Famous Greek Mythology Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Greek Mythology poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous greek mythology poems. These examples illustrate what a famous greek mythology poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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Echoes From the Greek Mythology

by Henry Van Dyke
 I - STARLIGHT 

With two bright eyes, my star, my love, 
Thou lookest on the stars above: 
Ah, would that I the heaven might be
With a million eyes to look on thee. 

Plato. 


II - ROSELEAF 

A little while the rose, 
And after that the thorn; 
An hour of dewy morn, 
And then the glamour goes. 
Ah, love in...Read more of this...

On Sir Voluptuous Beast

by Ben Jonson
XXV. ? ON SIR VOLUPTUOUS BEAST.     While BEAST instructs his fair and innocent wife,  In the past pleasures of his sensual life, Telling the motions of each petticoat,  And how his Ganymede mov'd, and how his goat, And now her hourly her own cucquean makes,  In varied shapes, which for his lust she takes : What doth...Read more of this...

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