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Index of Poems

Here are all the poems posted up to 26th April 2024
Sorted by poet surname:
[Note - names in SE Asia are presented family name followed by forename - I have kept this order in the list below and alphabetically they are sorted by forename, e.g. Chu Hsi is in the H section]

A:

A.E. - See George William Russell
Shahnaz A'lami - Magic Suitcase
Hanane Aad - Who Will Buy Me Certainty?
Jeppe Aakjær - Evening
Vikram G. Aarella - Jesus - The Shepherd
Emil Aarestrup - Angst
Kunanbaev Ibragim Abai - Black of my eye
Kunanbaev Ibragim Abai - Summer
Rira Abbasi - Oil Ailment
Adam Abdurrahman - I see it happening
Antoine Abel - Dances of yesterday
Antoine Abel - Your country
Peter Abelard - How great, how beautiful that Sabbath rest
Yosef lbn Abitur - The “WHO?” of lbn Abitur of Cordoba
Philip C. Abonyi - when a child talks of heartbreak
Fowziyah Abu-Khalid - Numerical conjecture
Mohammed Abu-Talib - How unorthodox!
Pamela Elizabeth Acaye - Social media love
Bhanubhakta Acharya - Letter to the prime minister
Srî Ananda Acharya - Only a bird
Srî Ananda Acharya - Realization
Śrî Ānanda Āchārya - The Poem of the Universe
Chinua Achebe - Pine tree in spring (for Leon Damas)
Matur Achuil - There is justice in the jungle
Adam of St. Victor - Ascension
Adam of St. Victor - Pone luctum Magdalena
Adam of St. Victor - St. Stephen
Adam of St. Victor - Trinity
Bedros Adamian - The waves on the shore
Arthur Adams - Written in Australia
Francis W.L. Adams - World wounded
Mary Electa Adams - Alone?
Helen Adamson - Do you know
Yusuf Adamu - Nairobi
Manal Al Adawi - Untitled
Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen - An attempt to await
Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen - Graves of Meaning
Gbemisola Adeoti - Ambush
Gbenga Adesina - How to fall in love with an African city
Ibrahim ibn Adham - To the Caliph Haroun al Rashid
Seyi Adigun - Pompholyx
Paul Adolphus - The way you are
Sibusiso Adontsi - The curse of being black with no direction
Aeschylus - Prometheus Unbound, 716-818
Yasus Afari - The Earth is our Friend (Garden of Creation)
John Agard - Go spread wings
Agathias - see Agathias Scholasticus
Agnès Agboton - They remain lying on the earth
Jémima Fiadjoe-Prince Agbodjan - Thank you for being a woman
Sarah Anyang Agbor - I too sing Cameroon
Dritëro Agolli - The Vineyard
Gösta Ågren - The Cities
Raúl Aguirrezabalaga - The Scar
Jim Pascual Agustin - At the river crossing
Delmira Agustini - Explosion
Delmira Agustini - Fierce from love
Delmira Agustini - Immutable
Delmira Agustini - I live, I die, I burn, I drown
Delmira Agustini - Nocturne
Kajal Ahmad - Kinder than Miriam
St Teresa of Ávila (Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada) - Christ has no body
St Teresa of Ávila (Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada) - I will just say this
St Teresa of Ávila (Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada) - Let nothing trouble you
Mawlana (Taj ud-Din) Ahmed - Up and sing!
Naja Marie Aidt - a sudden fear of coming home
Inger-Mari Aikio - let our skins
Elone N. Ainebyoona - That same night
Vinepa Aiono - OFF 2 FIJI - hot airports
Marfuga Aitkhozha - Pebbles
Amanda Aizpuriete - Let us not talk of the price
Mohammad al-Ajami - see Mohammad al-Ajami Ibn al-Dheeb
Ajt-Man - In search of five weapons
Humberto Ak'abal - Jaguar
Humberto Ak'abal - the grandmother
Yamabe no Akahito - On yearning for Mt Fuji
Sonja Åkesson - To be an infant
Anna Akhmatova - Celebrate
Anna Akhmatova - Everything promised him to me
Anna Akhmatova - In Memoriam, July 19 1914
Anna Akhmatova - Sunbeam
Anna Akhmatova - You will hear thunder
Gülten Akin - Song of a Dweller in a High-Rise Block
Gülten Akin - Stain
Alfadhel ibn Alabas - Verses addressed to a kindred tribe
Ahmed ALajmi - Stars
Luigi Alamanni - The March of Xerxes
Luigi Alamanni - To Italy
Liana Alaverdova - Iventory of things left behind
Ahmad al-Alawi - Layla
Jaafer Ben Alba - On the Battle of Sabla
Rafael Alberti - Naming the Dawn
Alcæus of Mytilene - A banquet song
Baltasar del Alcázar - Sleep
Louisa May Alcott - A Song from the Suds
Louisa May Alcott - Lullaby
Louisa May Alcott - What Polly found in her stocking
Alcman - Nature's calm
Francisco de Aldana - Sonnet XXXIV
Francisco de Aldana - The Image of God
Caetano da Costa Alegre - Visions
Claribel Alegría - And I dreamt that I was a tree
Claribel Alegría - From the bridge
Claribel Alegría - Letter to Time
Claribel Alegría - The Procession
Claribel Alegría - The Return
Abd Almalec Alharithy - On the Tomb of Sayid
Abu Sahet Alhedhily - On the death of his mistress
Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni - I question you
Kadyr Myrza Ali - The Earth
Dante degli Alighieri - Autmn Song
Dante degli Alighieri - Beauty in woman
Dante degli Alighieri - Love and the Gentle Heart
Dante degli Alighieri - My lady looks so gentle and so pure
Dante degli Alighieri - Of Beauty and Duty
Dante degli Alighieri - Paradise (Canto 1)
Dante degli Alighieri - Within my heart I felt a sudden stir
Hasan Alizadeh - Exile Diary (I956-I967)
Deighton R. Alleyne - Island Treasure - Barbados!
William Allingham - After Sunset
William Allingham - The Emmigrant's Adieu to Ballyshannon
Idriss Allouch - Metaphors
Mohammad Almoghrabi - The mural of arrogance
Abu Alola - On the incompatibility of Pride and True Glory
Ebn Alrumi - To a lady weeping
Hebat Allah ibn Altalmith - On Procrastination
Rudolph Altrocchi - Summons to Youth
Hipólito Alvarado - a passing glimpse of the first of may, storypoem
David Amadu - Laughing drums
Ambrose of Milan - Creator of the earth and sky
Ambrose of Milan - Eternal glory of the sky
Ambrose of Milan - Morning
Ambrose of Milan - O splendour of God's glory bright
Maxim Amelin - Rising at morning from my graveside
Jean D’Amérique - My City
Yehuda Amichai - An Arab Shepherd Is Searching For His Goat On Mount Zion
Yehuda Amichai - God has pity on kindergarten children
Yehuda Amichai - My father
Yehuda Amichai - The diameter of the bomb
Yehuda Amichai - The place where we are right
Yehuda Amichai - We did it
AminTheRanter - Let us paint, World
Dvora Amir - To the lost
Otieno Amisi - A refugee song
Otieno Amisi - Letter From A Park
Otieno Amisi - Mother Sango
Otieno Amisi - The Artist Lives Dangerously
Karaikkal Ammaiyar - When I was born
Assamala Amoi - If you could
Jean el Mouhoub Amrouche - Adoration of the Palm Trees
Anacreon - All things drink
Anacreon - Beauty
Anacreon - The Grasshopper
Anacreon - The Thracian filly
Anacreon - The Wish
Anakreon - see Anacreon
St. Anatolius of Constantinople - The day is past and over
St. Anatolius of Constantinople - Fierce was the wild billow
Ibn Hani al-Andalusi - Al-Jilnar
Hans Christian Andersen - That ancient tree, don't let it fall
W.J. Anderson - No room for the dead
Daniela Andonovska-Trajkovska - Coordinating System
Jorge Carrera Andrade - The weathercock of the cathedral at Quito
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen - Discovery
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen - Sibyls
Michael Parfait Andrianjaka - Oh Madagascar
Juri Andruchowytsch - India 1
Harriet Anena - I Died Alive
Harriet Anena Violent Love
Maya Angelou - On the pulse of the morning
Dostena Angelova-Lavergne - Supper with poppies
Dostena Angelova-Lavergne - Warm weather
Johannes Angelus - see Johannes Engel
Frances Angermayer - Since I met you I'm not afraid
Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke - The Single Minded Nature
Jared Angira - Hunger
Jared Angira - No coffin, no grave
Cecco Angolieri - What I should like to do
Abayomi Animashaun - Anecdote of a Goat
Feyisayo Anjorin - Akure
Feyisayo Anjorin - Johannesburg
Augusto dos Anjos - A philosopher's agony
Augusto dos Anjos - Immortal lust
Tallapaka Annamacharya - see Annamayya
Annamayya - A woman to her lover
J.K. Annand - Mince and tatties
Innokenty Annensky - I don't know, I can't explain
Anon - 2 termite skyscrapers
Anon - A mother's lament for her drowned son
Anon - A north country song
Anon - An Address to the River of Creation
Anon - April showers
Anon - Aures ad nostras Deitatis preces
Anon - Because I was brought low
Anon - Benediction
Anon - Beowulf (lines 1-52)
Anon - Commendation to Atum at Dawn
Anon - Dawn (from Songs of Dzitbalche)
Anon - Elephant
Anon - Fire runs through my body
Anon - Girls at Bwandilo - Lilongwe
Anon - Great Riches Do Not Fill the Heart (from Ibonia: Conception and Birth, part 1)
Anon - Green, green the river-side grass
Anon - High in the Sky
Anon - I lift my hands and with my heart
Anon - I saw three ships
Anon - Incursion of the Crimean Tartars
Anon - It seemes that Tunis is an auncient towne
Anon - Jakïp dreams about Manas
Anon - Lao-Tze
Anon - Lay she naked in the sea
Anon - 烈文 (Lie Wen)
Anon - Love at my door
Anon - My eyes say
Anon - My world
Anon - O Lord Remember
Anon - Prayer and Blessing
Anon - Remember man
Anon - Savitri
Anon - Serenade (from Songs of Dzitbalche)
Anon - She that would gain a faithful lover
Anon - Song of the Sea (שירת הים, Shirat HaYam)
Anon - St. George and the dragon
Anon - Stop the violence
Anon - Summer has come
Anon - Sundjata’s Conception
Anon - Table Manners for Children
Anon - The Angels in our countryside
Anon - The Bonny Moor Hen
Anon - The Book of Arda Viraf, Part II, Chapter 3
Anon - The Coming Judgment of the Wicked
Anon - The Epic of Gilgamesh (Prologue)
Anon - The Epic of Gilgamesh (The story of the Flood)
Anon - The legend of Sargon
Anon - The London Convict Maid
Anon - The Love Song of Shu-Sin
Anon - The New Year
Anon - The singer
Anon - The Song of the Birds
Anon - The thunder is a great dragon
Anon - The warrior song of King Gesar (Part 1.I.i)
Anon - The Whale
Anon - The Wind Keeps Blowing
Anon - We remember him
Anon - What a time the great sea
Anon - What is love?
