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Gül ü Bülbül
Gül ü Bülbül ("Rose and Nightingale") is the shared name of allegorical masnavi tales in Persian, Turkish, and Turkic literature about the love between a rose and a nightingale.
Guman
The guman is an epic chant of the Subanon people of northwestern Mindanao, Philippines, sung over three to four nights; its best-known version, The Guman of Dumalinao, was published in 1980 with 4,062 lines.
Gunamala
Gunamala (গুণমালা) is a short Assamese devotional book by the saint and playwright Srimanta Sankardev, condensing the Bhagavata Purana into six chapters, traditionally written in a single night at the court of King Naranarayan.
Gunga Din
Gunga Din: 1890 narrative poem by Rudyard Kipling in the voice of a British soldier praising an Indian regimental bhisti (water-carrier); collected in Barrack Room Ballads (1892); source of the catchphrase 'You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din' and of RKO's 1939 film.
Guochao Guixiu Shichao
Guochao Guixiu Shichao (国朝闺阁诗钞), also romanized Guochao Guige Shichao, is an 1844 anthology of poetry by about one hundred Qing dynasty women poets, compiled by Cai Dianqi.
Guochao Guixiu Zhengshi Ji
Guochao Guixiu Zhengshi Ji (国朝闺秀正始集) is an 1831 anthology of poetry by Qing-dynasty gentry women, compiled over decades by the Manchu poet Yun Zhu (恽珠).
Guochao Shi Biecai Ji
Guochao Shi Biecai Ji, later titled Qing Shi Biecai Ji, is a Qing poetry anthology compiled by Shen Deqian, first issued in 36 juan in 1759.
Gurindam Dua Belas
Gurindam Dua Belas is a didactic Malay poem of twelve sections by Raja Ali Haji, written on Penyengat Island, Riau, in 1847 and famed for its if-then couplets.
Guwei Tang Shiji
Guwei Tang Shiji (古微堂诗集) is a ten-juan poetry collection by Qing thinker Wei Yuan of Shaoyang, Hunan, arranged by verse form and first printed in 1870.
Gwandong byeolgok
Gwandong byeolgok (관동별곡), or Song of Gwandong, is a Korean gasa travel poem written in 1580 by Jeong Cheol, describing the Gwandong region and Mount Geumgang.
Hachidaishū
Hachidaishū (八代集) is the collective name for the first eight imperial anthologies of Japanese waka poetry, spanning roughly 300 years from the Kokin Wakashū of 905 to the Shinkokin Wakashū of 1205.
Hadîkatü's-Süedâ
Hadîkatü's-Süedâ (حديقة السعداء, The Garden of the Blessed) is a prose work by the 16th-century poet Fuzûlî on the martyrdom of Husayn at Karbala, the most celebrated Turkish maktel.
Hadiqat al-Su'ada
Hadiqat al-Su'ada (Hədiqətüs-süəda, "Garden of the Blessed") is a prose work on the Karbala tragedy written in Azerbaijani Turkish by the poet Muhammad Fuzuli around 1556.
Haedong gayo
Haedong gayo (해동가요, "Songs of the Land East of the Sea") is a Korean song collection of 883 sijo works compiled by singer Kim Su-jang during King Yeongjo's reign.
Hafez (خواجه شمسالدین محمد حافظ شیرازی)
Hafez (خواجه شمسالدین محمد حافظ شیرازی), Šams-al-Din Moḥammad of Shiraz (ca. 1315–1390), Persian lyric poet of the Divān's roughly 495 ghazals; known as lesān-al-ḡayb, used for fāl divination, with no definitive original text.
Haft Awrang
Haft Jam, better known as the Haft Awrang, is a collection of seven narrative poems in Persian composed by the poet and Sufi scholar Jāmī between about 1468 and 1492.
Haft Peykar
Haft Peykar (هفت پیکر), also known as Bahrām-nāme or Yeddi gözəl, is a romantic epic by Nezami Ganjavi, completed in 1197 as the fourth poem of his Khamsa.
Haidamaky
Haidamaky (Гайдамаки, "The Haidamaks") is a historical-heroic poem by Taras Shevchenko, his first major poem, published in Saint Petersburg in 1841 about the 1768 Koliyivshchyna uprising.
Haiduti
Haiduti, also known as Father and Son, is an unfinished long poem by the Bulgarian poet Hristo Botev, probably begun around 1866 and first published in 1871.
Haifū Yanagidaru
Haifū Yanagidaru (誹風柳多留) is a Japanese anthology of senryū, humorous seventeen-syllable verses on human nature and Edo society, published in 167 volumes between 1765 and 1840 and considered the founding collection of the senryū genre.
Haiku in English
Haiku in English adapts the Japanese 17-on, 5-7-5 form with kigo and kireji into English; because English syllables are longer, most contemporary English haiku run 10-14 syllables or use accentual forms rather than strict 5-7-5.
Hakon Jarl
Hakon Jarl is a tragedy in Danish by Adam Oehlenschläger, first published in 1807, dramatizing the conflict between the pagan earl Hakon and King Olav Tryggvason.
Hákonarmál
Hákonarmál is a 10th-century Norwegian skaldic poem by Eyvindr Finnsson skáldaspillir, mourning King Hákon the Good after the battle of Stord around 961 and welcoming him into Valhalla.
Half a Tree
Half a Tree (半棵树) is a 1972 Chinese poem by Niu Han about a tree split in half by lightning that still stands as tall as a whole tree.
Half of Life
"Half of Life" (German: Hälfte des Lebens) is a fourteen-line poem by Friedrich Hölderlin, completed in 1803, setting an abundant summer lake scene against a wintry world.
Hamasah
Hamasah (الحماسة, "valor") is a classical Arabic anthology genre of verses arranged by theme, beginning with war and courage, modeled on Abu Tammam's Diwan al-Hamasah of 846.
Hamasah of Abu Tammam
The Hamasah of Abu Tammam (حماسة أبي تمام) is a ninth-century Arabic anthology of heroic and martial verse, compiled by the Abbasid poet Abu Tammam around 835.
Hamsaduta
Haṃsadūta (हंसदूत, "The Swan Messenger") is a 16th-century Sanskrit messenger poem by Rūpa Gosvāmin, in which Rādhā sends a swan with her message to Kṛṣṇa.
Hamziya
Hamziya, also spelled Hamziyya, is the Swahili translation of al-Būṣīrī's Arabic panegyric praising the Prophet Muhammad, generally cited as the oldest surviving Islamic Swahili poem.
Han Duvarları
Han Duvarları (Caravanserai Walls) is a narrative poem by the Turkish poet Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, published in 1925, recounting a 1922 horse-cart journey from Ulukışla to Kayseri.