Famous Panthers Poems by Famous Poets

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Alexandreis

...s adorn'd their haughty Crests, 
And crescent Shields did shade their shining Brests; 
Down from their shoulders hung a Panthers Hide, 
A Bow and Quiver ratled by their side; 
Their hands a knotty well try'd Speare did bear, 
Jocund they seem'd, and quite devoyd of fear. 
These warlike Virgins were, that do reside
Near Thermodons smooth Banks and verdant side, 
The Plains of Themiscyre their Birth do boast, 
Thalestris now did head the beauteous Host; 
She emulating that Illu...Read more of this...
by Killigrew, Anne


Anashuya And Vijaya

...ing in the forest, if he love
No other. - Hear, and may the indolent flocks
Be plentiful. - And if he love another,
May panthers end him. - Hear, and load our king
With wisdom hour by hour. - May we two stand,
When we are dead, beyond the setting suns,
A little from the other shades apart,
With mingling hair, and play upon one lute.

Vijaya [entering and throwing a lily at her]. Hail! hail, my
Anashuya.

Anashuya. No: be still.
I, priestess of this temple, offer up
prayers fo...Read more of this...
by Yeats, William Butler

Can You See the Pride in the Panther

...young all alone
The seed must grow regardless
of the fact that it is planted in stone.
Can You See the Pride In the Panthers
as they unify as one.
The flower blooms with brilliance,
and outshines the rays of the sun. ...Read more of this...
by Shakur, Tupac

Endymion: Book IV

...and stout galley-rowers' toil:
With toying oars and silken sails they glide,
 Nor care for wind and tide.

"Mounted on panthers' furs and lions' manes,
From rear to van they scour about the plains;
A three days' journey in a moment done:
And always, at the rising of the sun,
About the wilds they hunt with spear and horn,
 On spleenful unicorn.

"I saw Osirian Egypt kneel adown
 Before the vine-wreath crown!
I saw parch'd Abyssinia rouse and sing
 To the silver cymbals' ring!...Read more of this...
by Keats, John

His Dream Of The Skyland

...lakes;
The faery lords trooping in, they were thick as hemp-stalks in the fields.
Phoenix birds circled their cars, and panthers played upon harps.
Bewilderment filled me, and terror seized on my heart.
I lifted myself in amazement, and alas!
I woke and found my bed and pillow—
Gone was the radiant world of gossamer.

So with all pleasures of life.
All things pass with the east-flowing water.
I leave you and go—when shall I return?
Let the white roe feed at will among the gre...Read more of this...
by Po, Li


Lilacs

...False blue,
White,
Purple,
Color of lilac,
You have forgotten your Eastern origin,
The veiled women with eyes like panthers,
The swollen, aggressive turbans of jeweled pashas.
Now you are a very decent flower,
A reticent flower,
A curiously clear-cut, candid flower,
Standing beside clean doorways,
Friendly to a house-cat and a pair of spectacles,
Making poetry out of a bit of moonlight
And a hundred or two sharp blossoms.
Maine knows you,
Has for years and year...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

Song of the Indian Maid

...t galley-rowers' toil: 
With toying oars and silken sails they glide, 
Nor care for wind and tide. 105 

Mounted on panthers' furs and lions' manes, 
From rear to van they scour about the plains; 
A three days' journey in a moment done; 
And always, at the rising of the sun, 
About the wilds they hunt with spear and horn, 110 
On spleenful unicorn. 

I saw Osirian Egypt kneel adown 
Before the vine-wreath crown! 
I saw parch'd Abyssinia rouse and sing 
To the si...Read more of this...
by Keats, John

Song of the Indian Maid from Endymion

...nd stout galley-rowers' toil: 
With toying oars and silken sails they glide, 
 Nor care for wind and tide. 

Mounted on panthers' furs and lions' manes, 
From rear to van they scour about the plains; 
A three days' journey in a moment done; 
And always, at the rising of the sun, 
About the wilds they hunt with spear and horn, 
 On spleenful unicorn. 

I saw Osirian Egypt kneel adown 
 Before the vine-wreath crown! 
I saw parch'd Abyssinia rouse and sing 
 To the silver cymbal...Read more of this...
by Keats, John

Song of the Indian Maid from Endymion

...nd stout galley-rowers' toil: 
With toying oars and silken sails they glide, 
 Nor care for wind and tide. 

Mounted on panthers' furs and lions' manes, 
From rear to van they scour about the plains; 
A three days' journey in a moment done; 
And always, at the rising of the sun, 
About the wilds they hunt with spear and horn, 
 On spleenful unicorn. 

I saw Osirian Egypt kneel adown 
 Before the vine-wreath crown! 
I saw parch'd Abyssinia rouse and sing 
 To the silver cymbal...Read more of this...
by Keats, John

The Gods Of Greece

...brows, the garland wreathed
Sweet leaves round odorous hair!

The lively Thyrsus-swinger,
And the wild car the exulting panthers bore,
Announced the presence of the rapture-bringer--
Bounded the Satyr and blithe Faun before;
And Maenads, as the frenzy stung the soul,
Hymned in their maddening dance, the glorious wine--
As ever beckoned to the lusty bowl
The ruddy host divine!

Before the bed of death
No ghastly spectre stood--but from the porch
Of life, the lip--one kiss inha...Read more of this...
by Schiller, Friedrich von

The Lay Of The Bell

...!
The hyena-shapes (that women were!),
Jest with the horrors they survey;
They hound--they rend--they mangle there--
As panthers with their prey!
Naught rests to hollow--burst the ties
Of life's sublime and reverent awe;
Before the vice the virtue flies,
And universal crime is law!
Man fears the lion's kingly tread;
Man fears the tiger's fangs of terror;
And still the dreadliest of the dread,
Is man himself in error!
No torch, though lit from heaven, illumes
The blind!--Why p...Read more of this...
by Schiller, Friedrich von

The Sale of Saint Thomas

...er agonies shall slide henceforth 
To God, so shall my way be blest amid 
The quiet crouching terrors of the sea, 
Like panthers when a fire weakens their hearts; 
Ay, this huge sin of nature, the salt sea, 
Shall be afraid of me, and of the mind 
Within me, that with gesture, speech and eyes 
Of the Messiah flames. What element 
Dare snarl against my going, what incubus dare 
Remember to be fiendish, when I light 
My whole being with memory of Him? 
The malice of the sea wil...Read more of this...
by Abercrombie, Lascelles

The Soudan, The Sphinxes, The Cup, The Lamp

...
 Of human flesh, plants force their joints apart. 
 No deed of eminence the greatest saves, 
 And of mausoleums make panthers caves." 
 
 The Cup, Zim, in his fury, dashed upon the floor, 
 Crying aloud for lights. Slaves, at his angry call, 
 In to him hastily, a candelabra bore, 
 And set it, branching o'er the table, in the hall, 
 From whose wide bounds it hunted instantly the gloom. 
 "Ah, light!" exclaimed the Soudan, "welcome light, all hail! 
 Dull witnesse...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

The Teak Forest

...Whose branches whined in the light night breeze;
   You led me down to the water's brink,
   "The Spring where the Panthers come to drink
   At night; there is always water here
   Be the season never so parched and sere."
   Have we souls of beasts in the forms of men?
   I fain would have tasted your life-blood then.

   The night fell swiftly; this sudden land
   Can never lend us a twilight strand
   'Twixt the daylight shore and the ocean night,
   But take...Read more of this...
by Nicolson, Adela Florence Cory

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