Anon (American Indian) - This was our land
Anon (Chippewa Indian) - I will walk
Anon (Gikuyu tribesman) - Asking for Blessing
Anon (Hopi Indian) - Korosta Katzina song
Anon (Navajo Indian) - Prayer from Night Chant healing ceremony
Anon (Ngoni tribesman) - The earth does not get fat
Anon (Tuvalu native) - The skillful master fisherman
Anon (Zezuru tribesmen) - A prayer to Mwari and the ancestors at a time of drought
Diana Anphimiadi Dance Lessons (3/4 time)
St Anselm - Incarnate God, Thou word divine
St Anselm - Virgin of virgins
Antar - O thou wolf, eager for death
Antipater of Sidon - Erinna
Antipater of Sidon - It is the season
Sinan Antoon - A Postcard from the Underworld
Hanna Anuar - New Year
Chairil Anwar - Aku
Gloria Anzaldúa - To live in the borderlands
An Craoibhín Aoibhinn - see Douglas Hyde
Aonghus Fionn Ó Dálaigh - Aonghus of the Divinity
Aonghus of the Divinity - O Christ protect me!
Guillaume Apollinaire - Clotilde
Guillaume Apollinaire - La chanson du mal aimé
Guillaume Apollinaire - Mirabeau Bridge
Guillaume Apollinaire - The Ninth Secret Poem
Guillaume Apollinaire - The Pretty Redhead
Apollonius of Rhodes - Medea at night
José Luis Appleyard - There’s a place
Louisa April - Manly canvas
Louisa April - Skin lights
José Manuel Arango - Mountains/3
Janoa Arany - Cosmopolitan poetry
Flávio de Araújo - No one plants fish in the sea
Archilochus - On an eclipse of the sun
Arquímedes Arci - Blue Illusion
Sawsan Al-Areeqe - What If My Blood Sweetened Into Chocolate
Ricardo Arenales - see Porfirio Barba Jacob
Pietro Aretino - Plain song
Fra Guittone d’Arezzo - Love's bondman
Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola - Mary Magdalen
Luis de Góngora y Argote - Of the deceitful brevity of life
Luis de Góngora y Argote - Not all sweet nightingales
Luis de Góngora y Argote - The white lilies
Homero Aridjis - In the glad hours of the morning
Frank Martinus Arion - XIV
Aristaenetus - From the groom of a knight in love
Aristaenetus - The pleasing constraint
Ken Arkind - In their own language
Roberto Armijo - To my generation
Bettina Von Arnim - In Goethe's Garden
Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh - One day in June
Anders Arrebo - Oh, Sing with Exultation
S.J. Pedro Arrupe - Falling in love
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga - see Gómez de Avellaneda
Boghos L. Artinian - SETI
H.C. Artmann - the sun is a new house
Oral Arukenova - Only the dog walkers will survive
Aaron Ashby - We lay here in the cold harsh wind
Gita Ashok - An Exam
Anne Askew - The Ballad which Anne Askew made and sang when she was in Newgate
Adam Asnyk - Pointless your mourning
Adam Asnyk - To the young
Miguel Ángel Asturias - Caudal (The Fortune)
Miguel Ángel Asturias - Movingroot of the flower of the air
Hieromartyr Athenogenes - O gladsome light
Visvavârâ Âtreyî - Agni, or the Fire
Farid ud-Din ʿAṭṭār - Intoxicated by the wine of Love
Farīd ud-Dīn ʿAṭṭār - Looking for your own face
Farīd ud-Dīn ʿAṭṭār - Strive to discover the mystery
Farid ud-Din ʿAṭṭār - The Welcome
Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom - The Lily Of The Valley
Margaret Atwood - February
Margaret Atwood - Is/Not
Marie-Andree Auclair - Silence number 1, Begetting
Celeste Augé - Women improve with the years
Augusta Treverorum - see St. Ambrose of Milan
St. Augustine of Hippo - Holy Spirit prayer
Lilian A. Aujo - The eye of poetry
Sri Aurobindo - God
Decimius Magnus Ausonius - Spring, and Decimius Magnus Ausonius - To his wife and the sharpness of the golden dawn
Austral - The forty mile bush
Gómez de Avellaneda - To Him
Mariya Avvakumova - From Baltic meditations
Marial Awendit - Ode to things that cut
Kofi Awoonor - Messages
Kofi Awoonor - The Anvil and the Hammer
Iftikhar Ayaz - Tuvalu, Tuvalu
Gennady Aygi - Consolation: Roses
Gennady Aygi - Outskirts: Winter without people
Glennise Ayuk - Misaddress
Asmaa Azaizeh - Dragonflies
Fekade Azeze - Addis Ababa
Shakila Azizzada - Haft Seen
Shakila Azizzada - View from afar
Tikum Azonga - those who stitch
Nnorom Azuonye - Show me the way
Nnorom Azuonye - Talk to me
Fadhil Al-Azzawi - Bedouins
Clare Azzopardi - This island's parched

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B:

Amadou Hampâté Bâ - Kaidara excerpt
Fatou Dioffé Bâ - Mame
Amadou Oumar Bâ - Justice is done
Tibor Babiczky - Omega
Tibor Babiczky - Pan's Pub
Mihaly Babits - Daniel’s song
Mihaly Babits - Jonah's prayer
Mihaly Babits - The lyric poet's epilogue
Mihaly Babits - Supplication to Saint Blaise
Ẓahir-ud-Din Muhammad Babur - Second raid on the Turkman Hazaras
Bacchylides - Praise of peace
Harivansh Rai Bachchan - Madhushala (The Tavern)
Ingeborg Bachmann - Fogland
Ingeborg Bachmann - Shadows Roses Shadows
Ingeborg Bachmann - Stay
Badi - Tishuash
Beatriz Badikian-Gartler - Mapmaker
Frank Báez - In Damen
Frank Báez - Santo Domingo
Jens Baggesen - Infancy
Jens Baggesen - To my country
Elisaveta Bagyrana - Descendants
Elisaveta Bagyrana - Poetry
Sheena Baharudin - Moles
Maysun bint Bahdal - The Lament of Maisun, the Bedouin wife of Mu‘awiya
J. F. Bahnmaier - Spread, o spread thou mighty word
Carlos Bahr - Sin
Li Bai - Amidst the Flowers a Jug of Wine
Li Bai - Bringing in the wine
Li Bai - Down Zhonghan Mountain to the pillow and bowl of husi
Li Bai - Drinking alone with the moon
Li Bai - Intoxication
Li Bai - Moon over Mountain Pass
Li Bai - Verses for the Lady Yang
Mira Bai - Mother, give me my Girdhari
Jean Antoine de Baif - The Calculation of Life
Bak Cheol - Moon
Baka people - Sleep, sleep, little one
Emma Frances Baker - see W.J. Anderson
Hinemoana Baker - Narcissist advice column
Bâḳî - Ghazal
Tanja Bakic - An Open Wound
Brenda Dokmah Bakomora- Dear African woman
Elizabeta Bakovska - The Persian bride
Francisco Balagtas - To Celia
Osmer Eder Balam - Arrival of the Emperor
Yasemin Balandi- Liverpool
Notker Balbulus - Arise and render thanks to God
Notker Balbulus - Hymn for the Nativity
Notker Balbulus - The Alleluiatic Sequence
Notker Balbulus - The strain upraise of joy and praise
James Baldwin - Munich Winter 1973 (for Y.S.)
James Ballantine - Ilka Blade o’ Grass Keps its ain Drap o’ Dew
Ingmara Balode - After the deluge
Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba - Fouzti, prayer poem
Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba - Hide yourselves, you who search for knowledge
Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba - O most favoured Guest!
Sophie N. Bamwoyeraki - At 84
Bandi - Dark and fearful
Brishti Bandyopadhyay - Oh, summer!
Kendall Banning - The Call of the Seven Seas
Theodore de Banville - Life's philosophy
Baqi - see Bâḳî
Dato Barbakadze - Monastery in the hills (Monk's song)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld - Washing Day
Jorge Barbosa - Fertile Land
Pedro Calderón de la Barca - Life is a dream
Pedro Calderón de la Barca - Love, Love
Pedro Calderón de la Barca - The Cross
Pedro Calderón de la Barca - The Dream Called Life
Pedro Calderón de la Barca - Thou art of all created things
Google Bard - The Rainbow's End
Tamim Barghouti - Gift
Sylvanus Barnes - The prudish parent
Mbarka Mint al-Barra’ - Message from a martyr
Mbarka Mint al-Barra’ - Poetry and I
Elfrida De Renne Barrow - I Wonder
Raymond Barrow - Dawn is a fisherman
Adelle Barry - Staying at a distance is staying alive
Kacper Bartczak - Beyond the Helplessness Principle
Sohini Basak - Laconic
Basava - Kannada ‘Vachana'
Eqrem Basha - Ode to mediocrity
Eqrem Basha - The Audience
Matsuo Basho - A cold rain starting
Matsuo Basho - Bush clover flowers
Matsuo Basho - It was with awe
RIC S. Bastasa - catching your flying kiss
Alexander Bathgate - Maungatua
Mario Battistella - Remembrance
Charles Baudelaire - Among us all
Charles Baudelaire - Get drunk
Charles Baudelaire - To a Creole lady
Blanche Edith Baughan - The old place
Tsogdorjin Bavuudorj - A very big white elephant
Tsogdorjin Bavuudorj - Grass is growing in the east
James Beattie - Blow, blow thou vernal gale!
