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I Am a Willful Child
I Am a Willful Child (我是一个任性的孩子) is a 1981 free-verse poem by the Chinese Misty Poetry poet Gu Cheng, in the voice of a spoiled child.
I Hear America Singing
"I Hear America Singing" is an eleven-line poem by Walt Whitman, first published in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, portraying American workers, each singing at their own labor.
I Is a Long Memoried Woman
I Is a Long Memoried Woman is the first poetry collection by the Guyanese-British poet Grace Nichols, published in London in 1983 and winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.
I Love This Land
"I Love This Land" (我爱这土地) is a ten-line modern Chinese poem by Ai Qing, written in November 1938 after Wuhan fell to Japanese forces, speaking through the voice of a bird.
I Loved You
"I Loved You" (Ya vas lyubil) is an eight-line love poem by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1829, in which the speaker renounces unrequited love and wishes the beloved well.
I Novissimi
I Novissimi, a 1961 poetry anthology edited by Alfredo Giuliani and published in Milan, collected five experimental poets who became the core of Gruppo 63, the Italian neo-avant-garde.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (Daffodils), a 1804 lyric by William Wordsworth published 1807 and revised 1815, recalls a 15 April 1802 walk with Dorothy past daffodils at Ullswater; four ABABCC sestets in iambic tetrameter.
I-Juca-Pirama
I-Juca-Pirama is an 1851 narrative poem by the Brazilian Romantic poet Antônio Gonçalves Dias, published in Últimos cantos; its Tupi title means 'he who is to be killed.'
I, Too
"I, Too" is an 18-line free verse poem by Langston Hughes, first published in 1925, in which a Black speaker predicts he will one day sit at the table.
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
"I'm Nobody! Who are you?" is an eight-line poem by Emily Dickinson, written around 1861 and among the first of her poems published after her death.
Iambic pentameter
Iambic pentameter: five iambs per line, ten syllables, the most common English meter; first used by Chaucer, made standard by Marlowe and Shakespeare in blank verse and sonnets.
Iambic poetry
Iambic poetry, sometimes Latinized as iambus, is an ancient Greek genre, typically in iambic meter, marked by comedy, mockery, and mixed diction, first attested in 7th-century BCE Ionia.
Ibong Adarna
Ibong Adarna (The Adarna Bird) is an anonymous Tagalog korido about three princes capturing a magical healing bird on Mount Tabor; a Grade 7 Philippine school text adapted into the landmark 1941 LVN film and 1997 animated film.
Idanre and Other Poems
Idanre and Other Poems is the first poetry collection by the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, published by Methuen in 1967 around his long poem for the 1965 Commonwealth Arts Festival.
Identity Card
Identity Card (Arabic: بطاقة هوية) is a 1964 poem by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, opening "Write down! I am an Arab" and known as a cry of Palestinian defiance.
Idilio salvaje
Idilio salvaje is a long Spanish-language poem by the Mexican poet Manuel José Othón, composed in 1904–1905 and generally regarded as his most celebrated work.
Idylls
The Idylls (Greek: Εἰδύλλια) are a collection of 31 short Greek poems attributed to the Hellenistic poet Theocritus of Syracuse, best known for pastoral poems of herdsmen in song contests.
Idylls of the King
Idylls of the King is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published between 1859 and 1885, retelling the legend of King Arthur.
If I Must Die
If I Must Die is a 2011 English-language poem by Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, dedicated to his daughter Shymaa, asking survivors to tell his story and fly a white kite over Gaza; it went viral after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on December 6, 2023.
If—
If— is Rudyard Kipling's 1895–96 didactic poem, published in Rewards and Fairies (1910) after "Brother Square-Toes", inspired by Leander Starr Jameson: 32 lines, four octaves, one sentence of paternal advice ending "you'll be a Man, my son!".
İkinci Yeni
İkinci Yeni, or the Second New Movement, is a modernist poetry movement in Turkish literature that emerged in the mid-1950s against the plain language of Garip.
Il cinque maggio
Il cinque maggio is a civil ode by Alessandro Manzoni, composed in three days in July 1821 on news of Napoleon's death on Sant'Elena, commemorating the fallen emperor without ever naming him.
Il Fiore
Il Fiore is an anonymous medieval Italian poem in 232 sonnets that abridges the Roman de la Rose, probably composed around 1286 and possibly by Dante Alighieri.
Il giorno
Il giorno ("The Day") is a satirical poem by Italian poet Giuseppe Parini, first published from 1763, that mocks the idleness and vanity of the 18th-century Milanese aristocracy.
Il passero solitario
"Il passero solitario" is a lyric poem by Giacomo Leopardi, Canto XI of his Canti, comparing the poet's solitary youth to a bird singing alone from an ancient tower until nightfall.
Il pastor fido
Il pastor fido (The Faithful Shepherd) is a five-act pastoral tragicomedy by the Italian poet Giovanni Battista Guarini, published in 1590 and modeled on mythical Arcadia.
Ilahi-Nama
The Ilahi-Nama (الهینامه, "Book of God") is a Persian mystical poem by Farid al-Din Attar, in which a king answers his six sons' worldly wishes with Sufi teachings.
Iliad (λιάς)
The Iliad (Ιλιάδα), Homer's ancient Greek epic of Achilles' wrath in the Trojan War, 24 books dated around 750 BC, orally composed, with over 1,000 surviving manuscripts and a rich translation history.
Ilias Latina
The Ilias Latina is a 1,070-line Latin hexameter poem, generally attributed to Baebius Italicus and dated around 54–65 CE, that condenses Homer's Iliad into a brief epitome.
Illuminations (poetry collection)
Illuminations is Rimbaud's collection of prose poems, written c. 1872–1875, first published in La Vogue in 1886 with a preface by Verlaine, never published by Rimbaud himself.