Tortoise Poems

Tortoise Poems

Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman

1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And...

A Dream of Fair Women, by Alfred Tennyson

I read, before my eyelids dropt their shade,
...

Maid of Wu, by Li Bai

Wine of the grapes,
Goblets of gold--
And a ...

Georgic II, by Virgil

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

The Praise of Self-respect and Valour, by Bhartrhari

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

The Naturalist, by Edith Matilda Thomas

He bides at home, and treasures all
That to h...

The Tortoise in Eternity, by Elinor Wylie

Within my house of patterned horn
I sleep in s...

Pictures of the Past, by Robert McIntyre

God is good to let us keep in mind the pictures...