Ludwig Bechstein - On the journey
Zeina Hashem Beck - Hiyam
Japhia Beckford - trees and silence around us
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer - Awake—I tremble before thee
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer - The dusky swallows will return
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer - The viewless atoms of the air
Bede - A hymn
Antonio Preciado Bedoya - History
Stafford Beer - Tigers at Play
Aphra Behn - The willing mistress
Johannes Beilharz - Leaving Atocha Station
Dejido Bejide - 21
Jo Bell - Channelled
Andres Bello - To the Bío Bío
Hilaire Belloc - April
Hilaire Belloc - On two ministers of state
Hilaire Belloc - The Early Morning
Dina Bellrham - Lisis
Luis Enrique Belmonte - The bird of hope
Vizma Belševica - Offspring
Andrey Bely - Beyond the sun
Andrey Bely - The Dramatic Symphony (extract)
Stephen Vincent Benét - Daniel Boone
Stephen Vincent Benét - Dinner in a lunch room
Salome Benidze - Berlin. January
Christian Benitez - Mango trees
Vinay Benjamin - One word song
Benumah - I traverse the world
Nezim Berati - see Nezim Frakulla
Gonzalo de Berceo - The Praise of Spring
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow - Sport Türkmenistan
Olga Berggolts - Here lay Leningraders
Olga Berggolts - My Home
Gottfried von Berlichingen - see Götz
Bernard of Clairvaux - Hail Thou the World's Salvation
Bernard of Clairvaux - Jesu dulcis memoria
Bernard of Clairvaux - Miranda vanitas
Bernard of Clairvaux - Of Him who did salvation bring
Bernard of Cluny - Brief life is here our portion
Bernard of Morlaix - see Bernard of Cluny
Veronica Evanson Bernard - Women of Antigua!
Francisco Luis Bernárdez - To recover
Bert Beros - The Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels
Huguette Bertrand - Break and bricks
Mugurditch Beshiktashlian - Spring
Mugurditch Beshiktashlian - We are brothers
Bessiki - O lovely maid!
Bessiki - Two blackbirds
Mary Ursula Bethell - Ado
Ayokunle Samuel Betiku - How I hold myself together
Bhāravi - (I) Draupadî's Remonstrance
Bhāravi - (IV) Autumn fields
Bhāravi - (V) The Himalayas
Bhāravi - (VII) The Nymphs
Bhāravi - (VIII) The Advent of Indra
Bhāravi - (IX) The Advent of Siva
Bhāravi - (X) The Boar Hunt
Bhāravi - (XI) The Combat
Bhartrhari - She who is always in my thoughts
Sujata Bhatt - Truth is mute
Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin - Partake
Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai - If you are seeking Allah
Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai - Sur Karyal
Bhoja - Her face is like the moon
The Bible - Proverbs 23:22-26 (for Mother's Day)
Valerie Bichard - Weaving stones
Isaac Bickerstaffe - There was a jolly miller
Otto Julius Bierbaum - Enough
Big Stick - see Feng-kan
Mrs Bignold - VAD
Olavo Bilac - Old Trees
Natalka Bilotserkivets - Love in Kyiv
Brian Bilston - Announcements
Brian Bilston - Refugees
Hildegard von Bingen - Ave, Generosa
Hildegard von Bingen - Holy Spirit
Hildegard von Bingen - O Ignee Spiritus
D.A.M. Binnendijk - Aurora
Christy Birmingham - The next take
Christy Birmingham - Spiders
Kimbi Bismark - Lust is loss
Ralph Bitamazire - I love you my gentle one
Ralph Bitamazire - The dog in Kivulu
Okot p' Bitek - Cattle Egret
Okot p' Bitek - My Husband's Tongue is Bitter (Song of Lawino - I)
Gunnar Björling - Alyosha Karamazov
Björnstjerne Björnson - Master or Slave
Björnstjerne Björnson - Open water!
Björnstjerne Björnson - The Princess
Björnstjerne Björnson - The Tree
John Stuart Blackie - To the Memory of Sydney Dobell
J.L. Blackett - Master builders all
Lucian Blaga - May Gives Itself With Sweet Abandon
William Blake - Holy Thursday
William Blake - The Lamb
William Blake - The Tyger
Anna Blaman - Women
Jean Blewett - For he was Scotch and so was she
John Blight - Colour
Mathilde Blind - Marriage
Aleksandr Blok - The Stranger
Aleksandr Blok - To the Muse
Rachel Bluwstein - One Gentle Evening Suave
Bion - Love's Schooling
Barcroft Henry Boake - A memory
Barcroft Henry Boake - From the far west
Barcroft Henry Boake - How Babs Malone cut down the field
Barcroft Henry Boake - The demon snow shoes (A legend of Kiandra)
Nana Nyarko Boateng - Stank with sweat
Catharina Boer - Pandangaran
Allan Boesak - Advent Credo
Boethius - Love is lord of all
Limam Boicha - Branches that thirst
Limam Boicha - Lines on wood
Eavan Boland - Code
Eavan Boland - The Moment
Eavan Boland - Outside History
Eavan Boland - Patchwork
Suzanne Tanella Boni - Gorée Baobab Island
Yves Bonnefoy - Passer-by these are words
Deitrich Bonhoeffer - Who am I?
Elena Bono - Red flowers
Régis Bonvicino - Talvez
Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné - Ribs
Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné - Water Rushes Like Memory
Jorge Luis Borges - Limits
Jorge Luis Borges - Simplicity
Jorge Luis Borges - To a cat
Jorge Luis Borges - To the Nightingale
Ivan Borislavov - Bermuda triangle
Petr Borkovec - Drained pond
Bertran de Born - The beautiful spring delights me well
Marina Boroditskaya - Exodus
Tadeusz Borowski - October Sky
Joie Bose - Bengali women
Hristo Botev - Haidouks
Recaredo Silebo Boturu - Tragedy
Antoinette Bourignon - Come saviour Jesus from above
Julia Boutros - She has wilted early
David Bowie - Eight Line Poem
Ekaterina Boyarskikh - A person is reflected by the whirlpool
Mark Alexander Boyd - Sonet of Venus and Cupid
Karin Boye - The night's deep violoncello
Karin Boye - The tree beneath the earth
Karin Boye - You are the Seed
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen - St Olaf's Fountain
Coral Bracho - Thread in a spider's web
Thomas Bracken - O Lord, God, of nations
Leo Bradley - Belizean Lullaby
Anne Bradstreet - By night when others soundly slept
Kamau Braithwaite - Bermudas
Kamau Braithwaite - Hawk
Kamau Braithwaite - South
Hanne Bramness - Twilight
Rosa Alice Branco - A watermill beneath the bed
Rosa Alice Branco - Halfway to a house
Dionne Brand - thirsty
Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão - Epistle to Daedalus
Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão - Of the voice of things
Bernardas Brazdzionis - Horses wade in the Nemunas
Jean de Brébeuf - Huron Carol
Bertold Brecht - I'm Not Saying Anything Against Alexander
Bertold Brecht - Mack the Knife
Bertold Brecht - Questions by a workman who reads
Bertold Brecht - Radio Poem
Bertold Brecht - To be read in the morning and at night
Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero - The Eleventh Sonnet to Beauty
Brendan of Clonfert - The journey prayer
Alfred Brendel - Bent over myself
Christopher Brennan - It is the coming of the night
Clemens Brentano - Your Song Resounded
J. Le Gay Brereton - The Domain
Andre Breton - Always for the first time
Kwesi Brew - A Scandal On The Head
Kwesi Brew - The Executioner's Dream
Otakar Březina - Nature
Otakar Březina - Thus sang the burning stars
Robert Bridges - Noël: Christmas Eve 1913
Ben Brieley - The Wayver of Wellbrook
Robert Bringhurst - These poems, she said
Joseph Brodsky - 25.12.1993
Joseph Brodsky - A poem for Christmas
Joseph Brodsky - To my Daughter
Jan van Broekhuizen - Beyond the Rhine
Mael Ísu Ua Brolcháin - Deus meus
Jacob Bronowski - Take Your Gun
Anne Brontë - A word to the 'elect'
Anne Brontë - The Bluebell
Hans Adolf Brorson - I Walk in Danger All the Way
Aaron Brown - The Calling
Christy Brown - Sunday visit
George Mackay Brown - Hamnavoe Market
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Sonnet 22
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - How do I love thee? (Sonnet 43)
T.E. Brown - Presence
Robert Browning - Home thoughts, from abroad
Robert Browning - Love in a Life
Robert Browning - Meeting at night
Marcel de Bruin - Order of the day
Juan Andrés Bruno - I wish you well
Dennis Vincent Brutus - Akhenaton's Song
Dennis Vincent Brutus - I am the Tree...
Dennis Vincent Brutus - Sterling brings it
Peter Bruveris - I.K.
