chanda7 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 I would like to put together a list of famous poems (or at least poems written by famous poets) about ancient history subjects to round out our literature studies. This is what I have so far: Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats Ozymandias by Percy Shelley The Nile by Leigh Hunt The Sphinx by Ralph Waldo Emerson Very like a Whale by Ogden Nash Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron Does anyone have others to add? I know there are several regarding Greek/Roman mythology that I haven't fished out yet, and they are welcome additions to the list other than the more historical subjects. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twigs Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 I think this counts: Arethusa - Shelley The 1st few lines are quoted in . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Sailing to Byzantium Yeats Kubla Khan Cooleridge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 On First Looking into Chapman's Homer Keats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Cargoes by Masefield This is one of my favorites Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 Friedrich Schiller: The Ring of Polycrates (Herodotus tells the story of Polycrates in his Histories) The Cranes of Ibycus The Gods of Greece Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizaG Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, which includes "Horatius at the Bridge" The Poems of Places anthology series also has many poems about ancient history, listed under Greece, Italy (Rome), Africa (Egypt), and other places. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chanda7 Posted May 27, 2016 Author Share Posted May 27, 2016 Thank you for all the wonderful suggestions, and ElizaG, that anthology is a treasure trove! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephinsocal Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 How about bits from plays? I make my kids memorize Mark Antony's funeral oration from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptor_dad Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 Ulysses by Tennyson http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/45392 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Targhee Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 Horatius at the Bridge by lord Macauley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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