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A Psalm of Life

Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Season in Hell

Extended poem in prose by Arthur Rimbaud

Latin epic poem by Virgil

1956 poem by Harry Martinson

Poem by Edgar Allan Poe

Because I could not stop for Death

Poem by Emily Dickinson

Old English epic poem

Book of Taliesin

Medieval Welsh manuscript

Old English poem

Cantar de mio Cid

Castilian epic poem

Casey at the Bat

Baseball poem written during 1888 by Ernest Thayer

Anthology of Chinese poetry traditionally attributed mainly to Qu Yuan and Song Yu from the Warring States period

Classic of Poetry

Collection of Chinese poetry, comprising works dating from the 11th to 7th centuries BC

Complete Tang Poems

Collection of Chinese poetry

Poem written by American poet Sylvia Plath

Daredevils of Sassoun

Armenian folk epic

De rerum natura

Didactic poem by Lucretius

Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi

Large collection of poems by Rumi

Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri

Do not go gentle into that good night

Poem by Dylan Thomas

Don Juan (poem)

Satiric poem by Lord Byron

Book by Rainer Maria Rilke

Poem collection by Virgil

Babylonian creation myth

Epic of Gilgamesh

Epic poem from Mesopotamia

Epic of King Gesar

Work of epic literature of Tibet and greater Central Asia

Heroic epic of the Kirgiz people

Epic of Sundiata

Epic poem of the Malinke people, telling the story of the hero Sundiata Keita, the founder of the Mali Empire

Gaspard de la Nuit (poetry collection)

Work by Aloysius Bertrand

Collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore

Series of 19 poems by John Donne

1955 poem by Allen Ginsberg, part of the Beat Generation movement

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Poem by William Wordsworth

Poem by Rudyard Kipling

Poetry anthology by Petrarch

In Flanders Fields

First World War poem by John McCrae

Jerusalem Delivered

Epic poem by Torquato Tasso supposedly about the First Crusade

John Keats's 1819 odes

19th-century work of epic poetry

Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Epic poem of the Spanish conquest of Chile

Lais of Marie de France

Series of Breton lais by the poet Marie de France

L'après-midi d'un faune (poem)

1876 poem by Stéphane Mallarmé

Layla and Majnun

Romantic narrative poem by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi

Leaves of Grass

Expansive Walt Whitman poetry collection

Les Fleurs du mal

Volume of poetry by Charles Baudelaire

Ancient Sanskrit Epic by Vyasa

Epic poem by José Hernández

Masnavi-e-Ma'navi

Persian poetic work on Sufism by Rumi

Influential mythological narrative poem by Roman poet Ovid

New Songs from the Jade Terrace

Anthology of early medieval Chinese poetry

Middle High German epic poem from around 1200

O Captain! My Captain!

Poem by Walt Whitman on the death of Abraham Lincoln

Literary work by Horace

Epic poem attributed to Homer

Oku no Hosomichi

Work by the Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō

Pindar's 1st Olympic Ode

Epic poem by Caribbean writer Derek Walcott

Orlando Furioso

Epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto

Portuguese epic poem by Luís de Camões

Sonnet written by Percy Shelley

Epic poem by John Milton

Medieval German romance by Wolfram von Eschenbach

Roman epic poem by Lucan about Caesar's Civil War

Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland

Collection of Old Norse poems

Roman de la Rose

Medieval French poem

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

1859 translations by Edward FitzGerald

Long epic Persian poem written by Ferdowsi

Shakespeare's sonnets

Poems by William Shakespeare

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

14th-century Middle English chivalric romance

Sirat Bani Hilal

Arabic epic recounting the Banu Hilal's journey from Najd to Maghreb

11th-century epic poem (chanson de geste)

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Book by William Blake

Sonnet by William Shakespeare

Poem by William Shakespeare

Sonnets to Orpheus

Story of Sinuhe

Ancient Egyptian literary work

Táin Bó Cúailnge

Epic of early Irish literature

The Book of Good Love

Book by Juan Ruiz

The Canterbury Tales

Collection of 24 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer

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

The Faerie Queene

English epic poem by Edmund Spenser

The Hind and the Panther

Book by John Dryden

The Knight in the Panther's Skin

Georgia's national epic poem

The Last Rose of Summer

The Man from Snowy River (poem)

1890 poem written by Andrew Barton Paterson

The New Colossus

Sonnet by Emma Lazarus, inscribed at the Statue of Liberty

The Prophet (book)

1923 book containing 26 prose poetry fables by Khalil Gibran

The Rape of the Lock

1712 mock-heroic poem by Alexander Pope

1845 narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

1798 poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Second Coming (poem)

1919 poem by Irish poet W. B. Yeats

The Song of Hiawatha

1855 epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Tale of Igor's Campaign

1794 William Blake poem

Poem by T. S. Eliot

Troilus and Criseyde

Poem by Geoffrey Chaucer

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Collection of romantic poems by Pablo Neruda, published in 1924