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Keyurabahucharitramu
Keyurabahucharitramu (కేయూరబాహుచరిత్రము) is a Telugu kathā-kāvya written by poet Manchana in the 12th or 13th century, one of the earliest Telugu works in the kathā narrative tradition.
Khamriyya
Khamriyya (الخمريات) is a genre of classical Arabic poetry devoted to wine, the cupbearer, and the drinking party, crystallizing in Abbasid Baghdad with Abū Nuwās as its master poet.
Khamsa of Amir Khusrau
The Khamsa of Amir Khusrau is a quintet of five narrative poems in Persian written by the Delhi poet Amir Khusrau between 1298 and 1302.
Khamsa of Navoi
The Khamsa of Navoi (خمسۀ نوائي, Quintet of Nava'i) is a set of five narrative poems in Chagatai Turkic by Ali Shir Nava'i, composed 1483–1485 and considered the central work of Chagatai literature.
Khamsa of Nizami
The Khamsa (Xəmsə), also called the Quintet, is a set of five Persian narrative poems by the poet Nizami Ganjavi, written between about 1177 and 1203.
Khari Boli poetry
Khari Boli poetry (खड़ी बोली काव्य) is Hindi poetry written in the Khari Boli dialect of the Delhi-Meerut region, established as a poetic language in the early 20th century.
Kharja (خرجة)
Kharja (خرجة, jarcha): the short closing section of the Andalusi muwashshah, written in colloquial Arabic or Romance, often in a woman's voice; the Romance kharjas are the oldest recorded Romance lyric poetry.
Khavaran-nameh
Khavaran-nameh (خاوراننامه) is a Persian religious epic poem completed in 1426-27 by Ebn Hosam, recounting the heroic deeds of Ali and counted among the major Persian religious epics.
Kheya
Kheya (খেয়া), Bengali for a ferry boat, is a 1906 book of poems by Rabindranath Tagore, whose symbolic title stands for the crossing of life; it was dedicated to Jagadish Chandra Bose.
Khóc Dương Khuê
Khóc Dương Khuê ("Weeping for Dương Khuê") is a 1902 Vietnamese elegy in song thất lục bát verse by Nguyễn Khuyến, mourning his friend and fellow poet Dương Khuê.
Khosrow and Shirin
Khosrow and Shirin (خسرو و شیرین) is a narrative poem by the 12th-century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, recounting the love of King Khosrow II Parviz for Princess Shirin.
Khumesh-Lider
Khumesh-Lider (חומש־לידער, Bible Songs) is a 1935 cycle of Yiddish poems by Itzik Manger, published in Warsaw, that recasts biblical figures as ordinary shtetl Jews.
Kidung Harsawijaya
Kidung Harsawijaya is a Middle Javanese historical kidung about the fall of Singasari and the rise of Majapahit; its oldest manuscript was copied in Bali in 1843.
Kidung Panji Wijayakrama
Kidung Panji Wijayakrama, also called Kidung Sorandaka, is a Middle Javanese kidung, the earliest extant, with a proposed composition date of 24 November 1334, shortly after the events it describes.
Kidung Rangga Lawe
Kidung Rangga Lawe, also known as Kidung Panji Wijayakrama-Rangga Lawe, is a Middle Javanese poem about a Tuban noble who rebelled against Majapahit's founder Raden Wijaya.
Kidung Sunda
Kidung Sunda is a Middle Javanese narrative poem found in Bali and the fullest literary account of the Bubat incident of 1357, a clash between Sunda and Majapahit.
King Horn
King Horn is a Middle English chivalric romance, probably the oldest surviving composed in English, about a prince exiled by Saracens who wins a princess and reclaims his kingdom.
Kinot
Kinot (Hebrew: קינות; singular kinah) are Hebrew liturgical poems of lament recited on Tisha B'Av, mourning the destruction of the Temples, Jerusalem, and later tragedies including the Holocaust.
Kirsha Danilov's collection
Kirsha Danilov's collection (Сборник Кирши Данилова) is an eighteenth-century Russian manuscript compiled in Siberia by the singer Kirsha Danilov, the earliest substantial collection of Russian byliny.
Kirtikaumudi
The Kirtikaumudi (कीर्तिकौमुदी, "Moonlight of Fame") is a 13th-century Sanskrit mahakavya by the poet Somesvaradeva celebrating the Gujarat minister Vastupala and narrating Chalukya dynasty history.
Kishore Chandrananda Champu
Kishore Chandrananda Champu (କିଶୋରଚନ୍ଦ୍ରାନନ୍ଦ ଚମ୍ପୂ) is a famous Odia champu kavya by Kabisurjya Baladeba Ratha, with 34 songs, one for each of the Odia alphabet's 34 consonants, on Radha and Krishna.
Kissa Raja Rasalu
Kissa Raja Rasalu (ਰਾਜਾ ਰਸਾਲੂ) is the cycle of Punjabi oral and written tales about Raja Rasalu, a legendary hero-king told as a qissa, a long narrative poem.
Kitaar my kruis
Kitaar my kruis is a 1961 poetry collection by the South African writer Adam Small, written largely in Kaaps and directed against racial discrimination and apartheid.
Kitab al-Hamasah
Kitab al-Hamasah (كتاب الحماسة, "Book of Fortitude") is a celebrated Arabic poetry anthology compiled by the Abbasid poet Abu Tammam, arranging 881 poems in ten thematic chapters.
Kleine Aster
"Kleine Aster" ("Little Aster") is a 1912 poem by German physician-poet Gottfried Benn, opening poem of Morgue und andere Gedichte and a key text of Expressionism.
Kobzar
Kobzar (Кобзарь) is the first collection of poetry by Taras Shevchenko, published in Saint Petersburg in 1840, which became the collective title of his entire poetic legacy.
Kochu Sita
Kochu Sita (കൊച്ചുസീത, "Little Sita") is a Malayalam narrative poem by Vallathol Narayana Menon, first published in the late 1920s, that criticizes the caste customs of Kerala's matrilineal Nair families.
Kokin Wakashū
The Kokin Wakashū (古今和歌集), also known as Kokinshū, is the first imperially commanded anthology of waka poetry, ordered by Emperor Daigo in 905 and completed around 913.
Komas uit 'n Bamboesstok
Komas uit 'n Bamboesstok is a 1979 Afrikaans poetry collection by D.J. Opperman, written after his near-fatal illness of 1976 and winner of the 1980 Hertzog Prize.
Konrad Wallenrod
Konrad Wallenrod is a narrative poem by Adam Mickiewicz, published in 1828, telling of a Lithuanian raised by the Teutonic Knights who destroys the Order from within.