The Rite of Pan
 
 

Poetry, Song & Story

A collection of poems, songs and stories dedicated to the Goat-foot God.


By Pan the rites of true societe,

From his loud Musicke, all your manners wraught

And made your Common-weath a harmonie,

Commending so to all posteritie

Your innocence from that faire Fount of light


Pan’s Anniversarie by Ben Johnson (1620)


Hymn of Pan - Percy Bysshe Shelley


The Piper at The Gates of Dawn - Kenneth Grahame


The Return of Pan - The Waterboys


Pan: Double Villanelle - Oscar Wilde


Homeric Hymn To Pan

 

Sweet, Piercing Sweet Was the Music of Pan’s Pipe

by Walter Crane (1845-1915)

Illustration from the book “The Story of Greece” by Mary Macgregor.  Originally published 1914.