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A Song on the End of the World
"A Song on the End of the World" (Polish: Piosenka o końcu świata) is a poem by Czesław Miłosz, written in occupied Warsaw in 1944 and published in 1945 in Ocalenie.
A Story as Sharp as a Knife
A Story as Sharp as a Knife is a 1999 book by Robert Bringhurst presenting classical Haida oral literature as one of the world's classical literatures.
A Street in Bronzeville
A Street in Bronzeville is Gwendolyn Brooks's first poetry collection, published by Harper & Brothers in 1945, portraying daily life in Bronzeville, the African American neighborhood on Chicago's South Side.
A Stun of Jewels
A Stun of Jewels is a 1963 collection of English-language lyric poetry by the Filipino poet Carlos A. Angeles, winner of the first Palanca Award for poetry in 1964.
A Time Between Ashes and Roses
A Time Between Ashes and Roses (وقت بين الرماد والورد) is a 1970 poetry collection by the Syrian poet Adonis, written after the 1967 Six-Day War.
A Toldi szerelme
A Toldi szerelme ("Toldi's Love") is an 1879 narrative poem in twelve cantos by the Hungarian poet János Arany, the middle part of his Toldi trilogy.
A una rosa
"A una rosa" is a Baroque sonnet by the Mexican nun and poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, published in 1692, on the vanity of fleeting beauty.
A Visit from St. Nicholas
A Visit from St. Nicholas, also called "The Night Before Christmas," is a poem first published anonymously in 1823 and generally attributed to Clement Clarke Moore.
A Wreath of Sonnets
A Wreath of Sonnets (Slovene: Sonetni venec) is a cycle of 15 interlinked sonnets by the Slovene poet France Prešeren, published in 1834 and dedicated to Julija Primic.
Aansu
Aansu (आँसू, "Tears") is a 1925 long lyric poem by the Hindi poet Jaishankar Prasad, a major work of the Chhayavad movement that voices grief and longing for a separated beloved.
Aathichoodi
Aathichoodi (ஆத்திச்சூடி), also spelled Aathichudi, is a Tamil moral work of 109 one-line verses by the 12th-century poet Avvaiyar, arranged in Tamil alphabetical order to teach children good conduct.
Abar Ashibo Phire
Abar Ashibo Phire (আবার আসিব ফিরে, "I shall return again") is one of the 62 sonnets of Jibanananda Das's Rupasi Bangla, published posthumously in 1957, promising a return to Bengal after death as a bird.
Abba Kovner (אבא קובנר)
Abba Kovner (אבא קובנר, 1918–1987), Hebrew poet, Vilna ghetto partisan leader, head of the Nakam avengers, Givati Brigade culture officer, Israel Prize 1970 laureate, and Diaspora Museum founder.
Abhangas of Tukaram
The Abhangas of Tukaram are the collected devotional verses of Tukaram, a seventeenth-century Marathi saint-poet of the Varkari tradition, gathered in the Tukaram Gatha, sung in Maharashtra for nearly four hundred years.
Abhisarika
Abhisarika (अभिसारिका) is, in Sanskrit poetics and dramaturgy, the heroine who bravely goes alone, often at night, to meet her beloved for union. She is the eighth nayika in Bharata Muni's Natya Shastra.
Abol Tabol
Abol Tabol (আবোল তাবোল) is a 1923 collection of Bengali nonsense verse for children by writer and illustrator Sukumar Ray, published nine days after his death and regarded as a foundational work of Bengali nonsense literature.
About This
About This (Russian: Pro eto) is a long poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky, written in 1923 during his two-month break with Lilya Brik, about love threatened by everyday life.
Abrojos
Abrojos, Spanish for "thistles," is an 1887 book of 58 short poems by the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío, published in Santiago de Chile one year before Azul...
Absalom and Achitophel
Absalom and Achitophel is a 1681 political satire in heroic couplets by John Dryden, retelling Absalom's rebellion against King David as an allegory of the Exclusion Crisis.
Abu Lala Mahari
Abu Lala Mahari is a lyric poem by Avetik Isahakyan about the 11th-century Arab poet Abu al-'Ala al-Ma'arri; written in 1909–1910, it was first published in 1911.
Achaeans (χαιοί) (Homer)
Achaeans (Ἀχαιοί, Achaioi; title form "χαιοί" is a truncation) are Homer's collective name, with Danaans and Argives, for the Greeks at Troy; linked by scholars to Hittite Ahhiyawa and Egyptian Danaja.
Achilleid
The Achilleid is an unfinished Latin epic by the Roman poet Statius, recounting Achilles' youth from Chiron to his discovery on Scyros and journey to Troy.
Achilles and Patroclus
Achilles (Ἀχιλλεύς) and Patroclus (Πάτροκλος), Homeric Iliad companions: Patroclus's exile from Opus, death in Achilles's armor, shared golden urn burial, ancient lover-versus-comrade debate, and modern reception.
Acque e terre
Acque e terre (Waters and Lands) is the first poetry collection of the Italian poet Salvatore Quasimodo, published in Florence in May 1930 and centered on Sicily.
Acrostic
Acrostic: a poem or text in which selected letters, usually the first letter of each line, spell a hidden word or phrase vertically; types include telestich, mesostich, and abecedarian, with roots in the Hebrew Bible.
Address to a Haggis
Address to a Haggis is a 1786 Scots-language poem by Robert Burns praising haggis over refined foreign food; first published in the Caledonian Mercury, it is recited at Burns Suppers as the haggis is carved.
Adhyatma Ramayanam
Adhyatma Ramayanam, also called Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippattu (അദ്ധ്യാത്മരാമായണം), is a foundational Malayalam classic by Thunchath Ezhuthachan, retelling Rama's story in the kilippattu verse form and still recited across Kerala during the month of Karkidakam.
Adonais
Adonais is a pastoral elegy in 55 Spenserian stanzas that Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote in 1821 to mourn John Keats, who died in Rome at 25.
Aeneid
The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem in twelve books by the Roman poet Virgil, written between 29 and 19 BC, telling how Aeneas journeys from Troy to Italy.
Aetia
Aetia (Αἴτια, "Causes") is a four-book elegiac poem by the Hellenistic Greek poet Callimachus, written at Alexandria in the third century BCE and explaining the origins of rituals, customs, and place-names.