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Afanggong Fu
Afanggong Fu (阿房宫赋) is a fu written in 825 by the Tang poet Du Mu, warning through the fall of Epang Palace that extravagance destroyed the Qin.
Afsaneh
Afsaneh (افسانه, "Legend") is a long Persian poem by Nima Yushij, the father of modern Persian poetry. It founded the foundational She'r-e No movement in 1922.
After Lorca
After Lorca is Jack Spicer's first book of poetry, published in San Francisco in 1957, mixing translations and invented letters to the dead poet Federico García Lorca.
After Russia
After Russia (После России) is a 1928 poetry collection by Marina Tsvetaeva, her last published in her lifetime, gathering 160 poems written in emigration between 1922 and 1925.
Agni Bina
Agni Bina (অগ্নিবীণা, "the fiery lute") is the first published poetry collection of Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, issued in October 1922 with twelve poems including "Bidrohi" and "Pralayollas".
Ai Jiangnan Fu
Ai Jiangnan Fu (哀江南赋, Lament for the South) is a famous long fu rhapsody by Six Dynasties poet Yu Xin mourning the fall of the Liang dynasty.
Ainkurunuru
Ainkurunuru ("the five short hundreds") is a classical Tamil Sangam anthology of 500 akam love poems, part of the Ettuthogai, organized into five sections of 100 by landscape.
Aintinai Aimpatu
Aintinai Aimpatu ("fifty stanzas on the fivefold landscape-love behavior") is a classical Tamil poetic work of fifty love poems by Pulli Maran Poraiyanar, part of the Pathinenkilkanakku.
Airs of the States
Airs of the States (国风, guofeng) is the first and largest section of the Classic of Poetry, China's oldest anthology, containing 160 poems from 15 Zhou states.
Aitys of Birzhan and Sara
The aitys of Birzhan and Sara (Біржан мен Сара айтысы) is a celebrated Kazakh improvised poetic contest, commonly dated 1871, remembered for raising Kazakh women's freedom.
Aivan-e Mada'in
Aivan-e Mada'in is a celebrated Persian qasida by the 12th-century poet Khaghani Shirvani, written after he saw the ruined Sasanian palace of Taq-i Kisra at Mada'in, Iraq.
Ajitanatha Purana
The Ajitanatha Purana (ಅಜಿತನಾಥ ಪುರಾಣ), also called the Ajita Purana, is a Jain epic in Old Kannada composed by Ranna in 993 on the life of the second Tirthankara, Ajitanatha.
Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu
"Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu" is a Punjabi poem by Amrita Pritam, written during the Partition of India in 1947 and addressed to the poet Waris Shah.
Akaal mein Saras
Akaal mein Saras (अकाल में सारस, "Saras in the Famine") is a 1988 Hindi poetry collection by Kedarnath Singh that won the 1989 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Akananuru
Akananuru (அகநானூறு, Akanaṉūṟu), also called Netuntokai, is a classical Tamil poetic work and one of the Eight Anthologies of Sangam literature, collecting 400 love poems of the akam genre.
Akjang
Akjang (악장) is the sung lyric of Korean court music, praising the Joseon dynasty from the fifteenth century; Yongbieocheonga of 1445 was the first work written in Hangul.
Akka Mahadevi's Vachanas
Akka Mahadevi's Vachanas (ಅಕ್ಕಮಹಾದೇವಿಯ ವಚನಗಳು) are about 400 short free-verse devotional poems in Kannada, composed in the 12th century by the Virashaiva mystic Akka Mahadevi and addressed to Shiva as Chennamallikarjuna.
Aku
Aku ("Me" or "I") is a 1943 poem by the Indonesian poet Chairil Anwar, a leading figure of the '45 Generation, regarded as a seminal work of modern Indonesian literature.
Aku Ingin
Aku Ingin is a short love poem by the Indonesian poet Sapardi Djoko Damono, written in 1989 and famous for its opening line, "I want to love you simply."
Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore
"Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore" is a doctrinal love canzone by the Bolognese poet Guido Guinizelli, written in the 13th century and treated as the manifesto of the dolce stil novo.
Al Niágara
Al Niágara (also cited as El Niágara or Niágara) is an ode to Niagara Falls written in 1824 by the Cuban-Mexican poet José María Heredia during his United States exile.
Al-Amali
Al-Amali (الأمالي, "The Dictations") is a tenth-century Arabic anthology of language and poetry dictated in Cordoba by Abu Ali al-Qali, one of the four pillars of adab named by Ibn Khaldun.
Al-Burda (قصيدة البردة)
Al-Burda (قصيدة البردة), formally al-Kawākib al-Durriyya, is al-Busiri's 7th-century AH Arabic ode praising the Prophet Muhammad, in ten chapters and about 160 verses, distinct from Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's original Burda and widely recited, commented, and translated.
Al-Inkishafi
Al-Inkishafi is a classical Swahili poem composed around 1820 by Sayyid Abdallah bin Ali bin Nasir, reflecting on the vanity of worldly life amid the decline of the Pate sultanate.
Al-Khamriyya (Ibn al-Farid)
Al-Khamriyya (الخمرية), or "Wine Ode", is a celebrated Arabic Sufi poem by the Egyptian poet ʿUmar Ibn al-Fāriḍ (1181–1235), in which wine imagery symbolizes divine love and mystical experience.
Al-Ma'arri
Al-Ma'arri (أبو العلاء المعري, 973–1057), Arab Abbasid poet and philosopher of Ma'arrat al-Numan, blind from childhood, author of Saqt al-Zand, the Luzumiyat, and Risalat al-Ghufran, famous for forty years of seclusion, asceticism, and the centuries-long controversy over his creed.
Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude is a narrative poem of about 720 lines in blank verse by Percy Bysshe Shelley, published in March 1816.
Albertus
Albertus, ou l'Âme et le Péché, is an 1832 narrative poem by Théophile Gautier in which an old witch regains youth and seduces the young painter Albertus.
Alcools
Alcools is a 1913 collection of 48 poems by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, published by the Nouvelle Revue française and regarded as a landmark of modern French poetry.
Alcyone
Alcyone, known in Italian as Alcione, is a collection of 88 lyric poems by Gabriele D'Annunzio, published in 1903 as the third book of his Laudi cycle.