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Song of the Orphan
Song of the Orphan (孤儿行) is a Han-dynasty yuefu narrative folk poem in the voice of an orphan worked and mistreated by his brother and sister-in-law.
Song of the Pipa
Song of the Pipa (琵琶行) is a long narrative poem by Tang poet Bai Juyi, written in 816 about an aging pipa player he met in exile.
Song of the Running Horse River
Song of the Running Horse River (走马川行) is a Tang dynasty frontier poem by Cen Shen, written around 754 to see off General Feng Changqing's western campaign.
Song of the Snow: Farewell to Secretary Wu
Song of the Snow: Farewell to Secretary Wu is an eighteen-line poem by Tang poet Cen Shen, written at Luntai in 754 to see off a colleague.
Song of the Thatched Hut Torn by the Autumn Wind
A 761 poem in song-style verse by the Tang dynasty poet Du Fu, describing how autumn wind tore the thatch from his thatched cottage beside the Huanhua Stream in Chengdu.
Song of the White Hair
Song of the White Hair (Baitou yin) is a Han dynasty yuefu ballad in a woman's voice, traditionally attributed to Zhuo Wenjun and known for its devoted-heart couplet.
Song of Weicheng
Song of Weicheng, also known as Song Yuan Er shi Anxi, is a four-line Tang dynasty quatrain by Wang Wei, written as a farewell to a friend departing for the Anxi Protectorate.
Songgang Jip
Songgang Jip (송강집; 松江集) is the collected poetry and prose of the mid-Joseon poet and official Jeong Cheol, published complete in 1894 in 11 volumes and including his famous gasa and sijo.
Sóngoro cosongo
Sóngoro cosongo is a 1931 book of poetry by the Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, subtitled Poemas mulatos, which presents the African and Spanish mixture of Cuba's people as the essence of the nation.
Songs
Songs (Spevy) is an 1868 poetry collection by the Slovak Romantic poet Samo Chalupka, his only lifetime book, gathering 22 poems on historical and outlaw themes.
Songs of a Sourdough
Songs of a Sourdough is a 1907 poetry collection by Canadian poet Robert W. Service, known in the United States as The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses.
Songs of Central Australia
Songs of Central Australia is a 1971 book by the anthropologist T. G. H. Strehlow that records and translates the ceremonial songs of the Aranda and Luritja peoples of Central Australia.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a poetry collection by William Blake, combining two illuminated books in 1794, including "The Lamb" and "The Tyger."
Songs of Life
Songs of Life (أغاني الحياة) is the collected diwan of Tunisian Romantic poet Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi, assembled by him in 1934 and first published posthumously in 1955.
Songs of Qin
Songs of Qin (Qinzhong yin, 秦中吟) is a set of ten satirical poems by the Tang poet Bai Juyi, written in Chang'an around 810 CE.
Songs of Sorrow
Songs of Sorrow is a two-part poem by the Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor that adapts the Ewe dirge into English verse, lamenting poverty and the collapse of a lineage.
Songs of Yesterday
Songs of Yesterday (Zuori zhi ge) is the first poetry collection of the Chinese poet Feng Zhi, published in 1927, gathering fifty poems from 1921 to 1926.
Sonnet 116
Sonnet 116, 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds', is Shakespeare's famous definition of constant love, printed in the 1609 quarto (misnumbered 119), widely used at weddings and in court, with a newly found 1640s manuscript adaptation.
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 18, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?", is Shakespeare's most famous sonnet, published in the 1609 Thorpe quarto; it argues the beloved's beauty is immortalized in verse itself.
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Sonnets from the Portuguese is a sequence of 44 love sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written secretly during her 1845–1846 courtship with Robert Browning and published in 1850.
Sonnets pour Hélène
Sonnets pour Hélène is a two-book collection of love sonnets published in 1578 by Pierre de Ronsard, addressed to the court lady Hélène de Surgères.
Sonnets to Orpheus
Sonnets to Orpheus (Die Sonette an Orpheus) is a cycle of 55 German sonnets by Rainer Maria Rilke, written in 1922 and published in 1923.
Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence's third novel (Duckworth, 1913), is a semi-autobiographical Nottinghamshire Bildungsroman about Paul Morel's possessive mother, Miriam, and Clara, and the most psychoanalytically scrutinized of Lawrence's novels.
Sons for the Return Home
Sons for the Return Home is a 1973 novel by the Samoan writer Albert Wendt, telling of a Samoan family's migration to New Zealand and a doomed interracial love affair.
Sookie Stackhouse
Sookie Stackhouse, also called the Southern Vampire Mysteries protagonist, is Charlaine Harris's telepathic waitress heroine of Bon Temps, Louisiana, in a 13-novel series (2001–2013) adapted into HBO's True Blood with Anna Paquin.
Sophat
Sophat is a 1938 novel by the Cambodian writer Rim Kin, generally regarded as the first Khmer novel and the first creative work in Khmer prose.
Sophiatown Renaissance
The Sophiatown Renaissance was a black cultural movement in 1940s and 1950s Johannesburg, centered on Drum magazine and destroyed by apartheid removals by the early 1960s.
Sophie's Choice (novel)
Sophie's Choice (novel), by William Styron, published June 11, 1979: a Brooklyn-set story of Stingo, Polish Catholic Auschwitz survivor Sophie, and Nathan, centered on her forced choice between her children; winner of the first American Book Award and a source of lasting controversy.
Sophie's World
Sophie's World (Sofies verden) is a 1991 novel by the Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder that weaves a history of Western philosophy into a mystery story.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize
The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (Premio de Literatura Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz) is an annual prize for women novelists writing in Spanish.