Poetry Books

The Ballad of the White Horse

G. K. Chesterton

The Ballad of the White Horse is a poem by G. K. Chesterton about the idealised exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great, published in 1911. Written in ballad form, the work has been described as o..

Spenser's The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser

The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. Books I to III were first published in 1590, and then republished in 1596 together with books IV to VI. The Faerie Queene is notable for it..

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

Anonymous

The Mahabharata is one of ancient India's major epic poems written in Sanskrit, the other being the Ramayana. Together they might be seen as the Iliad and Odyssey of the East, though the Mahabharata a..

The City of Dreadful Night

James Thomson

The City of Dreadful Night is a long poem by the Scottish poet James "B.V." Thomson, written between 1870 and 1873, and published in the National Reformer in 1874, then in 1880 in a book entitled The ..

The Song of Hiawatha

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow which features American Indian characters. The epic relates the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior..

Evangeline

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written in English and published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search..

The Argonautica

Apollonius Rhodius

The Argonautica is a Greek epic poem written by Apollonius Rhodius in the 3rd century BC. The only surviving Hellenistic epic, the Argonautica tells the myth of the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts t..

The Complete Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral poem The Deserted Village, and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man and She ..