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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 8 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,251,807 ratings — published -750
The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.53 — 241,077 ratings — published 1400
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.50 — 354,400 ratings — published 1000
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.88 — 147,515 ratings — published -19
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.94 — 529,576 ratings — published -750
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.86 — 187,088 ratings — published 1667
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.76 — 81,269 ratings — published 1375
Inside Out & Back Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.12 — 68,505 ratings — published 2011
The Crossover (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.21 — 71,566 ratings — published 2014
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.15 — 94,576 ratings — published 2014
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 63,685 ratings — published 1798
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.10 — 80,273 ratings — published 8
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.76 — 122,984 ratings — published -1800
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.29 — 174,836 ratings — published 1845
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.24 — 142,488 ratings — published 2017
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 38,231 ratings — published 1998
House Arrest (House Arrest, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.16 — 17,043 ratings — published 2015
Don Juan (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.78 — 9,070 ratings — published 1819
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.03 — 211,669 ratings — published 1321
The Golden Gate (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,903 ratings — published 1986
Home of the Brave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,324 ratings — published 2007
Time Is a Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.91 — 38,775 ratings — published 2022
Love, Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.86 — 287 ratings — published 2021
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.22 — 111,634 ratings — published 2020
Punching the Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.39 — 24,379 ratings — published 2020
The Lusiads (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,670 ratings — published 1572
One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.16 — 22,961 ratings — published 2015
A Time to Dance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,386 ratings — published 2014
The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.87 — 7,984 ratings — published 2009
Goblin Market: A Tale of Two Sisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,047 ratings — published 1862
Booked (The Crossover, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.17 — 20,169 ratings — published 2016
The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.74 — 824 ratings — published 1380
Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.42 — 1,482 ratings — published 2014
All the Broken Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,584 ratings — published 2009
Shout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.24 — 22,417 ratings — published 2019
The Lays of Beleriand (The History of Middle-Earth, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,320 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 — 12,849 ratings — published 1270
The Kalevala (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,261 ratings — published 1835
Solo (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,841 ratings — published 2017
Out of the Dust (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.77 — 80,596 ratings — published 1997
The Fall of Arthur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.80 — 7,567 ratings — published 2013
Omeros (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,408 ratings — published 1990
Idylls of the King (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,573 ratings — published 1885
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,379 ratings — published 1812
The Ring and the Book (Broadview Literary Texts)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.89 — 429 ratings — published 1869
Eugene Onegin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 4.11 — 72,741 ratings — published 1831
The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.88 — 33 ratings — published 1983
Sharp Teeth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as narrative-poetry)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,883 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
“A Heaving of Hooves
by Stewart Stafford
Branches form a star-shaped dawn,
Hammering ale-soured heads forlorn.
Drunk to dull the bow-stave’s strain,
Bent low, then rose upon the battle plain.
When failing flesh and blood
collapses into dung and mud,
Fury’s flaying poleaxe blow
slashes and culls noble and low.
Hacking peasant adversaries,
Schooled by seasoned mercenaries,
Tavern-stale archers loosing at will—
Hooves thunder, death screams shrill.
The King and standard guard the rear;
Their presence quells each ragged fear,
Dismounted, routed—formation lost:
A butcher’s bill of carrion cost.
© 2026 Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
by Stewart Stafford
Branches form a star-shaped dawn,
Hammering ale-soured heads forlorn.
Drunk to dull the bow-stave’s strain,
Bent low, then rose upon the battle plain.
When failing flesh and blood
collapses into dung and mud,
Fury’s flaying poleaxe blow
slashes and culls noble and low.
Hacking peasant adversaries,
Schooled by seasoned mercenaries,
Tavern-stale archers loosing at will—
Hooves thunder, death screams shrill.
The King and standard guard the rear;
Their presence quells each ragged fear,
Dismounted, routed—formation lost:
A butcher’s bill of carrion cost.
© 2026 Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
