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Poems about Mythology

• Beowulf (Episode 06)

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

  by Anonymous Olde English 86 lines
• Beowulf (Episode 01)

  Now Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings,
  leader beloved, and long he ruled

  by Anonymous Olde English 62 lines
• The Faire Amarillis

  That she forcèd not his harmes
  Her bewtye's power to prove.

  by Edward Dyer 173 lines, 1 comment
• The Legend of King Arthur

  Of Brutus' blood, in Brittaine borne,
    King Arthur I am to name;

  by Anonymous Olde English 124 lines
• The Plea Of The Midsummer Fairies

  'Twas in that mellow season of the year
  When the hot sun singes the yellow leaves

  by Thomas Hood 1634 lines
• The Eleusinian Festival

  Wreathe in a garland the corn's golden ear!

  by Friedrich von Schiller 216 lines
• Desire Of Vastness

  Supreme with night, what high mysteriarch—
  The undreamt-of god beyond the trinal noon

  by Clark Ashton Smith 14 lines
• Once Upon A Time.....

  ONCE upon a time rare flowers grew
  On every shrub and bush we used to see;

  by James W Foley 34 lines
• The Song of Tigilau

  The song of Tigilau the brave,
  Sina's wild lover,

  by Marcus Clarke 71 lines
• The Hell-Bound Train

  A Texas cowboy lay down on a barroom floor,
  Having drunk so much he could drink no more;

  by Anonymous Americas 60 lines
• The Fairy's Reproach

  By the glow-worm's lamp in the dewy brake;
  By the gossamer's airy net;

  by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 28 lines
• Atlantis may be Six Feet Under

  Sequins, their shadings, spark Atlantis lost
  where morning bloom falters. Out and away

  by Kendrick Smithyman 19 lines
• Beowulf (Episode 16)

  AND the lord of earls, to each that came
  with Beowulf over the briny ways,

  by Anonymous Olde English 75 lines
• 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
• Ymddiddan Myrtin a Talyessin

  Mor truan genhyf mor truan.
  Aderyv. am keduyv a chaduan.

  by Myrddin Wyllt 48 lines
• Eclogue the Second Hassan

  SCENE, the Desert TIME, Mid-day
  10 In silent horror o'er the desert-waste

  by William Taylor Collins 87 lines
• Beowulf (Episode 17)

  THEN hastened those heroes their home to see,
  friendless, to find the Frisian land,

  by Anonymous Olde English 68 lines
• Night--A Phantasy

  Night! the horrible wizard Night!
    The dumb and terrible Night

  by Kate Seymour Maclean 45 lines, 1 comment
• Sonnet XV. The Photograph.

  Phoebus Apollo, from Olympus driven,
  Lived at Admetus, tending herds and flocks:

  by Christopher Pearse Cranch 14 lines
• The Lady of the Lake: Canto VI. - The Guardroom

  The sun, awakening, through the smoky air
      Of the dark city casts a sullen glance,

  by Sir Walter Scott 944 lines
• A Lay of Fairy Land

  It is upon the Sabbath-day, at rising of the sun,
  That to Glenmore's black forest-side a Shepherdess hath gone,

  by John Wilson 159 lines
• Beowulf (Episode 04)

  To him the stateliest spake in answer;
  the warriors' leader his word-hoard unlocked: --

  by Anonymous Olde English 62 lines, 1 comment
• Boromir's call

      Seek for the Sword that was broken:
      In Imladris it dwells;

  by J R R Tolkien 7 lines
• Beowulf (Episode 07)

  HROTHGAR spake, the Scyldings'-helmet: --
  "For fight defensive, Friend my Beowulf,

  by Anonymous Olde English 43 lines
• O Camp Of Flowers

  O camp of flowers, with poplars girdled round,
  Gray guardians of life's soft and purple bud!

  by Erik Johan Stagnelius 14 lines
• Lycus the Centaur

  FROM AN UNROLLED MANUSCRIPT OF APOLLONIUS CURIUS
  

  by Thomas Hood 462 lines
• Gandalf The Grey Pilgrim

  Many are my names in many countries,
  Mithrandir among the Elves,

  by J R R Tolkien 7 lines
• The Fairies' Child

  She lived beside the edge of a sweep of heather
      In a lone cot by the rill,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 30 lines
• The Artists

  How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough,
  Upon the waning century standest thou,

  by Friedrich von Schiller 480 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

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