2,935 articles
Musée des Beaux Arts
"Musée des Beaux Arts" is a 21-line free-verse poem by W. H. Auden, written in Brussels in December 1938 and published in 1940 in Another Time.
Mush wa Gurba
Mush wa Gurba (موش و گربه, Qiṣṣah-i Mūsh va Gurbah), also known as Mūshnāmah, is a Persian mock-epic satire about a tyrannical cat tormenting virtuous mice.
Musibat-nama
Musibat-nama (مصیبتنامه, "Book of Affliction") is a Persian mystical mathnawi by the Sufi poet Farid al-Din Attar of Nishapur, in which a wayfarer seeks relief through forty encounters, and it is Attar's longest poem.
Muspilli
Muspilli is a fragmentary Old High German poem on the end of the world and the Last Judgement, surviving as 103 verses written in a ninth-century Munich manuscript.
Mutalayiram
Mutalayiram (முதலாயிரம், "the First Thousand") is the first of the four divisions of the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, the Tamil hymns of the twelve Azhvars, spanning pasurams 1 to 947.
Muthassi
Muthassi (മുത്തശ്ശി), Malayalam for grandmother, is a poetry collection by Balamani Amma, one of Malayalam's most honored women poets, earning her Sahitya Akademi recognition in the 1960s.
Muthuchippi
Muthuchippi (മുത്തുച്ചിപ്പി, "Pearl Oyster") is a 1961 poetry collection, the first by the Malayalam poet Sugathakumari, published by Mathrubhumi Publications, Kozhikode, with a preface by Balamani Amma.
Muttollayiram
Muttollayiram (முத்தொள்ளாயிரம்) is an ancient Tamil poem collection praising the Chera, Chola, and Pandya kings, once totaling 2,700 verses, of which only about 109 survive.
Muzhai Chuxue Ji
Muzhai Chuxue Ji (牧齋初學集) is the 110-juan collected poetry and prose of the writer Qian Qianyi, first printed in 1643 and later banned under the Qianlong emperor.
My Country
"My Country" is an Australian patriotic poem by Dorothea Mackellar, first published as "Core of My Heart" in 1908 and famous for its line "I love a sunburnt country".
My Grandmother's House
"My Grandmother's House" is a 16-line free-verse poem by the Indian writer Kamala Das, first published in her 1965 debut collection Summer in Calcutta, recalling her grandmother's house in Malabar, Kerala.
My Heart Is in the East
"My Heart Is in the East" (Hebrew: Libi ba-mizrah) is a short medieval Hebrew poem by Judah Halevi, written in al-Andalus, expressing longing for the Land of Israel.
My Last Duchess
"My Last Duchess" is Robert Browning's 1842 dramatic monologue in rhyming iambic pentameter couplets, in which the Duke of Ferrara, modeled on Alfonso II d'Este, reveals while showing a portrait that he brought about his wife's death.
My Memory
My Memory (《我的记忆》) is the first poetry collection of the Chinese modernist poet Dai Wangshu, published in Shanghai in April 1929, including the famous poem "Rain Alley."
My Name Is Afrika
My Name Is Afrika is a 1971 poetry collection by the South African poet Keorapetse Kgositsile, with an introduction by Gwendolyn Brooks and regarded as his most influential book.
My Native Land
My Native Land (Minii nutag) is a lyric poem by the Mongolian poet Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj, published in the early 1930s, praising Mongolia's natural beauty and counted among the classics of Mongolian literature.
Myeonangjeongga
Myeonangjeongga is a 16th-century Korean gasa poem by the Joseon poet Song Sun, describing the scenery of all four seasons around Myeonangjeong pavilion in Damyang.
Mymensingh Gitika
Mymensingh Gitika (মৈমনসিংহ গীতিকা; also Maimansingha Gitika) is a collection of ten Bengali folk ballads from eastern Bengal, collected by Chandra Kumar De and published in 1923.
Myricae
Myricae is a poetry collection by Giovanni Pascoli, first published in 1891 and enlarged through nine editions to 156 short lyrics of the Romagna countryside that shaped twentieth-century Italian poetry.
Mysterious Distances
Mysterious Distances (Czech: Tajemné dálky) is the first poetry collection of the Czech symbolist poet Otokar Březina, published in Prague in 1895, a cycle of 30 poems announcing a new poetic language in Czech literature.
Mystery-Bouffe
Mystery-Bouffe (Мистерия-буфф) is a play in verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky, written in 1918 and first staged that November in Petrograd as the first Soviet play glorifying the proletarian revolution.
Na no hana ya
"Na no hana ya" (菜の花や) is one of the most famous haiku by the Japanese poet and painter Yosa Buson, composed in 1774 at Mount Maya near Kobe.
Nachiyar Tirumoli
Nachiyar Tirumoli (நாச்சியார் திருமொழி) is a Tamil devotional poem of 143 verses by Andal, the only woman among the twelve Vaishnava Alvar saint-poets of South India.
Nada Geethe
Nada Geethe (ನಾಡಗೀತೆ), Karnataka's state anthem, is Kuvempu's Kannada poem Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujate, adopted in 2003 and officially rendered at two minutes thirty seconds in Mysore Ananthaswamy's tune.
Nadir Shah Di Var
Nadir Shah Di Var (Punjabi: ਨਾਦਰਸ਼ਾਹ ਦੀ ਵਾਰ) is an 18th-century Punjabi var, a heroic epic ode composed by Najabat on Nadir Shah's invasion of 1739.
Nagyvárosi ikonok
Nagyvárosi ikonok ("Big-city icons") is a 1970 poetry collection by the Hungarian poet János Pilinszky, his third book of verse, gathering poems from 1940 to 1970.
Nahush
Nahush (नहुष) is a 1940 Hindi narrative poem by Maithili Sharan Gupt, retelling the Mahabharata story of a man who becomes king of heaven and falls.
Naishadhacharita
Naishadhacharita (नैषधीयचरितम्, Naiṣadhīyacarita), also called Naishadhakavya, is a 12th-century Sanskrit court epic by Śrīharṣa, one of the five great mahākāvya poems, retelling the story of Nala and Damayantī.
Naishadhiyacharita
Naishadhiyacharita, also called Naishadha-charita, is a 12th-century Sanskrit epic poem by Śrīharṣa that retells the story of Nala and Damayantī from the Mahābhārata in 22 cantos.
Naivedya
Naivedya (নৈবেদ্য, also transliterated Naibedya, meaning "Offerings") is a 1901 collection of 100 Bengali devotional poems by Rabindranath Tagore, 15 of which reappear in his English Gitanjali.