favorite poems about greek myth?

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  • wislawa szymborska, “cassandra” (x)
  • seamus heaney, “mycenae nightwatch” (x)
  • annie finch, “chain of women” (x)
  • adam zagajewski, “persephone goes underground again” (x)
  • louise glück, “persephone the wanderer” (x) and “the empty glass” (x)
  • kathleen raine, “medea” (x)
  • elizabeth ballou, “ariadne and the minotaur” (x)
  • p.k. page, “this heavy craft” (x)
  • peter kline, “minotaur” (x)
  • alfred lord tennyson, “demeter and persephone” (x)
  • ted hughes, “prometheus on his crag” (x)
  • margaret atwood, “orpheus (1)” (x), “orpheus (2)” (x), “eurydice” (x) and “siren song” (x)
  • H.D., “sea-heroes” (x), “delphi” (x), “eurydice” (x), “helen” (x), “thetis” (x), “leda” (x), “hermonax” (x), “apollo at delphi” (x), pallinode, and eidolon
  • jack conway, “the agamemnon rag” (x)
  • marina tsvetaeva, “praise to aphrodite” and “the sibyl” and “eurydice to orpheus” (x)
  • blas falconer, “to orpheus” (x)
  • jorge luis borges, “to the one who is reading me” (x) and “oedipus and the riddle” (x)
  • sappho, “hymn to aphrodite” (x) and fragment 102, “blame aphrodite” (x)
  • william carlos williams, “landscape with the fall of icarus” (x)
  • muriel rukeyser, “waiting for icarus” (x)
  • josé emilio pacheco, “new sisyphus” (x)
  • anne sexton, “to a friend whose work has come to triumph” (x)
  • edna st. vincent mallay, “daphne” (x)
  • shakespeare, venus and adonis and “orpheus” (x)
  • christopher marlowe, “hero and leander”
  • derek walcott, omeros and “sea grapes” (x) and “europa” (x)
  • denise levertov, “hymn to eros” (x)
  • judy grahn, “paris and helen” (x)
  • alice oswald, memorial
  • dorothy parker, “penelope” (x)
  • anne carson, autobiography of red
  • yusef komunyakaa, “infidelity” (x)
  • rainer maria rilke, “orpheus. eurydice. hermes.” (x)
  • gregory orr, “betrayal/hades, eurydice, orpheus” (x)