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• Didactic poetry, English
• Didactic poetry, English (Middle)
• Didactic poetry, English (Old)
• Didactic poetry, German
• Didactic poetry, Greek
• Didactic poetry, Italian
• Didactic poetry, Latin
• Didactic poetry, Persian
• Didactic poetry, Scandinavian
• Didactic poetry, Spanish
• Didactic poetry, Tamil
• Didactic poetry, Thai
• Didactic poetry, Urdu

• The georgic; a contribution to the study of the Vergilian type of didactic poetry, by Marie Loretto Lilly ... (The Johns Hopkins Press, 1919), by Marie Loretto Lilly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poésies populaires du sud de l'Inde; traduction et notices. (Librairie internationale; [etc., etc.], 1867), by Lamairesse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life, a poem in three books; descriptive of the various characters in life; the different passions, with their moral influence; the good and evil resulting from their sway; and of the perfect man. Dedicated to the social and political welfare of the people of the United States. (From the Franklin Press. W. W. Gray, Printer, 1819), by William Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les bosquets d'agrément, poëme en quatre chants : suivi des Arbres toujours-verts, poëme en stances régulières (Paris :, 1808), by G. A. J. Hécart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections for school exhibitions and private reading, illustrating and advocating kindness to all creatures. (Wright & Potter, 1882), by Wright & Potter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems and prose writings (Salem Press Publishing and Printing Co., 1890), by Lydia L. A. Very and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Señora Santa Ana de la ciudad de Sevilla (Impr. de M.N. Vazquez y Cia, 1782) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Publii Ovidii Nasonis operum (L. Elzevir, 1652), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, Nicolaas Heinsius, and Officina Elzeviriana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. (1481), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, Richard Heber, Percy John Dobell, Thomas Thorpe, Thomas Phillips, Raphael de Predanigra, and Maggs Bros. (page images at HathiTrust)

• Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe, by George Santayana (Gutenberg ebook)

• The pearls of the gulf! A series of didactic poems and poetic reader and declaimer for schools and families. (Wrightson & co., steam printers, 1869), by Sidney N. Marques (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of poetry for children (Lilly, Wait, and co., 1834), by Samuel G. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)

• Xing shi qian jia shi (Fo xue shu ju, 1929), by Yuanqing Li (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hua min su ge shi quan shi jie (n.p., 1887), by China Ningwu (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beschouwing der Wereld (By Kornelis vander Sys, 1738), by Jan Luiken (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bye Korf des Gemoeds (By de Wed: P: Arntz, en K: vander Sys, 1711), by Jan Luiken (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crachtighe bevveginghe van vlees en gheest (Ghedruckt by Hans vander Hellen, voor Jan Pietersz van de Venne ..., 1620), by Jacob Cats, Theodor Matham, Jan Gerrits Swelinck, Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne, Pieter de Jode, Pieter Serwouters, and Frans Schillemans (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Onwaardige Wereld (By Kornelis vander Sys, 1728), by Jan Luiken (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stichtelijke verzen (C. Huig, 1904), by Jan Luiken and C. B. Hylkema (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bye korf des gemoeds (Te Amsteldam : By Kornelis vander Sys ..., 1735., 1735), by Jan Luiken (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des menschen begin, midden en einde : vertoonende het kinderlyk bedryf en aanwasch in eenenvyftig konstige figuuren, met goddelyke spreuken en stichtelyke verzen (Te Amsteldam : By F. Houttuyn, 1758., 1758), by Jan Luiken (page images at HathiTrust)

• Night thoughts (T. Bedlington, 1826), by Edward Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complaint; or Night thoughts, and the Force of religion. (T. Bedlington, 1826), by Edward Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Faery queene. (Clarendon press, 1899), by Edmund Spenser, A. L. Mayhew, and G. W. Kitchin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality (Boston, 1839), by Edward Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories from the Faerie queene (McClelland & Goodchild, 1911), by Edmund Spenser and Lawrence H. Dawson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Complaint (Printed for Thomas Tegg and Son, 1836), by Edward Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book II of the Faery queene (Clarendon Press, 1895), by Edmund Spenser, A. L. Mayhew, and G. W. Kitchin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complaint and consolation, or, Night thoughts on life, death and immortality (Published by Francis Hart ..., 1800), by Edward Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complaint (S. and C. Shepley, 1847), by Edward Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young's Night Thoughts: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes, by Edward Young, ed. by George Gilfillan (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fools in earnest, or, A fairing for phanaticks ([S.l. : s.n., 1683]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Friendly caveat to all true Christians, showing them the true way to heaven (London : Printed for VV. Thackeray, T. Passenger, and VV. Whitwood, [167-]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Moral Love Songs and Laments, ed. by Susanna Fein (HTML at metseditions.org)
• The pricke of conscience (Stimulus conscientiae) : a Northumbrian poem (A. Asher, 1863), by Richard Rolle and British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)

