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Targhibat
Targhibat is a work attributed to Fuzuli (Muhammed Süleyman oğlu), the 16th-century Turkic poet of Kerbela, though standard surveys of his roughly fifteen works omit the title.
Târih-i Kadîm
Târih-i Kadîm ("Ancient History") is a 212-line philosophical-satirical poem by the Ottoman poet Tevfik Fikret, written in 1905 and published anonymously in 1912, criticizing history, war, and religion's entanglement with power.
Tarjuman al-Ashwaq
Tarjuman al-Ashwaq (ترجمان الأشواق, "The Interpreter of Desires") is a collection of mystical love odes in Arabic by Ibn Arabi, composed in Mecca in 1202.
Tawla
Tawla (တောလား) is a genre of classical Burmese poetry whose name means a journey through the forest, traditionally depicting a monk's pilgrimage, best known through Shin Uttamakyaw's Inwa-period poem.
Tây Tiến
Tây Tiến is a 1948 lyric poem by Quang Dũng recalling the military unit he served in during the war against the French in northwestern Vietnam.
Tayyibat
Tayyibat (طیبات, meaning "Delights") is the first of the four ghazal collections of the Persian poet Saʿdi of Shiraz in the traditional arrangement of his Kolliyat.
Teesra Saptak
Teesra Saptak (तीसरा सप्तक, "Third Septet") is a 1959 Hindi poetry anthology edited by Agyeya, the third in his saptak series and part of the modernist Hindi canon.
Telemachus (Τηλέμαχος)
Telemachus (Τηλέμαχος), son of Odysseus and Penelope in Homer's Odyssey; hero of the Telemachy (Books 1–4), journeys to Pylos and Sparta, helps kill the suitors, later marries Circe in the Telegony.
Tell all the truth but tell it slant
"Tell all the truth but tell it slant" is an eight-line poem by Emily Dickinson, written around 1872, arguing that truth should be told indirectly.
Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets
Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets is a 1976 Oxford University Press anthology edited by R. Parthasarathy, collecting about fifty poems by ten Indian English poets, including Nissim Ezekiel and Kamala Das.
Terzinen über Vergänglichkeit
Terzinen über Vergänglichkeit is a group of four German poems in terza rima by the Austrian poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal, written in the summer of 1894.
Teseida
The Teseida (Teseida delle nozze d'Emilia) is an epic poem by Giovanni Boccaccio, composed around 1340 in ottava rima and generally regarded as the first epic of Italian literature.
Testament mój
Testament mój ("My Testament") is a poem by Polish Romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki, written in Paris at the turn of 1839 and 1840 and stylized as the poet's last will.
Tevaram
Tevaram (தேவாரம்) is a corpus of roughly 800 Tamil devotional hymns to Shiva from the 7th and 8th centuries, written by the poet-saints Sambandar, Appar, and Sundarar.
Thamizh Iyakkam
Thamizh Iyakkam (தமிழியக்கம், "the Tamil movement") is a Tamil-language work by the twentieth-century Tamil poet Bharathidasan, printed by the Periyar Self-Respect Propaganda Institution in Chennai in 1984.
Thanatopsis
"Thanatopsis" is a meditative poem on death by American poet William Cullen Bryant, begun around 1811 as a teenager, published in 1817, and famous for consoling readers that death joins everyone to nature.
Thanh Hiên thi tập
Thanh Hiên thi tập is the first collection of classical Chinese poetry by the Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Du, holding 78 poems written roughly between 1786 and 1804.
Thao Hung Thao Cheuang
Thao Hung Thao Cheuang (ທ້າວຮຸ່ງ ທ້າວເຈືອງ), also known as Thao Hung or Cheuang, is a Lao epic poem about a partly historical prince of the Mekong basin.
Thawathotsamat
Thawathotsamat (โคลงทวาทศมาส), the Khlong of the Twelve Months, is a classical Thai nirat poem of the Ayutthaya period lamenting a lost beloved month by month.
The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry
The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry is a 1991 book of 207 love poems translated from the Prakrit Gathasaptasati by Indian poet Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, reissued by Penguin Classics in 2008.
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book is J.R.R. Tolkien's 1962 collection of 16 poems, illustrated by Pauline Baynes, framed as hobbit verses from the Red Book of Westmarch, distinct from the 1934 Oxford Magazine title poem.
The Alliterative Morte Arthure
The Alliterative Morte Arthure is an anonymous Middle English poem of 4,346 alliterative lines, composed around 1400, telling of Arthur's war against Rome and his fall through Mordred's treachery.
The Angel in the House
The Angel in the House is a narrative poem by Coventry Patmore celebrating love and marriage; its title became shorthand for the Victorian ideal of the self-sacrificing wife.
The Answer
"The Answer" (回答) is a poem by the Chinese poet Bei Dao, first published in the inaugural 1978 issue of Today and reprinted by the journal Poetry in 1979.
The Arrivants
The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy is a 1973 collected volume of poetry by Barbadian writer Kamau Brathwaite, containing Rights of Passage, Masks, and Islands.
The Artists
The Artists (German: Die Künstler) is a long didactic poem by Friedrich Schiller, composed and published in 1789, presenting a history of the arts and arguing for the poets' civilizing mission.
The Ballad of Changgan
The Ballad of Changgan (长干行, Chánggān xíng) is a two-part Tang dynasty yuefu poem attributed to Li Bai, spoken in the voice of a merchant's wife in Nanjing.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a 109-stanza poem by Oscar Wilde, published in 1898 under his prison cell number C.3.3., recounting a fellow prisoner's execution.
The Ballad of the Outer Life
"The Ballad of the Outer Life" (German: Ballade des äusseren Lebens) is an 1894 poem by the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal, a celebrated work of Viennese Symbolism written in terzains.
The Bards of Wales
The Bards of Wales (A walesi bárdok) is an 1857 ballad by Hungarian poet János Arany retelling the legend that Edward I burned 500 Welsh bards for refusing to praise him.