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Priapea
Priapea, also called Carmina Priapea or Corpus Priapeorum, is an anonymous collection of 80 obscene Latin epigrams devoted to the god Priapus, written between the Augustan period and CE 100.
Primeiros Cantos
Primeiros Cantos is the debut poetry book of Brazilian Romantic poet Antônio Gonçalves Dias, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1846 and containing "Canção do exílio".
Princess Bari
Princess Bari (바리공주), also known as Baridegi, is the heroine of a Korean shamanic narrative epic in which an abandoned daughter saves her dying parents with water from the netherworld.
Prithviraj Raso
Prithviraj Raso (पृथ्वीराज रासो), a Braj-language epic attributed to Chand Bardai about Prithviraj Chauhan; called Hindi's first mahakavya, with four recensions and a long-disputed date and historicity.
Procura da poesia
"Procura da poesia" ("Search for poetry") is a 1945 ars poetica by Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, published in the collection A rosa do povo at the end of World War II.
Profundamente
Profundamente is a free-verse poem by the Brazilian modernist poet Manuel Bandeira, first published in his 1930 collection Libertinagem and later included in Estrela da Vida Inteira.
Prometheus Unbound (Shelley)
Prometheus Unbound (1820) is Percy Bysshe Shelley's four-act lyrical drama reworking the Prometheus myth, published by C. and J. Ollier; composed 1818-1819 at Este, Rome, and Florence, with Act 4 added as an afterthought.
Prosas profanas y otros poemas
Prosas profanas y otros poemas is an 1896 book of poetry by Rubén Darío, published in Buenos Aires, in which Hispanic American modernism reached its fullest expression.
Prosopopeia
Prosopopeia (Prosopopéia) is an epic poem by Bento Teixeira, published in Lisbon in 1601, narrating the deeds of Jorge d'Albuquerque Coelho and marking the start of the Brazilian Baroque.
Proverbios morales
Proverbios morales (Moral Proverbs) is a fourteenth-century Castilian wisdom poem by the Jewish poet Sem Tob (Santob) de Carrión, dedicated to King Peter I of Castile.
Prufrock and Other Observations
Prufrock and Other Observations is T. S. Eliot's first book of poems, published in London in 1917 and opening with "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
Przesłanie Pana Cogito
"Przesłanie Pana Cogito" ("The Envoy of Mr. Cogito") is a 1974 poem by Zbigniew Herbert, the closing poem of his volume Pan Cogito and his most popular.
Psalm 119
Psalm 119 (תהלים קיט) is the Bible's longest chapter, a 176-verse Hebrew alphabetic acrostic of 22 eight-verse stanzas, one per letter from aleph to tav, meditating on Torah through eight recurring synonyms.
Psalms of Asaph (אסף)
Psalms of Asaph (אסף), biblical Psalms 50 and 73–83 in the Masoretic Psalter, attributed to Asaph the Levite musician of David's court and his descendant guild; Elohistic, historically themed collection spanning preexilic to exilic scholarship.
Psychomachia
Psychomachia: Latin allegorical epic by Prudentius (348–ca. 410 CE), first allegorical epic in Western literature, staging personified Virtues and Vices in combat for the human soul; hugely influential on medieval allegory and art.
Pu Sa Man: Written on the Wall at Zaokou
A famous ci poem by the Southern Song poet Xin Qiji, inscribed on a wall at Zaokou on the Gan River in Jiangxi around 1176, mourning the 1129 Jin invasion and the lost northern territories.
Pugachev
Pugachev (Пугачёв) is a 1921 dramatic poem by Sergei Yesenin about the peasant war of 1773–1775 led by Yemelyan Pugachev, conceived in 1920 and staged at the Taganka Theater in 1967.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: annual Columbia University award since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, $15,000; preceded by the Columbia University Poetry Prize; no award in 1946.
Punashcha
Punashcha (পুনশ্চ, meaning "Postscript") is a 1932 Bengali poetry collection by Rabindranath Tagore, the first work of his late period and his first written entirely in prose rhythm.
Punjabi Sufi poetry
Punjabi Sufi poetry is mystical verse in Punjabi by Muslim Sufi poets, beginning with Baba Farid and carried to its peak in the kafis of Bulleh Shah (1680–1757).
Purabi
Purabi (পূরবী) is a 1925 Bengali poetry collection by Rabindranath Tagore, drawn from poems written on his 1924 voyage to Europe and South America, dedicated to Victoria Ocampo.
Pūrākau o Kupe
Pūrākau o Kupe are Māori oral narratives about the ancestor Kupe, who pursued a giant octopus from Hawaiki and, in many iwi traditions, discovered Aotearoa New Zealand.
Purapporul Venbamalai
Purapporul Venbamalai (புறப்பொருள் வெண்பாமாலை) is a Tamil grammar treatise on puram, the war and public-life themes of classical poetry, usually dated to the 9th century CE.
Purgatorio
Purgatorio, second canticle of Dante's Divine Comedy: the pilgrim climbs seven terraces of Mount Purgatory, shedding seven P's, to reach Eden and reunite with Beatrice; circulated 1315-16, written in terza rima.
Purifications
Purifications (Greek Katharmoi) is a hexameter poem attributed to the fifth-century BCE philosopher-poet Empedocles of Acragas, carrying his religious teaching on exiled daimons and rebirth.
Pythian Odes
The Pythian Odes (Πυθιονῖκαι) are twelve choral victory odes by the Greek poet Pindar, composed for victors at the Pythian Games at Delphi, including his longest ode, Pythian 4.
Qasidas of Khaghani
The qasidas of Khaghani are the Persian odes of the 12th-century poet Khaghani Shirvani (خاقانی شروانی), about 8,500 verses, nearly half his surviving corpus, most famously "Eyvan-e Mada'en" on the ruined Sasanian palace at Ctesiphon.
Qi Tian Le: Cicada
Qi Tian Le: Cicada (齐天乐·蝉) is a Song-dynasty ci poem by the loyalist Wang Yisun, using the cicada's autumn cry to voice grief for the fallen Southern Song.
Qian Chibi Fu
Qian Chibi Fu (前赤壁赋), the Former Ode on the Red Cliff, is a prose-poem written by the Song writer Su Shi in 1082 during his exile at Huangzhou.
Qing Ping Yue: Village Residence
"Qing Ping Yue: Village Residence" (清平乐·村居) is a 46-character rural ci by the Southern Song poet Xin Qiji, depicting an elderly couple and their three sons beside a stream.