• Old English version of Boethius (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1968), by King of England Alfred, Walter John Sedgefield, and Boethius (page images at HathiTrust)
• De consolatione philosophiae (G. Bell, 1895), by Boethius, Martin Farquhar Tupper, Samuel Fox, and King of England Alfred (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Old English Physiologus (in English and Anglo-Saxon), by Cynewulf, trans. by Albert S. Cook and James Hall Pitman (Gutenberg ebook)

• Auserlesene moralische Gedichte (Bresslau, 1725), by Benjamin Neukirch (page images at HathiTrust)

• Parmenides Lehrgedicht; griechisch und deutsch (G. Reimer, 1897), by Parmenides and Hermann Diels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rufi Festi Avieni Aratea (in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1882), by Rufius Festus Avienus, Alfred August Bernhard Breysig, and Solensis Aratus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetæ bucolici et didactici : Theocritus, Bion, Moschus (Editore Ambrosio Firmin Didot, 1862), by Karl Friedrich Ameis and Theocritus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetae bucolici et didactici. Theocritus, Bion, Moschus (A. Firmin Didot, 1846), by Theocritus, Hermann Köchly, Ulco Cats Bussemaker, Fr. Dübner, F. S. Lehrs, and Karl Friedrich Ameis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hesiodou tou Askraiou Erga Kai hemerai. Hesiodi Ascræi Opera et dies. (Nella stamperia Carli e. co, 1808), by Hesiod and Luigi Antonio Lanzi (page images at HathiTrust)

