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Treny
Treny (Laments) is a 1580 cycle of nineteen funeral poems by the Polish Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski, written after the death of his young daughter Urszula.
Trilce
Trilce is the second book of poetry by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo, published in Lima in 1922; its radical language made it a foundational work of the Spanish-language avant-garde.
Tristia
The Tristia ("Sorrows") is a collection of five books of elegiac poems Ovid wrote in exile at Tomis on the Black Sea, around 8 to 12 CE.
Triumphs
The Triumphs (Triumphi) is an unfinished allegorical poem in terza rima by Petrarch, in which Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time, and Eternity triumph in turn.
Troilus and Criseyde
Troilus and Criseyde: Chaucer's five-book rhyme-royal Trojan War romance, adapted from Boccaccio's Il Filostrato via Benoit and Guido, Boethian in structure, continued by Henryson and adapted by Shakespeare.
Trojan Horse
Trojan Horse (Δούρηος Ἵππος, Wooden Horse of Troy): the stratagem by which Odysseus's Greeks hid warriors in a huge wooden horse built by Epeius, entered Troy, and sacked it; sources, art, and modern metaphor.
Troubadour
Troubadours (Occitan: trobadors) were poet-composers of medieval Occitania in southern France who sang lyric poetry in Occitan, centered on the ideal of fin'amor, from the early 1100s into the 1300s.
Troy Book
Troy Book is a Middle English narrative poem by the monk John Lydgate, begun in 1412 at the request of the future Henry V and completed in 1420.
Truyện thơ Nôm
Truyện thơ Nôm is a Vietnamese genre of long narrative poems written in chữ Nôm script, mostly in lục bát verse, flourishing from the 17th to the late 19th century.
Tryptyk rzymski
Tryptyk rzymski (Roman Triptych) is a long religious poem by Pope John Paul II, written in Rome in 2002 and published in March 2003, comprising three meditations on God, creation, and Abraham.
Tsetlo
Tsetlo is a 64-page 1974 poetry collection by the South African poet Mongane Wally Serote, published in Johannesburg and banned that year for its political content.
Tsukubashū
Tsukubashū (菟玖波集) is a Japanese anthology of renga, or linked verse, compiled in 1356 and 1357 by the court noble Nijō Yoshimoto with the renga master Gusai.
Từ ấy
"Từ ấy" is a July 1938 poem by Vietnamese poet Tố Hữu, written on joining the Indochinese Communist Party and giving its name to his first collection.
Tự tình
Tự tình is a cycle of three Nôm poems by the 18th-century Vietnamese poet Hồ Xuân Hương, in which a woman speaks of loneliness and defiance.
Tuga za jug
T'ga za jug (Т'га за југ, "Longing for the South") is an 1860 elegy by Konstantin Miladinov expressing homesickness for his native Struga and Ohrid.
Tuhfat al-Iraqayn
Tuhfat al-Iraqayn (تحفة العراقین), also known as Khatm al-Ghara'ib, is a 12th-century Persian masnavi by Khaqani Shirvani describing his pilgrimage journey toward Mecca through the two Iraqs.
Tum Teav
Tum Teav (ទុំទាវ) is a Cambodian tragic love story about the novice monk Tum and the girl Teav, a cornerstone of the Cambodian literary canon.
Turtle Island
Turtle Island is a 1974 collection of poetry and prose by the American poet Gary Snyder, published by New Directions and winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada) is a 1924 poetry collection by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
Twenty-Four Poetic Qualities
Twenty-Four Poetic Qualities (Ershisi Shipin, 二十四詩品) is a Chinese work of poetic criticism of twenty-four poems, each describing a poetic style, traditionally attributed to Sikong Tu.
Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude
Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude (二十億光年の孤独) is the first poetry collection by Japanese poet Shuntarō Tanikawa, published in 1952, whose title poem made him famous overnight.
Ức Trai thi tập
Ức Trai thi tập, named for Nguyễn Trãi's literary name, is his collection of 105 classical Chinese poems, spanning the Lam Sơn uprising to his retirement at Côn Sơn.
Udhri poetry
Udhri poetry (الشعر العذري, al-ghazal al-'udhri) is a classical Arabic genre of chaste love poetry named for the Banu 'Udhra tribe, peaking in the Umayyad era.
Új versek
Új versek ("New Verses") is the third poetry collection of the Hungarian poet Endre Ady, published in Budapest in 1906 and seen as opening modern Hungarian poetry.
Ulise
Ulise, also called Odiseu, is the Romanian form of the name of Odysseus, and a recurring figure in modern Romanian poetry symbolizing exile, journey, and return.
Ullalim
The ullalim is a chanted oral tradition of the Kalinga people of Kalinga province in the Philippines, best known as epic songs of heroes like Banna.
Ulupi
Ulupi (Ulūpī, उलूपी) is a Naga princess, daughter of king Kauravya, in the Mahabharata; she marries Arjuna during his exile, bears Iravan, and revives Arjuna with a jewel after Babhruvahana strikes him down, freeing him from the Vasus' curse.
Ulysses (poem)
Tennyson's "Ulysses" (1833, published 1842), a blank-verse dramatic monologue of the aging Odysseus resolving on a final voyage, written after Arthur Hallam's death, based on Dante's Inferno Canto XXVI, closing "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
Umakeralam
Umakeralam (ഉമാകേരളം) is a Malayalam mahakavya by Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer, first published in 1913, telling the story of Umayamma Rani, the 17th-century regent queen of Venad.
Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard
Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard is an 1897 poem by the French symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé, a founding work of visual poetry.