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Song of Myself

Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” is an expansive 1855 poem central to American literary history. It's notable for its inn...

Lyric Epic 19TH Century Poem

9.7 Brilliant

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s *The Rime of the Ancient Mariner* is a Romantic-era poem detailing a sailor’s fateful encounte...

Romantic Narrative Classroom Poem

9.6 Brilliant

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The Canterbury Tales General Prologue

Chaucer’s General Prologue offers a detailed snapshot of late medieval England through a collection of character sketche...

Narrative Medieval Classroom Chaucer

9.6 Brilliant

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a medieval narrative poem written in Middle English around 1390. It tells the story o...

Narrative Medieval Classroom Poem

9.5 Brilliant

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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” is a deeply moving elegy written in 1865 to commemorate Abraha...

19TH Century Memorial Elegiac Poem

9.5 Brilliant

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Because I could not stop for Death

Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” explores themes of mortality through a carefully constructed meta...

Lyric 19TH Century Classroom Dickinson

9.5 Brilliant

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Auld Lang Syne

“Auld Lang Syne,” penned by Robert Burns in 1788, is a Scottish poem exploring themes of memory and friendship. Its endu...

Lyric 18TH Century Ceremonial Poem

9.4 Excellent

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La Belle Dame sans Merci

John Keats’ “La Belle Dame sans Merci” is a narrative poem first published in 1819. It portrays a knight’s obsessive pur...

Romantic Narrative Ballad Keats

9.3 Excellent

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The New Colossus

Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” is a 19th-century poem immortalized by its inscription on the Statue of Liberty. The w...

19TH Century Ceremonial Patriotic Poem

9.3 Excellent

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Goblin Market

Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market is a Victorian narrative poem exploring themes of temptation and sacrifice. The work...

Lyric Narrative Victorian Poem

9.3 Excellent

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Hope is the thing with feathers

Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is the thing with feathers” explores the enduring nature of optimism through a striking metaphor...

Inspirational Lyric 19TH Century Dickinson

9.2 Excellent

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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam presents a sequence of fourteen rhyming couplets originally written by the 11th-century Per...

Lyric 19TH Century Philosophical Poem

9.2 Excellent

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Mending Wall

Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” is a narrative poem published in 1914 examining the conflict between inherited custom and...

Narrative Modernist Classroom Poem

9.1 Excellent

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The Lady of Shalott

Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” is a Victorian-era lyric poem based on Arthurian legend. It recounts the story of Elain...

Lyric Narrative Victorian Poem

9.1 Excellent

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Richard Cory

Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Richard Cory” explores the deceptive nature of public perception. The poem details the story...

Narrative Modernist Classroom Robinson

9.1 Excellent

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O Captain! My Captain!

Walt Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain!” is a poignant 19th-century poem written in response to Abraham Lincoln's assassi...

19TH Century Patriotic Elegiac Poem

9.1 Excellent

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Casey at the Bat

Casey at the Bat is a narrative poem written by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, first published under the pen name Phin in 1888....

Narrative 19TH Century Classroom Poem

8.5 Great

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Paul Revere's Ride

Paul Revere's Ride is a narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1861. T...

Narrative 19TH Century Patriotic Poem

8.4 Great

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The Song of Hiawatha

The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 narrative poem by American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Written in trochaic tetram...

Epic Narrative 19TH Century Poem

7.6 Good

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Evangeline

Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is an English-language narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, published in 1847. Wri...

Narrative 19TH Century Elegiac Poem

7.5 Good