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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 — 326 ratings — published
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,226,323 ratings — published -700
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.53 — 240,323 ratings — published 1400
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.50 — 352,466 ratings — published 1000
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.93 — 523,474 ratings — published -800
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.86 — 185,998 ratings — published 1667
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.88 — 146,435 ratings — published -19
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.76 — 80,791 ratings — published 1375
Inside Out & Back Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.12 — 68,145 ratings — published 2011
The Crossover (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.21 — 71,147 ratings — published 2014
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.15 — 94,250 ratings — published 2014
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.10 — 79,763 ratings — published 8
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.76 — 121,807 ratings — published -1800
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.29 — 173,731 ratings — published 1845
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.24 — 141,262 ratings — published 2017
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 37,778 ratings — published 1998
House Arrest (House Arrest, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,910 ratings — published 2015
Don Juan (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.78 — 9,030 ratings — published 1819
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.03 — 210,266 ratings — published 1321
The Golden Gate (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,889 ratings — published 1986
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 63,440 ratings — published 1798
Home of the Brave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,263 ratings — published 2007
Time Is a Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.90 — 38,130 ratings — published 2022
Love, Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.86 — 285 ratings — published 2021
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.22 — 111,111 ratings — published 2020
Punching the Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.39 — 24,272 ratings — published 2020
The Lusiads (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,606 ratings — published 1572
One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.16 — 22,874 ratings — published 2015
A Time to Dance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,368 ratings — published 2014
The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.87 — 7,966 ratings — published 2009
Goblin Market: A Tale of Two Sisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.09 — 16,932 ratings — published 1862
Booked (The Crossover, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.17 — 20,092 ratings — published 2016
The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.74 — 807 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 — 7,574 ratings — published 2009
Shout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.24 — 22,331 ratings — published 2019
The Lays of Beleriand (The History of Middle-Earth, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,290 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 — 12,761 ratings — published 1270
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,222 ratings — published 1835
Solo (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,788 ratings — published 2017
Out of the Dust (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.77 — 80,418 ratings — published 1997
The Fall of Arthur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.80 — 7,545 ratings — published 2013
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,385 ratings — published 1990
Idylls of the King (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,527 ratings — published 1885
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,361 ratings — published 1812
The Ring and the Book (Broadview Literary Texts)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.88 — 426 ratings — published 1869
Eugene Onegin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.11 — 72,273 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 — 4,869 ratings — published 2007
Meet Danitra Brown: An Illustrated Poetry Book About Friendship for Kids (Ages 4-8)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.20 — 300 ratings — published 1984
“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.”
―
