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Lalita Sahasranama (ललिता सहस्रनाम)
Lalita Sahasranama (ललिता सहस्रनाम), also called Lalitha Sahasranamam, is the hymn of 1,000 names of goddess Lalita Tripurasundari in the Brahmanda Purana's Lalitopakhyana, taught by Hayagriva to Agastya; 182.5 anushṭubh stanzas, no repeated names, central Sri Vidya text, chief commentary Bhaskararaya's Saubhagyabhaskara.
Lambro
Lambro is a narrative poem by Polish Romantic writer Juliusz Słowacki, written in Paris in 1832, about a Greek corsair sworn to hatred of the Turks.
Lament for Adonis
The Lament for Adonis is an ancient Greek poem by Bion of Smyrna mourning Aphrodite's grief for Adonis, killed by a boar during a hunt.
Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
"Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías" (Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías) is a 1934 elegy by Federico García Lorca mourning the bullfighter Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, gored to death in Manzanares.
Lament for Qu Yuan
Lament for Qu Yuan (Diao Qu Yuan fu) is a fu rhapsody by Han writer Jia Yi, mourning the drowned poet Qu Yuan and the earliest such surviving work.
Lament of the Lady of Qin
The Lament of the Lady of Qin (秦婦吟) is a long 883 narrative poem by Tang poet Wei Zhuang recounting the Huang Chao rebellion's destruction of Chang'an.
Lament of the Soldier's Wife
Lament of the Soldier's Wife (Chinh phụ ngâm, also called Chinh phụ ngâm khúc) is a classical Chinese poem by Đặng Trần Côn, composed around 1741, famed through Vietnamese Nôm translations.
Lament on the Fall of Edessa
Lament on the Fall of Edessa (Armenian: Voghb Yedesioy) is a medieval Armenian lament poem by Nerses Shnorhali, written after Muslim troops seized Edessa in 1144.
Lament świętokrzyski
Lament świętokrzyski, also known as Żale Matki Boskiej pod krzyżem, is an anonymous Polish medieval poem of the late 15th century in which the Virgin Mary grieves beneath the cross.
Lamiyyat al-Arab
Lamiyyat al-Arab (لامية العرب, "the L-poem of the Arabs") is a pre-Islamic Arabic ode of 68 verses attributed to the brigand-poet al-Shanfarā, one of the most commented works of classical Arabic poetry.
Lan Ling Wang: Willows
Lan Ling Wang: Willows is a celebrated parting lyric by the Northern Song poet Zhou Bangyan, set on the Sui Dike at Kaifeng and included in the Three Hundred Song Lyrics.
Landscape poetry (shanshui)
Landscape poetry (山水詩, shanshui shi) is a genre of classical Chinese verse on natural mountains and waters, founded by Xie Lingyun in the fifth century.
Landscape-pastoral poetry
Landscape-pastoral poetry (山水田园诗, shanshui tianyuan shi) is a genre of classical Chinese poetry depicting natural scenery and rural life, peaking in the High Tang with Wang Wei and Meng Haoran.
Lao epic tradition
The Lao epic tradition is the body of long Lao-language narrative poems composed from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, best known for the epic Sang Sinxay.
Las lenguas de diamante
Las lenguas de diamante (Diamond Tongues) is the first poetry collection of the Uruguayan poet Juana de Ibarbourou, published in Buenos Aires in 1919 to immediate success.
Las personas del verbo
Las personas del verbo is the 1975 volume in which Spanish poet Jaime Gil de Biedma gathered his complete poetry, collecting his three principal books revised by the author.
Lascas
Lascas is a 1901 book of poems by the Mexican poet Salvador Díaz Mirón, written during and after his imprisonment and considered a precursor of modernismo, the Spanish American modernist movement.
Last Poems
Last Poems is the posthumous collection of W. B. Yeats's final poems, published as Last Poems and Two Plays by the Cuala Press in Dublin in 1939.
Latin bucolic tradition
The Latin bucolic tradition is Latin pastoral poetry of idealized shepherds, founded by Vergil's Eclogues in the 40s BCE and continued by Calpurnius Siculus and Nemesianus.
Latvju dainas
Latvju dainas is the first complete scholarly edition of Latvian folk songs, compiled by Krišjānis Barons and published in six volumes between 1894 and 1915 in Jelgava and St Petersburg.
Laüstic
Laüstic, a Breton word for nightingale, is a 160-line narrative lai by Marie de France, telling of neighboring lovers exposed when the jealous husband kills a nightingale.
Lava (लव) (Ramayana)
Lava (लव), younger twin son of Rama and Sita in the Ramayana, raised with Kusha at Valmiki's ashram; the twins recite the 24,000-verse epic at Rama's ashvamedha, and traditions differ on Lava's later kingdom.
Lavanyavati
Lavanyavati (ଲାବଣ୍ୟବତୀ, also Labanyabati) is an Odia-language kavya by poet Upendra Bhanja, acclaimed as Kabi Samrat, narrating princess Lavanyavati's marriage to prince Chandrabhanu in ornate 18th-century Riti-period verse.
Lavorare stanca
Lavorare stanca (Hard Labor) is the first poetry collection by Italian writer Cesare Pavese, published in 1936 and reworked into a definitive Einaudi edition in 1943.
Layamon's Brut
Layamon's Brut is an early Middle English verse chronicle of more than 16,000 lines, composed around 1200 by Layamon, a priest at Areley Kings in Worcestershire.
Layla and Majnun (مجنون ليلى)
Layla and Majnun (مجنون ليلى), also Leyli o Majnun, is a 7th-century Arabian tale of Qays ibn al-Mulawwaḥ's unrequited love, immortalized by Nizami's 1188 Persian poem and retold across Islamic literatures.
Lays of Ancient Rome
Lays of Ancient Rome is Thomas Babington Macaulay's 1842 collection of four ballads (Horatius, Lake Regillus, Virginia, Prophecy of Capys) written as lost Roman minstrel poems; a Victorian bestseller later attacked by Matthew Arnold.
Le Bateau ivre
Le Bateau ivre ("The Drunken Boat") is a hundred-line 1871 poem by Arthur Rimbaud in which a freed boat narrates a hallucinatory voyage; it is his most famous poem.
Le ceneri di Gramsci
Le ceneri di Gramsci (Gramsci's Ashes) is a 1957 collection of eleven long poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini, centered on an elegy at Antonio Gramsci's grave in Rome.
Le Chèvrefeuille
Le Chèvrefeuille, known in Old French as Chevrefoil or Chievrefueil, is the shortest lai of Marie de France, recounting an episode of Tristan and Iseut.