Best poems about — Storgy
Guilt.
9 poems, ranked.
9 of the finest public-domain poems about guilt, 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
Remains
Simon Armitage · 2008
“A British soldier recounts the experience of shooting a looter while on duty, struggling to shake off the memory once he returns home. The image of the man he k…”
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02
Enter Orsino and Giacomo
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“This is a tense moment from Shelley's verse play *The Cenci* (1819), where two men — Giacomo and Orsino — face off after being involved in the murder of the opp…”
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03
Faust, Mephistopheles
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Shelley's dramatic fragment depicts a scene from Goethe's *Faust*, where Faust and the devil Mephistopheles ascend a mountain on Walpurgis Night—the one night e…”
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- 04
Fragment, or the Triumph of Conscience
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A narrator sits alone at night during a raging storm when the ghost of a woman named Victoria appears, a woman he seems to have killed. Although he remains unafraid of the thunder…
- 05
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A grizzled old sailor stops a stranger on his way to a wedding and insists he listens to a wild tale: once, the sailor killed a friendly albatross without cause, and the entire cre…
- 06
Rosaline
James Russell Lowell
A man is haunted — both literally and psychologically — by the ghost of Rosaline, a woman he loved and, as we slowly discover, killed. Night after night, she appears to him in sile…
- 07
Saint Edmond’s Eve
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A guilty priest known as the Black Canon is called to an abbey on a stormy night to put a restless ghost to rest — only to discover that the ghost is the spirit of a nun he secretl…
- 08
The Thorn
William Wordsworth
A nervous local narrator shares with a stranger the tale of a twisted old thorn tree perched on a windswept mountain, along with a small mossy mound that resembles a baby's grave,…
- 09
—victoria
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A narrator sits alone at night as a violent storm rages outside, and he is visited by the ghost of a woman named Victoria, whom he seems to have murdered. The poem serves as a Goth…
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