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Aralu Maralu
Aralu Maralu (ಅರಳು ಮರಳು) is a 1957 Kannada-language anthology of 273 lyric poems by D. R. Bendre, published in Dharwad and honored with the 1958 Sahitya Akademi Award for Kannada poetry.
Árbol adentro
Árbol adentro is the final book of poems by the Mexican writer and Nobel laureate Octavio Paz, published by Seix Barral in Barcelona in 1987.
Archaic Torso of Apollo
"Archaic Torso of Apollo" (Archaïscher Torso Apollos) is a 1908 sonnet by Rainer Maria Rilke, opening part two of Neue Gedichte and dedicated to Rodin. It describes a headless Louvre marble torso that seems to see the viewer, ending "You must change your life."
Argonautica (Ἀργοναυτικά)
Argonautica (Ἀργοναυτικά), also The Voyage of Argo: Greek epic in four books, 5,835 hexameters, by Apollonius Rhodius, 3rd-century BC Alexandria, retelling Jason and Medea's quest for the golden fleece.
Argos (Ἄργος) (dog)
Argos (Ἄργος) is Odysseus's faithful dog in Homer's Odyssey, Book 17, the only being to recognize the disguised hero on his return to Ithaca before dying 'in the twentieth year'; his name means swift-footed, and the scene founded the archetype of the loyal dog.
Arjuna (अर्जुन)
Arjuna (अर्जुन), third Pandava in the Mahabharata, son of Kunti and Indra, supreme archer with the Gandiva bow and Pashupatastra, addressee of the Bhagavad Gita, also called Partha, Dhananjaya, Savyasachin.
Armaghan-e-Hijaz
Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغان حجاز, "The Gift of Hijaz") is the final poetry collection of Muhammad Iqbal, published posthumously in 1938 and written in both Persian and Urdu.
Arogya
Arogya (আরোগ্য, "Recovery") is a 1941 collection of Bengali poems by Rabindranath Tagore, written after his serious illness of 1940 and among the notable works of his final poetic phase.
Ars Amatoria
Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love") is a three-book didactic poem by the Roman poet Ovid, published around 1 BC, teaching men seduction in Books 1 and 2 and women in Book 3.
Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica, also known as the Epistula ad Pisones, is Horace's longest poem, a Latin verse letter to the Piso family giving practical advice on poetry.
Aryasaptasati
The Āryāsaptaśatī (आर्यासप्तशती) is a Sanskrit anthology of single-stanza poems, mostly on erotic love, composed by Govardhana, court poet of King Lakṣmaṇasena of Bengal, in the late twelfth century.
As I was going to St Ives
"As I was going to St Ives", also known as the St. Ives problem, is a riddle-shaped English nursery rhyme, first printed around 1825, whose trick answer is one.
As Metamorfoses
As Metamorfoses (The Metamorphoses) is a 1944 book of poems by the Brazilian poet Murilo Mendes, blending surrealism with Catholic themes amid World War II.
Ashiq Qarib
Ashiq Qarib (Aşıq Qərib), also known as Ashiq Qarib and Shahsanam, is a famous Azerbaijani love dastan, an oral epic about the minstrel Qarib and his beloved Shahsanam.
Âsım
Âsım is the sixth book of Safahat, the collected poems of Turkish poet Mehmet Âkif Ersoy, published in 1924 and considered the peak of his art.
Asli and Kerem
Asli and Kerem (Əsli və Kərəm) is an Azerbaijani love dastan of the ashiq tradition about the doomed love between Kerem, son of the khan of Ganja, and Asli, a priest's daughter.
Asma'iyyat
Asma'iyyat (الأصمعيات, al-Asma'iyyāt) is an early Arabic poetry anthology selected by the Basran philologist al-Asma'i, gathering 92 poems by 71 poets, mostly pre-Islamic, and complementing al-Mufaddal's Mufaddaliyyat.
Asrar-e-Khudi
Asrar-e-Khudi (اسرار خودی, The Secrets of the Self) is a Persian philosophical poem by Muhammad Iqbal, first published at Lahore in 1915, setting out his doctrine of khudi, or selfhood, in verse.
Assamese Mahabharata
The Assamese Mahabharata, also known as the Ashtadasa Mahabharata, is a 16th-century Assamese verse rendering of the Sanskrit epic composed chiefly by Rama Saraswati, court poet of the Koch kingdom.
Assamese Ramayana
Madhava Kandali's Ramayana, called the Saptakanda Ramayana, is a fourteenth-century Assamese verse rendering of Valmiki's Ramayana by poet Madhava Kandali, the first Ramayana in any North East Indian language.
Assunta
Assunta is an elegiac love poem by Polish Romantic poet Cyprian Kamil Norwid, written in 1870 about a poet's love for a speechless orphaned girl.
Astolfo
Astolfo (also Astolpho), paladin of Charlemagne and cousin of Orlando, is the English knight of Pulci's Morgante, Boiardo's Orlando innamorato, and Ariosto's Orlando furioso, where he rides the hippogriff and retrieves Orlando's wits from the Moon.
Astronomica
The Astronomica is a Latin didactic poem in five books by Manilius, teaching astrology; the earliest surviving explicitly astrological work, dated to the early first century CE.
Astrophil and Stella
Astrophil and Stella is a sonnet sequence by Sir Philip Sidney, 108 sonnets and eleven songs composed in the early 1580s and first printed in 1591.
At Fifteen I Went to War
At Fifteen I Went to War (Shiwu congjun zheng) is an anonymous Han yuefu folk poem about a soldier who leaves home at fifteen and returns at eighty.
At the End of September
At the End of September (Szeptember végén) is an 1847 elegy by Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi, written for his wife Szendrey Júlia during their honeymoon at Koltó.
At the Top of My Voice
"At the Top of My Voice" (Vo ves' golos) is Vladimir Mayakovsky's last long poem, published in 1930 as a defense of his work addressed to future generations.
Atebetü'l-Hakayık
Atebetü'l-Hakayık ("the threshold of truths") is a 12th-century didactic poem on ethics and religious advice, written in Karakhanid Turkish by Edib Ahmed Yüknekî.
Atlakviða
Atlakviða, "The Lay of Atli", is a heroic poem of the Poetic Edda, preserved in the Codex Regius, in which Guðrún avenges her brothers on Atli.
Atmajayi
Atmajayi (आत्मजयी) is a 1965 Hindi khandakavya, an extended narrative poem, by the leading Nayi Kavita poet Kunwar Narayan, retelling the Nachiketa episode of the Katha Upanishad.