Poems about Myth

• Witches Chant (from Macbeth)

  Round about the couldron go:
  In the poisones entrails throw.

  by William Shakespeare 34 lines, 29 comments
• My Fairy

  When once I wished to drink some gin
  It said "You must not quaff".

  by Lewis Carroll 17 lines, 6 comments
• Song of Aragorn

  All that is gold does not glitter,
  Not all those who wander are lost;

  by J R R Tolkien 7 lines, 29 comments
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

  When the siege and the assault had ceased at
  Troy, and the fortress fell in flame to firebrands

  by J R R Tolkien 2715 lines
• I Sit and Think

  I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen,
  of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been;

  by J R R Tolkien 12 lines, 13 comments
• The Lady of the Lake: Canto I. - The Chase

  Introduction.
  Harp of the North! that mouldering long hast hung

  by Sir Walter Scott 0 lines, 4 comments
• St. George And The Dragon

  Of Hector's deeds did Homer sing,
  And of the sack of stately Troy,

  by Anonymous Olde English 305 lines, 1 comment
• Luthien Tinuviel

  "The leaves were long, the grass was green,
  The hemlock-umbels tall and fair,

  by J R R Tolkien 72 lines, 4 comments
• The Gods Of Greece

  Ye in the age gone by,
  Who ruled the world--a world how lovely then!--

  by Friedrich von Schiller 128 lines, 1 comment
• The Dunciad: Book IV

  Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light
  Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!

  by Alexander Pope 656 lines, 3 comments
• Two Aboriginal Songs

  I
  Korindabria, korindabria, bogarona, bogarona. Iwariniang

  by Anonymous Oceania 14 lines
• The Loves of the Angels

  'Twas when the world was in its prime,
  When the fresh stars had just begun

  by Thomas Moore 1895 lines
• Black And Gold

  Everything is black and gold,
  Black and gold, to-night:

  by Nancy Byrd Turner 13 lines, 2 comments
• Hymn To Aphrodite

  Throned in splendor, immortal Aphrodite!
  Child of Zeus, Enchantress, I implore thee

  by Sappho 33 lines, 1 comment
• Three Rings for the Elven Kings

  Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
  Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,

  by J R R Tolkien 8 lines, 5 comments
• The Mermaid

  The moon is in the sky, and the stars are shining too,
  The summer-night is calm, and the sea is very blue;

  by Menella Bute Smedley 39 lines, 7 comments
• The Fight With The Dragon

  Why run the crowd? What means the throng
  That rushes fast the streets along?

  by Friedrich von Schiller 300 lines, 1 comment
• The World was Young, the Mountains Green

  The world was young, the mountains green,
  No stain yet on the Moon was seen,

  by J R R Tolkien 46 lines, 4 comments
• The Banshee

  As we came down the old boreen,
  Rose and I – Rose and I,

  by Alice Guerin Crist 32 lines, 7 comments
• Another Acrostic ( In the style of Father William )

  "Are you deaf, Father William!" the young man said,
  "Did you hear what I told you just now?

  by Lewis Carroll 13 lines, 3 comments
• Fairy Tale

  Once, in times forgotten,
  In a fairy place,

  by Boris Pasternak 102 lines, 5 comments
• The Lady of the Lake: Canto III. - The Gathering

  Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore,
      Who danced our infancy upon their knee,

  by Sir Walter Scott 848 lines
• The Little Elf

  I met a little Elf-man, once, 
    Down where the lilies blow. 

  by John Kendrick Bangs 9 lines, 2 comments
• He chanted a song of wizardry

  He chanted a song of wizardry,
  Of piercing, opening, of treachery,

  by J R R Tolkien 32 lines, 3 comments
• Beowulf

  LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings
  of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,

  by Charles Baudelaire 3281 lines, 1 comment
• Ragnarok

  Our Trojan world is polarised to mourn;
  To dream and find a black spot on the sun,

  by Kenneth Allott 24 lines, 2 comments
• Tristram And Iseult

  I
  TRISTRAM

  by Matthew Arnold 797 lines
• Phantasmagoria Canto I (The Trystyng )

  And Something white and wavy
  Was standing near me in the gloom

  by Lewis Carroll 120 lines, 1 comment
• Lancelot And Gawaine

  Two women loved a poet.
  One was dark,

  by Richard Hovey 15 lines
• The Inca

  'Tis eve, the sun is sinking in the lake—
  The lake, all glorious with his golden beams,

  by Louisa Stuart Costello 23 lines

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