Famous Sulphurous Poems by Famous Poets

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Charmides

...secret to the downy moth
That will not fly at noonday, through the foam and surging froth

Came a great owl with yellow sulphurous eyes
And lit upon the ship, whose timbers creaked
As though the lading of three argosies
Were in the hold, and flapped its wings and shrieked,
And darkness straightway stole across the deep,
Sheathed was Orion's sword, dread Mars himself fled down the steep,

And the moon hid behind a tawny mask
Of drifting cloud, and from the ocean's marge
Rose t...Read more of this...
by Wilde, Oscar


Clover

...ss the horse-lot calls
To sleepy Dick, nor Dick husk-voiced upbraids
The sway-back'd roan for stamping on his foot
With sulphurous oath and kick in flank, what time
The cart-chain clinks across the slanting shaft,
And, kitchenward, the rattling bucket plumps
Souse down the well, where quivering ducks quack loud,
And Susan Cook is singing.
Up the sky
The hesitating moon slow trembles on,
Faint as a new-washed soul but lately up
From out a buried body. Far about,
A hundred slop...Read more of this...
by Lanier, Sidney

Eviradnus

...es, and Joss, well pleased, was fain 
 By nod of head to make approval plain. 
 
 XV. 
 
 THE OUBLIETTES. 
 
 If sulphurous light had shone from this vile well 
 One might have said it was a mouth of hell, 
 So large the trap that by some sudden blow 
 A man might backward fall and sink below. 
 Who looked could see a harrow's threatening teeth, 
 But lost in night was everything beneath. 
 Partitions blood-stained have a reddened smear, 
 And Terror unrelieved ...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

Hohenlinden

...scarce yon level sun
22 Can pierce the war clouds, rolling dun,
23 Where furious Frank and fiery Hun
24 Shout in their sulphurous canopy.

25 The combat deepens. On, ye brave,
26 Who rush to glory, or the grave!
27 Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave,
28 And charge with all thy chivalry!

29 Few, few shall part where many meet!
30 The snow shall be their winding-sheet,
31 And every turf beneath their feet
32 Shall be a soldier's sepulchre....Read more of this...
by Campbell, Thomas

On The Wire

...ath,
 That is a boon; but this . . .
Drawing an anguished breath
 Under a hot abyss,
Under a stooping sky
 Of seething, sulphurous fire,
Scorching me up as I lie
 Here on the wire . . . the wire. . . .

Hasten, O God, Thy night!
 Hide from my eyes the sight
Of the body I stare and see
 Shattered so hideously.
I can't believe that it's mine.
 My body was white and sweet,
Flawless and fair and fine,
 Shapely from head to feet;
Oh no, I can never be
 The thing of horror I see
Un...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


Paradise Lost: Book 01

...aim. 
But see! the angry Victor hath recalled 
His ministers of vengeance and pursuit 
Back to the gates of Heaven: the sulphurous hail, 
Shot after us in storm, o'erblown hath laid 
The fiery surge that from the precipice 
Of Heaven received us falling; and the thunder, 
Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage, 
Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now 
To bellow through the vast and boundless Deep. 
Let us not slip th' occasion, whether scorn 
Or satiate fury yiel...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Paradise Lost: Book 06

...a moment up they turned 
Wide the celestial soil, and saw beneath 
The originals of nature in their crude 
Conception; sulphurous and nitrous foam 
They found, they mingled, and, with subtle art, 
Concocted and adusted they reduced 
To blackest grain, and into store conveyed: 
Part hidden veins digged up (nor hath this earth 
Entrails unlike) of mineral and stone, 
Whereof to found their engines and their balls 
Of missive ruin; part incentive reed 
Provide, pernicious with ...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Paradise Lost: Book 11

...ge, encamped; by battery, scale, and mine, 
Assaulting; others from the wall defend 
With dart and javelin, stones, and sulphurous fire; 
On each hand slaughter, and gigantick deeds. 
In other part the sceptered heralds call 
To council, in the city-gates; anon 
Gray-headed men and grave, with warriours mixed, 
Assemble, and harangues are heard; but soon, 
In factious opposition; till at last, 
Of middle age one rising, eminent 
In wise deport, spake much of right and wrong, ...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

