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Leto Poems - Poems about Leto


Sappho Translations XIV
...Sappho Translations XIII by Michael R. Burch In these translations the fragment numbers are mostly Lobel-Page. All translations are by Michael R. Burch and should be so credited if they are used i......

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Categories: leto, dream, father, girl, god,
Form: Free verse
Sappho Translations IX
...Sappho Translations IX Sappho, fragment 17 translation by Michael R. Burch Hear me, Queen Hera, as your delightful festival nears, you to whom the sons of Atreus performed vows, those dazz......

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Categories: leto, god, heart, men, prayer,
Form: Free verse



Zeus the Philanderer
...A poem based on the Greek pantheon: Zeus The Philanderer Zeus the philanderer, lust divine, Maidens fair he did entwine, By guileful means he won their trust, Bastard offspring born fro......

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Categories: leto, literature, love, lust, mythology,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Building Wisdom's Temple
...Oh, Apollo,* son of Zeus, How could, a simple man as I, your divine command- to know myself- Will ever be able to realize When Fruitless, so far, any efforts of mine have turned out to be, Even ......

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Categories: leto, god, men, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Know Yourself
...For years before the narrow windows of my senses I stood, Trying to pierce the nebulous world of outer reality, ......

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Categories: leto, god, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Quest For Self-Knowledge
...Oh, Apollo,* son of Zeus, How could, a simple man as I, your divine command- to know myself- Will ever be able to realize When Fruitless, so far, any efforts of mine have turned out to be, Even ......

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Categories: leto, god, philosophy, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Goddess of Blessed Redemption
...The Goddess Of Blessed Redemption She gave me a foundation of love's pleasures complete with wondrous bountiful measures she a gentle goddess of golden hues, swept this heart away, vanquished a......

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Categories: leto, art, beautiful, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Tearing Rock--Niobe's Grief
...Seven is the great number two times seven is even greater, Niobe lost all fourteen. Niobe once was a proud woman not because she was an Olympian nor for her beauty excelling to Leto. Althou......

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Categories: leto, daughter, grief, mother, myth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Self-Knowledge
...Oh, Apollo,* son of Zeus, How could, a simple man as I, your divine command- to know myself- Will ever be able to realize When Fruitless, so far, any efforts of mine have turned out to be, Even ......

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Categories: leto, self, truth, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Karen O'Leary—my Poetry Soup Pal!
...She should have been Hera, goddess queen of heaven, the sister-wife of Zeus, king of the gods; she would have caught him one Friday night tipping Out while she sleeps to visit one of his plumy wi......

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Categories: leto, friendship, imagination, inspirational, life,
Form: Classicism

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