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77 Dream Songs
77 Dream Songs is a 1964 poetry collection by John Berryman, the first part of The Dream Songs, whose 77 poems center on the character Henry and won the Pulitzer Prize.
835 Satır
835 Satır ("835 Lines") is a 1929 poetry book by Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet, his first in the Latin alphabet, credited with bringing free verse into mainstream Turkish poetry.
A Arca de Noé
A Arca de Noé (Noah's Ark) is a 1970 book of children's poems by Brazilian poet and songwriter Vinicius de Moraes, describing animals aboard a playful ark.
A Bloody Fairy Tale
A Bloody Fairy Tale (Крвава бајка) is a poem by Serbian poet Desanka Maksimović about the German reprisal massacre of civilians, including schoolboys, at Kragujevac in 1941.
A Boy's Will
A Boy's Will is the first published poetry collection of Robert Frost, issued in London in 1913, drawn from his years farming in Derry, New Hampshire.
A Bush Christening
"A Bush Christening" is a humorous narrative poem by Australian poet Banjo Paterson, first published in The Bulletin in 1893 as "The Christening of Maginnis Magee".
A Cachoeira de Paulo Afonso
A Cachoeira de Paulo Afonso is a book of 33 poems by the Brazilian poet Castro Alves, published posthumously in 1876 as a fragment of his abolitionist work Os Escravos.
A Cinza das Horas
A Cinza das Horas (The Ash of the Hours) is the 1917 first poetry book of Brazilian poet Manuel Bandeira, marked by melancholy and tuberculosis.
A Coney Island of the Mind
A Coney Island of the Mind is a 1958 poetry collection by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a key work of the Beat Generation with roughly a million copies in print.
A Confederação dos Tamoios
A Confederação dos Tamoios is an 1856 epic poem by Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães depicting the Tamoios resistance to the Portuguese, a founding work of Brazilian Romanticism.
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford is a 1975 poem by Northern Irish poet Derek Mahon, first published as the closing poem of The Snow Party.
A Educação pela Pedra
A Educação pela Pedra (Education by Stone) is a 1966 book of poems by the Brazilian poet João Cabral de Melo Neto, winner of the Prêmio Jabuti.
A Handful of Sand
A Handful of Sand (Ichiaku no suna) is the first tanka collection of Japanese poet Ishikawa Takuboku, published in Tokyo in December 1910 and regarded as a landmark of modern tanka.
A la juventud filipina
A la juventud filipina ("To the Philippine Youth") is an ode José Rizal wrote in Manila in 1879, which won first prize at the Liceo Artístico-Literario de Manila.
A Luta Corporal
A Luta Corporal is a 1954 book of poems by the Brazilian poet Ferreira Gullar, which first drew attention to him in Brazilian literary life.
A Máquina do Mundo
A Máquina do Mundo ("The Machine of the World") is a long poem by Brazilian modernist Carlos Drummond de Andrade, written in 1949 and collected in Claro enigma.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's comedy of about 1595-6, first printed in quarto in 1600, intertwines Athenian lovers, amateur actors, and the fairies Oberon and Titania in a moonlit forest.
A Moral Treatise
A Moral Treatise (Traktat moralny) is a long satirical poem by the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz, written in 1947 in Washington and published in 1948.
A Native Clearing
A Native Clearing is a 1993 anthology edited by Filipino poet and critic Gémino H. Abad, collecting Philippine poetry written in English from the 1950s to 1993.
A Night with Hamlet
A Night with Hamlet (Noc s Hamletem) is a long philosophical poem by the Czech poet Vladimír Holan, written between 1949 and 1956 and first published in book form in 1964.
A Prayer for My Daughter
"A Prayer for My Daughter" is an 80-line 1919 poem by W. B. Yeats, written for his newborn daughter Anne during a storm at his Galway tower.
A Psalm of Life
A Psalm of Life is an 1838 lyric poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, subtitled "What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist," that urges action in the living present.
A Red, Red Rose
A Red, Red Rose (O my Luve's like a red, red rose) is Robert Burns's 1794 Scots love song, built from older ballads, set to Major Graham's Strathspey, and read both as sincere devotion and as Hutton-informed irony.
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
"A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London" is a 1945 poem by Dylan Thomas about a girl killed in a London air raid.
A Rosa do Povo
A Rosa do Povo (The People's Rose) is a 1945 collection of 55 poems by Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, written during World War II.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
Famous line from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 Scene 2, spoken by Juliet Capulet; early texts read "by any other word," and the phrase survives as the idiom "a rose by any other name."
A Season in Hell
A Season in Hell (Une saison en enfer) is a collection of prose poems by Arthur Rimbaud, published in Brussels in 1873, his only book in his lifetime.
A Shropshire Lad
A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of sixty-three poems by the English poet A. E. Housman, published in 1896, exploring youth, loss, and death in rural Shropshire.
A Silvia
A Silvia, also translated as To Silvia, is an 1828 lyric elegy by Giacomo Leopardi, written in Pisa and mourning a young woman who died before her youth could ripen.
A Song of Blood
A Song of Blood (Кървава песен, also rendered Bloody Song) is an unfinished epic poem by the Bulgarian poet Pencho Slaveykov on the April Uprising of 1876.