Unfinished poems

thumb|300px|Aeneas Flees Burning Troy, by Federico Barocci (1598). [[Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy]] right|thumb|300px|Map of Aeneas' fictional journey

collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer

English epic poem by Edmund Spenser

poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

satiric poem by Lord Byron

Latin poem by Ovid (8 AD)

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

literary work by Adam Mickiewicz

The Achilleid (; ) is an unfinished epic poem by Publius Papinius Statius that was intended to present the life of Achilles from his youth to his death at Troy. Only about one and a half books (1,127 dactylic hexameters) were completed before the poet's death. What remains is an account of the hero's early life with the centaur Chiron, and an episode in which his mother, Thetis, disguised him as a girl on the island of Scyros, before he joined the Greek expedition against Troy.

epic poem by Matteo Maria Boiardo

unfinished poem by John Keats

long, incomplete poem in 116 sections (“cantos”), written by Ezra Pound from 1915 to 1962

unfinished poem by J. R. R. Tolkien

poem by Voltaire

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unfinished poem by Nikolay Nekrasov

tale from The Canterbury Tales

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

Gondibert is an epic poem by William Davenant. In it he attempts to combine the five-act structure of English Renaissance drama with the Homeric and Virgilian epic literary tradition. Davenant also sought to incorporate modern philosophical theories about government and passion, based primarily in the work of Thomas Hobbes, to whom Davenant sent drafts of the poem for review.

unfinished satirical poem of 8 cantos in terza rima by Niccolò Machiavelli

19th-century Greek epic poem

poem written by Victor Hugo