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Ranolf and Amohia
Ranolf and Amohia is a long narrative poem by Alfred Domett, published in London in 1872, telling of a love between a British adventurer and a Māori princess.
Rasagangadhara
Rasagangadhara is a 17th-century Sanskrit treatise on poetics by Jagannatha Panditaraja, composed between 1641 and 1650 and covering poetic theory from rasa to figures of speech.
Rasakallola
Rasakallola is a medieval Odia chhanda kavya by Dinakrushna Das, composed in the Riti era, narrating the divine life of Krishna and his love for Radha.
Rashmirathi
Rashmirathi (रश्मिरथी) is a 1952 Hindi epic poem by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar that retells the life of Karna, the tragic Mahabharata warrior, in seven cantos. Its title means "the Sun's charioteer."
Rasik poetry
Rasik poetry is the love poetry of the Braj Bhasha tradition of North India, addressed to the rasika, a connoisseur of rasa, and codified by Keshavdas around 1600.
Rathrimazha
Rathrimazha (രാത്രിമഴ, "Night Rain") is a Malayalam poem by Sugathakumari, title poem of her 1977 collection, whose sickbed speaker identifies herself with the night rain.
Ravana (रावण)
Ravana (रावण), also Tosakanth in Thai tradition, is the ten-headed demon-king of Lanka in the Ramayana who abducts Sita and is killed by Rama; across South and Southeast Asia he is also honored as scholar, Shiva devotee, and anti-hero.
Ravshan
Ravshan is an Uzbek folk epic (doston) of the Go'ro'g'li cycle, telling of Ravshan's journey to win Zulxumor, princess of Shirvan, best recorded from the bakhshi Ergash Jumanbulbul o'g'li.
Razglednicák
Razglednicák is a cycle of four short poems by Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti, written in autumn 1944 during his death march from the Bor labor camp.
Reamker
The Reamker, also known as Rāmakerti ("Glory of Rama"), is the Khmer-language version of the Indian epic the Ramayana and a foundational work of Cambodian literature.
Red Candle
Red Candle (红烛) is the title and preface poem of Red Candle, the first poetry collection of the Chinese modern poet Wen Yiduo, published in Shanghai in September 1923.
Red Rebek
Red Rebek (Hungarian: Vörös Rébék) is an 1877 ballad by the Hungarian poet János Arany, telling how a village witch destroys the peasant farmer Pörge Dani.
Reduta Ordona
Reduta Ordona is a patriotic poem by Adam Mickiewicz, written in Dresden in 1832, describing the defense of a Warsaw redoubt against the Russian assault of 1831.
Reflections at the Front Entrance
Reflections at the Front Entrance (Размышления у парадного подъезда) is an 1858 poem by Nikolai Nekrasov about peasants turned away from a St. Petersburg grandee's door.
Regentonnenvariationen
Regentonnenvariationen is a 2014 poetry collection by German poet Jan Wagner, which in 2015 became the first poetry book to win the Leipzig Book Fair Prize.
Rehovot Ha-Nahar
Rehovot Ha-Nahar (רחובות הנהר, "Streets of the River") is a 1951 book of Hebrew poetry by Uri Zvi Greenberg lamenting the Holocaust's destruction of European Jewry.
Reinventing the Enemy's Language
Reinventing the Enemy's Language is a 1997 anthology of poetry, fiction, prayer, and memoir by over eighty Indigenous women writers, edited by Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird.
Reír llorando
"Reír llorando" is a well-known poem by Mexican writer Juan de Dios Peza, in which actor David Garrick reveals the sadness behind a laughing face.
Relación de los hechos
Relación de los hechos is a book of poems by the Mexican poet José Carlos Becerra, published by Ediciones Era in Mexico in 1967, his only full book in his lifetime.
Remedia Amoris
Remedia Amoris ("Cures for Love") is a one-book Latin didactic poem by Ovid, written in the Augustan age as the companion and sequel to his Ars amatoria.
Remembrance
Remembrance (German: Andenken) is a hymn by Friedrich Hölderlin, probably composed in 1803 and first printed in 1808, recalling the Bordeaux landscape where he had tutored.
Renjing Lu Shicao
Renjing Lu Shicao, "Draft Poems from the Hut Within the World of Men," is the collected poetry of late Qing diplomat-poet Huang Zunxian and a central work of the Poetry Revolution.
Report from the Besieged City
"Report from the Besieged City" is a 1982 poem by the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert, written under martial law and read as an allegory of occupied Poland.
Residence on Earth
Residence on Earth (Residencia en la tierra) is a poetry book by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, gathering poems from 1925 to 1935 and published in three volumes from 1933.
Resignation
Resignation is a philosophical poem by Friedrich Schiller, subtitled Eine Phantasie, first published in 1786 in his journal Thalia and containing the famous line "Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht".
Responsibilities
Responsibilities is a poetry collection by William Butler Yeats, first published in 1914 and expanded in 1916, marking his turn from romanticism toward a combative public voice and containing "September 1913" and "A Coat".
Return to Yan'an
Return to Yan'an (《回延安》) is a 1956 lyric poem by He Jingzhi, written in the Shaanbei xintianyou folk-song form and now a Chinese middle school text.
Returning to Live in the Countryside
Returning to Live in the Countryside (Guī yuán tián jū; 歸園田居) is a cycle of five poems by the Chinese poet Tao Yuanming, written in 406.
Rhapsody on Climbing the Tower
Rhapsody on Climbing the Tower (Denglou fu) is a short lyrical fu by Wang Can, written around 204 while he lived in Jingzhou as an unwelcome guest of governor Liu Biao.
Richard Cory
"Richard Cory" is a narrative poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson, first published in 1897, in which a wealthy man admired by his town dies by suicide.