Narrative poems

lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily detailing heroic deeds

thumb|Title page of 1556 edition published by Joannes Gryphius (decorative border added subsequently). Hayden White Rare Book Collection, University of California, Santa Cruz.

narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe

collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer

1798 poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Der Struwwelpeter ("Shock-Headed Peter") is an 1845 German children's book written and illustrated by the German psychiatrist Heinrich Hoffmann. It comprises ten illustrated and rhymed stories, mostly about children. Each cautionary tale has a clear moral lesson that demonstrates the disastrous consequences of misbehavior in an exaggerated way. The title of the first story provides the title of the whole book.

poem by William Shakespeare

poetry genre, poetic form

poem by William Shakespeare

poem by Lord Byron

type of poetry which tells a story

literary genre

poem by Alexander Pope

poem by Alexander Pushkin

poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1854)

thumb|A sleeping Ariadne's abandonment by [[Theseus is the topic of an elaborate ecphrasis in Catullus 64, the most famous extant epyllion. (Roman copy of a 2nd-century BCE Greek original; Villa Corsini.)]] In classical studies the term epyllion (Ancient Greek: , plural: , ) refers to a comparatively short narrative poem (or discrete episode within a longer work) that shows formal affinities with epic, but betrays a preoccupation with themes and poetic techniques that are not generally or, at least, primarily characteristic of epic proper.

poetry cycle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland

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part of the Canterbury Tales

narrative poem by Lord Byron

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poem by Lewis Carroll

literary genre about pre-Islamic Arabian war

the first part of "The Canterbury Tales"

Minecraft ending poem written by Julian Gough

poem by Robert Browning

1817 poem by Thomas Moore

1790 poem by Robert Burns

Narrative poem by Christina Rossetti

Scottish border ballad

poem by Alexander Pope

ode by Thomas Gray, composed 1754-1757, published 1757

book by Geoffrey Chaucer

1864 poem written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Love story in Shahnameh epic poem

thumb|An illustration for the poem sketched by PushkinTazit () is an unfinished Russian narrative poem by Alexander Pushkin, composed in late 1829 and early 1830 and first published in 1837, after Pushkin's death. One of several works by Pushkin set in the Caucasus, its eponymous hero is a young Circassian man who is renounced by his father for refusing to avenge his brother. The poem ends with the exiled Tazit asking his beloved's father for his daughter's hand in marriage. Some more verses for the poem found in Pushkin's manuscript draft describe Tazit's rejection by his beloved's father and

narrative poem by Lord Byron

alt=An engraving depicting Hudibras overcoming a fiddle player and placing him in the stocks. Above the stocks, the fiddle and its case are displayed.|thumb|One of twelve engravings illustrating the adventures of Hudibras by William Hogarth. Hudibras () is a vigorous satirical poem, written in a mock-heroic style by Samuel Butler (1613–1680), and published in three parts in 1663, 1664 and 1678. The action is set in the last years of the Interregnum, around 1658–60, immediately before the restoration of Charles II as king in May 1660.

1853 narrative poem by Matthew Arnold

narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Middle High German epic poem, presumably from the early 14. century