NewsFfrom St. James’s. (Mary Barber Poems)
A courtier, summon'd hence of late,Was call'd to Minos' Judgment Seat.The Cretan Sage began the Charge,Recounted all his Crimes at ...
Poems about cretan (21 Poems)
Daedalus in Sicily (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
All his life he was building something, inventing something.Now, for a Cretan queen, an artificial heifer,so as to cuckold the ...
And their feet move (Sappho Poems)
And their feet moverhythmically, as tenderfeet of Cretan girlsdanced once around analtar of love, crushinga circle in the softsmooth flowering ...
The Bush (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to ...
The Shipwreck Of Idomeneus (George Meredith Poems)
Swept from his fleet upon that fatal night When great Poseidon's sudden-veering wrath Scattered the happy homeward-floating Greeks Like foam-flakes ...
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 ...
Rosara’s Chain. The Mystic Cave. (Alicia LeFanu Poems)
WHEN PHOEBUS tints the breezy lawn,AMANTOR hails the lovely dawn;That dawn, which sees him free again,Gay bounding o'er ...
The Ring Of Polycrates – A Ballad (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Upon his battlements he stood,And downward gazed in joyous mood, On Samos' Isle, that owned his sway,"All this is ...
The Midnight Revels As Observed By The Shades (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
'The witches' device for the equitable distributionof the liquor consisted in the constructionof tens of thousands of stopcocks and bungswhich ...
The Witches’ Brew (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
Perched on a dead volcanic pile,Now charted as a submerged peak,Near to a moon-washed coral isle,A hundred leagues from Mozambique,Three ...
Other Ingredients (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
To make a perfect fish menu,The witches found they had to placeUpon this alcoholic baseGreat stacks of food and spices ...
The Evening Hymn of the Hours (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Poems)
I."Through the summer day, through the weary day, We have glided long; Ere we speed to the Night through her ...
Pastor Cum (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
When he, that shepherd false, 'neath Phrygian sails, Carried his hostess Helen o'er the seas,In fitful slumber Nereus hush'd the ...
Enigma XXIII. (Elizabeth Hitchener Poems)
To the dictates of vengeance true, And filled with savage joy,Say, who brave Hector 's body drew Thrice ...
The Complaint of the Last Faun (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Poems)
I.The moon on the Latmos mountain Her pining vigil keeps;And ever the silver fountain In the Dorian valley weeps. But ...
Festive Music Should Be Low (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Poems)
I.Hark! through these flowers our music sends its greeting To your loved halls, where Psilas shuns the day; When the ...
Five A.M. (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Elan that lifts me above the clouds into pure space, timeless, yea eternal Breath transmuted into words Transmuted back to ...
Giant Snail (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
The rain has stopped. The waterfall will roar like that all night. I have come out to take a walk ...
Parnell’s Funeral (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I Under the Great Comedian's tomb the crowd. A bundle of tempestuous cloud is blown About the sky; where that ...
The Ring Of Polycrates – A Ballad (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Upon his battlements he stood, And downward gazed in joyous mood, On Samos' Isle, that owned his sway, "All this ...
Canto I (Ezra Pound Poems)
And then went down to the ship, Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and We set up ...