Earls Poems - Poems about Earls

...These are English translations of Medieval poems written in Old English. The Battle of Maldon anonymous Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem, circa 991 AD or later translation by Michael R. Burch ......

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...The Wanderer, Part III The wise man contemplates these ruins, considers this dark life soberly, remembers the blood spilled here in multitudes of battles, then says: “Where is the horse no......

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...The Wanderer, Part II Awakening, the friendless man confronts the murky waves, the seabirds bathing, broadening out their feathers, the hoar-frost, harrowing hail & snow eternally falling… Th......

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...Beowulf Excerpts anonymous Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem, circa 8th-10th century AD loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch LO, praise the prowess of the Spear-Danes whose clan-than......

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... Crossroads to where life began Fear of dark cold round me again In the twilight before the morn Scattered grass iced, forlorn Silence in the air ash orangy dawn Fire burnt out like clouds in......

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...Ears Earrings are just embellishments Ear on my left and rights Earns the true credits Easy to hear the chimps and deer'swith with them Earth is open to me by them Earls songs melodies becau......

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...High and mighty leaders brag, They own gas gold arms drugs Whoah.. Quite a stash ' They'll Stick or sell, when it favours them' These are righteous dignified Women and men, there are Kings An......

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...What does heaven look like? Who will I meet there? Is it there for infinity? I need to be aware. Will all of my ancestors , Be waiting there for me? And will it be a great, Alternative to purg......

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...Opulent solitude, how rich it becomes alone in one’s shadow, times riches in sum To revel monastic o’er sultans and earls, whose joyous reflection —your diamonds and pearls (Dreamsleep: N......

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...Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty") by Geoffrey Chaucer loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Your eyes slay me suddenly; their beauty I cannot sustain, they wound me so, throu......

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...I have flashbacks of you, from when I was so young i thought you left me, to explore this vast galaxy, for mankind You taught us how to survive on this big banged up, revolving planet Leavin......

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...At age twenty I had made it to Earls Court. The rented room was seedily solid having been for decades filled with wine and cheap sunlight. Until then I had not read a thing apart from: ‘The Sh......

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...Anecdotal ancestors are anxiously arriving. Bringing Betty’s bugs behind Beauty’s book bag Creepy Clementine chases Crazy Charlie Deliberately doing dainty delicate dynamics. Effortlessly engagin......

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...It's a topsy-turvy world Once-straight hair's now curled From a putrid drop does a precious newborn unfurl Pry open the menacing clamshell to remove a shining pearl Swoops in an airbo......

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...'Twas a dark and stormy night! (OK! So I'm being a tad histrionic!) The Earl of Pence was lounging by the fire sipping his gin and tonic. Lightning flashed and thunder roared sending shivers down ......

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