MEDUSA POEMS

The Wanderer

I saw the sunset-colored sands,
The Nile like flowing fire between,
Where Rameses stares forth serene,
And Ammon's heavy temple stands.
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Sara Teasdale

Medusa

Turned to a monster
But not a boaster
With one look
You turn to stone
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Amen Ahabue

Medusa

As drear and barren as the glooms of Death,
It lies, a windless land of livid dawns,
Nude to a desolate firmament, with hills
That seem the gibbous bones of the mummied Earth,
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Clark Ashton Smith

Perseus And Medusa

I met her mirrored stare:
The cycles of stone glories
Locked in the Gorgon's glare.

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Clark Ashton Smith

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Louise Bogan

Tenebrae

He was so tired that he was scarcely able to hear a note of the songs: he felt imprisoned in a cold region where his brain was numb and his spirit was isolated.

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Geoffrey Hill

Tempora Mutantur

'The world is dull,' I cried in my despair:
'Its myths and fables are no longer fair.

'Roll back thy centuries, O Father Time.
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Ambrose Bierce

The Carver

See, as the carver carves a rose,
A wing, a toad, a serpent's eye,
In cruel granite, to disclose
The soft things that in hardness lie,
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Conrad Potter Aiken

In Memory Of My Feelings

My quietness has a man in it, he is transparent
and he carries me quietly, like a gondola, through the streets.
He has several likenesses, like stars and years, like numerals.

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Frank O'hara

Metamorphoses: Book 05

While Perseus entertain'd with this report
His father Cepheus, and the list'ning court,
Within the palace walls was heard aloud
The roaring noise of some unruly crowd;
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Ovid

The Medusa Of The Skies

Like a worm-fretted visage from the tomb,
The moon unswathes her hollow, shrunken head,
Launching such light as foulders on the dead
From pallid skies more death-like than the gloom.
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Clark Ashton Smith

Sphinx And Medusa

The old constraint of an essential bond
Hath linkt them in my mind: opposed they stare,
Twin silences, that through Time's Otherwhere,
The ruinous past, thus each to each respond,
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Clark Ashton Smith

Paradise Lost: Book 02

High on a throne of royal state, which far
Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind,
Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand
Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold,
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John Milton

Aspecta Medusa (for A Drawing)

Andromeda, by Perseus sav'd and wed,
Hanker'd each day to see the Gorgon's head:
Till o'er a fount he held it, bade her lean,
And mirror'd in the wave was safely seen
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Hvo Skal Jeg Troe?

Hvo skal jeg troe?
Ã?inene to?
Lyve ei disse?
Lokkende kjæk
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Hans Christian Andersen

I Am Cold. Transparent Spring Dresses

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I am cold. Transparent Spring dresses
Petropolis in verdant down.
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Osip Emilevich Mandelstam

A Remedy For Love

Philoclea and Pamela sweet,
By chance, in one great house did meet;
And meeting, did so join in heart,
That th' one from th' other could not part:
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Sir Philip Sidney

The Messengers Of The Net

Encrypted binary files
Plucked keyboards
Words of genus written to be left in the hierarchy

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Joseph Mayo Wristen

The Bright Medusa

She's the daughter of the breeze,
She's the darling of the seas,
And we call her, if you please, the bright Medu-sa;
From beneath her bosom bare
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Henry Newbolt

Aspecta Medusa ( For A Drawing)

Andromeda, by Perseus sav'd and wed,
Hanker'd each day to see the Gorgon's head:
Till o'er a fount he held it, bade her lean,
And mirror'd in the wave was safely seen
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Medusa Of Despair

I may not mask for ever with the grace
Of woven flowers thine eyes of staring stone:
Ere the lithe adders and the garlands blown,
Parting their tangle, have disclosed thy face
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Clark Ashton Smith

Image

Calm as a long-forgotten marble god who smiles,
Colossal, in the grim serenity of stone,
Upon the broken pillars lying all alone
Athwart the horizon's infinite and yellow miles;
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Clark Ashton Smith

The Midnight Revels As Observed By The Shades

‘The witches' device for the equitable distribution
of the liquor consisted in the construction
of tens of thousands of stopcocks and bungs
which were fitted into the perforations of the
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E. J. Pratt

Mogg Megone - Part I

"Who stands on that cliff, like a figure of stone,
Unmoving and tall in the light of the sky,
Where the spray of the cataract sparkles on high,
Lonely and sternly, save Mogg Megone?
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John Greenleaf Whittier

Paradise Lost - Book Ii

High on a Throne of Royal State, which far
Outshon the wealth of Ormus and of Ind,
Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand
Showrs on her Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold,
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John Milton

