Famous Leonine Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Leonine poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous leonine poems. These examples illustrate what a famous leonine poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Crowley, Aleister
...ver his imagination's rim!
El Arabi!
El Arabi! El Arabi! witch-amber and obsidian
Thine eyes are, to ensorcell me, and leonine thy male caress.
Will not God grant us Paradise to end the music Earth began?
We play with loaded dice! He cannot choose but raise right hand to bless.
El Arabi! El Arabi!
Great is the love of God and man
While I am trembling in thine arms, wild wanderer of the wilderness!
El Arabi!...Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
...R>See Marathon, and stern Thermopylæ,Closed by those few, and chieftain leonine,And thousand deeds that blaze in history.Then bow in thankfulness both heart and kneeBefore his holy shrine,Who such bright guerdon hath reserved for thee. Thou shalt see Italy and that honour'd sho...Read more of this...
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Wilde, Oscar
...
Around its rod of dusty gold,
And from the beech-trees on the wold
The last wood-pigeon coos and calls.
The gaudy leonine sunflower
Hangs black and barren on its stalk,
And down the windy garden walk
The dead leaves scatter, - hour by hour.
Pale privet-petals white as milk
Are blown into a snowy mass:
The roses lie upon the grass
Like little shreds of crimson silk....Read more of this...
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Scott, Duncan Campbell
...n, cry,--
Hold back the sickles!
Millions of men
With a vestige of manhood,
Wild-eyed and gaunt-throated,
Shout with a leonine
Accent of anger,
Leaves us the wheat-fields!
When will the reapers
Strike in their sickles?
Ask not the question;
Something tremendous
Moves to the answer.
Long have they sharpened
Their fiery, impetuous
Sickles of carnage,
Welded them aeons
Ago in the mountains
Of suffering and anguish;
Hearts were their hammers
Blood was their fire,
Sorrow ...Read more of this...
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