Danger
23 poems
Threat, abyss, risk: poems about danger and what it reveals about us. Read them on Loëly.
Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks
Wallace Stevens
Aspecta Medusa (for a Drawing)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Book IX - I was driven thence by foul winds for a space of nine days
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book IX - When we got to the land, which was not far
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book V - Thereon he gathered his clouds together, grasped his trident
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book V - While he was thus in two minds a wave caught him
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book XII - For six days my men kept driving in the best cows
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book XII - Here she ended, and dawn enthroned in gold began to show in heaven
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book XII - Immediately after we had got past the island I saw a great wave
Homère
L'Odyssée
Canto III - Once more upon the waters!
George Gordon Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Goblin Market
Christina Rossetti
Goblin Market
Love
Jonathan Swift
She is far from the land
Thomas Hood
Sonnet XLV
Anna Seward
Surgeons must be very careful
Emily Dickinson
The Andante Of Snakes
Arthur Symons
the Java Jungle
Unknown
The Maldive Shark
Herman Melville
The ribs and terrors in the whale
Herman Melville
The Unknown Color
Countee Cullen
The Water Ouzel
Harriet Monroe
To The Lake
Edgar Allan Poe
Village Song
Sarojini Naidu
The Bird of Time