Lisa Auenger's Poetry List
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 95 13:10:17 CDT
From: Lisa Auanger
Subject: Poetry list (very long)
To: Classics@u.washington.edu
Selected List of Poetry with a Strongly Classical Basis, Mainly Thematic,
or which may be of Other Interest to Classicophiles
Compiled by: Lisa Auanger
Contributions and/or encouragment by: Lowell Bowditch; Owen Cramer; Leo
Curran;
Margaret Curran (British Romantic Poetry; see also recommended authorities);
Lowell Edmunds; Maureen Engel; Andrew Erskine; Steve Farrand; T.E. Goud;
Peter
Green; Mark Gustafson; David Havird; F. Helm; Bob Ingria; rick lafleur; L.
Mandel; Marianne McDonald; Robin Mitchell-Boyask; Frank Romer; David M.
Schaps;
Diane Arnson Svarlien; Larry Swain; Richard White; Mark Williams
Sources used are:
Allen, Beverly, Muriel Kittel, and Keala Jane Jewell, eds. The Defiant Muse:
Italian Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present. NY: The Feminist
Press at the CUNY, 1986; Chapman, Dorothy H. Index to Black Poetry. Boston:
G.K. Hall & Co., 1974.Chester, Laura and Sharon Barba, eds. Rising Tides:
Twentieth Century American Women Poets. NY: Washington Square Press, 1973;
Fourtouni, Eleni, tr. Contemporary Greek Women Poets. Thelphini Press,
1978;
Hazen, Edith P. The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry, 10th ed. NY:
Columbia
NY: Oxford University Press, 1977; Jones, P. Mansell, ed. The Oxford Book Of
French Verse xiiith-xxth Century. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; MacDonaugh,
Donagh and Lennox Robinson, ch. The Oxford Book of Irish Verse XVII-XXth
Century. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958; MacQueen, John and Tom Scott,
ch. The
Oxford Book of Scottish Verse. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966; Saunders,
J.W. A
Biographical Dictionary of Renaissance Poets and Dramatists, 1520-1650. NJ:
Barnes and Noble Books,1983; Smith, A.J.M., ch. The Oxford Book of Canadian
Verse. NY: Oxford University Press, 1960; Smith, William James, ed.
Granger's
Index to Poetry. Sixth Edition. NY: Columbia University Press, 1973;
Spender,
and Poetry. NY: Hoawthorn Books, Inc., 1963; Stahl, E.L. The Oxford
Book of
German Verse, from the 12th to the 20th Century, third edition. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1967.
The following list is alphabetically arranged by author. Dates, when
supplied,
are drawn from the sources used; their accuracy is not guaranteed. National
association or place of birth is erradically provided. Readings
recommended by
contributors follow the list. As the document has already become quite long,
recommended editions have been left out.
Adamson, Henry (d. 1639) (Perth)
Poem--The Muses Threnodia (1638)
Adcock, Arthur St. John (1864-1930)
By Deputy (about Homer)
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Cato (sels.)
Sempronius, why, why wilt thou urge the fate
Aiken, Conrad (1889-) (b. USA, Georgia)
Dead Cleopatra Lies in a Crystal Casket Fr. Discordants
Akenside, Mark (1721-1770)
Genius of ancient Greece ! whose faithful steps
Ode: Allusion to Horace
Akhmatova, Anna (1889-1966)
Cleopatra
Musa
Alba, Nanina (1917-1968)
Be Daedalus
Aldington, Richard (1892-1962)
At the British Museum
Lesbia
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907)
Andromeda
Euterpe
Thalia
Alexander, Sir William (1567?-1640)
Arcadia (1613)--completion of work by Sir Philip Sidney
Aurora(1604) ?
The Tragedy of Darius (1603)
Croesus (1604)
The Alexandrian (1605)
Julius Caesar (1607)
Recreations with the Muses (1637)
Alexander, Floyce
Aphrodite
The Lotus Eaters
Allen, Leslie Holdworth
Memnon
Allen, Sarah van Alstyne (b. 1905)
Marble Statuette Harpist
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
Ruins at Sunset
Alver, Betti (1906-) (Estonia)
The Titans
Anstey, Christopher
The New Bath Guide (sels.)
Anton, Robert (fl. 1616)
Philosphers Satyrs (1616)
Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888) (b. England)
Apollo
Bacchanalia (or the New Age)
Cadmus and Harmonia
Callicles' Song. Fr. Empedocles on Etna (about Apollo)
Empedocles on Etna (voluma)
Fragment of an "Antigone"
Fragment of Chorus of a "Dejaneira"
Mycerinus
Palladium
Philomela
Song for Apollo
The Song of Callicles (2)
The Song of the Muses
The Strayed Reveller (about Circe)
These things, Ulysses
Thyrsis
To a Friend (about Homer, about Sophocles)
Palladium (about Troy)
The Strayed Reveller (about Ulysses) (volume)
Urania
Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-73) (b. England)
The Fall of Rome
The Horatians
Ode to the Medieval Poets
The Shield of Achilles
Auslander, Joseph (1897-1965)
Ulysses in Autumn
Austin, Henry (fl. 1615)
The Scourge of Venus (1613)
Austin, Samuel, the elder (fl. 1629)
Austin's Urania (1629)
Bagg, Robert (b. 1935)
Oracle at Delphi
Baring-Gould, Sabine (1834-1906)
The Olive Tree
Basse, William (d. 1653?) (Oxfordshire)
Three Pastoral Elegies (1602)
Polyhymnia
Bastard, Thomas (1566-1618)
De Poeta Martiali
They which read Horace, Virgil, and the rest
Baxter, James Keir (1926-1972)
The Homecoming (about Ulysses)
Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616)
Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (1602)
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803-1849)
Pygmalion,or the Cyprian Statuary
Silenus in Proteus
The Song of the Stygian Naiades
Bellay, Joachim du (1522-1560) (France)
A Ceres
Antiquitez de Rome
Benet, Laura (1884-1979)
Babylon (?)
Bevington, Helen Smith (b. 1906)
The Honeybee (about Pindar)
Bidart, Frank (contemporary) (USA)
In the Western Night (with `translations of Catullus's "Odi et Amo" and
Horace's
Ode, 4.1)
Binding, Rudolf (1867-1938) (b. Germany)
Orpheus
Bishop, John Peale (1892-1944)
Why They Waged War (about the Trojan War)
Bita, Lili (b. Zante)
Portrait
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
Oedipus
Blake, William (1757-1827)
To the Muses
Blenerhasset, Thomas (1550?-1625?) (Norfolk)
translation of Ovid's De Remedio Amoris
A Revelation of the True Minerva
Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (1880-1921)
The Scythians
Bogan, Louise (1897-1970) (USA)
Cassandra
Medusa
The Sleeping Fury
Bosworth, William (1607-50?) (Cambridgeshire)
Arcadius and Septa (1651)
Bacchus and Diana
Sonnets to Aurora
Bottrall, Ronald (b. 1906)
Icarus
Proserpine at Enna
Bourdillon, Francis William (1852-1921)
Eurydice
Bowers, Edgar (b. 1924)
The Centaur Overheard
To the Contemporary Muse
Brandon, Samuel (fl. 1598)
Traagicomoedi of the Virtuous Octavia (1598)
Brathwait, Richard (1588?-1673)
The Golden Fleece (poems of 1614)
Brice, Thomas (d. 1570)
Courte of Venus Moralized (1567)
Bridges, Robert (1844-1930)
Eros
The Isle of Achilles
Narcissus
Bronte, Emily (1818-1848) (Ireland)
The Old Stoic
Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915)
Menelaus and Helen
Brown, Harry (b. 1915)
Browne, William (1591-1643?)
