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Mythology & Folklore

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  • Poem
    By Carol Ann Duffy
    At childhood’s end, the houses petered out
    into playing fields, the factory, allotments
    kept, like mistresses…
  • Poem
    By Maggie Queeney
    laurel tree, limbs bent and twined into crown           heifer          bank of marsh reeds,
    handful lashed into pipes, …
  • Poem
    By Peter O’Leary
    Blood-gushered mountainside a brass parapegma of noon
    glares behind: gore of hides. Beasts all slain. Shadeless midday. Specterless
    differentiation. Glad day zodiacs augur. Awl of insight; hunters'
    blades. Actaeon: and the spirits of motion. Actaeon
    uttering:...
  • Poem
    By Douglas Kearney
    Was Him, once fini, on the beams,
    prior, He's hewer of thorntree.
    Could stretch tilapia and ewer,
    dole …
  • Poem
    By Felicia Dorothea Hemans
    See’st thou yon gray gleaming hall,
    Where the deep elm-shadows fall?
    Voices that have left the earth
      …
  • Poem
    By William Butler Yeats
    I have heard that hysterical women say
    They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow,
    Of poets that are always gay,
    For everybody knows or else should know
    That if nothing drastic is done
    Aeroplane and Zeppelin will come out,
    Pitch like King Billy bomb-balls in
    Until...
  • Poem
    By William Butler Yeats
    A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
    Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
    By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
    He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.

    How can those terrified vague fingers push
    The feathered glory from her...
  • Poem
    By William Butler Yeats
    Midnight has come and the great Christ Church bellAnd many a lesser bell sound through the room;And …
  • Poem

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    Wulf ond Eadwacer

    By Unknown
    Lēodum is mīnum swylce him mon lāc gife;
    willað hȳ hine āþecgan gif hē on þrēat cymeð.
    Ungelīc is ū…
  • Poem
    By William Hughes Mearns
    Yesterday, upon the stair,
    I met a man who wasn't there
    He wasn't there again today
    I wish, I wish he'd…
  • Poem
    By Xiao Yue Shan
    there is no room left for disbelief, we have unsang
    the songs. have stripped stones of magic. we gave…
  • Poem
    By Thomas Bracken
    God of Nations at Thy feet,
    In the bonds of love we meet,
    Hear our voices, we entreat,
    God defend our free…
  • Poem
    By Corey Van Landingham
    was, according to Virgil, always a fickle, unstable thing. Woman. Wyf. Merger of wife and man. To indicate: not-girl. Not-yet-claimed, not-yet weeping. And aren’t they often weeping? The mother, tearing her hair out, running toward the battle lines, filling heaven...
  • Poem
    By Bertrand N. O. Walker
    Lonely, open, vast and free,
    The dark'ning desert lies;
    The wind sweeps o'er it fiercely,
    And the yellow…
  • Audio
    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Dorothea Lasky on The Shining, writing what you fear, and the ferocity of color.
  • Poem
    By Samuel Gregoire
    Translated By Forrest Gander
    My delirium is a transformocean
    Rocking me like the seven thousand waves
    That brought Wangolo to Ziltik.

    Cric . . .
    Crack . . .
    Tim Tim
    Bwa sèch


    It’s a tale of salty foam,
    Of centuries-old laughter
    Breaking out anew in wet reflections,

    Of the coming and going of...
  • Poem
    By Adam O. Davis
    1.
    If a house is haunted like a radio
    is haunted         If a body is a radio
    of blood         If a body of ghosts
    hums like blood over a valley of
    bone         If blood is a...
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