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Consolation à M. du Périer
Consolation à M. du Périer is a consolation poem François de Malherbe wrote, probably in 1599, to his friend Du Périer on the death of his daughter.
Contemporary Egyptian poetry
Contemporary Egyptian poetry is modern poetry written in Egypt in literary Arabic and the Egyptian colloquial dialect, spanning classical metrical verse, free verse, and the prose poem.
Continuations de Perceval
The Continuations de Perceval are four Old French verse poems of about 1200 to 1230 that carry Chrétien de Troyes's unfinished Perceval, ou le Conte du Graal forward to a conclusion.
Conversation with a Stone
"Conversation with a Stone" (Polish: Rozmowa z kamieniem) is a 1962 dialogue poem by the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska from her collection Salt, her most widely anthologized poem.
Coplas por la muerte de su padre
Coplas por la muerte de su padre, also cited as Coplas a la muerte de su padre, is a Castilian elegy of forty stanzas by Jorge Manrique.
Corpo
Corpo is a 1984 poetry collection by Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, published by Editora Record, treating love, death, and the environment through the body.
Corps et biens
Corps et biens is a 1930 collection of poems by the French surrealist poet Robert Desnos, published by Gallimard in Paris and spanning his surrealist decade, 1919 to 1929.
Correspondances
"Correspondances" is an 1857 sonnet by Charles Baudelaire in Les Fleurs du mal, imagining nature as a temple where perfumes, colors, and sounds answer one another.
Cosmic Songs
Cosmic Songs (Písně kosmické) is an 1878 poetry collection by the Czech writer Jan Neruda, whose 38 poems celebrate human discovery of the universe and became an immediate success.
Counting the Stars at Night
Counting the Stars at Night (별 헤는 밤, Byeol heneun bam) is a Korean lyric poem written by Yun Dong-ju in 1941 and published after his death in 1948.
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" is an 1856 Walt Whitman poem, titled "Sun-Down Poem" until 1860, turning an East River ferry commute into a meditation on time and shared experience.
Crossing Half of China to Sleep with You
"Crossing Half of China to Sleep with You” (穿过大半个中国去睡你) is a free-verse love poem by the Chinese poet Yu Xiuhua that spread virally online in January 2015.
Crossing Lingding Ocean
"Crossing Lingding Ocean" (过零丁洋) is a seven-character regulated verse by Southern Song statesman Wen Tianxiang, written in 1279 while a captive of the Yuan army.
Crow's Eye View
Crow's Eye View (Ogamdo) is a cycle of fifteen experimental poems by the Korean modernist writer Yi Sang, serialized in 1934 and halted after reader outrage; it is now a central text of Korean literary modernism.
Cry Rage!
Cry Rage! is a 1972 collection of protest poetry by James Matthews and Gladys Thomas, remembered as the first poetry collection banned by the apartheid regime in South Africa.
Családi kör
Családi kör ("Family Circle") is an 1851 narrative poem by János Arany, one of the best-known Hungarian folk idylls, adapted from a poem by Robert Burns.
Csongor and Tünde
Csongor and Tünde (Csongor és Tünde) is an 1831 five-act verse fairy-tale drama by Hungarian poet Mihály Vörösmarty, following Csongor's search for the fairy Tünde, first staged in 1879.
Culamani
Culamani (சூளாமணி), meaning "crest jewel," is a Tamil Jain epic by Tolamozhi Thevar, one of the five minor Tamil epics, commonly dated to the 10th century.
Cung oán ngâm khúc
Cung oán ngâm khúc, written in 18th-century chữ Nôm script by the poet Nguyễn Gia Thiều, is an extended lament from the perspective of a discarded palace concubine.
Cursor Mundi
Cursor Mundi is an anonymous Middle English poem of roughly 24,000 to 30,000 lines, written in the Northern dialect around 1300, retelling Christian history from the Creation to Doomsday.
Cuvinte potrivite
Cuvinte potrivite (Romanian for "Fit Words") is the first poetry volume of Romanian writer Tudor Arghezi, published in 1927, opening with the poem "Testament" and marking a turning point in modern Romanian lyric poetry.
Cynegetica
Cynegetica (Τὰ Κυνηγετικά, "On Hunting") is a Greek didactic poem on hunting in four books by a Syrian poet called Pseudo-Oppian, addressed to Caracalla around 212 to 217 CE.
Cypria
The Cypria (Greek Κύπρια) was a lost ancient Greek epic poem telling the causes of the Trojan War and the war's first nine years, ending where the Iliad begins.
Đački rastanak
Đački rastanak (Ђачки растанак, "The Students' Farewell") is an 1844 lyric poem by the Serbian Romantic poet Branko Radičević, farewell to his school days in Sremski Karlovci.
Dagwerck
Dagwerck ("day's work") is a Dutch long poem by Constantijn Huygens, written between 1627 and 1638, describing his marriage to Suzanna van Baerle through the course of a single day.
Đại Nam quốc sử diễn ca
Đại Nam quốc sử diễn ca (大南國史演歌) is a Vietnamese verse chronicle in lục bát meter by Lê Ngô Cát and Phạm Đình Toái, printed in the 1860s and 1870s.
Daijingtang Shihua
Daijingtang Shihua (带经堂诗话, "Remarks on Poetry from the Daijing Hall") is a Chinese collection of remarks on poetry, compiled by Zhang Zongnan from Wang Shizhen's writings and completed in 1760.
Dalimil's Chronicle
Dalimil's Chronicle (Kronika tak řečeného Dalimila) is a rhymed Czech verse chronicle of the early 14th century and the oldest historical work composed in the Czech language.
Đăm Săn
Đăm Săn, also written Đam Săn, is the great oral epic of the Ê Đê people of Vietnam's Central Highlands, chanted in the khan genre in 2,077 verses.
Danmarks gamle Folkeviser
Danmarks gamle Folkeviser, abbreviated DgF, is the standard critical edition of the Danish medieval ballads: 12 volumes, 539 ballad types, begun in 1853 and completed in 1976.