List of long poems in English

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Script error: No such module "Unsubst". This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight. This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label of long poem is selectively and inconsistently applied in literary academia.

Poet Poem Year published Length Verse form
Algerton, Frank C. Columbia: an Epic Poem on the Late Civil War between the Northern and Southern States of North America 1893 heroic couplet
Ammons, A. R. Sphere: The Form of a Motion 1973
Ammons, A. R. Tape for the Turn of the Year 1965
Ashbery, John Flow Chart 1991
Atherstone, Edwin The Fall of Nineveh 1828–1868 blank verse
Atherstone, Edwin Israel in Egypt 1861 20,000 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". blank verse
Auden, W.H. The Age of Anxiety 1944–46 2,500 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Aurobindo, Sri Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol 1951 24,000 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". lines blank verse
Anonymous Beowulf Script error: No such module "sort". 3,182 lines alliterative verse
Benét, Stephen Vincent John Brown's Body 1930 15,000 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". lines various
Blackmore, Richard Eliza 1705 8,000 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". lines heroic couplet
Blackmore, Richard Redemption 1722
Bowles, William Lisle The Spirit of Discovery; or, the Conquest of Ocean 1804 blank verse
Branch, Anna Hempstead Nimrod 1910 blank verse
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Aurora Leigh 1856 10,938 lines blank verse
Browning, Robert Sordello 1840 heroic couplet
Browning, Robert The Ring and the Book 1868–69 21,000 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". lines blank verse
Browning, Robert Fifine at the Fair 1872 2,530 lines alexandrine couplets
Bryant, John Delavau Redemption, a Poem 1857 blank verse
Bulmer, Agnes Messiah's Kingdom 1833 14,000 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". lines heroic couplet
Byron, Lord Don Juan 1824 15,920 lines ottava rima
Byron, Lord Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 1812–18 4,455 lines Spenserian stanza
Chaucer, Geoffrey Troilus and Criseyde 1380 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 8,239 lines rhyme royal
Clough, Arthur Hugh The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich 1848 1,870 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". hexameter
Cowper, William The Task 1785 blank verse
Crane, Hart The Bridge 1930
Anonymous Cursor Mundi 1300 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 30,000 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". lines, depending on manuscript primarily eight-syllable couplets
H.D. Helen in Egypt 1961
H.D. Trilogy 1944–46
Davenant, William Gondibert 1651 6,940 lines decasyllabic quatrains
Dickey, James The Zodiac 1976
Dorn, Edward Gunslinger 1989
Drayton, Michael The Barons' Wars 1603 3,624 lines ottava rima
Drummond, William Hamilton The Battle of Trafalgar 1806 heroic couplet
Duncan, Robert The Structure of Rime 1960
Duncan, Robert Passages 1968
Drayton, Michael Poly-Olbion 1612; 1622 15,000 lines alexandrine
Dryden, John The Hind and the Panther 1687 2,569 lines heroic couplet
Emerson, Claudia Pinion 2002
Fitchett, John King Alfred 1841 131,000 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". lines[1] blank verse
Gawain Poet Cleanness Script error: No such module "sort". 1,813 lines alliterative verse
Gawain Poet Pearl Script error: No such module "sort". 1212 lines alliterative verse
Gawain Poet Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Script error: No such module "sort". 2,530 lines alliterative verse
Anonymous Generides Script error: No such module "sort". 6696 lines rhyme royal
Glover, Richard Leonidas 1737 blank verse
Gower, John Confessio Amantis 1390 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 33,000 lines rhymed couplets
Greening, John Fotheringhay 1995
Greening, John Gascoigne's Egg 2000
Greening, John Omm Sety 2001
Greening, John The Silence 2019
Thomas Hoccleve Regiment of Princes 1410–1413 5,464 lines Seven-line decasyllabic rhymed stanzas
Howe, Susan The Liberties 1980
Hughes, Langston Montage of a Dream Deferred 1951
Jones, David The Anathemata 1952
Jones, David In Parenthesis 1937
Kaye, John Brayshaw Trial of Christ in Seven Stages 1909 blank verse
Kaye, John Brayshaw Vashti 1894 blank verse