Brittania's Pastorals with Venus and Adonis (1613-1616)
Ulysses and Circe (1615) (masque)
Brownell, Henry Howard (1820-1872)
The Sphinx
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861) (b. Durham)
Aurora and Tithonus
The Cyclops (Idyl XI)
The Dea Pan
Hector and Andromache
Hector in the Garden
How Bacchus Comforts Ariadne
How Bacchus Finds Ariadne Sleeping
A Lament for Adonis
Marriage of Psyche and Cupid
Psyche and Cerberus
Psyche and the Eagle
Psyche Gazing on Cupid
Psyche Propitiating Ceres
Psyche and Proserpine
Browning, Robert (1812-1889)
Andromeda (Fr. Pauline)
Artemis Prologizes
Cleon
De Gustibus
The Dead Pan
Eurydice to Orpheus
A Grammarian's Funeral
The Great God Pan
Orpheus and Eurydice
Pan and Luna
Pheidppides
Buc, Sir George (d. 1623)
Daphnis Polystephanos (1604)
Bulloch, John Malcolm
To Homer
Byrant,
The Antiquity of Freedom
Byron, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron (1788-1824)
The Coliseum ("Arches on Arches") Fr. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The Coliseum ("The Stars are Forth") Fr. Manfred; Dramatic Poem
The Destruction of Sennacherib
Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth!
The Isles of Greece
Italy
Maid of Athens
Prometheus
Oh Rome! My Country!
The Seige of Corinth
Translation from the Medea of Euripides
Campbell, Alistair (b. 1925)
Narcissus
Campbell, Roy (1902-1957)
Invocation to the African Muse
Pomegranates
Campion (Campian), Thomas (1567-1620)
Corinna
Dido
Shall I come, if I Swim? wide are the waves, you see (about Hero and
Leander)
A Hymn in Praise of Neptune
Hark, All You Ladies That Do Sleep! (about Campion)
Capetanakis, Demetrios (1912-1944)
The Isles of Greece
Carman, Bliss (1861-1929) (Canada)
Daphne
Cavafis (or Cavafy), Constantine P. (1863-1933)
Dareios
The Horse of Achilles
Myris: Alexandria, A.D. 340
Waiting for the Barbarians
Chalmers, Patrick Reginald (1872-1944)
Pan-Pipes
Chapman, George (1559?-1634) (Hitchin)
Hero and Leander (1598) (completion of Marlowe's)
Andromeda Liberata (1614) (masque)
Ovid's Banquet of Sense
Praise of Homer
Sonnet: Muses that sing love's sensual empery
The Ruins of Troy and Greece
The Tragedy of Caesar and Pompey (sels.)
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340?-1942)
Troilus and Criseyde
Chenier, Andre (1762-1794) (France)
La Mort d'Hercule
L'Aueugle
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1874-1936)
Chivers, Thomas Holley (1809-1858)
Apollo (?)
Christian, Marcus B. (b. 1900)
Song of Hannibal: Rome
Church, Richard (1893-1972)
Thinking of a Master (about Vergil)
Cleveland, John (1613-1658)
Mark Antony
Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861)
Amours de Voyage (about Rome)
Rome
To Kalon
Coatsworth, Elizabeth Jane (Mrs. Henry Beston) (b. 1893)
The Nile
The Pleiades
Collier, Thomas Stephens (1842-1893)
Cleopatra Dying
Collins, Mortimer (1827-1876)
A Greek Idyl
Lotos Eating
Colman, George the Younger (1762-1836)
My Muse and I, Ere Youth and Spirits Fled
Colony, Horatio (1900-1977)
The Gold That Fell on Danae
Colum, Padraic (1881-1972)
Olive Trees
Congreve, William (1670-1729)
A Nymph and a Swain
An Ode in Imitation of Horace
Constable, Henry (1562-1613) (Newark)
Diana (1592)
The Shepherd's Song of Venus and Adonis
Cooper, Julian (b. 1945)
The Sitar Player
Cope, Jack (b. 1913)
Sappho
Copley, Anthony (1567-1607?)
A Fig for Fortune (1596)
Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684) (France)
Stances de Polyeucte
Cory, William Johnson (1823-1892)
Europa
Heraclitus
Hersilia
Cotter, Jospeh S. Sr. (1895-1919)
My Muse
Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667) (London)
Davideis
The Epicure
Great Diocletian Fr. The Garden
Pindaric Odes
Platonic[k] Love
The Praise of Pindar
A Supplication (about Lyre)
Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Boadicea
Crane, Hart (1899-1932)
Island Quarry
Crapsey, Adelaide (1878-1914)
Roma Aeterna
Crashaw, Richard (1613?-49)
Delights of the Muses (1646)
Creeley, Robert (b. 1926)
Kore
The Death of Venus
Croly, George (1780?-1860)
Leonidas
Cullen, Countee (1903-1946)
On the Mediterranean Sea
Curtis, Christine Turner
Villa Sciarra: Rome
Daly, Eugene Howell
Alpheus and Arethusa
Daly, Thomas Augustin (1871-1948)
Da Boy from Rome
Een Napoli
Dandridge, Raymond (1882-1930)
The Narcissus
Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619)
Cleopatra
Musophilus, or Defence of All Learning
Sonnet: "Fair and Lovely maid, look from the shore" Fr. To Delia (about
Hero and
Leander)
Tethys Festival
The Tragedy of Cleopatra
Ulysses and th Siren
Darley, George (1795-1846)
Chorus of Sirens
Listen to the Lyre!
