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The Song of Wandering Aengus
"The Song of Wandering Aengus" is an 1897 lyric poem by W. B. Yeats, spoken by the Irish god Aengus, who searches his whole life for a vanishing girl.
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke is a 1915 verse novel by C. J. Dennis about Bill, a Melbourne larrikin who reforms for love of Doreen.
The Songs of Mihyar the Damascene
The Songs of Mihyar the Damascene (أغاني مهيار الدمشقي) is a 1961 poetry collection by the Syrian poet Adonis, widely considered the apex of the Arab modernist movement.
The Spider and the Fly (poem)
The Spider and the Fly, Mary Howitt's 1829 children's cautionary poem (written 1828), in which a spider's flattery lures a vain fly to her doom; famous for "Will you walk into my parlour," parodied by Carroll and adapted in DiTerlizzi's 2003 Caldecott Honor book.
The Stalin Epigram
The Stalin Epigram, known in Russia as "Epigram Against Stalin" (Эпиграмма на Сталина), is a satirical poem about Stalin by Osip Mandelstam, composed in November 1933.
The Star of the Covenant
The Star of the Covenant (Der Stern des Bundes) is a 1914 cycle of 100 poems by Stefan George, published in Berlin weeks before the First World War.
The Stone Sleeper
The Stone Sleeper (Kameni spavač) is a 1966 poetry collection by the Bosnian poet Mak Dizdar, his most important work, built from a poetic dialogue with medieval tombstones called stećci.
The Striders
The Striders is the first collection of poetry in English by Indian poet A.K. Ramanujan, published by Oxford University Press, London, in 1966 and known for its striking imagery.
The String of Light
The String of Light (Struna światła) is the debut poetry collection of the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert, published by Czytelnik in Warsaw in 1956 and later seen as a key postwar debut.
The Summer Day
"The Summer Day" is a nineteen-line poem by Mary Oliver, first published in her 1990 collection House of Light and known for its closing question about one's "wild and precious life".
The Tale of Amiran
The Tale of Amiran (Georgian: Amiraniani) is a pre-Christian Georgian folk epic, transmitted orally in many regional versions, about the hero Amirani, who is punished with eternal trials for defying the gods.
The Tale of Evpatiy Kolovrat
The Tale of Evpatiy Kolovrat (Повесть о Евпатии Коловрате) is an Old Russian episode about the Ryazan boyar Evpatiy Kolovrat fighting Batu's army after Ryazan fell in 1237.
The Tale of Hoa Tiên
The Tale of Hoa Tiên (Truyện Hoa Tiên) is an 18th-century Vietnamese verse novel by Nguyễn Huy Tự, written in Nôm script in lục bát meter.
The Tale of Kieu
The Tale of Kieu (Truyện Kiều, Đoạn Trường Tân Thanh) is a 3,254-line lục bát verse epic by Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Du (1765–1820), written in Nôm script and adapted from the Chinese novel Jin Yun Qiao; no definitive text exists, and it has been translated into over 20 languages.
The Tale of Lục Vân Tiên
The Tale of Lục Vân Tiên (Truyện Lục Vân Tiên) is a Vietnamese verse narrative in the lục bát meter, written by Nguyễn Đình Chiểu in the early 1850s.
The Tale of Nhị Độ Mai
The Tale of Nhị Độ Mai is an anonymous Vietnamese Nôm verse narrative in lục bát meter, adapted from a Chinese novel about the Mai and Trần families.
The Tale of Phạm Công – Cúc Hoa
The Tale of Phạm Công – Cúc Hoa (範公菊花) is a Vietnamese Nôm verse tale in lục bát meter, written roughly between the mid-18th and early 19th centuries.
The Tale of Phan Trần
The Tale of Phan Trần is an anonymous Vietnamese Nôm-script verse romance, probably 18th or early 19th century, telling of lovers betrothed before birth who are separated by war.
The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights
The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights is an 1834 fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin retelling the Russian folk version of Snow White.
The Tale of the Heike (平家物語)
The Tale of the Heike (平家物語, Heike monogatari) is a 13th-century Japanese war tale on the Taira clan's rise and fall in the Genpei War, recited by biwa hōshi as heikyoku and best known in the 1371 Kakuichi text.
The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Сказка о царе Салтане)
The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Сказка о царе Салтане) is Pushkin's 1831 verse fairy tale about Tsar Saltan, Prince Guidon, and the Swan Princess, published 1832, based on the folk tale "Leg to the knee in gold," later adapted by Rimsky-Korsakov into an opera.
The Tempests
The Tempests (Al-ʿAwāṣif, العواصف) is a 1920 Arabic collection of essays, short stories, and prose poems by Kahlil Gibran, his last book published in Arabic.
The Testament of Cresseid
The Testament of Cresseid is a 616-line Middle Scots narrative poem by Robert Henryson, completed between 1475 and 1490 as a sequel to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.
The Thought-Fox
"The Thought-Fox" is a 1957 poem by Ted Hughes, first published in his debut collection The Hawk in the Rain, where a fox symbolizes poetic inspiration.
The Tomb of Agamemnon
The Tomb of Agamemnon (Polish: Grób Agamemnona) is a long poem by Juliusz Słowacki, published in 1840, ranking among the most important texts of Polish Romanticism.
The Tragedy of Man
The Tragedy of Man (Az ember tragédiája) is an 1861 Hungarian dramatic poem by Imre Madách, in which Adam witnesses visions of human history guided by Lucifer.
The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus
The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus is an epic historical poem in English by Filipino poet Cirilo F. Bautista, comprising three book-length epics covering Philippine history from 1521 to 1986.
The Two Fires
The Two Fires is a poetry collection by the Australian poet Judith Wright, whose title poem, written in 1954, takes its name from the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Tyger
The Tyger, Blake's 1794 poem from Songs of Experience (also "The Tiger"), is a six-quatrain lyric in trochaic tetrameter asking what creator "could frame thy fearful symmetry", companion to "The Lamb".
The Unfinished Man
The Unfinished Man is a 1960 poetry collection by the Indian poet Nissim Ezekiel, his fourth volume, containing ten formally regular poems including the best-known "Enterprise" and "Case Study".