Poems about Myth

• W is for Witch

  I met a wizened woman
  As I walked on the heath,

  by Eleanor Farjeon 26 lines
• Torso of an Archaic Apollo

  We cannot know his legendary head
  with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso

  by Rainer Maria Rilke 35 lines, 4 comments
• The Norsemen

  GIFT from the cold and silent Past!
  A relic to the present cast,

  by John Greenleaf Whittier 125 lines
• The Night Bird: A Myth

  A floating, a floating
  Across the sleeping sea,

  by Charles Kingsley 21 lines, 2 comments
• Lament for Boromir

  Through Rohan over fen and field where the long grass grows,
  The West Wind comes walking, and about the walls it goes.

  by J R R Tolkien 30 lines, 1 comment
• Tres Morillas

  Tres morillas me enamoran
  en Jaén,

  by Anonymous European 19 lines, 1 comment
• Orpheus

  WHEN Orpheus with his wind-swift fingers
  Ripples the strings that gleam like rain,

  by Osbert Sitwell 48 lines
• Thomas the Rhymer

  True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank;
  A ferlie he spied wi' his ee;

  by Sir Walter Scott 324 lines
• Tom Bombadil's song

  Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!
  Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow!

  by J R R Tolkien 93 lines
• The Faerie Queene: Book I, Canto I

  THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QUEENE
  Contayning

  by Edmund Spenser 598 lines
• The Birch Trees

  Blessed is the birch in the valley of Gwy
  Whose branches will fall off one by one, two by two

  by Anonymous Olde English 24 lines, 4 comments
• from........Witches' Song

  The owl is abroad,the bat and the toad,
  And so is the cat-a mountain,

  by Ben Jonson 8 lines, 1 comment
• The Lay of the Cid - Cantar 1

  THE BANISHMENT OF THE CID
  He turned and looked upon them, and he wept very sore

  by Anonymous European 1169 lines
• Legend of Rosemary

  There was once a lady, divinely tall,
  who lived high up in a castle wall,

  by Reginald Arkell 21 lines
• Glenfinlas; or, Lord Ronald's Coronach

  "O hone a rie'! O hone a rie!"
  The pride of Albin's line is o'er,

  by Sir Walter Scott 264 lines
• Galadriel's Song

  I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew:
  Of wind I sang, a wind there came and in the branches blew.

  by J R R Tolkien 13 lines
• Beowulf (The Prelude)

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

  by Anonymous Olde English 53 lines, 3 comments
• Nacken - Water Demon

  The evening is festooned with golden clouds
  the fairies dance in the meadow

  by Erik Johan Stagnelius 24 lines, 4 comments
• The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto IV

    To sinfull house of Pride, Duessa
      guides the faithfull knight,

  by Edmund Spenser 513 lines
• The Lay of the Children of Húrin: I. Túrin's Fostering

  Túrin Son of Húrin & Glórund the Dragon
  Lo! the golden dragon    of the God of Hell,

  by J R R Tolkien 586 lines
• The Indian Cupid

  Who is he that swiftly comes
  In the lovely silence of night?—

  by Louisa Stuart Costello 28 lines
• Prayer For Deliverance From The Pestilence (From "Oedipus The King")

  Lord of the Pythian treasure,
  What meaneth the word thou hast spoken?

  by Sophocles 83 lines
• Pompeii And Herculaneum

  What wonder this?--we ask the lympid well,
  O earth! of thee--and from thy solemn womb

  by Friedrich von Schiller 72 lines
• Eclogues

  *Eclogue the First.*
  Whanne Englonde, smeethynge from her lethal wounde,

  by Thomas Chatterton 271 lines, 3 comments
• Phantasmagoria Canto III ( Scarmoges )

  "AND did you really walk," said I,
  "On such a wretched night?

  by Lewis Carroll 136 lines
• Destroyer of Ships, Men, Cities

  Helen of Troy has sprung from Hell
  To claim her ancient throne,

  by James Elroy Flecker 28 lines, 1 comment
• Bilbo's Adventure Song

  Farewell we call to hearth and hall!
  Though wind may blow and rain may fall,

  by J R R Tolkien 16 lines
• Hallowe'en

  The ghosts of all things past parade,
  Emerging from the mist and shade

  by John Kendrick Bangs 22 lines
• Frying Pan's Theology

  Scene: On Monaro
  Dramatis Personae:

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 24 lines
• The Complaint Of Ceres

  Does pleasant spring return once more?

  by Friedrich von Schiller 132 lines, 2 comments

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