Mythology

Gods, heroes, monsters and metamorphoses: poems inspired by Greek, Roman and other mythologies. On Loëly.

Mark Akenside

Emily Jane Pfeiffer

Isabella Augusta Gregory

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

George Santayana

Quintus Horace

Odes - Livre I

Publius Virgile

Publius Virgile

Publius Virgile

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Mythology

For A Grotto

A Draught of Sunshine

A Prayer To Athena

A Sleepy Song That Grania Used To Be Singing Over Diarmuid The Time They Were Wandering And Hiding

A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth

Appolo's song

Arethusa

Aspecta Medusa (for a Drawing)

Astarte Syriaca

Before A Statue Of Achilles

Bion

Book 1, Ode VIII: Lydia, dic per omnes

Book I

Book I - Forbear! the progeny of Jove replies

Book I - O parent goddess

Book I - O tyrant, armed with insolence and pride

Book I - Tell me, oh Muse, of that ingenious hero

Book I - The trembling priest along the shore

Book I - The wrath of Peleus' son

Book I - Who rolls the thunder o'er the vaulted skies

Book II - As on some mountain, through the lofty grove

Book II - Fly hence, deluding Dream

Book II - Now when the child of morning and rosy-fingered Dawn appeared

Book II - Say, Virgins, seated round the throne divine

Book II - The phantom said; then vanished from his sight

Book II - With this Telemachus dashed his staff to the ground

Book III - Ajax the great, the beauteous queen replied

Book III - Approach, my child, and grace thy father's side

Book III - Atrides then his massy lance prepares

Book IV - All that you have been saying, my dear wife, is true

Book IV - Seized with affright the boldest foes appear

Book IV - Thus, while he spoke, already She began

Book IV - Your discretion, my friend, is beyond your years

Book IX - But the Cyclops, groaning and in an agony of pain

Book IX - I was driven thence by foul winds for a space of nine days

Book IX - When the child of morning rosy-fingered dawn appeared, he again lit his fire

Book IX - When we got to the land, which was not far

Book V - But Pallas now Tydides' soul inspires

Book V - On this he took his leave, and Calypso went out to look for Ulysses

Book V - Thereon he gathered his clouds together, grasped his trident

Book V - While he was thus in two minds a wave caught him

Book VI - Then thus reply'd the Prophetess Divine

Book VI - When they reached the water side they went to the washing cisterns

Book X - I divided them into two companies and set a captain over each

Book X - Thence we went on to the Æolian island

Book XI - And I saw Tityus son of Gaia stretched upon the plain

Book XI - On this the ghost of Teiresias went back to the house of Hades

Book XI - The ghost of Achilles came up to us

Book XI - The ghosts of other dead men stood near me

Book XI - Then came also the ghost of Theban Teiresias

Book XI - We got into the deep waters of the river Oceanus

Book XI - When Proserpine had dismissed the female ghosts

Book XII - For six days my men kept driving in the best cows

Book XII - Here she ended, and dawn enthroned in gold began to show in heaven

Book XII - Immediately after we had got past the island I saw a great wave

Book XII - We reached the noble island of the sun-god

Book XIII - When they got to the water side the crew took these things

Book XIV - Ulysses now left the haven, and took the rough track

Book XIX - Bring a seat with a fleece upon it, for the stranger

Book XIX - Listen, then, to a dream that I have had

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