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...

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...

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...

Categories: leto, literature, love, lust, mythology,
Form: Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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 ...

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

Know Yourself

...For years before the narrow windows of my senses
                                                               I stood,
Trying to pierce the nebulous world of outer reality,
                     ...

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

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 ...

Categories: leto, god, philosophy, self,
Form: Free verse

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...

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...

Categories: leto, daughter, grief, mother, myth,
Form: Narrative

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 ...

Categories: leto, self, truth, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

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...

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