Poems about Mythology

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Witches Chant (from Macbeth)

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

by William Shakespeare 34 lines, 21 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, 26 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, 11 comments
The Lady of the Lake: Canto I. - The Chase

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

by Sir Walter Scott 824 lines, 3 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 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
My Fairy

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

by Lewis Carroll 17 lines, 3 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
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
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 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 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
Beowulf

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

by Charles Baudelaire 3281 lines
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
Hymn To Aphrodite

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

by Sappho 33 lines, 1 comment
Fairy Tale

Once, in times forgotten,
In a fairy place,

by Boris Pasternak 102 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
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 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
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, 2 comments
Tristram And Iseult

I
TRISTRAM

by Matthew Arnold 797 lines
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
Black and Gold

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

by Nancy Byrd Turner 13 lines, 1 comment
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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