The Lyre
The Solitary Lyre
Davies, Sir John (1569-1626)
Ad Musam
The Muse Reviving
Of Homer's Odyssey
Davies, William Henry (1871-1940)
The Muse
Davis, Gloria
To Egypt
Davison, Francis (c1575-1619)
Ah Cupid, I Mistook Thee
To Cupid
Davison, Peter (b. 1928)
Artemis
Day, Clarence (1874-1935)
Menalaus
Day Lewis, Cecil (1905-) (Ireland)
Pegasus
Statuette: Late Minoan
De Tabley, John Byrne Leicester Warren 3d Baron (1835-1895)
Circe
Echoes of Hellas
A Hymn to Aphrodite
Medea
De Vere, Aubrey Thomas (1814-1902)
An Epicurean's Epitaph
The Sun God
Troilus and Cressida
Urania
Deamer, Dulcie
Artemis
Deane, Seamus (b. 1940)
Dekker, Thomas
Song of the Cyclops Fr. London's Tempe
Fortune and Virtue Fr. Old Fortunatus
Denby, Edwin (b. 1903)
Trastevere
Derzhavin, Gavrill (1743-1816)
Monument (tr. of Horace O 3.30)
Dickinson, Blanche Taylor (b. 1942)
The Walls of Jericho
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Arcturus is his other name
Dixon, Richard Watson
Cephalus and Procris
Mercury to Prometheus
Orpheus
Dobson, Austin (1840-1921)
Ars Victrix
For a Copy of Theocritus
Dobson, Rosemary (1920-) (b. Australia)
The Three Fates
Dodson, Owen (1914-1983)
Pearl Primus (about Proserpine)
Dolben
After Reading Homer
Donne
Doolittle, Hilda (1886-1961) (USA)
Adonis
At Baia
At Ithaca
Callypso Speaks
Evadne
Helen
Hermes of the Ways
Hermes Trismegistus
Hesperides--Fragment 36
Holy Satyr
Leda
Let Zeus Record
Pygmalion
Doughty, Charles Montague (1843-1926)
Druids' Hymn to the Sun
Douglas, Gavin (c. 1475-1522) (Scotland)
The Aeneid
Calliope's Nymph Brings the Poet to the Palace of Homer
Drayton, Michael (1563-1637(?))
To Cupid
Cupid, Dumb Idol
Endimion and Phoebe, sels.
Endimion's Convoy
The Nymphs' Song
Phoebe on Latmus
The Sacrifce to Apollo
Stonehenge
When Phoebus lifts his head out of Winter's wave
Drummond of Hawthornden, William (1585-1649)
Phoebus, Arise!
Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music
Amphitryon, sels.
Cleomenes
Cleopatra and Antony Fr. All for Love
Cymon and Iphigenia, sel.
Diana's Hunting Song
Mercury's Song to Phaedra
Oedipus. sels.
The Song of Momus to Mars. Fr. The Secular Masque
Troilus and Cressida (sels.)
Song of Venus fr. King Arthur
Vox Populi
Du Bellay, Joachim (1522-1560)
The Happy Ulysses
Rome
Ruins of Rome
A Vow to Heavenly Venus
Dubois, William E.B. (1868-1963)
Riddle of the Sphinx
Ducis, Jean-Francois (1733-1816) (France)
A mes Penates
Dudek, Louis (b. 1918)
The Pomergranate (sic)
Duffy, Carol Anne (b. 1955)
Dugan, Alan (b. 1923)
How we Heard the Name (about Alexander the Great, the Battle of Granicus)
Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)
Ballade (about Arcadia)
Farewell to Arcady
Prometheus
Duncan, Robert (b. 1919)
Persephone
A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar
Shelley's Arethusa Set to New Measures
Styx
Durrell, Lawrence (b. 1912)
Alexandria
At Epidaurus
Delos
In Arcadia
Mythology
Nemea
On First Looking Into Loeb's Horace
On Ithaca Standing
Paphos
Salamis
The Stoic
Dyer, Sir Edward (c. 1540-1607)
Prometheus When First from Heaven
Dyer, John (1699-1758)
Ruins of Rome
To Clio, from Rome
Eastman, Max (1883-1963)
Diogenes
Edwards (or Edwardes), Richard (1523-1566)
Fortitude: A young Man of Egypt and Valerian
Of Fortune's Power
Ehrenstein, Albert (1884-1950)
Ares
Homer
Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1880-1965)
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
When I Was Fair and Young (about Cupid)
Ely, Gladys
Variations on Simonides
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Bacchus
Eros
Mithridates
Pan
The Sphinx
Written in Naples
Xenophanes
Empson, William (1906-1984)
Arachne
Bacchus, sels.
Everett, Edward (1794-1865)
Dirge of Alaric the Visigoth
Farjeon, Eleanor (1881-1965)
When Hannibal Crossed the Alps
Feldman, Ruth (b. 1911)
Sarcophagus Cover
Fell, Alison (b. 1944)
Medusa
On Skyros
Fet, Afanasy (1820-1892)
Fields, Annie (1834-1915)
Theocritus
Fisher, Charles (contemporary) (Wales/Canada)
The Locust Years (a collection which includes Mestra Pursued, Hustlers, and
lines of the Achilleid)
Flecker, James Elroy (1884-1915)
Santorin
The Old Ships (about Ulysses)
Fletcher, John (1884-1915)
The God of Sheep, Fr. The Faithful Shepherdess
Hymn to PanThe River God
The Satyr's Farewell
Flower, Robin
Troy
Fontaine, Jean de la (1621-1695)
Invocation (O Douce Volupte)
Fort, Paul (1872-1960)
Pan and the Cherries
Fourtouni, Eleni (contemporary) (b. Greece)
Eurynome
Freeman, Arthur (b. 1938)
Naples Again
Freeman, Thomas
O Tempora! O Mores!
Freneau, Philip (1752-1832)
Plato to Theon
Frost, Robert (1874-1963)
Caesar's Lost Transport Ships
The Demiurge's Laugh
Pan with Us
Fuller, John
White Queen
Galler, David (b. 1929)
Daphne
Narcissus: To himself
Gardner, Isabella (1915-1981)
In the Museum (about Mummies)
Garrett, George (b. 1929)
Caedman
On Reading the Metamorphoses
Tiresias
Garrigue, Jean (1914-1972)
Of History More Like Myth
Primer of Plato
Gascoigne, George (1539-1577)
In Praise of a Gentlewoman (about Cleopatra)
Gay, John (1685-1732)
Achilles, sel.
Damon and Cupid
Plutus, Cupid, and Time
Gibson,Wilfred Wilson (1878-1962)
Prometheus
Gluck, Louise (contemporary) (USA)
Hyacinth
Ithaca (See: July 10, 1995, New Yorker)
Mythic Fragment
The Reproach
The Triumph of Achilles
Godley, Alfred Denis (1856-1925)
After Horace
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832) (b. Germany)
Prometheus
Ganymed
Song of the Parcae
Romische Elegien
Die Braut von Korinth
Untworte. Orphisch
Gogarty, Oliver St. John (1878-1957)
After Galen
Colophon
Leda and the Swan
Marcus Curtius
To Peronius Arbiter
Gorman, Herbert Sherman
The Satyrs and the Moon
Gosse, Sir Edmund William (1849-1928)
De Rosis Hibernis (about Egypt)
The Death of Procris
The Maenad's Grave
On a Lute Found in a Sarcophagus
The Praise of Dionysus
The Sons of Cydippe
Theocritus
Gower, John (1325-1408)
Jason and Medea Fr. Confessio Amantis
The Parting of Venus and Old Age
The Poet Meets Venus and her Priest
Graves, Charles Larcom
Horace, Book V, Ode III
Grahn, Judy (b. 1940)
Paris and Helen
Graves, Richard
On the Death of an Epicure
Graves, Robert (1895-1985) (Ireland)
The Ambrosia of Dionysius (sic) and Semele
To Calliope
Damocles
Penthesileia
The Persian Version (about Battle of Marathon)
Pygmalion to Galatea
Theseus and Ariadne
Ulysses
Greene, Robert (1558?-1592)
Cupid Abroad Was Lated, fr. Greene's Orpharion
In Cupres Sat Fair Venus by a Fount
Mars and Venus
Gregory, Horace (1898-1982)
Homage to Circe
Haunted Odysseus; the Last Testament
Grenfell, Julian (1888-1915)
Greville, Fulke, 1st Baron Brooke (1554-1628)
Another, Of his Cynthia
Cupid, My Little Boy, Come Home Again
Cupid, my pretty boy, leave off thy crying
Of his Cynthia Fr. Caelica (about Cupid)
Sonnet: Cupid, thou naughty boy, when thou wert loathed
Grimald, Nicholas (1519-1562)
Concerning Virgil's Aeneids
Marcus Tullius Cicero's Death
Gullans, Charles (b. 1929)
Narcissus
Satyr
Gunn, Thom (b. 1919)
Arachne
The Goddess (about Persephone)
Helen's Rape
Julian the Apostate
Moly
Odysseus on Hermes
Phaedra in the Farm House
Philemon and Baucis
Saturnalia
The Silver Age
Habington, William (1605-1654)
His Muse Speakes to Him
Nox Nocti Indicate Scientiam
Hall, Donald (b. 1928) (?)
