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Serat Rama
Serat Rama is a Javanese retelling of the Ramayana in metrical macapat verse by the poet Yasadipura I, used for wayang kulit and wayang wong performances.
Serat Wedhatama
Serat Wedhatama ("The Foremost Teaching") is a 19th-century Javanese didactic poem in macapat verse by Mangkunegara IV of Surakarta, Central Java, teaching ethics and the unity of servant and Lord.
Serat Wulang Reh
Serat Wulang Reh (ꦱꦼꦫꦠ꧀ꦮꦸꦭꦁꦫꦺꦃ) is a didactic Javanese poem by Pakubuwono IV, king of Surakarta, finished in 1808 as instructions and prohibitions for right living.
Serdarot
Serdarot (Сердарот) is an epic poem written in Greek in 1860 by the Macedonian poet Grigor Stavrev Prličev, winning the Athens University competition and the title "second Homer".
Serenidad
Serenidad is a book of poems by the Mexican poet Amado Nervo, first published in Madrid in 1914, marking his turn away from Modernismo toward plainer, confessional verse.
Şermin
Şermin is a 1914 book of 31 children's poems by Turkish poet Tevfik Fikret, his last work and the first Turkish children's poetry book in syllabic meter.
Sessiz Gemi
"The Silent Ship" is a 1921 Turkish poem by Yahya Kemal Beyatlı that portrays death as a sea voyage, and is regarded as his signature work.
Seven Stimuli
Seven Stimuli (Qifa, 七發) is a Western Han fu by Mei Sheng in which a guest cures an ailing Chu prince through seven presentations, founding the seven-style genre.
Seven-Step Poem
The Seven-Step Poem (七步诗) is a Chinese poem attributed to Cao Zhi, said to have been composed in seven steps at his brother Cao Pi's command.
Seytek
Seytek (Сейтек) is the third and concluding part of the Kyrgyz epic trilogy Manas, Semetey, and Seytek, following the hero Manas's grandson; the trilogy joined UNESCO's heritage list in 2013.
Shadow of Paradise
Shadow of Paradise (Sombra del paraíso) is a 1944 book of poems by the Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre, his first after the Spanish Civil War.
Shah Jo Risalo
Shah Jo Risalo (شاھ جو رسالو) is the collected poetry of Sindhi Sufi poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, regarded as the greatest classic of Sindhi literature.
Shahnameh (شاهنامه)
Shahnameh (شاهنامه, Book of Kings), the Persian national epic by Ferdowsi (940–1020), about 50,000 couplets in three mythical, legendary, and historical sections, from creation to the 651 CE Arab conquest.
Shahnameh-khani
Shahnameh-khani (شاهنامهخوانی) is the Iranian tradition of reciting or singing verses of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh before an audience, ranging from simple reading to the professional dramatic storytelling known as naqqali.
Shakespeare's sonnets
Shakespeare's sonnets: 154 English-form sonnets by William Shakespeare, first published in the 1609 quarto Shake-speares Sonnets published by Thomas Thorpe, addressed largely to a young man and a woman, and ending with A Lover's Complaint.
Shakuni
Shakuni (Sanskrit: शकुनि) is a prince of Gandhara in the Mahabharata, brother of Queen Gandhari and maternal uncle of Duryodhana, who rigged the dice game against Yudhishthira.
Shakuntala
Shakuntala (Abhijnanashakuntalam) is Kalidasa's seven-act Sanskrit play about Dushyanta, Shakuntala, a curse, and a recognition ring, adapted from the Mahabharata; first translated into English by William Jones in 1789.
Shalya
Shalya is the king of Madra in the Mahabharata. He fought for the Kauravas after being tricked, serving as Karna's charioteer before being slain by Yudhishthira.
Shang Xie
Shang Xie (上邪, "Heaven!") is a Han dynasty yuefu love poem in which a woman swears eternal fidelity to her beloved by invoking five impossible natural catastrophes.
Shangu Ji
Shangu Ji (山谷集, "Valley Collection") is the collected works of the Northern Song poet and calligrapher Huang Tingjian (1045–1105), leader of the Jiangxi school, transmitted through inner, outer, and supplementary collections.
Shanta
Shanta (शान्ता), also Shanta Devi, is the wife of sage Rishyasringa in the Ramayana tradition; her parentage is disputed between recensions, as daughter of Dasharatha of Ayodhya given in adoption to Romapada of Anga, or Romapada's own daughter.
Shantanu (शांतनु)
Shantanu (शांतनु), also Śantanu, is the Kuru king of Hastinapura in the Mahabharata, father of Bhishma by Ganga and of Chitrangada and Vichitravirya by Satyavati; his second marriage triggers Bhishma's celibacy vow and the dynasty's succession crisis.
Shanti Purana
Shanti Purana (ಶಾಂತಿಪುರಾಣ, Shantipurana) is a tenth-century Kannada Jain epic by the poet Ponna that narrates the life of Shantinatha, the sixteenth Jain Tirthankara, and earned Ponna the title Kavichakravarthi.
Shatakatraya
Shatakatraya (शतकत्रय, "three centuries") is a Sanskrit collection of three verse centuries, the Nītiśataka, Śṛṅgāraśataka, and Vairāgyaśataka, attributed to Bhartrihari and treating worldly wisdom, erotic passion, and ascetic detachment.
Shatrughna (शत्रुघ्न)
Shatrughna (शत्रुघ्न, Thai Phra Satarut), 'destroyer of enemies', youngest Ramayana brother: son of Sumitra, twin of Lakshmana, companion of Bharata, slayer of Lavanasura and founder-king of Mathura in the Uttara Kanda.
Shayad
Shayad (شاید, "Perhaps") is the first published poetry collection of the Urdu poet Jaun Elia, issued around 1990 when he was nearly sixty and the only one published in his lifetime.
She Had Some Horses
She Had Some Horses is a 1983 poetry collection by the Mvskoke (Muscogee Creek) poet Joy Harjo, a landmark of Native American poetry known for its incantatory title poem exploring womanhood.
She Walks in Beauty
"She Walks in Beauty" is a short lyric poem by Lord Byron, written in 1814 and published in 1815 in Hebrew Melodies, comparing a woman's beauty to a starry night.
She'r-e Now
She'r-e Now (شعر نو, "New Poetry"), also called Nimaic poetry, is the modernist movement in twentieth-century Persian poetry founded by Nima Yushij that broke with classical meter, rhyme, and fixed forms.
Sheep on the Hillside: Meditation on the Past at Tong Pass
"Sheep on the Hillside: Meditation on the Past at Tong Pass" (山坡羊·潼关怀古) is a 1329 sanqu by Chinese poet Zhang Yanghao, famed for the couplet "In rise, the people suffer; in fall, the people suffer."