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An Schwager Kronos
An Schwager Kronos is a hymn-length poem by Goethe, written on 10 October 1774 in a post coach and read as a picture of a human life.
Ananthanatha Purana
The Anantanatha Purana (ಅನಂತನಾಥಪುರಾಣಂ) is a Kannada Jain epic poem composed by Janna in 1230 CE, telling the life of Anantanatha, the 14th Tirthankara, in champu style.
Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan
Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan is an 1882 collection of English verse by the Indian poet Toru Dutt, retelling stories from the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and the Puranas.
And death shall have no dominion
"And death shall have no dominion" is a poem by Dylan Thomas, first published in 1933 and collected in Twenty-five Poems, one of his most popular works.
And did those feet in ancient time
"And did those feet in ancient time" is William Blake's 1804 preface poem to Milton, set by Hubert Parry in 1916 as the hymn "Jerusalem", an unofficial English anthem sung at the Proms, Women's Institute meetings, and sporting events.
Andalusi poetry
Andalusi poetry (الشعر الأندلسي) is the Arabic poetry of al-Andalus, Muslim-ruled Iberia, which developed from eastern models into distinctive strophic forms, the muwashshah and zajal.
Andha Yug
Andha Yug (अंधा युग, "The Blind Age") is a 1953 Hindi verse play by Dharmvir Bharati retelling the Mahabharata war's final day as an allegory of moral blindness.
Andhere Mein
Andhere Mein (अँधेरे में), "In Darkness," is a long Hindi poem by Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh, written between 1957 and 1962, dramatizing a middle-class intellectual's conflict between conscience and compromise.
Andhra Mahabharatamu
The Andhra Mahabharatamu, also called the Andhra Mahabharatam, is the Telugu rendering of Vyasa's Sanskrit Mahabharata, produced between the 11th and 14th centuries and regarded as the foundational work of classical Telugu literature.
Ang Mahal na Passion
Ang Mahal na Passion is the first published Tagalog pasyon, a verse narrative of Christ's Passion by Gaspar Aquino de Belen, first published in 1703 or 1704.
Ang Mga Tula ni Jose Corazon de Jesus
Ang Mga Tula ni Jose Corazon de Jesus are the poems of Tagalog poet Jose Corazon de Jesus, the Hari ng Balagtasan whose "Bayan Ko" became a patriotic song.
Anhelli
Anhelli is a prose poem by the Polish Romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki, published in Paris in 1838, depicting Polish exiles deported to Siberia after the failed November Uprising.
Aniketana
Aniketana (ಅನಿಕೇತನ) is a 1963 collection of poems by the Kannada writer Kuvempu, and the name of a quarterly journal of Kannada language and literature published in Bangalore.
Anlatamıyorum
Anlatamıyorum ("I cannot tell") is a short poem by Turkish poet Orhan Veli Kanık, first published in Garip (1941) and written in plain, everyday language.
Anna Snegina
Anna Snegina (Анна Снегина) is an autobiographical lyrical-epic poem by Sergei Yesenin, completed in January 1925, combining a love story with village life during the revolution.
Annabel Lee
Annabel Lee is Edgar Allan Poe's last complete poem, a ballad of love surviving death, composed May 1849 and first printed in Griswold's obituary (New-York Daily Tribune, October 9, 1849).
Annadamangal
Annadamangal (অন্নদামঙ্গল), also called Annada Mangal or Annapurnamangal, is a Bengali mangalkavya composed by Bharatchandra Ray in 1752 at the court of Raja Krishnachandra of Nadia, the last major work of the genre.
Annales
The Annales was an eighteen-book epic by the Roman poet Quintus Ennius narrating Roman history chronologically, and the first major epic in the Latin language.
Annie Allen
Annie Allen is a 1949 poetry collection by Gwendolyn Brooks following a young Black woman through Chicago life; it won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Anno Domini MCMXXI
Anno Domini MCMXXI, usually known simply as Anno Domini, is the fifth poetry collection of Anna Akhmatova, printed for the publisher Petropolis in Petrograd in 1921, the only separate lifetime edition of the book.
Antara
Antara (عنترة) is a 1932 verse drama in Arabic by the Egyptian poet Ahmed Shawqi, dramatizing the life of the pre-Islamic poet-knight Antara ibn Shaddad and his love for his cousin Abla.
Antarah ibn Shaddad
Antarah ibn Shaddad (عنترة بن شداد), pre-Islamic Arabian warrior-poet of Banu 'Abs, author of one of the Mu'allaqat; son of an Abyssinian slave mother, lover of 'Abla, hero of the epic Sīrat 'Antar, and one of the canonical Six Poets.
Anthem of the Decades
Anthem of the Decades is an epic poem by South African poet Mazisi Kunene, written in Zulu and published in his own English translation in 1981.
Anthologia Latina
The Anthologia Latina is a modern compilation of late antique Latin epigrams and short poems, drawn from manuscripts and inscriptions and centered on the Codex Salmasianus.
Anticlaudianus
The Anticlaudianus is an allegorical Latin epic in ten books by Alan of Lille, written around 1182 in northern France, describing the creation of the perfect man.
Antigonish (poem)
Antigonish, popularly known as "The Man Who Wasn't There," is a short 1899 poem by William Hughes Mearns about an apparition on a stair, written for a Harvard play and published in the New York World in 1922.
Antología de la poesía mexicana moderna
Antología de la poesía mexicana moderna is the title of several Mexican poetry anthologies, most prominently Jorge Cuesta's 1928 collection of 22 poets that founded the modern Mexican poetic canon.
Apabhramsha kavya
Apabhramsha kavya (अपभ्रंश काव्य) is poetry composed in Apabhramsha, the late Middle Indo-Aryan literary language between the Prakrits and modern languages like Hindi and Gujarati.
Arabic poetry (الشعر العربي)
Arabic poetry (الشعر العربي), measured rhymed verse in Arabic from the pre-Islamic era onward: al-Khalil's sixteen metres, the monorhyme qasida, the Mu'allaqat, Abbasid and Andalusian forms, and the Nahda revival.
Arabic popular poetry
Arabic popular poetry (الشعر الشعبي), also called shiʿr al-ʿāmmiyya, is poetry composed in spoken Arabic dialects rather than Classical Arabic, transmitted by performance and song.