Poems about Myth

• The House of Venus

  Not that Queen Venus of adulterous fame,
  Whose love was lust's insatiable flame--

  by Richard Le Gallienne 11 lines
• The Lady of the Lake: Canto IV. - The Prophecy

  The rose is fairest when 't is budding new,
    And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;

  by Sir Walter Scott 908 lines
• Daphne

  Musing on the fate of Daphne,
  Many feelings urged my breast,

  by George Meredith 444 lines
• Narva and Mored

  Recite the loves of Narva and Mored
  The priest of Chalma's triple idol said.

  by Thomas Chatterton 105 lines, 1 comment
• Ghosts

  I am almost afraid of the wind out there.
  The dead leaves skip on the porches bare,

  by Fannie Stearns Davis 26 lines
• Lines On The Greek Massacre

  White Angels, listening all around
  The terror, wrath, and strife of men,

  by Menella Bute Smedley 65 lines
• The Quest Of Merlin: A Prelude

  \Interior of a cavern in the bowels of the earth, beneath Mount Hecla. Huge rock-fragments, amid which twists tortuously a great root of the tree Yggdrasil. A f

  by Richard Hovey 1197 lines
• Miranda's Song

  Ye elves! when spangled starlight gleams,
  That flit beneath the ray,

  by Louisa Stuart Costello 16 lines
• Three Dark Maids

  Three dark maids,—I loved them when
  In Jaën,—

  by Anonymous European 20 lines, 2 comments
• The Vision Of Sir Launfal

                  Prelude to Part First
  Over his keys the musing organist,

  by James Russell Lowell 421 lines
• Hope

  SEE through yon cloud that rolls in wrath,
  One little star benignant peep,

  by Joseph Rodman Drake 24 lines
• Appletrees

  Sweet appletree, your branches delight me,
  Luxuriantly budding my pride and joy!

  by Anonymous Olde English 106 lines, 2 comments
• The Lady of the Lake: Canto II. - The Island

  At morn the black-cock trims his jetty wing,
      'T is morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay,

  by Sir Walter Scott 957 lines
• Eos

  She stood between two gold pillars;
  Behind her lay a misty field,

  by Maurice Thompson 20 lines, 1 comment
• Halloween

  Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite
  All are on their rounds to-night,-

  by Joel Benton 28 lines, 1 comment
• Dialogue of Myrddin and Taliesin

  \Myrddin:\
  How sad with me, how said,

  by Myrddin Wyllt 50 lines
• The Lady of the Lake: Canto V. - The Combat

  Fair as the earliest beam of eastern light,
  When first, by the bewildered pilgrim spied,

  by Sir Walter Scott 962 lines
• Feast Of Victory

  Priam's castle-walls had sunk,
  Troy in dust and ashes lay,

  by Friedrich von Schiller 156 lines
• Cassandra

  I
  Captive on a foreign shore,

  by George Meredith 114 lines
• The Faery Foster-Mother

  BRIGHT Eyes, Light Eyes! Daughter of a Fay!
  I had not been a wedded wife a twelvemonth and a day,

  by William Cosmo Monkhouse 53 lines, 1 comment
• The Ring Of Polycrates - A Ballad

  Upon his battlements he stood,
  And downward gazed in joyous mood,

  by Friedrich von Schiller 96 lines
• Coridon to his Phillis

  Goddesse of Nimphs, and honour of thy kinde,
  This Age's Phoenix, Beautie's richest bower.

  by Edward Dyer 31 lines
• Uriel

  It fell in the ancient periods
      Which the brooding soul surveys,

  by Ralph Waldo Emerson 57 lines
• Frodo's Lament for Gandalf

  When evening in the Shire was grey
  his footsteps on the Hill were heard;

  by J R R Tolkien 28 lines
• The Little People

  'Twas a long bush night; and the old hut light
  Shone out thro' the open door

  by C J Dennis 40 lines
• Peace Restored

  You virgins, that did late despair
  To keep your wealth from cruel men,

  by James Shirley 19 lines
• The Two Comets

  There once dwelt in Olympus some notable oddities,
  For their wild singularities call'd Gods and Goddesses.--

  by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard 50 lines, 3 comments
• Praise Of Colonus (From "Oedipus At Colonus")

  STRANGER, thou art standing now
  On Colonus' sparry brow;

  by Sophocles 78 lines
• Witches

  "Finns, they're witches," said Murphy, "'tis born in 'em maybe,
  The same as fits, an' freckles, an' follerin' the sea,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 10 lines
• Phantasmagoria Canto V ( Byckerment )

  "DON'T they consult the 'Victims,' though?"
  I said. "They should, by rights,

  by Lewis Carroll 148 lines

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