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Manache Shlok
Manache Shlok (मनाचे श्लोक), also known as Manobodh, is a set of 205 Marathi devotional verses in which 17th-century saint-poet Samarth Ramdas counsels his own mind toward ethical conduct and devotion to Rama.
Manalezhuthu
Manalezhuthu (മണലെഴുത്ത്, "The Writing on the Sand") is a Malayalam poetry collection by the Kerala poet and activist Sugathakumari, selected for the 2013 Saraswati Samman.
Manasamangal
Manasamangal (মনসামঙ্গল), also known as Padmapuran, is a medieval Bengali narrative poem celebrating the snake goddess Manasa and her conquest of the merchant Chand Sadagar.
Manasi
Manasi (মানসী, "The Mind's Creation") is an 1890 Bengali poetry collection by Rabindranath Tagore, written between 1887 and 1890 and generally regarded as the first book of his mature verse.
Manchester Odyssey
The Manchester Odyssey is a 3rd-century CE parchment codex, the earliest surviving copy of Homer's Odyssey in book form, preserving Books 12-15 and 18-24. Held at the John Rylands Library since its 1901 purchase from the 26th Earl of Crawford.
Mandalay (poem)
Mandalay, also "The Road to Mandalay," is Rudyard Kipling's 1890 poem in Barrack-Room Ballads (1892), voiced by a cockney soldier longing for Burma, famous for its refrain and disputed geography.
Mandodari
Mandodari (मन्दोदरी), also Mandodari of Lanka, is Ravana's chief wife and queen in Valmiki's Ramayana, mother of Meghanada, famed for her lament over Ravana and counted among the Panchakanya.
Mankuthimmana Kagga
Mankuthimmana Kagga (ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮನ ಕಗ್ಗ) is a 1943 collection of 945 standalone four-line Kannada philosophical verses by D. V. Gundappa, often called the Kannada Bhagavad Gita.
Mantıku't-Tayr
Mantıku't-Tayr (منطق الطير, "The Speech of the Birds") is a Sufi mathnawi by the Persian poet Attar, finished in 1187, in which birds journey through seven valleys to the Simurgh.
Manucharitam
Manucharitam (Telugu: మనుచరిత్రము), also called Svarochisha Manu Sambhavamu, is a sixteenth-century Telugu court epic by Allasani Peddana, chief poet of Krishnadevaraya, and is regarded as the first prabandha in Telugu literature.
Manush
Manush (মানুষ, "Human") is a Bengali poem by Kazi Nazrul Islam, national poet of Bangladesh, that names service to humanity as the highest religion and is taught in Bangladeshi high schools.
Māori poetry in English
Māori poetry in English is the body of poetry written in English by Māori, New Zealand's indigenous people, running from Apirana Ngata's 1892 poem to Hone Tuwhare's landmark 1964 collection.
Mapuche oral poetry
Mapuche oral poetry is the sung and spoken verbal art of the Mapuche people of Chile and Argentina, passed down in Mapudungun through genres such as ül, epew, and nütram.
Mar Absoluto
Mar Absoluto e Outros Poemas is a 1945 poetry collection by the Brazilian writer Cecília Meireles, published by Editora Globo and considered the apex of her lyric poetry.
Margites
Margites (Μαργίτης) is a lost ancient Greek comic poem about a fool, probably from Ionia in the 7th or 6th century BCE and attributed to Homer.
Marília de Dirceu
Marília de Dirceu is a collection of lyric poems by the Luso-Brazilian poet Tomás Antônio Gonzaga, first published in Lisbon in 1792 and written in the pastoral style of Arcadian poetry.
Marinero en tierra
Marinero en tierra (Sailor Ashore) is the first book of poems by Spanish poet Rafael Alberti, published in 1925 and winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura.
Marko Kraljević Cycle
The Marko Kraljević Cycle is a group of South Slavic epic folk songs about Kraljević Marko, a superhuman Christian champion under Ottoman rule, and a standard division of Serbian epic poetry.
Marsiya of Mir Anis
The Marsiya of Mir Anis (مرثیہِ مرزا انیس) is the body of Urdu elegies by Mir Babbar Ali Anis of Lucknow (1803–1874) on the martyrs of Karbala.
Martim Cererê
Martim Cererê is a 1927 modernist narrative poem by the Brazilian writer Cassiano Ricardo, telling how the Indian, the Black, and the white form a Brazilian boy.
Martín Fierro
Martín Fierro is a two-part Argentine narrative poem by José Hernández, published in 1872 and 1879, in the gaucho's voice; canonized in 1913, it became the national poem of Argentina.
Marusia Churai
Marusia Churai is a 1979 historical novel in verse by Ukrainian poet Lina Kostenko, set in 17th-century Poltava around the legendary folk singer of the same name.
Mashairi ya Sifa
Mashairi ya Sifa are Swahili praise poems composed to honor a person, ruler, community, object, or deity, one strand of the wider Swahili poetic tradition of the East African coast.
Masnavi (مثنوی معنوی)
Masnavi-ye Ma'navi (مثنوی معنوی, Spiritual Couplets): six-book Persian mystical poem by Rumi (d. 1273), over 26,000 couplets, begun at Husam al-Din Chalabi's request; called the Qur'an in Persian and foundational to the Mevlevi order.
Master Manole
Master Manole (Meșterul Manole) is the hero of a Romanian folk ballad, also known as Mănăstirea Argeșului, in which a master mason walls his wife into the church at Curtea de Argeș.
Mathilde
Mathilde, full title Mathilde. Een Sonnettenkrans, is a Dutch sonnet cycle written by Jacques Perk in 1879 after meeting Mathilde Thomas in the Ardennes, published posthumously in 1882.
Mathura Mangala
Mathura Mangala is a revered eighteenth-century Odia devotional kavya by Bhakta Charana Das, a Gaudiya Vaishnava, centered on the theme of Radha and Krishna's love.
Matsuo Bashō
Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉) was a Japanese poet who elevated the Edo-period genre of haikai into serious art, establishing the Bashō style and laying groundwork for haiku.
Matter of France
The Matter of France, also known as the Carolingian cycle, is the body of medieval legend centered on Charlemagne and his Twelve Peers defending Christianity from the Saracens.
Matter of Rome
The Matter of Rome is one of three medieval romance cycles named by Jean Bodel, covering classical legends of Alexander the Great and the Trojan War.