Persian Poems

Persian Poems

Al Aaraf, by Edgar Allan Poe

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

Old Chants, by Walt Whitman

An ancient song, reciting, ending,
Once gaz...

A Persian Lesson, by Walt Whitman

For his o'erarching and last lesson the greybea...

Salut au Monde!, by Walt Whitman

1 O take my hand Walt Whitman!
Such gliding ...

Song of the Broad-Axe, by Walt Whitman

1 Weapon shapely, naked, wan,
Head from t...

Recollections of the Arabian Nights, by Alfred Tennyson

When the breeze of a joyful dawn blew free
In ...

Pheidippides, by Robert Browning

Χ α ί ρ ε τ &eps...

Roads, by Amy Lowell

I know a country laced with roads,
They join ...

To Charles Dickens, by Walter Savage Landor

Go then to Italy; but mind
To leave the pale l...

Georgic IV, by Virgil

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

Somnambulist, by Donald Evans

Like a long winding-sheet unrolled
Across the ...

Alas for Youth, by Ferdowsi

Much have I labored, much read o'er
Of Arabic...

How Shirwi ascended the Throne, by Ferdowsi

From the Shahnameh Now when Shirwi sat on the ...

Marco Bozzaris, by Fitz-Greene Halleck

At midnight, in his guarded tent,
The Turk ...

To Mæcenas, by Horace

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

The Defense of the Alamo, by Joaquin Miller

Santa Anna came storming, as a storm might com...

Singalese Love Songs, by Marjorie Allen Seiffert

I Your eyes are beautiful beggars,
Careless ...

The Lady Kukachin, by Sarah Knowles Bolton

Year 1291. Sad and lonely was Arghun Khan
For...