Tragic
27 poems
Relentless fate, broken heroes: tragic poems, heirs to ancient theatre. Read them on Loëly.
Anna and Harland
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Book I - O parent goddess
Homère
L'iliade
Book I - The wrath of Peleus' son
Homère
L'iliade
Book IV - Dear Pledges of my Love
Publius Virgile
L’ÉNÉIDE
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 XVIII - Stood Nestor's son, the messenger of woe
Homère
L'iliade
Book XX - When Hector viewed the unhappy Polydore
Homère
L'iliade
Book XXIV - Think of thy father's age, and pity mine
Homère
L'iliade
Brothers
James Weldon Johnson
De Morte
Francis Bacon
Destiny
Emma Lazarus
Epitaph
Katherine Philips
On a Picture of Leander
John Keats
On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines
William Vaughn Moody
Romeo and Juliet - Prologue
William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXXXIII
Anna Seward
Sonnet LXXXIX
Anna Seward
Sonnet XLVI
Anna Seward
Sonnet XXXI
Anna Seward
The Ballad of Moll Magee
William B. Yeats
The Fir-Tree and the Brook
Helen Hunt Jackson
The Foretelling Of Cathbad The Druid At Deirdre's Birth
Isabella Augusta Gregory
The Slave Mother
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
The Wedding
Sidney Lanier
These Two
Harriet Monroe
To Chatterton
John Keats