Narrative Poems

The long poem that tells a tale — the Ancient Mariner, Hiawatha, the Idylls, and the great narratives that hold a whole plot in meter.

Stories told in verse

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• The Fairies
• I Died for Beauty, but was Scarce
• May
• A Picnic under the Cherry Trees
• When Peter
• Lines Written in Dejection
• Love Well the Hour
• Samuel Gardner
• National Temperaments
• The Players Ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and Themselves
• The Goat and the Horse
• To my Mother Earth
• A Spring Dirge
• Widdecombe Fair
• The Two Old Bachelors
• The Cameo
• The Sunday-School Picnic
• Genesis 3
• The Great Explorer
• The Seven Old Men
• To Daffodils
• The Defilers
• Brixham Town
• On his Birthday
• Hushaby, Sweet my Own
• Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie
• Death and Doctor Hornbook
• The Holy Fair
• Halloween
• The Jolly Beggars: a Cantata
• The Cotter's Saturday Night
• The Twa Dogs
• The Brigs of Ayr
• The Whistle-A Ballad
• Tam o' Shanter
• The Skeleton in Armor
• Evangeline: a Tale of Acadie
• The Building of the Ship
• The Song of Hiawatha
• The Courtship of Miles Standish
• The Discoverer of the North Cape
• Tales of a Wayside Inn
• The Hanging of the Crane
• The Children's Crusade
• Passages from Frithiof's Saga
• The Children of the Lord's Supper
• Beowulf's Expedition to Heort
• The Blind Girl of Castel-Cuille
• Goblin Market
• From House to Home
• The Prince's Progress
• Songs in a Cornfield
• A Royal Princess
• Under the Rose
• The Lowest Room
• Brandons Both
• The Daemon of the World
• Alastor; or, the Spirit of Solitude
• The Revolt of Islam
• Prince Athanase
• Rosalind and Helen
• Julian and Maddalo
• Peter Bell the Third
• The Witch of Atlas
• The Triumph of Life
• Marianne's Dream
• Marenghi
• The Sensitive Plant
• A Vision of the Sea
• Ginevra
• Ugolino
• Queen Mab
• Sordello
• Saul
• The Glove
• The Italian in England
• Waring
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin
• The Flight of the Duchess
• The Statue and the Bust
• Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
• An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
• Fra Lippo Lippi
• Gold Hair: a Story of Pornic
• A Death in the Desert
• Balaustion's Adventure
• Aristophanes' Apology
• Red Cotton Night-Cap Country; or, Turf and Towers
• The Inn Album
• Of Pacchiarotto, and how he Worked in Distemper
• Hervé Riel
• A Forgiveness
• Cenciaja
• Filippo Baldinucci on the Privilege of Burial
• The Two Poets of Croisic
• Martin Relph
• Pheidippides
• Ivàn Ivànovitch
• Ned Bratts
• Clive
• Muléykeh
• Pietro of Abano
• Doctor --
• Pan and Luna
• Donald
• Jochanan Hakkadosh
• Ponte Dell' Angelo, Venice
• Beatrice Signorini
• The City Rat and the Country Rat
• The Wolf and the Lamb
• Simonides Preserved by the Gods
• The Lion and the Rat
• The Dove and the Ant
• The Hare and the Frogs
• The Raven Wishing to Imitate the Eagle
• The Cat Metamorphosed into a Woman
• The will Explained by Aesop
• The Fox and the Goat
• The Gout and the Spider
• The Swan and the Cook

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