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Souffles
"Souffles" is a poem in French by the Senegalese writer Birago Diop, first published in 1948 and best known for its line "Those who are dead are never gone."
Sounds of a Cowhide Drum
Sounds of a Cowhide Drum is the 1971 first poetry collection by South African poet Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, recording black life under apartheid and winning the Olive Schreiner Prize.
South of My Days
"South of My Days" is a 1945 poem by the Australian poet Judith Wright, depicting the New England tableland of her childhood through an old drover's stories.
Southeast the Peacock Flies
Southeast the Peacock Flies (孔雀東南飛), originally Ancient Poem Written for the Wife of Jiao Zhongqing, is a Han yuefu narrative poem about a forced separation ending in double suicide.
Spain, Take This Cup from Me
Spain, Take This Cup from Me is the final poetry collection by Peruvian poet César Vallejo, fifteen poems on the Spanish Civil War published posthumously in 1939.
Spiritual Canticle
The Spiritual Canticle (Cántico espiritual) is a 40-stanza mystical poem by the Spanish Carmelite St John of the Cross describing the soul's search for Christ the Bridegroom.
Spoken word
Spoken word is performance poetry rooted in oral traditions, characterized by rhyme and improvisation. It often addresses social justice and began with slam contests in Chicago in 1986.
Spoon River Anthology
Spoon River Anthology is a 1915 poetry collection by Edgar Lee Masters in which deceased residents of a fictional Illinois town speak their own epitaphs.
Sprachgitter
Sprachgitter ("language grille") is a 1959 German-language poetry collection by Paul Celan, his third book, containing 33 poems including Stimmen, Tenebrae, and Engführung, and marking a turn toward compression.
Spring and All
Spring and All is a 1923 book by American poet William Carlos Williams that alternates 27 poems, including "The Red Wheelbarrow," with prose setting out his poetic theories.
Spring Dawn
Spring Dawn (春晓, Chun Xiao) is a four-line quatrain by Tang dynasty poet Meng Haoran, describing waking on a spring morning to birdsong and fallen blossoms.
Spring River in the Flower Moon Night
Spring River in the Flower Moon Night (春江花月夜) is a 36-line Tang poem by Zhang Ruoxu describing a moonlit river, from scenery to separated lovers' longing.
Spring View
Spring View (春望) is a five-character regulated verse by the Tang dynasty poet Du Fu, written in 757 in rebel-occupied Chang'an and considered his most famous poem.
Sri Gur Panth Prakash
Sri Gur Panth Prakash (ਸ੍ਰੀ ਗੁਰ ਪੰਥ ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼) is a poetic narrative history of the Sikhs by Rattan Singh Bhangu, retitled Prachin Panth Prakash when published in 1914.
Sri Kalahastiswara Satakamu
Kalahastiswara Satakamu (శ్రీకాళహస్తీశ్వర శతకము) is a Telugu devotional sataka of over a hundred verses addressed to the Shiva of Srikalahasti in Andhra Pradesh, attributed to the 16th-century poet Dhurjati of Krishnadevaraya's court.
Sri Krishna Kirtan
Sri Krishna Kirtan is a medieval Bengali Vaishnava poem on the love of Radha and Krishna, attributed to Baru Chandidas, and the earliest surviving early medieval Bengali literary work.
Sri Ramayana Darshanam
Sri Ramayana Darshanam (ಶ್ರೀ ರಾಮಾಯಣ ದರ್ಶನಂ) is a modern Kannada epic poem in which Kuvempu retells Valmiki's Ramayana, winning the 1968 Jnanpith Award, the first for Kannada.
Sri Ramayana Kalpavruksham
Sri Ramayana Kalpavruksham, also rendered Srimadramayana Kalpavrukshamu, is a Telugu epic poem by Viswanatha Satyanarayana that retells Valmiki's Ramayana; written from 1931 to 1961, it won the first Jnanpith Award given to a Telugu writer.
Srikrishna Charitam
Srikrishna Charitam (ശ്രീകൃഷ്ണചരിതം), also called Sreekrishna Charithram, is a twelve-canto Manipravalam kavya in Malayalam attributed to the eighteenth-century poet Kunchan Nambiar, retelling the Krishna story of the Srimad Bhagavatam's tenth canto.
Sringara Naishadhamu
Sringara Naishadhamu (శృంగార నైషధము) is a 15th-century Telugu poem by Srinatha adapting Sriharsha's Sanskrit Naishadhiya Charita, retelling the Nala and Damayanti love story from the Mahabharata.
Staffrider poetry
Staffrider poetry is the body of poems published in Staffrider, an anti-apartheid South African literary magazine issued by Ravan Press in Johannesburg from 1978 to 1993.
Stag's Leap
Stag's Leap is a 2012 poetry collection by the American poet Sharon Olds recounting the end of her roughly thirty-year marriage; it won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Stanze per la giostra
Stanze per la giostra is an unfinished narrative poem in ottava rima by Angelo Poliziano, begun in 1475 to celebrate Giuliano de' Medici's joust and abandoned in 1478 after his murder in the Pazzi conspiracy.
Static Poems
Static Poems (Statische Gedichte) is a 1948 poetry collection by German poet and physician Gottfried Benn that restored him to German literature after his wartime publishing ban.
Station Island
Station Island is a 1984 poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, named after the Lough Derg pilgrimage site and centered on a Dante-inspired dream-vision of ghosts.
Still I Rise
"Still I Rise" is a poem by Maya Angelou, first published in 1978 in her third collection, And Still I Rise, and built around the refrain "I rise."
Sto pociech
Sto pociech (A Hundred Consolations) is a 1967 poetry collection by the Polish poet and 1996 Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska, containing twenty-seven poems, including The Joy of Writing.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost's 16-line lyric poem, written 1922, published March 7, 1923 in The New Republic and in the Pulitzer-winning collection New Hampshire; a traveler pauses to watch snow-filled woods, closing with "miles to go before I sleep."
Stotra
Stotra (स्तोत्र), also stotram, is a Sanskrit hymn of praise to a deity, from the root stu, "to praise". In the Sāmaveda it names the chants of the Soma sacrifice.
Stray Birds
Stray Birds (Bengali: ছোট পাখি) is a 1916 collection of 325 short aphoristic poems by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, published by Macmillan and translated by Tagore himself.