Fate
76 poems
The fate you cannot escape: poems about destiny, from ancient tragedy to doomed loves. Read them on Loëly.
“No one cares less than I” [Bugle Call]
Edward Thomas
A Hymn
Harriet Monroe
A Sea-Spell
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Arabesque
Emma Lazarus
Ask Me No More
Alfred Lord Tennyson
At Lulworth Cove a Century Back
Thomas Hardy
Before Marching and After
Thomas Hardy
Book I
Publius Virgile
L’ÉNÉIDE
Book I - O parent goddess
Homère
L'iliade
Book I - Tell me, oh Muse, of that ingenious hero
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book I - The wrath of Peleus' son
Homère
L'iliade
Book II - Fly hence, deluding Dream
Homère
L'iliade
Book II - The phantom said; then vanished from his sight
Homère
L'iliade
Book III - Approach, my child, and grace thy father's side
Homère
L'iliade
Book III - Atrides then his massy lance prepares
Homère
L'iliade
Book IV - Such were his Looks, so gracefully he spoke
Publius Virgile
L’ÉNÉIDE
Book IV - Thus, while he spoke, already She began
Publius Virgile
L’ÉNÉIDE
Book IX - When we got to the land, which was not far
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book V - Thereon he gathered his clouds together, grasped his trident
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book VI - Then thus reply'd the Prophetess Divine
Publius Virgile
L’ÉNÉIDE
Book X - Thence we went on to the Æolian island
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book XI - Then came also the ghost of Theban Teiresias
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book XII - We reached the noble island of the sun-god
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book XIX - Listen, then, to a dream that I have had
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book XVI - Lie there, Patroclus
Homère
L'iliade
Book XVIII - A flood of tears, at this, the goddess shed
Homère
L'iliade
Book XX - When Hector viewed the unhappy Polydore
Homère
L'iliade
Book XXIV - The sacred sire of gods and mortal man
Homère
L'iliade
Canto III - Once more upon the waters!
George Gordon Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Chance
Helen Hunt Jackson
Days
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Destiny
Emma Lazarus
Experience
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Failure
Rupert Brooke
Fate
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Follow Thy Fair Sun
Thomas Campion
For ever, Fortune
James Thomson
Golden Silences
Christina Rossetti
Hap
Thomas Hardy
It Might have been
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Let me arise
Mary Montgomerie, Lady Currie
Lines
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
On a beautiful youth stuck blind by lightning
Oliver Goldsmith
On a Pair of Dice
Jonathan Swift
On my First Son
Ben Jonson
Robert Fulton Tanner
Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology
Romeo and Juliet - Prologue
William Shakespeare
Saturday's Child
Countee Cullen
Song - O me the time is come to part
Mary Wroth
Song 5 - Time only cause of my unrest
Mary Wroth
Sonnet 38 - What pleasure can a banished creature
Mary Wroth
Sonnet 7 : On His Being Arriv'd To The Age Of 23
John Milton
Sonnet 90
William Shakespeare
Sonnets
Sonnet to evening
Mary Robinson
Sonnet to Evening
Mary Robinson
Sonnet to Ingratitude
Mary Robinson
Sonnet XVII
Anna Seward
Sonnet XXV
George Santayana
The Berg (A Dream)
Herman Melville
The Bracelet of Grass
William Vaughn Moody