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Syair Abdul Muluk
Syair Abdul Muluk, also Syair Sultan Abdul Muluk, is a nineteenth-century Malay narrative poem in which Siti Rafi'ah disguises herself as a man to rescue her husband, becoming an early Malay bestseller.
Syair Bidasari
Syair Bidasari is an anonymous classical Malay romantic narrative poem, an estimated 1750 work of about 7,000 verses telling of a maiden whose life resides in a golden fish.
Syair Burung Pingai
Syair Burung Pingai, also titled Thair al-'Uryan, is a Malay Sufi poem by Hamzah Fansuri casting the soul's search for God as a colloquy of birds.
Syair Perahu
Syair Perahu, "Poem of the Boat," is the name of two Malay Sufi poems using the ship as a metaphor for the soul's voyage toward God.
Syair Perang Mengkasar
Syair Perang Mengkasar is a Malay war poem by Encik Amin describing the Makassar War of 1666 to 1669, in which the VOC defeated Sultan Hasanuddin.
Syair Singapura Terbakar
Syair Singapura Terbakar ("The Burning of Singapore") is a Malay syair by Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi recording Singapore's great fire of 1830, published in 1843.
Syair Siti Zubaidah
Syair Siti Zubaidah, also called Syair Siti Zubaidah Perang China, is an anonymous Malay narrative poem in which the heroine disguises herself as a man to rescue her captive husband.
Syphilis sive morbus gallicus
Syphilis sive morbus gallicus is a three-book Latin didactic poem by the Italian physician Girolamo Fracastoro, printed at Verona in 1530 and famous for coining the word syphilis.
Szabadság, szerelem
Szabadság, szerelem ("Liberty and love") is a six-line poem written by the Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi in 1847, declaring he would sacrifice life for love and love for freedom.
Szondi's Two Squires
Szondi's Two Squires (Hungarian: Szondi két apródja) is an 1856 historical ballad by János Arany recalling the 1552 Ottoman siege of Drégely castle and its two captive young singers.
Szózat
Szózat ("Appeal" or "Summons") is an 1836 patriotic poem by the Hungarian poet Vörösmarty Mihály, regarded in Hungary as a de facto second national anthem alongside the Himnusz.
T. S. Eliot Prize
The T. S. Eliot Prize is an annual £25,000 poetry award for the best new collection published in the UK and Ireland, founded in 1993 by the Poetry Book Society.
Ta'iyyat al-Kubra
Ta'iyyat al-Kubra, also known as Nazm al-Suluk, is a 761-verse Sufi poem by the Egyptian poet 'Umar Ibn al-Farid describing the mystic's ascent toward union with the divine Beloved.
Tabaré
Tabaré is an epic poem by the Uruguayan poet Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, first published in 1888, telling the story of a mestizo hero among the Charrúa people facing Spanish conquest.
Tahir and Zuhra
Tahir and Zuhra (Tahir və Zöhrə) is a tragic love dastan of the Turkic peoples, telling of betrothed lovers separated by the girl's father, the padishah.
Tahkemoni
The Tahkemoni (ספר תחכמוני, Sefer Taḥkemoni) is a collection of fifty Hebrew maqamas by the Spanish-Jewish poet Judah al-Harizi, written in the early thirteenth century.
Táin Bó Cúailnge
Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley, The Táin): early Irish prose epic of the Ulster Cycle, in Lebor na hUidre (c. 1100) and Book of Leinster recensions, telling Medb's raid for Donn Cúailnge and Cú Chulainn's single combats.
Taiping Yuefu
Taiping Yuefu is a Yuan-dynasty anthology of sanqu songs compiled by Yang Chaoying, printed around 1351 and one of only four such Yuan collections that survive.
Taking Dreams as Horses
Taking Dreams as Horses (祖国， or 以梦为马) is a lyric poem by the Chinese poet Haizi, written in the 1980s, whose title phrase became a common expression of youthful idealism.
Talkhiyan
Talkhiyan (تلخیاں, "Bitternesses") is the first poetry collection of the Urdu poet Sahir Ludhianvi, published in 1944 in Lahore while he was a student, combining romanticism with bitterness and Marxist ideas.
Tam o' Shanter (poem)
Tam o' Shanter, Robert Burns's 1790 narrative poem in Scots and English, tells of a farmer's drunken ride past witches at Alloway Kirk and the loss of his mare Meg's tail.
Tamariani
Tamariani (თამარიანი) is an Old Georgian panegyric work attributed to the poet Chakhrukhadze, praising Queen Tamar of Georgia during her reign in the early 1200s.
Tamil literature
Tamil literature (தமிழ் இலக்கியம்) is the body of written and oral work in the Tamil language, spanning about 25 centuries from the Sangam classics to the present.
Tammuzi poetry
Tammuzi poetry (الشعر التموزي), also called Tammuzian poetry, is a current in modern Arabic poetry of the 1950s built on the myth of the dying and rising god Tammuz.
Tanci
Tanci (弹词, "plucking rhymes") is a Chinese chantefable genre in which verse is sung to plucked lute accompaniment, existing as oral storytelling and as fiction written chiefly for reading.
Tapaswini
Tapaswini (Odia: ତପସ୍ୱିନୀ) is a 1912 epic narrative poem in Odia by Gangadhar Meher, retelling Sita's life from her banishment to her sons' reunion with Rama.
Tar Saptak
Tar Saptak (तार सप्तक) is a 1943 anthology of poems by seven young Hindi poets, edited by Agyeya and treated as the start of modernism in Hindi literature.
Tarana-e-Milli
Tarana-e-Milli (ترانۂ ملی, "Anthem of the Community") is an Urdu poem by Allama Muhammad Iqbal, written in 1910 as a companion piece to his patriotic Tarana-e-Hindi.
Tarde o temprano
Tarde o temprano is the book under which Mexican poet José Emilio Pacheco collected his complete poetry, first published by the Fondo de Cultura Económica in 1980.
Tardiyya
Tardiyya (الطرديّة; plural ṭardiyyāt) is a genre of classical Arabic poetry devoted to the hunt, first written as independent poems in the Abbasid period by Abu Nuwas and other court poets.