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The Old Gypsy
The Old Gypsy (Hungarian: A vén cigány) is a rhapsodic lyric poem by the Hungarian poet Vörösmarty Mihály, written in 1854 and considered his last completed lyric work.
The Opening of the Field
The Opening of the Field is a 1960 poetry collection by the American poet Robert Duncan, his breakthrough work, first published by Grove Press in New York.
The Owl and the Nightingale
The Owl and the Nightingale is a Middle English debate poem, 1,794 lines long, in which an owl and a nightingale argue over whose song is superior.
The Oxford Book of American Verse
The Oxford Book of American Verse is a 1950 anthology of American poetry edited by Harvard critic F. O. Matthiessen and published by Oxford University Press.
The Oxford Book of Australian Verse
The Oxford Book of Australian Verse is Oxford University Press's anthology of Australian poetry, begun in 1918 by Walter Murdoch and later edited by Judith Wright.
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse is a 2005 anthology of Caribbean poetry edited by Stewart Brown and Mark McWatt and published by Oxford University Press.
The Oxford Book of English Verse
The Oxford Book of English Verse is an anthology series of English poetry published by Oxford University Press since 1900, first edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch.
The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets
The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets is a 1992 anthology of Indian poetry in English, edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and published by Oxford University Press.
The Ozidi Saga
The Ozidi Saga is an oral epic of the Ijaw people of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, performed over seven days, telling how the hero Ozidi avenges his murdered father.
The Pardoner's Tale
The Pardoner's Tale, a Canterbury Tales story by Chaucer (Fragment 6), is an exemplum in which three rioters seeking Death find gold and kill each other, told by a self-confessed hypocritical pardoner.
The Parliament of Fowls
The Parliament of Fowls, also known as the Parlement of Foules, is a Middle English dream-vision poem by Geoffrey Chaucer written around 1382, in which birds gather on St Valentine's Day to choose mates.
The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry
The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry, edited by poets John Tranter and Philip Mead, is a 1991 Penguin Australia anthology of twentieth-century Australian verse.
The Penguin Book of Southern African Verse
The Penguin Book of Southern African Verse is a poetry anthology edited by Stephen Gray and published by Penguin in 1989, gathering poems from eight southern African countries.
The People in My Country
The People in My Country (الناس في بلادي) is a 1957 poetry collection by Egyptian poet Salah Abd al-Sabur, a landmark of free verse in modern Arabic poetry.
The Place Where We Are Right
The Place Where We Are Right (המקום שבו אנו צודקים) is a short Hebrew poem by Yehuda Amichai contrasting the hard ground of certainty with doubt and love.
The Plague Column
The Plague Column (Morový sloup) is a free-verse poetry collection by Czech poet Jaroslav Seifert, written 1968 to 1970 and published in Prague in 1981.
The Poems of Avetik Isahakyan
The Poems of Avetik Isahakyan are the lyric and narrative verse of Avetik Isahakyan (1875–1957), an Armenian classic whose poems on love, longing, and homeland became folk songs.
The Poems of Silva Kaputikyan
The Poems of Silva Kaputikyan are the lyric works of the most prominent Armenian woman poet of the twentieth century, centered on love, homeland, longing, and the Armenian language.
The Poems of Yose ben Yose
The Poems of Yose ben Yose are Hebrew liturgical poems by Yose ben Yose, the earliest Jewish liturgical poet known by name, whose Shofar-service poems remain in the Ashkenazi liturgy.
The Poet and the Citizen
The Poet and the Citizen (Поэт и гражданин) is a poem by Nikolai Nekrasov, written in 1855 and published in 1856 as a dialogue on the poet's civic duty, opening his collection Poems.
The Prelude
The Prelude is William Wordsworth's autobiographical epic in blank verse on the growth of a poet's mind, begun 1799, completed 1805, revised until 1839, and published posthumously in 1850; the 1805 text appeared only in 1926.
The Prick of Conscience
The Prick of Conscience (Stimulus Conscientiae) is a Middle English devotional poem of about 9,600 lines, written anonymously in northern England in the fourteenth century.
The Prisoner of the Caucasus
The Prisoner of the Caucasus (Кавказский пленник) is the title of three Russian works: poems by Pushkin (1822) and Lermontov (1828), and a story by Tolstoy (1872).
The Processions
The Processions (Al-Mawākib, المواكب) is a long philosophical poem in classical Arabic by Kahlil Gibran, published at his own expense in New York in 1919.
The Prodigal
The Prodigal is a book-length narrative poem by the St. Lucian poet and 1992 Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, published in 2004, meditating on exile, travel, fame, death, and homecoming.
The Prophet (book)
The Prophet (النبي) is Kahlil Gibran's 1923 book of 26 prose poems, published by Alfred A. Knopf, in which the prophet Almustafa speaks on love, work, and death in Orphalese; it has sold over 100 million copies in 100+ languages and entered the US public domain in 2019.
The Psalter of David
The Psalter of David (Psałterz Dawidów) is the title of two Polish Renaissance renderings of the Psalms, by Mikołaj Rej (1543) and Jan Kochanowski (1579).
The Rain Song
"The Rain Song" (Arabic: Unshudat al-Matar) is a 1954 poem by the Iraqi poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, regarded as a landmark of modern Arabic poetry.
The Rape of Lucrece
Shakespeare's narrative poem The Rape of Lucrece (also titled Lucrece, published 1594 in rhyme royal) retells Lucretia's rape by Tarquin and suicide, which founded the Roman Republic.
The Rape of the Lock
The Rape of the Lock: Alexander Pope's mock-epic poem, first published in two cantos in 1712 and expanded to five in 1714, satirizing Lord Petre's snipping of a lock of Arabella Fermor's hair.