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Imibongo yakaMqhayi
Imibongo yakaMqhayi ("Mqhayi's poems") is the body of poetry, largely in isiXhosa, by Samuel Mqhayi (1875–1945), the praise poet known for the Mendi poems and honored as the National Poet of the amaXhosa.
In a Green Night
In a Green Night is a 1962 poetry collection by Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott, gathering poems written between 1948 and 1960 and establishing him as a major Caribbean voice.
In a Station of the Metro
"In a Station of the Metro" is a two-line, fourteen-word poem by Ezra Pound, first published in Poetry magazine in April 1913 and considered the best-known Imagist poem.
In Endor
In Endor (בעין דור) is a Hebrew ballad by Shaul Tchernichovsky, written in 1893, dramatizing King Saul's night visit to the medium of Endor before his final battle.
In Flanders Fields
"In Flanders Fields" is a 1915 war poem in rondeau form by Canadian physician John McCrae, written during the Second Battle of Ypres and famous for its poppy imagery.
In Mad Love and War
In Mad Love and War is a 1990 poetry collection by Joy Harjo, a Muscogee (Creek) Nation poet, her third, published by Wesleyan University Press.
In Memoriam A.H.H.
In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850), Alfred Lord Tennyson's elegy for Arthur Henry Hallam, who died at 22 in Vienna in 1833; 131 cantos in ABBA tetrameter quatrains, published anonymously the year Tennyson became Poet Laureate.
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
"In Memory of W. B. Yeats" is a 1939 elegy by W. H. Auden for the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, among the most famous elegies of the 20th century.
In New York
In New York (Yiddish: אין ניו־יארק, In Nyu-York) is the first poetry collection of Yiddish modernist poet Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, published in New York in 1919 to wide acclaim.
In Parenthesis
In Parenthesis is a 1937 epic poem by British artist David Jones, following infantryman John Ball to Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme.
In Rufinum
In Rufinum ("Against Rufinus") is a two-book Latin invective poem by Claudian against Flavius Rufinus, Praetorian Prefect of the East, composed between 395 and 397.
In Switzerland
"In Switzerland" (Polish: W Szwajcarii) is a love poem by the Polish Romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki, written between 1835 and 1838 and published in Paris in 1839.
In the Bazaars of Hyderabad
"In the Bazaars of Hyderabad" is a 1912 lyric poem by Sarojini Naidu from The Bird of Time, portraying a Hyderabad bazaar through questions and vendors' answers.
In the Bleak Midwinter
In the Bleak Midwinter, also titled A Christmas Carol, is an 1872 Christina Rossetti poem set to music by Gustav Holst (Cranham, 1906) and Harold Darke (1909/1911), voted greatest Christmas carol in a 2008 BBC poll.
In the City of Slaughter
In the City of Slaughter (Be-ir ha-haregah) is a 1903 Hebrew poem by Haim Nahman Bialik about the Kishinev pogrom, often judged the century's most influential Hebrew poem.
In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses
In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses is an 1896 poetry collection by Australian writer Henry Lawson, published by Angus and Robertson in Sydney.
In the Depths of the Siberian Mines
In the Depths of the Siberian Mines (Во глубине сибирских руд, "To Siberia") is an 1827 poem by Alexander Pushkin addressed to the Decembrists exiled to Siberia.
In the Habitations of Death
In the Habitations of Death (German: In den Wohnungen des Todes) is Nelly Sachs's first poetry collection, published in Berlin in 1947, an elegiac cycle for Holocaust victims.
In the Mecca
In the Mecca is a 1968 poetry collection by the American poet Gwendolyn Brooks, nominated for the National Book Award and marking her turn toward direct political verse.
In the Presence of Absence
In the Presence of Absence (في حضرة الغياب) is the last prose book of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, published in Beirut in 2006, two years before his death.
In Verona
In Verona (W Weronie) is a short poem by the Polish poet Cyprian Kamil Norwid, written in the late 1840s and later included in Vade-mecum.
Incurable
Incurable is a book-length poem by the Mexican poet David Huerta, first published in 1987 by Ediciones Era and widely regarded as the central work of his career.
Inder Sabha
Inder Sabha (اندر سبھا, "The Court of Indra") is an Urdu verse musical play by the Lucknow poet Amanat, first staged in 1853 and generally treated as the first complete Urdu drama.
Indian English poetry
Indian English poetry, once called Indo-Anglian poetry, is poetry in English by Indian poets, developing since the early nineteenth century; Nissim Ezekiel and Kamala Das are major figures.
Indravati
Indravati (इंद्रावती) is a Sufi premakhyan, a love-narrative poem in Awadhi composed by Noor Muhammad in 1744, telling of Rajkunwar and Indravati as an allegory of the soul's longing for divine light.
Inferno (Dante)
Inferno, first canticle of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, is a 34-canto terza rima descent through nine circles of Hell guided by Virgil, written about 1307 to 1321 in exile, first fully translated into English by Rogers in 1782 and endlessly adapted in art and film.
Inkondlo kaZulu
Inkondlo kaZulu (Zulu Poems) is a 1935 collection of poems by Benedict Wallet Vilakazi, the first book of poems ever published in isiZulu and the first title in the Bantu Treasury Series.
Inscribed at the South of the Village
Inscribed at the South of the Village (Ti Du Cheng Nan Zhuang) is a seven-character quatrain by Tang poet Cui Hu, source of the idiom "a face like peach blossom."
Inu Tsukuba-shū
Inu Tsukuba-shū (犬筑波集) is a Japanese haikai renga anthology compiled by Yamazaki Sōkan around 1530, credited with helping comic linked verse break from orthodox renga.
Invenção de Orfeu
Invenção de Orfeu is a 1952 epic-lyric poem in ten cantos by the Brazilian modernist poet Jorge de Lima, published a year before his death and treated as the culmination of his career.