Laocoon
Hamori, Andras
For the Antigone
Notes to the Life of Ovid
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)
An Ancient to Ancients
Rome
Harrison, Tony (b. 1937)
Classics Society
The Common Chorus (Lysistrata)
Dramatic Poetry:
The Labours of Heracles: h autopsia tou Phrinichou
Marcus Aurelius
Medea: A Sex War Opera
The Oresteia
Phaedra Brittanica
The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus
Hayden, Robert Earl (1913-1980)
O Daedalus Fly Away Home
Perseus
Sphinx
Sub Specie Aeternitatis
Heaney, Seamus (b. 1939)
Personal Helicon
Heath-Stubbs, John (b. 1918)
The Age of Bronze awoke now in brutality
Ibycus
Not Being Olympus
The Parthenon
Titus and Berenice
Hecht, Anthony (b. 1922)
Alceste in the Wilderness
Application for a Grant
As Plato Said
The Cost (about Trajan's Column)
Going the Rounds (periodic style)
Goliardic Song
Improvisations on Aesop
Jason
An Old Malediction (Horace's Pyrrha)
The Origin of Centaurs
Ostia Antica
Praise for Kolonos
A Roman Holiday
Rome
See Naples and Die
Henryson, Robert (c.1420-1490) (Scotland)
Cresseid's Complaint against Fortune
Cressida's Leprosy
The Testament of Cresseid
Henze, Helen Rowe (b. 1899)
Etruscan Warrior's Head
Heppenstall, Rayner (1911-1981)
Actaeon
Herder, Johann Gottfried (1744-1803) (Prussia)
Alte agyptische Philosophie
Heredia, Jose Maria de (1842-1905) (b. Cuba)
Antony and Cleopatra (3 sonnets)
Fuite de Centaures
La Naufrage
Herrick, Robert (1591-1674)
A Bacchanalian Verse
The Cheat of Cupid or the Ungentle Guest
Hesperides
A Short Hymne to Venus
The Wounded Cupid
To Electra
To Fortune
The Vision to Electra
Hewlett, Maurice
Actaeon
Agrotera
Boedromios
Endymion
Eukleia
Glaucopis
Hecate
Kalligeneia
Orthia
Heywood, Thomas (1575-1650)
Hymn to Diana fr. The Golden Age
On Homer's Birthplace
Praise of Ceres
The Rape of Lucrece
Hodgson, Ralph (c. 1871-1962)
Babylon
Holbrook, David (b. 1923)
Somewhere in Tuscany
Holderlin, Friedrich (1770-1843) (b. Lauffen)
Hyperion's Song
Hope, Alee Derwent (b. 1907)
Pyramis, or the House of Ascent
Horan, Robert (b. 1922)
Farewell to Narcissus
Horne, Richard Henry (or Hengist) (1803-1884)
Distraught for Merope
Eos
Meeting of Orion and Artemis
Pelters of Pyramids
Howell, Thomas (c. 1568-1581)
A Winters Morning Muse
Howes, Barbara (1914-) (USA)
Chimera
Danae
The New Leda
Hubbard, P.M. (1910-1980)
Subjectivity at Sestos (about Hero and Leander)
Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)
Democracy
Hughes, Richard (1900-1976)
The Court of Neptune
Glaucopis
Invocation to the Muse
The Ruin
Hughes, Ted (b. 1930)
Cleopatra to the Asp
Lupercalia
Prometheus on his crag, sels.
Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859)
Apollo and the Sunbeams
Bacchus, or the Pirates
Cupid Drowned
The First Re-appearance of Achilles; and its effects
The Infant Hercules and the Serpents
The Nile
Priam at the Feet of Achilles
There are fair-limbed nymphs o' the woods. Fr. The Nymphs
A Thought of the Nile
To Venus
Ingelow, Jean
Persephone
Iremonger, Valentin (1918-) (Ireland)
Hector
Icarus
Irwin, Thomas Caulfield (1823-1883)
Leaving Troy
Johnson, Charles Frederick
The Modern Romans
Johnson, Geoffrey
The Appian Way
Johnson, James Weldon (1871-1938)
Venus in a Garden
Johnson, Louis (b. 1924)
Pygmalion
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Anacreon's Dove
Jones, Thomas Samuel Jr. (fl. c. 1899)
Akhnaton
Caedmon
Daphne
Empedocles
Pythagoras
Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)
An Ode in Imitation of Alcaeus
Jong, Erica (b. 1941 or 1942) (USA)
Alcestis on the Poetry Circuit
Jonson, Ben (1572-1637)
After Catullus: Song, to Celia
Apollo's Song
Cupid
Echo's Lament of Narcissus
Echo's Song
Elegie: Let me be what I am, as Virgil cold
Have Ye Seen Beauties Fr. The Hue and Cry after Cupid
Hermogenes's Song
Hesperus' Hymn to Cynthia
His Discourse with Cupid
Hymn to Diana fr. Cynthia's Revels
Hymn to the Belly
The Masque of Augurs, sels.
Masque of Cupid, sel.
Neptune's Triumph, sel.
A Nymph's Passion
A Nymph's Secret
An Execration upon Vulcan
A Pindaric Ode
The Satyr, sel.
To Diana
Venus' Runaway
Vivamus Mea Lesbia atque amemus
Kavanaugh, Patrick (1905-1969) (Ireland)
Pegasus
Kay, Ellen de Young
Tiresias' Lament
Keats, John (1795-1821)
Apollo to the Graces
The Apollo , with sudden scritiny and gloomless eyes
The Bruised Titans
The Den of the Titans
Endymion, sels.
The Fall of Hyperion
Fragment of an Ode to Maia
Hymn to Apollo
Hymn to Pan Fr. Endymion
Hyperion's Arrival
Hyperion: A Vision
I Stood Tip-toe
Lamia
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse!
