A Memento Mori — Or Remember Death (Rees Prichard Poems)
HOW short the date of man! how soon he's gone!To-day, alive — to-morrow, in the tomb!Strong as a giant, now ...
Poems about belshazzar (20 Poems)
Belshazzar’s Feast (Joanna Baillie Poems)
'TWAS night in Babylon,--yet many a beamOf lamps, far glittering from her domes on high,Shone, brightly mingling in Euphrates' stream,With ...
The Demoniac of Gadara (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
A GADARENE.He hath escaped, hath plucked his chains asunder,And broken his fetters; always night and dayIs in the mountains here, ...
Vision of Belshazzar (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
The King was on his throne,The Satraps throng'd the hall:A thousand bright lamps shoneO'er that high festival.A thousand cups of ...
To Belshazzar (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Belshazzar! from the banquet turn, Nor in thy sensual fulness fall;Behold! while yet before thee burn The graven words, the glowing wall.Many ...
Belshazzar (John Newton Poems)
Poor sinners! little do they thinkWith whom they have to do!But stand securely on the brinkOf everlasting woe.Belshazzar thus, profanely ...
The Old Weathercock: An Idyll (Eduard Morike Poems)
At Cleversulzbach in the Underland A hundred and thirteen years did I stand Up on the tower in wind and ...
The Pilgrim (A Christmas Legend For Children) (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
The shades of night were brooding O'er the sea, the earth, the sky;The passing winds were wailing In a low, ...
The Bread Of Angels (Edith Wharton Poems)
AT that lost hour disowned of day and night, The after-birth of midnight, when life's face Turns to the wall ...
Belshazzer’s (Eloise Alberta Bibb Poems)
The sun has sunk 'neath yonder distant hill,A hush pervades the world and all is still; And twilight shadows lengthen ...
The Dead Czar (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Poems)
LAY him beneath his snows, The great Norse giant who in these last days Troubled the nations. Gather decently The ...
The Surviving Thought (David James Scott Poems)
How long, ah me! this weary heart hath strivenWith vanity, and with a wild desire!How long, and yet how long, ...
The Feast Of The Passions (Charles Hamilton Musgrove Poems)
It wouldn't be fair to Belshazzar When speaking of madness and mirth, To draw from his revel ...
Bakhchisaray (Adam Mickiewicz Poems)
Those halls of the Gireys - still vast and great! -Are galleries where desolation falls;Those varicolored domes, those crumbling hallsWhere ...
Belshazzar had a Letter — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Belshazzar had a Letter -- He never had but one -- Belshazzar's Correspondent Concluded and begun In that immortal Copy ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 6 (Barry Tebb Poems)
THE WALK TO THE PARADISE GARDENS 1 Bonfire Night beckoned us to the bridge By Saint Hilda's where we started ...
Always the Mob (Carl Sandburg Poems)
JESUS emptied the devils of one man into forty hogs and the hogs took the edge of a high rock ...
The Voice of Age (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
She'd look upon us, if she could, As hard as Rhadamanthus would; Yet one may see,-who sees her face, Her ...
Enigma (Thomas Moore Poems)
Come riddle-me-ree, come riddle-me-ree, And tell me, what my name may be. I am nearly one hundred and thirty years ...
Darling Daughter of Babylon (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Too soon you wearied of our tears. And then you danced with spangled feet, Leading Belshazzar's chattering court A-tinkling through ...