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The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,283,593 ratings — published -800
The Creep (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.11 — 326 ratings — published
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.50 — 356,625 ratings — published 950
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.77 — 81,714 ratings — published 1375
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.94 — 536,543 ratings — published -750
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.53 — 241,874 ratings — published 1400
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.88 — 148,800 ratings — published -19
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.86 — 188,221 ratings — published 1667
Inside Out & Back Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.12 — 68,800 ratings — published 2011
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 38,730 ratings — published 1998
The Crossover (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.20 — 69,892 ratings — published 2014
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.15 — 94,946 ratings — published 2014
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 63,890 ratings — published 1798
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.10 — 80,939 ratings — published 8
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.76 — 124,077 ratings — published -1800
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.29 — 175,904 ratings — published 1845
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.24 — 143,467 ratings — published 2017
House Arrest (House Arrest, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.16 — 17,143 ratings — published 2015
Don Juan (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,124 ratings — published 1819
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.03 — 213,039 ratings — published 1321
The Golden Gate (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,915 ratings — published 1986
Home of the Brave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,368 ratings — published 2007
Time Is a Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.91 — 39,454 ratings — published 2022
Love, Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.87 — 289 ratings — published 2021
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.22 — 112,069 ratings — published 2020
Punching the Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.38 — 24,476 ratings — published 2020
The Lusiads (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,741 ratings — published 1572
One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.16 — 23,026 ratings — published 2015
A Time to Dance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,394 ratings — published 2014
The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,007 ratings — published 2009
Goblin Market: A Tale of Two Sisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,172 ratings — published 1862
The Lais of Marie de France (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.83 — 10,366 ratings — published 1160
Booked (The Crossover, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.17 — 20,283 ratings — published 2016
The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.74 — 828 ratings — published 1380
Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.42 — 1,481 ratings — published 2014
All the Broken Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,596 ratings — published 2009
Pearl: A New Verse Translation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.87 — 825 ratings — published 1380
Shout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.24 — 22,492 ratings — published 2019
The Lays of Beleriand (The History of Middle-Earth, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,337 ratings — published 1985
The Rape of Lucrece (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.58 — 2,753 ratings — published 1594
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,941 ratings — published 1270
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,295 ratings — published 1835
Solo (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,911 ratings — published 2017
Out of the Dust (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.78 — 80,821 ratings — published 1997
The Fall of Arthur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.80 — 7,581 ratings — published 2013
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,452 ratings — published 1990
Idylls of the King (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,620 ratings — published 1885
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,394 ratings — published 1812
The Ring and the Book (Broadview Literary Texts)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.88 — 430 ratings — published 1869
Eugene Onegin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.11 — 73,256 ratings — published 1831
“Lazarus Saturday: The Longest Way by Stewart Stafford
"Lazarus, come out!" Jesus said:
A dead man awoke in a burial place,
Wrapped head to foot on a stretcher;
He shook away the cloth on his face.
Four days dead, his soul was gone;
His sisters berated Jesus's late arrival;
The Lord did not doubt his power,
From the afterlife came his survival.
From a white light end to a dark revival,
Life cascaded in decomposing flesh,
His chest hurt as it rose and fell again,
Bloated and blotchy skin alive afresh.
Lazarus struggled to breathe in dusty air;
His body was freezing and deathly pale;
At first, he thought he had gone to God,
The voice of his friend told another tale.
Shuffling stiffly to the cave's womb exit,
Newborn-blind to his second life;
The Disciples rushed to unwrap him,
His sisters embraced away their strife.
Lazarus wanted to tell what he had seen,
But was told it was not for mortal ears;
His sisters had to respect this wish,
Overjoyed to live to Methuselah's years.
The word spread fast of this act;
Of the Nazarene's immense power;
That his reach could extend so far,
To the world far past Babel's Tower.
As the daughter of Jairus resurrected,
Christ himself arose on the third day;
Lazarus was in Death's grip tightest,
Miracles that blood money cannot repay.
© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
"Lazarus, come out!" Jesus said:
A dead man awoke in a burial place,
Wrapped head to foot on a stretcher;
He shook away the cloth on his face.
Four days dead, his soul was gone;
His sisters berated Jesus's late arrival;
The Lord did not doubt his power,
From the afterlife came his survival.
From a white light end to a dark revival,
Life cascaded in decomposing flesh,
His chest hurt as it rose and fell again,
Bloated and blotchy skin alive afresh.
Lazarus struggled to breathe in dusty air;
His body was freezing and deathly pale;
At first, he thought he had gone to God,
The voice of his friend told another tale.
Shuffling stiffly to the cave's womb exit,
Newborn-blind to his second life;
The Disciples rushed to unwrap him,
His sisters embraced away their strife.
Lazarus wanted to tell what he had seen,
But was told it was not for mortal ears;
His sisters had to respect this wish,
Overjoyed to live to Methuselah's years.
The word spread fast of this act;
Of the Nazarene's immense power;
That his reach could extend so far,
To the world far past Babel's Tower.
As the daughter of Jairus resurrected,
Christ himself arose on the third day;
Lazarus was in Death's grip tightest,
Miracles that blood money cannot repay.
© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
“So I perversely circle the late stars, drowsier and drowsier, sleepily longing for something.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
