Poems by Nicholas Michell (1807 - 1880)
- Aaron's Tomb
- Acropolis
- Agrigentum
- Alexandria
- Alyscamps
- Amman
- Ancient Corinth
- Ancient Thebes
- Appian Way
- Areopagus
- Arles
- Athens
- Avignon
- Baalbek
- Babylon
- Baghdad
- Bekaa Valley
- Bodrum
- Caeserea
- Cape Sunion
- Capernaum
- Capitoline Hill
- Carthage
- Chios
- Cholula
- Cleopatra's Needle
- Colossi of Memnon
- Copán
- Corinth
- Cos
- Ctesiphon
- Delos
- Elephanta
- Ellora Caves
- Endor
- Ephesus
- Gethsemane
- Hebron
- Hill of the Pnyx
- India
- Ipsamboul
- Jerash
- Jericho
- Jerusalem
- Joseph's Tomb
- Kabul
- Kanheri Caves
- Lesbos
- Leuctra
- Magdala
- Marathon
- Mausoleum of Philopappos
- Meroë
- Mexico
- Mont Blanc
- Mount Ebal
- Mount Lebanon
- Mount Parnassus
- Mount Tabor
- Mount Taugetus
- Mycenae
- Nabi Yunus Shrine
- Naxos
- Nile Delta
- Nimes
- Nimrud
- Nineveh
- Oracle of Trophonius
- Paestum
- Palenque
- Palestine
- Palmyra
- Paros
- Patmos
- Persepolis
- Persia
- Petra
- Philae
- Pilate's Tomb
- Plataea
- Pompeii
- Pompeii in the Moonlight
- Pompey's Pillar
- Pyramids of Giza
- Qom
- Rachel's Tomb
- River Cephisus
- River Jordan
- River Rhone
- Rome
- Samos
- Sea of Galillee
- Sebastia
- Shiraz
- Sparta
- Spring of Castalia
- Steet of Tombs
- Sunium
- Susa
- Tajin
- Temple at Dendera
- Temple of Aigina
- Temple of Esna
- Temple of Karnak
- Temple of Zeus
- Teotihuacan
- The Arch at Orange
- The Catacombs
- The House of Sallust
- The Roman Forum
- The Sphinx
- The Tomb of Laura
- Thebes
- Thermopylae
- Tiryns
- Tomb of Seti I
- Tower of the Winds
- Troy
- Tyre
- Uxmal
- Vale of Asclepius
- Vale of Kidron
- Valley of the Kings
- Vaucluse
- Verona
- Verona Arena
- Vienne
Nicholas Michell was born in Truro in Cornwall. He lived in Cornwall and London all his life. His imagination took him round the world however, and his long poem "Ruins of Many Lands" was a great success. He was a pioneer of poetic geography and thanks to him many of the world's most remarkable historic sites have been mapped in poetry for the Poetry Atlas.
From Roman Ruins like these, to Mayan ruins in the Yucatan, to the ruins of Greece, Iran, Egypt, Babylonia and India, there was nothing that Nicholas Michell liked better than a good ruin; unless it was writing poems about ruins.