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Sky, Wind, Stars and Poetry

Sky, Wind, Stars and Poetry (하늘과 바람과 별과 시) is the only poetry collection of Korean poet Yun Dong-ju, published posthumously in 1948, three years after his death in a Japanese prison.

Slow Poems

Slow Poems (Hebrew: Shirim Itiyim) is a poetry collection by the Israeli poet Meir Wieseltier, published in Tel Aviv in 2000, the year he received the Israel Prize.

Small Plum Blossoms in a Mountain Garden

Small Plum Blossoms in a Mountain Garden (山园小梅, Shan yuan xiao mei) is a plum blossom poem by the Northern Song poet Lin Bu (967–1028), famous for its couplet on sparse shadows and hidden fragrance.

Small Pond

Small Pond (小池) is a seven-character quatrain by the Southern Song poet Yang Wanli, composed in 1176 at his Jishui home and now taught in Chinese first-grade textbooks.

Smaradahana

Smaradahana, also written Asmaradhana, is an Old Javanese court poem by Mpu Dharmaja telling how the love god Smara was burnt to ashes by Śiwa.

Smrť Jánošíkova

The Death of Jánošík (Smrť Jánošíkova) is an 1862 lyrical-epic poem by the Slovak Romantic poet Ján Botto, portraying the outlaw's execution as a symbol of national hope.

Snow Falls on China's Land

"Snow Falls on China's Land" (雪落在中国的土地上) is a free-verse poem by the Chinese poet Ai Qing, written in Wuchang in December 1937 and published in January 1938.

Snow-Bound

Snow-Bound is a narrative poem by John Greenleaf Whittier, published in 1866 under the subtitle A Winter Idyl, describing a rural New England family confined by a winter storm.

Sobre los ángeles

Sobre los ángeles ("Concerning the Angels") is a 1929 book of poems by Rafael Alberti, regarded as his first surrealist work and central to modern Spanish poetry.

Sobrevivo

Sobrevivo ("I Survive") is a 1978 collection of poems by Claribel Alegría, published in Havana, winner of the Casa de las Américas Prize for poetry.

Sohni Mahiwal (سوہنی مہیوال)

Sohni Mahiwal (سوہنی مہیوال), also Suhini-Mehar, is a Punjabi and Sindhi tragic love folktale of the Indus valley: Sohni swims the Chenab nightly to her lover Mahiwal until a swapped unbaked clay pot dissolves and both drown; classic texts by Fazal Shah Sayyad and Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai.

Sojan Badiar Ghat

Sojan Badiar Ghat (সোজন বাদিয়ার ঘাট) is a 1933 Bengali narrative poem by Jasimuddin about the love of Sojan, a Muslim, and Dulali, a Hindu girl.

Sokmiingok

Sokmiingok (속미인곡), the "Continued Song of Longing," is a Korean gasa poem written by Jeong Cheol around 1589 as a sequel to his Samiingok, voicing two women's longing for their lovers.

Solar Throat Slashed

Solar Throat Slashed (French: Soleil cou coupé) is a 1948 collection of 72 poems by the Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, published in Paris by K éditeur.

Soledades

Soledades, known in English as The Solitudes, is an unfinished two-part Baroque poem by Luis de Góngora, written in the difficult culteranismo style and begun around 1613.

Soledades, galerías y otros poemas

Soledades, galerías y otros poemas is a 1907 poetry collection by the Spanish poet Antonio Machado, expanding his first book, Soledades (1903), with themes of time, memory, and dream.

Some People

Some People (有的人) is a 1949 lyric poem by the Chinese poet Zang Kejia, written to commemorate the thirteenth anniversary of Lu Xun's death and taught in Chinese schools.

Sonar Tari

Sonar Tari (সোনার তরী, "The Golden Boat") is a Bengali poem by Rabindranath Tagore, first published in 1893, in which a boatman carrying paddy represents eternal Time.

Sonar Tori

Sonar Tori (Bengali: সোনার তরী, alternatively spelt Sonar Tari) is an 1894 collection of Bengali poetry by Rabindranath Tagore, written along the rivers of rural Bengal and regarded as his first popular success.

Sonatina

Sonatina is a poem in Spanish by Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío, first published in Buenos Aires in 1895, portraying a sad princess awaiting a liberating prince.

Sonatorrek

Sonatorrek is a 25-stanza Old Norse skaldic elegy attributed to the tenth-century Icelandic poet Egill Skallagrímsson, composed, according to Egils saga, after his son Bǫðvarr drowned around 960.

Soneto de Fidelidade

"Soneto de Fidelidade" ("Sonnet of Fidelity") is a sonnet by Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes, written in Portugal in 1939 and known for promising love infinite while it lasts.

Sonetos de la muerte

Sonetos de la muerte (Sonnets of Death) is a series of thirteen sonnets by Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, whose first three won Santiago's 1914 Juegos Florales poetry prize.

Sonetos del amor oscuro

Sonetos del amor oscuro (Sonnets of Dark Love) is a series of eleven love sonnets by Federico García Lorca, written mainly in 1935 and published posthumously in 1984.

Sonette

Sonette is the title of the German sonnet collections of Andreas Gryphius, first published in 1637, known for the vanitas theme and the experience of the Thirty Years' War.

Sonetti lussuriosi

Sonetti lussuriosi is a set of sixteen erotic sonnets by the Italian writer Pietro Aretino, written around 1524 to accompany Raimondi's engravings known as I modi.

Sonetti romaneschi

Sonetti romaneschi is the corpus of 2,279 sonnets in the Roman vernacular written by the Roman poet Giuseppe Gioachino Belli between 1830 and 1849 and published after his death.

Sông núi nước Nam

Sông núi nước Nam, or Nam quốc sơn hà, is a celebrated Vietnamese poem in classical Chinese asserting the country's sovereignty, regarded as Vietnam's first written declaration of independence.

Song of Gaixia

The Song of Gaixia (垓下歌) is a four-line Chu song attributed to Xiang Yu, composed before his final defeat at the battle of Gaixia in 202 BC.

Song of Lei Feng

Song of Lei Feng (雷锋之歌) is a long political lyric poem by He Jingzhi, first published in China Youth Daily in 1963 in praise of soldier Lei Feng.