William Cullen Bryant - The Gladness of Nature
Dugald Buchanan - Fair Ladies are Delicate Things
Robert Buchanan - God is beautiful
Robert Buchanan - The Tree of Life
Robert Buchanan - The Wanderers
A.S. Bukenya - I met a thief
A. H. Reginald Buller - Relativity
Michelangelo Buonarotti - After trying many years
Michelangelo Buonarotti - Sonnet XVI. Love and art
Michelangelo Buonarotti - Sonnet LXVII. A prayer for aid
Michelangelo Buonarotti - Sonnet LXXII. A prayer for faith
Gottfried Augüst Bürger - The Wives of Weinsberg
Clara Burghelea - Sandpaper
Burkhart of Hohenfels - Like The Sun's Uprising Light
Robert Burns - Auld Lang Syne
Robert Burns - A red, red rose
Robert Burns - Love for love
Robert Burns - Sodger laddie
Robert Burns - The day returns, my bosom burns
Robert Burns - The Lass o' Ballochmyle
Robert Burns - To a Mouse
Gaston Burssens - XXIV
Rajaa Bushara - Wings
Yosa Buson - Before the white chrysanthemum
Yosa Buson - Dawn
Ammar Butt - Terrorism not a religion
Chayim Nachman Byalik - On the Massacre
Yi Byeong-Ryul - History of Love
Yi Byeong-Ryul - Sleeping on the Street
Lord George Byron - Damætas

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Gokçenur C. - Death thinks the Stars at Night are Scabbed over Wounds
Amilcar Cabral - No, Poetry
Astrid Cabral - Birdish
Astrid Cabral - Seven-Headed Beast
Leonor Scliar Cabral - Consecrating Alphabet
Vasco Cabral - The Fight is my Spring
Shems Almaali Cabus - On the caprices of fortune
Rafael Cadenas - Defeat
Rafael Cadenas - Making Peace
Enrique Cadicamo - Forgotten
Enrique Cadícamo - Winter
Caedmon - Caedmon's Hymn
Caedmon - Genesis book III
Alberto Caeiro - see Fernando Pessoa
Ben Caesar - I stand against
Ben Caesar - I.R.ME (I represent me)
Wu Cailan - Favour and disgrace are meaningless
Edney Cain - Magic in the Moonlight
Quintus Calaber - see Quintus Smyrnaeus
Jeremiah Joseph Callanan - The Lament for O’Sullivan Beare
Callimachus - I hate the cyclic poem
Callimachus - The dead poet friend
Callinus - Exhortation to battle
Miguel Caló - You will never return
Hoàng Cầm - Cam's Love
Lord Cam - Admonition Of A Loving Father to his Daughter
Lord Cam - My Dearest Mommie
Ada Cambridge - At sea
Ada Cambridge - Faith
Luís Vas de Camões - The Lusiad (extract from Book I: Islands in the Indian Ocean)
Luís Vas de Camões - The Lusiad (extract from Book I: Night-time in the Indian Ocean)
Luís Vas de Camões - The Lusiad (extract from Book I: Sailing to Mombasa)
Luís Vas de Camões - The Lusiad (extract from Book V: Cape of Storms)
Luís Vas de Camões - The Lusiad (extract from Book V: Madeira)
Luís Vas de Camões - The Lusiad (extract from Book X: The Maldives)
Luís Vas de Camões - Sonnet
Christian Campbell - Goodman's Bay II
David Campbell - The Sundowner's dream
Royston Dunnachie Campbell - Bongwi, The baboon
Roy Campbell - We are like worlds
W. Wilfred Campbell - Departure
Ramón de Campoamor - If I could only write
Álvaro de Campos - see Fernando Pessoa
Jorge Canese - The Myracle of the Toothpiks
José Canet - I abandoned her and I didn't know
Cao Zhi - from: The Nymph of the Luo River
Vahni Capildeo - A personal dog
Vahni Capildeo - Utter
John of Capistrano - Capystranus (introduction)
Giselle Caputo - This Day Our Daily Dog
Ernesto Cardenal - Managua 6:30 P.M.
Giosuè Carducci - Fiesole
Giosuè Carducci - Funere mersit acerbo
Giosuè Carducci - Virgil
Henry Carey - The Ballad of Sally in our alley
Thomas Carlyle - Today
Gladys Carmagnola - Wait
Bliss Carman - The Old Grey Wall
Bliss Carman - Why
Bo Carpelan - Silent Trees
Lope Félix de Vega Carpio - Judith triumphant
Lope Félix de Vega Carpio - The Good Shepherd
Lope Félix de Vega Carpio - Tomorrow
Lope Félix de Vega Carpio - Without love joy's royal palms lament
Peggy Carr - Flight of the firstborn
Santob de Carrion - Friendship
Santob de Carrion - I Will Not Have You Think Me Less
Lewis Carroll - A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky
Lewis Carroll - Bessie's song to her Doll
Lewis Carroll - Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll - The Palace of Humbug
Ciarán Carson - The Fetch
Don Carson - Dismissed by God s laugh
Svetlana Cârstean - 6 A.M.
Martin Carter - Proem
Martin Carter - This is the dark time, my love
Sydney Carter - Bitter was the night
Sydney Carter - Mother Teresa
Phoebe Cary - The Leak in the Dike
Ivan Donn Carswell - On your birthday, today
Jean Caselli - see Jean Lahor
Gladys May Casely-Hayford - Rejoice (Oh Ye Africans)
Rosario Castellanos Speaking of Gabriel
Ethel Castilla - An Australian girl
Cátulo Castillo - The Last Coffee
Théophile Bellando de Castro - Hymne Monégasque
James Julius Catalyn - Today I became a man
St Catherine of Sienna - Consecrated
St Catherine of Sienna - Sanctuary
Jakob Cats - Smoke is the food of lovers
Catullus - Advice: to himself
Catullus - His boat
Catullus - Lesbia calling
C.P. Cavafy - An Old Man
C.P. Cavafy - Ithaka
C.P. Cavafy - The Pawn
C.P. Cavafy - Walls
Guido Cavalcanti - Ballata - concerning a shepherd maid
Guido Cavalcanti - Love and Lapo
Guido Cavalcanti - Of his lady among other ladies
Guido Cavalcanti - To Dante
Madison Cawein - Before the rian
Pietru Caxaro - Il-Kantilena
Henri Cazalis - see Jean Lahor
Sìleas na Ceapaich - from Alasdair
María do Cebreiro - Venus
Paul Celan - Cologne
Paul Celan - This evening also
Thomas of Celano - Dies Irae
Lâmiî Çelebi - On Autumn
Lâmiî Çelebi - On Spring
Cempulappeyanirar - What He Said
Cen Shen - On meeting and official courier to the capital
Daiva Cepauskaite - I want to say
Francette Cerulli - Baby Girl Found
Hérib Campos Cervera - Loneliness without remembering
Aimé Césaire - Earthquake
Aimé Césaire - To the serpent
Aimé Césaire - The woman and the flame
T'ao Ch'ien - see Tao Yuanming
Shang Ch'in - Electric lock
Laura Chalar - Fortune
Abou Chamakma - I appear on balconies
Nicolas de Chamfort - from: The Cynic's Breviary
Adalbert von Chamisso - Woman's life and love: I
Patrick Chamoiseau - No death can
Nguyễn Quốc Chánh - Elsewhere I don't know, but here must be different
Antoine de Chandieu - Octonaires on the world's vanity and inconstancy
Charlemagne - Veni Creator Spiritus
Rene Char - Courbet: The Stone Breakers
Pai Gomez Charinho - Song about the Pain of Love and Sea
Sister M. Charlita - Advent antiphons
Li Ching Chao (Li Qingzhao) - Autumn Love
Li Ching Chao (Li Qingzhao) - To the tune of To Rouge the Lips
Bùi Chát - April
ChatGPT - The rainbow
Sampurna Chattarji - Easy
Geoffrey Chaucer - Balade
Geoffrey Chaucer - To Rosemounde
Lisímaco Chavarría - The hometown girl
Luis Chaves - Snow, Electricity
Im Che - Do You Still Sleep In This Valley
Efemia Chela - Run, Heart, Run
Syl Cheney-Coker - Blood Money
Syl Cheney-Coker - Of hope and dinosaurs
Syl Cheney-Coker - The breast of the sea
Bak Cheol - Moon
G.K. Chesterton - The Donkey
G.K. Chesterton - The happy man
G.K. Chesterton - The house of Christmas
Govinda Krishna Chettur - The Temple Tank
Yeng Chheangly - A woman
Sonam Chhoki - spring notes
Batsirai E. Chigama - Letter to my Unborn Child
Sung Chih-Wên - The Court of Dreams
Chihwan Yu - I do not know
Bernadette Chikapa - Work of Art
Obinna Chilekezi - Banjul this afternoon
Cheela Chilala - Rear view mirror
Hwang Chin-i - see Hwang Jini
Julius Chingono - At a Refugee Camp
Julius Chingono - Grapes
Kayo Chingonyi - Some bright elegance
Sri Chinmoy - Man forgets
Chinok - Iron, we were told
Mbizo Chirasha - Identity apples
Sandro Chiri - A Window in Winter
Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī - The noise of the lover
Muinuddin Chishti - see Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī
Albert Chitsanzo - Africa
Fukuda Chiyo-ni - Dragonfly catcher
Alpha Chizuzu - Terrifying Perfection
Ch'ŏn'gum - Night settles on this mountain village
José Santos Chocano - A Song of the Road
José Santos Chocano - El Charro
José Santos Chocano - The Magnolia
Karel Matej Capek Chod - Gardener's prayer
Kezang Dechen Choden - All acts of love must surrender
Jo Ki Chon - Mt. Paektu (Prologue)
Eileen Chong - Rainforest
Yi Chongbo - A Memory
Yi Chongbo - May my love become an alder tree
Yearn Hong Choi - Hummingbird
So Chong-ju - Flower snake
Asad Chowdhury - Dream wall
Po Chü-i - An early cricket chirps
Po Chü-i - Song of the pines
Thato Angela Chuma - The Rank
john tiong chunghoo - 10,000 years for each earth citizen
john tiong chunghoo - the singapore i love
Hubert Church - Rosalind
Hubert Church - To a sea shell
Claudian - Carmina Minora VII (LXXXVII) Statue of a Chariot
Matthias Claudius - Evening Song
Matthias Claudius - It is war! It is war!
