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Yuezhang Ji
The Collected Ci of Liu Yong (Yuezhang ji, 樂章集) is the collection of ci lyrics by Northern Song poet Liu Yong, arranged by musical mode and foundational for slow ci.
Yugvandana
Yugvandana (યુગવંદના, "Ode to the Age") is a Gujarati poetry collection by Jhaverchand Meghani, published in 1935, that earned him the title Rashtriya Shayar, conferred by Mahatma Gandhi.
Yukar
Yukar (Ainu: ユカㇻ) is the chanted oral epic literature of the Ainu people, the indigenous inhabitants of Hokkaido, comprising heroic epics and mythic epics narrated by gods.
Yuming Tang Ji
Yuming Tang Ji (玉茗堂集), or Collected Works of the Jade Tea Hall, gathers the poetry, prose, and letters of the Ming dynasty playwright Tang Xianzu (1550–1616).
Yunus Emre Divanı
Yunus Emre Divanı (Yûnus Emre Dîvânı) is the collected lyric poetry of the Turkish Sufi poet Yunus Emre, written in Old Anatolian Turkish at the foundation of Turkish Sufi poetry.
Yuria
Yuria is a 1967 poetry collection by the Mexican poet Jaime Sabines, published by Joaquín Mortiz in Mexico City, notable for political poems new to his work.
Yusuf and Zulaikha
Yusuf and Zulaikha (یوسف و زلیخا, Yusuf o Zulaykha) is Jami's 1483 Persian mathnawi of 4,032 couplets in the Haft Awrang, retelling Joseph and Potiphar's wife as a Sufi romance ending in her redemption and marriage.
Yûsuf u Züleyhâ
Yûsuf u Züleyhâ (يوسف و زليخا) is the title shared by mesnevis on the love of the prophet Yusuf and Züleyhâ, written across Persian, Turkish, and Urdu literatures.
Yuyutsu (युयुत्सु)
Yuyutsu (युयुत्सु), also Vaiśyāputra, is the Mahabharata's son of Dhritarashtra by a Vaishya woman, half-brother of the Kauravas, the only one who defected to the Pandavas and survived the Kurukshetra war, later Parikshit's guardian.
Yvain, le Chevalier au Lion
Yvain, le Chevalier au Lion, or Yvain, or the Knight of the Lion, is an Arthurian romance in Old French verse by Chrétien de Troyes, composed around 1177 to 1181.
Z chałupy
Z chałupy ("From the Cottage") is a cycle of 40 sonnets by the Polish poet Jan Kasprowicz, written in Wrocław prison in 1887 and published in 1888.
Zaczarowana dorożka
Zaczarowana dorożka (The Enchanted Carriage) is a 1946 narrative poem by the Polish poet Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński about a magical night cab ride through Kraków.
Zadonshchina
Zadonshchina (Задонщина) is a lyrical poetic work of Old Russian literature commemorating the Russian victory over Mamai at the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380, deliberately structured as a counterpart to The Tale of Igor's Campaign.
Zafernâme
Zafernâme is a satirical work by Ottoman writer Ziya Paşa that mocks Grand Vizier Âli Paşa's handling of the Cretan uprising as if it were a victory.
Zahhak
Zahhak (ضحاک), from Avestan Azi Dahaka, is the serpent-shouldered tyrant of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh who ruled Iran a thousand years after usurping Jamshid, fed his snakes human brains, and was imprisoned in Mount Damavand by Feridun after Kaveh's revolt.
Zarb-e-Kaleem
Zarb-e-Kaleem (ضربِ کلیم, "The Strike of Moses's Staff") is the third Urdu poetry collection of Allama Muhammad Iqbal, published in 1936, the last in his lifetime.
Zemirot Yisrael
Zemirot Yisrael (זמירות ישראל, "Songs of Israel") is a major collection of Hebrew liturgical poems by Rabbi Yisrael Najara, first printed at Safed in 1587 and expanded in Venice in 1599-1600.
Zhan Cheng Nan
Zhan Cheng Nan (战城南) is a Western Han yuefu folk song, the only warfare song among the Eighteen Songs of the Han Drum-and-Flute, mourning unburied soldiers and condemning war.
Zindan-Nama
Zindan-Nama ("Book of the Prison") is the third poetry collection of Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, written in prison and published in Lahore in 1956.
Zion, Will You Not Ask
"Zion, Will You Not Ask" (Tziyon halo tishali) is a Hebrew poem of longing for Zion by Judah Halevi, whose opening line ranks among his most famous compositions.
Ziye Songs
The Ziye Songs (子夜歌) are a set of Southern Dynasties yuefu love songs, traditionally attributed to a Jin dynasty woman named Ziye but likely composed by Wu women.
Zlati čoln
Zlati čoln ("The Golden Boat") is a collection of 45 poems the Slovene poet Srečko Kosovel prepared in 1925; the manuscript was lost and only its preface survives.
Zohre and Tahir
Zohre and Tahir (Tâhir ile Zühre) is a love dastan, a prosimetric epic often likened to Romeo and Juliet, circulating across Turkic traditions from Central Asia to Turkey.
Zulat
Zulat (זולת) is a genre of Hebrew liturgical poetry, or piyyut, inserted into the Ge'ullah blessing after the morning Shema, recited mainly on Sabbaths and festivals.
Þrymskviða
Þrymskviða, "The Lay of Þrymr", is a comic Eddic poem in which Thor recovers his stolen hammer by disguising himself as Freyja at a giant's wedding.