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Narrative Poetry Books
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The Creep (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.11 — 325 ratings — published
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,197,817 ratings — published -800
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.53 — 238,324 ratings — published 1400
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.50 — 348,599 ratings — published 1000
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.93 — 511,696 ratings — published -800
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.86 — 183,139 ratings — published 1667
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.87 — 143,915 ratings — published -19
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.76 — 78,165 ratings — published 1375
Inside Out & Back Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.12 — 67,142 ratings — published 2011
The Crossover (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.22 — 70,074 ratings — published 2014
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.15 — 93,236 ratings — published 2014
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.10 — 78,545 ratings — published 8
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.75 — 119,539 ratings — published -2000
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.29 — 170,941 ratings — published 1845
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.24 — 138,104 ratings — published 2017
Autobiography of Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 36,606 ratings — published 1998
House Arrest (House Arrest, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,564 ratings — published 2015
Don Juan (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.78 — 8,946 ratings — published 1819
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.03 — 206,897 ratings — published 1321
The Golden Gate (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,859 ratings — published 1986
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 62,863 ratings — published 1798
Home of the Brave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,083 ratings — published 2007
Time Is a Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.91 — 36,946 ratings — published 2022
Love, Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.86 — 283 ratings — published 2021
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.22 — 109,938 ratings — published 2020
Punching the Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.39 — 23,954 ratings — published 2020
The Lusiads (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,478 ratings — published 1572
One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.16 — 22,697 ratings — published 2015
A Time to Dance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,327 ratings — published 2014
The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.87 — 7,913 ratings — published 2009
Goblin Market: A Tale of Two Sisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.09 — 16,623 ratings — published 1862
Booked (The Crossover, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.17 — 19,883 ratings — published 2016
The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.74 — 801 ratings — published 1380
Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.42 — 1,478 ratings — published 2014
All the Broken Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,499 ratings — published 2009
Shout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.24 — 22,126 ratings — published 2019
The Lays of Beleriand (The History of Middle-Earth, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,219 ratings — published 1985
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,555 ratings — published 1270
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,119 ratings — published 1835
Solo (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,675 ratings — published 2017
Out of the Dust (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.77 — 79,563 ratings — published 1997
The Fall of Arthur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.80 — 7,482 ratings — published 2013
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,313 ratings — published 1990
Idylls of the King (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,432 ratings — published 1885
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,324 ratings — published 1812
The Faerie Queene (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,350 ratings — published 1590
The Ring and the Book (Broadview Literary Texts)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.88 — 420 ratings — published 1869
Eugene Onegin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.10 — 71,104 ratings — published 1831
The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.91 — 34 ratings — published 1983
Sharp Teeth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,844 ratings — published 2007
“Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth”
― The Rape of Lucrece
― The Rape of Lucrece
“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.”
―