The Bright Medusa

She's the daughter of the breeze,
She's the darling of the seas,
And we call her, if you please, the bright _Medu--sa_;
From beneath her bosom bare
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Sir Henry Newbolt

After-strain

Now with wan ray that other sun of Song
Sets in the bleakening waters of my soul:
One step, and lo! the Cross stands gaunt and long
'Twixt me and yet bright skies, a presaged dole.
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Francis Thompson

Pharsalia - Book Vii: The Battle

Ne'er to the summons of the Eternal laws
More slowly Titan rose, nor drave his steeds,
Forced by the sky revolving, up the heaven,
With gloomier presage; wishing to endure
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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

The Book Of Phillip Sparrow

Pla ce bo,
Who is there, who?
Di le xi,
Dame Margery;
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John Skelton

To Mrs. Frances--arabella Kelly.

To Day, as at my Glass I stood,
To set my Head--cloaths, and my Hood;
I saw my grizzled Locks with Dread,
And call'd to mind the Gorgon's Head.
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Mary Barber

The Sleeping City

A Princess in the eastern tale
Paced thro' a marble city pale,
And saw in ghastly shapes of stone
The sculptured life she breathed alone;
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George Meredith

Thebais - Book One - Part V

The king once more the solemn rites requires,
And bids renew the feasts, and wake the fires.
his train obey, while all the courts around
With noisy care and various tumult sound.
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Pablius Papinius Statius

Athena

Force of reason, who shut up the shrill
foul Furies in the dungeon of the Parthenon,
led whimpering to the cave they live in still,

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Amy Clampitt

Time's Hymn Of Hate

Oh, boastful, wicked land, that once was beautiful and great,
How bitter and how black must be your self-invited fate,
While Time goes down the centuries and sings his hymn of hate!

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Lilith's Lover

White art thou, O Lilith! as the foam that glimmers and quivers,
Glitters and clingingly silvers and snows from the balm
Of the beautiful breasts of the nymphs of the seas and rivers
That crystal and pearl by clusters of tropical palm,
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Madison Julius Cawein

Nyctalops

Ye that see in darkness
When the moon is drowned
In the coiling fen-mist
Far along the ground-
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Clark Ashton Smith

Sirmione

Give me your hand, Beloved! I cannot see;
So close from shadowy--branching tree to tree
Dark leaves hang over us. How vast and still
Night sleeps! and yet a murmur, a low thrill,
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Robert Laurence Binyon

The Snows Of Spring

O wailing gust, what hast thou brought with thee,
What sting of desolation? But an hour,
And brave was every shy new--opened flower
Smiling in sun beneath a budding tree.
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Robert Laurence Binyon

The Divine Comedy By Dante: The Vision Of Hell, Or The Inferno: Canto Ix

The hue, which coward dread on my pale cheeks
Imprinted, when I saw my guide turn back,
Chas'd that from his which newly they had worn,
And inwardly restrain'd it. He, as one
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Dante Alighieri

Medusa

How did Medusa do her hair?
The question fills me with despair.
It must have caused her sore distress
That head of curling snakes to dress.
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Oliver Herford

Queen Vidcod

The times are perilous
And phobia has heightened.
What do we have here?
A new diva, a new kind of medusa.
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Ndifon Samir

Sonnet Cxlvi

Geri, quando talor meco s' adira.

HE APPEASES HER BY HUMILITY, AND EXHORTS A FRIEND TO DO LIKEWISE.

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Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)

Scenes From The Faust Of Goethe

SCENE 1. - PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN.

THE LORD AND THE HOST OF HEAVEN.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

On Rome In The Pontificate Of Julius Ii

Qua si fa elmi.


Here helms and swords are made of chalices:
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Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

The Same. (the Triumph Of Chastity.)

When gods and men I saw in Cupid's chain
Promiscuous led, a long uncounted train,
By sad example taught, I learn'd at last
Wisdom's best rule--to profit from the past
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Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)

Sonnet Clxiv

L' aura celeste che 'n quel verde Lauro.

HER HAIR AND EYES.

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Francesco Petrarca (petrarch)

Peak Of Demon's Love

You took me to the peak of love
Dwelling place for purples
Where the ray shines
And the snow drops
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Odejide Promise Olamilekan

The Bright Medusa

(1807)

She's the daughter of the breeze,
She's the darling of the seas,
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Henry John Newbolt, Sir

On The Medusa Of Leonardo Da Vinci In The Florentine Gallery

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It lieth, gazing on the midnight sky,
Upon the cloudy mountain-peak supine;
Below, far lands are seen tremblingly;
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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love Letters Of A Violinist. Letter Vii. Hope

Letter VII. Hope.


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Eric Mackay