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
Ode to Apollo
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to Psyche
On a Picture of Leander
On an Engraved Gem of Leander
On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
Saturn
The World of Sleep
To Autumn
To Maia
To Psyche
To the Nile
Keyes, Sidney (1922-1943)
Glaucus
Rome Remember
Kingsley, Charles (1819-1875)
Andromeda, (sels.)
Andromeda and the Sea Nymphs
The Nereids
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
A Song to Mithras
In the Neolithic Age, br. sel.
Pan in Vermont
Kizer, Carolyn (b. 1925)
Columns and Caryatids
The Copulating Gods
>From Sappho to myself, consider the fate of women
Hera, Hung from the Sky
A Muse of Water
Persephone Pauses
Semele Recycled
The Ungrateful Garden (about Midas)
Koehler, G. Stanley
Siciliana; the Landings at Gela
Koopman, Harry Lyman
Icarus
Kreymborg, Alfred (1883-1966)
Circe
Labe, Louise (1525-1566) (b. France)
Not Ulysses, no, nor any other man
LaBombard, Joan (b. 1920)
The Sibyl
Labrunie, Gerard (Gerard de Nerval)(1808-1855) (France)
Delfica
Laederbach, Maonique (1938-) (b. Switzerland)
Penelope (1970)
Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)
Absence (Ianthe! You resolve to cross the sea)
Alciphron and Leucippe
Behold, O Aspasia! I Send You Verses Fr. Pericles and Aspasia
A Copy of Verses sent by Cleone to Aspasia
Corinna, from Athens to Tanagra
Corinna, from Tanagra to Athens
The Death of Artemidora
Farewell to Italy
Hegemon to Praxinoe
Helen and Corythos
The Hellenica
Ianthe, sels.
Iphigenia
Iphigenia and Agamemnon
Niobe
On Catullus
On the Hellenics
Pan
Past Ruin'd Ilion Helen Lives
Pericles amd Aspasia, sels.
The Sea-Nymph's Parting
Shepherd and Nymph
The Shepherd and the Nymph
Sophron's Hymn to Bakkos
Thrasymedes and Eunoe, sel.
To Ianthe ("You smiled, you spoke, and I believed")
Tyrannicide
Wert thou but Blind, O Fortune, Then Perhaps
Lang, Andrew (1844-1912)
Aesop
Ballade to Theocritus, in Winter
The Cannibal Zeus
Helen on the Walls
Herodotus in Egypt
Homeric Unity
Iliad XXIV, 468
In Ithaca
The Isles of the Blessed
The Odyssey
The Passing of Oedipus
Langhorne, Charles Hartley
Theocritus
Laughlin, James (b. 1914 (?))
Technical Notes
Herodotus Reports
Persephone Wears Bluejeans
Timor Amoris conturbat me
O Hermes Trismegistus
Occidit Brevis lux
Books: The Owl of Minerva and The Bird of Endless Time
Lawrence, David Herbert (1855-1930)
The Argonauts
Bare Almond Trees (about Sicily)
Lazarus, Emma (1849-1887)
Bar Kochba
The Cranes of Ibycus
The New Colossus
Venus of the Louvre
Lear, Edward (1812-1888)
Limerick: There was an old man of Thermopylae
---of Vesuvius
--an old person of Sparta
Lebrun, Ponce-Denis Ecouchard (1729-1807) (France)
Arion
Leconte de Lisle, Charles-Marie-Rene (1818-1894) (France)
Neferou-Ra
Leopardi, Giacomo (1798-1837)
To Italy
The Walls and Arches
Lewis, Janet (Mrs. Yvor Winters) (b. 1889)
Helen Grown Old
In the Egyptian Museum
Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931)
Euclid
I Want to Go Wandering. :)
Logan, John (b. 1923-1971?)
Achilles and the King
Long, Haniel
The Faun
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1809-1882)
Belisarius
Endymion
The Four Winds
In the Acadian Land, om the shores of the basin of Minas
Jugurtha
The Ladder of St. Augustine
The Masque of Pandora, sel.
O Ship of State
The Potter's Song
Prometheus
The Sicilian's Tale
Lowell, Amy (1874-1925)
Hippocrene
The Sisters (about Sappho)
Venus Transiens
Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)
Aladdin
The Candidate's Letter ("Dear Sir,--You wish to know my notions")
Hebe
Shepherd of Kng Admetus
Lowell, Robert (1917-1977)
Caligula
Falling Asleep over the Aeneid
The Ghost (about Sextus Propertius)
The Neo-Classical Urn
Tenth Muse
"The Ovid Stanza" (from Beyond the Alps)
Lucie-Smith, Edward (b. 1933)
At the Roman Baths, Bath
Luillier, Claude-Emmanuel dit Chapelle (1626-1686)
Sur les Metamorphoses d'Ovide mises en rondeaux par Benserade
Lyly, John (1553-1606)
Alexander and Campaspe, sels. (about Cupid)
Apelle's Song
Cupid and Campsape
Cupid's Indictment
Cupid's Indictment Fr. Mother Bombie
Daphne
Endimion
Galathea, sel.
Midas, sels.
Pan's Song
Pan's Syrinx was a girl indeed
Sappho and Phao
Song: It is all one in Venus' wanton school
Song by Fairies Fr. Endymion
Song of Accius and Silena
A Song of Daphne to the Lute
A Song of Diana's Nymphs
Song to Apollo. Fr. Midas
The Song in Making of the Arrows fr. Sapho and Phao
Syrinx
Vulcan's Song
Lytle, William Haines (1826-1863)
Antony to Cleopatra
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macauley, First Baron (1800-1859)
The Death of Herminius
Horatius Fr. Lays of Ancient Rome
"Maccleod"
High Noon at Midsummer on the Campagna
Mackail, John William
An Etruscan Ring
MacKay, Eric
In Tuscany
MacKay, Isabel Ecclestone
Helen-Old
Mackay, Louise Alexander (John Smalacombe) (b. 1901) (Canada)
Erotica Antiqua (sel.)
Nunc Scio, Quid Sit Amor
Propertian
MacNeice, Louis (1907-1963)
Charon
Circe
Didymus
Perseus
Venus' Speech
--Autumn Jounal
MacPherson, Jay (b. 1931 or 1932) (Canada)
Eurynome
The Marriage of Earth and Heaven
Mahon, Derek (b. 1941)
Achill
Heraclitus on Rivers
How to Live (Horace, Odes 1.11)
Ovid in Tomis
Mair, Alexander William
Hesiod, 1908
Mallalieu, Herbert B. (b. 1914)
Empedocles on Etna
To Naples
Mallarme, Stephane (1842-1898) (b. France)
L'Apres-Midi d'un faune
Mandel, Eli W. (b. 1922) (Canada)
Minotaur Poems,sels.
Orpheus
Phaeton
Manifold, John Streeter (1915-1985)
"Heureus Qui Comme Ulysse"
The Sirens
Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593)
Amorous Leander, beautiful and young
Amorous Neptune
And ride n triumph through Persepolis!
