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Poems about Mythology

• Tres Morillas

  Tres morillas me enamoran
  en Jaén,

  by Anonymous European 19 lines, 1 comment
• Torso of an Archaic Apollo

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

  by Rainer Maria Rilke 36 lines
• The Faerie Queene: Book I, Canto I

  THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QUEENE
  Contayning

  by Edmund Spenser 598 lines
• The Norsemen

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

  by John Greenleaf Whittier 125 lines
• 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
• 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, 2 comments
• 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
• Orpheus

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

  by Osbert Sitwell 48 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 Night Bird: A Myth

  A floating, a floating
  Across the sleeping sea,

  by Charles Kingsley 21 lines, 2 comments
• Phantasmagoria CANTO III ( Scarmoges )

  Through driving mists I seemed to see
  A Thing that smirked and smiled:

  by Lewis Carroll 115 lines
• W is for Witch

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

  by Eleanor Farjeon 26 lines
• Ode to Apollo

  "Tandem venias precamur
  Nube candentes humeros amictus

  by James Lister Cuthbertson 76 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
• Eclogues

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

  by Thomas Chatterton 271 lines, 3 comments
• The Indian Cupid

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

  by Louisa Stuart Costello 28 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
• 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
• Legend of Rosemary

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

  by Reginald Arkell 21 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
• Lines On The Greek Massacre

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

  by Menella Bute Smedley 65 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
• 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
• 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
• Nacken - Water Demon

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

  by Erik Johan Stagnelius 24 lines, 4 comments
• Three Dark Maids

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

  by Anonymous European 20 lines, 2 comments
• Peace Restored

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

  by James Shirley 19 lines
• Appletrees

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

  by Anonymous Olde English 106 lines, 1 comment
• 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
• Miranda's Song

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

  by Louisa Stuart Costello 16 lines

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