Keats, John Endymion 1818 4,100 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". heroic couplet
Anonymous King Alisaunder 1300 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 4,000 lines octosyllabic couplets
Anonymous King Horn 1225 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 1,650 lines rhyming couplets with occasional alliterative metre
Langland, William Piers Plowman 1370–90 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 7,300 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". lines alliterative metre
Anonymous Laud Troy Book 1400 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 18,664 lines tetrameter couplets
Lawrance, William Vicars The Story of Judeth 1889 heroic couplet
Layamon Brut 1190–1215 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 16,095 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". lines[2] alliterative verse with rhyme
Lydgate, John The Fall of the Princes 1431–1439 36,365 lines rhyme royal
Lydgate, John Siege of Thebes 1420–1422 4,716 lines rhyme royal
Lydgate, John Troy Book 1412–20 30,117 lines ten-syllable couplets
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Evangeline 1847 1396 lines hexameter
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth The Song of Hiawatha 1855 5,414 lines octosyllable
Robert Mannyng Handlyng Synne 1303 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 12,000 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". lines four-stress rhyme royal
Masefield, John Dauber 1912 rhyme royal
Meek, Alexander Beaufort The Red Eagle. A Poem of the South 1855
Melville, Herman Clarel 1876 18,000 lines irregularly rhymed iambic tetrameter
Miles, Sibella Elizabeth The Wanderer of Scandinavia, or Sweden Delivered 1826 Spenserian stanza
Milton, John Paradise Lost 1667 10,565 lines blank verse
Milton, John Paradise Regained 1671 2,070 lines blank verse
Milton, John Samson Agonistes 1671 1,758 lines blank verse
Moon, George Washington Elijah the Prophet 1866 blank verse
Morris, William The Earthly Paradise 1868–1870 various
Morris, William The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs 1876 10,000+ lines alliterative verse
Ogilvie, John Britannia 1801 blank verse
Olson, Charles Maximus Poems 1953–1975
Orrm Ormulum 1150–1180 18,956 lines unrhymed strict heptameter
Peterson, Joseph G. Inside the Whale 2011
Pound, Ezra Cantos 1915–62 free verse
Anonymous Prick of Conscience 1325–1350 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 9,600 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". lines octosyllabic couplets
Robinson, Edwin Arlington Merlin 1917 2,560 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". lines blank verse
Seymer, John Gunning The Fall of Saul 1839 blank verse
Shakespeare, William The Rape of Lucrece 1594 1,855 lines rhyme royal
Shelley, Percy Bysshe Queen Mab 1813 2,289 lines
Shelley, Percy Bysshe The Revolt of Islam 1817 4,818 lines Spenserian stanza
Southey, Robert Joan of Arc 1796
Southey, Robert Thalaba the Destroyer 1801
Southey, Robert Madoc 1805
Southey, Robert Roderick the Last of the Goths 1814
Spenser, Edmund The Faerie Queene[3] 1590, 1596 34,928 lines Spenserian stanza
Stanford, Frank The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You 1977 15,283 lines
Stein, Gertrude Stanzas in Meditation 1956
Swinburne, Algernon Charles Tristram of Lyonesse 1882 4,488 lines heroic couplet
Thomson, James The Castle of Indolence 1748 1,422 lines Spenserian stanza
Thomson, James The Seasons 1730 5,405 lines blank verse
Tighe, Mary Psyche, or the Legend of Love[4] 1805 3,348 lines Spenserian stanza
Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lay of Leithian 1985 4,223 lines rhyming couplets
Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lay of the Children of Húrin 1985 2,276 lines alliterative verse
Tolson, Melvin B. Harlem Gallery 1965
Townsend, George Armageddon 1815 blank verse
Walcott, Derek Omeros 1990 8,000 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". terza rima, free verse
Whitman, Walt Song of Myself 1881 1346 lines free verse
Williams, Saul , said the shotgun to the head 2006
Williams, William Carlos Paterson 1946–58
Wordsworth, William The Prelude 1850 blank verse
Zukofsky, Louis "A" 1928–78 free verse

References

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  2. ↑ The majority of Brut's lines are pairs of half-lines, though some consist of only one half-line. The poem contains 32241 total half-lines in the longer of the two manuscripts in which it is extant.
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