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Rígsþula
Rígsþula ("The List of Ríg", sometimes "The Lay of Ríg") is an Old Norse eddic-style poem of about 48 stanzas telling how the god Ríg fathered the ancestors of the three social classes and the first king.
Rimas
Rimas is the posthumously published collection of short lyric poems by the Spanish poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, printed in Madrid in 1871, a year after his death.
Rind ü Zâhid
Rind ü Zâhid is a Persian prose dialogue by the sixteenth-century poet Fuzûlî, debating life, love, and worship between an ascetic father and a libertine son.
Risaletü'n-Nushiyye
Risaletü'n-Nushiyye ("Book of Counsels") is a didactic Sufi advice poem in mesnevi form attributed to the Anatolian poet Yunus Emre, dated by its own verses to 1307–08 and regarded as the first Turkish nasihatname in Anatolia.
Ritha' al-Andalus
Ritha' al-Andalus, also known as the Nuniyya of Abu al-Baqa al-Rundi, is a 13th-century Arabic elegy mourning the fall of Andalusian cities and appealing for North African aid.
Riti poetry
Riti poetry (रीतिकालीन काव्य) is the courtly Hindi poetry of the Ritikal, roughly 1643 to 1843, composed in Brajbhasha by poets such as Keshavdas and Bihari.
Ritusamhara
Ritusamhara (ऋतुसंहारम्), also rendered "Garland of Seasons," is a short Sanskrit lyric poem attributed to Kalidasa, describing six Indian seasons and the love-play they stir in young couples.
River Snow
River Snow (Jiang xue) is a twenty-character quatrain by Tang poet Liu Zongyuan, written during his exile in Yongzhou, showing a lone fisherman fishing in the snow.
Robin Hood ballads
The Robin Hood ballads are medieval English folk poems about the outlaw of the greenwood, his Merry Men, and the sheriff of Nottingham, first surviving in fifteenth-century texts.
Roland
Roland (Hruodlandus) is the Frankish hero of The Song of Roland, Charlemagne's nephew who died at Roncevaux in 778; the legend made him the epitome of chivalric sacrifice, with the olifant horn and sword Durendal.
Rolla
Rolla is a long narrative poem by Alfred de Musset, published in 1833, about Jacques Rolla, a ruined Parisian libertine who kills himself after a final night of debauchery.
Roman d'Alexandre
The Roman d'Alexandre, in Old French Li romans d'Alixandre, is a 12th-century Old French verse romance recounting the exploits of Alexander the Great, giving its name to the alexandrine.
Roman de Brut
The Roman de Brut is an Anglo-Norman verse chronicle by Wace, completed in 1155, presenting the legendary history of Britain and first mentioning the Round Table.
Roman de la Rose
Roman de la Rose is a 13th-century allegorical Old French dream-vision poem by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, recounting a lover's quest to win a rose.
Roman Elegies
Roman Elegies (Römische Elegien) is a cycle of 24 love poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, written 1788 to 1790 after his return from Italy and first published in 1795.
Roman van Walewein
The Roman van Walewein, also known as Walewein ende het zwevende schaakbord, is a mid-13th-century Middle Dutch Arthurian romance by Penninc and Pieter Vostaert, and the most important in Dutch.
Romance for Flugelhorn
Romance for Flugelhorn (Romance pro křídlovku) is a lyrical-epic poem by the Czech poet František Hrubín, written in 1961 and first published in book form in 1962.
Romanceiro da Inconfidência
Romanceiro da Inconfidência is a 1953 book of 85 narrative poems by the Brazilian modernist poet Cecília Meireles, considered her principal work, retelling the Inconfidência Mineira of 1789.
Romancero general
The Romancero general is a Spanish poetry compilation first printed in Madrid in 1600, collecting the artistic ballads of cultivated poets like Lope de Vega and Góngora.
Romancero gitano
Romancero gitano is a 1928 poetry collection by Federico García Lorca, eighteen ballads on Andalusian Romani life, love, and death that made him a national celebrity.
Romancero nacional
Romancero nacional is an 1885 book of ballad-form narrative poems by Mexican poet Guillermo Prieto retelling the events and heroes of Mexico's war of independence.
Romances sans paroles
Romances sans paroles (Romances without words) is an 1874 collection of 21 poems by the French poet Paul Verlaine, written during his liaison with Arthur Rimbaud.
Romantic poetry
Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romanticism movement, which thrived in Europe and the Americas from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, embracing nature and emotion.
Romanzero
Romanzero is an 1851 poetry collection by the German poet Heinrich Heine, published in Hamburg as his final major lyric collection, written largely from his sickbed in Paris.
Rook en Oker
Rook en Oker (Smoke and Ochre) is a 1963 poetry collection by Afrikaans poet Ingrid Jonker, whose poem "Die kind" Nelson Mandela read at Parliament in 1994.
Rosa fresca aulentissima
Rosa fresca aulentissima is a thirteenth-century Italian contrasto, a dialogue-poem attributed to the Sicilian poet Cielo d'Alcamo in which a suitor courts a woman who first rebuffs him and finally yields.
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" is the opening line of Gertrude Stein's 1913 poem "Sacred Emily" (published 1922 in Geography and Plays), often read as "things are what they are" though Stein gave a different explanation.
Rostam (رستم)
Rostam (رستم, Rustam), the paramount legendary hero of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh (completed 1010 CE): rider of Rakhsh, hero of the Seven Labors, father who unknowingly slays Sohrab, and a figure killed through his brother's treachery, distinct from the Sasanian commander Rostam Farrokh-Hormozd.
Ru Meng Ling: Last Night's Rain
Ru Meng Ling: Last Night's Rain (如梦令·昨夜雨疏风骤) is a 33-character ci lyric written around 1100 by the Song poet Li Qingzhao, known for the closing phrase 绿肥红瘦, "green lush, red thin."
Rub-a-dub-dub
Rub-a-dub-dub is an English nursery rhyme (Roud 3101) first printed in 1798 in James Hook's Christmas Box as 'Dub a dub dub'. Early versions had three maids in a tub at a fairground peep show; Victorian editors sanitized it into three men sailing to sea.