Narrative Poetry

Poems that tell a story: legends, tales, ballads and stories in verse. Discover narrative poetry on Loëly.

John Davidson

Dora Sigerson Shorter

James Weldon Johnson

Emily Dickinson

Emily Jane Pfeiffer

Emily Brontë

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

William Blake

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Isabella Augusta Gregory

James Clarence Mangan

Charles Sorley

William Blake

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Dora Sigerson Shorter

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Thomas Hardy

John Davidson

Edward Thomas

John Davidson

Idris Davies

Christopher Marlowe

Robert Browning

Khalil Gibran

William Wordsworth

Adela Florence Nicolson

Oliver Goldsmith

James Weldon Johnson

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Edward Thomas

Thomas Hardy

Charles Sorley

Thomas Hardy

John Millington Synge

William Henry Davies

The Collected Poems of William H. Davies

William Soutar

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Narrative Poetry

A Ballad Of Hell

A Ballad of Marjorie

A Banjo Song

A Bird came down the Walk

A Confession

A death scene

A dream

A Lament For Fair-Haired Donough That Was Hanged In Galway

A Lamentation For The Death Of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald

A Letter From the Trenches to a School Friend

A little Boy Lost

A Meadow Tragedy

A naughty little comet

A New Year's Eve in War Time

A Northern Suburb

A Private

A Runnable Stag

A Song about Myself

A Victorian Portrait

Accurs'D Be He That First Invented War

Aesop

After

After Aesop

Ambition

Among All Lovely Things My Love Had Been

Among the Rice Fields

An Elegy

Answer to Prayer

Arethusa

As the Team's Head Brass

At Lulworth Cove a Century Back

Barbury Camp

Before Marching and After

Beg-Innish

Bird of Paradise

Black Day

Book I - Forbear! the progeny of Jove replies

Book I - O parent goddess

Book I - O tyrant, armed with insolence and pride

Book I - Tell me, oh Muse, of that ingenious hero

Book I - The trembling priest along the shore

Book I - Who rolls the thunder o'er the vaulted skies

Book II - As on some mountain, through the lofty grove

Book II - Fly hence, deluding Dream

Book II - Now when the child of morning and rosy-fingered Dawn appeared

Book II - Say, Virgins, seated round the throne divine

Book II - The phantom said; then vanished from his sight

Book II - With this Telemachus dashed his staff to the ground

Book III - Ajax the great, the beauteous queen replied

Book III - Approach, my child, and grace thy father's side

Book III - Atrides then his massy lance prepares

Book IV - All that you have been saying, my dear wife, is true

Book IV - Seized with affright the boldest foes appear

Book IV - Your discretion, my friend, is beyond your years

Book IX - But the Cyclops, groaning and in an agony of pain

Book IX - I was driven thence by foul winds for a space of nine days

Book IX - When the child of morning rosy-fingered dawn appeared, he again lit his fire

Book IX - When we got to the land, which was not far

Book V - But Pallas now Tydides' soul inspires

Book V - On this he took his leave, and Calypso went out to look for Ulysses

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