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Long poems and not poetry collection, please?

Are you wanting modern stuff? Or older? Epics like The Iliad, by Homer, or The Saga of the Volsungs? Or older but not ancient, like Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, or Don Juan, by Lord Byron?

Song of Myself by Walt Whitman.
Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
Paterson by William Carlos Williams
Cantos by Ezra Pound

The Song of Hiawatha by Longfellow

B by Sarah Kay. It's not that long but still a good poem. You can also watch her performance of it on youtube.

Thanks, a lot!

An ancient and modern stuff is welcome.

The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
Milton's Paradise Lost
Spenser's The Faerie Queene
Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto
Dante's The Inferno, of course -- translations by John Ciardi or Dorothy Sayers, but check before you buy because some translations turn it into prose.

You might also look at Wikipedia's for more.

Modern ones are harder to find -- I'm not sure people have the taste for long-form poetry anymore (which is a shame, really). A few to look at: Helen in Egypt by H.D., Omeros by Derek Walcott. Montage of a Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes, and Prometheus Unbound by Shelley.

I suppose you could consider song lyrics as poetry, in which case there are concept albums like Clockwork Angels by Rush, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Genesis, S.F. Sorrow by The Pretty Things, or Days of Future Passed by the Moody Blues. That's more of a stretch, though.

Just discovered -- Wikipedia also has a . How did I not remember Spoon River Anthology??

My very favorite....SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY BY MASTERS.....A collection with stand alone pieces.

Also, THE WHITE MAGNOLIA TREE

The ballad "The Outlandish Knight" is one I enjoy.

Pamela wrote: "The ballad "The Outlandish Knight" is one I enjoy."

By...?

Scott wrote: ""

Wow, that looks fantastic!

Unfortunately, the name of the author of "The Outlandish Knight" has been lost over the centuries.

Is it this one The Outlandish Knight?

No, that seems to be a novel, but I was referring to a ballad that I originally read in The Golden Treasury of Poetry, edited by Louis Untermeyer. If you Google The Outlandish Knight lyrics or ballad, you'll find it.

Pamela wrote: "...I was referring to a ballad that I originally read in The Golden Treasury of Poetry, edited by Louis Untermeyer..."

Ah, ok. Turns out Wikipedia actually has , and I found as well. Thanks!

Some of my favorites:
Works of Rudyard Kipling, such as "A Tree Song"
Works of Lewis Carroll, such as "Jabberwocky" and "The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits)"
Works of Robert Graves, such as "Cherry Time"
Works of W.H. Auden, such as "At Last the Secret is Out"
Works of W.B. Yeats, such as "Leda and the Swan"
Works of Walter Scott, such as "Marmion"
Works of Alfred Douglas, such as "The Shark"
Works of Edward Lear, such as "The Owl and the Pussycat"
Works of Edgar Allen Poe, such as "The Raven"
Works of Mary Howitt, such as "The Spider and the Fly"
Works of William Blake, such as "The Tiger"
Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, such as "The Village Blacksmith"
Works of Robert Burns, such as "To a Mouse"

Clarel by Herman Melville is the longest poem in American literature. It is almost 18,000 lines.

Thanks a lot!