Narrative poetry  

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Narrative poetry is poetry that tells a story. In its broadest sense, it includes epic poetry; some would reserve the name narrative poetry for works on a smaller scale and generally with more direct appeal to human interest than the epic.

Narrative poems

• The Adventures & Brave Deeds Of The Ship's Cat On The Spanish Maine: Together With The Most Lamentable Losse Of The Alcestis & Triumphant Firing Of The Port Of Chagres by Richard Adams
• "The Ballad Of Charlotte Dymond" by Charles Causley
• The Book of the Duchess by Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Crossing America by Leo Connellan
• The Divine Comedy by Dante
• Cantar de Mio Cid, (anonymous) medieval epic
• The Elder Edda (anonymous)
• The Homeric Epics (Iliad, Odyssey, and The Homeric Hymns)
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• The Kalevala (the Finish national epic)
• Os Lusíadas (Portugal's national epic by Luís Vaz de Camões)
• The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
• Virgil's Aeneid
• Statius' Thebaid
• Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz
• Piers Plowman by William Langland
• The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare
• The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Tam Lin (anonymous)
• Tam o' Shanter, by Robert Burns
• The Truant by E.J. Pratt
• Terje Vigen by Henrik Ibsen
• The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
• Out, out-by Robert Frost