Best poems about — Storgy
Fate.
8 poems, ranked.
8 of the finest public-domain poems about fate, ranked by thematic depth. Scored by Storgy's classification model against the rest of the corpus, and re-indexed weekly as new works enter the canon.
The leading three
01
Azrael
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A visiting Indian prince notices the Angel of Death standing outside King Solomon's palace and pleads with Solomon to use his famed control over the wind to car…”
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02
Chorus of Dreams from the Ivory Gate
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“This poem captures the tense moment right before Pandora opens her legendary box — referred to here as a chest — by voicing the dream-spirits that slip through…”
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03
King Olaf and Earl Sigvald
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“King Olaf, the Norwegian king, sets out with a fleet of seventy ships, relying on the treacherous Earl Sigvald to navigate him through uncharted waters. Unbekno…”
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- 04
The Bride's Tragedy
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Two lovers are separated when Willie doesn't make it in time, and his bride is given to another man, Earl Robert. At dawn, he rides out and intercepts her on her wedding day. Toget…
- 05
The Knight's Tale
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Knight's Tale is the first and longest story in Chaucer's *Canterbury Tales*, narrated by the most noble pilgrim in the group. It centers on two knights from Thebes, Palamon an…
- 06
To Fortune
Horace
Horace speaks of Fortune as a powerful goddess who controls human fate — she has the ability to raise the humble or bring down the powerful, making her a figure of fear for everyon…
- 07
To Paris
Horace
Nereus, the sea-god, calms the winds to deliver a dire prophecy to Paris as he sails home with Helen: this single act of theft will unleash the full might of the Greek army on Troy…
- 08
Yvytot
Eugene Field
A prince from the kingdom of Yvytot falls for a mysterious figure he sees emerging from the sea, while his father—who had previously promised the sea-king that his son would marry…
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