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Lison ut-Tayr
Lison ut-Tayr (لسان الطير, The Language of the Birds) is a mystical narrative poem in Chagatai by Alisher Navoi, written in 1498–1499 as a response to Attar's Conference of the Birds.
List of characters in Ramayana
List of characters in Ramayana (रामायण): the cast of Valmiki's Sanskrit epic, from Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Hanuman, and Ravana to 194 named figures across seven Kandas, with version differences such as Ravana's portrayal.
List of characters in the Mahabharata
Characters of the Mahabharata (महाभारत), Vyasa's Sanskrit epic: the five Pandavas, hundred Kauravas, Krishna, Draupadi, Karna, Bhishma, and over 3,000 named figures, with their roles, parentage, and treatment in retellings.
List of Emily Dickinson poems
Emily Dickinson's poems: nearly 1,800 works left unpublished at her 1886 death, known by first lines and Johnson (J) and Franklin (Fr) numbers, with only eleven printed in her lifetime and a documented edition history from 1890 to 2016.
List of world folk-epics
List of world folk-epics: oral and oral-derived heroic narratives such as Manas, Gesar, Mongol Tuuli, Sun-Jata, Sîrat Banî Hilal, bylyny, Siri, and Biag ni Lam-ang, their singers, textualization, and UNESCO recognition.
Lithoko tsa marena
Lithoko tsa marena, Sesotho for "praise poems of the chiefs," are the heroic praise poems of the Basotho, composed for chiefs, kings, and warriors and first printed by Zakea D. Mangoaela.
Litikai
Litikai (লিটিকাই) is a poetry collection by the Assamese poet Nalinibala Devi, known only from its listing in a Sahitya Akademi monograph on her works.
Little Gidding
Little Gidding is a 1942 poem by T. S. Eliot, the fourth and final of his Four Quartets, named for a Huntingdonshire village and written during the London Blitz.
Little Jack Horner
Little Jack Horner is a six-line English nursery rhyme first recorded in Henry Carey's 1725 Namby Pamby, with a disputed Glastonbury legend about steward Thomas Horner, a Christmas pie, and Mells Manor.
Live or Die
Live or Die is a 1966 poetry collection by the American poet Anne Sexton, a central work of confessional poetry that won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Living Flame of Love
The Living Flame of Love (Llama de amor viva) is a four-stanza mystical poem with commentary by St. John of the Cross, describing the soul's union with God.
Lỡ bước sang ngang
Lỡ bước sang ngang is a 110-line lục bát narrative poem by the Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Bính, first printed in 1939 and a phenomenon of the Thơ mới era.
Lock of Berenice
The Lock of Berenice (Greek Βερενίκης Πλόκαμος) is an elegiac poem by Callimachus in which the lock of hair Queen Berenice II consecrated rises into the sky as a constellation.
Lokasenna
Lokasenna, meaning "Loki's quarrel," is a mythological poem of the Poetic Edda in which Loki insults the assembled gods at a feast until Thor drives him out.
Lokgatha
Lokgatha (लोकगाथा, "folk ballad") is a sung narrative tradition of the Indian subcontinent, telling long stories in verse in the people's spoken language, transmitted orally across generations.
Long Song Xing
Long Song Xing (长歌行) is a Han-dynasty yuefu folk poem urging readers to strive in youth, known for its closing maxim about grieving in old age.
Lord Weary's Castle
Lord Weary's Castle is Robert Lowell's second poetry collection, published in 1946 and awarded the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, with the elegy "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket" as its best-known poem.
Lorikayan
Lorikayan (लोरिकायन), also called Loriki, is a Bhojpuri folk epic telling of the Ahir warrior Lorik and the heroine Manjari; it is the largest Bhojpuri folk epic.
Los amorosos
"Los amorosos" is a 1949 poem by the Mexican poet Jaime Sabines, published in 1950 as the closing piece of his first book, Horal, and among the most quoted in Mexican literature.
Los cálices vacíos
Los cálices vacíos (Empty Chalices) is a 1913 poetry collection by the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini, her third and final book published before her 1914 murder.
Los hombres del alba
Los hombres del alba (The Men of Dawn) is a 1944 poetry collection by Mexican poet Efraín Huerta, regarded as a landmark in Mexican poetry.
Los trabajos del mar
Los trabajos del mar is a 1983 book of poems by the Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco, known for bringing an ecological consciousness into Mexican poetry.
Lovada Sangarawa
Lovada Sangarawa (ලෝවැඩ සඟරාව) is a 15th-century Sinhala didactic poem of about 140 verses, composed by Vidagama Maitreya Mahathera under King Parakramabahu VI of Kotte to teach Buddhism in plain Sinhala.
Lửa thiêng
Lửa thiêng (Sacred Fire) is the first poetry collection of Vietnamese poet Huy Cận, published in Hanoi in 1940 and a landmark of the New Poetry movement.
Luceafărul
Luceafărul ("The Evening Star") is an 1883 philosophical poem by the Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu, in 98 stanzas telling of a celestial being in love with a mortal princess.
Ludwigslied
The Ludwigslied, meaning Lay of Ludwig, is an Old High German poem of 881/882 celebrating King Louis III's victory over a Viking force at Saucourt-en-Vimeu in 881.
Lunch Poems
Lunch Poems is a 1964 poetry collection by Frank O'Hara, written largely on his lunch breaks from the Museum of Modern Art and published by City Lights Books.
Lưu Hương ký
Lưu Hương ký (留香記, Record of Lingering Fragrance) is a manuscript collection of 52 poems in Chinese and Nôm script attributed to the Vietnamese poet Hồ Xuân Hương.
Luzumiyat
Luzumiyat (اللزوميات), short for Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam, is the second major poetry collection of the blind Arab poet al-Maʿarrī, known for its unprecedented double rhyme scheme.
Lycidas
Lycidas is a pastoral elegy by John Milton, written in 1637 for a memorial volume for Edward King, a Cambridge fellow drowned in the Irish Sea.