The Fall of Nineveh (poem)
The Fall of Nineveh is a long poem. It consists of the Prelude and thirty books. It was published in parts between 1828 and 1868.  It has more than six hundred pages and more than twenty thousand lines. Because of that it is one of the longest epic poems in English and European literature. Nineveh was the capital city of the Assyrian empire. It was really destroyed in 612 B.C.