The Face of Helen
Helen Fr. Dr. Faustus
Hero and Leander
Was this the Facee Fr. Dr. Faustus
Marot, Clement (1496-1544) (Normandy)
Chant de May et de Vertu
Rondeau, De l'amour du Siecle Antique
Marvell, Andrew
The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn
Masefield, John (1621-1678)
The Rider at the Gate
The Tragedy of Pompey the Great, sels.
Mason, Madeline (b. 1913)
Janus
Mason, William (1725-1797)
Ode to a Water Nymph
Ode to an Aeolian Harp
Ode to Memory, sels.
Massimi, Petronilla Paolini (1663-1726) (b. Italy)
Fortuna alfin m'accolse/Fortune Welcomed Me at Last
Sdegna Clorinda a i femminili uffici/To female duties Clorinda scorned
Mastoraki, Jenny (1949-) (b. Greece)
The Vandals
Prometheus
Matraini, Chiara (1514-c.1597) (b. Italy)
La liberta
McCrae, Hugh Raymond (1876-1958)
Fragment: "As if stone Caesar shook"
Ambuscade (about Centaurs)
Muse-Haunted
Melville, Herman
The Aeolian Harp
Greek Architecture
Of Rome
Menendez y Pelayo, Marcelino
Rome
Meredith, George (1828-1909)
The Appeasement of Demeter
Antigone
Atlas
Bellerophon
Cassandra
A Garden Idyl
The Garden of Epicurus
Hecate
Marshalling of the Achaeans
Melampus
Nourishment before Battle
An Orson of the Muse
Phaethon
Phoebus with Admetus
The Vital Choice
With the Huntress
Merton, Thomas (1915-1968)
Like Ilium
Seneca
Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand (1825-1898) (b. Switzerland)
Der romische Brunnen
Die gegeiBelte Psyche
In der Sistina
Middleton, David (contemporary) (USA)
Mifflin, Lloyd (1846-1921)
Sesostris
Theseus and Ariadne
Miles, Josephine (1911-1985)
Oedipus
Sisyphus
Millay, Edna St, Vincent (1892-1950) (USA)
Daphne
Doubt No More that Oberon
Endymion
Euclid Alone has Looked on Beauty Bare
Evening on Lesbos
Lethe
Moriturus
Passer Mortuus Est
Prayer to Persephone
Sappho Crosses the Dark River into Hades
A Very Little Sphinx, sel.
When Caesar Fell
Miller, Albert G.
Pygmalion
Miller, Vassar (b. 1924)
The New Icarus
Milton, John (1608-1674)
Athens
The Parthians
Rome
Sabrina Fr. Comus
Sweet Echo, fr. Comus
Vision of Athens
Monro, Harold (1879-1932)
Children of Love
Overhead on a Saltmarsh (about Nymphs)
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762)
Farewell to Bath
Montgomery, Roselle Mercier
Ulysses Returns
Moore, Thomas (1779-1852) (Ireland)
Cupid and Psyche
Echo
The Fall of Hebe
Fragment of a Mythological Hymn to Love
Hero and Leander
Moore, Thomas Sturge (1870-1944) (English)
Alcestis is Spoken Of
Alcestis Speaks
>From "The Sea if Kind"
Grief Dwells with Life
Io
A Lament for Orpheus
Nostalgia
Over Latmos Stirred the Moon
Semele
The Song of Chiron
Theseus
The Thigh of Zeus
The Young Man's Fondest Foe
Moraes, Dom (b. 1938)
Jason
More, Sir Thomas (Saint Thomas More) (1478-1535)
To Fortune
Venus and Cupide
Moreas, Jean (1856-1910) (b. Greece)
Stances (Sunium, Sunium, sublime pormontoire
Morin, Paul (1889-1963) (Canada)
Harmonie pour un soir d'Italie
Harmonie pour iun soir grec
Morra, Isabella di (1520-1546) (b. Italy)
Poscia ch'al bel desir troncate hai l'le (Since you have clipped the
wings of
fine desire)
Morton, David (1886-1957)
The School-Boy Reads his Iliad
Moss, Howard (b. 1922)
King Midas
Muir, Edwin (1887-1959) (Scotland)
The Labyrinth
Oedipus
Orpheus' Dream
The Return (about Ulysses)
Troy
Murray, Ada Foster (Mrs. Henry Mills Alden)
Above Salerno
Musset, Alfred de (1810-1857) (France)
La Nuit de Mai
Myers, Ernest
Achilles
Nagy, Agnes Nemy (1922-) (b. Hungary)
I carried Statues
Naude, Adele (b. 1910)
The Oracle at Delphi
Nerval, Gerard de (Gerard Labrunie) (1808-1855)
Artemis
Niedecker, Lorine (1903-1970) (USA)
Paean to Place
Nichol, John
Mare Mediterraneum
Nicholson, Norman (1914-1987)
Caedmon
Noel, Roden Berkeley Wriothesley
I flung me round him. Fr. Water-Nymph and the Boy
Norse, Harold (b. 1926)
Colosseum
Noyes, Alfred
Actaeon
The Net of Vulcan
Niobe
The Psyche of our Day
O'Neil, George
Socrates Plays a Day and a Night
O'Sheel, Shaemas (1886-1954)
Roma Mater Sempaeterna
Olson, Charles
For Sappho, Back
Chronicles
The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs (?)
A Newly Discovered Homeric Hymn
Ondaatje, Michael (b. 1943)
Prometheus, with Wings
Ormond, John (1923-) (Wales)
Ancient Monuments
Osborne, Duffield
Ave! Nero Imperator
Parker, Douglass
Zeus in Therapy
Pascal, Paul (b. 1925)
Tact (about Antony and Cleopatra)
Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton (1823-1896)
Arbor Vitae
Deliciae Sapientiae de Amore
ErosMagna est Veritas
Paulin, Tom (b. 1949)
Under Creon
Pauline
Andromeda
Peele, George (1559-1596)
Cupid's Curse
The Hunting of Cupid, sels.
Not Iris in her Pride
O Gentle Love Fr. The Arraignment of Paris
Oenone's Complaint
Polyhymnia
Petersen, Donald (b. 1928)
Narcissus
Philips, Kathe(a)rine (1631-1664) (UK)
Against Love
Phillips, Stephen
Orestes
Pinsky, Robert (contemporary) (USA)
An Explanation of America (with a translation of Horace, Epistle 1.16)
Pitter, Ruth (b. 1897)
Urania
Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)
The Colossus
The Disquieting Muse
Medusa
Plomer, William (1903-1973)
Archaic Apollo
Europa
Plumly, Stanley (b. 1939)
Ulysses Pondering
Poe, Edgar Allen (1809-1849)
The Coliseum
To Helen
Pompili, Vittoria Aganoor (1855-1910) (b. Italy)
L'ultimo canto di Saffo/Sappho's Last Song
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Atticus
Characters from the Satires
Chloe
Pound, Exra (1885-1972)
Ancient Music
The Faun
Greek Epigram
Homage to Sextus Propertius, sels.
