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Stuti Chintamani
Stuti Chintamani (Odia: ସ୍ତୁତି ଚିନ୍ତାମଣି) is a devotional poem of one hundred prayers composed in Odia by Bhima Bhoi, a foundational text of the Mahima Dharma tradition.
Su Kasidesi
Su Kasidesi ("the Water Qasida") is a celebrated 32-couplet Ottoman Turkish ode by the 16th-century poet Fuzûlî praising the Prophet Muhammad, named for its repeated word su, water.
Su'luk poetry
Su'luk poetry (Arabic: شعر الصعاليك) is one of the three main genres of pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, composed by outcast raiders called ṣaʿālīk who lived outside the tribal order; its best-known poem is al-Shanfara's Lamiyyat al-ʿArab.
Subhadra Parinaya
Subhadra Parinaya (ସୁଭଦ୍ରା ପରିଣୟ), meaning The Marriage of Subhadra, is an Odia kavya by Upendra Bhanja, the seventeenth-century poet called Kabi Samrat, recounting the marriage of Krishna's sister Subhadra.
Subhashitaratnakosha
The Subhashitaratnakosha (सुभाषितरत्नकोश, "Treasury of Well-Said Verses") is an 11th-century Sanskrit anthology of about 1,700 short court poems, compiled by the Buddhist scholar Vidyākara from the library of the Jagaddala monastery in Bengal.
Subhashitavali
Subhashitavali (सुभाषितावली, "circlet of well-said verse") is a Sanskrit anthology of 3,527 verse epigrams by 362 named poets, compiled by Vallabhadeva of Kashmir around the fifteenth century.
Subhasitaya
Subhasitaya (සුභාෂිතය), meaning Well-Spoken Words, is a Sinhala didactic poem by Alagiyavanna Mukaveti from the reign of Rajasimha of Sitawaka, a landmark of classical Sinhala advisory verse.
Subhuman Redneck Poems
Subhuman Redneck Poems is a 1996 poetry collection by the Australian poet Les Murray, named after an insult he once aimed at himself, 'the subhuman redneck who writes poems'.
Success is counted sweetest
"Success is counted sweetest" is a twelve-line 1859 poem by Emily Dickinson, first published anonymously in 1864, which argues that success is best understood by those who never attain it.
Sudama Charit
Sudama Charit (सुदामा-चरित) is a 16th-century Braj-language narrative poem by the Hindi poet Narottama Dasa, retelling the impoverished Brahmin Sudama's visit to Krishna at Dwarka.
Sugriva (सुग्रीव)
Sugriva (सुग्रीव), vanara king of Kishkindha in the Ramayana, younger brother of Vali and son of Surya; exiled by Vali, he allies with Rama, sees Vali killed, is crowned king, and organizes the search for Sita.
Suiyuan Shihua
Suiyuan Shihua (随园诗话) is a work of Qing dynasty poetry criticism and anecdote by Yuan Mei, the principal vehicle of his xingling theory of poetry.
Sujan Raskhan ki Padavali
Sujan Raskhan ki Padavali (सुजान रसखान) is the most widely circulated collection of verses by Raskhan, the Muslim Krishna-devotee poet of Braj bhasha who lived from about 1548 to 1628.
Süleymaniye'de Bayram Sabahı
Süleymaniye'de Bayram Sabahı ("Bayram Morning at Süleymaniye") is an epic poem by Yahya Kemal Beyatlı depicting a bayram morning at Istanbul's Süleymaniye Mosque, published in 1957 and opening his 1961 collection Kendi Gök Kubbemiz.
Süleymanname
The Süleymanname is an illustrated Ottoman court history in Persian verse covering 1520 to 1555 of Sultan Süleyman I's reign, written by the court historiographer Arifi around 1558.
Suluk Malang Sumirang
Suluk Malang Sumirang is a Javanese Islamic mystical text (suluk) attributed to Pangeran Panggung, dated to around the 16th century and counted among the most important works of the Javanese Islamic literary period.
Suluk Wujil
Suluk Wujil is an early Javanese Islamic mystical poem attributed to Sunan Bonang, inscribed at Cirebon, West Java, in 1607 and among the earliest works of the Javanese suluk genre.
Sumati Satakamu
Sumati Satakamu (సుమతీ శతకము) is a Telugu collection of 108 moral verses, each ending with the word "Sumati", traditionally attributed to the 13th-century poet-king Baddena.
Sumidawara
Sumidawara (炭俵, "A Sack of Charcoal") is a 1694 Japanese haikai anthology compiled by Bashō-school poets Shida Yaba, Koizumi Kōku, and Ikeda Rigyū, sixth of the Bashō Seven Major Anthologies.
Summer in Calcutta
Summer in Calcutta is the first collection of poetry in English by the Indian writer Kamala Das, published in New Delhi in 1965, containing fifty poems.
Summoning to the Bier
Summoning to the Bier (Tetemre hívás) is an 1877 ballad by Hungarian poet János Arany, built on the old legal custom of summoning suspects to a corpse.
Summons of the Soul
Summons of the Soul (Zhaohun) is a poem in the ancient Chinese Chu Ci anthology that imitates the rite of calling a wandering soul home.
Sunehade
Sunehade ("Messages") is a 1955 Punjabi poetry anthology by Amrita Pritam, dominated by love poetry, that won her the Sahitya Akademi Award of India for 1956.
Sursagar
Sursagar (सूरसागर, "Sur's Ocean") is the principal collection of Krishna-devotion poetry attributed to the sixteenth-century Braj poet Surdas, retelling Krishna's life from birth to the reunion at Kurukshetra, and the only work universally accepted as his.
Suspiros Poéticos e Saudades
Suspiros Poéticos e Saudades is an 1836 book of poems by Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães, traditionally treated as the starting landmark of Brazilian Romanticism.
Svatopluk
Svatopluk is a heroic epic poem by the Slovak poet Ján Hollý, published in 1833 and regarded as the first Slovak national epic about King Svatopluk of Great Moravia.
Svetlana
Svetlana (Светлана) is a romantic ballad by the Russian poet Vasily Zhukovsky, published in 1813 in Vestnik Evropy, which reworks Bürger's Lenore into a Russian setting and ends happily.
Swahili Islamic epics
Swahili Islamic epics, known as tenzi or utenzi, are long narrative poems on Islamic subjects composed on the East African coast from the seventeenth century.
Swahili poetry slam
A Swahili poetry slam is a competitive spoken-word event held in East Africa, where poets perform in Swahili, English, or Sheng before judges and audiences who score them in real time.
Swazi praise poetry
Swazi praise poetry, known in siSwati as tibongo, is the oral panegyric tradition of the Swazi people of Eswatini and southern Africa, with clan praises called tinanatelo.