There are 239 Poems about Mythology & Folklore

"Phoebus was gone, all gone, his journey over"
By Anonymous

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

Aeneid, II, 692 - end
By Virgil

A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp
By Thomas Moore

A Night-Piece on Death
By Thomas Parnell

A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts
By Wallace Stevens

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

All Hallows
By Louise Glück (Louise Gluck)

All Souls
By Michael Collier

Amor Mundi
By Christina Rossetti

An Angel
By Anne Stevenson

Ancapagari
By Carolyn Forché (Carolyn Forche)

Annabel Lee
By Edgar Allan Poe

Apollo Musagetes
By Matthew Arnold

Aspecta Medusa (for a Drawing)
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

At Dawn
By Alfred Noyes

At Melville’s Tomb
By Hart Crane

Atlas
By Kay Ryan

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

Cadmus and Harmonia
By Matthew Arnold

Cassandra
By H. D.

Charms for Love
By Anonymous

Christabel
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Cocktails with Orpheus
By Terrance Hayes

Cold Calls: War Music, Continued
By Christopher Logue

Consolation
By Matthew Arnold

CORIKOS
By Richard Aldington

courthouse steps
By D.A. Powell

Daddy
By Sylvia Plath

Daniel
By David Orr

Dead Man’s Dump
By Isaac Rosenberg

Dear Mr. Merrill,
By Moira Egan

Divine Rights
By Stephen Edgar

Divining Rod
By Cynthia Macdonald

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

Dragging the Lake
By Thomas James

Dream-Land
By Edgar Allan Poe

Drizzle
By William Matthews

Drunk Judgment
By Steven Heighton

Eden
By Ina Rousseau

Edge
By Sylvia Plath

Eight Variations
By Weldon Kees

Epithalamion
By David Jones

Eros
By Robert Bridges

Eurycleia
By Michael Longley

Eve's Design
By Moira Linehan

Fabrication of Ancestors
By Alan Dugan

Failing and Flying
By Jack Gilbert

Fairy-Land
By Edgar Allan Poe

Falling Asleep over the Aeneid
By Robert Lowell

Field of Skulls
By Mary Karr

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

Fragment 4: As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Full Moon
By Elinor Wylie

gigantic mountains
By Brandon Scott Gorrell

Goblin Market
By Christina Rossetti

Goofer-Dust
By Thomas Lux

Gretel in Darkness
By Louise Glück (Louise Gluck)

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 (Victor Hernandez Cruz)

Hero
By Paul Engle

Hero and Leander
By Christopher Marlowe

Hexameter
By Brian Culhane

Hyacinth
By Louise Glück (Louise Gluck)

Hyperion
By John Keats

I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee
By Howard Nemerov

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

If Spirits Walk
By Sophie Jewett

In
By Andrew Hudgins

In A/C with Ghosts
By Kenneth Slessor

In Memory of Bryan Lathrop
By Edgar Lee Masters

In The Summer After “Issue Year” Winter (1873)
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Iphigenia: Politics
By Thomas James Merton

Isolation: To Marguerite
By Matthew Arnold

Journey to the Place of Ghosts
By Jay Wright

Judith of Bethulia
By John Crowe Ransom

Kubla Khan
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

L'Allegro
By John Milton

La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
By John Keats

Lady Lazarus
By Sylvia Plath

Laodamia
By William Wordsworth

Leda
By H. D.

Lemnos
By Karl Kirchwey

Lines: The cold earth slept below
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lochinvar
By Sir Walter Scott

Louse Hunting
By Isaac Rosenberg

Love's Apparition and Evanishment: An Allegoric Romance
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love's Nocturn
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Low Barometer
By Robert Bridges

Lullaby
By Amanda Jernigan

Lycidas
By John Milton

Marriage and Midsummer’s Night
By Linda Gregg

Massachusetts
By Terry Wolverton

Maximus, to Gloucester: Letter 2
By Charles Olson

Maximus, to himself
By Charles Olson

Merlin
By Henry Carlile

Miniver Cheevy
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Modern Elfland
By G. K. Chesterton

Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh
By Thomas James

Myrrha to the Source
By Heather McHugh

Mythology
By Marilyn Hacker

Necropolitan
By Scott Cairns

New York American Spell, 2001
By Tom Sleigh

Night Images
By Robert Fitzgerald

Niobe
By Alfred Noyes

Nocturne
By Li-Young Lee

North
By Seamus Heaney

November Night
By Adelaide Crapsey

Nuit Blanche
By Amy Lowell

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

On Wanting to Tell [ ] about a Girl Eating Fish Eyes
By Mary Szybist

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 (Louise Gluck)

Palladium
By Matthew Arnold

Parable of the Desultory Slut
By Tony Barnstone

Parable of the Hostages
By Louise Glück (Louise Gluck)

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

Porphyria's Lover
By Robert Browning

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

Proud Maisie
By Sir Walter Scott

Questions About Angels
By Billy Collins

Quickthorn
By Siobhán Campbell (Siobhan Campbell)

Rattlesnakes Hammered on the Wall
By Ray Gonzalez

Red String
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Relating to Robinson
By Weldon Kees

Retroduction to American History
By Allen Tate

Robin Hood
By John Keats

Romanticism
By David Baker

Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight
By Yvor Winters

Sir Humphrey Gilbert
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sohrab and Rustum
By Matthew Arnold

Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard
By Leigh Hunt

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

sorrows
By Lucille Clifton

Spectral Lovers
By John Crowe Ransom

Spirits of the Dead
By Edgar Allan Poe

Syringa
By John Ashbery

Tam O 'Shanter
By Robert Burns

The Afterlife: Letter to Sam Hamill
By Hayden Carruth

The Apparition
By John Donne

The Birth of John Henry
By Melvin B. Tolson

The Bistro Styx
By Rita Dove

The Book of Thel
By William Blake

The Bride
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The Broken String
By Diakwain

The Children of Stare
By Walter De La Mare

The Companions in Hades
By George Seferis

The Conqueror Worm
By Edgar Allan Poe

The Crane Dance
By Yannis Ritsos

The Difficulty with a Tree
By Russell Edson

The Disappointment
By Aphra Behn

The Domestic Life of Ghosts
By Tom Clark

The Eager Interpreter
By Reginald Gibbons

The Empty Glass
By Louise Glück (Louise Gluck)

The Empty House
By Walter De La Mare

The Eve of St. Agnes
By John Keats

The Fall of Troy
By Rachel Hadas

The Ghost Trio
By Linda Bierds

The Haunted Palace
By Edgar Allan Poe

The Hero on His Way Home
By Lawrence Raab

The King of Asini
By George Seferis

The Lie
By Don Paterson

The Meadow
By Tom Sleigh

The Old Meeting House
By Alfred Noyes

The Pig
By Roald Dahl

The Piper
By Joseph Campbell

The Promise
By Sharon Olds

The Queen of Carthage
By Louise Glück (Louise Gluck)

The Rape of Europa
By Ovid

The Raven
By Edgar Allan Poe

The Reading Club
By Patricia Goedicke

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Second Slaughter
By Lucia Perillo

The Secular Masque
By John Dryden

The Shadow on the Stone
By Thomas Hardy

The Shooting of Dan McGrew
By Robert W. Service

The Sight
By David Orr

The Singers
By Todd Hearon

The Skeleton in Armor
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Sleeper
By Edgar Allan Poe

The Solipsist
By Troy Jollimore

The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly
By Vachel Lindsay

The Story of Phœbus and Daphne, Applied
By Edmund Waller

The Swamp Angel
By Herman Melville

The Tale of Sunlight
By Gary Soto

from The Theatre of Illusion
By Pierre Corneille

The Thorn
By William Wordsworth

The Valley of Unrest
By Edgar Allan Poe

The White Pilgrim: Old Christian Cemetery
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

The Wife
By Marjorie Pickthall

There She Is
By Linda Gregg

To -- -- --. Ulalume: A Ballad
By Edgar Allan Poe

To Have a Friend
By Tomaz Salamun

To Homer
By John Keats

To John Clare
By John Clare

To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window
By Adelaide Crapsey

To the Muses
By William Blake

Ulysses
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Untitled Poem [“Why feel guilty because the death of a lover causes lust?”]
By Alan Dugan

Venus and Adonis
By William Shakespeare

Voices from the Other World
By James Merrill

What the End Is For
By Jorie Graham

When I Was Fair and Young
By Elizabeth I

Winter Dusk
By Walter De La Mare

Zeus to Juno
By Fiona Sampson