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This Be the Verse
"This Be the Verse" is a twelve-line poem by Philip Larkin, first published in 1971 and collected in High Windows (1974), opening "They fuck you up, your mum and dad."
This Is Just to Say
This Is Just to Say is a 1934 poem by William Carlos Williams, a brief apology note confessing to eating plums someone was saving for breakfast.
This too shall pass
This too shall pass (Persian: این نیز بگذرد, īn nīz bogzarad) is a Persian adage on impermanence from a Sufi ring fable told by Sanai and Attar; Jewish folklore sets it on Solomon's ring (gam zeh ya'avor), and Lincoln's 1859 speech popularized it in English.
Thơ thơ
Thơ thơ is the first poetry collection of the Vietnamese poet Xuân Diệu, published in 1938 with 46 poems and regarded as a central work of the Thơ mới movement.
Thomas and Beulah
Thomas and Beulah is a 1986 poetry collection by Rita Dove, loosely based on her maternal grandparents, that won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Those Winter Sundays
"Those Winter Sundays" is a fourteen-line poem by Robert Hayden, first published in 1962 in A Ballad of Remembrance, recalling a father who rose early to light fires.
Though the Tortoise Lives Long
"Though the Tortoise Lives Long" (龟虽寿, Gui Sui Shou) is a four-character yuefu poem by Cao Cao, written around 208 on his return from the northern campaign against the Wuhuan.
Thoughts in the Library
Thoughts in the Library (Gondolatok a könyvtárban) is an 1844 philosophical poem by the Hungarian poet Mihály Vörösmarty, written for the opening of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences library.
Thousand Character Classic (千字文)
The Thousand Character Classic (千字文, Qiānzì wén), also known as the Thousand Character Text, is a Chinese poem of 1,000 unrepeated characters, used since the sixth century as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children.
Three Hundred Tang Poems
Three Hundred Tang Poems (唐诗三百首) is a Chinese anthology of Tang poetry compiled in 1763 by Qing dynasty scholar Sun Zhu, pen name Hengtang Tuishi.
Three Officials and Three Partings
Three Officials and Three Partings (三吏三别) is a group of six poems written by the Tang poet Du Fu in 759, recording wartime conscription during the An Lushan Rebellion.
Thu ẩm
Thu ẩm ("Drinking wine in autumn") is a Nôm poem by Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Khuyến, one of three famous autumn poems written after he retired to his home village.
Thu điếu
Thu điếu, also titled Câu cá mùa thu, is a Nôm poem by Nguyễn Khuyến depicting a lone fisherman on a small autumn pond in the Red River Delta.
Thu vịnh
Thu vịnh is a Vietnamese autumn poem in classical Đường-law form by Nguyễn Khuyến (1835–1909), one of three famous autumn poems set in the Red River delta countryside.
Thương vợ
Thương vợ ("Pitying My Wife") is a Vietnamese Nôm poem by Trần Tế Xương, known as Tú Xương, honoring his wife Phạm Thị Mẫn, who raised five children and supported the household.
Tianyou Ge Ji
Tianyou Ge Ji (天游阁集) is the collected poetry and prose of the Qing dynasty Manchu poet Gu Taiqing (1799–1877), named for her residence, the Tianyou Pavilion.
Tiếng hát con tàu
"Tiếng hát con tàu" ("The Song of the Train") is a Vietnamese poem by Chế Lan Viên marking his turn toward the people as the source of art.
Tiếng thu
"Tiếng thu" ("The Sound of Autumn") is a 1939 poem by the Vietnamese poet Lưu Trọng Lư, an emblematic work of the Thơ mới movement.
Tiepolo's Hound
Tiepolo's Hound is a book-length narrative poem by Saint Lucian poet and painter Derek Walcott, published in 2000 and illustrated with reproductions of his own paintings.
Tijaniyya devotional poetry
Tijaniyya devotional poetry is religious verse by the Tijaniyya Sufi order in Arabic and African languages, including qasidas by Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse, chanted at gatherings.
Tilottama Sambhava
Tilottama Sambhava Kavya (তিলোত্তমাসম্ভব কাব্য, "The Birth of Tilottama") is an epic poem by Michael Madhusudan Dutt, published in 1860 and treated as the first Bengali poem in blank verse.
Tinaimalai Nurru Aimpatu
Tinaimalai Nurru Aimpatu (திணைமாலை நூற்றைம்பது) is a classical Tamil poem by Kanimeytaviyar, one of the eighteen Pathinen Keezhkanakku works, treating the five tinai love-landscape modes in 153 verses.
Tirukkovaiyar
Tirukkovaiyar (Tamil: திருக்கோவையார, "The Holy Garland"), also called Tiruccirrampalakkōvaiyār, is a ninth-century Tamil Śaiva poem of 400 verses by Māṇikkavācakar telling a continuous love story that praises the god Śiva.
Tirumurai
Tirumurai, known in full as Panniru Thirumurai, is the twelve-book canon of Tamil Shaiva devotional hymns and poetry in praise of Shiva, composed between the sixth and twelfth centuries.
Tirumurukarruppatai
Tirumurukarruppatai, also called Pulavararruppatai, is a classical Tamil poem of 317 lines attributed to Nakkirar that praises Murugan, first among the ten Pattuppattu idylls and part of the eleventh Tirumurai of the Tamil Shaiva canon.
Tiruneduntantakam
Tiruneduntantakam (திருநெடுந்தாண்டகம்) is a Tamil devotional poem of 30 verses by Tirumangai Alvar, held to be his last work, and it opens the Adhyayana Utsavam at Srirangam.
Tiruppalliyelucci
Tiruppalliyelucci (திருப்பள்ளியெழுச்சி; also transliterated Thiruppalliyezhuchi) is a Tamil devotional song genre sung at pre-dawn in Shaiva and Vaishnava temples to wake the deity, the Tamil equivalent of the Sanskrit Suprabatham.
Tiruppavai
Tiruppavai (திருப்பாவை) is a Tamil devotional poem of 30 verses by Andal, the only woman among the twelve Alvar saints, sung through the month of Margazhi.
Tiruvarutpa
Thiruarutpa (திருவருட்பா, "the holy songs of grace") is the collected devotional Tamil poems of Ramalinga Adigal, the Shaiva mystic known as Vallalar, first printed in 1867.
Tiruvarutpayan
Tiruvarutpayan (திருவருட்பயன், "Fruit of Divine Grace") is a Shaiva Siddhanta doctrinal poem in Tamil by Umapati Shivam, one of the fourteen Meykanda shastras, written around the thirteenth or fourteenth century in 100 kural verses.