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The Dream Songs
The Dream Songs is a sequence of 385 poems by the American poet John Berryman, published in 1969, centered on the character Henry, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
The Dry Salvages
The Dry Salvages is a meditative poem by T. S. Eliot, third of his Four Quartets, first published in 1941 and titled for rocks off Cape Ann, Massachusetts.
The Duma about Marusia Bohuslavka
The Duma about Marusia Bohuslavka (Дума про Марусю Богуславку) is a Ukrainian folk epic telling of a captive priest's daughter who frees 700 Cossacks from a Turkish dungeon on Easter.
The Duma about Samiilo Kishka
The Duma about Samiilo Kishka (Дума про Самійла Кішку) is a Ukrainian folk epic, one of the largest dumy at 390 lines, about hetman Samiilo Kishka's escape from Turkish galley slavery.
The Dunciad
The Dunciad is a mock-epic satirical poem by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in three books in 1728 and expanded into its final four-book form in 1743.
The End and the Beginning
"The End and the Beginning" (Koniec i początek) is a 1993 poem by the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska, about the unheroic work of cleaning up after war.
The Eve of St. Agnes
"The Eve of St. Agnes" is a narrative poem in 42 Spenserian stanzas by John Keats, written in January and February 1819 and published in his final 1820 volume.
The Excursion
The Excursion is a long philosophical poem by William Wordsworth, published in London in 1814 and the only part he published of his planned three-part work The Recluse.
The Faber Book of Modern Verse
The Faber Book of Modern Verse is an anthology of twentieth-century poetry in English edited by Michael Roberts and published by Faber and Faber in 1936.
The Fables of Berechiah ha-Nakdan
The Fables of Berechiah ha-Nakdan, known in Hebrew as Mishle Shu'alim (Fox Fables), is a collection of 107 Hebrew fables in rhymed verse, the largest in medieval Hebrew literature.
The Fables of Marie de France
The Fables of Marie de France, also known as the Isopet or Ysopë, are 103 Anglo-Norman verse fables from the late 12th century, the first French adaptation of Aesop.
The Faerie Queene
The Faerie Queene is Edmund Spenser's incomplete allegorical epic: six books published 1590 and 1596, a planned twelve, written in the nine-line Spenserian stanza for Gloriana, an Elizabeth I figure.
The Fall of America
The Fall of America is a 1972 poetry collection by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, published by City Lights Books and winner of the National Book Award for Poetry.
The Fall of Princes
The Fall of Princes is a long Middle English poem by John Lydgate, written in the 1430s and telling of nearly 500 figures who fell from power.
The Fall of the Serbian Empire
The Fall of the Serbian Empire (Пропаст царства Српскога) is a Serbian epic folk song in which Prince Lazar chooses a heavenly kingdom before the 1389 Battle of Kosovo.
The False Tsar Stephen the Little
The False Tsar Stephen the Little is an 1851 verse drama by Petar II Petrović Njegoš about an impostor who ruled Montenegro posing as Russian tsar Peter III.
The Far Roaming
The Far Roaming (Yuan You, 远游) is a sao-style poem in the Chu Ci, attributed to Qu Yuan and regarded as the ancestor of Chinese roaming-immortal poetry.
The Fate of Georgia
The Fate of Georgia (Georgian: Bedi Kartlisa) is an 1839 romantic poem by Nikoloz Baratashvili, dramatizing King Erekle II's debate over the 1783 treaty with Russia.
The First Walpurgis Night
The First Walpurgis Night (German: Die erste Walpurgisnacht) is a ballad by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, best known through Felix Mendelssohn's cantata setting, Op. 60.
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
"The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" is a lyric poem by Dylan Thomas, written in 1933 at age nineteen and first collected in his debut volume Eighteen Poems.
The Forest Song
The Forest Song (Лісова пісня) is a 1911 dramatic poem in verse by the Ukrainian writer Lesya Ukrainka, her most acclaimed play, rooted in Volhynian forest folklore.
The Gamekeeper's Wife
The Gamekeeper's Wife (Hájnikova žena) is a lyrical-epic narrative poem by the Slovak poet Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, written from 1883 to 1886 and regarded as the culminating work of his epic writing.
The Garden of the Prophet
The Garden of the Prophet is a posthumous 1933 prose poetry book by Kahlil Gibran, the second volume of the trilogy begun by The Prophet (1923).
The Gift of India
"The Gift of India" is a 1915 lyric poem by Sarojini Naidu in which India, as a grieving mother, mourns Indian soldiers who died for Britain in World War I.
The Glass Essay
"The Glass Essay" is a long poem by the Canadian poet Anne Carson, first published in 1994, that weaves a woman's grief over a lost love with a reading of Emily Brontë.
The Gods of Greece
The Gods of Greece (Die Götter Griechenlandes) is a poem by Friedrich Schiller, first published in 1788, mourning the loss of the god-filled world of Greek antiquity.
The Golden Threshold
The Golden Threshold is the first poetry collection of Indian poet and political leader Sarojini Naidu, published in London in 1905 with an introduction by Arthur Symons.
The Goose and the Common
The Goose and the Common is an anonymous English protest verse, also known as the goose poem, criticizing enclosure of common land; it survives in variants, often dated 1764, with no secure source before the 19th century.
The Great Lair
The Great Lair (Великий льох) is an allegorical poem by the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko, subtitled a mystery and written in 1845, examining Ukraine's loss of statehood after the 1654 Pereiaslav Council.
The Guest in the House
The Guest in the House (Host do domu) is a 1921 poetry collection, the first book of the Czech poet Jiří Wolker, written in a voice of love for everyday life.