lotus laid,
Underneath the my...

Burmese Love Song, by Arthur Guiterman

The Moonbeam wooed in velvet night
A Lotus blo...

On Fools, by Bhartrhari

She whom I worship night and day, she loathes ...

The Path of Altruism, by Bhartrhari

Trees are bowed down with weight of fruit,
Cl...

The Praise of the Good Man, by Bhartrhari

All-hail to those who love the good,
And sinf...

The Praise of the Wise Man, by Bhartrhari

Kings in whose country tuneful bards are found
...

Penetralia, by Clara Marcelle Farrar Greene

We are drifting in a dreamland, I and thou,
...

Lucifer Matutinus, by Eliza Allen Starr

From a heart of infinite longing the youth
Loo...

Sky Lotus, by Elizabeth Coatsworth

Moon over Japan.
White butterfly moon!
The wa...

Gloria Mundi, by Guy Wetmore Carryl

PARIS, 1900. Magician hands through long, la...