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The leonine billows ramp and roll - Edward Dowden "Sent to an American Shakespeare Society"


As if the burly lion left his lair - Harold Acton "Conversations and Crumbling"

A tide of lions crashing on sandy shores - Art 25: Art in the 25th Century "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

Brave as a lion at bay - Cora C. Bass "Memorial Poem"

Whose eyes can beat down lions' eyes - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"

Loins of the lion and splendor of the eagle - William Rose Benét "The City"

Triumphant Venice spread her lion banner - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"

If the lion was advised by the fox - William Blake "Proverbs of Hell"

Like to identify themselves with lions - Jericho Brown "Aerial View"

A giraffe beats a lion's ass every day - Jericho Brown "Aerial View"

And talons of the lion fierce - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Orpheus"

No guardian lion by her side - George Spencer Cautley "Una"

The fly's bass turned a lion's roar - John Clare "I Hid My Love"

On the distant breeze's quaking the lion's roar - Rubén Darío "Nightfall in the Tropics" Thomas Walsh

Against the crouching lions - Julia C.R. Dorr "Vashti's Scroll"

Keeps lions in his chest - Carolina Ebeid "Punctum/Metaphor"

Who clipped the lion's wings - T.S. Eliot "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"

A queen astride a lion - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Sitting on leashed lions - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Riding on seven great lions - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

A lion prowling through the wild - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 17. E-Mush, the Temple of Dumuzi in Badtibira" transl. by Sophus Helle

An angry lion smashing skulls - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 20. E-Ninnu, the Temple of Ningirsu in Lagash" transl. by Sophus Helle

The lion first control - John Gay "The Council of Horses"

With the lions in his path - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Lion Path"

When the lordly lion fell in fight - David Gray "The Moon II"

Who hears the hungry lion's call - Frances E.W. Harper "The Sparrow's Fall"

Bulls undone and lions dead and vultures flapping overhead - Ralph Hodgson "The Bull"

An enormous golden lion calm and sleeping - Bill Holm "Wedding Poem For Schele and Phil"

Makes the power of the Lion's jaw - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Riders of the Plain"

The Lion and the Lizard keep the Courts - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

The lion of the spirit - D.H. Lawrence "St Mark"

Shaped as a roaring lion - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

A lion in infinity (in here) - Ada Limon "The New World of Beauty"

The lions and roses and lilies of love - Vachel Lindsay "For All Who Ever Sent Lace Valentines"

Lions of the duckweed, dragons of the Water - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "newt"

Before the ignorant lion of exile - Ricardo Alberto Maldonado "A Few Things Are Explained To Me"

The donkey stole the lion's skin and brayed - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

A lion in a bubble - Jonah Mixon-Webster "Territory"

Where the lion sun yawns - Tomas Q. Morin "A Pile of Fish"

Earthquake of salt and lions - Pablo Neruda "Chile's Seas" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Driven by spectral bears and lions - Walter S. Percy "When I Survey"

Saluted the lions three - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"

Ill eagles fair in the lion's lair - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"

Lie between two lions paws - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"

One mane of a thousand lions - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 3: Lullaby"

Had been safer with the lions - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VII: Thaddeus the Unborn 1: The Call"

From the lion's mouth of battle - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

Who shall grapple with lions - George Sterling "Beyond the Breakers"

The fierce storm-lion's distant growl - Alfred B. Street "The Devil's Pulpit: Tupper's Lake"

The lion who peers down the well - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 224: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

A tide of lions crashing on sandy shores - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

Trapped the sun's bright lion - Iris Tree "Nerves"

An eaglet by a lion nourished - Arthur Weir "The Oak"

Gold fountains of lions - Valerie Worth "Bull"


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