swap_horiz The Highwayman Alternatives

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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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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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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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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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The Convergence of the Twain

Thomas Hardy’s “The Convergence of the Twain” explores the sinking of the Titanic through a lens of geological time. The...

Lyric Elegiac Edwardian Poem

9.1 Excellent

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The Walrus and the Carpenter

Lewis Carroll’s “The Walrus and the Carpenter” is a Victorian narrative poem from *Through the Looking-Glass*. It tells...

Narrative Victorian Classroom Poem

9.0 Excellent

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol

The Ballad of Reading Gaol is an elegiac narrative poem by Oscar Wilde detailing his experiences and observations while...

Narrative Victorian Elegiac Poem

9.0 Excellent

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Out, Out—

Robert Frost’s ‘Out, Out—’ is a poignant narrative poem exploring the sudden death of a teenage boy due to an accident i...

Narrative Modernist Classroom Poem

8.9 Great

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The Ballad of the Landlord

"Ballad of the Landlord" is a 1940 poem by Langston Hughes dramatizing a Black tenant's confrontation with an exploitati...

Ballad Harlem Renaissance Classroom Poem

8.7 Great

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The Listeners

"The Listeners" is a 1912 poem by Walter de la Mare in which a Traveller knocks on a moonlit door to find only phantom l...

Lyric Narrative Edwardian Poem

8.7 Great

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Sea Fever

"Sea Fever" is a 1902 poem by British poet John Masefield, one of the most popular English poems of the 20th century, ex...

Nature Lyric Edwardian Poem

8.6 Great

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The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Robert Browning's 1842 narrative poem retelling the German legend of a piper who, unpaid for ridding Hamelin of rats, le...

Narrative Victorian Classroom Poem

8.6 Great

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Casey at the Bat

Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1888) is an American comic narrative poem depicting the dramatic strikeout o...

Narrative 19TH Century Classroom Poem

8.5 Great

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A Visit from St. Nicholas

"A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("'Twas the Night Before Christmas") is an 1823 American poem attributed to Clement Clarke M...

Narrative 19TH Century Ceremonial Moore

8.5 Great

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Paul Revere's Ride

Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861) is an American narrative poem recounting the midnight warning ri...

Narrative 19TH Century Patriotic Poem

8.4 Great

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Cargoes

"Cargoes" is a 1903 poem by John Masefield contrasting ancient treasure-laden galleys with a modern dirty British coaste...

Lyric Classroom Edwardian Poem

8.4 Great