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Song of Myself
"Song of Myself" is Walt Whitman's long free-verse poem, first published untitled in 1855 in Leaves of Grass, renamed "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" in 1856 and "Walt Whitman" in 1860, and given its present title in the 1881 edition.
Song of the Artemisia
Song of the Artemisia (Haoli, 蒿里) is a short Han dynasty Chinese funeral dirge, sung by coffin-pullers at burials and preserved in Guo Maoqian's Collection of Yuefu Poetry.
Song of the Chile
The Song of the Chile (敕勒歌, Chìlè Gē) is a 27-character Northern Dynasties folk song describing the grassland below the Yin Mountains, preserved in the Collection of Yuefu Poetry.
Song of the Great Wind
The Song of the Great Wind (Dafeng ge, 大風歌) is a three-line song attributed to Liu Bang, founder of the Han dynasty, sung at his home village of Pei in 195 BCE.
Song of the Open Road
"Song of the Open Road" is an 1856 Walt Whitman poem, later retitled from "Poem of the Road," celebrating freedom and the journey along a public road.
Song of the Orphan
Song of the Orphan (孤儿行) is a Han-dynasty yuefu narrative folk poem in the voice of an orphan worked and mistreated by his brother and sister-in-law.
Song of the Pipa
Song of the Pipa (琵琶行) is a long narrative poem by Tang poet Bai Juyi, written in 816 about an aging pipa player he met in exile.
Song of the Running Horse River
Song of the Running Horse River (走马川行) is a Tang dynasty frontier poem by Cen Shen, written around 754 to see off General Feng Changqing's western campaign.
Song of the Snow: Farewell to Secretary Wu
Song of the Snow: Farewell to Secretary Wu is an eighteen-line poem by Tang poet Cen Shen, written at Luntai in 754 to see off a colleague.
Song of the Thatched Hut Torn by the Autumn Wind
A 761 poem in song-style verse by the Tang dynasty poet Du Fu, describing how autumn wind tore the thatch from his thatched cottage beside the Huanhua Stream in Chengdu.
Song of the White Hair
Song of the White Hair (Baitou yin) is a Han dynasty yuefu ballad in a woman's voice, traditionally attributed to Zhuo Wenjun and known for its devoted-heart couplet.
Song of Weicheng
Song of Weicheng, also known as Song Yuan Er shi Anxi, is a four-line Tang dynasty quatrain by Wang Wei, written as a farewell to a friend departing for the Anxi Protectorate.
Songgang Jip
Songgang Jip (송강집; 松江集) is the collected poetry and prose of the mid-Joseon poet and official Jeong Cheol, published complete in 1894 in 11 volumes and including his famous gasa and sijo.
Sóngoro cosongo
Sóngoro cosongo is a 1931 book of poetry by the Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, subtitled Poemas mulatos, which presents the African and Spanish mixture of Cuba's people as the essence of the nation.
Songs
Songs (Spevy) is an 1868 poetry collection by the Slovak Romantic poet Samo Chalupka, his only lifetime book, gathering 22 poems on historical and outlaw themes.
Songs of a Sourdough
Songs of a Sourdough is a 1907 poetry collection by Canadian poet Robert W. Service, known in the United States as The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses.
Songs of Central Australia
Songs of Central Australia is a 1971 book by the anthropologist T. G. H. Strehlow that records and translates the ceremonial songs of the Aranda and Luritja peoples of Central Australia.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a poetry collection by William Blake, combining two illuminated books in 1794, including "The Lamb" and "The Tyger."
Songs of Life
Songs of Life (أغاني الحياة) is the collected diwan of Tunisian Romantic poet Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi, assembled by him in 1934 and first published posthumously in 1955.
Songs of Qin
Songs of Qin (Qinzhong yin, 秦中吟) is a set of ten satirical poems by the Tang poet Bai Juyi, written in Chang'an around 810 CE.
Songs of Sorrow
Songs of Sorrow is a two-part poem by the Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor that adapts the Ewe dirge into English verse, lamenting poverty and the collapse of a lineage.
Songs of Yesterday
Songs of Yesterday (Zuori zhi ge) is the first poetry collection of the Chinese poet Feng Zhi, published in 1927, gathering fifty poems from 1921 to 1926.
Sonnet 116
Sonnet 116, 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds', is Shakespeare's famous definition of constant love, printed in the 1609 quarto (misnumbered 119), widely used at weddings and in court, with a newly found 1640s manuscript adaptation.
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 18, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?", is Shakespeare's most famous sonnet, published in the 1609 Thorpe quarto; it argues the beloved's beauty is immortalized in verse itself.
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Sonnets from the Portuguese is a sequence of 44 love sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written secretly during her 1845–1846 courtship with Robert Browning and published in 1850.
Sonnets pour Hélène
Sonnets pour Hélène is a two-book collection of love sonnets published in 1578 by Pierre de Ronsard, addressed to the court lady Hélène de Surgères.
Sonnets to Orpheus
Sonnets to Orpheus (Die Sonette an Orpheus) is a cycle of 55 German sonnets by Rainer Maria Rilke, written in 1922 and published in 1923.
Sorath Rai Diyach
Sorath Rai Diyach (سورٺ راءِ ڏياچ) is a Sindhi folk epic in which king Rai Diyach of Junagadh gives his head to the musician Bijal.
Sotho poetry
Sotho poetry is the poetic tradition of the Basotho people of Southern Africa, composed in Sesotho. Its praise poems, dithoko, honor chiefs and serve as an oral history of the nation.
Sotho praise poetry
Sotho praise poetry, known in Sesotho as lithoko, is the oral praise poetry of the Basotho of southern Africa, chanted poems composed for and about kings, chiefs, and warriors.