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Human Drey-Ellis Jones	Spread your fangs,...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Farewell To Tobacco Charles Lamb	Call her Cockatrice and Siren, Basilisk, and all that's evil, Witch, Hyena, Mermaid, Devil, Ethiop, Wench, and Blackamoor, Monkey,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Light Woman Robert Browning	He eyes me as the basilisk: I have turned, it appears, his day to night, Eclipsing his sun's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Woeful New Ballad Of The Protestant Conspiracy To Take The Pope’s Life William Makepeace Thackeray	glory, Saint Peter's famous Basilisk and Saint Mary's Maggiory; And them benighted Prodestants, on Sunday they must go Outside the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Chenille James Dickey	Softly I called, and they came: The ox and the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ego Wallace Dean LaBenne	Ego is a basilisk of mythical...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fantasy Roshni Das	Creeping basilisk can kill you by eyesight; Lernean hydra's weapon their poisoned blood; A goblin's strength...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Harry Potter! GIDRAF MWANGI	An emotion so intense More lethal than a Basilisk stare A flagon full of elixir of life That makes me...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
He that tastes woman John Gay	Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In the Wilderness Robert Graves	Basilisk, cockatrice, Flocked to his homilies, With mail of dread device, With monstrous barbéd...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Next Door Henry Lawson	The Basilisk Glare of Next...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ode to Naples Percy Bysshe Shelley	Be thou like the imperial Basilisk Killing thy foe with unapparent...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Beggar's Opera (excerpts) John Gay	- Who takes a woman must be undone, - That basilisk is sure to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Creole Girl; Or, The Physician’s Story Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	There is a basilisk power in human eyes When they would look a fellow-creature down, 'Neath which the faint...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
THE LAND OF DREAMS Phil Roberts	The Kraken, Basilisk, and Blemmyae Awful beasts from horrid dreams, Breaking through to the living world Making...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Messiah : A Sacred Eclogue Alexander Pope	The crested basilisk and speckled snake; Pleas'd, the green lustres of the scales survey, And with their forky...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Vampire Conrad Potter Aiken	What shape was this who came to us, With basilisk eyes so ominous, With mouth so sweet, so poisonous, And tortured hands so...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Wizard Way Aleister Crowley	He had crucified a toad In the basilisk abode, Muttering the Runes averse Mad with many a mocking...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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