Historical poems

thumb|Plate with a hunting scene from the tale of Bahram V|Bahram Gur and Azadeh. The imagery on this plate represents the earliest known depiction of a well-known episode from the story of Bahram Gur, which seems to have been popular for centuries, but was only recorded in the Shahnameh, centuries after this plate was created. Iran, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]

Persian tragic romance by Nizami Ganjavi

"Ozymandias" ( ) is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, first published in the 11 January 1818 issue of The Examiner of London.

thumb|The Pharsalia was especially popular in times of civil wars and similar troubles; for example the editor of this 1592 edition, Theodor Pulmann, explains Lucan's relevance by the French Wars of Religion (1562–98). De Bello Civili (; On the Civil War), more commonly referred to as the Pharsalia (, feminine singular), is a Roman epic poem written by the poet Lucan, detailing the civil war between Julius Caesar and the forces of the Roman Senate led by Pompey the Great. The poem's title is a reference to the Battle of Pharsalus, which occurred in 48 BC near Pharsalus, Thessaly, in Northern G

poem by Alexander Pushkin

poem by Silius Italicus

Neo-Latin epic poem

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poem by Ivan Mažuranić

poem of Lord Byron

literary work by Alexandre de Paris

poem by Mikhail Lermontov

book by Thomas Babington Macaulay

1816 poem written by Lord Byron

1868 poem written by Robert Browning

collection of epic poems that has been passed from mouth to mouth, as part of Kurdish oral tradition

Kassassin () is a town in Lower Egypt by rail west of Ismailia, a major city on the Suez Canal.

English poem by Felicia Hemans

poem by G. K. Chesterton