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Dansimga
Dansimga (단심가, "Song of the Red Heart") is a sijo, a three-line Korean fixed-form poem, composed in the late Goryeo period by Jeong Mongju as his answer to Yi Bang-won's Hyeoga, declaring loyalty until death.
Dante's Satan
Dante's Satan, Lucifer in Inferno Canto XXXIV, is the three-faced, six-winged archangel frozen waist-deep in Cocytus at Hell's center, silently chewing Judas, Brutus, and Cassius while his wings freeze the lake, contrasting sharply with Milton's active Satan.
Darangen
The Darangen is an ancient epic chant of the Maranao people of Lake Lanao, Mindanao, Philippines, totaling 72,000 lines and proclaimed a UNESCO heritage masterpiece in 2005.
Daridro
Daridro (Bengali: দারিদ্র্য, "Poverty") is a 1926 Bengali poem by Kazi Nazrul Islam, national poet of Bangladesh, which addresses poverty as a source of greatness rather than mere want.
Darraðarljóð
Darraðarljóð is an eleven-stanza Old Norse poem, preserved only in Njáls saga, in which twelve valkyries weave the outcome of the 1014 battle of Clontarf.
Das Marien-Leben
Das Marien-Leben (The Life of Mary) is a cycle of thirteen German poems on the Virgin Mary that Rainer Maria Rilke wrote in a week at Duino in January 1912.
Dasakumaracharitramu
Dasakumaracharitramu (దశకుమారచరిత్రము) is a Telugu verse rendering of Dandin's Sanskrit romance about ten young princes, made by Ketana in the 13th century and counted the first katha kavya in Telugu.
Dasarathi Satakamu
Dasarathi Satakamu (దాశరథీ శతకము) is a 17th-century Telugu devotional shataka in praise of Rama, composed by Kancherla Gopanna, the saint-poet known as Bhakta Ramadasu of Bhadrachalam.
Dast-e-Saba
Dast-e-Saba (دستِ صبا) is the second poetry collection of Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, published in 1952 and written largely during his imprisonment in the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case.
Dastan-e-Amir Hamza
Dastan-e-Amir Hamza (داستانِ امیر حمزہ) is an epic Urdu tale of fantasy and adventure built loosely around Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib, uncle of the Prophet Muhammad.
Đất nước
Đất nước is a Vietnamese lyric-epic poem by Nguyễn Đình Thi, begun in 1948 during the resistance war against France and celebrated for its closing lines.
Đau thương
Đau thương (Thơ Điên) is a 1938 poetry collection by the Vietnamese poet Hàn Mặc Tử, unpublished in his lifetime, a central work of the Thơ mới movement.
Dausi
Dausi is the epic cycle of the Soninke people of West Africa, an oral tradition preserving the legendary history of Wagadu, the Ghana Empire, most of which has been lost.
Davitiani
Davitiani (დავითიანი) is the collected poetical works of Georgian Baroque poet Davit Guramishvili (1705–1792), compiled as an autograph manuscript in 1787 and including "The Woes of Georgia" and "Shepherd Katsvia".
Đây mùa thu tới
"Đây mùa thu tới" ("Here Comes Autumn") is a 1938 poem by the Vietnamese poet Xuân Diệu, published in his debut collection Thơ thơ of the New Poetry movement.
Đây thôn Vĩ Dạ
Đây thôn Vĩ Dạ ('Here in Vĩ Dạ Hamlet') is a 1938 Vietnamese poem by Hàn Mặc Tử, considered a masterpiece of modern Vietnamese poetry.
Dayanhe—My Wet Nurse
"Dayanhe—My Wet Nurse" is a free-verse poem by the Chinese poet Ai Qing, written in prison in Shanghai in January 1933 as a memorial to his peasant wet nurse.
De Actibus Apostolorum
De Actibus Apostolores is a two-book Latin epic poem by the sixth-century poet Arator that retells the biblical Acts of the Apostles in dactylic hexameters, completed in 544.
De Consulatu Stilichonis
De Consulatu Stilichonis ("On the Consulship of Stilicho") is a three-book Latin epic panegyric by Claudian, court poet to Honorius, celebrating Stilicho's consulship in AD 400; the third book describes his arrival in Rome.
De contemptu mundi
De contemptu mundi ("On the contempt of the world") is a Latin satirical poem in three books written around 1144 by Bernard of Cluny, a monk of Cluny whose work inspired hymns like "Jerusalem the Golden".
De la costilla de Eva
De la costilla de Eva ("From Eve's Rib") is a 1986 poetry collection by Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli, combining feminist erotic verse with Contra War poems.
De planctu Naturae
De planctu Naturae ("The Complaint of Nature") is a Latin prose-and-verse allegory by Alan of Lille, written around 1170, in which Nature laments human sexual misconduct.
De Raptu Proserpinae
De Raptu Proserpinae is an unfinished Latin mythological epic in three books by Claudian, composed in the late fourth century, retelling Pluto's abduction of Proserpina.
De reditu suo
De reditu suo is a fragmentary Latin travel poem in elegiac couplets by the Gallo-Roman poet Rutilius Claudius Namatianus, recounting his 417 voyage from Rome toward Gaul.
Dead Water
Dead Water (死水) is a 1928 poetry collection by Chinese poet Wen Yiduo, whose title poem uses a stagnant pool to symbolize corrupt old China.
Death Fugue
Death Fugue (Todesfuge) is a poem by Paul Celan, written in 1944 and 1945, addressing the Holocaust through a structure modeled on the musical fugue.
Death in a Stone Cell
Death in a Stone Cell (石室之死亡) is a landmark modernist long poem by the Taiwanese poet Lo Fu, begun in 1959 during the Kinmen–Xiamen artillery exchange and published in 1965.
Death of a Naturalist
Death of a Naturalist is a poem by Seamus Heaney, and the title of his first major poetry collection, published in 1966 and containing "Digging" and "Mid-Term Break".
Deaths and Entrances
Deaths and Entrances is a collection of 24 poems by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, first published in London in 1946 and probably his best-known collection.
Decembrist poetry
Decembrist poetry (декабристская поэзия) is the civic poetry of Russian noble revolutionaries who prepared the December 1825 uprising against tsarism, its leading figure Kondraty Ryleev.