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The Rattle Bag
The Rattle Bag is a 1982 poetry anthology selected by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes and published by Faber and Faber, with over 400 poems arranged alphabetically by title.
The Raven
The Raven is a narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in January 1845, in which a grieving scholar is visited by a raven that says only "Nevermore."
The Raven and Other Poems
The Raven and Other Poems is an 1845 poetry collection by Edgar Allan Poe, published in New York and containing his most famous poem, "The Raven".
The Ray of the Microcosm
The Ray of the Microcosm (Luča mikrokozma) is an 1845 mystical epic poem in six cantos by Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, prince-bishop of Montenegro, written during Lent.
The Rebel's Silhouette
The Rebel's Silhouette is a 1991 bilingual Urdu/English selection of Faiz Ahmed Faiz's poetry, translated by Kashmiri American poet Agha Shahid Ali for the University of Massachusetts Press.
The Red Wheelbarrow
The Red Wheelbarrow: 16-word 1923 poem by William Carlos Williams, published untitled in Spring and All; an Imagist free-verse lyric on a rain-glazed wheelbarrow beside white chickens, opening "so much depends / upon."
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge's longest major poem (1797–98), opens Lyrical Ballads (1798). A mariner kills an albatross, is cursed, and must retell his tale; revised through the 1834 text.
The Ring and the Book
The Ring and the Book is a 22,021-line narrative poem by Robert Browning, published 1868 to 1869, retelling a 1698 Roman murder trial in dramatic monologues.
The Road Not Taken
The Road Not Taken is Robert Frost's 20-line narrative poem, first published in the Atlantic Monthly in August 1915 and opening Mountain Interval (1916); written as a joke for Edward Thomas, it is widely misread as celebrating individualism.
The Romaunt of the Rose
The Romaunt of the Rose is a Middle English partial translation of the French allegorical poem Le Roman de la Rose, attributed in part to Geoffrey Chaucer.
The Scroll of Fire
The Scroll of Fire (Megillat ha'esh) is a prose poem by Haim Nahman Bialik, written in Odessa in 1905 and one of his legends of destruction.
The Seafarer (poem)
The Seafarer, an Old English elegiac poem in the Exeter Book (c. 970), also called a peregrinus monologue, depicts a sailor's hardship and Christian longing for heaven, debated since 1842 between dialogue, allegory, and ascetic readings.
The Second Coming (poem)
The Second Coming is a 1919 poem by W. B. Yeats, published in 1920 in Michael Robartes and the Dancer, which replaces Christ's return with a "rough beast" and supplies English's most-quoted lines of apocalyptic prophecy.
The Seventh Column
The Seventh Column (Hebrew: Ha-Tur ha-Shevi'i) was a weekly current-affairs poetry column by the Israeli poet Nathan Alterman, published on Fridays in the daily Davar from 1943 to 1967.
The Shepheardes Calender
The Shepheardes Calender is Edmund Spenser's first major work, a book of twelve pastoral eclogues named for the months, published anonymously in London in 1579 and dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney.
The Shield of Achilles
"The Shield of Achilles" is a 1952 poem by W. H. Auden rewriting Homer's forge scene, the title poem of his 1955 collection, which won the 1956 National Book Award.
The Sick Stockrider
"The Sick Stockrider" is a bush ballad by Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon, written in 1869, in which a dying stockman recalls his life in the colonial bush.
The Siege of Sziget
The Siege of Sziget (Hungarian: Szigeti veszedelem) is a Hungarian Baroque epic by Miklós Zrínyi, recounting the 1566 Ottoman siege of Szigetvár; it was printed in 1651.
The Silence of Love
The Silence of Love (Nimui chimmuk) is a 1926 poetry collection by Han Yong-un, a Korean Buddhist monk and independence activist, containing 88 poems and read as resistance to Japanese colonial rule.
The Silesian Songs
The Silesian Songs (Slezské písně) is the only poetry collection of the Czech poet Petr Bezruč, depicting the oppression of Silesia's people under Austro-Hungarian rule in a rebellious voice.
The Silesian Weavers
The Silesian Weavers, or Die schlesischen Weber, is an 1844 political poem by Heinrich Heine about the Silesian weavers' revolt, later called the Marseillaise of the German workers.
The Silver Dream of Salomea
The Silver Dream of Salomea (Sen srebrny Salomei) is an 1843 drama by Polish Romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki, set in Ukraine during the peasant uprising of 1768.
The Snow Man
"The Snow Man" is a fifteen-line poem by Wallace Stevens, first published in 1921, asking what it takes to see a winter landscape without projecting human emotion onto it.
The Solitary Reaper
The Solitary Reaper is a 32-line William Wordsworth lyric, composed November 1805 and published in Poems in Two Volumes (1807), about a Gaelic-singing Highland woman reaping alone, sourced from Thomas Wilkinson's Scottish tour manuscript.
The Song of Hiawatha
The Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow's 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter, retells Ojibwe legends collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft as the life of Hiawatha and Minnehaha; its hero conflates the Iroquois leader Hiawatha with Nanabozho.
The Song of Roland
The Song of Roland (La Chanson de Roland) is a late eleventh-century Old French epic poem about Roland's betrayal and death at Roncevaux and Charlemagne's vengeance.
The Song of the Bell
The Song of the Bell (Das Lied von der Glocke) is an 1799 ballad by Friedrich Schiller that sets the casting of a bronze bell against human life.
The Song of the Cid
The Song of the Cid (Cantar de mio Cid) is an anonymous medieval Castilian epic poem about the exile and restored honor of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid.
The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov
A Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich, the Young Oprichnik, and the Valiant Merchant Kalashnikov is a narrative poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1837, often printed as Song about the Merchant Kalashnikov.
The Song of the Murdered Jewish People
The Song of the Murdered Jewish People is an epic poem of about 900 verses by Yitzhak Katzenelson, written in Yiddish at the Vittel internment camp in 1943 and 1944.