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The Veiled Suite
The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems is a 2009 posthumous collection of the Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali's poetry, published by W. W. Norton and Penguin Books India.
The Village Blacksmith
"The Village Blacksmith" is an 1840 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow portraying a village blacksmith as a model of honest labor and perseverance through grief.
The Vision of Judgment
The Vision of Judgment is an 1821 satirical poem in ottava rima by Lord Byron, written in Ravenna as a burlesque of Robert Southey's panegyric on King George III.
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Lewis Carroll's 1871 nonsense ballad from Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 4, recited by Tweedledee: a walrus and carpenter lure and eat young oysters; 18 stanzas, ABCBDB meter.
The Wanderer (Old English poem)
The Wanderer: an anonymous 115-line Old English elegy surviving only in the tenth-century Exeter Book. Its exiled eardstapa mourns a lost lord and mead-hall; its ubi sunt passage laments vanished heroic joys.
The Wandering Islands
The Wandering Islands is a 1955 poetry collection, the first book of verse by the Australian poet A. D. Hope, published in Sydney and winner of the Grace Leven Prize.
The Waste Land
The Waste Land is a 435-line poem by T. S. Eliot, first published in 1922 and regarded as a defining work of literary modernism, reflecting postwar cultural emptiness.
The Weary Blues
The Weary Blues is Langston Hughes's first poetry book, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1926 and known for blending blues rhythms with vernacular speech.
The Wheat Field
The Wheat Field (麦地) is the central image cluster in the poetry of Chinese poet Haizi, whose recurring wheat imagery earned him the title "wheat field poet."
The White Man's Burden
The White Man's Burden is Rudyard Kipling's February 1899 poem, subtitled The United States and the Philippine Islands, urging American annexation of the Philippines; it sparked parodies by Labouchère and Crosby and became a byword for imperialist ideology.
The Whitsun Weddings
The Whitsun Weddings is a 1964 poetry collection by the British poet Philip Larkin, his third, containing thirty-two poems including the title poem, "Here," and "An Arundel Tomb."
The Wife of Bath's Tale
The Wife of Bath's Tale is Chaucer's Arthurian romance in the Canterbury Tales (from 1387), combining the loathly lady motif with the question of what women most desire: sovereignty over husbands. Closely tied to Gower's Tale of Florent, the 1382 Statute of Rapes debate, and a long adaptation history.
The Wife's Lament
The Wife's Lament is a 53-line Old English poem in which a woman mourns exile from her husband, surviving only in the tenth-century Exeter Book.
The Wild Iris
The Wild Iris is a 1992 poetry collection by Louise Glück in which a gardener, a god, and garden flowers speak over one summer; it won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize.
The Wind Among the Reeds
The Wind Among the Reeds is an 1899 poetry collection by William Butler Yeats, containing 37 intense, indirect love poems and widely seen as the culmination of his early symbolist style.
The Winding Stair and Other Poems
The Winding Stair and Other Poems is a 1933 poetry collection by W. B. Yeats, his longest separate volume of verse and companion to The Tower.
The World Doesn't End
The World Doesn't End is a 1989 collection of prose poems by Serbian-American poet Charles Simic, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
The World: A Naive Poem
The World: A Naive Poem (Polish: Świat – poema naiwne) is a cycle of twenty short poems by Czesław Miłosz, written in occupied Warsaw in 1943.
The World's Wife
The World's Wife is a 1999 poetry collection by the Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy, retelling famous stories in the voices of women like Mrs Midas and Queen Kong.
The Wreck of the Hesperus
The Wreck of the Hesperus is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1840 narrative ballad of a skipper, his daughter, and a fatal 1839 New England storm at Norman's Woe, collected in Ballads and Other Poems and the source of an idiom for wreckage or untidiness.
Thebaid
The Thebaid (Thēbaïs) is a Latin epic in twelve books by the Roman poet Statius, first published in 91 or 92 CE, retelling the war of the Seven against Thebes.
Theban Cycle
The Theban Cycle is a modern grouping of four lost ancient Greek epic poems on Theban myths: the Oedipodea, Thebaid, Epigoni, and Alcmeonis, named in the 1800s.
Thematic poetry anthology
A thematic poetry anthology is a collection of poems grouped by a shared subject or genre, such as war, love, or nature, rather than by author, period, or school.
Thembavani
Thembavani (தேம்பாவணி), meaning "a garland of unfading honey-sweet verses," is a Tamil Christian epic on Saint Joseph, composed in 1726 by the Italian Jesuit Veeramamunivar.
There Is a Country in the World
There Is a Country in the World (Hay un país en el mundo) is a long poem by Dominican poet Pedro Mir, first published in Havana in 1949.
There once was a man from Nantucket
"There once was a man from Nantucket" is the famous opening line of English bawdy limericks, chosen because Nantucket rhymes with a vulgar word; early print dates conflict (1879 The Pearl, 1902), with a documented 1924 four-verse newspaper contest and a well-known clean bucket version.
There Will Come Soft Rains (poem)
Sara Teasdale's 1918 lyric poem "There Will Come Soft Rains" (War Time), first in Harper's Monthly, collected in Flame and Shadow (1920): nature's indifference to human war, later tied to nuclear apocalypse by Bradbury's 1950 story.
These Errors Are Correct
These Errors Are Correct is a 2008 poetry collection by the Indian writer Jeet Thayil, written in memory of his late wife, the editor Shakti Bhatt.
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird is a thirteen-section free-verse poem by the American poet Wallace Stevens, first published in 1917 and collected in Harmonium in 1923.
Thiruppugazh
Tiruppugal (Tamil: திருப்புகழ், also spelled Thiruppugazh, meaning "Holy Praise") is a collection of medieval Tamil devotional songs composed by the saint Arunagirinathar in praise of Lord Murugan.