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Vatan Mersiyesi
Vatan Mersiyesi is a Turkish poem mourning lost territory, written by the Ottoman poet Namık Kemal after the 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War, known as the 93 Harbi.
Ved Rondane
Ved Rondane, originally Ved Rundarne, is an 1861 poem by the Norwegian writer Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, published in Ferdaminni fraa Sumaren 1860 and famously set to music by Edvard Grieg in 1880.
Veenapoovu
Veenapoovu (വീണപൂവ്, "The Fallen Flower") is a 41-stanza Malayalam poem by Kumaran Asan, first published in 1907, credited with laying the foundation of the romantic movement in Malayalam poetry.
Veinte poemas para ser leídos en el tranvía
Veinte poemas para ser leídos en el tranvía is the first poetry collection of Argentine poet Oliverio Girondo, printed in France in 1922 and considered a foundational work of the Argentine vanguard.
Vemana Satakamu
Vemana Satakamu (వేమన శతకము, also Vemana Padyamulu) is the collected Telugu quatrains of the saint-poet Vemana of Andhra, first printed by C.P. Brown in 1824.
Venezianische Epigramme
Venezianische Epigramme (Venetian Epigrams) is a cycle of satirical and erotic distichs by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, written during his second stay in Venice in 1790.
Vents
Vents is a long French poem by Saint-John Perse, pen name of Alexis Léger, written in Maine in 1945 and published by Gallimard in 1946.
Venus and Adonis
Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare, first printed in London in 1593, telling of Venus's unrequited pursuit of the huntsman Adonis.
Vér és arany
Vér és arany (Blood and Gold) is a 1907 book of poems by the Hungarian poet Endre Ady, his third collection and a landmark of Hungarian literary modernity.
Verse novel
A verse novel is a long narrative work that uses the equipment of a novel, including storyline, setting, characters, dialogue, and viewpoint, but tells its story in verse rather than prose, as in Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.
Verzen
Verzen is a poetry collection by the Dutch poet and classicist J. H. Leopold, published in 1914 with the nine-poem cycle "Verzen 1897" as its core.
Vesiletü'n-Necat
Vesiletü'n-Necat, known popularly as the Mevlid, is a Turkish mawlid poem on the birth and life of Muhammad, written by Süleyman Çelebi and completed in Bursa in 1409.
Vexilla regis
Vexilla regis is a Latin hymn in honor of the Holy Cross written by Venantius Fortunatus and first sung at Poitiers in 569; it remains a principal hymn of Passiontide.
Vibhishana (विभीषण)
Vibhishana (विभीषण, Vibhīṣaṇa), Ravana's youngest brother in the Ramayana, defected to Rama after Ravana refused to return Sita, and was crowned king of Lanka. He is also the only Ramayana figure with a Sri Lankan guardian-deity cult, at the Kelaniya temple.
Vichitravirya (विचित्रवीर्य)
Vichitravirya (विचित्रवीर्य), Kuru king of Hastinapur in the Mahabharata: younger son of Shantanu and Satyavati, husband of Ambika and Ambalika, died childless of consumption; Vyasa's niyoga produced Dhritarashtra, Pandu, and Vidura.
Vidura (विदुर)
Vidura (विदुर), also Kshatta, is the Mahabharata's chief counsellor of Hastinapura: son of Vyasa by a maidservant, incarnation of Dharma, author of Vidura Niti, and the epic's voice of dharma.
Vidyapati Padavali
Vidyapati's Padavali (विद्यापति पदावली, "the wreath of songs") is the collected Maithili love lyrics of Radha and Krishna by poet Vidyapati, composed around 1380 to 1406 in Mithila.
Vidyasundar
Vidyasundar (Bengali: বিদ্যাসুন্দর), also written Bidyasundar, is a Bengali romantic poem about the secret love of princess Vidya and prince Sundar, composed in 1752 by Bharatchandra Ray as the second part of his Annadamangal.
Viewing the Blue Sea
Viewing the Blue Sea, or Guan Cang Hai (观沧海), is a yuefu poem by Cao Cao, written in 207 CE after his victory over the Wuhuan.
Vijayavilasamu
Vijayavilasamu is a Telugu prabandha kavya in three cantos by court poet Chemakura Venkata Kavi, composed around 1620–1630, narrating Arjuna's marriages with Chitrangada, Ulupi, and Subhadra.
Vikramarjuna Vijaya
Vikramarjuna Vijaya, popularly known as Pampa Bharata, is a 10th-century Kannada champu epic by the Jain poet Pampa that retells the Mahabharata with Arjuna as its hero.
Vila Rica
Vila Rica is an epic poem by Cláudio Manuel da Costa, written in 1773, narrating the pacification of the Guerra dos Emboabas and the founding of Minas Gerais.
Villibharatam
Villibharatam (வில்லிபாரதம்), also called Villi Bharatam, is a 14th-century Tamil retelling of Vyasa's Mahabharata by the poet Villiputturar, the most important Tamil version of the epic.
Vimana
Vimāna (विमान), a Sanskrit word meaning measurement, palace, aerial chariot, temple spire, or heaven, best known through the Pushpaka flying palace of the Ramayana; ancient-technology claims center on the 20th-century Vaimanika Shastra, judged unairworthy in 1974.
Vinaya Patrika
Vinaya Patrika (विनय पत्रिका, "Petition of Humility") is a set of 279 devotional stanzas in Braj Bhasha that Tulsidas composed as a petition to Rama in the late 16th or early 17th century.
Vinayagar Agaval (விநாயகர் அகவல்)
Vinayagar Agaval (விநாயகர் அகவல்), a 72-line Tamil devotional poem to Ganesha in agaval blank verse, credited to the medieval poet Avvaiyar; opens with the lotus feet, moves into Kundalini and Saiva gnana, chanted on Tuesdays and Vinayaka Chaturthi.
Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass
Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass is Lana Del Rey's debut poetry book (Simon & Schuster, September 29, 2020) and her first spoken word audiobook with Jack Antonoff music; a New York Times bestseller donating proceeds to Navajo charities.
Virgilian epic
Virgilian epic is the tradition of Latin narrative epic founded on Virgil's Aeneid, embracing later ancient and post-classical epics measured against that poem through imitation, inversion, or revision.
Vis and Ramin
Vis and Ramin (Persian: ویس و رامین) is an 11th-century Persian verse romance by Fakhr al-Din As'ad Gorgani, telling of the love between Vis, a queen of Media, and Ramin.
Vishakha
Vishakha (विशाखा) is a landmark 1942 collection of Marathi poetry by Kusumagraj, whose patriotic poems, written against the Quit India Movement, made him a major literary force.