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Visiting a Garden Without Meeting the Owner
"Visiting a Garden Without Meeting the Owner" (You Yuan Bu Zhi, 游园不值) is a quatrain by Southern Song poet Ye Shaoweng about a closed garden gate and an apricot branch over the wall.
Viswadarshanam
Viswadarshanam (വിശ്വദർശനം, "Vision of the Universe") is a 1960 Malayalam poetry collection by G. Sankara Kurup, winning the Kerala Sahitya Akademi and Kendra Sahitya Akademi Awards.
Vita Nuova
Vita Nuova, also written Vita nova, is a prosimetrum by Dante Alighieri, composed around 1292 to 1295, mixing thirty-one poems with prose about his love for Beatrice.
Vivo sin vivir en mí
"Vivo sin vivir en mí" is a mystical poem by Teresa of Ávila, opening "I live without living in myself... I die because I do not die."
Vội vàng
"Vội vàng" ("Hurriedly") is a Vietnamese poem by Xuân Diệu, first printed in his 1938 collection Thơ thơ and a representative work of the Thơ mới movement.
Volume Two
Volume Two is a 1949 poetry collection by the Filipino poet José García Villa, published by New Directions and first collecting his comma poems.
Völundarkviða
Völundarkviða, meaning "The Lay of Völundr," is an Old Norse Eddic poem telling how the legendary smith Völundr, mutilated and enslaved by King Níðuðr, takes revenge and escapes by flight.
Voronezh Notebooks
The Voronezh Notebooks (Воронежские тетради) is the final book of poems by Osip Mandelstam, written during his internal exile in Voronezh; none was published in his lifetime.
Vou-me Embora pra Pasárgada
"Vou-me Embora pra Pasárgada" is one of the best-known poems of the Brazilian modernist Manuel Bandeira, published in his 1930 collection Libertinagem, in which the speaker escapes to an imagined paradise.
Vozes d'África
Vozes d'África (Voices of Africa) is an abolitionist poem written in 1868 by the Brazilian poet Castro Alves, in which enslaved Africa addresses God in lament.
Wakan Rōeishū
Wakan Rōeishū (和漢朗詠集) is a Heian-period Japanese anthology of waka and Chinese-style verse compiled by Fujiwara no Kintō around 1018 for chanting at court, pairing both under shared headings.
Wandrers Nachtlied
Wandrers Nachtlied ("Wanderer's Nightsong") is the shared title of two short poems by Goethe: an eight-line plea for peace from 1776 and a famous evening poem of 1780.
Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang
Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang (王贵与李香香) is a 1946 narrative poem by the Chinese poet Li Ji, telling of two young peasants whose love is fulfilled through the land revolution.
Wang Hai Chao: Southeast's Beauty
Wang Hai Chao: Southeast's Beauty (望海潮) is a Song-dynasty ci poem by Liu Yong praising Hangzhou, traditionally sung at a banquet to win the prefect Sun He's recommendation.
Wangchuan Collection
The Wangchuan Collection (輞川集) is a set of forty Tang dynasty poems in which Wang Wei and Pei Di each wrote twenty quatrains on twenty scenes of Wang Wei's estate.
Wanqingyi Shihui
Wanqingyi Shihui (晚晴簃诗汇), also titled Qingshihui, is a 200-juan anthology of Qing poetry compiled under Xu Shichang and printed in 1929, collecting 6,159 poets and 27,420 poems.
We Real Cool
"We Real Cool" is a short 1959 poem by American poet Gwendolyn Brooks, spoken in the collective voice of seven young pool players at the Golden Shovel.
We Wear the Mask
"We Wear the Mask" is a lyric poem by American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, first published in 1895, in which people hide their suffering behind smiling masks.
West Indies, Ltd.
West Indies, Ltd. is a 1934 poetry collection by Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, his second book and first with political overtones, published in Havana and denouncing foreign exploitation of the Antilles.
West-Eastern Divan
West-Eastern Divan (West-östlicher Divan) is Goethe's collection of lyric poetry, written 1814 to 1819, that answers the Persian poet Hafez in German and is considered his great late work.
Wethandaya Pyo
Wethandaya Pyo is a Burmese pyo, an ornate classical verse work retelling the Vessantara Jataka, the tale of Prince Vessantara whose perfect generosity is rewarded with a triumphant homecoming.
What Work Is
What Work Is is a 1991 collection of 25 poems by American poet Philip Levine on manual labor and working-class Detroit, which won the 1991 National Book Award for Poetry.
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" is a free-verse pastoral elegy by Walt Whitman, written in 1865 to mourn Abraham Lincoln after his assassination.
When My Brother Was an Aztec
When My Brother Was an Aztec is the debut poetry collection by American poet Natalie Diaz, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2012, centering on a brother's methamphetamine addiction.
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through is a 2020 poetry anthology of Native nations poetry edited by US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo.
Where the Mind Is Without Fear
"Where the Mind Is Without Fear" is a poem by Rabindranath Tagore, published in English as poem 35 of Gitanjali in 1912, praying for a free, fearless India.
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Where the Sidewalk Ends is Shel Silverstein's 1974 Harper & Row collection of 127 humorous children's poems with his own drawings, known for the title poem, "Sick," and "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout," an ALA Notable book whose recording won the 1984 Grammy for Best Children's Recording.
White Dawns
White Dawns (Beli mugri) is a 1939 collection of 12 poems by the Macedonian poet Kočo Racin, regarded as a foundational work of modern Macedonian literature.
White Egrets
White Egrets is a 2010 poetry collection by Saint Lucian Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, a sequence of 54 poems that won the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Who Is Happy in Russia?
Who Is Happy in Russia? (Кому на Руси жить хорошо) is an unfinished epic poem by Nikolai Nekrasov, written from the mid-1860s until his death in 1877.