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Old English elegy
An Old English elegy is a short reflective poem in which a solitary speaker laments loss, exile, and transience; the elegies survive chiefly in the tenth-century Exeter Book.
Old English heroic poetry
Old English heroic poetry is the body of secular Old English verse celebrating the Germanic heroic age, most famously Beowulf, composed in alliterative, unrhymed lines by Christian poets.
Old Mother Hubbard
Old Mother Hubbard is an English nursery rhyme, Roud 19334, about an old woman and her talented dog. Sarah Catherine Martin's 1805 Comic Adventures, published by John Harris, became the definitive fourteen-verse version.
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, T. S. Eliot's 1939 Faber & Faber light-verse collection published under the pseudonym Old Possum, names cats such as Macavity, Mr Mistoffelees and Old Deuteronomy and became the source of Lloyd Webber's Cats.
Old Yiddish biblical epic
The Old Yiddish biblical epic was a genre of rhymed vernacular verse by Ashkenazi Jewish poets, retelling biblical stories in German epic form from the late 1300s to the early 1600s.
Old Yiddish epic
Old Yiddish epic is a body of narrative verse in the Ashkenazi Jewish vernacular, spanning roughly 1382 to 1730 in biblical and secular branches, including Dukus Horant and the Shmuel-bukh.
Olympian Odes
The Olympian Odes (Ὀλυμπιόνικοι, Olympionikoi) are a book of fourteen victory odes by the Greek lyric poet Pindar, composed to celebrate athletes' wins at the ancient Olympic games.
Ómagyar Mária-siralom
The Ómagyar Mária-siralom (Old Hungarian Lamentations of Mary) is a medieval Hungarian lament of the Virgin Mary at the foot of the cross, regarded as the first surviving poem written in Hungarian.
Omar Khayyam (عمر خیام)
Omar Khayyam (عمر خیام), Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and quatrain poet of Nishapur (ca. 1048-1123), known for cubic equations solved by conics, the Saljuq Isfahan observatory, the Robāʿiyāt, and FitzGerald's Rubáiyát.
Omeros
Omeros is a book-length narrative poem by the Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott, published in 1990, that reworks Homeric epic themes in a Caribbean setting.
On the Death of Pushkin
"On the Death of Pushkin" (Russian: «Смерть поэта», "Death of the Poet") is an 1837 poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in response to Pushkin's fatal duel.
On the Hungarian Fallow
On the Hungarian Fallow (A magyar Ugaron) is a 1906 poem by Hungarian poet Endre Ady, opening his volume Új versek, where a fallow field symbolizes Hungary's backwardness.
On the Stork Tower
On the Stork Tower (登鸛雀樓, Deng Guanque Lou) is a Tang dynasty quatrain usually attributed to Wang Zhihuan, best known for its closing line urging one to climb higher.
One Art
"One Art" is a 1976 villanelle by American poet Elizabeth Bishop, opening "The art of losing isn't hard to master" and collected in her final book, Geography III.
Onore del vero
Onore del vero is a 1957 poetry collection by the Italian poet Mario Luzi, widely read as his first step out of Hermeticism toward everyday reality.
Oom Gert Vertel en ander gedigte
Oom Gert Vertel en ander gedigte ("Oom Gert Tells and Other Poems") is the first poetry collection of Afrikaans writer C. Louis Leipoldt, published in Cape Town in 1911.
Oorblyfsels
Oorblyfsels (Afrikaans for "remains") is the shared title of three poetry collections by the South African poet Breyten Breytenbach, published in 1970, 1997, and 2009.
Open Closed Open
Open Closed Open (Hebrew: פתוח סגור פתוח, Patuach Sagur Patuach) is the final poetry collection of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, published in Jerusalem in 1998, two years before his death.
Operário em Construção
"Operário em Construção" is a narrative poem of more than 200 verses by the Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes, following a construction worker from alienated labor to class consciousness.
Ora Maritima
Ora Maritima, Latin for "The Sea Coast," is a fourth-century AD Latin geographic poem by Avienius describing the coasts of western Europe and the Mediterranean in the periplus genre.
Oraga Haru
Oraga Haru (おらが春, "My Spring") is a haibun collection by the Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa, recording 1819 and centering on the death of his infant daughter Sato.
Orchid Pavilion Collection
The Orchid Pavilion Collection (蘭亭集, Lanting ji) is an anthology of poems from a 353 CE gathering hosted by calligrapher Wang Xizhi at the Orchid Pavilion in Shaoxing.
Oríkì
Oríkì is the oral praise poetry of the Yorùbá people of West Africa, performed by stringing together praise names for people, lineages, towns, deities, and even animals and plants.
Orlando Furioso
Orlando Furioso (also Orlando furioso) is Ludovico Ariosto's chivalric epic in ottava rima, first printed at Ferrara in 1516 in 40 cantos and definitive in 46 cantos in 1532, continuing Boiardo's Orlando innamorato with the Frank-Saracen war, Orlando's madness, and the Este-celebrating love of Ruggiero and Bradamante.
Orlando Innamorato
Orlando Innamorato is an unfinished chivalric poem in ottava rima by the Italian poet Matteo Maria Boiardo, in which the paladins Orlando and Rinaldo fall in love with Angelica during Charlemagne's war against the Moors.
Ormulum
The Ormulum (Orrmulum), a 12th-century Early Middle English verse homily cycle on the Gospels by the Augustinian canon Orm, surviving in his autograph Bodleian MS Junius 1 with its own phonetic spelling system.
Orphic poetry
Orphic poetry is the body of ancient Greek hexameter verse attributed to the mythical singer Orpheus, preserved mainly in fragments, gold grave tablets, and the Derveni Papyrus.
Os Escravos
Os Escravos is a posthumous 1883 collection of 34 antislavery poems by the Brazilian poet Castro Alves, including O Navio Negreiro and Vozes d'África.
Os Lusíadas
Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads), Luís de Camões's 1572 Portuguese epic in 10 cantos and 1,102 ottava-rima stanzas, celebrates Vasco da Gama's sea voyage to India and Portugal's history, emulating Virgil's Aeneid.
Os Sapos
Os Sapos, "The Frogs", is a satirical poem by Brazilian poet Manuel Bandeira, written in 1918 and published in his 1919 book Carnaval; it mocks Parnassianism.