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Bellum Punicum
Bellum Punicum, also spelled Bellum Poenicum, was an epic poem in Latin by Gnaeus Naevius on the First Punic War of 264 to 241 BC, surviving in about 60 fragments.
Bema pamięci żałobny rapsod
"Bema pamięci żałobny rapsod" (A Funeral Rhapsody in Memory of General Bem) is an 1851 poem by Cyprian Kamil Norwid, written a year after General Józef Bem's death.
Ben Sana Mecburum
Ben Sana Mecburum ("I Am Bound to You") is a 1960 poetry collection by Turkish poet Attilâ İlhan, whose title poem's opening line has entered everyday recitation in Turkey.
Beng ü Bade
Beng ü Bade (Bəngü-Badə) is an allegorical mathnawi of 444 couplets by the poet Fuzuli, written in Azerbaijani between 1510 and 1524, in which hashish and wine debate their superiority.
Beniowski
Beniowski is a digressive poem by the Polish Romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki, written between 1840 and 1846, inspired by Byron's Don Juan and modeled on adventurer Maurycy Beniowski.
Beowulf
Beowulf, the Old English epic of the Geatish hero who fights Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon, survives only in the Nowell Codex (Cotton Vitellius A.xv, ca. 1000), burned in 1731, first printed in 1815, with composition dates debated from the seventh to eleventh century.
Beowulf (hero)
Beowulf, hero of the Old English epic poem Beowulf, is a Geatish warrior who kills Grendel and Grendel's mother and dies slaying a dragon; the 3,182-verse poem survives in one manuscript copied around 1000.
Berzanji
Berzanji (برزنجي), also spelled Barzanji, is a Southeast Asian devotional recitation praising the Prophet Muhammad in rhythmic song, based on an Arabic text by Ja'far al-Barzanji, who died in 1766.
Bhaktalilamrita
Bhaktalilamrita (भक्तलीलामृत), also rendered Bhaktalilamrut, is a Marathi hagiographical poem in 51 chapters by Mahipati, completed in 1774, recounting the lives and miracles of Vaishnava saints, especially those of Maharashtra.
Bhakti Ratnavali
Bhakti Ratnavali (ভক্তি-ৰত্নাৱলী) is an Assamese verse rendering by the saint Madhavadeva of a Sanskrit devotional anthology compiled by Visnupuri, translated in the sixteenth century.
Bhanubhakta Ramayana
The Bhanubhakta Ramayana (भानुभक्त रामायण) is a Nepali verse rendering of the Ramayana by Bhanubhakta Acharya, Nepal's first poet, completed in 1853 and regarded as the first Nepali epic.
Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali
Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali (ভানুসিংহ ঠাকুরের পদাবলী) is an 1884 collection of Vaishnava lyrics that Rabindranath Tagore wrote in adolescence under the pseudonym Bhanusimha, imitating the medieval poets of Radha and Krishna.
Bharat-Bharati
Bharat-Bharati (भारत-भारती) is a 1912 Hindi narrative poem by Maithili Sharan Gupt, divided into past, present, and future sections, whose popularity in the freedom movement led Gandhi to name Gupt Rashtrakavi.
Bharata (Ramayana)
Bharata (भरत) is Rama's brother in the Ramayana, son of Dasharatha and Kaikeyi, who refused the throne, placed Rama's sandals on it, and ruled Ayodhya as regent from Nandigrama during Rama's fourteen-year exile.
Bharata (भरत) (Mahabharata)
Bharata (भरत), son of Dushyanta and Shakuntala in the Mahabharata's Adi Parva, named 'the supported' by a celestial messenger, ancestor of the epic's Kurus and Pandavas and eponym of India's Sanskrit name, Bharata.
Bharatam Pattu
Bharatam Pattu (ഭാരതം പാട്ട്) is a Malayalam verse rendering of the Mahabharata composed by poet Ayyanappilla Asan, classifying it as a later work of the pattu school.
Bharatesha Vaibhava
Bharatesha Vaibhava (ಭರತೇಶವೈಭವ) is a sixteenth-century Kannada Jain epic by the poet Ratnakaravarni, telling the life of Bharata, eldest son of the first Tirthankara Adinatha.
Bharthari
Bharthari (भरथरी) is a folk epic of northern India telling of a king of Ujjain who renounces his throne and worldly life to become a disciple of Guru Gorakhnath.
Bharuds of Eknath
The Bharuds of Eknath (एकनाथांचे भारूड) are allegorical, singable devotional poems by the sixteenth-century Marathi saint-poet Eknath of Paithan, who brought the form its greatest popularity.
Bhattikavya
Bhattikavya, also called Ravanavadha, is a Sanskrit mahakavya by the poet Bhatti, written around the sixth century, that retells Rama's story while illustrating Panini's grammar and Sanskrit poetics.
Bhavarth Ramayan
Bhavarth Ramayan (भावार्थ रामायण) is Sant Eknath's Marathi rendering of the Rama story, composed between 1595 and 1599 and completed after his death by his disciple Gavba.
Bhima (भीम)
Bhima (भीम), also Bhimasena or Vrikodara, is the second Pandava son of Pandu and Kunti in the Mahabharata, fathered by the wind god Vayu, famed for mace combat under Balarama, the slaying of all hundred Kaurava sons, Jarasandha, and Kichaka.
Bhishma (भीष्म)
Bhishma (भीष्म, Devavrata, Gangaputra, Pitamaha), Mahabharata patriarch: son of Shantanu and Ganga, took the terrible vow of lifelong celibacy, led the Kauravas for ten days, fell to Arjuna behind Shikhandi, died at Uttarayana after 58 nights on a bed of arrows.
Bhogini Dandakamu
Bhogini Dandakamu (భోగినీ దండకము) is a short 15th-century Telugu court poem attributed to the poet Bammera Pothana, praising the courtesan Bhogini, who won the love of King Sarvajna Singabhupala.
Bhoomigeetham
Bhoomigeetham (ഭൂമിഗീതം, "song of the earth") is a name shared by several Malayalam and Sanskrit works, including a Bhagavata hymn, poems, and a 1993 film.
Bhoomikkoru Charamageetham
Bhoomikkoru Charamageetham (ഭൂമിക്കൊരു ചരമഗീതം), translated as A Requiem for the Earth, is a 1984 Malayalam poem by O.N.V. Kurup lamenting the desecration of Mother Earth.
Bhramargeet
Bhramargeet (भ्रमरगीत), meaning "song of the bumblebee," is a Hindi Krishna lyric in which the gopis of Braj reproach a bee meant for Krishna; Surdas began the tradition.
Biag ni Lam-ang
Biag ni Lam-ang (Life of Lam-ang) is the Ilocano folk epic of northwestern Luzon, first published by Isabelo de los Reyes in El Ilocano (1889-1890), telling of the hero Lam-ang's birth, vengeance, courtship of Ines Kannoyan, and resurrection.
Bích Câu kỳ ngộ
Bích Câu kỳ ngộ is a Vietnamese Nôm verse romance in lục bát meter telling how the poor scholar Trần Tú Uyên meets and marries the fairy Giáng Kiều.
Bichitra Ramayana
Bichitra Ramayana (ବିଚିତ୍ର ରାମାୟଣ, "the Wonderful Ramayana") is the shared name of two Odia retellings of the Rama story, by Sarala Das and Biswanath Khuntia.