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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 306 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,289,489 ratings — published -800
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 259 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.94 — 538,378 ratings — published -750
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.51 — 357,389 ratings — published 950
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 158 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.88 — 149,171 ratings — published -19
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.86 — 188,612 ratings — published 1667
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.76 — 124,567 ratings — published -1800
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.09 — 179,978 ratings — published 1304
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 87 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.03 — 213,463 ratings — published 1321
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.10 — 81,119 ratings — published 8
The Song of Roland (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.51 — 19,922 ratings — published 1115
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.77 — 81,930 ratings — published 1375
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.06 — 31,360 ratings — published 1321
The Nibelungenlied (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,208 ratings — published 1200
Paradise (The Divine Comedy, #3)
by (shelved 30 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.96 — 22,638 ratings — published 1321
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,314 ratings — published 1835
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
by (shelved 26 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,889 ratings — published -250
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,535 ratings — published 1590
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,976 ratings — published 1270
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.53 — 242,098 ratings — published 1400
The Iliad / The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.08 — 87,059 ratings — published -800
Poema de Mío Cid (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.45 — 16,390 ratings — published 1110
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.19 — 84,734 ratings — published -400
The Táin: From the Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,246 ratings — published 750
The Lusiads (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,763 ratings — published 1572
Don Juan (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,147 ratings — published 1819
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell (ebook)
by (shelved 15 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.90 — 11,962 ratings — published 2014
Theogony / Works and Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.75 — 17,365 ratings — published -700
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,997 ratings — published -55
Paradise Regained (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,788 ratings — published 1671
Orlando Furioso (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,269 ratings — published 1516
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.07 — 8,089 ratings — published 1667
Mahabharata (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,416 ratings — published 1839
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,834 ratings — published 1957
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.54 — 5,629 ratings — published 1010
The Saga of the Volsungs (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,152 ratings — published 1000
Idylls of the King (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,643 ratings — published 1885
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,486 ratings — published 1990
Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,708 ratings — published 61
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.98 — 15,723 ratings — published 1975
Paradise Lost and Other Poems (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.99 — 877 ratings — published 1674
The Cantos (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,515 ratings — published 1970
Jerusalem Delivered (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,944 ratings — published 1581
Theogony and Works and Days / Elegies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,022 ratings — published -800
The Fall of Arthur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.80 — 7,591 ratings — published 2013
The Works and Days / Theogony / The Shield of Herakles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,790 ratings — published -700
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,403 ratings — published 1812
Faust (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.89 — 53,609 ratings — published 1808
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 38,884 ratings — published 1998
The Fall of Troy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as epic-poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 726 ratings — published 350
“The burning coals turned red,
What's gulped down won't come back.
The tiger is lurking in the high steppes, they say,
The Kyrgyz heart is pounding...
Will the Kyrgyz, locked up, now die, alas?
Will every one of our people become a Chinaman, alas?
Will it put fear in the heart, alas?
Will the ugly-faced dark Chinese,
Enjoy trampling us down, alas?”
― Manaschi
What's gulped down won't come back.
The tiger is lurking in the high steppes, they say,
The Kyrgyz heart is pounding...
Will the Kyrgyz, locked up, now die, alas?
Will every one of our people become a Chinaman, alas?
Will it put fear in the heart, alas?
Will the ugly-faced dark Chinese,
Enjoy trampling us down, alas?”
― Manaschi
“A Ravaging Sentinel's Vow by Stewart Stafford
State your love for me now —
Agreed, a cracked heart pledge,
Defying your many flaws,
martyring me to betrayal's dredge.
At your darkest dawn —
My fealty oath holds true,
when every back is turned,
a redeeming ravager’s purview.
A sentinel’s dust trail climbs high,
hooves thunder; the sundial stops,
A vow declared, enemies routed,
disaster reined on teetering clifftops.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
State your love for me now —
Agreed, a cracked heart pledge,
Defying your many flaws,
martyring me to betrayal's dredge.
At your darkest dawn —
My fealty oath holds true,
when every back is turned,
a redeeming ravager’s purview.
A sentinel’s dust trail climbs high,
hooves thunder; the sundial stops,
A vow declared, enemies routed,
disaster reined on teetering clifftops.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
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