Matthias Claudius - The Hen
Matthias Claudius - We plough the fields, and scatter
Sophus Niels Christen Claussen - Creation
Sophus Niels Christen Claussen - Ecbátana
Sophus Niels Christen Claussen - In the street I met while walking
Adam Clayton - Grace
St. Clement of Alexandria (Titus Flavius Clemens) - Curb for stubborn steed
St. Clement of Alexandria (Titus Flavius Clemens) - Shepherd of tender youth
A.R. Cliff-Lubwa - The Beloved
Sigerson Clifford - I am Kerry
Arthur Hugh Clough - There is no God, the wicked sayeth
Florence Earle Coates - Place de la Concorde
Briceida Cuevas Cob - Lady
Briceida Cuevas Cob - School
Dave Cocks - Christ's Hospital
Jean Cocteau - Soft caramel
Jean Cocteau - Toreador
Leonard Cohen - Beneath My Hands
Leonard Cohen - I long to hold some lady
Leonard Cohen - The Genius
Leonard Cohen - The Story of Isaac
Frances-Marie Coke - Lessons for young women
Mary Colborne-Veel - Empty Houses
Mary Colborne-Veel - We go no more to the forest
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan
Sara Coleridge - The Garden Year
Colluthus - The Rape of Helen (Lines-1-40)
Teresa Colom - Cage
Teresa Colom - The moon and spring
Vittoria Colonna - Massacre of the innocents
Glenn Colquhoun - Koha
Padraic Colum - A drover
Padraic Colum - An old woman of the roads
Padraic Colum - River-Mates
Tiziana Colusso - Arms of Bodhisatva The
Tiziana Colusso - Italian for Farouters
Confucius - If you tenderly love me
Confucius - Speak while there is still time
Hermann Contractus - Holy Spirit, come and shine
Hermann Contractus - Vesper hymn to the Virgin
José María Contursi - Close to Your Heart
José María Contursi - Shadows, nothing more
José María Contursi - The Night You Went Away
Susan Cooper - The Shortest Day
George Cosbuc - Peasant Love Songs
George Cosbuc - Second to none
George Cosbuc - Spring harbingers
George Cosbuc - The Conscript
George Cosbuc - The Insolvent Debtor
George Cosbuc - We Want Land
Patrick Cotter - Self-Portrait as a Silk Purse
Le Châtelain de Coucy - The first approach of the sweet spring
Paul La Cour - Now I pass
William Cowper - Retirement
José Craveirinha - The seed is in me
José Craveirinha - Three dimensions
Isabella Valancy Crawford - Baby's dreams
Isabella Valancy Crawford - Old Spookse's Pass
Isabella Valancy Crawford - Said the West Wind
Isabella Valancy Crawford - The Canoe
Isabella Valancy Crawford - The Lily Bed
Abigail Cresson - Cloak of laughter
Miloš Crnjanski - Sumatra
Zora Bernice May Cross - Girl-Gladness
Helen Cruickshank - Beasties
Ayn Frances dela Cruz - Gravity suspended
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz - Arraignment of the men
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz - I approach and I withdraw
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz - My Lady
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - Sonnet 148
Nicomedes Santa Cruz - Black rhythms of Peru
José María Cuéllar - Childhood Stories (extract)
Sliabh Cuilinn - Munster
Gareth Culshaw - The Sky
Fionn mac Cumhail - see Finn MacCool
ee cummings - i carry your heart with me
ee cummings - [little tree]
ee cummings - maggie and milly and mollie and mae
ee cummings - my love
ee cummings - somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
Cushag - To cushag's friend
Ralph Spaulding Cushman - I Will Not Hurry
Cynewulf - Elene: Part I
Cynewulf - The rood speaks

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Charlotte Dacre - Simile
Bernard Binlin Dadié - I give you thanks my God
Bernard Binlin Dadié - The Wind
Louis-Philippe Dalembert - the skin i love
Roque Dalton - Looking for Trouble
Roque Dalton - The Great Despair
Léon Damas - Hiccups
Léon Damas - Position
Léon Damas - The Blues
Léon Damas - They came tonight
Peter Damian - On the day of death
Peter Damian - To St. Paul
Peter Damian - To the women at the grave
Ketty Dan-Napwatt - Together and yet apart
Yoko Danno - Catfish in the woods
Yoko Danno - into the shades
Oumougna de Dantchandou - Dâri
Dante degli Alighieri - Autmn Song
Dante degli Alighieri - Beauty in woman
Dante degli Alighieri - Love and the Gentle Heart
Dante degli Alighieri - My lady looks so gentle and so pure
Dante degli Alighieri - Within my heart I felt a sudden stir
Dulduityn Danzanravjaa - Shame, Shame
Dulduityn Danzanravjaa - The vigour of his white body
Bei Dao - New Year
Jia Dao - Seeking but not finding the recluse
Sigfús Daðason - Pop Melody
Rubén Darío - A shell
Rubén Darío - A Margarita Debayle
Rubén Darío - Nightfall in the Tropics
Rubén Darío - To Roosevelt
Mahmoud Darwish - I am there
Mahmoud Darwish - In Jerusalem
Mahmoud Darwish - Other barbarians will come along
Mahmoud Darwish - Passport
Mahmoud Darwish - Psalm 9
Mahmoud Darwish - Victim Number 18
Maxamed Zaashi Dhamac - see Gaarriye
Dharm Das - My eyes without the vision
Mahadai Das - Learner
Keshava Dasa - The month of Jyeshtha (May/June)
Avinab Datta-Areng - My Mother’s Brain
King David (attr.) - Psalm 121
W.H. Davies - Sheep
Fannie Stearns Davis - Water fantasy
Denis V. Davydov - Wisdom
Kwame Dawes - Fire
Nikolaus Decius - Lamb of God
Jeremias De Decker - Good Friday or The Suffering of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Bidel Dehlavi (Mirza Abd al-Qadir) - Ghazal
Susy Delgado - Offspring of a distant word: I
Jean Delville - Horror of rain,The
Jean Delville - Lunar park
Tjawangwa Dema - Ovaria
Daniel Henry Deniehy - To his wife
Clarence James Dennis - The ant explorer
Ndouna Depenaud - Shame and fear
Regina Derieva - All my life
Regina Derieva - Beyond Siberia again Siberia
Regina Derieva - Theory of recruiting
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio - The Harp of India
Gavril Romanovich Derzhavin - God
Gavril Romanovich Derzhavin - O Thou Eternal One!
Gavril Romanovich Derzhavin - The Current of Time's River
Gavril Romanovich Derzhavin - The Swan
Desbabbeaux - Sonnet
Eustache Deschamps - Ballade I
Eustache Deschamps - Ballade 2
Eustache Deschamps - But who's the one to bell the cat?
Eustache Deschamps - I'll never lend a book again no matter what
Robert Desnos - I have dreamed of you so much
Robert Desnos - No Love is not dead
Cyprien Desponrrius - Above, upon the mountains
Wolfgang Christoph Dessler - I leave thee not
Gebre Kristos Desta - Solace
Laxmi Prasad Devkota - Hands
Laxmi Prasad Devkota - News Paper
Bishnu Dey - The Alien
Kodjo Deynoo - The Make a Wish Foundation
Imtiaz Dharker - Living Space
Imtiaz Dharker - Number 106
Imtiaz Dharker - Postcards from God 1
Imtiaz Dharker - Tissue
Mohammad al-Ajami Ibn al-Dheeb - Jasmine revolution poem
Núala Ní Dhomhnaill - A recovered memory of water
Núala Ní Dhomhnaill - The language issue
Bios Diallo - Say to the Tomb
Fatoumata Diallo - Where am I from?
Koumanthio Zeinab Diallo - African moon
Kadia Diarra - Where am I from?
Mohammed Dib - The crazed hour
Roula-Maria Dib - Iconic Existence
Emily Dickinson - A Bird Came Down
Emily Dickinson - I'm nobody - who are you?
Emily Dickinson - Just so - Jesus - raps
Abdulla Fahumy Didi - The worthlessness of this world
Farah Didi - hearts of stone
Xuân Diệu - I want to grasp the
Xuân Diệu - Still too far away
Xuân Diệu - The Sea
Bruna Digregorio - The Guardian Angel
Elmer Diktonius - Dostoyevsky
Elmer Diktonius - I will walk through the rye
Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta - Poetic Human Operation
Kristin Dimitrova - A visit to the Clockmaker
Apuk Jurwir Dinka tribesman - Great bull with testicles
Dionysius the Areopagite - Lead us up beyond light
Birago Diop - Since then I go
Birago Diop - Spirits
David Diop - One who lost everything
Axmed Ismaciil Diriye - see Qaasim
Enrique Santos Discépolo - Storm
Richard Watson Dixon - Song
Nimrod Bena Djangrang - The Cry of the Bird
Hagop Djelalian - What's left
Gitan Djeli - Boy And The Unwinged Biped
Bongiwe Dlamini - I Am Woman
Bongiwe Dlamini - I miss you
Bongiwe Dlamini - Suicidal tendencies
Dnyaneshwar - see Jnanesvar
Julian Dobson - For Tony Benn
Dōgen - True Person Manifest Throughout the Ten Quarters of the World
Michael Theophilus Dom - In the now and here
Michael Theophilus Dom - Love your children
Michael Theophilus Dom - Yesterday we dreamed
Michael Theophilus Dom - When it falls
Han Dong - The chicken seller
Michael Donhauser - Picket Fence
Michael Donhauser - Take the maples
Michael Donhauser - The Gull
John Donne - Community
John Donne - Nativity
John Donne - Wilt thou love God as He thee?
Ap Chuni Dorji - How beautiful is yak Legpai Lhadar's face!