Canto I: And then went down to the ship (about Ulysses)
Press, John (b. 1920)
Eleusis and Beethoven
Narcissus
Prior, Matthew (1664-1721)
Cupid Mistaken
The Female Phaeton
An Imitation of Anacreon
Picture of Seneca Dying in a Bath
Protogenes and Apelles
Written in an Ovid
Pushkin, Aleksandr (1799-1851)
Arion
Racine, Jean (1639-1699) (France)
Sur l'Iphigenie de Le Clerc
Raine, Kathleen (1908-) (Scotland)
Kore in Hades
Isis Wanderer
Puer Aeternus
Ralegh, Sir Walter
Homage to Diana
Lines from Catullus
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Praised be Diana's Fair and Harmless Light
Randall, Dudley (b. 1914)
Hail, Dionysos
Rapin, Nicolas (c.1540-1608) (France)
A Achille de Harlay
Ray, Henrietta Cordelia (1861?-1916)
Antigone and Oedipus
Redi , Francesco (1626-1698)
Bacchus's Opinion of Wine, and Other Beverages fr. Bacchus in Tuscany
Reeves, William Pember (1857-1932)
Nox Benigna
Regnier, Henri de (1864-1936) (France)
Sonnet pour Bilitis
Repplier, Agnes
Les Repos in Egypte: the Sphinx
Rexroth, Kenneth (1905-1982)
When We With Sappho (?)
Homer in Basic (?)
Richardson, George M.
Ode to Pyrrha (in Harvard Crimson, 1880)
Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926)
Archaic Torso of Apollo
Sonnets to Orpheus, sels.
Ritsos, Yannis (b. 1909)
Penelope's Despair
Roberts, Sir Charles G.D. (1860-1943)
Marsyas
Roberts, Michele (b. 1949)
Demeter's Grieving
The Sibyl's Song
Roberts, Walter Adolphe (1886-1962)
Villanelle of the Living Pan
Robinson, Agnes Mary Frances (1857-1944)
Etruscan Tombs
Robinson, Edwin Aldington (1869-1935)
Many are Called (about Apollo)
Roche, James Jeffrey (1847-1908)
Andromeda
Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl
An Allusion to Horace. The Tenth Satire of the First Book
Rodman, Selden (b. 1909)
Daphne
Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963)
The Centaur
Rogers, Robert Cameron (1862-1912)
Pan and Syrinx (?)
A Sleeping Priestess of Aphrodite
Virgil's Tomb
Ronsard, Pierre de (1524-1585) (France)
A la Forest de Gastine
A sa Maistresse
Ross, Alan (b. 1922)
Agrigento
Ross, David (1896-1975) (?)
Demosthenes to the Radio Announcer
Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830-1894)
Italia, Io Ti Saluto!
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Aspecta Medusa
Astarte Syriaca
Cassandra
Death's Songsters
For the Wine of Circe; a Picture by Edward Burne-Jones
Pandora
Troy Town
The Burden of Nineveh
Venus
Venus Verticordia
Venus Victrix
Sackville, Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536-1608)
Troy fr. A Mirror for Magistrates
Salkeld, Blanaid (1880-) (Ireland)
Anchises
Saltus, Francis Saltus
The Sphinx Speaks
Sanders, Ed (and the Fugs(?)) (b. 1939)
Hieroglyphs
Holy Was Demeter Walking in th'Corn Furrow
Hymn to Aphrodite (Sappho's Poikolothron' athanat' Aphrodita)
Hymn to Archilochus
Hymn to O.
Pindar's Revenge
Sappho on East Seventh
Santayana, George (1863-1952)
Before a Statue of Achilles
Ode to the Mediterranean
"Of Thee the Northman" (about the Mediterranean)
Sarett, Lew (1888-1954)
Requiem for a Modern Croesus
Sargent, John Osborne
Horace
Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967)
Ancient History
Babylon
Schevill, James (b. 1920)
An Astonished Listener Hears the Radio Announcer Bat Out the Long Balls of
Verbs,
Nouns, and Adjectives
The Birth of Arachne, the Spider
Cheops
A Song for Old Apis
Schwartz, Delmore (1913-1966)
To Helen
Scott, William Bell (1811-1890_
Pygmalion
Seferis, George (1900-1971)
Argonautica
Seymour, William Kean
Caesar Remembers
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
After Horace
Antony and Cleopatra, (sels.)
Venus and Adonis
(much, much more...:) )
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Arethusa
Evening: Ponte al Mare, Pisa
Fragment of the Elegy on the Death of Adonis
Hellas, sels.
Homer's Hymn to Castor and Pollux
Homer's Hymn to Minerva
Homer's Hymn to the Moon
Homer's Hymn to the Sun
Homer's Hymn to Venus
Hymn of Apollo
Hymn of Pan
Lines Written among the Euganean Hills
Ode to Naples
On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci....
Prometheus Unbound
Song of Proserpine, While Gathering Flowers...
To the Nile
Sheridan, Niall (1912-) ((Ireland)
Ad Lesbiam
Sherman, Frank Dempster (1860-1916)
Bacchus
On a Greek Vase
Shirley, James (1596-1666)
Ajax and Ulysses
Cupid and Death, sels.
Cupid Ungodded
Cupid's Call
Io
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586)
Cupid, fr. Arcadia
Sapphics
A Satyr once did run away for dread
Simpson, Louis (b. 1923)
Aegean
Early in the Morning (about Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar)
Singer, Burns (1928-1964) (Scotland)
Marcus Antoninus cui cognomen erat Aurelius
Sister Miriam
Prometheus Unbound
Sitwell, Sacheverell (1897-1988)
Agamemnon's Tomb
Centaurs and Lapithae Fr. Battles of the Centaurs
The Farnese Hercules
Orion Seeks the Goddes Diana Fr. Landscape with the Giant Orion
Psittacus Eois Imitatrix Ales ab Indis
The River God
The Venus of Bolsover Castle
Smith, Arthur James Marshall (b. 1902) (Canada)
The Plot Against Proteus
Smith, Leroy Jr.
Sappho Rehung
Smithyman, Kendrick (b. 1922)
Icarus
Snodgrass, William DeWitt (b. 1926)
Leaving Ithaca
Mntis...Outis
Orpheus
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648/51-1695) (b.Mexico) (Juana de Asbaje)
First Dream/But Venus First
The Divine Narcissus
Spaziani, Maria Luisa (1924-) (b. Italy)
The Aegean
Preghiera pagana/Pagan Prayer
Rome has a thousand fountains, and in May theu sing
Spencer, Bernard (1909-1963)
Aegean Islands 1940-1941
Delos
Greek Excavations
Olive Trees
Sarcophagi
A Spring Wind (about Athens)
Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599)
The Garden of Proserpina Fr, The Fairie Queen
Next unto Him Was Neptune Pictured Fr. The Faerie Queen
Speyer, Leonora (1872-1956)
New Excavations (about Pompeii)
Spivack, Kathleen (b. 1938)
Dido: Swarming
Mythmaking (about Helen)
Stead, William Force (b. 1884)
Festival in Tuscany
Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833-1908)
Pan in Wall Street
Stephens, James (1880-1950) (?)
