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Nepali Ramayana tradition
The Nepali Ramayana tradition centers on the Bhanubhaktiya Ramayana, Bhanubhakta Acharya's 1853 Nepali verse rendering of the Sanskrit Adhyatma Ramayana, regarded as Nepal's Ramcharitmanas and the first epic of Nepali poetry.
Nesteren
Nesteren is a verse drama by the Ottoman playwright Abdülhak Hâmid, written and printed in Paris in 1877 and modeled in subject on Corneille's Le Cid.
New Poems
New Poems (German: Neue Gedichte) is a two-volume collection of 189 poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, published in Leipzig in 1907 and 1908 and including "Der Panther".
Nezahualcoyotl's songs
Nezahualcoyotl's songs are Nahuatl flower songs attributed to Nezahualcoyotl (1402–1472), poet-ruler of Texcoco, preserved in two sixteenth-century manuscripts whose actual authorship remains debated by scholars.
Ngā Mōteatea
Ngā Mōteatea (The Songs) is a four-volume annotated collection of traditional Māori songs, compiled by Sir Āpirana Ngata and translated by Pei Te Hurinui Jones.
Ngo Pa
Ngo Pa (เงาะป่า, "Forest Savage") is a 1905 Thai verse play by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V), a tragic love triangle among forest dwellers considered a Thai literary masterpiece.
Ngư Tiều y thuật vấn đáp
Ngư Tiều y thuật vấn đáp is a 3,644-line Vietnamese narrative poem by poet and physician Nguyễn Đình Chiểu that teaches traditional Eastern medicine in verse.
Nhật ký trong tù
Nhật ký trong tù (Prison Diary) is a collection of 133 poems written in Chinese by Hồ Chí Minh while imprisoned in Guangxi, China, in 1942–1943.
Nhớ con sông quê hương
"Nhớ con sông quê hương" ("Longing for the home river") is a 1956 Vietnamese poem by Tế Hanh, written in the North during national division to express longing for his southern home.
Nhớ đồng
Nhớ đồng ("Longing for the Fields") is a seven-character poem by the Vietnamese poet Tố Hữu, written in 1939 while he was imprisoned at Thừa Phủ prison in Huế.
Nhớ rừng
Nhớ rừng (Remembering the Forest) is a 1934 Vietnamese poem by Thế Lữ, spoken in the voice of a caged tiger mourning its lost life as lord of the wild forest.
Nian Nu Jiao: Crossing Lake Dongting
Nian Nu Jiao: Crossing Lake Dongting (念奴娇·过洞庭) is a 1166 ci poem by the Southern Song poet Zhang Xiaoxiang, written as he passed Lake Dongting after being dismissed from office.
Nian Nu Jiao: Remembering Red Cliff
Nian Nu Jiao: Remembering Red Cliff (念奴娇·赤壁怀古) is a ci poem by Su Shi, written in 1082 during his exile in Huangzhou and meditating on the Battle of Red Cliff.
Nibelungenklage
The Nibelungenklage, known in Middle High German as diu klage ("the lament"), is a Middle High German verse epilogue to the Nibelungenlied, written around 1200–1205.
Nibelungenlied
Nibelungenlied (Der Nibelunge Nôt), Middle High German heroic epic written down around 1200, likely at Passau; 39 aventiuren telling Siegfried's murder and Kriemhild's revenge; survives in 37 manuscripts, A, B, C; UNESCO Memory of the World 2009.
Nic dwa razy
"Nic dwa razy" ("Nothing Twice") is a poem by the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska, published in her 1957 collection Wołanie do Yeti and among her most recognizable works.
Night of the Scorpion
"Night of the Scorpion" is Nissim Ezekiel's free-verse narrative poem from The Exact Name (1965), his most anthologised work: a rainy-night scorpion sting, villagers' prayers, a rationalist father, and the mother's closing act of selfless love.
Nijūichidaishū
Nijūichidaishū (二十一代集, "Twenty-One Imperial Collections") is the collective name for the 21 imperial waka anthologies compiled between 905 and 1439, containing about 33,700 poems and forming the central canon of classical Japanese court poetry.
Nimisham
Nimisham (നിമിഷം; "The Moment") is a 1945 poetry collection by G. Sankara Kurup, a Malayalam poet known as Mahakavi G and the first winner of the Jnanpith Award, for Odakkuzhal.
Nine Changes
Nine Changes (Jiu Bian, 九辩) is a long lyric poem attributed to Song Yu, in the Chu Ci anthology and the founding work of Chinese autumn lament.
Nine Songs
The Nine Songs (九歌) is a set of eleven sacrificial hymns in the Chu Ci of ancient Chu, traditionally attributed to the Warring States poet Qu Yuan.
Nineteen Old Poems
The Nineteen Old Poems (Gushi shijiu shou) are nineteen anonymous Han dynasty five-character lyric poems, first assembled in the early sixth-century Wen Xuan and long celebrated as classics of Chinese poetry.
Nirat Mueang Klaeng
Nirat Mueang Klaeng (นิราศเมืองแกลง, "The Journey to Klaeng") is a Thai travel poem by Sunthorn Phu, written in klon octameter on a journey from Bangkok to Klaeng to visit his father.
Nirat Phu Khao Thong
Nirat Phu Khao Thong (นิราศภูเขาทอง) is a Thai nirat poem by Sunthorn Phu recounting a boat journey from Bangkok to worship the Golden Mount chedi at Ayutthaya.
Nirjharer Swapnabhanga
Nirjharer Swapnabhanga (নির্ঝরের স্বপ্নভঙ্গ, "The Awakening of the Waterfall") is an 1882 Bengali poem by Rabindranath Tagore, born of a mystical experience in Calcutta and regarded as inaugurating his mature poetic career.
Nirvachanottara Ramayanamu
Nirvachanottara Ramayanamu (నిర్వచనోత్తర రామాయణము) is a 13th-century Telugu poetic adaptation of the Uttara Kanda, the final book of the Valmiki Ramayana, composed entirely in verse by Tikkana Somayaji.
Nitisataka
The Nitisataka (नीतिशतकम्, "hundred verses on conduct") is a Sanskrit collection of didactic verses on ethics and worldly wisdom attributed to Bhartrihari, part of his Shatakatraya.
Nitishataka
Nitishataka (नीतिशतकम्), the "Century on Ethics," is a Sanskrit collection of over a hundred aphoristic verses on ethics and worldly wisdom, attributed to Bhartṛhari and transmitted as the first book of his Śatakatraya.
Niyâzî-i Mısrî Divanı
Niyâzî-i Mısrî Divanı (Dîvân-ı İlâhiyât) is the collected Turkish and Arabic mystical poetry of Niyâzî-i Mısrî, a Halveti Sufi who died in 1694, and among the most widely circulated 17th-century Ottoman divans.
No me preguntes cómo pasa el tiempo
No me preguntes cómo pasa el tiempo (Don't Ask Me How Time Passes) is a 1969 book of poems by the Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco.