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The Legend of the Miraculous Hind
The Legend of the Miraculous Hind is the Hungarian origin legend in which a miraculous hind leads the brothers Hunor and Magyar to found the Huns and Hungarians.
The Less Deceived
The Less Deceived is a 1955 poetry collection by Philip Larkin, published by the Marvell Press of Hessle, Yorkshire, containing "Church Going", "At Grass", and "Deceptions".
The Little House in Kolomna
The Little House in Kolomna (Домик в Коломне) is a humorous narrative poem in octaves by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1830 and published in 1833.
The Liturgical Poems of Yannai
The Liturgical Poems of Yannai are Hebrew synagogue poems (piyyut) written by Yannai, a sixth-century paytan of Byzantine Palestine and the first Hebrew poet to sign works by acrostic.
The Lost Son and Other Poems
The Lost Son and Other Poems is a 1948 poetry collection by American poet Theodore Roethke, his second after Open House, whose greenhouse poems and title sequence marked his breakthrough into poetic maturity.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot's 131-line modernist dramatic monologue, first printed in Poetry magazine June 1915 and collected in Prufrock and Other Observations (1917).
The Lovely Farewell Message
The Lovely Farewell Message (Elbocsátó, szép üzenet) is a lyric poem of renunciation by the Hungarian poet Endre Ady, published in the journal Nyugat in 1912.
The Madman
The Madman (المجنون) is a 1918 collection of parables and prose poems by Kahlil Gibran, published by Alfred A. Knopf in New York and his first book in English.
The Man from Ironbark
"The Man from Ironbark" is a comic bush ballad by the Australian poet Banjo Paterson, first published in The Bulletin in December 1892. It tells of a Sydney barber's cruel hoax.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake's illuminated book of 27 relief-etched plates (etched 1790, completed by 1793), satirizing Swedenborg and Milton, with the Proverbs of Hell and A Song of Liberty; nine complete copies survive.
The Master Polycarp's Dialogue with Death
The Master Polycarp's Dialogue with Death (Polish: Rozmowa mistrza Polikarpa ze Śmiercią) is an anonymous mid-15th-century Polish poem in which a learned master questions personified Death about her power.
The Maximus Poems
The Maximus Poems is a sequence of more than 300 linked poems by the American poet Charles Olson, centered on the speaker Maximus and Gloucester, Massachusetts.
The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice is Shakespeare's comedy (1596-98) of the bond of flesh between Antonio and Shylock, Portia's casket test and courtroom defense, first printed in 1600, and a lasting site of debate over antisemitism.
The Midnight Court
The Midnight Court (Cúirt an Mheán Oíche) is a satiric, bawdy narrative poem of 1,026 lines in Irish, composed around 1780 by the schoolmaster Brian Merriman of County Clare.
The Miller's Tale
The Miller's Tale, also called The Miller's Prologue and Tale, is a comic fabliau by Geoffrey Chaucer, the second tale in The Canterbury Tales, set in Oxford.
The Mirror for Magistrates
The Mirror for Magistrates is a collection of English historical verse tragedies, first published in 1559, in which ghosts of fallen princes narrate their downfalls and which influenced Shakespeare.
The Misty Poetry Anthology
The Misty Poetry Anthology (朦胧诗选) is a 1985 Chinese poetry anthology that collected 25 Misty Poets, including Bei Dao and Shu Ting, and became the movement's most influential anthology.
The Monastery of Argeș
The Monastery of Argeș (Mănăstirea Argeșului) is a Romanian folk ballad in which the builder Manole walls his wife Ana alive to complete the monastery at Curtea de Argeș.
The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian
The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian is a collection of thirteen beast fables in Middle Scots by the fifteenth-century Scottish poet Robert Henryson, his longest work.
The Mountain Spirit
The Mountain Spirit (Shan Gui) is a poem in the Nine Songs of the ancient Chinese anthology Chu Ci, traditionally attributed to the Warring States poet Qu Yuan.
The Mountain Wreath
The Mountain Wreath (Gorski vijenac) is an epic poem in dramatic form written by Petar II Petrović Njegoš in 1846 and published in 1847, the most famous work of Montenegrin literature.
The Moving Image
The Moving Image is the first poetry collection by Australian poet Judith Wright, published by Meanjin Press in Melbourne in 1946, whose land and pioneer poems established her as a major voice.
The National Martyrs
The National Martyrs (Guo Shang) is an eighteen-line Chu Ci poem attributed to Qu Yuan, mourning the soldiers of Chu who died in battle against Qin.
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is a free-verse poem by Langston Hughes, first published in The Crisis in June 1921, tracing Black history through the Euphrates, Congo, Nile, and Mississippi.
The New Colossus
"The New Colossus," Emma Lazarus's 1883 Petrarchan sonnet for a Statue of Liberty pedestal fundraiser, recasts the statue as the "Mother of Exiles"; engraved on a bronze plaque in 1903 via Georgina Schuyler, its closing lines became America's emblem of immigrant welcome.
The New Land
The New Land (Belarusian: Новая зямля, Novaja zjamla) is a narrative poem by Yakub Kolas, published in Minsk in 1923, regarded as a classic of Belarusian literature.
The Nirvana of the Phoenixes
The Nirvana of the Phoenixes (凤凰涅槃) is a 1920 lyric poem by Chinese poet Guo Moruo, in which phoenixes burn and are reborn, symbolizing a new China.
The Nun's Priest's Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale, a beast fable in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Fragment VII), tells how rooster Chaunticleer escapes a fox; based on Marie de France's Del cok e del gupil and the Roman de Renart, told in mock-heroic style.
The Odyssey (Emily Wilson translation)
Emily Wilson's 2017 W. W. Norton translation of Homer's Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια), the first published English version by a woman, in iambic pentameter with the same line count, rendering polytropos as 'complicated'.
The Old Charcoal Seller
The Old Charcoal Seller (卖炭翁, Mai tan weng) is a Tang dynasty narrative poem by Bai Juyi, telling of an old charcoal seller whose cart is seized by palace eunuchs in Chang'an.