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Miscellaneous Poems of 1839
Miscellaneous Poems of 1839 (Jihai zashi) is a set of 315 quatrains by the Qing poet Gong Zizhen, written during his 1839 journey home from Beijing.
Missal
Missal is a book of prose poems by the Brazilian poet João da Cruz e Sousa, published in 1893 and regarded as the inaugural work of Symbolism in Brazil.
Mizrahi poetry
Mizrahi poetry (Hebrew: שירה מזרחית) is Hebrew poetry by Jewish Israelis of Middle Eastern and North African origin that took shape in the 1970s, led by Erez Biton and Roni Somek.
Mo Shang Sang
Mo Shang Sang (陌上桑) is an anonymous Chinese yuefu ballad of the Han dynasty, in which the mulberry-picker Luofu rebuffs an official by praising her husband.
Modern Arabic poetry
Modern Arabic poetry (الشعر العربي الحديث) is the poetry written in Arabic from the late nineteenth century to the present, spanning four stages and pioneering free verse after 1948.
Modern Egyptian poetry
Modern Egyptian poetry (الشعر المصري الحديث) is Arabic poetry written in Egypt from the late nineteenth century onward, beginning with the revival school of Mahmoud Sami al-Baroudi.
Modern Hebrew poetry
Modern Hebrew poetry is poetry written in Hebrew from the late eighteenth-century Haskalah onward, emerging in Eastern Europe and canonized by Hayim Nahman Bialik's second book in 1908.
Modern Iraqi poetry
Modern Iraqi poetry is the Arabic-language poetry of Iraq, pioneered in free verse by Nazik al-Mala'ika and Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, whose 1947 works led Arabic poetry.
Modern Syrian poetry
Modern Syrian poetry is Arabic-language poetry from Syria, a principal center of the move from the classical qasida to free verse and the prose poem.
Modernism in Arabic poetry
Modernism in Arabic poetry, al-ḥadāthah al-shiʿriyyah, is the movement that broke the classical Arabic poem's fixed meter and single rhyme, beginning in the late 1940s.
Modernist poetry (Xiandai school)
Modernist poetry (Xiandai pai, 现代派) is a school of Chinese new poetry formed in Shanghai in the early 1930s around the magazine Xiandai, led by Dai Wangshu.
Modernist poetry in English
Modernist poetry in English: experimental anglophone verse, c. 1910s to mid-1940s, from Imagism to Eliot, Pound, Williams, and Stevens; free verse, fragmentation, and reaction against Victorian formalism.
Mohaç Türküsü
"Mohaç Türküsü" is a 1939 poem by Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, narrated by the akıncı horsemen killed at Süleyman the Magnificent's victory over Hungary at Mohács in 1526.
Mohanatarangini
Mohanatarangini (ಮೋಹನತರಂಗಿಣಿ) is a Kannada narrative poem in the Sangatya meter by the sixteenth-century saint-poet Kanakadasa, retelling the love story of Usha and Aniruddha, the grandson of Krishna.
Moja piosnka (II)
"Moja piosnka (II)" is an 1854 poem by Cyprian Kamil Norwid, written during his emigration in New York and built around the refrain "Tęskno mi, Panie" ("I long, Lord").
Mojian Shi Shici Ji
Mojian Shi Shici Ji (磨剑室诗词集) is the collected poems and ci of Chinese revolutionary poet Liu Yazi, founder of the Southern Society, first published in 1985 in two volumes.
Momal Rano
Momal Rano (مومل راڻو) is a tragic romantic folk tale of Sindh and Rajasthan about the princess Momal and her lover Rano, told in Shah Jo Risalo.
Monachomachia
Monachomachia, or the War of the Monks, is a mock-heroic poem by Ignacy Krasicki satirizing a war between Dominicans and Carmelites, published anonymously in 1778.
Mondnacht
Mondnacht ("Moonlit Night") is a three-stanza poem by the German Romantic writer Joseph von Eichendorff, first printed in 1837 and famous through Robert Schumann's 1840 song setting.
Mongolian epic
A Mongolian epic, known in Mongolian as tuuli (тууль), is an orally composed heroic narrative poem, the central genre of Mongolian literature, inscribed by UNESCO in 2009.
Montage of a Dream Deferred
Montage of a Dream Deferred is a 1951 book-length poem sequence by Langston Hughes portraying life in Harlem, centered on the deferred dreams of African Americans.
Moon of Mtatsminda
Moon of Mtatsminda (Georgian: Mtatsmindis Mtvare) is a 1915 poem by the Georgian poet Galaktion Tabidze about Mtatsminda, the mountain overlooking Tbilisi, which he called his programmatic poem and a key to his work.
Moonlit Night
Moonlit Night is a 756 poem by the Tang poet Du Fu, written in occupied Chang'an and imagining his wife in Fuzhou gazing at the same moon.
Mor ho!
Mor ho! is an 1864 heroic epic poem by the Slovak Romantic poet Samo Chalupka, depicting Slavs who fight a Roman emperor to the death rather than submit.
Moretum
Moretum is a short Latin hexameter poem of 122 lines in the Appendix Vergiliana, long attributed to Virgil but now usually dated to the 1st century CE.
Morgante
Morgante, also known as Il Morgante or Morgante maggiore, is a burlesque epic poem in ottava rima by Luigi Pulci, printed in 1478 and expanded in 1483.
Morgue and Other Poems
Morgue and Other Poems (Morgue und andere Gedichte) is a nine-poem 1912 collection by German physician-poet Gottfried Benn, a central work of German Expressionism that made him famous overnight.
Morning Songs
Morning songs are songs and poems whose titles or themes center on waking and sunrise, a title used independently by Sylvia Plath in English and Nathan Alterman in Hebrew.
Morte e Vida Severina
Morte e Vida Severina, subtitled Auto de Natal Pernambucano, is a 1956 dramatic poem by João Cabral de Melo Neto about a drought migrant's journey from the sertão to Recife.
Moscow Notebooks
The Moscow Notebooks (Московские тетради) are two notebooks of poems that Osip Mandelstam wrote in Moscow between 1930 and 1934, ending before his first arrest.