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Tiruvasakam
Tiruvasakam (திருவாசகம், meaning "sacred utterance") is a collection of Tamil devotional hymns to Shiva composed by the ninth-century saint Manikkavacakar, forming the eighth book of the Tirumurai.
Tiruvempavai
Tiruvempavai (திருவெம்பாவை) is a Tamil devotional poem of twenty stanzas to Shiva by the 9th-century poet-saint Manikkavacakar, part of his Tiruvacakam and sung at dawn in Margazhi.
Tiruvilaiyadal Puranam
Tiruvilaiyadal Puranam (திருவிளையாடற் புராணம்) is a Tamil Shaiva temple chronicle by Paranjothi Munivar, composed in the 16th to 17th century, narrating the 64 sacred games Shiva performed at Madurai.
Tiruviruttam
Tiruviruttam (திருவிருத்தம்) is a Tamil devotional poem of 100 verses by the saint Nammāḻvār, part of the Nālāyira Divya Prabandham and revered as the Tamil Ṛg Veda.
Titurel
Titurel is a fragmentary Middle High German narrative poem by Wolfram von Eschenbach, composed around 1220, telling the ill-fated love story of Sigune and Schionatulander.
To a Lost One
"To a Lost One" is a poem by the Filipino poet Angela Manalang Gloria, an elegiac work in English often cited as an example of sentimentality in early Philippine poetry.
To a Mouse
To a Mouse (on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November 1785) is Robert Burns's Scots-dialect lyric apologizing to a mouse whose nest his plough destroyed; source of 'best-laid schemes' and Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men title.
To Autumn
To Autumn: John Keats's ode written 19 September 1819 at Winchester and published 1820; the last of his great 1819 odes, three eleven-line stanzas personifying autumn, among the most anthologized English poems.
To be, or not to be
"To be, or not to be" is the opening line of Hamlet's soliloquy in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1 ("that is the question"; Q1: "I there's the point"), weighing life, death, and the afterlife.
To Chaadaev
To Chaadaev (Russian: «К Чаадаеву») is a short political lyric by Alexander Pushkin, addressed to his friend Pyotr Chaadaev and traditionally dated 1818; it became a symbol of the Decembrist movement.
To Helen
"To Helen" is a fifteen-line lyric poem by Edgar Allan Poe, first printed in 1831, in which a woman's beauty carries a weary wanderer home to "the glory that was Greece."
To His Coy Mistress
To His Coy Mistress, Andrew Marvell's carpe diem seduction lyric ("Had we but world enough and time"), first published posthumously in Miscellaneous Poems (1681), argued in three syllogistic movements, dated circa 1646 or 1653 by scholars.
To Hope
To Hope (Hungarian: A Reményhez) is a poem by the Hungarian poet Mihály Csokonai Vitéz, completed by 1803 and closing his Lilla cycle of love poems.
To My Son
To My Son (示儿, Shi'er) is a famous deathbed poem written in 1210 by the Southern Song poet Lu You as a testament to his sons.
To Posterity
To Posterity (An die Nachgeborenen) is a poem by Bertolt Brecht, written in exile in Denmark during the Nazi era and first published in Paris in 1939.
To the Oak
"To the Oak" (致橡树), also translated "To an Oak", is a 1977 love poem by the Chinese poet Shu Ting and a representative work of the Misty Poets.
To the Tyrants of the World
To the Tyrants of the World (Ilā Ṭughāt al-ʿĀlam) is a defiant Arabic poem by Tunisian poet Aboul-Qacem Echebbi, the rallying cry of Tunisia's 2011 revolution.
Toldi estéje
Toldi estéje ("Toldi's Evening") is a Hungarian narrative poem in six cantos by János Arany, the second part of his Toldi trilogy, published in 1854.
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Macbeth's "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" soliloquy (Act 5, Scene 5), spoken on hearing of Lady Macbeth's death; its meter, imagery, critical readings, and later uses from Faulkner to Gabrielle Zevin's 2022 novel.
Tongzhi Tang Ji
Tongzhi Tang Ji (通志堂集) is the collected works of the Qing dynasty poet Nalan Xingde, assembled by his teacher and printed in 1691, six years after his death.
Toote Kalam
Toote Kalam (टूटे कलम) is a Hindi poetry collection attributed to Agyeya, pioneering modernist Hindi writer, which archival and bibliographic records of his works do not list.
Torave Ramayana
Torave Ramayana (ತೊರವೆಯ ರಾಮಾಯಣ) is a sixteenth-century Kannada retelling of the Ramayana by Narahari of Torave, the epic's most widely circulated Kannada version and a principal text of Karnataka's gamaka recitation tradition.
Tradition and the Individual Talent
Tradition and the Individual Talent, T. S. Eliot's 1919 essay in The Egoist, reprinted in The Sacred Wood (1920), redefines literary tradition as labor-won and argues poetry is impersonal, an escape from personality.
Tragedyalar
Tragedyalar is a long poem by the Turkish poet Edip Cansever, first published in 1964. Using chorus, episodes, and lament, it portrays the despair and alienation of modern urban life.
Traktat poetycki
Traktat poetycki (A Treatise on Poetry) is a 1957 long poem by the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz, reflecting on the history of Polish poetry in the twentieth century.
Tràng giang
Tràng giang is a 1939 Vietnamese poem by Huy Cận, a leading work of the Thơ Mới movement, written beside the Red River at Chèm ferry near Hanoi.
Translations of the Odyssey
Translations of the Odyssey: complete English renderings of Homer's Greek epic, from Chapman (1614) and Pope (1725) through Rieu, Fitzgerald, Lattimore (1965), Fagles (1996), Wilson (2017, first by a woman), and Mendelsohn (2025), differing in meter, fidelity, and diction.
Traveling Through the Dark
Traveling Through the Dark is a 1962 poetry collection by American poet William Stafford; its title poem, about a dead deer on a mountain road, won the 1963 National Book Award.
Travels
Travels is a long autobiographical poem by the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, first published in Hebrew in 1968 and translated into English by Ruth Nevo.
Trekkerswee
Trekkerswee is a 1915 narrative poem in Afrikaans by the poet and theologian Totius, telling of a Transvaal trekker family whose rural life is broken by the gold-driven rise of Johannesburg.