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Deer Park
"Deer Park" (Luzhai, 鹿柴) is a twenty-character quatrain by the Tang poet Wang Wei, written at his Wangchuan estate and possibly the most translated of all Chinese poems.
Dei Sepolcri
Dei Sepolcri (Of the Sepulchres) is a 1807 poem of 295 unrhymed hendecasyllables by Ugo Foscolo, dedicated to Ippolito Pindemonte and arguing that tombs matter for the living.
Demain, dès l'aube
"Demain, dès l'aube" is a short 1856 poem by Victor Hugo from Les Contemplations, a farewell to his daughter Léopoldine, who drowned in the Seine in 1843, and one of his best-known works.
Den første Sne
"Den første Sne" (Danish for "The First Snow") titles several Nordic poems and songs, the best known a playful 1872 poem by the Danish writer Fr. Winkel Horn.
Den Poezii
Den Poezii (День поэзии, "The Day of Poetry") is a Russian-language annual poetry almanac first published in Moscow in 1956, the principal showcase of Russian poetry in the Soviet era.
Den stora gåtan
Den stora gåtan (The Great Enigma) is a 2004 poetry collection by Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, published by Albert Bonniers förlag, his last major new collection.
Deor
Deor, also called The Lament of Deor, is a 42-line Old English poem in the 10th-century Exeter Book, in which a displaced poet consoles himself with the refrain "that passed away, so may this".
Der Knabe im Moor
"Der Knabe im Moor" ("The Boy in the Moor") is an 1842 German ballad by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff about a boy's ghost-haunted crossing of a Westphalian bog.
Der Meridian
Der Meridian is the acceptance speech Paul Celan delivered in Darmstadt in October 1960 on receiving the Georg Büchner Prize, a foundational text of twentieth-century poetics.
Der Messias
Der Messias (The Messiah) is a German religious epic in 20 cantos by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, retelling the Passion and resurrection of Jesus in dactylic hexameters.
Der Rosengarten zu Worms
Der Rosengarten zu Worms, also called Der Große Rosengarten, is an anonymous 13th-century Middle High German heroic poem about twelve combats in Kriemhild's rose garden.
Der Untergang der Titanic
Der Untergang der Titanic is an epic poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, published in 1978, retelling the 1912 sinking of the Titanic in 33 cantos.
Der Welsche Gast
Der Welsche Gast ("The Romance Stranger") is a roughly 15,000-line didactic poem in Middle High German, composed in 1215/16 by Thomasin von Zerclaere as the first German code of conduct.
Derniers vers
Derniers vers (Last Verses) is a posthumous 1890 collection of poems by the French writer Jules Laforgue, generally regarded as the first full-length volume of free verse in French poetry.
Deru Campur Debu
Deru Campur Debu is a 1949 poetry collection by the Indonesian poet Chairil Anwar, published the year of his death and foundational to modern Indonesian poetry.
Desiderata
Desiderata, Latin for "things desired," is a 1927 prose poem by Max Ehrmann of Terre Haute, Indiana, famous for a false 1692 church attribution, Adlai Stevenson's deathbed copy, and Les Crane's 1971 Grammy-winning recording.
Desolación
Desolación is the first book of the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, a collection of poems and prose published in New York by Columbia University's Instituto de las Españas in 1922.
Dessan
Dessan (also spelled destan or dastan) is an epic genre of Turkmen literature, known since the 18th century, that combines fairy tales, folk legends, and love or heroic material.
Destan
Destan is a long versified narrative in Turkish literature that recounts historical and social events through heroes' extraordinary adventures, traditionally performed with melody before an audience.
Det
Det is a long poem by the Danish poet Inger Christensen, published in 1969 and widely regarded as her breakthrough and a central work of Danish system poetry.
Detente, sombra de mi bien esquivo
"Detente, sombra de mi bien esquivo" is a 1689 love sonnet by the Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, first published in Inundación castálida.
Detvan
Detvan is a lyrical-epic poem by the Slovak Romantic poet Andrej Sládkovič, written in 1845 and published in 1853, celebrating the strength and morality of the Slovak people.
Dew on the Shallot
Dew on the Shallot (薤露, Xielu) is one of the two earliest surviving Han dynasty yuefu elegies, a funeral song likening human life to quickly dried dew.
Dharmamangal
Dharmamangal (ধর্মমঙ্গল) is a Bengali mangal-kavya cycle of praise poems for the folk deity Dharma Thakur, written by over twenty poets in western Bengal from the mid-1600s into the 1800s and telling of the hero Lausen.
Dharmamrita
Dharmamrita (Kannada: ಧರ್ಮಾಮೃತ, Sanskrit Dharmamritam, "the nectar of dharma") is a 12th-century Kannada Jain didactic work by the Digambara monk Nayasena, composed in 1112 CE at Mulugunda in present-day Karnataka.
Dhola Maru
Dhola Maru (ढोला मारू रा दूहा) is a Rajasthani love ballad about the prince Dhola and his bride Maru, composed in western Rajasthan in the 11th century.
Dhrishtadyumna (धृष्टद्युम्न)
Dhrishtadyumna (धृष्टद्युम्न, Dhṛṣṭadyumna), also called Droṇahantā, is the Mahabharata prince of Panchala, twin brother of Draupadi, born from a sacrificial fire to kill Drona, whom he beheaded as Pandava commander-in-chief before being killed by Ashvatthama.
Dhritarashtra
Dhritarashtra (धृतराष्ट्र, Dhṛtarāṣṭra) is the blind king of Hastinapura in the Mahabharata, father of the hundred Kauravas by Gandhari, denied the throne for blindness, and the addressee of Sanjaya's narration of the Bhagavad Gita.
Đi đường
"Đi đường" (Tẩu lộ) is a classical Chinese quatrain by Hồ Chí Minh, poem 30 in Prison Diary, written during his 1942 to 1943 imprisonment in Guangxi.
Diario d'Algeria
Diario d'Algeria is the second poetry collection by the Italian poet Vittorio Sereni, published in Florence in 1947 from his experience of war and imprisonment in North Africa between 1942 and 1945.