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Shesh Lekha
Sesh Lekha (Bengali: শেষলেখা, "Last Writings") is the final poetry collection of Rabindranath Tagore: fifteen poems, mostly written or dictated on his deathbed and published posthumously in 1941.
Shesh Saptak
Shesh Saptak (শেষ সপ্তক, "Last Octave") is a collection of 45 Bengali prose poems by Rabindranath Tagore, published in Calcutta by Visva-Bharati in 1935 on the poet's seventy-fourth birthday.
Sheyda
Sheyda is a 1917 romantic drama in verse by Azerbaijani playwright Huseyn Javid, published in Baku, depicting the hard life of printing workers and the idea of freedom.
Shield of Heracles
The Shield of Heracles (Greek: Aspis Hērakleous) is an archaic Greek epic poem of 480 hexameter lines, attributed to Hesiod in antiquity, recounting Heracles' killing of Cycnus and describing his shield, forged by Hephaestus.
Shika Wakashū
Shika Wakashū (詞花和歌集), also read Shikashū, is the sixth Japanese imperial anthology of waka poetry, compiled by Fujiwara no Akisuke under Retired Emperor Sutoku and presented in 1151.
Shikhandi (शिखण्डी)
Shikhandi (शिखण्डी, Śikhaṇḍin) is the Mahabharata warrior, child of Drupada and rebirth of Amba, born female, transformed male by the yaksha Sthunakarna, and instrumental in Bhishma's fall at Kurukshetra.
Shikwa
Shikwa (شکوہ, "The Complaint") is a long Urdu poem by Muhammad Iqbal, recited at Lahore in 1909, in which a Muslim asks God why the community is humiliated.
Shin Chokusen Wakashū
Shin Chokusen Wakashū (新勅撰和歌集, New Imperial Collection) is a Japanese imperial anthology of waka poetry, ordered from Fujiwara no Teika in 1232 and completed in 1235.
Shintaishi shō
Shintaishi shō (新体詩抄), an 1882 Japanese anthology of translated and original poetry compiled by three Imperial University instructors, is regarded as the starting point of Japanese modern poetry.
Ship of Fools (satire)
Ship of Fools (Das Narrenschiff), Sebastian Brant's 1494 Basel satire of 112 fools sailing to Narragonia, with Dürer woodcuts, Locher's 1497 Latin Stultifera navis, and translations into French, Dutch, and English by 1509.
Shiraz school (literature)
The Shiraz school (مکتب شیراز) is the lyric tradition of classical Persian poetry centered on Shiraz in the 13th and 14th centuries, defined by Saʿdi and Hafez.
Shirei ha-Hol
Shirei ha-Hol (שירי החול, "Songs of the Secular") is the collected secular Hebrew poetry of Solomon ibn Gabirol, an eleventh-century Andalusian Jewish poet and philosopher.
Shirei Tiferet
Shirei Tiferet (שירי תפארת, "Songs of Glory"), also known as the Moseide, is a Hebrew epic poem on the life of Moses by Haskalah poet Naphtali Herz Wessely, first published in Berlin in 1789.
Shirei Yehudah
Shirei Yehudah (שירי יהודה) is the collected Hebrew poetry of Yehuda Leib Gordon (Yalag), a central figure of the Jewish Enlightenment, first published in St. Petersburg in 1883–1884.
Shishupala (शिशुपाल)
Shishupala (शिशुपाल) was the Chedi king of the Mahabharata, killed by Krishna with the Sudarshana chakra after his 100th insult at Yudhishthira's Rajasuya; the subject also of Magha's Sanskrit mahakavya Shishupalavadha.
Shishupala Vadha
Shishupala Vadha (शिशुपालवधम्, "the slaying of Shishupala") is a Sanskrit court epic by the poet Magha, retelling how Krishna killed the Chedi king Shishupala at Yudhishthira's Rajasuya sacrifice.
Shiva Tandava Stotra (शिवताण्डवस्तोत्रम्)
Shiva Tandava Stotra (शिवताण्डवस्तोत्रम्), also Shiv Tandav Stotram, is a rhythmically dense Sanskrit hymn praising Shiva's cosmic Tandava dance, traditionally attributed to Ravana via its own colophon, transmitted as an independent stotra outside the Ramayana and Puranas.
Shivlilamrut
Shivlilamrut (शिवलीलामृत), the nectar of Shiva's play, is a Marathi devotional poetic text composed by Shridhar Swami Nazarekar at Kashi around 1658's poet's era, retelling the Skanda Purana's Shivlila.
Shiyi Shi Shihua
Shiyi Shi Shihua (石遗室诗话, "Poetry Talks from the Shiyi Studio") is a work of classical Chinese poetry criticism by Chen Yan, leader of the Tongguang school.
Shōryōshū
Shōryōshū (性霊集), fully Henjō Hokki Shōryōshū, is a ten-volume collection of Chinese-language poetry and prose by the Japanese Buddhist monk Kūkai, compiled by his disciple Shinzei around 835.
Shri Ramachandra Kripalu (श्रीरामचन्द्र कृपालु)
Shri Ramachandra Kripalu (श्रीरामचन्द्र कृपालु), the Shri Ram Stuti, is Tulsidas's five-couplet hymn to Rama from Vinaya Patrika pada 45, sung daily at Rama temples and on Ram Navami across North India.
Shringarashataka
Shringarashataka, or Shringara Shataka, is a Sanskrit collection of about one hundred verses on erotic love attributed to the poet Bhartrihari of the 4th to 5th centuries.
Shruks of Nund Rishi
The Shruks of Nund Rishi are short didactic aphorisms in the Kashmiri language composed by the mystic Sheikh Nur-ud-Din (1378–1440), called Nund Rishi or Sheikh-ul-Alam, which with Lal Ded's vākhs are the earliest surviving Kashmiri poetry.
Shu Ting's Poems
Shu Ting's Poems is the body of poetry by Chinese poet Shu Ting, a leading Misty Poet known for "To the Oak" and "Motherland, My Dear Motherland".
Shūi Gusō
Shūi Gusō (拾遺愚草) is the personal waka anthology that the poet Fujiwara no Teika compiled from his own poems in three volumes, completed in 1216, one of the Six Poet Collections.
Shui Long Yin: Ascending Jiankang's Shangxin Pavilion
Shui Long Yin: Ascending Jiankang's Shangxin Pavilion (水龙吟·登建康赏心亭) is a ci poem by Xin Qiji, written around 1174 after climbing the Shangxin Pavilion in Jiankang, now Nanjing.
Shūi Wakashū
Shūi Wakashū (拾遺和歌集, Collection of Gleanings) is the third imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry, compiled around 1005 to 1007 and containing about 1,350 poems in twenty volumes.
Shurpanakha (शूर्पणखा)
Shurpanakha (शूर्पणखा), also Surpanakha, is the rakshasi sister of Ravana in Valmiki's Ramayana, Aranya Kanda; her mutilation by Lakshmana after she propositions Rama triggers Khara and Dushana's deaths and Ravana's abduction of Sita.
Shuyu Ci
Collected Ci of Li Qingzhao, also known as Shuyu Ci (漱玉词), is a collection of ci lyrics by Song-dynasty poet Li Qingzhao, lost by the 14th century and later reconstructed.
Sibylline Oracles
The Sibylline Oracles (Oracula Sibyllina) are pseudepigraphic prophecies in Greek hexameter verse, composed from the 2nd century BCE onward by Jewish and later Christian authors voicing the legendary Sibyl.