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

Langston Hughes’ “Ballad of the Landlord” is a powerful poem from the Harlem Renaissance. It recounts a dramatic exchang...

Ballad Harlem Renaissance Classroom Poem

8.7 Great

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The Listeners

Walter de la Mare’s “The Listeners” is a 1912 poem exploring themes of isolation and spectral presence. The narrative re...

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

The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a narrative poem by Robert Browning, first published in 1842 in Dramatic Lyrics. It retells...

Narrative Victorian Classroom Poem

8.6 Great

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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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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 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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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