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Below, we introduce ten of the greatest poems suitable for being read aloud. Of course, this isn’t an exhaustive list, but we believe these are some of the best poems for reciting at the top of your voice. Have fun, everyone – and try not to startle your cat. 1. William Wordsworth, ‘ I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ’.
Read long poems, search long poems, and filter long poetry by category. These are the all-time best and most popular long poems by poetic form, category, length, or keyword. See also long poem categories and Famous Long Poems. Minimum Length: Sort Order:
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- In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote this poem as a requiem for his college friend Arthur Henry Hallam who died suddenly at the age of 22.
- Song of Myself by Walt Whitman. It’s hard (maybe impossible) to write about long poems without mentioning this poem by Walt Whitman. It contains famous quotations such as “I am large, I contain multitudes” and “These are the days that must happen to you” and so many more.
- Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. At over 10,000 lines this 19th century poem definitely qualifies as a long one. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was very interested in trying to write an entirely female epic poem.
- The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. At 434 lines, this is one of the shorter long poems on this list. I still believe it is substantial enough to belong in this group.
Which poets wrote the best long poems, or longer poems? The poems on this page are, in my opinion, among the best long poems in the English language. Or because the term "long" is relative, perhaps I should say the best "longer" or "longish" poems.
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Jan 7, 2016 · From least greatest (10) to greatest greatest (1), the poems in this list are limited to ones originally written in the English language and which are 50 lines or less, excluding poems like Homer’s Iliad, Edgar Allan Poe’s “Raven,” Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, and Lord Byron’s mock epic Don Juan. Each poem is followed by some ...
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Mar 7, 2019 · A long, legendary poem, written in 1938, about the illness of a group of miners in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia. “Coming hot on the heels of modernist long poem masterpieces like Eliot’s “The Wasteland” or Stein’s “Tender Buttons,” the poem’s deliberate lucidity isn’t just an aesthetic choice—it’s a political one ...
