The Iliad: Book 20 (Homer Poems)
Thus, then, did the Achaeans arm by their ships round you, O sonof Peleus, who were hungering for battle; while ...
Poems about acropolis (20 Poems)
The Iliad: Book 7 (Homer Poems)
With these words Hector passed through the gates, and his brotherAlexandrus with him, both eager for the fray. As when ...
America Politica Historia, In Spontaneity (Gregory Corso Poems)
O this political air so heavy with the bellsand motors of a slow night, and no place to restbut rain ...
The Messenger From Marathon (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
Victory! cry of all cries after battle,Victory! only cry worthy of breath,Lifting the soul up and thrilling the heart strings,Shaking ...
Maui Victor (Johannes Carl Andersen Poems)
Unhewn in quarry lay the Parian stone, Ere hands, god-guided, of PraxitelesMight shape the Cnidian Venus. Long ungrown The ivory was which, ...
If I am to know how to restrain your hands (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
If I am to know how to restrain your hands,If I am to betray the tender, salty lips,I must wait ...
“If I am to know how to restrain your hands” (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
If I am to know how to restrain your hands,If I am to betray the tender, salty lips,I must wait ...
Every church sings its own soft part (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
Every church sings its own soft partIn the polyphony of a girl's choir,And in the stone arches of the AssumptionI ...
“Every church sings its own soft part” (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
Every church sings its own soft partIn the polyphony of a girl's choir,And in the stone arches of the AssumptionI ...
Athens (Kostas Karyotakis Poems)
A sweet hour. Athens sprawls like a hetairaoffering herself to April.Sensuous scents are in the air,the spirit waits for nothing ...
“An American girl of twenty” (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
An American girl of twentyShould reach Egypt,Forgetting the advice from the Titanic,Asleep on the bottom, gloomier than the crypt.In America ...
“The Greeks planned for war” (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
The Greeks planned for warOn the delightful island of Salamis.From the harbor of Athens, you could see itSeized by the ...
The Empty Purse–A Sermon To Our Later Prodigal Son (George Meredith Poems)
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!Quenched youth, and is that thy ...
Seven Twilights (Conrad Potter Aiken Poems)
I The ragged pilgrim, on the road to nowhere, Waits at the granite milestone. It grows dark. Willows lean by ...
The Decree Of Athena (Aeschylus Poems)
Hear ye my statute, men of Attica-- Ye who of bloodshed judge this primal cause; Yea, and in ...
The Light Eternal (David Gow Poems)
MORNING gleam and sunset glow,(Far away and long ago)Light that lapt the world in blissRound the white Acropolis;Set the many-twinkling ...
The Siege of Corinth (Lord Byron Poem)
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I Many ingenious lovely things are gone That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude, protected from the circle of the ...
Painted Head (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
By dark severance the apparition head Smiles from the air a capital on no Column or a Platonic perhaps head ...
Tristia (Osip Mandelstam Poems)
I have studied the Science of departures, in night's sorrows, when a woman's hair falls down. The oxen chew, there's ...