The Centaurs
The Crackling Twig (about Satyrs)
The Satyr
Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)
The World as Meditation (about Penelope and Ulysses)
Stickney, Trumbull (1874-1904)
Mnemosyne
Near Helikon
Stoddard, Richard Henry (1825-1903)
Abraham Lincoln: an Horatian Ode
Stolberg, Friedrich Leopold Graf zu (1750-1819) (Holstein)
Die Meere
Story, William Wetmore (1819-1895)
Cleopatra
Praxiteles and Phryne
Stringer, Arthur (1874-1950)
Sappho's Tomb
Swain, Larry
Lines After Catullus
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Baucis and Philemon
Catullus de Lesbia
Daphne
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)
Anactoria, sels.
Atalanta in Calydon, sels.
Cleopatra
The Death of Meleager
Eros
Faustine
The Garden of Proserpine
Hermaphroditus
Hesperia
Hymn to Proserpine
I am the Queen Herodias
Itylus
Laus Veneris
Proserpine
Non Dolet
Sapphics
Sappho
Siena
Super Flumina Babylonis
The Winds
Tate, Allen (1899-1979)
Aeneas at Washington
Horatian Epode to the Duchess of Malfi
The Mediterranean
Tchernichovsky, Saul (1875-1943)
Before a Statue of Apollo
To Ashtaroth and Bel (about Astarte and Bel)
Teasdale, Sara (1884-1933)
Arcturus in Autumn
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron (1809-1892)
The Ancient Sage
The Daisy (about Italy)
Demeter and Persephone
"Frater Ave Atque Vale" (about Catullus)
The Hesperides
Ilion, Ilion
Iphigenia
The Lotus-Eaters
Lucretius
Oenone (about Helen)
Parnassus
The Temple
Tithonus
To Virgil
Ulysses
Tennyson, Frederick (1807-1898)
Niobe, sel.
Thomas, Edith Matilda (1854-1925)
The Muses
The Reply of Socrates
Thompson, Dunstan (b. 1918)
Ovid on the Dacian Coast
Written on a Fly-Leaf of Theocritus
Thomson, James (1700-1748)
For Ever, Fortune, Wilt Thou Prove
Lavinia
Thurman, Judy (b. 1946)
Penelope
Thwaites, Michael (b. 1917)
Thermopylae
Tolson, Melvin (1898-1966)
Babylon
Vesuvius
Trotter, Bernard Freeman
For Justice
Turbyfill, Mark
Apollo Alone Approves
Updike, John (b. 1932)
Philological
Valentine, Edward Abram Uffington
Helen
Valery, Paul (1871-1945)
Caesar
Helene (Helen, the Sad Queen)
Narcissus
Pomengranates
Van Doren, Mark (1894-1973)
Music God
Tourist
Verry, Isabel Williams (b. 1909)
Alcestis
Viau, Theophile de (1590-1626) (France)
Apollon Champion
Vinal, Harold (1892-1967)
Lesbia Sewing
Toward Avernus
Voltaire, F.-M. Arouet de (1694-1773) (France)
A Horace
Walcott, Derek (b. 1930)
Omeros
The Odyssey
Roman Outposts
Wallace-Crabbe, Chris (b. 1934)
Ancient Historian
Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)
Aid me Bellona, while the dreadful fight
Chloris and Hylas
Song: "Stay, Phoebus, Stay!"
The Story of Phoebus and Daphne Applied
Wallis, Eleanor Glenn
Iulus
Watson, Rosamund Marriot (1863-1911)
Arsinoe's Cats
Ave atque Vale
Watson, Thomas (c. 1557-1592)
If Cupid were a Child
Watson, Sir William (1858-1935)
Invocation (about Venus) (?)
Lacrimae Musarum (about Tennyson)
Weber, Richard (b. 1932)
On an Italian Hillside
Weiss, Theodore (b. 1916)
The Fire at Alexandria
The Greater Music (about Orpheus)
Wharton, Philip
On the Banishment of Cicero
Wheatley, Phillis (c. 1753-1784)
Niobe in Distress for her Children Salin by Apollo, From Ovid's
Metamorphosis,
Book VI, and From a View of the Painting of Mr. Richard Wilson
On Recollection (about Muses)
Recollection, to Miss A-- M-- (about Muses)
Whetstone, George (1544?-1587)
Cressid's Complaint
Whitehead, Paul (1710-1785)
Hunting Song. Fr. Apollo and Daphne
Wilbur, Richard (b. 1921)
For the New Railway Station in Rome
Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) (Ireland)
Athanasia
Ave Imperatrix
Endymion
The Sphinx
Theocritus
Williams, Francis Howard
Electra
Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Sappho, Be Comforted
Wingfield, Shiela (1906-1973)(Ireland)
Odysseus Dying
Winslow, Anne Goodwin
The Beaten Path (about Dido)
Winters, Yvor (1900-1968)
Apollo and Daphne
Heracles
Orpheus
Theseus: A Trilogy
Wolfe, Humbert (1885-1940)
Endymion
Iliad
Wordsworth, William
Laodamia
Wright, David
An Invocation to the Goddess (Venus)
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) (Ireland)
Byzantium
Byzantium
Fergus and the Druid
The Four Ages of Man
Leda and the Swan
Sailing to Byzantium
When Helen Lived
Zabel, Morton Dauwen (b. 1901)
Herakles Archer
Zaturenuska, Marya Alexandrovna (Mrs. Horace Gregory) (1902-1982)
Bird and the Muse
Head of Medusa
Unknown (see Granger's Index, subjects)
Epitaph on Achilles
Staye, Staye Aeneas, for theyne owne sake staye.
Alexander the Great
On Aristophanes
Cupid
Cupid's Darts
Plea to Eros
Warning to Cupid
Tomb of Diogenes
The Sad Nymph, Gaho, followed to the Shadie Woods
Euripides
Orpheus, Oh Orpheus, gently Touch thy Lesbyan Lyre
Thus sang Orpheus to his Strings
Fortune ("The Lady Fortune is Both Friend and Foe")
Seven Weallthy Towns (about Homer)
Icarus
Love Winged My Hopes
Latin
To Mars
You Muses Nurses of Delight
The Sad Nymph, Gaho, followed to the shadie woods
Spirit of Plato
Wind, Gentle Evergreen (about Sophocles)
A Comparison of His Love with the Faithful and Painful Love of Troilus to
Cressid
The Prayer of Calcas F. Troelus a Chresyd
The Birth of Venus
Venus Accoutered as Mars
Recommended reading or reference:
Berryman. The Freedom of the Poet. FSG, 1976; Blank, Paula. "Comparing
Sappho
to Philaenis: John Donne's `Homopoetics'" in PMLA (1995); Chicorel, Marietta,
ed. Chicorel Index to Poetry in Anthologies and Collections in Print. NY:
Chicorel Library Publishing Corp., 1974 (1st ed.); Classical Outlook, a
serial
which publishes several genres of verse that may be of interest; Dillon,
John.
Article on Seamus Heaney.http://www.ucd.ie/~classics/ClassicsIreland.html
The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1900's (Oxford
1993).
Recommended authorities:
Margaret Curran, British Romantic Poetry
Seidensticker, Bern.
Shensin, V. Diss. on Afanasy Fet
??
.