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The Battle of Maldon
The Battle of Maldon was an Anglo-Saxon defeat by Viking raiders at Maldon, Essex, in August 991, led by Ealdorman Byrhtnoth under Æthelred II, and a surviving Old English poem celebrating it.
The Bird of Time
The Bird of Time is a 1912 poetry collection by the Indian poet Sarojini Naidu, her second book of verse, containing 46 poems and including "In the Bazaars of Hyderabad".
The Black Heralds
The Black Heralds (Los heraldos negros) is the first poetry collection of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo, printed in Lima in 1918 and often dated 1919.
The Black Man
The Black Man (Чёрный человек) is a poem by Sergei Yesenin, a dramatic night dialogue with a dark, accusing visitor, completed in November 1925 shortly before his death.
The Blind Prostitute
The Blind Prostitute (المومس العمياء) is a long poem by the Iraqi poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, published in 1954, telling of Salima, a village girl driven into prostitution by poverty.
The Book of American Negro Poetry
The Book of American Negro Poetry is a 1922 anthology edited by James Weldon Johnson, collecting poems by 31 African American poets during the Harlem Renaissance.
The Book of Dede Korkut
The Book of Dede Korkut is a collection of epic stories of the Oghuz Turks, their oldest known epic cycle, told in Oghuz Turkish verse and prose.
The Book of Good Love
The Book of Good Love (Libro de buen amor) is a Castilian narrative poem of the mester de clerecía, attributed to Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita, and dated 1330–1343.
The Book of the Dove
The Book of the Dove (Голубиная книга), also called the Deep Book, is a Russian folk spiritual verse of the late 15th or early 16th century.
The Book of the Duchess
The Book of the Duchess, also titled The Deth of Blaunche the Duchesse, is Chaucer's first major poem, a Middle English dream-vision elegy for Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt, drawing heavily on Machaut and Froissart.
The Boys Who Stole the Funeral
The Boys Who Stole the Funeral is a 1980 verse novel by Australian poet Les Murray, told as a sequence of 140 sonnets about two young men.
The Branch Will Not Break
The Branch Will Not Break is a 1963 poetry collection by the American poet James Wright, marking his decisive turn from formal metered verse to free verse.
The Broken Jug
The Broken Jug (Der zerbrochne Krug) is a comedy in verse by Heinrich von Kleist, written 1802 to 1806, in which a judge investigates a jug he broke himself.
The Bronze Horseman
The Bronze Horseman (Медный всадник) is an 1833 narrative poem by Alexander Pushkin about a poor clerk pursued by the statue of Peter the Great after a flood.
The Building of Skadar
The Building of Skadar (Zidanje Skadra) is a Serbian epic folk song about the walled-up sacrifice of a young wife needed for the fortress of Skadar to stand.
The Capture of Tmogvi
The Capture of Tmogvi (Թմկաբերդի առումը) is a 1902 narrative poem by the Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanyan, based on a folk legend and later the basis of Spendiaryan's opera Almast.
The Carpet of Life
The Carpet of Life (Der Teppich des Lebens) is a three-part cycle of poems by Stefan George, published in Berlin around 1900 and seen as his first monumental work.
The Carrier of Ladders
The Carrier of Ladders is a 1970 poetry collection by American poet W. S. Merwin, published by Atheneum, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1971.
The Changing Light at Sandover
The Changing Light at Sandover is a 560-page epic poem by James Merrill, published in 1982, composed from three decades of Ouija-board séances with David Jackson.
The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem)
Tennyson's 1854 narrative poem on the Light Brigade's disastrous cavalry charge at Balaclava, Crimean War; dactylic dimeter, six stanzas, published in The Examiner 9 December 1854, revised for Maud (1855).
The Child Who Was Shot Dead by Soldiers at Nyanga
"The Child Who Was Shot Dead by Soldiers at Nyanga" is a 1960 Afrikaans poem by Ingrid Jonker about a child killed at a Cape Town township.
The Chimney Sweeper
The Chimney Sweeper is the title of two 1789-era poems by William Blake, one in Songs of Innocence and one in Songs of Experience, both in the voice of a child chimney sweep.
The Circle Game
The Circle Game is a 1966 poetry collection by the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, winner of the Governor General's Award and widely treated as her first major collection.
The Circus Animals' Desertion
The Circus Animals' Desertion is a late poem by W. B. Yeats, written in 1937 and published in January 1939, the month of his death.
The City of the Dove
The City of the Dove (Ir HaYona) is a 1957 book of poetry by Israeli poet Nathan Alterman, centered on the ethos of Israel's founding.
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara is a 1971 posthumous collection edited by Donald Allen with an introduction by John Ashbery, gathering over 500 poems.
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes is a 1994 collection published by Knopf, edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel, gathering about 860 poems Hughes published during his lifetime.
The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser
The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser is a 2005 edition of the American poet's complete poetry, edited by Janet E. Kaufman, Anne F. Herzog, and Jan Heller Levi.
The Collected Poems of Ntozake Shange
The collected poems of Ntozake Shange gather the works of the American poet, playwright, and novelist Ntozake Shange (1948–2018), born Paulette Williams, inventor of the choreopoem.
The Collected Poems of Sonia Sanchez
The Collected Poems of Sonia Sanchez is a 424-page compilation published by Beacon Press in 2021, gathering her poetry from 1969 through 2019, from haiku to book-length narratives.