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Han-ı Yağma
Han-ı Yağma ("the feast of plunder") is a satirical 1912 poem by Turkish poet Tevfik Fikret attacking the corruption of the Committee of Union and Progress.
Hansa Sandesha
Hansa Sandesha (හංස සන්දේශය, "The Swan Message") is a Sinhala messenger poem of the Kotte period in Sri Lanka, dated to 1457–1465 and attributed to Vidagama Maithri Thera.
Hanshan
Hanshan (寒山, Cold Mountain) is the name attached to about 300 plain, colloquial Chinese poems, attributed to a Tang dynasty hermit of the Tiantai mountains in Zhejiang.
Hanuman Bahuk
Hanuman Bahuk (हनुमान बाहुक) is a 44-verse devotional poem in Braj Bhasha, composed by Tulsidas in his last years in Varanasi to petition Hanuman for relief from severe arm pain.
Hanuman Chalisa
Hanuman Chalisa (हनुमान चालीसा), a 40-verse Awadhi Hindu devotional hymn to Hanuman attributed to 16th-century poet Tulsidas; recited on Tuesdays and Saturdays, with noted textual variants and scholarly questions about authorship.
Harabat
Harabat (خرابات) is a three-volume anthology of classical Turkish, Persian, and Arabic poetry compiled by the Ottoman poet Ziya Pasha and printed in Istanbul in 1874–1875.
Hard Is the Road to Shu
"Hard Is the Road to Shu" (蜀道难) is a famous yuefu poem by Tang poet Li Bai describing the perilous road from Chang'an to Sichuan.
Haridasa Sahitya
Haridasa Sahitya, also called Dasa Sahitya, is the Kannada devotional literature of the Haridasa saint-singers of Karnataka, carrying the Dvaita philosophy of Madhvacharya to ordinary people.
Harinamakeerthanam
Harinamakeerthanam (ഹരിനാമകീർത്തനം) is a sixteenth-century Malayalam devotional poem by Thunchath Ezhuthachan, arranged in Malayalam alphabet order, teaching chanting of the divine name as the highest Vedanta.
Haripath
The Haripath (हरिपाठ) is a sequence of about 28 abhangas in Old Marathi attributed to the saint Dnyaneshwar, which Varkaris of Maharashtra recite daily and sing on the pilgrimage to Pandharpur.
Harivamshapurana
The Harivamshapurana (हरिवंशपुराण), also called Arishtanemi-purana, is a Sanskrit Jaina purana by the monk Jinasena, completed in 783 CE as the first Jaina retelling of the Mahabharata.
Harley Lyrics
The Harley Lyrics are a celebrated group of medieval lyric poems preserved in British Library MS Harley 2253, compiled around 1340 by a scribe active in Ludlow, Shropshire.
Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (Poetic and Religious Harmonies) is a collection of 47 religious poems by Alphonse de Lamartine, published in Paris in 1830 and later inspiring Franz Liszt's piano cycle of the same name.
Hasanaginica
Hasanaginica, "the wife of Hasan Aga," is a South Slavic folk ballad about a Muslim noblewoman divorced against her will, published by Alberto Fortis in 1774.
Hashimiyyat
Hashimiyyat are long Arabic poems composed by the Umayyad-era poet al-Kumayt ibn Zayd al-Asadi in praise of Banu Hashim, the clan of the Prophet Muhammad, especially the descendants of Ali.
Hasretinden Prangalar Eskittim
Hasretinden Prangalar Eskittim ("I Wore Out Shackles with Your Yearning") is a 1968 poetry collection by Ahmed Arif, his only lifetime book, blending love, prison, and Eastern Anatolia.
Have Come, Am Here
Have Come, Am Here is a 1942 poetry collection by the Filipino poet José García Villa, his first published in the United States and a finalist for the 1943 Pulitzer Prize.
Havelok the Dane
Havelok the Dane, also known as The Lay of Havelok the Dane, is a Middle English romance of about 3,001 lines, usually dated to the late thirteenth century.
Hay and Hell and Booligal
"Hay and Hell and Booligal" is an 1896 comic bush poem by Banjo Paterson, first published in The Bulletin, joking that Booligal is worse than Hay or Hell.
Hayrâbâd
Hayrâbâd (خيرآباد) is a mesnevi, a narrative poem in rhymed couplets, by the Ottoman poet Nâbî, completed in Aleppo in 1705 as the last of his works.
Hayriyye
Hayriyye, formally titled Hayrî-nâme, is a didactic masnavi by the Ottoman poet Nâbî, written in Aleppo in 1701 as moral and practical advice for his seven-year-old son.
Heart's Needle
Heart's Needle is a 1959 poetry collection by the American poet W. D. Snodgrass, whose ten-section title poem recounts his divorce and won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Heavensgate
Heavensgate is a 1962 sequence of poems by the Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo, his first major collection, opening with an invocation to the river goddess Idoto.
Hebrew lyric poetry
Hebrew lyric poetry is first-person poetry in Hebrew expressing love, nature, mourning, or reflection, spanning biblical psalms, medieval verse in Spain, and modern Israeli poetry.
Hecale
Hecale (Ἑκάλη) was in Attic legend a poor old woman who gave hospitality to Theseus on his way to fight the bull of Marathon, dying before he returned.
Heer Ranjha (ہیر رانجھا)
Heer Ranjha (ہیر رانجھا), the classic Punjabi tragic romance of Heer of the Sial family of Jhang and the herdsman Ranjha, first versified by Damodar Gulati and made immortal by Waris Shah's 1766 epic Heer.
Heidenröslein
Heidenröslein is a folk-style poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, written in 1771 in Strasbourg, about a boy who plucks a wild rose despite her warning; Schubert famously set it to music in 1815.
Heimkunft
Heimkunft ("Homecoming") is an elegy by the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, composed in 1801 and first printed in 1802 as the last of his eight elegies, addressed to his kinsfolk.
Helian
Helian is a long lyric poem by the Austrian Expressionist poet Georg Trakl, written in the winter of 1912 and 1913 and first published in 1913 in his collection Gedichte.
Heliand
The Heliand is an epic Old Saxon poem of about 6,000 lines that retells the life of Jesus in Germanic alliterative verse, written around 830 to 840.