List of long poems in English

This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight. This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label of long poem is selectively and inconsistently applied in literary academia.

Poet	Poem	Year published	Length
Anonymous	Maz'zaroth	2013	40,800 lines
A. R. Ammons	Sphere: The Form of a Motion	1973
A. R. Ammons	Tape for the Turn of the Year
Matthew Arnold	Sohrab and Rustum
John Ashberry	Flow Chart	1991
W.H. Auden	The Sea and the Mirror
W.H. Auden	The Age of Anxiety
	Beowulf	8th-11th Century	3,182 lines
John Berryman	The Dream Songs	1969	ca. 2,300 lines
Richard Blackmore	Eliza	1705
Richard Blackmore	Redemption	1722
Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Aurora Leigh	1856
Robert Browning	The Ring and the Book	1868-69	18,000 lines
Lord Byron	DonJuan	1824
Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	1812-18
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Christabel	1797; 1800	1,356 lines
Hart Crane	The Bridge	1930
	Cursor Mundi	ca. 1300	ca. 30,000 lines
H.D.	Helen in Egypt
H.D.	Trilogy	1944-46	(published as "The Walls do not Fall", "Tribute to the Angels", and "The Flowering of the Rod"
William Davenant	Gondibert	1651
James Dickey	The Zodiac	1976
Edward Dorn	Slinger
Robert Duncan	The Structure of Rime
Robert Duncan	Passages
Michael Drayton	Poly-Olbion	1612; 1622	15000 lines
T. S. Eliot	Four Quartets (including Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding)	1936–1943
Claudia Emerson	Pinion
Richard Glover (poet)	Leonidas	1737
Judy Grahn	The Chronicle of Queens
Susan Howe	The Liberties
Langston Hughes	Montage of a Dream Deferred
David Jones	The Anathemata
David Jones	In Parenthesis	1937
John Keats	Endymion (poem)	1818	ca. 4,000 lines
William Langland	Piers Plowman	ca.1370-90	ca. 7,300 lines
Carl Melanson	Amelthus
Herman Melville	Clarel	1876	18,000 lines
John Milton	Paradise Lost	1667	10,565 lines
John Milton	Paradise Regained	1671	2,070 lines
John Milton	Samson Agonistes	1671	1,758 lines
Peter Oresick	Warhol-o-rama	2008
Charles Olson	Maximus Poems
Joseph G. Peterson	Inside the Whale	2011
Ezra Pound	Cantos
Ntozake Shange	For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf	1976
Percy Bysshe Shelely	Queen Mab (poem)	1813
Percy Bysshe Shelely	Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude	1815
Percy Bysshe Shelely	The Revolt of Islam	1817	4,818 lines
Robert Southey	Joan of Arc	1796
Robert Southey	Thelma the Destroyer	1801
Robert Southey	Madoc (poem)	1805
Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene	1590, 1596	36,000 lines
Frank Stanford	The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You	1977	15,283 lines
Gertrude Stein	Stanzas in Meditation	1956
Mary Tighe	Psyche, or the Legend of Love	1805	3,348 lines
Melvin B. Tolson	Harlem Gallery	1965
Derek Walcott	Omeros	1990
Walt Whitman	Song of Myself	1881	1346 lines
Saul Williams	, said the shotgun to the head
William Carlos Williams	Paterson]]	1946-58
William Wordsworth	The Prelude	1850
Louis Zukofsky	"A"