Fragment 01 (Simonides Poems)
WHEN, upon the well-wrought chest,Fiercely heat the howling wind,And the oceans heaving breastFilled with terror DanaCs mind ;All in tears, ...
Poems about perseus (21 Poems)
Revealment (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
A sense of sadness in the golden air;A pensiveness, that has no part in care,As if the Season, by some ...
Act V (Thomas Bailey Aldrich Poems)
First, two white arms that held him very close,And ever closer as he drew him backReluctantly, the loose gold-colored hairA ...
Andromeda (Thomas Bailey Aldrich Poems)
The smooth-worn coin and threadbare classic phraseOf Grecian myths that did beguile my youth,Beguile me not as in the olden ...
On His Ladies Waking (Pierre de Ronsard Poems)
My lady woke upon a morning fair,What time Apollo's chariot takes the skies,And, fain to fill with arrows from her ...
The Temple of Fame (Alexander Pope Poems)
In that soft season, when descending show'rsCall forth the greens, and wake the rising flow'rs;When op'ning buds salute the welcome ...
Sappho to Phaon (Ovid Heroid XV) (Alexander Pope Poems)
Say, lovely youth, that dost my heart command,Can Phaon's eyes forget his Sappho's hand?Must then her name the wretched writer ...
The Aisne (Alan Seeger Poems)
We first saw fire on the tragic slopes Where the flood-tide of France's early gain, Big with wrecked promise and ...
The Lyon And The Gnat (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
To the still Covert of a Wood About the prime of Day, A Lyon, satiated with Food, With stately ...
Chartings (Cale Young Rice Poems)
There is no moon, only the sea and stars; There is no land, only the vessel's bow ...
Homage To Sextus Propertius – VIII (Ezra Pound Poems)
Jove, be merciful to that unfortunate womanOr an ornamental death will be held to your debit,The time is come, the ...
Aspecta Medusa (for a Drawing) (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
Andromeda, by Perseus sav'd and wed, Hanker'd each day to see the Gorgon's head: Till o'er a fount he held ...
To the Queen. (Anne Killigrew Poem)
AS those who pass the Alps do say, The Rocks which first oppose their way, And so amazing-High do show, ...
Andromeda (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
Now Time's Andromeda on this rock rude, With not her either beauty's equal or Her injury's, looks off by both ...
The Lyon And The Gnat (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
To the still Covert of a Wood About the prime of Day, A Lyon, satiated with Food, With stately Pace, ...
Dedication (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
To W. R. B. And so, to you, who always were Perseus, D'Artagnan, Lancelot To me, I give these weedy ...
Her Triumph (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I did the dragon's will until you came Because I had fancied love a casual Improvisation, or a settled game ...
The Burden Of Itys (Oscar Wilde Poems)
This English Thames is holier far than Rome, Those harebells like a sudden flush of sea Breaking across the woodland, ...
The Aisne (Alan Seeger Poems)
We first saw fire on the tragic slopes Where the flood-tide of France's early gain, Big with wrecked promise and ...
Perseus (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The Triumph of Wit Over Suffering Head alone shows you in the prodigious act Of digesting what centuries alone digest: ...
A Reminiscence (Amy Levy Poems)
It is so long gone by, and yet How clearly now I see it all! The glimmer of your cigarette, ...