Saacha Dorji - If I were a little bird
Tishani Doshi - Sunrise at Sanchi Stupa
Edward Dowden - The Sower
Akkina Downing - This is me and my life
Holger Drachmann - I hear in the night
Holger Drachmann - Sakuntala
Holger Drachmann - The sun is at rest
Holger Drachmann - We laughed when days were merry
Celia Dropkin - I absorbe
Annette Freün von Droste-Hülshoff - Heartfelt
Annette Freün von Droste-Hülshoff - Last words
Annette Freün von Droste-Hülshoff - Pentecost
William Drummond of Hawthornden - The Angels, for the Nativitie of Our Lord
William Henry Drummond - The wreck of the "Julie Plante"
Butön Rinchen Drup - Advice in Three Sets of Three
Džore Držic - I take my leave of you
Du Mu - Given in Farewell
Eugene Dubnov - The way leaves crackle
Jovan Ducic - Encounter
Jovan Dučić - Poplar Trees
Marilyn Duckworth - Gerontophobia
Carol Ann Duffy - Havisham
Francis Duggan - The truth will set you free
Paul Laurence Dunbar - Beyond the years
Paul Laurence Dunbar - We wear the mask
Paul Laurence Dunbar - When Malindy sings
William Dunbar - Done is a battle
William Dunbar - To the City of London
Stephen Dunn - At the Smithville Methodist Church
Mary Durack - The tale of the light roan cow
Patrick Durack - The Drover's Song
Mercedes Durand - He sat down in his chair
Michael Madhusudan Dutt - Sonnet
Toru Dutt - Christmas
Toru Dutt - France
Toru Dutt - Love came to Flora asking for a flower
Toru Dutt - The Broken Bell
Toru Dutt - The Sower
Katrina Dybzynska - Development
John Dyer - The Inquiry
Henry van Dyke - Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee

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Mohammed Ebnu - Children of the sun and wind
Mohammed Ebnu - Sahara
Ahmad Ebrahimi - Schrödinger’s cat
Marriott Edgar - Albert and his savings
Matilda B. Edwards - A child's prayer
Kapardeli Eftichia - A poem
Kapardeli Eftichia - An Autumn
Victor Eftimiu - The Sea
Laura Cesarco Eglin - From Russia to Lithuania, a Strawberry
Laura Cesarco Eglin - Writing
Merdan Ehet'éli - Common Night
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff - Christmas
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff - Longing
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff - Night of the Moon
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff - Sunset
Farhan Ejat - Rain Rain Go Away
Loic Ekinga - Boy
Loic Ekinga - If my father were to speak at last
Soeuf Elbadawi - Moroni my princess
Rabbi Eleazar - Let the honour of thy pupil be as dear
MAB Elhad - Moroni
MAB Elhad - Return to the Mother Country
George Eliot - Two Lovers
T.S. Eliot - A cooking egg
T.S. Eliot - Morning at the window
T.S. Eliot - The Journey of the Magi
Queen Elisabeth of Romania - see Carmen Sylvia
Georgia Elliott - The Blessed Nation
Jane Elliot - Lament for Flodden
Alfonso X El Sabio - Cantiga de Santa Maria, no. 100
Alfonso X El Sabio - Rose of roses and flower of flowers
Alfonso X El Sabio - The Treasury
Inua Ellams - For Tina
Inua Ellams - One Life
Elpis - Decora lux aeternitatis
Paul Éluard - As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body’s Senses
Paul Éluard - Barely disfigured
Paul Éluard - Easy
Paul Éluard - Ecstasy
Paul Éluard - Fertile Eyes
Paul Éluard - In a New Night
Paul Éluard - I said it to you
Paul Éluard - Lovely and lifelike
Paul Éluard - Ring of peace
Paul Éluard - The Absence
Paul Éluard - The Season of Loves
Edmund Elys - Christ's Resurrection
Odysseus Elytis - Beautiful Girl in the Garden
Odysseus Elytis - Beauty and the Illiterate
Odysseus Elytis - Calendar of an invisible April
Odysseus Elytis - Ode 4
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Days
Mihai Eminescu - Down where the lonely poplars grow
Mihai Eminescu - Drowsy birds (variation on "Sleepy Birds")
Mihai Eminescu - Now it's Autumn
Mihai Eminescu - Sleepy Birds (variation on "Drowsy Birds")
Israel Emiot - As long as we are not alone
Daniel Decatur Emmett - Dixie's Land
Lee Emmett - where willy wagtail wiggles
Lee Emmett - stolen generation
William Empson - To an old Lady
Yunus Emre - Knowledge should mean a full grasp of knowledge
Yunus Emre - The drink sent down from Truth
Priest En'i - Into the depths (Jingika book of the Senzaishū, SZS XX: 1278)
Rabbe Enckell - Chante-clair
Rabbe Enckell - Melody
Rabbe Enckell - Miniature Poetry
Johannes Engel - Love, who in the first beginning
Enheduanna - Lament to the Spirit of War
Enheduanna - To the Gishbanda Temple of Ningishzida (temple Hymn 15)
Gabriel Oluwatomiwa Eniola - Pride
Magnus Felix Ennodius - Above the world
Magnus Felix Ennodius - Dear Christ we crave thy favour
Nicole Enwonwu - Thirsting
Ephraem Syrus - see Ephrem the Syrian
Ephrem the Syrian - For a time of pestilence
Milena Ercolani - The tram journey
T-Ö Erdenetsogt - Love's Autumn
Tina Escaja - Self-portrait: Moon and Mind
Wolfram von Eschenbach - Would I the lofty spirit melt
Sergei Esenin - A tired day
Sergei Esenin - I do believe in happiness!
Sergei Esenin - Scarlet light of sunset
Eshmunazar II - A royal epitaph
Martin Espada - Niggerlips
José de Espronceda - Cancion of the pirate
José de Espronceda - The Beggar
Fernando Esquio - Shall we go, sister
Louis Esson - The Olld Black Billy an' Me
Louis Esson - Spring Cattle
Sir George Etheridge - To A Lady Asking Him How Long He Would Love Her
Eugenius - Prayer of Eugenius
Dave Evans (The Edge) - Grace
Juliana Horatia Ewing - Boy And Squirrel
Abraham ibn Ezra - When I hunger to praise thee
Moses ibn Ezra - Dawn
Moses ibn Ezra - O brook
Moses ibn Ezra - The living God we praise

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Kinga Fabó - Poison
Josep Palau i Fabre - Triumph of Lofty Madness
Muhammad al Fagir - The departure of Hauwa al Kora
Muhammad al Fagir - On the departure of his daughters
Muhammad al Fagīr - We are the sons of Rizēg
Diane Fahey - Weaver
Theothora Fahorug - Losing the old ways
Kingsley Fairbridge - Burial
Fairuz - Oh mother of God
Faiz Ahmed Faiz - Be near me
Faiz Ahmed Faiz - Do not ask my love
Faiz Ahmed Faiz - Ghazal
Matthew Fakaia - My son
Ueantabo Fakaofo - Dawn of my manhood
Ueantabo Fakaofo - Kabirau, my Anointing Oil
Chan Fang-sheng - Sailing homeward
Gerard Fanning - Work Shy
U.A. Fanthorpe - B.C. : A.D.
Daniel Faria - I must be the last time
Baba Sheikh Farid - Raga Asa
Baba Sheikh Farid - Why do you roam the jungles
Eleanor Farjeon - Easter Monday
Eleanor Farjeon - Highgate
Eleanor Farjeon - Poetry
Forugh Farrokhzad - Inaugurating the garden
Forugh Farrokhzad - Once More I Will Greet the Sun
Forugh Farrokhzad - Sin
Magie Faure-Vidot - Spreading my wings
Orla Fay - A sea spell
Jeffrey Mane Febi - We don't sing anymore
Yueh Fei - The river all red
Yueh Fei - Wrath set my hair bristling
Laruent Fels - Nielles
Feng-kan - Sinking like a rock in the sea
Ester Fenoll - see Ester Fenoll García
Ferdowsi - The dream of Dakiki
Robert Fergusson - The Daft Days
Albert Ferland - A young girl
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Changing light
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Sometime during eternity
Teresita Fernández - Ugly Things
Léo Ferré - In time
Afanasy Afanasevich Fet - Nightingales, a sigh, a whisper
Afanasy Afanasevich Fet - The aerial city
Afanasy Afanasevich Fet - Upon A Haystack On A Southern Night
Afanasy Afanasevich Fet - When you were reading those tormented lines
Afanasy Afanasevich Fet - While lounging in a chair
Adam Fet'hi - Cavafy's whip
Domhnull mac Fhionnlaidh - Ossian Sang
Domhnull mac Fhionnlaidh - The Chief
Fabio Fiallo - Broken Wings
A.N. Field - The Challenge of the Guns
Eugene Field - Wynken, Blynken and Nod
Sia Figiel - A last note on the fat brown woman and shoes
Francisco Acuña de Figueroa - The African Mother
Vincenzo da Filicaja - Catania
Vincenzo da Filicaja - Italia, Italia! O tu cue die la sorte
Vincenzo da Filicaja - Faith in God Amist Disasters (Sonnet XVII)
Vincenzo da Filicaja - Moral reflections (Sonnet XXI)
Vincenzo da Filicaja - Self recollection (Sonnet XVI)
Armando Freitas Filho - Breathless postcard
Anne Kingsmill Finch - The Atheist and the Acorn
Annie Finch - Wild Yeasts
Marthias Mulumba Finidi - see Mulumba Matia
Jacobus Finno - Gabriel's message does away
Firdausi, Firdawsi, Firdusi - see Ferdowsi
Lala Fisher - Heimweh
Lala Fisher - The Moon Flower
Matthew Fitt - Fireworks aff the castle
John Fletcher - Take oh take those lips away
John Gould Fletcher - Spring
Publius Annius Florus - Poems: I
Publius Annius Florus - Poems: V
Publius Annius Florus - Poems: VIII
Publius Annius Florus - Roses
Publius Annius Florus - Roses in Springtime
Publius Annius Florus - The Nine Muses
Publius Annius Florus - The quality of life
Publius Annius Florus - Venus' rose-garden
Henry de Fluiter - Hail him the king of glory
Peter Foersom - Dedication
Christian Foli - Dear Aspiring Politician
Eliza Lee Follen - Evening Prayer
Tembong Denis Fonge - His Majesty
Tembong Denis Fonge - On the Green Hill Summit
Jean de la Fontaine - Alice sick
