The Gathering of the Brown-Eyed (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE BROWN EYES came from Asia, where all mystery is true,Ere the masters of Soul Secrets dreamed of hazel, grey, ...
Poems about viking (21 Poems)
The Lost Arctic (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Poor Arctic! once awhile my floating home Full of kind faces, my right royal yacht, Alas! how swift and terrible a lotHas ...
On The Death Of Canon Kingsley (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
MORTALS there are who seem, all over, flame,Vitalized radiance, keen, intense, and high,Whose souls, like planets in it dominant sky,Burn ...
A Harvest Song (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
THE noon was as a crystal bowl The red wine mantled through;Around it like a Viking's beard The red-gold hazes blew,As tho' ...
Alcatraz (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
A pearl-foam at his feetThe waters leap and fall;The sentry treads his beatUpon the sun-girt wall.Bronzed of visage, he,Stern, resolute ...
The Shell (Mary Webb Poems)
What has the sea swept up?A Viking oar, long mouldered in the peaceOf grey oblivion? Some dim-burning bowlOf unmixed gold, ...
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 ...
Roving Men (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Take the boat to the bounds of the ocean, Away to the ends of the earth:We've a heritage no one ...
Sea Marvels (Clinton Scollard Poems)
This morning more mysterious seems the sea Than yesterday when, with reverberant roar, It charged upon the beaches, and the ...
Villanelle at Sundown (Donald Justice Poems)
Turn your head. Look. The light is turning yellow. The river seems enriched thereby, not to say deepened. Why this ...
A Norseman (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Beneath the golden eagle's shade Gleam restless eyes of steely grey,That look out calmly, unafraid, From brows deep-tann'd ...
The Deserted Fylgia (Alice Cary Poems)
Like a meteor, radiant, streaming,Seems her hair to me,And thou bear'st her feet like lilies,Dark and chilly sea!Wannish fires enclasp ...
Frithiof’s Farewell (Esaias Tegner Poems)
No more shall I seeIn its upward motionThe smoke of the Northland. Man is a slave:The fates decree.On the waste ...
The Skeleton in Armor (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
"Speak! speak I thou fearful guest Who, with thy hollow breast Still in rude armor drest, Comest to daunt me! ...
Villanelle At Sundown (Donald Justice Poem)
Turn your head. Look. The light is turning yellow. The river seems enriched thereby, not to say deepened. Why this ...
The Ballad of Persse O’Reilly (James Joyce Poems)
Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty How he fell with a roll and a rumble And curled up like ...
Thistles (Ted Hughes Poem)
Against the rubber tongues of cows and the hoeing hands of men Thistles spike the summer air And crackle open ...
Canute the Great (Marriott Edgar Poem)
I'll tell of Canute, King of England, A native of Denmark was he, His hobbies was roving and raiding And ...
The Norsemen ( From Narrative and Legendary Poems ) (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
GIFT from the cold and silent Past! A relic to the present cast, Left on the ever-changing strand Of shifting ...
Orion (Adrienne Rich Poems)
Far back when I went zig-zagging through tamarack pastures you were my genius, you my cast-iron Viking, my helmed lion-heart ...
A Tale of Elsinore (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
A little child stood thinking, sorrowfully and ill at ease, In a forest beneath the branches of the tall pine ...