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Pussy Willow GCThomas	Like Jonah to Nineveh the bird comes to preach deliverance to those who will hear it, I stop for a moment on...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
And Thus In Nineveh Ezra Pound	For the custom is full old, And here in Nineveh have I beheld Many a singer pass and take his place In those dim halls where no man troubleth...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
We Are the Music-Makers Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy	In the buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our mirth; And o'erthrew them with prophesying To...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Pumpkin John Greenleaf Whittier	Like that which o'er Nineveh's prophet once grew, While he waited to know that his warning was true, And longed for...	Rate it (4.00 / 1 vote)
A Sorrowful Lament For Ireland Augusta, Lady Gregory	Nineveh was given pardon for all its sins, And even Peter for denying...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
After Court Martial Francis Ledwidge	God cursed the town of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
AGAINST THE TIDE Norbert Tasev	wants, and whether the city that smells of Nineveh will suck him in with its evil-lying abomination, like a vile...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Always The Mob Carl Sandburg	that won the sun as the Hanging Gardens of Nineveh, flew to its shape at the hands of a mob that followed the fingers of Nebuchadnezzar: a mob of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Apocalypse Doctrine Norbert Tasev	It would be better not to go to Nineveh, so as not to have to slavishly and ostentatiously utter prophetic words that the more feeble...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
AS A CLUTCHING STRANGER Norbert Tasev	canst not escape, Hiding in the filthy, milky Nineveh-mist of blameless Pest, a late friend - if he has but little time - may yet lead thee firmly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Black Adam Az Terry Young Mckiever	Nineveh of ten planets anxiety Adam Az Antarctica all the while Which Eve many wives intimate links...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
BUTCHERED PREY-AGE Norbert Tasev	in the space and in a whole series of deserted Nineveh...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Don Juan: Canto the Eleventh George Gordon Lord Byron	Or sat amidst the bricks of Nineveh, May not think much of London's first appearance-- But ask him what he thinks of it a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Easy Yoke daniel faerber	Jonah the prophet for his indifference to Nineveh’s fate: "You have had pity on the plant for which you have not laboured, nor made it...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
ENOUGH OF TOMORROW Norbert Tasev	And somewhere in a gangrened, Martian Nineveh, in the symbolic no-man's-land, where diving Saturn walks on chained chains of chains of chains...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
FALLS, SIGNS Norbert Tasev	Suburb, a tram is screaming at the uninhabited Nineveh Square; a couple of crouching dogs appear gnawing at concoctions, and while their saw-teeth...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
FATE SPECTATOR Norbert Tasev	the millions of filthy filth of the city of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fragments William Butler Yeats	Out of dark night where lay The crowns of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
GLOSSY IN SEMI DARKNESS Norbert Tasev	You would most like to leave the city of Nineveh a long time ago; just admit it...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
God's Anger Was Turned Away (Bussokusekika) Edwin Tanguma	None is repentant Even mighty Nineveh Was repentant of their sins God's anger was turned away Edwin Tanguma ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
HUMAN DARS Norbert Tasev	Nineveh, the landless, dirty city, was once again in a whirlwind of people, celebrating with gusto, as...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In Nineveh. Robert Crawford	And He will cry in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
IT'S LIKE A CIRCUS Norbert Tasev	already rusting as a cog, just like nothing in Nineveh, because we are already full of Jonah, false...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jonah BrotherJacob	Nineveh was the place that God wanted me to go, but...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jonah Robert Graves	Proudly sweeps his tail Towards Nineveh; Glassy green Surges between A mile of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)