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Jatayu (जटायु)
Jatayu (जटायु), the vulture king of the Ramayana, son of Aruna and brother of Sampati, friend of Dasharatha, who fought Ravana alone during Sita's abduction and died in Rama's lap after his wings were cut.
Javid Nama
Javid Nama (جاوید نامہ), meaning "The Song of Eternity," is a Persian poem by Muhammad Iqbal, published in 1932, describing a spiritual journey guided by Rumi.
Jayadrath Vadh
Jayadrath Vadh (जयद्रथ-वध) is a 1910 Hindi khandkavya, or short epic, by Maithili Sharan Gupt that retells Abhimanyu's death in the chakravyuh and Arjuna's slaying of Jayadrath.
Jayadratha (जयद्रथ)
Jayadratha (जयद्रथ) is the Mahabharata king of Sindhu and Sauvira, a Kaurava ally whose Rudra-granted stand caused Abhimanyu's death and whose slaying by Arjuna before sunset is told in the Jayadratha-vadha Parva.
Jemangmaega
Jemangmaega (제망매가, "Song for the Dead Younger Sister") is a 10-line hyangga composed by the Silla monk Wolmyeong in the 8th century, mourning his dead younger sister.
Jerusalem Delivered
Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme liberata) is an epic poem in twenty cantos by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, on the First Crusade and the conquest of Jerusalem.
Jesus, the Son of Man
Jesus, the Son of Man (يسوع ابن الإنسان) is a 1928 book by Kahlil Gibran presenting Jesus's life through the imagined testimonies of 77 men and women.
Jhara Palak
Jhara Palak (Fallen Feathers) is the first poetry collection of Bengali poet Jibanananda Das, published in Kolkata in 1927, gathering 35 poems from his apprenticeship years.
Jharna
Jharna (झरना, "Waterfall") is a 1918 poetry collection by the Hindi writer Jaishankar Prasad, regarded as the founding work of Chhayavad, the romantic movement of modern Hindi poetry.
Jialing Ci
Jialing Ci is the collected ci lyrics of early Qing poet Chen Weisong (1625–1682), the largest surviving personal ci collection of the early Qing at 1,629 lyrics.
Jian'an poetry
Jian'an poetry (建安诗歌) is Chinese poetry of the Jian'an era (196–220), centered on Cao Cao's court at Ye and counted among China's literary golden ages.
Jiang Cheng Zi: Dream of the Dead Wife
Jiang Cheng Zi: Dream of the Dead Wife (江城子·乙卯正月二十日夜记梦) is a Song dynasty ci lyric by Su Shi, written in 1075 to mourn his first wife, Wang Fu.
Jiang Cheng Zi: Hunting in Mizhou
Jiang Cheng Zi: Hunting in Mizhou (江城子·密州出猎) is a ci poem written by Su Shi in 1075 as prefect of Mizhou, Shandong, pioneering the bold haofang style.
Jiannan Shigao
Jiannan Shigao (剑南诗稿), or Draft Poems of Jiannan, is the collected poetry of the Southern Song poet Lu You, compiled by his son in 85 juan and named for the Sichuan region he loved.
Jiaxuan Ci
The Collected Ci of Xin Qiji (稼轩词) gathers the ci lyrics of Southern Song poet Xin Qiji, more than 600 surviving, the principal monument of the haofang style.
Jivandhara Charite
Jivandhara Charite (Jīvandharacarite) is a Kannada Jain narrative poem by the poet Bhāskara, completed at Penugonde in 1424, retelling the life of Prince Jivandhara in 1000 verses across 18 chapters.
Joc secund
"Joc secund" is a 1929 poem by the Romanian poet and mathematician Ion Barbu, the title poem of his only verse volume and a central hermetic modernist ars poetica.
Jocelyn
Jocelyn is a narrative poem by Alphonse de Lamartine, published in February 1836, presenting the verse journal of a village priest devoted to charity and sacrifice.
John Maynard
John Maynard is a ballad by Theodor Fontane, first published in 1886, about a helmsman who saves a burning ship's passengers on Lake Erie at the cost of his life.
Jónás könyve
Jónás könyve (The Book of Jonah) is a 1938 narrative poem by Hungarian poet Babits Mihály retelling the biblical Jonah story as a plea for intellectuals to speak out.
Journey of the Magi
"Journey of the Magi" is a 43-line dramatic monologue by T. S. Eliot, first published on August 25, 1927, as the first of his Ariel Poems.
Judita
Judita is a biblical epic by the Split poet Marko Marulić, completed in 1501 and first printed in Venice in 1521, the first artistic epic in Croatian literature.
Juemiao Haoci
Juemiao Haoci (绝妙好词, "Extremely Fine Ci Lyrics") is a seven-juan anthology of Southern Song ci poetry compiled by the literatus Zhou Mi after the Song fell.
Juvenal
Juvenal (Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis), Roman satirist of the late 1st and early 2nd century CE, wrote 16 angry, rhetorical satires in five books attacking Roman society; known from Martial's epigrams, source of "bread and circuses".
Ka Moʻolelo o Hiʻiakaikapoliopele
Ka Moʻolelo o Hiʻiakaikapoliopele is a Hawaiian epic telling how Hiʻiaka, youngest sister of the goddess Pele, journeys to Kauaʻi to fetch Pele's lover Lohiʻau.
Kaba Cindua Mato
Kaba Cindua Mato is a classical Minangkabau kaba, a rhymed-prose epic of West Sumatra, Indonesia, telling of the royal family of Pagaruyung and the hero Cindua Mato.
Kabar
Kabar (কবর, "The Grave") is a 1925 Bengali dramatic monologue poem by Jasimuddin, in which an old farmer narrates his family's losses at his wife's grave.
Kabir Granthavali
Kabir Granthavali (कबीर ग्रंथावली) is a collection of dohas and pads attributed to the North Indian poet-saint Kabir, preserved in the Rajasthani tradition of the Dadu Panth.
Kaddish and Other Poems
Kaddish and Other Poems is a 1961 poetry collection by Allen Ginsberg, published by City Lights Books and centered on his elegy for his mother.
Kagaz Te Canvas
Kagaz Te Canvas (ਕਾਗਜ਼ ਤੇ ਕੈਨਵਸ, "Paper and Canvas") is a 1970 Punjabi poetry collection by Amrita Pritam, the work for which she won the Bharatiya Jnanpith Award.