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Mausoleum: Siebenunddreißig Balladen aus der Geschichte des Fortschritts
Mausoleum: Siebenunddreißig Balladen aus der Geschichte des Fortschritts (Mausoleum: Thirty-Seven Ballads from the History of Progress) is a 1975 book by Hans Magnus Enzensberger portraying inventors, revolutionaries, and scientists in verse.
Mayura Sandesham
Mayura Sandesham (മയൂരസന്ദേശം), also spelled Mayoorasandesham, is a Malayalam messenger poem by Kerala Varma, who sends a peacock from Haripad with his message of love and separation to his wife in Thiruvananthapuram.
MCMXIV
"MCMXIV" is a poem by Philip Larkin, published in his 1964 collection The Whitsun Weddings, looking back on England just before the First World War began.
Mean Time
Mean Time is a 1993 poetry collection, Duffy's fourth, by the Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy. It won the Whitbread Poetry Award and the Forward Poetry Prize.
Medicamina Faciei Femineae
Medicamina Faciei Femineae is a fragmentary didactic elegy by the Roman poet Ovid that gives five recipes for facial treatments, the first Latin text transmitting dermatological recipes.
Meditations in Time of Civil War
Meditations in Time of Civil War is a sequence of seven poems by W. B. Yeats, written during the Irish Civil War and first published in 1924.
Meghnad Badh Kavya
Meghnad Badh Kavya (মেঘনাদবধ কাব্য) is an 1861 Bengali epic poem by Michael Madhusudan Dutt, retelling the Ramayana with Ravana's son Meghnad as its central figure.
Meicun Ji
Meicun Ji is the collected poetry and prose of the early Qing poet Wu Weiye, compiled by the author in 1668 and included in the Siku Quanshu.
Meitei poetry
Meitei poetry, also known as Manipuri poetry, is the poetic tradition of the Meitei language of Manipur, India, surviving in ritual songs, classical manuscripts, and modern written verse.
Mele
Mele is the Hawaiian word for song, chant, or poem, and the body of Hawaiian poetic compositions that served as the primary record of history before writing.
Mele inoa
Mele inoa, or name chants, are Hawaiian poetic compositions honoring a person and their name, often praising chiefs and preserving family history, traditionally containing no word of ill-omen.
Melke Maryam
Melke Maryam (Ge'ez: መልክአ ማርያም, "Image of Mary") is a Ge'ez hymn in praise of the Virgin Mary, in the malkeʾ genre where each stanza greets a part of her body.
Melke Selassie
Melke Selassie (Malkəʾa Śəllāse) is a Ge'ez hymn praising the Holy Trinity, composed for a church consecration in 1694 and attributed to ʾAbbā Səbḥat Laʾab.
Memleketimden İnsan Manzaraları
Memleketimden İnsan Manzaraları is an epic free-verse poem by the Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet Ran, written largely in prison in the 1940s and first published in Turkey in 1966–1967.
Men and Women
Men and Women is a collection of fifty-one poems by Robert Browning, published in two volumes in 1855 and regarded as a watershed of his career.
Mending Wall
"Mending Wall" is a 1914 narrative poem by Robert Frost about two New England farmers who repair their shared stone wall each spring, famous for "Good fences make good neighbors."
Mengchuang Ci
Collected Ci of Wu Wenying (《梦窗词》) is the surviving corpus of about 340 song lyrics by Wu Wenying, a mid-1200s Southern Song poet known as Mengchuang.
Merdiven
"Merdiven" (Turkish for "Staircase") is a poem by Ahmet Hâşim, published in his 1926 collection Piyale, describing a slow climb at sunset read as an image of life from youth to death.
Mere Rashk-e-Qamar (میرا رشکِ قمر)
Mere Rashk-e-Qamar (میرا رشکِ قمر), "Envy of the Moon", is an Urdu ghazal by Fana Buland Shehri, performed as a qawwali by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in the 1980s and revived by the 2013 remix and 2017 Baadshaho film version.
Metamorphoses
Ovid's Metamorphoses, a 15-book Latin epic of about 12,000 hexameter lines, retells some 250 transformation myths from Chaos to Augustus and became the 'Bible for artists' of Western painting and sculpture.
Meus Oito Anos
Meus Oito Anos is an 1859 lyric poem by the Brazilian Romantic poet Casimiro de Abreu, a nostalgic recollection of childhood written in Lisbon in 1857.
Mevlid
Mevlid, from Arabic mawlid meaning birth, is a Turkish and Ottoman genre of narrative poem on the Prophet Muhammad's birth, with Süleyman Çelebi's 1409 Vesîletü'n-necât as its founding text, also recited as a ceremony.
Mi último adiós
"Mi último adiós" (My Last Farewell) is the farewell poem José Rizal wrote in his Manila cell in 1896, the day before the Spanish executed him.
Michael Robartes and the Dancer
Michael Robartes and the Dancer is a poetry collection by W. B. Yeats, hand-printed at the Cuala Press in 1920 and first printing "Easter, 1916."
Mid-Term Break
"Mid-Term Break" is an autobiographical elegy by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney on the death of his four-year-old brother Christopher, killed by a car in 1953.
Middle English romance
Middle English romance is a genre of vernacular tales of chivalry, love, and the marvelous, with over eighty verse romances surviving from about 1225 to 1500.
Milagros de Nuestra Señora
Milagros de Nuestra Señora (Miracles of Our Lady) is a collection of 25 narrative poems about the Virgin Mary by the Spanish poet Gonzalo de Berceo.
Minase Sangin Hyakuin
Minase Sangin Hyakuin (水無瀬三吟百韻) is a hundred-verse renga sequence composed in 1488 by the poets Sōgi, Shōhaku, and Sōchō as a memorial offering to Emperor Gotoba at Minase Shrine.
Miorița
Miorița (The Little Ewe Lamb) is a Romanian folk pastoral ballad in which a shepherd forewarned of murder accepts his fate, his death becoming a cosmic wedding.
Miro la tierra
Miro la tierra is a 1986 poetry collection by the Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco, gathering poems written between 1983 and 1986 in response to the 1985 Mexico City earthquakes.