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Kumulipo
The Kumulipo is the Hawaiian cosmogonic chant of about 2,102 lines, tracing sea life, plants, gods, and humans from primordial darkness to the royal family it honors.
Kunjini
Kunjini (कुञ्जिनी) is a Nepali khandakavya, a short narrative poem by Laxmi Prasad Devkota written around 1945, telling of Kunjini's love for the soldier Gore and her forced marriage.
Kunti (कुन्ती)
Kunti (कुन्ती, birth name Pritha), Mahabharata figure: Pandu's wife, mother of Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, and of Karna by Surya via Durvasa's boon; later renunciant.
Kurinchippattu
Kurinchippattu (குறிஞ்சிப்பாட்டு, "Song of the Mountains") is a classical Tamil poem of the Sangam era by the poet Kapilar, one of the ten Pattuppattu idylls, naming 99 mountain flowers.
Kurukshetra War
The Kurukshetra War (Kuruyuddha) is the eighteen-day battle between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, two branches of the Kuru dynasty, told in the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata.
Kuruntokai
Kuruntokai (குறுந்தொகை) is a classical Tamil anthology of 401 short love poems, second of the Eight Anthologies of Sangam literature and dated between about 200 BC and AD 200.
Kusha (कुश) (Ramayana)
Kusha (कुश), with twin brother Lava, is a son of Rama and Sita in the Ramayana, born in Valmiki's ashram, named after kusha grass, first singer of the epic at Rama's ashvamedha, later ruler of Kosala from Kushasthali.
Kuttippuram Palam
Kuttippuram Palam (കുറ്റിപ്പുറം പാലം) is a Malayalam poem by Edasseri Govindan Nair, published in 1954, mixing pride in the new Kuttippuram bridge with anxiety over modernization, and regarded as a canonical work of Malayalam ecopoetry.
Kuvayı Milliye Destanı
Kuvayı Milliye Destanı (Kuvâyi Milliye) is an epic poem by the Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet retelling the Turkish War of Independence, composed in prison and first published in 1965.
Kuyil Pattu
Kuyil Pattu ("The Cuckoo's Song") is an allegorical narrative poem by the Tamil poet Subramania Bharati, written during his exile in Pondicherry along with Kannan Pattu and Panchali Sabatham.
Kwiaty polskie
Kwiaty polskie (Polish Flowers) is a long digressive poem by Julian Tuwim, written in exile during and after World War II and devoted to Poland and Polishness.
Kytice
Kytice, full title A Bouquet of National Legends, is a collection of ballads by Czech writer and folklorist Karel Jaromír Erben, first published in Prague in 1853.
Kyz Zhibek
Kyz Zhibek (Қыз Жібек, "The Silk Maiden") is a classic Kazakh lyrical-epic love poem of the 15th to 17th centuries, which inspired Kazakhstan's first opera and a 1970 film.
L'Adone
L'Adone is a mythological epic poem in twenty cantos by the Neapolitan poet Giovan Battista Marino, published in Paris in 1623 and recognized as the longest poem written in the Italian language.
L'albatros (poem)
L'Albatros is Charles Baudelaire's 1861 Les Fleurs du mal poem (first published 1859) in which captured albatrosses become an allegory of the poet, four ABAB alexandrine quatrains ending "Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées".
L'Allegria
Allegria di naufragi is a 1919 poetry collection by the Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti, written during World War I service on the Italian and western fronts.
L'Amour la poésie
L'Amour la poésie is a 1929 collection of poems by the French surrealist poet Paul Éluard, dedicated to his wife Gala and containing the famous line "The earth is blue like an orange."
L'Année terrible
L'Année terrible, "the terrible year," is Victor Hugo's phrase for France's 1870–1871 catastrophe of war, siege of Paris, and the Commune, also the title of his 1872 poetry collection.
L'Après-midi d'un faune
L'Après-midi d'un faune is an 1876 eclogue in 110 alexandrines by Stéphane Mallarmé, in which a faun cannot tell whether an encounter with two nymphs was real.
L'Art d'être grand-père
L'Art d'être grand-père is a collection of poetry by Victor Hugo, published in Paris in 1877 and dedicated entirely to his grandchildren Georges and Jeanne Hugo.
L'Art poétique
L'Art poétique is a didactic poem in four chants by Nicolas Boileau, published in 1674 and imitated from Horace, setting out the precepts of French classical doctrine and its poetic genres.
L'Epistre Othea
L'Epistre Othea (Épître d'Othéa) is a work of moral instruction by Christine de Pizan, framed as a letter from the goddess Othéa to Hector of Troy, written around 1400 and surviving in 47 manuscripts.
L'Espace du dedans
L'Espace du dedans ("The Space Within") is a 1944 poetry anthology by the Belgian-born French poet and painter Henri Michaux, who selected the poems himself for Gallimard.
L'infinito
L'infinito ("The Infinite") is a poem by the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi, composed at Recanati in 1819 and among the most famous lyrics in Italian literature.
La amada inmóvil
La amada inmóvil (Versos a una muerta) is a posthumous 1920 book of elegiac poetry by Mexican poet Amado Nervo, written for his companion Ana Cecilia Luisa Dailliez.
La Araucana
La Araucana is a 16th-century Spanish epic poem by Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga about the Spanish conquest of Chile and the war with the Mapuche, published in Madrid in three parts between 1569 and 1589.
La Argentina y conquista del Río de la Plata
La Argentina y conquista del Río de la Plata is a 1602 epic poem by Martín del Barco Centenera about the conquest of the Río de la Plata.
La Belle Dame sans Merci
Keats's 1819 ballad "La Belle Dame sans Merci" ("The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy"), in twelve ABCB quatrains, tells of a knight enthralled by a fairy woman; title echoes Alain Chartier's medieval French poem; two versions exist.
La beltà
La beltà is a 1968 poetry collection by the Italian poet Andrea Zanzotto, gathering his poems from 1961 to 1967 and considered his most complex, mature work.
La Bonne Chanson
La Bonne Chanson is an 1870 collection of 21 poems by Paul Verlaine, written for Mathilde Mauté de Fleurville and published in Paris by Alphonse Lemerre.