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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MYTHOLOGY - NORSE Matches Found: 20 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 90 NORTH, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At home, in my flannel gown, like a bear to its floe, Last Line: And we call it wisdom. It is pain Subject(s): Mythology - Norse; North Pole; Pain; Suffering; Misery BALDER DEAD, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So on the floor lay balder dead; and round Last Line: At last he sigh'd, and set forth back to heaven. Subject(s): Balder (norse God Of Light); Mythology - Norse SONG OF THE SEERESS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Heidi men call me when their homes I visit Last Line: Bears on his pinions the bodies of men, %soars overhead. I sink now Subject(s): Mythology - Norse THE DEATH OF ARNKEL, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the roaring board in helgafell Last Line: Virtue, nor welfare of th' unsceptred state. Subject(s): Mythology - Norse THE DESCENT OF ODIN; AN ODE, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uprose the king of men with speed Last Line: Sinks the fabric of the world. Variant Title(s): The Runic Rhyme Subject(s): Mythology - Norse THE FATAL SISTERS, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the storm begins to lower Last Line: Hurry, hurry to the field. Variant Title(s): An Ode From The Norse Tongue Subject(s): Mythology - Celtic; Mythology - Norse THE FIRST LAY OF GUDRUN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Gudrun of old days Last Line: Of the dead-slain sigurd Subject(s): Death;mythology - Norse; "dead, The; THE LONGBEARDS' SAGA, A.D. 400, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the camp-fires Last Line: "no need of me!" Subject(s): Mythology - Norse THE RUNES ON WELAND'S SWORD, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A smith makes me Last Line: But for the thing. Subject(s): Mythology - Norse THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: LOKI'S INSULTING, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bard in unforgotten verse has told Last Line: Their guileful trapper in a foaming pool. Subject(s): Balder (norse God Of Light); Loki (norse God); Mythology - Norse; Odin (norse God) THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: MIMIR'S WELL, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then heimdal, the white god, in darkness rose Last Line: Darkling rode back to his benighted heaven. Subject(s): Mythology - Norse THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: NAGELFARI, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blinded he sped, the stars around him thrown Last Line: The embattled host of heaven expectant held. Subject(s): Bridges; Horseback Riding; Mythology - Norse; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE BINDING OF LOKI, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So loki was brought low, and lay, firm bound Last Line: The gods stole silent, too distraught to feast. Subject(s): Loki (norse God); Mythology - Norse THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE FIMBUL WINTER, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gods in their remorse and their decline Last Line: Awaiting the live things that are his meal! Subject(s): Mythology - Norse THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE LAST BATTLE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loud with a terrible clamour once again Last Line: Over that anguish flowed the unquiet sea. Subject(s): Fights; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Norse; Odin (norse God); Thor (norse God Of Thunder) THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE RE-BIRTH, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As to a watcher on a pier at night Last Line: A deeper gloaming and I slept in night.' Subject(s): Balder (norse God Of Light); Goddesses & Gods; Hodur (norse God); Mythology; Mythology - Norse; Nature; Sea; Ocean THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE RE-BUILDING, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then searching in the long grass at their feet Last Line: Upon the story of earth's destinies! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Immortality; Mythology; Mythology - Norse; Nature THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE RIDING OF THE GODS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gladly would I my pen at once concede Last Line: While that the immortals drew unto their doom! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Immortality; Mythology; Mythology - Norse UNDINE, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Undine by the lonely shore Last Line: The dead amidst the living! Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Mythology - Norse; Nymphs VALKYRIUR SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea-king woke from the troubled sleep Last Line: Lay cold on a pile of dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mythology - Norse |
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