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Dido
Dido (Elissa), legendary Phoenician queen of Tyre who founded Carthage c. 813 BCE; Virgil's Aeneid invented her love affair with Aeneas, her curse, and her suicide, inspiring Ovid, Marlowe, and Dido's problem in mathematics.
Die Frühlingsfeier
Die Frühlingsfeier is a hymnic ode by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock on spring and the divine, written in 1759 and published in a revised version in 1771.
Die Groot Verseboek
Die Groot Verseboek is a representative anthology of Afrikaans poetry, first compiled by poet D.J. Opperman and published in Cape Town in 1951, later revised by André P. Brink.
Die Lian Hua: Standing by the High Tower
Die Lian Hua: Standing by the High Tower is a ci lyric by the Song dynasty poet Liu Yong, famous for its closing couplet about willing devotion.
Die Lorelei
Die Lorelei is an 1824 poem by Heinrich Heine, one of the most widely set poems in German music, describing a siren on the Rhine luring boatmen to destruction.
Die Niemandsrose
Die Niemandsrose, or The No-One's Rose, is a 1963 German-language poetry collection by Paul Celan, his fifth volume, containing 53 poems and dedicated to Osip Mandelstam.
Die Stadt
Die Stadt is a fifteen-line poem by Theodor Storm, written around 1852 and printed in his collection Gedichte, depicting a gray, fog-bound coastal town identified with his native Husum.
Die Vlakte
"Die Vlakte" ("The plain") is a 1906 Afrikaans poem by Jan F.E. Celliers that, with Marais' "Winternag", stands at the beginning of the conscious literary tradition in Afrikaans.
Die Vrou en ander Verse
Die Vrou en ander Verse (The Woman and Other Verses) is a 1945 poetry collection by the South African poet Elisabeth Eybers, her third Afrikaans collection.
Die Ysterkoei Moet Sweet
Die Ysterkoei Moet Sweet (The iron cow must sweat) is the 1964 debut poetry collection of South African writer and painter Breyten Breytenbach, published by Perskor.
Điêu tàn
Điêu tàn is the 1937 debut poetry collection of Vietnamese poet Chế Lan Viên, published at age 17 and inspired by the ruins of the old Champa kingdom.
Digging
"Digging" is a 1966 poem by Seamus Heaney and the opening poem of his debut collection Death of a Naturalist, where the speaker vows to dig with his pen.
Digte
Digte (Danish for "poems") is the body of lyric poetry by Johannes Ewald (1743–1781), Denmark's leading eighteenth-century lyricist, whose "Kong Christian stod ved højen Mast" (1779) became one of Denmark's two national songs.
Ding'an Shiwen Ji
Ding'an Shiwen Ji (定盦文集, Collected Works of Ding'an) is the collected prose and poetry of Qing thinker Gong Zizhen (1792–1841), first self-carved in 1823 and repeatedly expanded after his death.
Dionysiaca
The Dionysiaca (Διονυσιακά) is a fifth-century Greek epic in 48 books by Nonnus of Panopolis recounting the life, Indian war, and deification of Dionysus; at over 21,000 lines it is the longest extant ancient epic.
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan is a posthumous Copper Canyon Press collection gathering work from her ten poetry volumes plus unpublished last poems.
Diu Crône
Diu Crône ("The Crown") is a Middle High German Arthurian romance of about 30,000 lines by Heinrich von dem Türlin, in which Gawain wins the Grail.
Divan of Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr
The Divan of Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (دیوان ابوسعید ابوالخیر) is a collection of Persian mystical quatrains attributed to the Khorasani Sufi master Abu Sa'id (967–1049).
Divan of Adib al-Mamalik Farahani
The Divan of Adib al-Mamalik Farahani is the collected Persian poetry of the Qajar court poet Adib al-Mamalik Farahani, about 22,000 couplets, first printed in 1933.
Divan of Ahmad Shamlu
The Divan of Ahmad Shamlu (دیوان احمد شاملو) is the collected poetry of Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlu (1925–2000), pioneer of meterless Persian free verse, written from 1947 to 2000.
Divan of Ali-Shir Nava'i
The Divan of Ali-Shir Nava'i is the lyric poetry collections of Alisher Navoi (1441–1501), the Chagatai Turkic poet of the Timurid court in Herat, in Turkic and Persian.
Divan of Alisher Navoi
The Divan of Alisher Navoi is the collected lyric poetry of Navoi (1441–1501), the Timurid statesman of Herat regarded as the founder of classical Chagatai literature.
Divan of Amir Khusrau
The Divan of Amir Khusrau (ديوان امير حسرو) is the five collections of lyric poetry that the Indo-Persian poet Amir Khusrau Dehlavi assembled during his lifetime.
Divan of Anvari
The Divan of Anvari (دیوان انوری) is the collected poetical works of Awhad al-Din Anvari of Abivard, the leading Persian panegyrist of the 12th-century Saljuq court.
Divan of Attar
The Divan of Attar (دیوان عطار) is the collected lyric poetry of the Persian Sufi poet Farid-al-Din Attar of Nishapur, comprising ghazals, qasidas, and tarji'-bands, assembled by the poet himself.
Divan of Baba Tahir
The Divan of Baba Tahir is the collected poetry, mostly short do-bayti quatrains, attributed to Baba Tahir, a dervish poet of Hamadan in western Iran.
Divan of Babur
The Divan of Babur is the collected poetry of Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire, written mostly in Chagatai Turkic and counted a classic of Chagatai literature.
Divan of Bahar
The Divan of Bahar (دیوان بهار) is the collected Persian poetry of Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, about 40,000 verses of political and social poems from Iran's Constitutional Revolution era.
Divan of Bedil
The Divan of Bidil Dehlavi (دیوانِ بیدل) is the collected lyric poetry of Mirza Abd al-Qadir Bedil (1644–1720), the Mughal Indian master of the Persian Indian Style.
Divan of Fayzi
The Divan of Fayzi (دیوان فیضی) is the collected Persian poetry of Fayzi, poet laureate at the court of the Mughal emperor Akbar and a leading Indo-Persian poet.