There are 145 Poems about Heroes & Heroines

A Sum of Destructions
By Theodore Weiss

Acon and Rhodope; or, Inconstancy
By Walter Savage Landor

Actaeon
By A.E. Stallings

Actaeon
By Frederick Morgan

America: A Prophecy
By William Blake

Ancapagari
By Carolyn Forché

Apollo Musagetes
By Matthew Arnold

Arion
By David Wojahn

Aspecta Medusa (for a Drawing)
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

At Dawn
By Alfred Noyes

Atalanta in Calydon
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Atalanta in Calydon: A Tragedy (complete text)
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Atlas
By Kay Ryan

“I have been a stranger in a strange land”
By Rita Dove

Bacchanalia
By Matthew Arnold

Baseball and Classicism
By Tom Clark

Before a Statue of Achilles
By George Santayana

Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Beowulf (modern English translation)
By Anonymous

Beowulf (Old English version)
By Anonymous

Burning River
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Cadmus and Harmonia
By Matthew Arnold

Cassandra
By H. D.

Cold Calls: War Music, Continued
By Christopher Logue

Comus
By John Milton

Consolation
By Matthew Arnold

CORIKOS
By Richard Aldington

courthouse steps
By D.A. Powell

Dear Mr. Merrill,
By Moira Egan

Dion
By William Wordsworth

Do you Remember me? or are you Proud?
By Walter Savage Landor

Eden
By Ina Rousseau

Epithalamion
By David Jones

Eros
By Robert Bridges

Europe: A Prophecy
By William Blake

Eurycleia
By Michael Longley

Eve's Design
By Moira Linehan

Failing and Flying
By Jack Gilbert

Falling Asleep over the Aeneid
By Robert Lowell

Five Poems From "Helen: A Revision"
By Jack Spicer

Flaxman
By Margaret Fuller

Flow
By Jonathan Galassi

For The Marriage of Faustus and Helen
By Hart Crane

Helen
By H. D.

Helen
By George Seferis

Helen Grown Old
By Janet Loxley Lewis

Helen, the Sad Queen
By Janet Loxley Lewis

Hephaestus Alone
By Linda Gregg

Here Is an Ear Hear
By Victor Hernández Cruz

Hero
By Paul Engle

Hero and Leander
By Christopher Marlowe

Hexameter
By Brian Culhane

History Lessons
By Sidney Wade

Hyacinth
By Louise Glück

Hyperion
By John Keats

I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
By Charles Olson

Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Iphigenia: Politics
By Thomas James Merton

Isolation: To Marguerite
By Matthew Arnold

Judith of Bethulia
By John Crowe Ransom

Kubla Khan
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

L'Allegro
By John Milton

Lady Lazarus
By Sylvia Plath

Laodamia
By William Wordsworth

Leda
By H. D.

Lochinvar
By Sir Walter Scott

Lullaby
By Amanda Jernigan

Lycidas
By John Milton

Maximus, to Gloucester: Letter 2
By Charles Olson

Maximus, to himself
By Charles Olson

Merce of Egypt
By Charles Olson

Merlin
By Henry Carlile

Miniver Cheevy
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Mythology
By Marilyn Hacker

New York American Spell, 2001
By Tom Sleigh

Niobe
By Alfred Noyes

North
By Seamus Heaney

Octaves
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Ode to Psyche
By John Keats

Odysseus Hears of the Death of Kalypso
By Donald Revell

OEnone
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

One Night Stand
By Jack Spicer

Orpheus
By A. F. Moritz

Orpheus Alone
By Mark Strand

Orpheus and Eurydice
By Jorie Graham

Orpheus in Hell
By Jack Spicer

Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees
By William Shakespeare

Palais des Artes
By Louise Glück

Palladium
By Matthew Arnold

Parable of the Hostages
By Louise Glück

Paris and Helen
By Judy Grahn

Passages from Virgil’s First Georgic
By Robert Fitzgerald

Perseus in Arkansas
By Diane Glancy

Philomela
By Matthew Arnold

Pig Song
By Margaret Atwood

Postlude
By William Carlos Williams

Prais’d be Diana’s Fair and Harmless Light
By Sir Walter Ralegh

Prologue
By Anne Bradstreet

Prometheus
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Prothalamion
By David Jones

Retroduction to American History
By Allen Tate

Robin Hood
By John Keats

Saul
By Robert Browning

Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight
By Yvor Winters

Sir Humphrey Gilbert
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sohrab and Rustum
By Matthew Arnold

Song: How sweet I roam'd from field to field
By William Blake

Sonnet LIII: "What is your substance, whereof are you made"
By William Shakespeare

Syringa
By John Ashbery

The Birth of John Henry
By Melvin B. Tolson

The Bistro Styx
By Rita Dove

The Boathouse
By David St. John

The Book of Thel
By William Blake

The Book of Urizen
By William Blake

The Burial of the Dead
By Sidney Wade

The Companions in Hades
By George Seferis

The Disappointment
By Aphra Behn

The Eager Interpreter
By Reginald Gibbons

The Empty Glass
By Louise Glück

The Fall of Troy
By Rachel Hadas

The Four Zoas
By William Blake

The Hero on His Way Home
By Lawrence Raab

The House of Life: The Sonnet
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The King of Asini
By George Seferis

The Piper
By Joseph Campbell

The Queen of Carthage
By Louise Glück

The Reading Club
By Patricia Goedicke

The Second Slaughter
By Lucia Perillo

The Secular Masque
By John Dryden

The Seventeenth Book Of Homer's Odysseys
By George Chapman

The Shadow Of Night
By George Chapman

The Shooting of Dan McGrew
By Robert W. Service

The Sixth Book Of Homer's Iliads
By George Chapman

The Story of Phœbus and Daphne, Applied
By Edmund Waller

The Strayed Reveller
By Matthew Arnold

To Homer
By John Keats

To John Clare
By John Clare

To the Muses
By William Blake

Trip to Delphi
By Alice Friman

Ulysses
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Venus and Adonis
By William Shakespeare

What the End Is For
By Jorie Graham

When I Was Fair and Young
By Elizabeth I

Zeus to Juno
By Fiona Sampson