greykit.poetry — #myth
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1928
[w-b-yeats]
Leda and the Swan
A sudden blow, and the whole Trojan war folded into it — the broken wall, the burning roof and tower and Agamemnon dead — closing on the question of whether she put on his knowledge with his power.
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1922
[t-s-eliot]
The Waste Land
Eliot's fractured masterpiece in five parts — voices from the ruins of post-war Europe, the Fisher King, the Thames, a game of chess, the fire sermon — ending in the Sanskrit peace of Shantih shantih shantih.
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1899
[w-b-yeats]
The Song of Wandering Aengus
A silver trout caught in a hazel wood turns into a glimmering girl and vanishes; the rest is an old man's whole life spent walking after her, to pluck the silver apples of the moon and the golden apples of the sun.
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1842
[alfred-lord-tennyson]
Ulysses
The aged Ulysses speaks from Ithaca, chafing against an idle kingship and rallying his mariners for one last voyage beyond the western stars — to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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1816
[lord-byron]
Prometheus
The Titan's crime was pity, his punishment silence — and Byron makes that silence the whole lesson: a firm will and a deep sense that can make even death a victory.
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1717
[ovid]
Metamorphoses, Book I
Book I of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Garth–Dryden verse translation.
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1717
[ovid]
Metamorphoses, Book II
Book II of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Garth–Dryden verse translation.
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1717
[ovid]
Metamorphoses, Book III
Book III of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Garth–Dryden verse translation.
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1717
[ovid]
Metamorphoses, Book IV
Book IV of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Garth–Dryden verse translation.
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1717
[ovid]
Metamorphoses, Book IX
Book IX of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Garth–Dryden verse translation.
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1717
[ovid]
Metamorphoses, Book V
Book V of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Garth–Dryden verse translation.
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1717
[ovid]
Metamorphoses, Book VI
Book VI of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Garth–Dryden verse translation.
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1717
[ovid]
Metamorphoses, Book VII
Book VII of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Garth–Dryden verse translation.
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1717
[ovid]
Metamorphoses, Book VIII
Book VIII of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Garth–Dryden verse translation.
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1717
[ovid]
Metamorphoses, Book X
Book X of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Garth–Dryden verse translation.
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1717
[ovid]
Metamorphoses, Book XI
Book XI of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Garth–Dryden verse translation.
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1717
[ovid]
Metamorphoses, Book XII
Book XII of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Garth–Dryden verse translation.
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1717
[ovid]
Metamorphoses, Book XIII
Book XIII of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Garth–Dryden verse translation.
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1717
[ovid]
Metamorphoses, Book XIV
Book XIV of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Garth–Dryden verse translation.
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1717
[ovid]
Metamorphoses, Book XV
Book XV of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Garth–Dryden verse translation.