The Smoke Traveller (Irving Browne Poems)
When I puff my cigarette,Straight I see a Spanish girl,-Mantilla, fan, coquettish curl,Languid airs and dimpled face,Calculating, fatal grace;Hear a ...
Poems about bedouin (21 Poems)
The Iron Horse (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
No song is mine of Arab steed-- My courser is of nobler blood,And cleaner limb and fleeter speed, And greater strength and ...
Had I At Mecca’s Gate Been Nourished (Hermann Ferdinand Freiligrath Poems)
Had I at Mecca's gate been nourished, Or dwelt on Yemen's glowing sand, Or from my youth in Sinai flourished, A sword were ...
The Sword Dham (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
"How shall we honor the man who creates?"Asked the Bedouin chief, the poet Antar;-"Who unto the truth flings open our ...
I Have No Power (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
"I have no power to change youor explain your waysNever believe a man can change a womanThose men are pretenderswho ...
Rivers (Giuseppe Ungaretti Poems)
This mutilated tree givesMe support, left in this pot-holeIt has the bitterness of a circusBefore or after the show.I watchThe ...
The Blood Horse (Barry Cornwall Poems)
GAMARRA is a dainty steed,Strong, black, and of a noble breed,Full of fire, and full of bone,With all his line ...
Out Of Nazareth (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
"He shall sleep unscathed of thievesWho loves Allah and believes."Thus heard one who shared the tent,In the far-off Orient,Of the ...
The Philanthropist (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
(With apologies to a beautiful poem.) Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe decrease By cautious birth-control and die in peace) Mellow with learning ...
When The Gulls Come In (Helen M Merrill Poems)
WHEN the gulls come in, and the shallow singsFresh to the wind, and the bell-buoy rings,And a spirit calls the ...
Faris (Adam Mickiewicz Poems)
Like a gay skiff that flees the somber shoreAnd lilts again upon the crystal sea,Her wet breast stroking with caressing ...
The Ballad of Ashantie Pagoda (A B Banjo Paterson Poems)
'Or How the Brigadier Got the Order of the Nile and the Servian White Eagle'"I write that he who reads ...
In Hoc Signo Vinces! (Emma Alice Browne Poems)
Beneath the solemn stars that lightThe dread infinitudes of night,Mid wintry solitudes that lieWhere lonely Hecla's toweling pyreReddens an awful ...
The Winds (Cale Young Rice Poems)
The East Wind is a Bedouin, And Nimbus is his steed; Out of the dusk with ...
The Blood Horse (Bryan Waller Procter Poems)
GAMARRA is a dainty steed, Strong, black, and of a noble breed, Full of fire, and full of bone, With ...
The Conscript (Cale Young Rice Poems)
The camel at the old sakiyeh Toils around and round.Aweary is he of the Nile And of the wailing soundOf ...
The Bedouin (Edip Canserver Poems)
Through the deserted dim brown city of my eyesThe white-necked camels pass, their tired drivers,Day after day, as though to ...
Yesterday and Today XII (Khalil Gibran Poem)
The gold-hoarder walked in his palace park and with him walked his troubles. And over his head hovered worries as ...
Water and Gold (Michael Burch Poem)
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert when every flower springs to life at once, but joy ...
Ego Dominus Tuus (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Hic. On the grey sand beside the shallow stream Under your old wind-beaten tower, where still A lamp burns on ...
The Sphinx (Oscar Wilde Poems)
(To Marcel Schwob in friendship and in admiration) In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy ...