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Poems about Mythology

• The Fountain

  A Triton, drowsy as the god of Sleep,
  From horn uplifted pours a limpid stream

  by Clinton Scollard 14 lines, 1 comment
• The Fairies Farewell, or God a Mercy Will

  Farewell, rewards and fairies,
  Good housewives now may say,

  by Richard Corbet 69 lines
• Hallowe'en

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

  by John Kendrick Bangs 22 lines
• Halloween

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

  by Joel Benton 28 lines, 1 comment
• The Changeling ( From The Tent on the Beach )

  It's not the milk from my bosom,
  But my blood, that she sucks in.

  by John Greenleaf Whittier 110 lines
• Sibyl

  THIS is the glamour of the world antique:
  The thyme-scents of Hymettus fill the air,

  by John Howard Payne 15 lines, 4 comments
• The Death of Nicou

  On Tiber's banks, Tiber, whose waters glide
  In slow meanders down to Gaigra's side;

  by Thomas Chatterton 122 lines, 1 comment
• Archimedes

  To Archimedes once a scholar came,
  \

  by Friedrich von Schiller 14 lines
• The Last Love Of Gawaine

  You will betray me--oh, deny it not!
  What right have I, alas, to say you nay?

  by Richard Hovey 14 lines
• L'Amitie: To Mrs. M. Awbrey.

  United thus, what horrour can appeare
  Worthy our sorrow, anger, or our feare?

  by Katherine Philips 23 lines
• Phantasmagoria CANTO VI ( Dyscomfyture )

  That's got no more discretion than
  An idiotic goose?

  by Lewis Carroll 120 lines
• The Beggar to Mab, The Queen Fairy

  Please your Grace, from out your store
  Give an alms to one that's poor,

  by Robert Herrick 28 lines, 1 comment
• Beowulf (Episode 02)

  WENT he forth to find at fall of night
  that haughty house, and heed wherever

  by Anonymous Olde English 74 lines
• A Jest Of Robin Hood

  Lyth and lystyn, gentilmen,
  All that nowe be here;

  by Anonymous Americas 244 lines, 1 comment
• Phantasmagoria CANTO IV ( Hys Nouryture )

  "OH, when I was a little Ghost,
  A merry time had we!

  by Lewis Carroll 125 lines
• Extracts From Leon. An Unfinished Poem

  IT is a summer evening, calm and fair,
  A warm, yet freshening glow is in the air;

  by Joseph Rodman Drake 383 lines
• The Fair Felon

  In Love's name you are charged hereby
  To make a speedy hue and cry,

  by James Shirley 28 lines
• The Kings Prophecie

  What Stoick could his steely brest containe
  (If Zeno self, or who were made beside

  by Joseph Hall 384 lines
• The Thirteenth Satire Of Juvenal

  From Virtue's paths, when hapless men depart,
  The first avenger is the culprit's heart;

  by John Quincy Adams 346 lines
• Phantasmagoria CANTO VII ( Sad Souvenaunce )

  Then, as my tears could never bring
  The friendly Phantom back,

  by Lewis Carroll 51 lines
• Ghosts

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

  by Fannie Stearns Davis 26 lines
• The Ballad of Zacho (a Greek legend)

  Zacho the King rode out of old
  (And truth is what I tell)

  by James Elroy Flecker 40 lines
• Atta's Song

  I will sing of thee, Great Sea-Mother,
  Whose white arms gather

  by John Buchan 85 lines, 1 comment
• A Description of One of the Pieces of Tapistry at Long-Leat

  THUS Tapistry of old, the Walls adorn'd,
  Ere noblest Dames the artful Shuttle scorn'd:

  by Anne Kingsmill Finch 113 lines
• Drudgery

  The sun climbs
  from cool streams

  by Jonas Hallgrimsson 25 lines, 1 comment
• Heccar and Gaira

  Where the rough Caigra rolls the surgy wave,
  Urging his thunders thro' the echoing cave;

  by Thomas Chatterton 104 lines, 1 comment
• 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
• Kallundborg Church ( From The Tent on the Beach)

  "Build at Kallundborg by the sea
  A church as stately as church may be,

  by John Greenleaf Whittier 93 lines
• Beowulf (Episode 06)

  HROTHGAR answered, helmet of Scyldings: --
  "I knew him of yore in his youthful days;

  by Anonymous Olde English 86 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

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