Jean de la Fontaine - The Cat and the Fox
Jean de la Fontaine - The Fox and the Grapes
Jean de la Fontaine - The Heron who was Hard to Please
Jean de la Fontaine - The Monkey and the Cat
Jean de la Fontaine - The Raven who would rival the Eagle
Jean de la Fontaine - The two friends
Theodor Fontane - John Maynard
Mary Hannay Foott - Up North
Alaíde Foppa - A Day
Alaíde Foppa - Nose
Ford Madox Ford - see Ford Madox Heuffer
Soyini Forde - Underside of Knowing
Dallán Forgaill - Ode to Dubh-Ghiolla, the Shield of Aodh
Tua Forsström - Time is precious, I know>
Corsino Fortes - Emigrant
Corsino Fortes - When morning breaks
Venantius Fortunatus - Hail! High festival day
Venantius Fortunatus - Sing my tongue, the glorious battle
Venantius Fortunatus - The royal banner floats on high
Ugo Foscolo - A Zacinto
Ugo Foscolo - In the evening
Ugo Foscolo - To the Night
Emad Fouad - A Day in the Life of a Little Angel
Nezim Frakulla - I'm your slave, you are my love
Janet Frame - Snow
Francis of Assisi - How virtue drives out vice
Veronica Franco - Franco meditates on an absent lover
Veronica Franco - To a friend asking for help
Florence Kiper Frank - A Girl Strike-Leader
Leungo Frank - Pinocchio
Frankétienne - Dialect of Hurricanes
Frans Michael Franzén - The Horizon (A conversation between a child and its mother)
Naim Frashëri - The Flute
Frauenlob - The Lay of our Lady (IV)
Frauenlob - Song of Songs: I. The Poet’s Vision
Ferdinand Freiligrath - Mirage
Ferdinand Freiligrath - The Duration of Love
Nora May French - By Moonlight
Nora May French - Growth
Nora May French - My nook
Nora May French - When plaintively and near the cricket sings
Nora May French - Yesterday
Percy French - An Irish Mother
Erich Fried - What it is
Becki Friend - Still they say hope is on the way
Joe Friggieri - Departing
Gerhard Fritsch - Nicaea
Jean Froissart - Invitation to return
Renata Frolova - a little something
Robert Frost - A Prayer in Spring
Robert Frost - A tuft of flowers
Robert Frost - Birches
Robert Frost - The Road not Taken
Nils Frykman - I have in heaven a Friend
Du Fu - Banquet at the Tso Family Manor
Du Fu - Night Thoughts While Traveling
Du Fu - Spring outlook
Du Fu - The Beauty
Tu Fu - see Du Fu
Brigitte Fuchs - Quotes
Ludwig Fulda - In the express train
Ludwig Fulda - Three Professors
Hugh Fuller - To a tropic reef
Mary Eliza Fullerton - Flesh
Alice Furlong - An awakening
Alice Furlong - I will forget
Fuzuli - Gazal

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Gaarriye - Evening cloud
Gaarriye - Kudu
Dora Gabe - Don't come near me!
Solomon ibn Gabirol - Earth's embroidery
Solomon ibn Gabirol - I look for you early
Solomon ibn Gabirol - O soul, with storms beset
Solomon ibn Gabirol - Water Song
Aline Gahongayire - Now I appreciate it
Gahuan-Beyg - You do not Want Me?
Jarmila Gajdová - A fairy-tale story
George Gascoigne - And if I did, what then?
Federica Galetto - Nightingale
Michel Galiana - Prague: The Golden City
Raghda Gamal - To be a girl
Khayelihle Bongiswa Gamedze - After I Ate An English Thesaurus
Maria Grech Ganado - The Passion of St George
Sunil Gangopadhyay - Calcutta and I
Mahsati Ganjavi - The Pathway Finally Opened
Nizami Ganjavi - Mount Beysitoun
Andres Garcia - Modern day injustice
Ester Fenoll García - All the characters
Ester Fenoll García - Andorra: voice of the mountain
Roque Dalton Garcia - see Roque Dalton
Vittorio Gassman - Meta Milonga for Rodolfo Wilcock and his Cat
Carmen Bernos de Gasztold - The Prayer of the Cockerel
Carmen Bernos de Gasztold - The Prayer of the Dog
Carmen Bernos de Gasztold - The Prayer of the Giraffe
Carmen Bernos de Gasztold - The prayer of the goldfish
Carmen Bernos de Gasztold - The Prayer of the Hedgehog
Carmen Bernos de Gasztold - The Prayer of the Horse
Carmen Bernos de Gasztold - The Prayer of the Lark
Carmen Bernos de Gasztold - The Prayer of the Little Bird
Nyabuoy Gatbel - My God
Nyalunjoch mai Gatwech - Peace
Dolores Gauntlett - A song for my Father
James O. Gaygay - African Presidents
James O. Gaygay - The Kinsman And Death
Tsegaye Gebre-Medhin - Nile
Alemayehu Gebrehiwot - OK lets' be exiled!
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert - The Blind and the Lame
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert - The Fly, A Fable
Loen Gellert - The Cross
Aulus Gellius - Silent be they
Jakushitsu Genko - Ten warnings to the congregation
Linisa George - Brown Girl in the Ring
Stefan George - The Vigil
Valsa George - Refugee
Vicente Gerbasi - Juan Sánchez Peláez
Germanus of Constantinople - A Great and Mighty Wonder
Karl von Gerock - The children's church
Guido Gezelle - Mother
Guido Gezelle - To a friend on the eve of May 1858
Zahir al-Ghafri - Herbs of the past
Azita Ghahreman - The boat that brought me
Mirza Ghalib - A thousand desires
Mirza Ghalib - It is not love, it is madness
Kasiprasad Ghose - To a dead crow
Muhammad al-Ghuzzi - The Pen
Khalil Gibran - Song of Man XXV
Khalil Gibran - The Poet (VIII)
Georg Johannes Gick - The Wisemen
Joseph Gikatilla - The nut garden
León Gil - Chromaphagite
Lee Gil-Won - Meditation on Ginkgo Nuts Left by My Father
Kevin Gilbert - People are Legends
Frances Tyrrell Gill - Spring's Messengers in Australia
Nene Giorgadze - New days are like changing of water
Giovanni - Autumn
Inès Giramata - i am selfish. with my blackness
Marc-Antoine Girard - The Smoker
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim - Cynthia bathing
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim - To Leuconoe
Edouard Glissant - Promenade of solitary death
Amergin Glúingel - Invocation of Ireland
Amergin Glúingel - The Mystery
Joanne Gobure - A beautiful prayer
Godescalcus - Praise be to Thee, O Christ, the Creator
Alfred Denis Godley - The Motor Bus
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Christel
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Found
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - On the New Year
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Symbols
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The Harper
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Wild Rose
Abraham Goldfaden - Raisins and almonds
Oliver Goldsmith - An elegy on the glory of her sex, Mrs Mary Blaize
George Gömöri - In two languages
George Gömöri - Summer evening at Sirmione
George Gömöri - Tea with Germans in 1931
Lorna Goodison - Guinea woman
Lorna Goodison - Vincent and orient
Adam Lindsay Gordon - By Wood and Wold
Nicholas Gordon - The triumph of the victor
Eva Gore-Booth - There is no age
Charles Van Gorkom - Matins
Francisco Gorrindo - Life is short
Godfrey Mutiso Gorry - African writings
Godfrey Mutiso Gorry - Publishers
Godfrey Mutiso Gorry - The Garden of Death
Godfrey Mutiso Gorry - This country nurtured hope
Edmund Gosse - Old and New
Edmund Gosse - Revelation
Edmund Gosse - The train of life
Gottschalk of Limburg - see Godescalcus
Götz - Thamyris to her Roses
Alan Gould - Valleys on the road to Dalvik
Remy de Gourmont - Litanies of the rose
John Gower - Confessio Amantis (Prologue: Motivation and Intent)
Étienne Goyémidé - Warriors of the radiant sun
Henry Graham - Street scene by L.S. Lowry
James Graham - My dear and only love
Anne M’Vicar Grant - Could I Find a Bonnie Glen
Anne M’Vicar Grant - Postscript
Robert Graves - The Alice Jean
Robert Graves - Babylon
Lilian Wooster Greaves - Love, the wizard
Fernand Gregh - Doubt
Kate Greenaway - The cats have come to tea
Kate Greenaway From Wonder World
Kate Greenaway - When you and I grow up
St Gregory of Narek - The Christ-child
Gregory of Nazianzus - A Morning Prayer
Gregory the Great - Morning Hymn
Gregory the Great - Rising at midnight
Lady Augusta Gregory - He meditates on the life of a rich man
Nola Gregory - Corroboree
Catharine Regina vim Greiffenberg - On The Inexpressible Gift of the Holy Spirit
Andrew Greig - Orkney / This Life
Bullion Grey - Another Ordinary Day
Gerald Griffin - Eileen aroon
Franz Grillparzer - A Kiss
Franz Grillparzer - from: Medea, Act 1
Franz Grillparzer - The Angler
Andrés Grimard - see Marcel de Bruin
Angelina Weld Grimke - Evanescence
Bertel Gripenberg - The Lattice Gate
Bertel Gripenberg - The song is best
Vasily Grossman - I feel that I have chosen everything
Anastasius Grün - Switzerland
Anastasius Grün - The Frontier Guard
Anastasius Grün - The Heron Chase
Durs Grünbein - Porcelain: poem on the downfall of my city
N. F. S. Grundtvig - Golden light serene and bright
N. F. S. Grundtvig - Splendid are the heavens high
Sidonie Grünwald-Zerkovitz - Dead Flowers
Sidonie Grünwald-Zerkovitz - We are never too old for loving
Andreas Gryphius - Preserve your world, O Saviour
Andreas Gryphius - The vanity of this world
Armando Rojas Guardia - The Vision
Manuel Ortiz Guerrero - Let me relate to you
Edgar A. Guest - At Christmas
Tène Youssouf Gueye - The Meaning of the Circus
Rayji de Guia - Greek chorus hears Medusa doing Zumba
Nicolás Guillén - Can You?
