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Periandros van Korinthe
Periandros van Korinthe (Periandros of Corinth) is a 1954 Afrikaans verse drama by D. J. Opperman about the Corinthian tyrant Periander, winner of the 1956 Hertzog Prize for Drama.
Periya Tiruvandadi
Periya Tiruvandadi (also rendered Periya Tiruvantati) is an 87-stanza Tamil devotional poem in the antadi chain form by the saint Nammalvar, part of the Nalayira Divya Prabandham.
Periyalvar Tirumoli
Periyalvar Tirumoli (பெரியாழ்வார் திருமொழி) is a Tamil devotional poem of 473 verses by the Alvar saint Periyalvar, part of the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, known for singing of Krishna as a mother would.
Persian Divan of Ghalib
The Persian Divan of Ghalib (دیوانِ فارسی غالب) is the Persian-language poetry of Delhi poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, whose 1845 divan holds about 6,000 verses.
Persian Divan of Imadaddin Nasimi
The Persian Divan of Imadaddin Nasimi is the Persian-language songbook of the poet Nasimi of Shirvan, a leading Hurufi figure, holding about 5,000 lines of verse.
Persian epic poetry
Persian epic poetry is a tradition of long, mostly metrical narratives in heroic language about the valor of warriors and kings, with Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, completed around 1010, as its standard example.
Persian literature
Persian literature (Farsi, Dari, Tajik) is the New Persian literary tradition from the 9th-century Samanid court onward: Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, Rumi's Masnavi, Hafez, Sa'di, Khayyam, spanning Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, India, and Turkey.
Persian Motifs
Persian Motifs (Персидские мотивы) is a lyric cycle of fifteen poems by Sergei Yesenin, written in the Caucasus in 1924 and 1925 and drawing on classical Persian poetry.
Persian mystical poetry
Persian mystical poetry (شعر عرفانی) is lyric and didactic poetry in classical New Persian, from about 900 to 1600 AD, in which Sufi meanings are expressed through Persian verse forms like the ghazal.
Perumal Tirumoli
Perumal Tirumoli (பெருமாள் திருமொழி, "the sacred words of the Lord") is a ninth-century Tamil bhakti work by Kulasekara Alvar of 105 verses in ten decades praising Vishnu.
Perumpanarruppatai
Perumpanarruppadai (பெரும்பாணாற்றுப்படை) is a 500-line Sangam Tamil poem, the fourth of the Pattuppattu Ten Idylls, in which a bard guides a poor fellow bard to his patron, the Kanchi king Tondaiman Ilanthiraiyan.
Perunkathai
Perunkathai (பெருங்கதை), also called Konguvel Maakkadhai or Udhayanan Kadhai, is a Tamil Jain epic by Konguvelir that retells the life of King Udayana of Kosambi from the Sanskrit Brihatkatha.
Pervigilium Veneris
Pervigilium Veneris ("The Vigil of Venus") is an anonymous Latin poem of late antiquity celebrating Venus in spring, ending in the poet's lament for his lost muse.
Peta Perjalanan
Peta Perjalanan, meaning Travel Map, is a 1977 collection of Indonesian poetry by Sitor Situmorang, published in Jakarta and winner of the Jakarta Arts Council poetry prize for 1976/1977.
Petrarchan sonnet
Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet: 14-line poem with octave ABBAABBA, sestet CDECDE or CDCDCD, volta at line 9; named for Petrarch, whose Canzoniere has 317 sonnets to Laura.
Pharsalia
The Pharsalia, also known as the Bellum Civile (Civil War), is a ten-book Latin epic by the Roman poet Lucan recounting the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey.
Philippine poetry in English
Philippine poetry in English is poetry written by Filipinos in English, begun in the early 1900s after the United States made English the medium of instruction.
Phra Lak Phra Lam
Phra Lak Phra Lam (ພຣະລັກ ພຣະລາມ) is the Lao version of the Ramayana, named after the brothers Phra Lam and Phra Lak and treated in Laos as a jataka, a past life of the Buddha.
Phra Lo
Phra Lo (พระลอ) is the hero of Lilit Phra Lo, a Thai narrative poem regarded as a masterpiece of tragic romance and one of Thai literature's five great works.
Phulor Saki
Phulor Saki, also recorded as Phulor Sorai, is an Assamese poem composed in 1929 by the poet Dharmeswari Devi Baruani (1892–1960) under the influence of Romanticism.
Pianyu Ci
Pianyu Ci (片玉词), also known as Qingzhen Ci, is the collected song lyric of Northern Song poet Zhou Bangyan, whose precisely patterned tunes became models for later lyricists.
Piedra de sol
Piedra de sol ("Sunstone") is a 1957 poem by Octavio Paz, named for the Aztec calendar stone and built of 584 lines matching the synodic cycle of Venus.
Piedra y cielo
Piedra y cielo, meaning Stone and Sky, is a 1919 book of poems by the Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, later the name of a Colombian poetic group.
Piers Plowman
Piers Plowman, also called The Vision of Piers Plowman, is William Langland's late fourteenth-century Middle English alliterative dream-vision poem, surviving in A, B, and C texts across more than fifty manuscripts, none identical.
Pieśni
Pieśni (Songs) is the principal Polish-language lyric collection of Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski, published posthumously in Kraków in 1586; adapting Horace's Carmina, it is regarded as a central statement of Polish Renaissance philosophy.
Pigments
Pigments is a 1937 poetry collection by the French Guianese writer Léon-Gontran Damas, the first published volume associated with the Négritude movement and a blunt attack on colonialism and racism.
Pindar (Πίνδαρος)
Pindar (Πίνδαρος), 518–438 BC, Theban Greek lyric poet, greatest of antiquity; forty-five epinician victory odes for Olympian, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian Games survive of seventeen books.
Píntame angelitos negros
Píntame angelitos negros is a poem by Venezuelan poet Andrés Eloy Blanco condemning the absence of Black angels in religious painting, set to music as a famous bolero.
Pioneers! O Pioneers!
"Pioneers! O Pioneers!" is a poem by Walt Whitman, first published in Drum-Taps in 1865, that calls the American people as pioneers to continue their westward march in 26 quatrains.
Pity the Farmers
Pity the Farmers (悯农, Mǐn Nóng) is a set of two Tang dynasty quatrains by the poet Li Shen that sympathize with the farmer, known to nearly every Chinese schoolchild.