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The Gypsies
The Gypsies (Цыганы) is a narrative poem by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1824 during his southern exile and published as a book in 1827, the last of his "Southern poems".
The Haitian Trilogy
The Haitian Trilogy is Derek Walcott's 2002 collection of three verse plays on the Haitian Revolution, gathering Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours, and The Haitian Earth.
The Hammer of the Village
The Hammer of the Village (A helység kalapácsa) is a comic epic poem in four cantos by the Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi, published in 1844 as his first printed book.
The Heights of Macchu Picchu
The Heights of Macchu Picchu (Alturas de Macchu Picchu) is a 1945 twelve-part poem by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, published in 1950 in his epic Canto general.
The Highwayman (poem)
"The Highwayman" is a narrative ballad by the English poet Alfred Noyes, first published in 1906, telling of a highwayman's love for Bess, the landlord's daughter.
The Hill We Climb
The Hill We Climb is Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem, read January 20, 2021 at Joe Biden's inauguration, where she became the youngest inaugural poet; a 2021 Viking book edition followed.
The Hind and the Panther
The Hind and the Panther is a 1687 allegorical poem in three parts by John Dryden, in which a white hind representing Catholicism debates a panther for the Church of England.
The History of the Conquest of Syria
The History of the Conquest of Syria (Futuh al-Sham, فتوح الشام) is an Arabic epic-history of the Muslim conquest of Syria, traditionally attributed to al-Waqidi.
The Hollow Men
The Hollow Men is T. S. Eliot's 1925 modernist poem in five parts, first printed complete in Poems 1909–1925. Assembled from separately published fragments, it bridges The Waste Land and Eliot's 1927 conversion, and ends "Not with a bang but a whimper."
The Holy Forest
The Holy Forest is the collected serial poem of poet Robin Blaser, written from the 1950s to 2004 and first published by Coach House Press in 1993.
The Hound of Heaven
The Hound of Heaven is an 182-line religious ode by the English poet Francis Thompson, written in 1890 and published in 1893, depicting God's relentless pursuit of the human soul.
The House by the Sea
The House by the Sea is a 1978 poetry collection by Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor, largely written during his ten-month imprisonment in Ghana's Ussher Fort Prison.
The House of Fame
The House of Fame, a Middle English dream-vision poem by Geoffrey Chaucer written between 1374 and 1385, follows a dreamer carried by an eagle to Fame's palace; it is unfinished.
The Hunting of the Snark
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits is a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll, published in 1876, following a crew on a ship hunting the Snark.
The Idea of Order at Key West
"The Idea of Order at Key West" is a 1934 blank verse poem by Wallace Stevens, the title poem of his 1936 collection Ideas of Order.
The Indians' Book
The Indians' Book is a 1907 anthology of Native American songs, stories, and artwork compiled by ethnomusicologist Natalie Curtis Burlin, with transcriptions from eighteen tribes that made her reputation.
The Iraqi Nights
The Iraqi Nights is a poem by the Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail that reworks classical myth to write about a modern Iraq broken by war and exile.
The Ister
The Ister (Der Ister) is a fragmentary river hymn by the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, written on the Danube and left unfinished; Martin Heidegger lectured on it in 1942.
The Joy of Snowflakes
"The Joy of Snowflakes" (雪花的快乐) is a 1924 free-verse poem by the Chinese poet Xu Zhimo, published in 1925 and collected in The Poems of Zhimo.
The Joy of the Poor
The Joy of the Poor (Hebrew: Simḥat ʿAniyim) is the second poetry collection by Hebrew poet Nathan Alterman, published in Mandatory Palestine in 1941 and regarded as one of the peaks of his work.
The Kingis Quair
The Kingis Quair, meaning "the King's Book," is a 1,379-line dream-vision poem in a Scottish dialect of Middle English, attributed to James I of Scotland.
The Knight in the Panther's Skin
The Knight in the Panther's Skin (Georgian: Vepkhistqaosani) is a Georgian epic poem by Shota Rustaveli, written under Queen Tamar around 1189–1207 and regarded as Georgia's national epic.
The Knight's Tale
The Knight's Tale: Chaucer's 2,250-line romance opening the Canterbury Tales, adapted from Boccaccio's Teseida, telling of Palamon, Arcite, and Emelye in Athens and Thebes.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks
Famous line from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 2, spoken by Queen Gertrude during The Mousetrap; "protest" means vow, so she doubts the Player Queen's intense vows, with irony given her remarriage.
The Lady of Shalott
The Lady of Shalott is a narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, detailing the tragic story of a woman confined in a tower who dies in a boat.
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" is an 1888 lyric poem by William Butler Yeats, addressed to an uninhabited island in Lough Gill, County Sligo, where he spent his youth.
The Lament for the Makaris
The Lament for the Makaris, also known as "Timor Mortis", is an elegiac poem in Middle Scots by William Dunbar, a danse macabre first printed in Edinburgh in 1508.
The Lay of Igor's Campaign
The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Slovo o polku Ihorevi) is a late 12th-century epic poem about Prince Igor Sviatoslavich's failed 1185 campaign against the Cumans.
The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke
The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke (Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke) is a prose poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, first published in 1906.
The Legend of the Dead Soldier
The Legend of the Dead Soldier (Die Legende vom toten Soldaten) is a satirical antiwar poem by Bertolt Brecht, in which a dead soldier is dug up and sent back to war.