Empire
10 poems
Conquest, grandeur and collapse: poems about empires, their glory and their ruins. Read them on Loëly.
Canto IV - Oh, Rome! my Country! City of the Soul!
George Gordon Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Canto IV - The Niobe of nations! there she stands
George Gordon Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Destiny
Emma Lazarus
Mandalay
Rudyard Kipling
November, 1806
William Wordsworth
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
William Wordsworth
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Recessional (A Victorian Ode)
Rudyard Kipling
The Hyaenas
Rudyard Kipling
TO INDIA
Sarojini Naidu
The golden threshold