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Os Timbiras
Os Timbiras is an unfinished epic poem by the Brazilian Romantic poet Antônio Gonçalves Dias, published in Leipzig in 1857; only its first four cantos appeared in print.
Osman
Osman is a baroque epic in twenty cantos by the Dubrovnik writer Ivan Gundulić, covering the 1621 Battle of Khotyn and the 1622 downfall of Sultan Osman II.
Ossi di seppia
Ossi di seppia ("cuttlefish bones") is the first poetry collection of Italian poet Eugenio Montale, published in Turin in 1925 and later seen as a foundational work of twentieth-century Italian poetry.
Ossian
Ossian, also Oisín, is the purported third-century Gaelic bard behind James Macpherson's Poems of Ossian (1760–1773), a famous literary forgery that shaped European Romanticism despite the authenticity controversy.
ottos mops
ottos mops is a famous 1963 German poem by the Austrian poet Ernst Jandl, telling a miniature story of Otto and his pug using only the vowel o.
Ou Isto ou Aquilo
Ou Isto ou Aquilo is a 1964 collection of 57 children's poems by the Brazilian writer Cecília Meireles, published in the year of her death.
Ouga
Ouga (五友歌, "Song of Five Friends") is a cycle of six sijo poems by the Joseon poet Yun Seondo praising water, rock, pine, bamboo, and the moon.
Our Casuarina Tree
"Our Casuarina Tree" is an 1881 lyric poem by Toru Dutt, an early Indian poet writing in English, memorializing a tree at her family's Calcutta home.
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking is an 1859 free-verse poem by Walt Whitman in which a boy on the Long Island shore hears a mourning mockingbird and the sea whisper "death."
Out of the Dust
Out of the Dust, also simply titled Out of the Dust (1997), is Karen Hesse's free-verse Newbery Medal-winning novel about 14-year-old Billie Jo surviving the Oklahoma Dust Bowl after a kerosene accident kills her mother.
Out, Out—
"Out, Out—" is a 1916 narrative poem by Robert Frost about a young boy in rural Vermont who dies after a buzz saw severs his hand.
Oxford poetry anthologies
Oxford poetry anthologies are Oxford University Press's poetry anthology series, chiefly the Oxford Book line (English Verse; American, Irish, war, and period volumes), known for editor-driven canon-making, expanding revisions, and critical controversies.
Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship
Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship: anti-Stratfordian theory that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), wrote the Shakespeare canon under a pseudonym; proposed by J. Thomas Looney in 1920, promoted by the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, contested by stylometric and chronology studies.
Ozidi
Ozidi is an oral epic of the Ijo people of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, telling how a warrior's son, trained in magic, avenges his father's murder.
Ozymandias
Shelley's 1818 sonnet "Ozymandias" (also known by its full first line), written in competition with Horace Smith about Ramesses II's ruined statue, turns a boastful inscription into an enduring irony on the transience of power.
Padavali of Narottam Das
The Padavali of Narottam Das (নরোত্তম দাস) is Bengali Vaishnava devotional verse by sixteenth-century poet Narottam Das Thakur, who shaped the padavali kirtan tradition of Bengal.
Padma Puran
Padma Puran (পদ্মাপুরাণ), also called Padmapurana or Manasamangal, is a medieval Bengali mangalkavya in praise of the folk snake goddess Manasa, composed between 1300 and 1800.
Padmapurana
Padmapurana (পদ্মাপুরাণ), also called Padma Purana or Manasamangal, is a Bengali mangalkavya composed by Vijay Gupta around 1494, viewed as the oldest extant of its genre.
Padmavat
Padmavat (पद्मावत), also Padumavati, is a 1540 Awadhi Sufi epic by Malik Muhammad Jayasi telling of Ratansen of Chittor and princess Padmavati of Singhal as an allegory of the soul's union with God.
Padmavati
Padmavati (পদ্মাবতী) is a Bengali romantic epic written by poet Syed Alaol in 1648 at the Arakan court, adapting Jayasi's 1540 Awadhi poem Padmavat and regarded as Alaol's finest work.
Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa
Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa is a Tagalog patriotic poem published in 1896 and attributed to Andres Bonifacio, written to urge Filipinos to join the Katipunan.
Pagal
Pagal (पागल, "The Lunatic") is a 1953 Nepali prose poem by Mahakavi Laxmi Prasad Devkota, whose speaker embraces madness to indict a society blind to creativity.
Palace-style poetry
Palace-style poetry (宮體詩, gongti shi) is a sensuous style of Chinese verse from the Liang dynasty court, centered on women's feelings and appearance and associated with the future Emperor Jianwen.
Paladin
Paladin: originally one of Charlemagne's twelve legendary knights (Twelve Peers) in the Song of Roland; from Latin palatinus, palace official; now a holy-warrior fantasy class in D&D and World of Warcraft.
Palataka
Palataka (পলাতকা, meaning "the fugitive" or "the runaway") is a 1918 book of Bengali poems by Rabindranath Tagore, published by Visva-Bharati in Calcutta and known for poems written in a form close to prose.
Pallav
Pallav (पल्लव) is a Hindi poetry collection by Sumitranandan Pant, gathering 32 poems written between 1918 and 1925, with a preface regarded as the manifesto of Chhayavaad.
Pallishri
Pallishri (ପଲ୍ଲୀଶ୍ରୀ), rendered in English as The Village Graces, is a 1941 collection of Odia poetry by Sachidananda Routray portraying rural village life in Odisha.
Palnati Viracharitra
Palnati Viracharitra (పల్నాటి వీర చరిత్ర), also called Palnati Bharatam, is a Telugu narrative poem by the 15th-century poet Srinatha about a war among kin in Palnadu, Andhra Pradesh.
Pan Cogito
Pan Cogito is the title character of a cycle of poems by the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert and the name of his fifth poetry volume, published in 1974.
Pan Tadeusz
Pan Tadeusz is an epic poem by Adam Mickiewicz, first published in Paris in 1834 and regarded as the Polish national epic, set in Lithuania around 1811 and 1812.