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Sirat Dhat al-Himma
Sirat Dhat al-Himma (سيرة الأميرة ذات الهمة, Story of the Princess Possessor of Resolve) is an Arabic popular epic, the only long-standing one with a woman as its heroic figure.
Sita (सीता)
Sita (सीता), also Sītā, is the heroine of the Ramayana: Rama's wife, abducted by Ravana, tested by fire, and finally received by the Earth. Known for hundreds of retellings, from Valmiki's Sanskrit epic to feminist Sitayanas.
Siyar sha'biyya
Siyar sha'biyya (سيرة شعبية, popular epics) are anonymous Arabic narratives in prose and verse recounting the deeds of heroes and tribes, flourishing in the Mamluk period.
Smrť Jánošíkova
The Death of Jánošík (Smrť Jánošíkova) is an 1862 lyrical-epic poem by the Slovak Romantic poet Ján Botto, portraying the outlaw's execution as a symbol of national hope.
Snow-Bound
Snow-Bound is a narrative poem by John Greenleaf Whittier, published in 1866 under the subtitle A Winter Idyl, describing a rural New England family confined by a winter storm.
Sohni Mahiwal (سوہنی مہیوال)
Sohni Mahiwal (سوہنی مہیوال), also Suhini-Mehar, is a Punjabi and Sindhi tragic love folktale of the Indus valley: Sohni swims the Chenab nightly to her lover Mahiwal until a swapped unbaked clay pot dissolves and both drown; classic texts by Fazal Shah Sayyad and Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai.
Sojan Badiar Ghat
Sojan Badiar Ghat (সোজন বাদিয়ার ঘাট) is a 1933 Bengali narrative poem by Jasimuddin about the love of Sojan, a Muslim, and Dulali, a Hindu girl.
Song of the Pipa
Song of the Pipa (琵琶行) is a long narrative poem by Tang poet Bai Juyi, written in 816 about an aging pipa player he met in exile.
Sorath Rai Diyach
Sorath Rai Diyach (سورٺ راءِ ڏياچ) is a Sindhi folk epic in which king Rai Diyach of Junagadh gives his head to the musician Bijal.
Southeast the Peacock Flies
Southeast the Peacock Flies (孔雀東南飛), originally Ancient Poem Written for the Wife of Jiao Zhongqing, is a Han yuefu narrative poem about a forced separation ending in double suicide.
Sri Gur Panth Prakash
Sri Gur Panth Prakash (ਸ੍ਰੀ ਗੁਰ ਪੰਥ ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼) is a poetic narrative history of the Sikhs by Rattan Singh Bhangu, retitled Prachin Panth Prakash when published in 1914.
Sri Krishna Kirtan
Sri Krishna Kirtan is a medieval Bengali Vaishnava poem on the love of Radha and Krishna, attributed to Baru Chandidas, and the earliest surviving early medieval Bengali literary work.
Sri Ramayana Darshanam
Sri Ramayana Darshanam (ಶ್ರೀ ರಾಮಾಯಣ ದರ್ಶನಂ) is a modern Kannada epic poem in which Kuvempu retells Valmiki's Ramayana, winning the 1968 Jnanpith Award, the first for Kannada.
Sri Ramayana Kalpavruksham
Sri Ramayana Kalpavruksham, also rendered Srimadramayana Kalpavrukshamu, is a Telugu epic poem by Viswanatha Satyanarayana that retells Valmiki's Ramayana; written from 1931 to 1961, it won the first Jnanpith Award given to a Telugu writer.
Srikrishna Charitam
Srikrishna Charitam (ശ്രീകൃഷ്ണചരിതം), also called Sreekrishna Charithram, is a twelve-canto Manipravalam kavya in Malayalam attributed to the eighteenth-century poet Kunchan Nambiar, retelling the Krishna story of the Srimad Bhagavatam's tenth canto.
Sringara Naishadhamu
Sringara Naishadhamu (శృంగార నైషధము) is a 15th-century Telugu poem by Srinatha adapting Sriharsha's Sanskrit Naishadhiya Charita, retelling the Nala and Damayanti love story from the Mahabharata.
Stanze per la giostra
Stanze per la giostra is an unfinished narrative poem in ottava rima by Angelo Poliziano, begun in 1475 to celebrate Giuliano de' Medici's joust and abandoned in 1478 after his murder in the Pazzi conspiracy.
Subhadra Parinaya
Subhadra Parinaya (ସୁଭଦ୍ରା ପରିଣୟ), meaning The Marriage of Subhadra, is an Odia kavya by Upendra Bhanja, the seventeenth-century poet called Kabi Samrat, recounting the marriage of Krishna's sister Subhadra.
Sudama Charit
Sudama Charit (सुदामा-चरित) is a 16th-century Braj-language narrative poem by the Hindi poet Narottama Dasa, retelling the impoverished Brahmin Sudama's visit to Krishna at Dwarka.
Sugriva (सुग्रीव)
Sugriva (सुग्रीव), vanara king of Kishkindha in the Ramayana, younger brother of Vali and son of Surya; exiled by Vali, he allies with Rama, sees Vali killed, is crowned king, and organizes the search for Sita.
Süleymaniye'de Bayram Sabahı
Süleymaniye'de Bayram Sabahı ("Bayram Morning at Süleymaniye") is an epic poem by Yahya Kemal Beyatlı depicting a bayram morning at Istanbul's Süleymaniye Mosque, published in 1957 and opening his 1961 collection Kendi Gök Kubbemiz.
Süleymanname
The Süleymanname is an illustrated Ottoman court history in Persian verse covering 1520 to 1555 of Sultan Süleyman I's reign, written by the court historiographer Arifi around 1558.
Sursagar
Sursagar (सूरसागर, "Sur's Ocean") is the principal collection of Krishna-devotion poetry attributed to the sixteenth-century Braj poet Surdas, retelling Krishna's life from birth to the reunion at Kurukshetra, and the only work universally accepted as his.
Svatopluk
Svatopluk is a heroic epic poem by the Slovak poet Ján Hollý, published in 1833 and regarded as the first Slovak national epic about King Svatopluk of Great Moravia.
Swahili Islamic epics
Swahili Islamic epics, known as tenzi or utenzi, are long narrative poems on Islamic subjects composed on the East African coast from the seventeenth century.
Syair Abdul Muluk
Syair Abdul Muluk, also Syair Sultan Abdul Muluk, is a nineteenth-century Malay narrative poem in which Siti Rafi'ah disguises herself as a man to rescue her husband, becoming an early Malay bestseller.
Syair Perang Mengkasar
Syair Perang Mengkasar is a Malay war poem by Encik Amin describing the Makassar War of 1666 to 1669, in which the VOC defeated Sultan Hasanuddin.
Syair Siti Zubaidah
Syair Siti Zubaidah, also called Syair Siti Zubaidah Perang China, is an anonymous Malay narrative poem in which the heroine disguises herself as a man to rescue her captive husband.
Syphilis sive morbus gallicus
Syphilis sive morbus gallicus is a three-book Latin didactic poem by the Italian physician Girolamo Fracastoro, printed at Verona in 1530 and famous for coining the word syphilis.
Tabaré
Tabaré is an epic poem by the Uruguayan poet Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, first published in 1888, telling the story of a mestizo hero among the Charrúa people facing Spanish conquest.