• Raccolta di poemi didascalici del secolo XVIII. (Dalla Società tipogr. de'classici italiani, 1828), by L. Mascheroni, Carlo Castone della Torre di Rezzonico, Bartolommeo Lorenzi, and Giovanni Battista Roberti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Raccolta di poemi didascalici. (Società tipogr. de' Classici italiani, 1825), by Vincenzo Benini, Giovanni Battista Spolverini, Girolamo Fracastoro, and Bernardino Baldi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Raccolta di poemi didascalici. (Società tipografica de' classici italiani, 1813), by Vincenzo Benini, Giovanni Battista Spolverni, Girolamo Fracastoro, and Bernardino Baldi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Raccolta di poemetti didascalici originali o tradotti. (Tip. Visai [etc.], 1821) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oeuvres Complètes d'Ausone (2 volumes, in Latin and French; Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1842-1843), by Decimus Magnus Ausonius, trans. by Étienne-François Corpet (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the nature of things : a philosophical poem, in six books (Henry G. Bohn, 1851), by Titus Lucretius Carus, John Mason Good, and J. S. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Georgics in English hexameters (E. Benn, Limited, 1928), by Virgil and C. W. Brodribb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fecunda ratis (Halle A.S. : Max Niemeyer, 1889., 1889), by of Liège Egbert and Ernst Voight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Excerpta ex scriptis Publii Ovidii Nasonis. Accedunt notulae anglicae et questiones. In usum scholae bostoniensis. Cura B.A. Gould, A.M. (B.B. Mussey, 1843), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid and Benjamin A. Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera (E typographeo Clarendoniano, 1900), by Virgil and Frederick Arthur Hirtzel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lucretius: Of the nature of things : a metrical translation (J.M. Dent ;, 1921), by Titus Lucretius Carus and William Ellery Leonard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Excerpta ex scriptis Publii Ovidii Nasonis : accedunt notulæ anglicæ et questiones : in usum scholæ Bostoniensis. (Hilliard, Gray, et Soc., 1835), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid and Benjamin A. Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quintilian's didactic metaphors ... (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1910), by Jane Gray Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
• P. Ovidius Naso ex Rudolphi Merkelii recognitione (In aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1903), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, Rudolf Ehwald, and Rudolf Merkel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De rerum natura libri sex (e typographeo Universitatis, 1917), by Titus Lucretius Carus and William A. Merrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of P. Virgilius Maro : including the Æneid, Bucolics and Georgics, with the original text reduced to the natural order of construction, and an interlinear translation, as nearly literal as the idiomatic difference of the Latin and English languages will allow : adapted to the system of classical instruction : combining the methods of Ascham, Milton, and Locke (David McKay, 1882), by Virgil, Levi Hart, and V. R. Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Publius Virgilius Maro : from the text of Heyne and Wagner ; with a biographical memoir by Henry Thompson. (R. Griffin, 1855), by Virgil and Henry Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• De natura rerum libri sex. (Typis J. Brandley., 1749), by Titus Lucretius Carus and Usher Gahagan (page images at HathiTrust)
• De rerum natura libri sex. (in aedibus Academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, academiae typographi, 1759), by Titus Lucretius Carus and Thomas Creech (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera omnia. (Prostant apud Waesbergios, Boom, & Goethals, 1702), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, Borchardus Cnippingius, Nicolaas Heinsius, and Officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana (page images at HathiTrust)
• De rerum natura libri sex. (B.G. Teubneri, 1828), by Titus Lucretius Carus and Albert Forbiger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Astronomicum. (A. Valpy, 1828), by Marcus Manilius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Publius Virgilius Maro. (ex officina stereotypa Petri Didot natu maj., et Firmini Didot. Anno VI, 1798), by Virgil, Firmin Didot, and Pierre Didot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil. (Harper & brothers, 1847), by Virgil and Charles Anthon (page images at HathiTrust)
• T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex (G. Chiantore, 1921), by Titus Lucretius Carus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De rerum natura libri sex (E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1922), by Titus Lucretius Carus and Cyril Bailey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• P. Vergili Maronis opera. (Whittaker & Co., 1872), by Virgil, Henry Nettleship, and John Conington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fastorum libri VI. Ovid's Fasti (London, 1839), by Ovid (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Virgil: with the Latin interpretation of Ru/aeus. (Published by Philip H. Nicklin. William Fry, printer, 1813), by Virgil, William Staughton, Joseph Davidson, and Charles de La Rue (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virgile. Les Géorgiques. (Paris?, 1874), by Virgil (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ovid. (American Book Company, 1898), by Ovid, Frank Justus Miller, and William Rainey Harper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ovid's Fasti (Whittaker and co., 1848), by Ovid and Thomas Keightley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fasti of Ovid (Macmillan and Co., 1881), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid and G. H. Hallam (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Eclogues, Georgics, and Moretum of Virgil. With explanatory notes and a lexicon. (Eldredge, 1872), by Virgil and George Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Decimi Magni Ausonii Burdigalensis Opuscula (in aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1886), by Decimus Magnus Ausonius, Rudolf Peiper, and Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex. (in aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1902), by Titus Lucretius Carus and Adolf Brieger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Opera omnia (A.J. Valpy, 1819), by Virgil and Christian Gottlob Heyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the poems of Ovid (D. Appleton and Company, 1882), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid and John L. Lincoln (page images at HathiTrust)
• A revised text of the poems of Vergil, with notes and a Vergilian dictionary (American Book Co., 1883), by Virgil and Henry S. Frieze (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Virgil (Harper & Bros., in the 1870s), by Virgil, Theodore Alois Buckley, and Joseph Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
• P. Vergili Maronis Opera, with introduction and English notes (At the University Press, 1897), by Virgil and Arthur Sidgwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• De rerum natura (e typographeo Clarendoniano, 1899), by Titus Lucretius Carus and Cyril Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Georgics of Virgil (Kegan Paul, 1891), by Virgil and James Rhoades (page images at HathiTrust)
• P. VergilI Maronis codex antiqvissimvs a Rvfio Tvrcio Aproniano V.C. distinctvs et emendatvs qvi nvnc Florentiae in Bibliotheca Mediceo-Lavrentiana adservatvr bono pvblico typis descriptvs (Typis Mannianis, 1741), by Virgil, Pietro Francesco Foggini, and Turcius Rufius Apronianus Asterius (page images at HathiTrust)
• The characteristics of Lucretius' verse ([University of California Press], 1924), by William A. Merrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• P. Virgilii Maronis Opera. (typhis M. Brown; impensis C. Bathurst [etc.], 1785), by Virgil and Charles de La Rue (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Etna : poème (Paris : Société d'édition "Les Belles Lettres", 1923., 1923), by Jules Vessereau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Programm, womit zu der öffentlichen Prüfung und dem Rede-Act der Schüler des Gymnasiums zu Trier und zu der Schlussfeierlichkeit den 27. und 28. August 1851 (Buchdruckerei von Fr. Lintz, 1851) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. (1481), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, Richard Heber, Percy John Dobell, Thomas Thorpe, Thomas Phillips, Raphael de Predanigra, and Maggs Bros. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das römische Lehrgedicht bis zum Ende der Republik. (Druck der Buchdruckerei des Waisenhauses, 1881), by Reinhold Knobloch (page images at HathiTrust)

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