Swallow Poems

Swallow Poems

The Phrygian Rock, that Braves the Storm, by Anacreon

The Phrygian rock, that braves the storm,
Wa...

The Swallow, by Anacreon

Gentle swallow, thou we know
Every year dost ...

Tell Me How to Punish Thee, by Anacreon

Tell me how to punish thee,
For the mischief ...

Premonition, by Anna Katherine Green

The sweetest hour in all love's wond'rous story...

Chorus of Birds, by Aristophanes

Come on then, ye, dwellers by Nature in darkn...

The Country Dance, by Arthur Guiterman

Tread of the thistledown
Lighting on the heath...

The Dream of Chuang Tzu, by Arthur Guiterman

In life there's naught
That's true, but Thoug...

Homes, by Arthur Guiterman

The Cormorant builds on a ledge by the sea;
T...

The Primrose Dance: Tivoli, by Arthur Symons

TO MINNIE CUNNINGHAM Skirts like the amber pet...

Lethe, by Carmen Sylva

When dark thy childhood, tears and grief have ...

On the Occasion of My Lover's Celibacy, by Chocolate Waters

The moon is a hard white rock
disenchanting
T...

The Reign of St. Helens (1980), by Clark Crouch

On this spring morning
everything seemed quite...

Sudden Light, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I have been here before,
But when or how I ca...

Little Rabbit, by Douglas Gibson

Little Rabbit beneath my feet,
curled and so...

On the Eve of Sleep, by Edith Matilda Thomas

What is softer than two snowflakes meeting
In ...

The Swallow, by Edwin Curran

Dawn bird victorious,
Lyrical, glorious,
S...

Atlantis: Part I, by Frederick Tennyson

I "We sail'd beyond the great gates of the Wor...

Love of Money, by Hannah Flagg Gould

Alas! She is a tyrant queen--
She fills the wo...

The Decayed Chapel, by Isaac McLellan

Grey Church! The Twilight's dying fire
Hath fa...

Christmas Morning, by Jody Azzouni

Originally appeared in Voices International
Vo...

The Lost Atlantis, by John Alexander Joyce

The night of ages is passing away,
Yet the da...

Father Pumpkin; or, Always in Luck, by John Godfrey Saxe

AN ARABIAN TALE I In Cairo once there dwelt a...

The Witch's Daughter, by John Greenleaf Whittier

It was the pleasant harvest time,
When cellar...

Dear Father, by Lara Thomas

Dear Father
I wrote a poem for you once
I wro...

'Tis Time to Sail, by Leonidas of Tarentum

'Tis time to sail--the swallow's note is heard,...