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Diwan-e-Ghalib
Diwan-e-Ghalib (دیوانِ غالب) is the collected Urdu poetry of the Delhi poet Mirza Ghalib, chiefly ghazals, and one of the most widely read books of Urdu verse.
Diwan-e-Mir
Diwan-e-Mir (دیوانِ میر) is the collection of Urdu ghazals by Mir Taqi Mir (1722/23–1810), ranked among the greatest masters of the Urdu ghazal, comprising six divans with 1,915 ghazals in total.
Diwan-e-Mirza Sauda
Diwan-e-Mirza Sauda (دیوانِ مرزا سودا) is the collected Urdu poetry of Mirza Muhammad Rafi' Sauda, who died in 1781 and is ranked first in Urdu satire and counted among the language's canonical poets.
Diwan-e-Nazeer Akbarabadi
Diwan-e-Nazeer Akbarabadi (دیوانِ نظیر اکبرآبادی) is the printed collection of the poetry of Nazeer Akbarabadi, with about 13,000 couplets on seasons, festivals, and ordinary life; the standard edition was edited by Mirza Farhatullah Beg in 1942.
Diwan-e-Wali
Diwan-e-Wali (دیوانِ ولی) is the collected divan of the Deccani Urdu poet Wali Deccani, whose arrival in Delhi in 1720 brought Urdu poetry recognition there.
Diwani ya Muyaka
Diwani ya Muyaka is the collected edition of the Swahili poems of Muyaka bin Haji al-Ghassaniy, a poet of Mombasa active from about 1810 to 1840.
Diwani ya Shaaban Robert
Diwani ya Shaaban Robert is a 14-volume collected-works series in Swahili of the Tanzanian writer Shaaban Robert, first published by Evans in London in 1966.
Dmitry the Pretender
Dmitry the Pretender (Димитрий Самозванец) is a five-act tragedy in verse by Alexander Sumarokov, first performed in 1771 and the first Russian play to bring recent national history to the stage, drawing on False Dmitry I.
Do not go gentle into that good night
"Do not go gentle into that good night" is a 1952 villanelle by Dylan Thomas urging resistance to death and ending with an address to his father.
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep, originally titled "Immortality" by Clare Harner, is a popular bereavement poem first published in The Gypsy in 1934, though often misattributed to Mary Elizabeth Frye; known for the Japanese song Sen no Kaze ni Natte.
Dodo Chanesar
Dodo Chanesar (دودو چنيسر) is a Sindhi heroic epic about a succession dispute between two Soomra brothers, in which Dodo falls defending Sindh against Sultan Alauddin Khilji.
Does Spring Come to Stolen Fields?
"Does Spring Come to Stolen Fields?" (빼앗긴 들에도 봄은 오는가) is a 1926 resistance poem by the Korean poet Yi Sang-hwa, written under Japanese colonial rule.
Dohavali
Dohavali (दोहावली) is a collection of 573 independent doha couplets by the sixteenth-century Hindi poet Tulsidas, best known for the Ramcharitmanas. It gathers verses on ethics, devotion, and the greatness of Ram.
Dolan Champa
Dolanchampa (দোলনচাঁপা), also written Dolon Chapa, is a 1923 collection of poems and songs by Kazi Nazrul Islam, his fourth book and first anthology of love and nature poetry, largely composed in Presidency Jail, Calcutta.
Don Juan (poem)
Don Juan is Lord Byron's unfinished mock-epic poem in ottava rima, written 1818–1823 and published 1819–1824 in 16 cantos. It reverses the Don Juan legend, making Juan the seduced, and scandalized Regency readers with its satire and bawdy humor.
Đồng chí
Đồng chí ("Comrades") is a 1948 free-verse poem by Vietnamese poet Chính Hữu about soldiers sharing hardship, famous for its closing image of the moon over a rifle muzzle.
Dongmen Xing
Dongmen Xing (東門行, "Song of the East Gate") is a Han dynasty yuefu folk song about a poor commoner driven by hunger to take up his sword.
Dongpo Yuefu
Dongpo Yuefu (东坡乐府, Dongpo Song Lyrics) is the collected ci poetry of Northern Song writer Su Shi, founding document of the bold and unconstrained school of Song lyrics.
Door into the Dark
Door into the Dark is the second poetry collection by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney, published in 1969, whose closing poem "Bogland" opens his bog theme.
Doosra Saptak
Doosra Saptak (दूसरा सप्तक, "Second Septet") is a 1951 anthology of poems by seven Hindi poets, edited by Agyeya, whose introduction established the experimental movement Prayogvad.
Dosan sibigok
Dosan sibigok (도산십이곡) is a set of twelve sijo poems written in 1565 by the Korean Neo-Confucian scholar Toegye Yi Hwang about his retreat at Dosan in Andong.
Dover Beach
Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold's most celebrated lyric poem, published 1867 in New Poems but likely written around his 1851 honeymoon at Dover; four irregular stanzas mourning the retreating Sea of Faith and ending with the darkling plain image.
Drakht-i Asurig
Drakht-i Asurig (درخت آسوریگ, also Draxt ī Āsūrīg) is a Middle Persian debate poem, the oldest Persian munāzara, in which a date palm and a goat contend for precedence.
Draupadi
Draupadi (द्रौपदी), also Krishnaa and Yajnaseni, is the chief heroine of the Mahabharata: Drupada's daughter, wife of the five Pandavas, disrobed in the dice hall, and a south Indian folk goddess.
Dreaming of Tianmu Mountain: Farewell Song
Dreaming of Tianmu Mountain: Farewell Song (Mengyou Tianmu yin liubie) is a poem by Li Bai about a dream journey to Mount Tianmu, ending in defiance of the powerful.
Drinking Alone by Moonlight
"Drinking Alone by Moonlight" (月下獨酌) is a famous Tang dynasty poem by Li Bai, who invites the moon and his shadow to drink with him.
Drinking at the Great Wall Cave
Drinking at the Great Wall Cave (Yin ma changcheng ku xing, 饮马长城窟行) is a Han dynasty yuefu ballad in which a wife dreams of her absent husband and receives his letter.
Drinking on the Lake: First Sunshine Then Rain
Drinking on the Lake: First Sunshine Then Rain (飲湖上初晴後雨) is a pair of 1073 quatrains by Song poet Su Shi describing West Lake, compared to the beauty Xi Shi.
Drinking Wine (Twenty Poems)
Drinking Wine (飲酒二十首) is a cycle of twenty poems by the Eastern Jin poet Tao Yuanming, written in retirement and read as reflections on reclusion despite its title.
Drona
Drona (द्रोण, Droṇa), also Dronacharya, is the Brahmin martial guru of the Pandavas and Kauravas in the Mahabharata: vessel-born son of Bharadvaja, second Kaurava commander after Bhishma, slain in meditation after Yudhishthira's half-truth about Ashwatthama.