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Ocidentais
Ocidentais is the fourth and last book of poetry by the Brazilian writer Machado de Assis, published in 1901 in Poesias completas, known for philosophical poems including "Círculo Vicioso".
Odakkuzhal
Odakkuzhal (ഓടക്കുഴൽ, "the bamboo flute") is a 1950 collection of sixty Malayalam poems by G. Sankara Kurup, and in 1965 it became the first work to win the Jnanpith Award.
Odas elementales
Odas elementales (Elementary Odes) is a 1954 collection of 68 poems by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda praising ordinary objects, foods, and feelings, published by Editorial Losada in Buenos Aires.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on a Grecian Urn, John Keats's 1819 ekphrastic ode in five ten-line stanzas, addresses an imagined Greek vase and ends with "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," first published in Annals of the Fine Arts.
Ode on Melancholy
"Ode on Melancholy" is a three-stanza lyric by John Keats, one of his five great odes of 1819, arguing that melancholy is inseparable from joy.
Ode to a Nightingale
"Ode to a Nightingale" (Keats's "Ode to the Nightingale") is a May 1819 lyric ode by John Keats, published July 1819 in the Annals of the Fine Arts and in his 1820 collection; eight ten-line pentameter stanzas on mortality versus the bird's immortal song. Not Joseph Warton's 1770 ode of the same title.
Ode to Aphrodite
The Ode to Aphrodite, Sappho fragment 1, is a prayer poem by the archaic Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos and her only poem preserved intact from antiquity.
Ode to Joy
Ode to Joy, or An die Freude, is Beethoven's choral setting of Schiller's 1785 poem in the Ninth Symphony finale; adopted as the European anthem in 1972 without the poem's lyrics, it is also the Olympics' unofficial hymn since 1936.
Ode to the West Wind
"Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, an 1819 lyric written near Florence in terza rima sonnet units and published with Prometheus Unbound in 1820; its speaker asks the autumn wind, destroyer and preserver, to carry his words as a prophecy of spring and renewal.
Ode to Youth
Ode to Youth (Polish: Oda do młodości, originally Do młodości) is an ode by Adam Mickiewicz written in Kaunas in December 1820, considered the manifesto of Polish Romanticism.
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Wordsworth's 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood', also called the Immortality Ode, is an eleven-stanza irregular Pindaric ode begun March 1802, completed 1804, published 1807, on pre-existence and lost childhood vision.
Odes
The Odes (Latin: Carmina) is a collection of 103 Latin lyric poems in four books by Horace, adapting Greek lyric meters to Roman life and coining carpe diem.
Odes of Bacchylides
The Odes of Bacchylides are the surviving choral songs of the Greek lyric poet Bacchylides of Keos, recovered from a papyrus found in Egypt in 1896.
Odi barbare
Odi barbare (Barbarian Odes) is an 1877 collection of lyrics by the Italian poet Giosuè Carducci, who transposed the stanzaic meters of Greek and Latin lyric poetry into Italian.
Odia Bhagavata
The Bhagavata, or Odia Bhagabata, is the 16th-century Odia rendering of the Bhagavata Purana by poet Jagannath Das, composed in simple rhythmic verse and a central devotional text of Odisha.
Odia devotional poetry
Odia devotional poetry is the body of devotional verse in the Odia language, rooted in the Jagannath cult of Puri and central to Odia literature since medieval times.
Odyssey (George Chapman translation)
The Odyssey (George Chapman translation) is George Chapman's first complete English translation of Homer's Odyssey, published between 1614 and 1616, and served as the standard version until Alexander Pope's translations.
Odyssey (Robert Fagles translation)
Odyssey (Robert Fagles translation): 1996 Viking/Penguin English verse translation of Homer's epic by Princeton classicist Robert Fagles, with Bernard Knox's introduction; loose five- to six-beat free verse, the standard US classroom text, later contrasted with Emily Wilson's 2017 version.
Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια)
The Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια), attributed to Homer, is the ancient Greek epic of Odysseus' ten-year return from Troy, composed orally in dactylic hexameter, likely late eighth or seventh century BC.
Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια) (Richmond Lattimore translation)
Richmond Lattimore's Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια), published 1965/1967, is a line-for-line English verse translation of Homer in a long Greek-conscious line, long a standard academic version praised by the NYT and TLS and still highly ranked among English Odysseys.
Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια) (Robert Fitzgerald translation)
Robert Fitzgerald's 1961 English verse translation of Homer's Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια), a five-beat blank-verse rendering that won the Bollingen Prize, sold over two million copies, and remains a standard classroom translation alongside Lattimore, Fagles, and Wilson.
Of Being Numerous
Of Being Numerous is a 1968 poetry collection by the American poet George Oppen, published by New Directions and winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Oghuz Khagan
Oghuz Khagan (Oğuz Kağan), legendary ancestor of the Oghuz Turks and hero of the Oghuz Khagan Epic, transmitted in Oghuz-nama versions; oldest copy is the Uyghur-script Paris manuscript, with identity debated between Modu (Mete Khan) and the Scythians.
Oghuzname
Oghuzname (Oğuznâme, Oğuznamə) is the shared name for the epics and chronicles recounting the legendary history of the Oghuz Turks, centered on their mythical ancestor Oghuz Khan.
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (小倉百人一首)
Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (小倉百人一首), also simply Hyakunin Isshu, is a 1235 anthology of 100 waka by 100 poets compiled by Fujiwara no Teika for Utsunomiya Yoritsuna's Saga villa, drawn from imperial anthologies, famous for 43 love poems and later the card set of competitive karuta.
Oğuz Kağan Destanı
Oğuz Kağan Destanı, the Epic of Oghuz Khan, is an ancient Turkish epic about the legendary ancestor of the Oghuz Turks, from birth to conquests.
Oi no Kobumi
Oi no Kobumi (笈の小文, "Small Writings from the Pack") is a haibun travel record by Matsuo Bashō, describing his journey from Edo to Kyoto in 1687–1688.
Ojađeno zvono
Ojađeno zvono ("The Sorrowful Bell") is a poetry collection by Tin Ujević, written while he lived in Sarajevo from 1930 to 1937. Published in 1933, it belongs to his mature phase.
Okhaharan
Okhaharan (ઓખાહરણ) is a classical Gujarati akhyana, a sung narrative poem, composed by Premanand around 1667 across 93 cantos on the love of Okha, daughter of Banasura, and Aniruddha, grandson of Krishna.
Oku no Hosomichi (奥の細道)
Oku no Hosomichi (奥の細道, The Narrow Road to the Deep North) is Matsuo Bashō's 1702 haikai travel record of his 1689, 2,400 km journey with Sora from Edo to Ōgaki, blending prose and haiku.