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Panchali Sabatham
Panchali Sabatham (பாஞ்சாலி சபதம், "Panchali's Vow") is a 1912 Tamil epic poem by Subramania Bharati that retells the Mahabharata dice game and disrobing as an allegory of India under British rule.
Panchvati
Panchvati (पंचवटी) is a 1925 Hindi khanda kavya by Maithili Sharan Gupt, one of his best-known works, retelling the Ramayana's Shurpanaka episode in polished Khari Boli verse.
Pandava
Pandavas (पाण्डव), the five Mahabharata brothers of Pandu, Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, Sahadeva, born to Kunti and Madri via gods, Karna the hidden sixth, war with Kauravas, Kurukshetra victory.
Pandu
Pandu (Pāṇḍu, "pale") is the Hastinapura king in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata, son of Vyasa and Ambalika, cursed by the sage Kindama to die on embracing a wife, and earthly father of the five Pandavas, born to gods via Kunti and Madri.
Panduranga Mahatyamu
Panduranga Mahatyamu (పాండురంగ మాహాత్మ్యము) is a 16th-century Telugu kavya by Tenali Ramakrishna, one of the five great Telugu mahakavyas, praising the Pandharpur shrine of Panduranga.
Pangur Bán
Pangur Bán (Messe ocus Pangur Bán) is a ninth-century anonymous Old Irish poem in which an Irish monk compares his scholarship to his white cat's mouse-hunting; it survives in one manuscript, the Reichenau Primer at St Paul's Abbey, Austria.
Pâques à New York
Les Pâques à New York is a long poem by Blaise Cendrars, written in New York in 1912 and regarded as a founding text of modern French poetry.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost, John Milton's blank-verse epic (1667 in ten books; 1674 in twelve), retells Satan's rebellion and the Fall of man; dictated by the blind Milton, it became the defining Christian epic in English.
Paradise Regained
Paradise Regained, John Milton's 1671 blank-verse brief epic in four books, retells Christ's temptation in the wilderness, reversing Paradise Lost with a plainer style, georgic heroism, and a divided critical reception.
Paradiso (Dante)
Paradiso, third and final cantica of Dante's Divina Commedia: 33 cantos in which Beatrice guides the poet through nine celestial spheres to the Empyrean and the final vision of the Trinity in Canto 33.
Parevi Sandesha
Parevi Sandesha (Parevi Sandeshaya, "The Pigeon's Message") is a classical Sinhala sandesha kavya of the Kotte period attributed to the monk-poet Thotagamuwe Sri Rahula Thera.
Parijatapaharanam
Parijatapaharanam, a sixteenth-century Telugu court poem by Nandi Timmana, recounts Krishna's theft of the celestial pārijāta tree to please Satyabhama, composed at Krishnadevaraya's Vijayanagara court.
Parijatapaharanamu
Parijatapaharanamu (Telugu: పారిజాతాపహరణము) is a sixteenth-century Telugu epic poem by the court poet Nandi Timmana, retelling Krishna's theft of the wish-granting pārijāta tree from Indra and counted among the most celebrated Telugu prabandhas.
Paripadal
Paripadal (பரிபாடல்) is a classical Tamil anthology of the Sangam corpus, the fifth of the Eight Anthologies, whose musical hymns to Thirumal and Murugan are called India's earliest bhakti poems.
Parzival
Parzival is Wolfram von Eschenbach's Middle High German verse romance of nearly 25,000 verses, composed 1200–1210, expanding Chrétien's unfinished Perceval; hero heals Grail king Anfortas, basis of Wagner's Parsifal.
Pasayadan
Pasayadan is the concluding prayer of the Dnyaneshwari, the Marathi commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, written by the thirteenth-century saint Dnyaneshwar as a wish for the welfare of all beings.
Pasión de la tierra
Pasión de la tierra is a 1935 book of prose poems by Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre, regarded as the first incursion of Spanish poetry into surrealism.
Passing an Old Friend's Farm
"Passing an Old Friend's Farm" (過故人莊, Guo Guren Zhuang) is a Tang dynasty pastoral poem by Meng Haoran, describing a visit to an old friend's farm and a promise to return.
Pasyon
The Pasyon (Pasyóng Mahál) is a Philippine epic verse narrative of the life of Jesus Christ, chanted continuously in the Lenten devotion called the pabasa.
Paterson (poem)
Paterson is William Carlos Williams's five-book modernist long poem (1946-1958) about Paterson, New Jersey, where a man mirrors the city; it follows the Passaic River and mixes verse, prose, and letters.
Patirruppattu
Patirruppattu (Patiṟṟuppattu, "ten tens") is a classical Tamil anthology of panegyric poems praising the ancient Cera kings of South India, and the principal source for early Cera history.
Pattinappalai
Pattinappalai is a classical Tamil Sangam poem, ninth in the Pattuppattu anthology, composed by Kadiyalur Uruttirangkannanar in praise of the Chola king Karikala and his port capital Puhar.
Paul Revere's Ride
Paul Revere's Ride is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1860 narrative poem, first printed in the Boston Evening Transcript and the January 1861 Atlantic Monthly, recounting Revere's April 18, 1775 midnight ride; it made Revere a national hero but took major poetic license with the facts.
Paulicéia Desvairada
Paulicéia Desvairada is a 1922 collection of poems by Brazilian writer Mário de Andrade, widely taken to mark the beginning of Modernism in Brazilian poetry.
Pearl (poem)
Pearl: late 14th-century Middle English alliterative dream vision (c. 1380) by the anonymous Pearl-Poet, an elegy and allegory of a father meeting his dead daughter in paradise; survives only in Cotton Nero A.x, 101 linked stanzas rhyming ababababcbc.
Peasant Children
Peasant Children (Крестьянские дети) is a small lyric-epic narrative poem by Nikolai Nekrasov, written in 1861, that portrays village childhood through a hunter-poet's chance meeting with peasant children.
Penelope
Penelope (Πηνελόπη), wife of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey, mother of Telemachus; famed for the shroud-unraveling trick, the marriage-bed test, and twenty years of fidelity amid 100-plus suitors.
Perahu Kertas
Perahu Kertas ("Paper Boat") is a 1983 poetry collection by the Indonesian poet Sapardi Djoko Damono, published by Balai Pustaka, Jakarta, which won the Jakarta Arts Council Literary Prize.
Perçemli Sokak
Perçemli Sokak is a 1956 poetry collection by the Turkish poet Oktay Rifat, published in Istanbul, marking his turn from the Garip movement toward İkinci Yeni poetics.
Perceval, the Story of the Grail
Perceval, the Story of the Grail (Perceval ou le Conte du Graal) is an unfinished Old French verse romance by Chrétien de Troyes and the earliest known story of the Holy Grail.