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Siddhar poetry
Siddhar poetry (சித்தர் பாடல்கள்) is Tamil verse by the Siddhars, ascetics believed to have attained spiritual perfection, covering devotion, yoga, gnana, and medicine; tradition recognizes eighteen Siddhars, including Tirumular and Bogar.
Siddharama Charite
Siddharama Charite (ಸಿದ್ಧರಾಮ ಚರಿತೆ) is a Kannada hagiographic kavya associated with Raghavanka, a thirteenth-century poet of Hampi, narrating the life of the Virashaiva saint Siddharama of Sonnalige.
Signatures: An Anthology of Philippine Poetry in English
Signatures is a 1955 anthology of Philippine poetry in English, published in Manila and associated with the writers Alejandrino G. Hufana and R. V. Diaz.
Sigrdrífumál
Sigrdrífumál, also spelled Sigurdrífumál, is an Old Norse heroic poem in the thirteenth-century Codex Regius in which the valkyrie Sigrdrífa teaches the dragon-slayer Sigurðr runic magic and moral wisdom.
Sihâm-ı Kazâ
Sihâm-ı Kazâ (Arrows of Destiny) is the anthology of satirical verse by the Ottoman poet Nef'î, regarded as the most famous satire in classical Turkish literature.
Sikandarnama
Sikandarnama (সিকান্দরনামা) is a Bengali narrative poem completed in 1673 by Syed Alaol, a Bengali rendering of Nizami Ganjavi's Persian work on Alexander the Great.
Silamaka and Poullori
Silamaka and Poullori is a West African epic cycle, told in Fula and Bambara, about two Fula heroes who resisted the Bambara kingdom of Ségou.
Silvae
The Silvae, Latin for "woods" or "raw material," are 32 occasional poems in five books by the Roman poet Statius, written probably between 89 and 96 CE.
Silver Latin epic
Silver Latin epic is the Latin epic poetry written after Augustus' death in AD 14, principally by Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Silius Italicus, and Statius in the first century AD.
Simavne Kadısı Oğlu Şeyh Bedreddin Destanı
Simavne Kadısı Oğlu Şeyh Bedreddin Destanı is a 1936 epic poem by Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet about the 15th-century Ottoman jurist and Sufi Şeyh Bedreddin, who sought an egalitarian social order.
Simcheongga
Simcheongga (심청가) is one of the five surviving Korean pansori epics, telling of the filial daughter Sim Cheong, who sacrifices herself in the Indang Sea.
Simon the Musician
Simon the Musician (Сымон-музыка) is a lyrical-epic poem in six parts by Yakub Kolas, written from 1911 to 1925, about a self-taught violinist from a poor peasant family.
Simple Verses
Simple Verses (Versos sencillos) is an 1891 collection of 46 poems by the Cuban poet and patriot José Martí, published in New York during his exile from Cuba.
Sin Xay
Sin Xay, more fully Sang Sinxay (Lao: ສັງສິນໄຊ), is a Lao epic poem attributed to Pang Kham, dated about 1600, and regarded as Laos' national epic.
Sindbad in His Eighth Voyage
Sindbad in His Eighth Voyage (السندباد في رحلته الثامنة) is a long Arabic poem by Khalil Hawi, published in 1960, in which Sindbad makes an invented eighth voyage into the self.
Sindhi folk epic
A Sindhi folk epic is a long oral narrative of heroism or romance from Sindh, Pakistan, sung by bards; its love legends include Sassui Punnhu and Umar Marvi.
Sir Fantasy
Sir Fantasy (Zixu, "Sir Vacuous") is a fictional envoy of Chu invented by the Western Han poet Sima Xiangru as the chief speaker of his Zixu fu.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: late-14th-century Middle English alliterative romance by the anonymous Gawain/Pearl Poet, unique in MS Cotton Nero A.x; beheading game, Green Chapel quest, girdle test of chivalry and Christian faith.
Sir Orfeo
Sir Orfeo is a Middle English Breton lay, composed anonymously around 1300, that retells the Orpheus myth as a fairy story with a happy ending.
Sirat Antar
Sirat Antar (سيرة عنترة) is an Arabic popular epic built around ʿAntara ibn Shaddād, a 6th-century poet of the Muʿallaqāt, recounting his battles and his love for ʿAbla.
Sirat Bani Hilal
Sirat Bani Hilal (سيرة بني هلال, al-Sirah al-Hilaliyyah) is an Arabic oral epic telling of the Bani Hilal Bedouin tribe's tenth-century migration from Arabia to North Africa.
Sirat Dhat al-Himma
Sirat Dhat al-Himma (سيرة الأميرة ذات الهمة, Story of the Princess Possessor of Resolve) is an Arabic popular epic, the only long-standing one with a woman as its heroic figure.
Sirupanarruppatai
Sirupanarruppatai (சிறுபாணாற்றுப்படை) is a classical Tamil Sangam poem, the third of the ten Pattuppattu idylls, in which poet Nathathanar directs a wandering bard to the patron Oyman Nalliyakodan.
Sishu
Sishu (শিশু, "The Child") is a 1903 Bengali poetry collection for children by Rabindranath Tagore, the main source for his English collection The Crescent Moon of 1913.
Sita (सीता)
Sita (सीता), also Sītā, is the heroine of the Ramayana: Rama's wife, abducted by Ravana, tested by fire, and finally received by the Earth. Known for hundreds of retellings, from Valmiki's Sanskrit epic to feminist Sitayanas.
Sita Samharam
Sita Samharam is the Ramayana episode in which Sita, exiled and questioned again, calls on the earth to take her back, best known through Kumaran Asan's 1919 Malayalam poem.
Six Dynasties poetry
Six Dynasties poetry (六朝詩) is the Chinese verse written from roughly 220 to 589 CE, during the centuries of division between the Han and Sui dynasties.
Siyar sha'biyya
Siyar sha'biyya (سيرة شعبية, popular epics) are anonymous Arabic narratives in prose and verse recounting the deeds of heroes and tribes, flourishing in the Mamluk period.
Skald
A skald (Old Norse skáld) was a court poet of medieval Scandinavia who composed formalized skaldic verse in Old Norse, praising rulers and commemorating battles from the ninth century onward.
Skírnismál
Skírnismál, also known as For Skírnis, is a 42-stanza mythological poem of the Poetic Edda in which Freyr sends Skírnir to woo the giantess Gerðr.