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Poems about Mythology

• Beowulf (Episode 15)

  THERE was hurry and hest in Heorot now
  for hands to bedeck it, and dense was the throng

  by Anonymous Olde English 60 lines
• Ultima Thule

  The tides roll white and pale
      On a shingly, stormy strand,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 31 lines
• The message Gandalf brought from Galadriel to Aragorn

      Where now are the Dúnedain, Elessar, Elessar?
      Why do thy kinsfolk wander afar?

  by J R R Tolkien 5 lines
• Caupolicán

  Ya todos los caciques probaron el madero.
  «¿Quién falta», y la respuesta fue un arrogante: «¡Yo!»

  by Jose Santos Chocano 17 lines
• The Ancient Singer

  I brood not now upon the printed page,
      A nobler voice is in mine ears to-night,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 19 lines
• Eärendil the Mariner

  at last he came to Night of Naught,
  and passed, and never sight he saw

  by J R R Tolkien 6 lines
• The Key (A Moorish Romance)

  "On the east coast, towards Tunis, the Moors still preserve the key of their ancestors' houses in Spain; to which country they still exp

  by Thomas Hood 174 lines
• There is an Inn, a Merry old Inn

  There is an inn, a merry old inn
  beneath an old grey hill,

  by J R R Tolkien 76 lines
• Gondor, Gondor!

  Gondor! Gondor, between the Mountains and the Sea!
  West Wind blew there; the light upon the Silver Tree

  by J R R Tolkien 7 lines
• The Witch-Wife

  The Witch-wife dwells by the Northern Sea
      And it's oh but the wind pipes shrill!

  by Cicely Fox Smith 41 lines
• Song of the maiden Nimrodel

      An Elven-maid there was of old,
      A shining star by day:

  by J R R Tolkien 63 lines
• The message Gandalf brought from Galadriel to Legolas

      Legolas Greenleaf long under tree
      In joy thou hast lived. Beware of the Sea!

  by J R R Tolkien 3 lines
• The Lord of the Rings

      Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
      Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,

  by J R R Tolkien 7 lines
• Song of Beren and Lúthien

  The leaves were long, the grass was green,
  The hemlock-umbels tall and fair,

  by J R R Tolkien 79 lines
• Hic Jacet Arthurus Rex Quondam Rexque Futurus

  Arthur is gone . . . Tristram in Careol
  Sleeps, with a broken sword - and Yseult sleeps

  by Francis Brett Young 58 lines
• The Dream Fairy

  A little fairy comes at night,
  Her eyes are blue, her hair is brown’

  by Thomas Hood 24 lines
• Túrin's Fostering

  Then the fame of the fights    on the far marches
  was carried to the courts    of the king of Doriath,

  by J R R Tolkien 5 lines
• Twelve O'Clock - Fairy time

  Through the house give glimmering light
  By the dead and drowsy fire;

  by William Shakespeare 6 lines
• I am Taliesin. I sing perfect metre

  I am Taliesin. I sing perfect metre,
  Which will last to the end of the world.

  by Anonymous British 28 lines
• The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard

  As it fell out on a highe holye daye,
      As many bee in the yeare,

  by Anonymous British 145 lines
• Grendel

  Then a powerful demon, a prowler through the dark,
  nursed a hard grievance. It harrowed him

  by Anonymous Olde English 38 lines
• The Vision of a Giant who Migrated from Baja to Tiburon Island

  Slender whirlwinds coming from the sky
  touch the land.

  by Anonymous Americas 13 lines
• Aladdin

  Aladdin poor the wizard found,
  Who moved from cavern’s mouth a stone;

  by Anonymous Americas 74 lines
• A Goblin Christmas

  The little Man, and tiny Maid,
  Who love the Fairies in the glade,

  by Anonymous Americas 117 lines
• The Faerie Qveene

  Me thought I saw the grave where she lay
  Within that Temple, where the vestal flame

  by Edmund Spenser 26 lines
• The Haunted Ship

  Houses have ghosts, they say; well like enough they may have —
      Folks that have lived within their walls in the b

  by Cicely Fox Smith 34 lines
• The Faerie Lover

  It is by yonder thorn that I saw the faerie host
  {O'low night wind, O'wind of the west}

  by Moireen A Fox 39 lines
• Charm Against Rainbows (For A. Stanley Umpleby)

  NOO, mak' a lile cross
  Wi' sticks 'at 'll bend,

  by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe 18 lines

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