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Fu on the Wind
Fu on the Wind (Feng fu, 风赋) is a Chinese rhapsody attributed to Song Yu, contrasting a king's pleasant wind with the misery of the common people.
Fulani oral epic
The Fulani oral epic is the heroic narrative tradition of the Fulbe (Fulani, Peul) peoples of West Africa, performed by griots with musical accompaniment, best documented in the Massina region of Mali.
Funeral Blues
Funeral Blues, or "Stop all the clocks," is a W. H. Auden elegy in four quatrains, first a satirical 1936 cabaret song from The Ascent of F6, later famous via the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Furuike ya
Furuike ya (古池や), the old pond haiku, is Matsuo Bashō's best-known verse, first printed in 1686 at a frog-topic gathering of the Edo school at the Fukagawa Bashō-an.
Gadya-kavya
Gadya-kavya (गद्यकाव्य) is ornate literary prose in classical Sanskrit, one of three kavya styles, with the earliest surviving works from Bana and Dandin in the 7th century.
Ganga Lahari
Ganga Lahari (गङ्गालहरी, "A Wave of the Ganga") is a Sanskrit devotional hymn of 52 verses in praise of the river goddess Ganga, composed by the seventeenth-century poet Jagannātha Paṇḍitarāja.
Ganymed
Ganymed is a free-verse hymn by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, probably written in 1774, in which the speaker surrenders to springtime nature; it was made famous by Schubert's 1817 song setting.
Garibname
Garibname, also known as Garîb-nâme, is a mystical-didactic mesnevi in Anatolian Turkish completed by the Sufi poet Âşık Paşa in 1330, among the earliest works establishing Turkish as a literary language.
Garip
Garip is a 1941 poetry collection by Turkish poets Orhan Veli Kanık, Oktay Rifat, and Melih Cevdet Anday that launched a movement freeing Turkish poetry from meter and rhyme.
Garland of Meleager
The Garland of Meleager (Greek Stephanos, also translated Wreath) is an anthology of some 1,000 Greek epigrams compiled by the poet Meleager of Gadara about 100 B.C.
Gasa
Gasa (가사) is a Korean classical verse genre, established by the scholar-official sadaebu class in early Joseon, with unlimited four-beat lines that carry narrative and lyric content.
Gathasaptashati
Gathasaptashati (गाथासप्तशती), also called Gāhā Sattasaī or Saptaśataka, is an anthology of about 700 single-verse love poems in Maharashtri Prakrit, attributed to the Satavahana king Hala and mostly voiced by women.
Gazing at the Waterfall on Mount Lu
Gazing at the Waterfall on Mount Lu is the shared title of two poems by the Tang poet Li Bai describing a waterfall on Mount Lu.
Gedichte
Gedichte is the first collected edition of Joseph von Eichendorff's poetry, published in Berlin in 1837, opening with the Wanderlieder cycle and containing Mondnacht and Zwielicht.
Geisli
Geisli is a skaldic drápa of 71 stanzas by the Icelandic poet Einarr Skúlason, praising Saint Óláfr Haraldsson and his miracles, recited in Nidaros Cathedral in 1153.
Geography III
Geography III is the final collection of poems by the American poet Elizabeth Bishop, first published in 1976 and containing ten poems, including "One Art" and "In the Waiting Room".
Georgian court poetry of the Golden Age
Secular verse written at the royal court of the unified Kingdom of Georgia from the late 11th through the early 13th century, crowned by Rustaveli's epic.
Georgian folk poetry
Georgian folk poetry (ქართული ხალხური ლექსი) is the orally transmitted verse tradition of the Georgian people, closely bound to song and including historical poems, ballads, and satire.
Georgics
The Georgics is Virgil's didactic poem on the farmer's year, four books of Latin hexameter finished around 29 BC, covering crops, vines, cattle, and bees.
Germany. A Winter's Tale
Germany. A Winter's Tale (Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen) is an 1844 satirical verse epic by Heinrich Heine, in which an exile returning from Paris surveys the political Germany of the Vormärz period.
Gerontion
Gerontion is a 75-line poem by T. S. Eliot, written in 1919 and published in 1920, taking the voice of an old man meditating on history.
Gestaltes en Diere
Gestaltes en Diere ("Figures and animals") is a 1942 poetry collection by the Afrikaans poet N.P. van Wyk Louw, known for "Die swart luiperd" and "Die strandjutwolf".
Ghassanid and Lakhmid court poetry
Ghassanid and Lakhmid court poetry is pre-Islamic Arabic praise verse composed for the Lakhmid court at al-Hira in Iraq and the Ghassanid court in Byzantine Syria.
Ghatotkacha (घटोत्कच)
Ghatotkacha (घटोत्कच, Gatotkaca in Javanese) is the rakshasa son of Bhima and Hidimba in the Mahabharata, a Pandava night-fighter killed by Karna's Indra-given Shakti, famed in wayang theater and modern retellings.
Ghazal
Ghazal (غزل): love-lyric form originating in 7th-century Arabic poetry as the nasib of the qasida, fixed as a 5–15 couplet monorhyme form in Persian (Rumi, Hafez), dominant in Urdu (Ghalib), and adapted into English by Agha Shahid Ali.
Ghumne Mechmathi Andho Manchhe
Ghumne Mechmathi Andho Manchhe is a 1969 Nepali-language poetry collection by Bhupi Sherchan, regarded as his magnum opus and the first work to receive the Sajha Puraskar.
Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld
Sumerian poem GEN (ETCSL 1.8.1.4), also Gilgamesh and the halub tree, predating the Epic of Gilgamesh; Enkidu descends to the netherworld and reports on the dead; survives as Tablet XII.
Gira Sandesha
Gira Sandesha (ගිරා සන්දේශය, "The Parrot's Message") is a fifteenth-century Sinhala messenger poem whose author is unknown, in which a parrot carries a petition to the monk Sri Rahula.
Girart de Roussillon
Girart de Roussillon is a 12th-century Old French and Old Occitan epic poem of about 10,000 lines recounting the vassal Girart's wars against King Charles the Bald.
Girart de Vienne
Girart de Vienne is an Old French chanson de geste by Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube, written around 1180, telling of Girart's defense of Vienne against Charlemagne.