Characters in poems

thumb|An illustration of William Jones (philologist)|Jones's Caïssa, author unknown

alt=A helmeted figure emerges from behind a fountain, topped with two lions. That is being approached from the other side by an unarmoured rider. Below the horse is a setting sun. Painted underneath this scene are trees shown in different seasons of the year.|thumb|300px|right|Achilles (left) ambushing Troilus (on horseback, right). Etruscan art|Etruscan [[fresco, Tomb of the Bulls, Tarquinia, 530–520 BC.]]

fictional character created by A. A. Milne

thumb|1835 statue of Acontius inscribing the apple by Ulisse Cambi, Florence Art Gallery.

right|thumb|Lesbia and Her Sparrow (Catullus 2), by Sir [[Edward John Poynter]]

1790 poem by Robert Burns

poem by Rudyard Kipling

thumb|Cressida depicted by Thomas Kirk Cressida (), also rendered Criseida, Cresseid or Criseyde, is a character who appears in many medieval and Renaissance-era retellings of the Trojan War, most notably Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. While her character in the later western tradition was developed from Chryseis, a minor figure in Homer's Iliad, they share few similarities.

traditional song

1864 poem written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Russian fictional character

1789 poem written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe