Reflections of Antiquity in Modern Poetry

A small selection of poems.

Authors:

William Bronk
The Smile on the Face of a Kouros
Charles Bryant
A Day’s Riding
Constantine Petrou Cavafy
The Horses of Achilles, Thermopylae, Priest at the Serapeion, “The Rest I Will Tell to Those Down in Hades”, Athena’s Vote
Peter Curman
The Charioteer of Delphi
Andrew Davis
A krater: Achilles and Ajax playing backgammon
Robert Frost
Pan with Us
Samuel John Hazo
Poseidon and Others
John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn, On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer, To Homer
David Herbert Lawrence
The Argonauts, The Greeks Are Coming!, Bavarian Gentians
Lorentzos Mavilis
Kallipáteira
Robert Cameron Rogers
A Sleeping Priestess of Aphrodite
Angelos Sikelianos
Anadyomenê (Aphrodite Rising), Calypso’s Song, On Acrocorinth, The Horses of Achilles, Frieze