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Carmen Saeculare
The Carmen Saeculare, or "Secular Hymn," is a Latin lyric hymn in Sapphic stanzas that Horace wrote on commission from Augustus for the Secular Games of 17 BCE.
Carmina Burana
Carmina Burana is the largest medieval Latin lyric collection, preserved in the c. 1230 Codex Buranus (Munich Clm 4660), found at Benediktbeuern in 1803, mostly goliard poetry, famous today via Carl Orff's 1937 cantata.
Carnac
Carnac is a book-length poem by the French poet Eugène Guillevic, published by Gallimard in Paris in 1961 and named for the Breton town where he was born.
Carpe diem
Carpe diem, from Horace's Odes 1.11 (23 BCE) addressed to Leuconoë, literally means "pluck the day," not "seize"; the closing line counsels trusting little in tomorrow, founding a poetic tradition from Herrick and Marvell to modern usage.
Cartas Chilenas
Cartas Chilenas is a Brazilian satirical poem in thirteen blank-verse letters, circulated anonymously in manuscript from 1782 and attributed to the poet Tomás Antônio Gonzaga, satirizing the governor of Minas Gerais under a Chilean disguise.
Casaysayan nang Pasiong Mahal
Casaysayan nang Pasiong Mahal, also called Pasyong Genesis, is an 1814 Tagalog verse narrative of Christ's life and passion, the most commonly used pasyon in the Philippines.
Casey at the Bat
"Casey at the Bat" is an 1888 baseball poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer in which the mighty slugger Casey strikes out, dooming his hometown team of Mudville.
Catalogue of Women
The Catalogue of Women, also known as the Ehoiai, is a fragmentary ancient Greek epic poem ascribed to Hesiod that traced heroic genealogies through mortal women.
Cathemerinon
The Cathemerinon Liber, "Book of daily hymns," is a collection of twelve Latin hymns by the Christian poet Prudentius, composed in the early fifth century.
Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–54 BCE) was a Roman poet of the late Republic whose surviving collection of more than a hundred poems treats love and invective.
Catullus 101
Catullus 101 is a ten-line Latin elegy in which the Roman poet Catullus mourns his dead brother at his grave near Troy, ending with ave atque vale.
Catullus 11
Catullus 11 is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus, addressed to Furius and Aurelius and ending in a bitter farewell to his lover Lesbia.
Catullus 16
Catullus 16 (Carmen 16), a hendecasyllabic invective by Catullus against Furius and Aurelius, opens and closes with the obscene 'Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo'; famous for its poet-versus-verses chastity claim, censorship history, and debated 'his pilosis' line.
Catullus 3
Catullus 3 is an 18-line poem by the Roman poet Catullus mourning the death of his girlfriend Lesbia's pet sparrow, paired with Catullus 2 as the passer poems.
Catullus 5
Catullus 5 is a Latin love poem by Catullus addressed to Lesbia, opening "let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love," and counting thousands of kisses.
Catullus 51
Catullus 51 (opening Ille mi par) is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus that translates and adapts Sappho's Phainetai moi, known as Sappho 31, in Sapphic stanzas.
Catullus 63
Catullus 63 is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus, written in the mid-50s BCE in galliambic verse, telling how the Greek youth Attis castrated himself for Cybele.
Catullus 64
Catullus 64, known in antiquity as The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis, is Catullus' longest poem, a 408-line miniature epic joining the wedding of Peleus and Thetis to the story of Theseus and Ariadne.
Catullus 8
Catullus 8, beginning "Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire", is a 19-line poem by the Roman poet Catullus in which he tries to give up his love for Lesbia.
Catullus 85
Catullus 85 is a two-line Latin epigram by the Roman poet Catullus that opens "Odi et amo," "I hate and I love," and is addressed to his mistress Lesbia.
Cemetery of Mind
Cemetery of Mind: Collected Poems of Dambudzo Marechera is a 1992 posthumous collection of about 140 poems by the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, edited by Flora Veit-Wild.
Chaitanya Bhagavata
Chaitanya Bhagavata (চৈতন্যভাগবত) is a sixteenth-century Bengali hagiographic poem by Vrindavana Dasa narrating the life of the saint Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, his earliest substantial biography in Bengali.
Chan Giparang-ga
Chan Giparang-ga (찬기파랑가, "Song in Praise of Giparang") is a ten-line hyangga by the Silla monk Chungdam, written during King Gyeongdeok's reign to mourn and praise the hwarang Giparang.
Chân quê
"Chân quê" is a 1936 Vietnamese poem by Nguyễn Bính, written in lục bát meter about a village youth dismayed by his sweetheart's new town clothes.
Chand Ka Munh Tedha Hai
Chand Ka Munh Tedha Hai (चाँद का मुँह टेढ़ा है; "The Moon's Face Is Crooked") is a Hindi poetry collection by Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh, published posthumously in 1964.
Chandalabhikshuki
Chandalabhikshuki (ചണ്ഡാലഭിക്ഷുകി) is a 1922 Malayalam narrative poem by N. Kumaran Asan, telling of a Buddhist monk who takes water from an untouchable girl and of her conversion to Buddhism.
Chandayan
Chandayan (चंदायन) is a Sufi narrative poem in Awadhi composed by Mulla Daud around 1379, retelling the love story of Lorik and Chanda and beginning Hindi's premakhyan tradition.
Chandi Purana
Chandi Purana (ଚଣ୍ଡୀ ପୁରାଣ) is a 15th-century Odia epic poem by Sarala Das that retells the goddess Durga's war against the buffalo demon Mahishasura and helped begin classical Odia literature.
Chandimangal
Chandimangal (চণ্ডীমঙ্গল) is a Bengali mangal kavya, a narrative poem about the goddess Chandi establishing her cult, composed by Mukundaram Chakravarti in sixteenth-century West Bengal and valued for its picture of rural Bengal.
Chandrabati Ramayana
The Chandrabati Ramayana (চন্দ্রাবতীর রামায়ণ) is a sixteenth-century Bengali retelling of the Rama story from Sita's viewpoint, composed by Chandrabati, the first Bengali woman poet, in Mymensingh.