The Ballad Of Pious Pete

...ed to my bed;
So softly it crept with feelers that swept and quivered like fine copper wire;
Its belly was white with a sulphurous light, it jaws were a-drooling with fire.
It came and it came; I could breathe of its flame, but never a wink could I look.
I thrust in its maw the Fount of the Law; I fended it off with the Book.
I was weak--oh, so weak--but I thrilled at its shriek, as wildly it fled in the night;
And deathlike I lay till the dawn of the day. (Was ever so welcom...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Book of Urizen: Chapter III

...of brass. Rage siez'd the strong

2. Rage, fury, intense indignation
In cataracts of fire blood & gall
In whirlwinds of sulphurous smoke:
And enormous forms of energy;
All the seven deadly sins of the soul
In living creations appear'd
In the flames of eternal fury.

3. Sund'ring, dark'ning, thund'ring!
Rent away with a terrible crash
Eternity roll'd wide apart 
Wide asunder rolling
Mountainous all around
Departing; departing; departing:
Leaving ruinous fragments of life
Hangi...Read more of this...
by Blake, William

The Dream

...o fill the golden sheath
of a remembered day....
(Air
heavy and massed and blue
as the vapor of opium...
domes
fired in sulphurous mist...
sea
quiescent as a gray seal...
and the emerging sun
spurting up gold
over Sydney, smoke-pale, rising out of the bay....)
But the day is an up-turned cup
and its sun a junk of red iron
guttering in sluggish-green water--
where shall I pour my dream?...Read more of this...
by Bogan, Louise

The Greek Boy

...where rage knew no bounds: 
 Chio is levelled, and loathed by the hounds, 
 For shivered yest'reen was her lance; 
 Sulphurous vapors envenom the place 
 Where her true beauties of Beauty's true race 
 Were lately linked close in the dance. 
 
 Dark is the desert, with one single soul; 
 Cerulean eyes! whence the burning tears roll 
 In anguish of uttermost shame, 
 Under the shadow of one shrub of May, 
 Splashed still with ruddy drops, bent in decay 
 Where fie...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

The Scourge Of Heaven

..."'Tis here!" the Voice on high exclaimed aloud. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 From a cavern wide 
 In the rent cloud's side, 
 In sulphurous showers 
 The red flame pours. 
 The palaces fall 
 In the lurid light, 
 Which casts a red pall 
 O'er their facades white! 
 
 Oh, Sodom! Gomorrah! 
 What a dome of horror 
 Rests now on your walls! 
 On you the cloud falls, 
 Nation perverse! 
 On your fated heads, 
 From its fell jaws, a curse 
 Its lightning fierce spreads! 
 
...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

The Siege of Corinth

...uds that day grew doubly d[un?] 
Impervious to the hidden sun, 
With volumed smoke that slowly grew 
To one wide sky of sulphurous hue. 

VII. 

But not for vengeance, long delay'd, 
Alone, did Alp, the renegade, 
The Moslem warriors sternly teach 
His skill to pierce the promised breach: 
Within those walls a maid was pent 
His hope would win, without consent 
Of that inexorable sire, 
Whose heart refused him in its ire, 
When Alp, beneath his Christian name, 
Her virgin han...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

The Twins

...Those eyes that send such shivers
Into my brain and spine : oh let them
Flame like the ancient city
Swallowed up by the sulphurous rivers
When men let angels fret them !

Yea ! let the south wind blow,
And the Turkish banner advance,
And the word go out : No quarter !
But I shall hod thee -so !
While the boys and maidens dance
About the shambles of slaughter !

I know thee who thou art,
The inmost fiend that curlest
Thy vampire tounge about
Earth's corybantic heart,
Hell's wa...Read more of this...
by Crowley, Aleister

To Mr. Blanchard the Celebrated Aeronaut in America

...id car
And mount towards the morning star.

How can you be so careless--gay:
Would you amidst red lightnings play;
Meet sulphurous blasts, and fear them not--
Is Phaeton's sad fate forgot?

Beyond our view you mean to rise--
And this Balloon, of mighty size,
Will to the astonish'd eye appear,
An atom wafted thro' the air.

Where would you rove? amidst the storms,
Departed Ghosts, and shadowy forms,
Vast tracks of aether, and, what's more,
A sea of space without a shore!--

Wo...Read more of this...
by Freneau, Philip

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