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Rübab-ı Şikeste
Rübab-ı Şikeste ("the broken lute") is the first poetry collection of Turkish poet Tevfik Fikret, published in 1900 and regarded as a milestone of modern Turkish poetry.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (رباعیّات خیّام), Persian quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam (ca. 1048-1123), famous through Edward FitzGerald's free 1859 English verse adaptation of 75 quatrains, later expanded to a longest version of 110, one of the best-selling poetry books in English.
Rukminiharana
Rukminiharana (रुक्मिणीहरणम्), "the abduction of Rukmini," is an Assamese narrative poem and one-act play on the love of Rukmini and Krishna, composed by the Vaishnavite saint-poet Srimanta Sankaradeva.
Rum Tum Tugger
Rum Tum Tugger is T. S. Eliot's contrary 'Curious Cat' from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), later a rock-number character in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats, played on film by Jason Derulo and on Broadway by Sydney James Harcourt.
Rupasi Bangla
Rupasi Bangla ("Bengal the Beautiful") is a posthumous collection of 61 Bengali poems by Jibanananda Das, published in August 1957 by Signet Press, Calcutta, three years after his death.
Ruslan and Ludmila
Ruslan and Ludmila (Руслан и Людмила) is a narrative poem in six cantos by Alexander Pushkin, completed in 1820, telling how the knight Ruslan rescues his bride from a sorcerer.
Russian Women
Russian Women (Русские женщины) is a narrative poem by Nikolai Nekrasov, written 1871 to 1872, about the wives of the Decembrists who followed their husbands into Siberian exile.
Rusticatio Mexicana
Rusticatio Mexicana is a Neo-Latin didactic poem by Guatemalan Jesuit Rafael Landívar, celebrating the landscapes and rural industries of New Spain, first published in 1781.
Ryōjin Hishō
Ryōjin Hishō (梁塵秘抄) is a Japanese anthology of popular imayō court songs, compiled in the late 12th century by retired emperor Go-Shirakawa and rediscovered in the Meiji era.
Ryōunshū
Ryōunshū (凌雲集), formally Ryōun shinshū, is Japan's first imperially commissioned anthology of Chinese-style kanshi poetry, completed in 814 under Emperor Saga and edited by Ono no Minemori.
Sa Aking Mga Kabata
Sa Aking Mga Kabata ("To My Childhood Companions") is a Tagalog poem on love of the native language, traditionally attributed to José Rizal at age eight in 1869 but now widely doubted: first printed in 1906 by Hermenegildo Cruz, with no surviving manuscript.
Saat Ti Tarar Timir
Saat Ti Tarar Timir (sāt tī tārāra timir) is a 1948 collection of modern Bengali poetry by Jibanananda Das, chronicling the period's severe social and political crises.
Saaye Mein Dhoop
Saaye Mein Dhoop (साये में धूप) is a 1975 collection of 52 Hindi ghazals by Dushyant Kumar, his only ghazal collection published in his lifetime.
Sabda Akasha
Sabda Akasha, also written Sabdara Akasha and translated as The Sky of Words, is a 1971 Odia poetry collection by Sitakant Mahapatra that won the 1974 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Sabdar Akash
Sabdar Akash (ଶବ୍ଦର ଆକାଶ; also written Sabdara Akasha, "The Sky of Words") is a 1971 Odia poetry collection by Sitakant Mahapatra, his third, which won the 1974 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Sachal Jo Risalo
Sachal Jo Risalo (سچل جو رسالو) is the collected poetry of Sachal Sarmast (1739–1827), the Sindhi Sufi poet ranked after Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai in classical Sindhi verse.
Sacred Hope
Sacred Hope (Portuguese: Sagrada Esperança) is a collection of 51 anticolonial poems written by Agostinho Neto between the mid-1940s and 1960, published in Lisbon in 1974; Neto became Angola's first president.
Sad Toys
Sad Toys (Kanashiki gugu; 悲しき玩具) is the second tanka collection of Japanese poet Ishikawa Takuboku, published posthumously in 1912 with 194 poems and two essays.
Saduktikarnamrita
The Saduktikarnamrita (सदुक्तिकर्णामृत, "nectar to the ears of good sayings") is a Sanskrit verse anthology compiled by Śrīdharadāsa in 1205 CE, collecting about 2,377 verses by 446 poets.
Safahat
Safahat is the collective title of the seven volumes of poetry by Mehmet Akif Ersoy, author of Turkey's national anthem, published between 1911 and 1933.
Sahadeva (सहदेव)
Sahadeva (सहदेव), youngest Pandava twin of Nakula in the Mahabharata, born to Madri through the Ashvins; wisest brother, astrologer bound by a curse of silence, conqueror of the south, killer of Shakuni, and name of three other epic figures.
Sahasa Bhima Vijaya
Gadayuddha (ಗದಾಯುದ್ಧ; "The Duel of the Maces"), also titled Sahasabhima-vijaya, is a Kannada court epic by the Jain poet Ranna telling of Bhima's final mace duel with Duryodhana.
Sahitya Lahari
Sahitya Lahari is a short Braj Bhasha poem-cycle of 118 padas attributed to Surdas, traditionally the third of his major works after the Sursagar and Sursaravali.
Saif-ul-Maluk
Saif-ul-Maluk (سیف الملوک), also known as Safar-ul-Ishq, is a Punjabi Sufi masnavi by Mian Muhammad Bakhsh (1830–1907) recounting Prince Saif-ul-Maluk's quest for the fairy Badi-ul-Jamal, read as an allegory of the soul's pursuit of Divine Truth.
Sailing to Byzantium
Sailing to Byzantium, W. B. Yeats's 1926 ottava rima poem first published in October Blast (1927) and opening The Tower (1928), follows an aging speaker's imagined journey to Byzantium, symbol of art, religion, and eternity, source of the line "That is no country for old men."
Sakarya Türküsü
"Sakarya Türküsü" is a 1949 poem by Turkish poet Necip Fazıl Kısakürek that treats the Sakarya river as a symbol of the Turkish nation's destiny.
Sakshatkar
Sakshatkar (साक्षात्कार) is a Hindi title associated with the poet Nagarjun, a Hindi and Maithili writer called Janakavi, the People's Poet, and a modern Kabir, who died in 1998.
Salad Anniversary
Salad Anniversary (サラダ記念日, Sarada Kinenbi) is a tanka collection by Tawara Machi, published in May 1987. It topped the 1987 bestseller list, revitalizing modern Japanese poetry.
Salalihini Sandesha
Salalihini Sandesha (සැළලිහිණි සන්දේසය, also rendered Selalihini Sandeshaya, "The Starling's Message") is a fifteenth-century Sinhala messenger poem in 111 quatrains by the monk Thotagamuwe Sri Rahula Thera, composed around 1450.
Salaman and Absal
Salaman and Absal (سلامان و ابسال) is an allegorical Persian masnavi that Abd al-Rahman Jami composed in 1480, telling of a prince's love for his wet-nurse Absal.