Leathern Poems - Poems about Leathern

...(Oscar Wilde wrote that long poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" in 1897, quoted here. In it, a man met his death; for some decades the UK has not had the death penalty.) ......Read the rest...

...That wind so wild can cause those wooden limbs to shake from side to side as though to slap a face. It is worth watching through your window feeling the weird warmth within, while witnessing anot......Read the rest...

...Ride, ride, ride thou figure from the East In thy curse hath many a mother wept On thy brow the furrows of distant steppes Yield unto a steely mask of doom Destruction follows in thy path and yet......Read the rest...

...Poems from old and yellowed Chinese scrolls make me sad, make me sad: stored in shiny, lacquered boxes of perfumed teak, they crumble when unrolled. And the hands that must have written Chinese......Read the rest...

...I first heard of Detur Sanguin In tales handed down from old. A man accursed with unquenchable thirst; A soul to the devil sold. He made a pact with a demon, For a lady’s heart to win. His lu......Read the rest...