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Homeric Hymn to Hermes
The Homeric Hymn to Hermes is an ancient Greek poem narrating the god's birth and first day, when he invents the lyre and steals Apollo's cattle.
Homeric Hymns
The Homeric Hymns are a collection of 33 ancient Greek poems in hexameter honoring individual deities, attributed in antiquity to Homer and mostly composed in the archaic period.
Honchō Monzui
Honchō Monzui (本朝文粋), translated as Literary Essence of Our Court, is a Heian-period anthology of Chinese-style poetry and prose compiled by the courtier Fujiwara no Akihira around 1058.
Hope is the Thing with Feathers
"Hope" is the thing with feathers is an 1861 poem by Emily Dickinson that defines hope as a bird that sings without words and asks nothing in return.
Hophopname
Hophopname (Hophopnamə) is the collected works of Azerbaijani satirical poet Mirzə Ələkbər Sabir, first published in 1912 and named after his pen name Hophop.
Hora 0 y otros poemas
Hora 0 y otros poemas (La hora cero y otros poemas) is a 1971 poetry collection by Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal, centered on his poem "Hora 0" about Augusto Sandino.
Host and Guest
Host and Guest (Georgian: სტუმარ-მასპინძელი, Stumar-Maspindzeli) is an 1893 epic poem by Georgian writer Vazha-Pshavela, telling of a host who shelters a blood enemy despite his community's demands.
Hosties noires
Hosties noires, or Black Hosts, is a 1948 collection of French poems by Senegalese poet and statesman Léopold Sédar Senghor, a founding work of Negritude honoring the African colonial soldiers who fought for France.
Hou Chibi Fu
Hou Chibi Fu (後赤壁賦) is a prose rhapsody written by Su Shi in 1082 during his exile at Huangzhou, the companion to his First Red Cliff Rhapsody.
How Can I Not Miss Her
How Can I Not Miss Her (Jiao wo ruhe bu xiang ta, 教我如何不想她) is a 1920 Chinese poem by Liu Bannong, first to use the female pronoun 她.
Howl
Howl: 1955 three-part poem by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, published 1956 by City Lights, first read at San Francisco's Six Gallery, and acquitted of obscenity in a landmark 1957 trial.
Howl and Other Poems
Howl and Other Poems is Allen Ginsberg's 1956 City Lights collection whose title poem became the best-known Beat Generation work, despite an obscenity trial in 1957.
Howling at the Moon
Howling at the Moon (Tsuki ni Hoeru) is a 1917 poetry collection by Japanese poet Hagiwara Sakutarō, marking a new epoch in modern Japanese poetry.
Hua Mulan (花木兰)
Hua Mulan (花木兰), also Mulan or 木兰, is a legendary Chinese woman warrior from the Northern Dynasties ballad The Ballad of Mulan, who served in her father's place for twelve years; her surname Hua was a Ming-dynasty invention by playwright Xu Wei, and Disney adapted her in 1998 and 2020 films.
Hudhud hi Aliguyon
Hudhud hi Aliguyon (The Harvest Song of Aliguyon) is an Ifugao chant of northern Luzon, Philippines, recounting the hero Aliguyon, best known through Daguio's 1952 English translation.
Hudibras
Hudibras is a satirical mock-heroic poem in three parts by Samuel Butler, published in 1663, 1664, and 1678, ridiculing Puritans and other factions of the English Civil War.
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley is a two-part sequence of poems by Ezra Pound, published in 1920 as a farewell to London and a portrait of its literary culture.
Hujan Bulan Juni
Hujan Bulan Juni ("Rain in June") is an Indonesian poem written by Sapardi Djoko Damono in 1989, famous for its opening line "Nothing is more steadfast than June rain."
Hum Dekhenge
Hum Dekhenge is an Urdu nazm by Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz, written in 1979 during General Zia-ul-Haq's martial law, known for its refrain "We shall see."
Human Poems
Human Poems (Poemas humanos) is the posthumous collection of poetry by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo, published in Paris in 1939 under the supervision of his widow Georgette.
Hungarian Songs
Hungarian Songs (Népdalok) are folk-song-style lyric poems by Sándor Petőfi, written chiefly between 1843 and 1846; set to music, they passed back into the people's own song repertoire.
Huon of Bordeaux
Huon of Bordeaux (Huon de Bordeaux) is a 13th-century Old French chanson de geste in which the knight Huon, aided by the fairy king Oberon, completes impossible missions.
Hurriedly
Hurriedly (匆匆, Congcong) is a prose poem on the passage of time by the Chinese essayist Zhu Ziqing, written in 1922 and among the most widely read works of modern Chinese prose.
Hürriyet Kasidesi
Hürriyet Kasidesi, also called "Ode to Freedom," is a 31-couplet Ottoman Turkish ode by Namık Kemal written in 1867, turning the classical praise poem toward freedom and homeland.
Hüsrev ü Şirin
Hüsrev ü Şirin (خسرو و شيرين) is a classical love story of the Sâsânî king Hüsrev and Şîrîn, best known from Nizâmî's 1180 Persian mesnevi and Şeyhî's Ottoman version.
Hwangjoga
Hwangjoga (황조가) is an ancient Korean song attributed to King Yuri of Goguryeo, preserved in Chinese translation in the Samguk Sagi and dated to 17 BC.
Hymn to Zeus
Hymn to Zeus is the title shared by two Hellenistic Greek poems: a 39-line hymn by the Stoic Cleanthes of Assos and a longer courtly hymn by Callimachus.
Hymns of Callimachus
The Hymns of Callimachus are a group of six surviving Greek hymns by the poet Callimachus of Cyrene, working in Alexandria in the third century BC.
Hymns to the Night
Hymns to the Night (Hymnen an die Nacht) is a cycle of six hymns by the German poet Novalis, first published in 1800 and written after the death of his fiancée.
Hyperions Schicksalslied
Hyperions Schicksalslied ("Hyperion's Song of Fate") is a three-stanza poem by Friedrich Hölderlin, published in the second volume of his epistolary novel Hyperion in 1799, and best known as the text of Brahms's Schicksalslied.