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Evangeliorum Libri Quattuor
Evangeliorum Libri Quattuor, or Historia evangelica, is a Latin verse rendering of the gospels in about 3,200 hexameter lines, composed around 330 CE by the Spanish presbyter Juvencus.
Evening Question
Evening Question (Hungarian: Esti kérdés) is a philosophical poem by Mihály Babits, begun in 1908 and published in 1911, asking what the world's beauty is for.
Exeter Book
Exeter Book (Codex Exoniensis), Exeter Cathedral Library MS 3501: a 10th-century anthology of Old English poetry and nearly 100 riddles, written by one scribe about 970, donated by Bishop Leofric, digitized in 2021.
Experiments
Experiments (Changshiji, 尝试集) is a poetry collection by Hu Shi, published in Shanghai in 1920 and recognized as the first collection of vernacular new poetry in modern Chinese literature.
Ežo Vlkolinský
Ežo Vlkolinský is an 1890 verse epic by the Slovak poet Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, the first of two epics on the decline of the landowning gentry.
Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea
The Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea, also called Polifemo, is a 1612 mythological narrative poem by the Spanish Baroque poet Luis de Góngora, retelling the love of Polyphemus for Galatea.
Faces in the Street
"Faces in the Street" is an 1888 poem by the Australian poet Henry Lawson, first published in The Bulletin and later collected in In the Days when the World was Wide (1896).
Facing the Sea, with Spring Blossoms
"Facing the Sea, with Spring Blossoms" is a 1989 lyric poem by the Chinese poet Hai Zi, his most widely known work, written two months before his death.
Fadensonnen
Fadensonnen, translated as Threadsuns or Fathomsuns, is a 1968 poetry collection by the Romanian-born German-language poet Paul Celan, his sixth and most extensive, with 105 poems in five cycles.
Fáfnismál
Fáfnismál, the Lay of Fáfnir, is an eddic poem in the Codex Regius in which the hero Sigurðr kills the dragon Fáfnir and takes his cursed gold.
Fahlaviyat
Fahlaviyat (Persian فهلویات) is the name for quatrains and other poetry composed in the old dialects of the Pahla/Fahla regions of western and northwestern Iran.
Fakoli Koroma
Fakoli Koroma is a legendary commander of the Sunjata epic, who deserts the Soso king Sumanguru to join the hero Sunjata Keita, founder of the Mali empire.
Farewell to a Friend
Farewell to a Friend (《送友人》, Song Youren) is an eight-line farewell poem in five-character regulated verse by the Tang poet Li Bai, known for expressing parting through landscape imagery.
Faroese ballads
Kvæði are the narrative ballads of the Faroe Islands, sung without instruments while dancers perform the Faroese chain dance, an oral tradition dating to the 13th century.
Farsa de Inês Pereira
Farsa de Inês Pereira, also known as Auto de Inês Pereira, is a 1523 farce by the Portuguese playwright Gil Vicente, first performed for King João III.
Faust, Part One
Faust, Part One (Faust I) is the first part of Goethe's verse tragedy Faust, published in full in 1808, in which Faust makes a pact with Mephistopheles.
Faust, Part Two
Faust, Part Two (German: Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil) is the second part of Goethe's verse tragedy Faust, completed in 1831 and published posthumously in 1832.
Faust: A Poem
Faust: A Poem (German: Faust. Ein Gedicht) is an 1836 epic-dramatic verse poem by the Austrian poet Nikolaus Lenau, retelling the Faust legend as one of doubt and despair rather than redemption.
Fausto
Fausto is an 1866 comic gauchesco poem by the Argentine writer Estanislao del Campo, in which the gaucho Anastasio el Pollo describes Gounod's opera Faust as if its events really happened.
Ferdowsi
Ferdowsi (Abu'l-Qāsem Ferdowsi Tusi, 940–1019/1025), Persian epic poet of Tus, Khorasan, author of the Shahnameh (Book of Kings), completed 1010 CE after about 30 years; national epic of Iran, key source for pre-Islamic Persian history and language preservation.
Fern Hill
"Fern Hill" is a lyric poem by Dylan Thomas, first published in 1945, recalling childhood summers at a Carmarthenshire farm and ending with the loss of childhood to time.
Ferrements
Ferrements is a 1960 poetry collection by the Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, his fifth book, published by Éditions du Seuil in Paris amid the decolonization era.
Fervor de Buenos Aires
Fervor de Buenos Aires is the first book by Jorge Luis Borges, a collection of 46 poems self-published in Buenos Aires in July 1923, a landmark of the Argentine avant-garde.
Fêtes galantes
Fêtes galantes is an 1869 collection of 22 poems by the French poet Paul Verlaine, transposing Watteau's paintings of masked aristocrats and lovers into verse.
Feuillets d'Hypnos
Feuillets d'Hypnos (Leaves of Hypnos) is a 1946 collection of 237 short prose texts by the French poet René Char, written while he served in the French Resistance.
Fields and gardens poetry
Fields and gardens poetry (田园诗, tianyuan shi) is a classical Chinese genre whose subject is rural scenery and farm life, founded by the Eastern Jin poet Tao Yuanming.
Filostrato
Il Filostrato, meaning "prostrated by love," is a narrative poem in nine parts by Giovanni Boccaccio, written around 1335 in ottava rima, best known as the principal source of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.
Fire and Ice (poem)
Fire and Ice is a nine-line 1920 Robert Frost poem, published in Harper's Magazine and collected in New Hampshire (1923), equating fire with desire and ice with hate as equally world-ending forces.
First Dream
First Dream (Primero sueño, also El Sueño) is a long philosophical poem by the New Spanish nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, narrating the soul's nocturnal attempt to comprehend the universe.
Five Bells
"Five Bells" is a 1939 meditative poem by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor, an elegy for his friend Joe Lynch, who drowned in Sydney Harbour in 1927.