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This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight. This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label of long poem is selectively and inconsistently applied in ...
A long poem allows the author to be encyclopedic in their treatment of the world, as opposed to the potentially narrow focus of the lyric. A long poem poet can work on a long poem their entire life, weaving in their impressions gleaned from the span of several generations (and historical events); it can be an ongoing work.
Work without Hope. "All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair—" 1825, February 21 1828 Sancti Dominici Pallium. A Dialogue between Poet and Friend. Found Written on the Blank Leaf at the Beginning of Butler's. 'book of the Church' (1825) "I note the moods and feelings men betray," 1825 or 1826 1827, May 21 Song. ('Though veiled,' &c.)
Poems of the Fancy: 1820 The Pass of Kirkstone: 1817, 27 June "Within the mind strong fancies work," Poems of the Imagination: 1820 Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the Eve of a New Year 1817 "Smile of the Moon!---for I so name" Poems founded on the Affections: 1820 Sequel to the "Beggars," 1802. Composed many years after 1817
The poem received mixed reviews from critics, and Coleridge was once told by the publisher that most of the book's sales were to sailors who thought it was a naval songbook. Coleridge made several modifications to the poem over the years. In the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, published in 1800, he replaced many of the archaic words.
The Complete Poems of Robert W. Service (New York: Dodd Mead, 1933) Rhyme and Romance: a Robert Service anthology (London: E. Benn, 1949) Later Collected Verse (New York: Dodd Mead, 1954, 55, 65) Collected Poems of Robert Service (New York: Dodd Mead, 1954) More Collected Verse (New York: Dodd Mead, 1955) Songs of the High North (London: E ...
"Poor Susan" is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth composed at Alfoxden in 1797. It was first published in the collection Lyrical Ballads in 1798. It is written in anapestic tetrameter. The poem records the memories awakening in a country girl in London on hearing a thrush sing in the early morning.
Mu'allaqat, Arabic poems written by seven poets in Classical Arabic, these poems are very similar to epic poems and specially the poem of Antarah ibn Shaddad; Parsifal by Richard Wagner (opera, composed 1880–1882) Pasyón, Filipino religious epic, of which the 1703 and 1814 versions are popular; Popol Vuh, history of the K'iche' people