|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
Rhyming Dictionary Search
KINGS AND CUBBING, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS
First Line: They built rosy castles, / and big, winged bulls
Last Line: A long time ago!
Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Lions; Hunters
First Line: They built rosy castles, / and big, winged bulls
Last Line: A long time ago!
Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Lions; Hunters
THEY built rosy castles,
And big, winged bulls,
And red-robed wizards
Worked miracles,
When the kings rode hunting
With javelin and bow
Down the road to Nineveh
A long time ago!
They sat on their saddles
As good men sit,
Long in the stirrup,
Light on the bit,
Their proud lips a-curling,
Their crimped beards just so,
Down the road to Nineveh
A long time ago!
And what did they ride for?
Great beasts of stress
Lithe and tremendous—
Lions! no less!
The big black-maned beauties
That prowled to and fro
Down the road to Nineveh
A long time ago!
For why should we doubt it?
Still does each chief
Fill them with arrows—
In bas-relief,
And fine rough-and-tumbles
The grim carvings show
Down the road to Nineveh
A long time ago!
Then hear us, O Nimrod,
That we may find
Heart such as theirs was
(Jumps still are blind);
Send cubs stout as lions,
The sort they laid low
Down the road to Nineveh
A long time ago!
Other Poems of Interest...
THE LAMENT OF QUARRY by LEONIE ADAMS
KILLDEER by KENNETH SLADE ALLING
THE YOUNG FOWLER THAT MISTOOK HIS GAME by PHILIP AYRES
A POEM ABOUT THE HOUNDS AND THE HARES by LISEL MUELLER