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No Meio do Caminho
No Meio do Caminho ("In the Middle of the Road") is a famous 1928 poem by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, built on the repetition of a stone in the road.
No Ordinary Sun
No Ordinary Sun is a 1964 poetry collection by Hone Tuwhare, the first single-author poetry collection by a Māori author, whose anti-nuclear title poem became a peace-movement emblem.
Nocturno
"Nocturno", also known as "Una noche" or Nocturno III, is an 1892 night elegy by the Colombian poet José Asunción Silva, a pioneer of modernismo.
Nocturno a Rosario
"Nocturno a Rosario" is an alexandrine-verse poem by Mexican Romantic poet Manuel Acuña, addressed to Rosario de la Peña and written in 1873, shortly before his suicide.
Nonsense verse
Nonsense verse is whimsical light verse, usually for children, using made-up words, strict rhyme, and rhythm over meaning. Founded modernly by Edward Lear (Book of Nonsense, 1846) and Lewis Carroll, with roots in nursery rhymes and older traditions.
North of Boston
North of Boston is the second poetry collection by the American poet Robert Frost, published in London in 1914 and establishing him as a major modern poet.
Nostalgia de la muerte
Nostalgia de la muerte is a 1938 book of poems by the Mexican writer Xavier Villaurrutia, his second poetry collection and the central work of his output.
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Cahier d'un retour au pays natal) is a 1939 long poem by Martinican writer Aimé Césaire, a founding text of Négritude.
Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem)
Nothing Gold Can Stay is an eight-line 1923 Robert Frost lyric, first printed in The Yale Review and collected in New Hampshire. Four rhymed couplets in mostly iambic trimeter argue that beauty, innocence, and all things of value fade; famous for The Outsiders' "stay gold."
Novísima poesía cubana
Novísima poesía cubana is a 1962 Cuban poetry anthology published in Havana by the El Puente group led by José Mario Rodríguez, whose suppression made it a landmark of cultural policy.
Now and in Other Days
Now and in Other Days (עכשיו ובימים האחרים) is the first poetry collection by the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, published by the Likrat press in Tel Aviv in 1955.
Nox et solitudo
Nox et solitudo (Slovak: Noc a samota), Latin for Night and Solitude, is the first poetry collection of Slovak poet Ivan Krasko, published in Martin in 1909.
Nozarashi Kikō
Nozarashi Kikō (野ざらし紀行), also known as Kōshi Gyōkō, is Matsuo Bashō's first haikai travel record, gathering about 45 haiku from his nine-month journey from Edo to Kansai in 1684–1685.
Nrisimha Puranamu
Nrisimha Puranamu (నృసింహ పురాణం) is a 14th-century Telugu narrative poem by Errana telling the Narasimha avatar story, credited with initiating the Prabandha style in Telugu literature.
Nuniyya of Ibn Zaydun
The Nuniyya of Ibn Zaydun (نونية ابن زيدون) is a famous Arabic love ode by the Andalusian poet Ibn Zaydun, mourning his separation from Wallada bint al-Mustakfi.
Nuorilang
Nuorilang (诺日朗) is a 1983 long poem by Chinese Misty poet Yang Lian, first published in Shanghai Literature and named for a Tibetan male god at Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan.
Nyanyi Sunyi
Nyanyi Sunyi ("Songs of Solitude") is a 1937 poetry collection by Indonesian poet Amir Hamzah with 24 devotional poems, a key work of modern Indonesian literature.
O Amor Natural
O Amor Natural is a 1992 posthumous collection of 40 erotic poems by Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, published five years after his death.
O Captain! My Captain!
Whitman's 1865 elegy "O Captain! My Captain!" (O Captain! My Captain!) for assassinated Abraham Lincoln; ship-of-state metaphor, conventional rhyme unusual for Whitman, his most popular poem, later famous via Dead Poets Society.
O Coração Disparado
O Coração Disparado is a 1978 book of poems by Brazilian writer Adélia Prado. It is her second collection and won the Prêmio Jabuti in the Poesia category.
O die Schornsteine
"O die Schornsteine" ("O the Chimneys") is a free-verse poem by Nelly Sachs about the crematoria of the Nazi camps, opening her 1947 collection In den Wohnungen des Todes.
O Engenheiro
O Engenheiro is a 1945 book of poems by the Brazilian poet João Cabral de Melo Neto, his third book, whose title poem fixed the builder's persona.
O Guardador de Rebanhos
O Guardador de Rebanhos (The Keeper of Sheep) is a 1914 collection of poems by Alberto Caeiro, the principal heteronym, or poetic persona, of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.
O Guesa Errante
O Guesa Errante, later retitled O Guesa, is an epic poem in thirteen cantos by the Brazilian poet Sousândrade, built on an indigenous Muísca solar legend from Colombia.
O Livro de Cesário Verde
O Livro de Cesário Verde is the 1887 posthumous collection of all 42 lyric poems of the Portuguese poet Cesário Verde, edited by Silva Pinto.
O Navio Negreiro
O Navio Negreiro ("The Slave Ship") is an abolitionist poem by Brazilian Romantic poet Castro Alves, part of his epic project Os Escravos, first declaimed publicly in 1868.
O Rio ou Relação da Viagem que Faz o Capibaribe de Sua Nascente à Cidade do Recife
O Rio ou Relação da Viagem que Faz o Capibaribe de Sua Nascente à Cidade do Recife is a 1954 narrative poem by João Cabral de Melo Neto narrated by the Capibaribe River.
O Uraguai
O Uraguai is a 1769 epic poem by José Basílio da Gama about the war between Portuguese and Spanish forces and the Guaraní of the Jesuit missions.
O viziune a sentimentelor
O viziune a sentimentelor (A Vision of Feelings) is a 1964 poetry collection by Romanian poet Nichita Stănescu, his second book, which won the Writers' Union Prize and includes Leoaică tânără, iubirea.
Ocalenie
Ocalenie (Rescue) is a 1945 poetry collection by Czesław Miłosz, gathering poems written between 1932 and 1945, and ranked among the most important works of twentieth-century Polish poetry.