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Holy Sonnets I to XIX (aka 'The Divine Meditations')

In A Selection of Divine Poems

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John Donne

John Donne was an English Jacobean preacher, sometime lawyer, later in life a Member of Parliament and Royal Chaplain. Marrying for love aga…

Book 1

In The Battle of Marathon

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Battle of Marathon is a rhymed, dramatic, narrative-poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Written in 1820, it retells powerfully The Battl…

The Chase aka The Wild Horseman

In Translations & Imitations of German Ballads

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Sir Walter Scott

The narrative poems in this collection are written by Sir Walter Scott - the well-known Scottish poet and novelist. Each of these five poems…

01 Canto 1, Part 1, Stanzas 1-15

In Lara, A Tale

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Lord Byron and George Gordon, Lord Byron

This powerful poem narrates the fateful return of Count Lara to the British Isles after spending years abroad traveling the orient.Returning…

00 Introduction

In Harold the Dauntless

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Sir Walter Scott

Harold the Dauntless is a rhymed, romantic, narrative-poem by Sir Walter Scott. Written in 1817, it weaves together elements of popular Engl…

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