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Widok z ziarnkiem piasku
"Widok z ziarnkiem piasku" ("View with a Grain of Sand") is a 1986 poem by Polish poet Wisława Szymborska, examining how language imposes names on a self-unaware world.
Widsith
Widsith (Widsið, 'the far-travelled one') is an Old English poem of about 143 lines in the Exeter Book, a catalogue of some 70 tribes and as many heroic figures of the Germanic third-to-sixth-century legendary age, preserved from c. 970 and first edited in 1826.
Wigalois
Wigalois (also spelled Gwîgalois) is a Middle High German Arthurian verse romance by Wirnt von Grafenberg, written around 1210/1220, whose hero, Gawein's son, wins a kingdom through adventures.
Willehalm
Willehalm is an unfinished Middle High German verse epic by Wolfram von Eschenbach, composed around 1210–1220, retelling the wars of the Christian count Willehalm against the Saracens.
William Street
"William Street" is a sixteen-line poem by the Australian poet Kenneth Slessor, published in 1939, in which the speaker insists on the beauty of a poor Sydney street most would call ugly.
Willkommen und Abschied
"Willkommen und Abschied" ("Welcome and Farewell") is a love poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, written in 1771 for Friederike Brion and counted among the best-known works of the Sturm und Drang period.
Winter Morning
Winter Morning (Зимнее утро) is a lyric poem by Alexander Pushkin, begun 3 November 1829, in which the speaker wakes his beloved to admire a sunlit winter landscape after a blizzard.
Wintering Out
Wintering Out is a 1972 poetry collection by the Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney, known for the place-name poems 'Anahorish' and 'Broagh' and for 'The Tollund Man'.
Winternag
Winternag ("Winter's night") is a poem by the South African writer Eugène N. Marais, first published in 1905 and widely treated as the first fully achieved literary poem in Afrikaans.
With a Pure Heart
With a Pure Heart (Hungarian: Tiszta szívvel) is a 1925 poem by Attila József, first published in the Szeged daily. Its defiant opening made him famous, though it cost him his university career.
Withered Leaves
Withered Leaves (Ziv'iale lystia) is an 1896 poetry collection by Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko, a cycle of love lyrics regarded as a classic of Ukrainian poetry.
Woe from Wit
Woe from Wit (Russian: Gore ot uma) is a satirical comedy in verse by Alexander Griboedov, completed in 1824 and set in Moscow aristocratic society.
Wojna chocimska
Wojna chocimska is a Polish Baroque epic by Wacław Potocki, written about 1670, describing the 1621 battle of Chocim; it is the largest seventeenth-century Polish epic.
Wolof griot epic
The Wolof griot epic is the oral heroic tradition performed by griots among the Wolof people of Senegal and Gambia, best known through the Epic of Kajoor.
Woman to Man
Woman to Man is a 1949 poetry collection by Australian poet Judith Wright, exploring love, sexuality, and pregnancy; it won the 1949 Grace Leven Prize.
Wooden Horse and Lady
"Wooden Horse and Lady" (목마와 숙녀, Mokma wa suknyeo) is a 1955 poem by Korean modernist poet Park In-hwan and his best-known work, expressing urban postwar sorrow through lyrical imagery.
Worin cheongang jigok
Worin cheongang jigok (월인천강지곡) is a Korean Buddhist song cycle of 583 verses composed by King Sejong the Great of Joseon in 1447, praising the life of the Buddha in Hangul.
Works and Days
Works and Days (Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι) is an 828-line didactic poem traditionally ascribed to Hesiod and dated to around 700 BCE, urging his brother Perses toward justice and honest labor.
Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car
Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car (כתוב בעיפרון בקרון החתום) is a six-line Hebrew poem by the Israeli poet Dan Pagis, first published in 1970 in his collection Gilgul.
Written on the Wall of Xilin Temple
Written on the Wall of Xilin Temple (题西林壁, Ti Xilin bi) is a seven-character philosophical quatrain inscribed by the Song poet Su Shi on Mount Lu in 1084.
Wu Ling Chun
Wu Ling Chun (武陵春) is a famous ci poem by Song dynasty poet Li Qingzhao, written in 1135, known for its closing image of sorrow too heavy for a boat.
X/Self
X/Self is a 1987 book-length poem by the Barbadian poet and historian Edward Kamau Brathwaite, completing his trilogy begun with Mother Poem (1977) and Sun Poem (1982).
Xasside
Xasside, also spelled khassaïde or qasida, is the Wolof term for the Islamic religious poems central to the liturgy of Senegal's Sufi orders, above all the Muridiyya.
Xi Jiang Yue: Night Walk on Huangsha Road
Xi Jiang Yue: Night Walk on Huangsha Road (西江月·夜行黄沙道中) is a ci poem by Xin Qiji describing a summer night walk on a country road near Shangrao, Jiangxi.
Xiang Furen
Xiang Furen (湘夫人, The Lady of the Xiang) is a poem in the Nine Songs section of the Chu Ci, attributed to the Warring States poet Qu Yuan.
Xiaocang Shanfang Shichao
Xiaocang Shanfang Shichao (小仓山房诗集) is the poetry collection of the Qing dynasty poet Yuan Mei, arranged chronologically over fifty-one years of verse, from 1736 to 1786.
Xiaoshan Ci
Xiaoshan Ci (小山词), originally titled Yuefu Buwang, is a collection of about 255 short song lyrics by the Northern Song poet Yan Jidao, who died in 1110.
Xin Shi
Xin Shi (History of the Heart) is a seven-volume collection of poems and essays attributed to the Song loyalist Zheng Sixiao, its authenticity disputed since the Qing dynasty.
Y Gododdin
Y Gododdin, medieval Welsh elegies attributed to Aneirin for Gododdin warriors who fell at Catraeth (Catterick) around AD 600; survives in the 13th-century Book of Aneirin, texts A and B.
Yakhal'inkomo
Yakhal'inkomo, a Nguni title meaning "the cry of the cow", is the first poetry collection by South African poet Mongane Wally Serote, published in 1972 and winner of the Ingrid Jonker Prize.