Rafael Guillén - I hardly remember
Malcolm Guite - Palm Sunday
Malcolm Guite - Trinity Sunday
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev - Forest
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev - The Giraffe
Elancharan Gunasekaran - Good Gods
Wang Gungwu - To Tigerland
David Guramishvili - Woes Of Georgia
Xanana Gusmão - World peace
Madame Guyon - A little bird I am
Madame Guyon - Adoration
Madame Guyon - Happy solitude - unhappy men
Gwalchmai ap Meilyr - Gwalchmai's delight
Dafydd ap Gwilym - Aubade
Dafydd ap Gwilym - The Girls of Llanbadarn
Thangtong Gyalpo - The verses that Saved Sakya from Sickness: A Prayer for Pacifying the Fear of Disease
Althea Gyles - The Holy War

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Ha-Sallah - see Moses ibn Ezra
Bernard ter Haar - To the stars
Dorian Haarhoff - The Feast
Dorian Haarhoff - Namibia
Dorian Haarhoff - Old Woman Brewing
Joumana-Jo Haddad - SINGER(TM)
Qassim Haddad - The Children
Qassim Haddad - The Keening Of The Reed
Qassim Haddad - The sea has its transformations ... Make way
Hadewijch - Love has seven names
Hadewijch - You who want
Johannes Hadloub - Far as I journey from my lady fair
Hadraawi - Mother
Hafez - A Persian song
Hafez - All the hemispheres
Hafez - Ghazal 85
Hafez - Poems: XXXVI
Hafez - Where are the tidings of union?
Hafiz - see Hafez
Hannes Hafstein - Skarphedinn among the flames
Albert Hagenaars - Yogyakarta
Inger Hagerup - The Advent candles
Sakutaro Hagiwara - You frogs!
Hagop Melik Hagopian - see Raffi
Kimiko Hahn - In childhood
Buland al-Haidari - Mailman
Reesom Haile - Believe it or not
Reesom Haile - My donkey says
Marta Haileyesus - untitled
Haji Gora Haji - The Hurricane
Frantisek Halas - Confession
Frantisek Halas - To Prague
Rabbi Adonim HaLevi - He said, Don't sleep
Yehudah HaLevi - Cups without wine
Yehudah HaLevi - My heart seeth Thee
Yehudah HaLevi - The Immortality of Israel
Yehudah HaLevi - To the soul
Enes Halilovic - Mathematical Plane
Enes Halilovic - Total
Arthur Vine Hall Follow the Light
Eileen Hall - Obeah woman
Mansur Al-Hallaj - Kill me, my faithful friends
Jónas Hallgrímsson - Ísland
Adam de la Halle - Farewell to Arras
Charles Graham Halpine - Feminine arithmetic
Hafsa Bint Hamdun - I have a lover
Thomas Robert Hamilton - They tell me to be...
William Hamilton - Minchmoor
Kerry Hammerton - Dear Cape Town
Tahir Hamut - see Tahir Hamut Izgil
Amir Hamzah - Because of you
Amir Hamzah - One Alone
Samuel Hanagid - Cold days have come
Samuel Hanagid - On fleeing his city
Samuel Hanagid - Rogue in appearance
Samuel Hanagid - The Hour
T'ung Han-ching - The Celestial Weaver
Thích Nhat Hanh - Kiss The Earth
Thích Nhat Hanh - The good news
Meng Hao-jan - Asleep in the spring
Meng Hao-jan - Climbing Long-View Mountain’s Highest Peak
Meng Hao-jan - Evening
Meng Hao-jan - The lost one
Meng Haoran - see Men Hao-jan
Muhammad Harbi - My Picture
Friedrich von Hardenberg - see Novalis
Thomas Hardy - A Week
Thomas Hardy - Lines on the loss of the "Titanic"
Thomas Hardy - On an invitation to the United States
Thomas Hardy - The Darkling Thrush
Thomas Hardy - The Oxen
Thomas Hardy - To a sea-cliff
Lesbia Harford - The electric tram to Kew
Al Hariri - from the Twelfth Assembly (of Damsacus)
Charles Harpur - Words
Trish Harris - Duet
Susan Frances Harrison - March
Kevin Hart - The Gift
Mohamed Al-Harthy - The boat of words casts anchor
Zahra el Hasnaui - Saguia
Sayyid Muhammad 'Abdille Hassan - The evils of the Balwo
Taiwo Hassan - The Quest for Joy in a Modern World
Epeli Hauʻofaa - Blood in the kava bowl
Carsten Hauch - The Pleiades at midnight
Olav H. Hauge - It's the dream
Mila Haugová - To withstand evil
Niels Hav - Epigram
Bibi Hayati - Is it the night of power
Buland Al-Haydari - The Postman
J. Milton Hayes - The green eye of the little yellow god
Samuel Alfred Haynes - O, Land of the Free
Caroline Hayward - Inkerman: The Battle Field by Moonlight
Caroline Hayward - The Christmas homes of England
H.D. - Song
Seamus Heaney - The harvest bow
Seamus Heaney - The Otter
Charles Heavysege - Self examination
Charles Heavysege - The coming of morn
Charles Heavysege - The Wnter Galaxy
Anne Hecht - Advice to Mrs Mowat
Maria Hedwig - see Silja Walter
Peter Andreas Heiberg - Norwegian love song
Piet Hein - A psychological moment
Piet Hein - Consolation Grook
Heinrich Heine - Heart, my heart
Heinrich Heine - I bear no anger
Heinrich Heine - My darling, we sat together
Heinrich Heine - On Wings of Song
Heinrich Heine - Sitting under white branches
Heinrich Heine - The Loreley
Heinrich Heine - The Spruce Tree
Zbynek Hejda - When it is raining
Steinun Helgadóttir - Rewind
Aaro Hellakoski - Moonlight in the Forest
Kris Hemensley - Father's dark ship (after Hesiod)
Ashjan Al Hendi - Grey hair
Margaret Hendrie - Nauru our Homeland
Lin Heng-t’ai - Landscape No. 2
Adrian Henri - Love Is...
Jim T. Henriksen - Inspiration comes
Robert Henryson - The garmont of gud ladeis
Robert Henryson - In praise of age
Toeti Heraty - Post scriptum
A.P. Herbert - At the theatre - To the lady behind me
George Herbert - Easter wings
George Herbert - Love
George Herbert - Redemption
Zbigniew Herbert - A Ballad That We Do Not Perish
Zbigniew Herbert - First the Dog
Zbigniew Herbert - From the top of the stairs
Zbigniew Herbert - What our dead can do
Monika Herceg - I learnt Emmy Noether’s Theorem at uni
Jose-Maria de Heredia - Anthony and Cleopatra
Jose-Maria de Heredia - Season of the Northers
Oliver Herford - The Cow
Felicia Hermans - Casabianca
Alfonso Hernández - The republic of power
Gaspar Octavio Hernández - Ego Sum
Miguel Hernández - Lullaby of the onion
Lil Marie Herrera - The Existential Nothingness of Crabs
Robert Herrick - Eternity
Robert Herrick - Upon Julia's clothes
William Hershaw - Seivin Verses for GMB
Abdulqadir Hersi - see Yamyam
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel - God pursues me everywhere
Hesiod - To Aphrodite
Hesiod - True Riches
Hermann Hesse - Going to sleep
Hermann Hesse - How heavy the days
Hermann Hesse - In the fog
Hermann Hesse - Lonesome night
Hermann Hesse - On a journey
Hermann Hesse - Stages
Michele 'Mickey' Hetherington - I am different
Ford Madox Heuffer - The old houses of Flanders
Maurice Hewlett - In the trenches
Paul Hewson (Bono)- Grace
Wilhelm Hey - Say, how many stars are glowing
Nazim Hikmet - About my poetry
Nazim Hikmet - Don Quixote
St. Hilary - Morning Hymn
St. Hilary - Thou bounteous Giver of the light
Hildebert of Lavardin - Alpha et Omega, Magne Deus
Hildebert of Lavardin - The Faithful Soul
Joanne C. Hillhouse - Differences
Kendel Hippolyte - 11:55
Kendel Hippolyte - Fascioners of Progress
Zinaida Hippius - I Seek for Rhythmic Whisperings
Ito Hiromi - Underground
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro - Abe no Nakamaro
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro - Ah! the foot-drawn trail
Sizo Hlophe - Little Orchard
Chung Ho-seung - Those who I love
Phi Hoàng - Return
Frederik Hoegh-Guldberg - The peaceful land
Hugo von Hofmannsthal - The gardener's daughters
Hugo von Hofmannsthal - Thoughts are apples
Anselm Hollo - Helsinki, 1940
Ludvig Holstein - Father, where do the wild swans go?
Ludvig Holstein - The Violet
Miroslav Holub - A boy's head
Miroslav Holub - In the microscope
Homer - Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring (The Iliad, book I)
Homer - The gods in council sit (The Odyssey, Book I)
Homer - The trunk of the Olive Tree (The Odyssey, Book XXIII)
Tanya Ko Hong - The Crying Game
Thomas Hood - Gold!
Thomas Hood - I remember, I remember
Thomas Hood - Song of the Shirt
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft - Anacreontic
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft - Friendship
Yong Shu Hoong - Hazards related to setting up of a Christmas tree
Eduard Hoornik - At School
I.D. Hooson - Poor Will's in Ruthin Goal
Horace - Ode on the death of Cleopatra
Horace - Persian fopperies
Horace - To Chloë
Horace - To the Roman State
Horace - Winter
Jessica Horn - Lament in ebony
Laurence Hope - Lalila, to the Ferengi Lover
Gerard Manley Hopkins - As Kingfishers Catch Fire
Gerard Manley Hopkins - Easter Communion
Gerard Manley Hopkins - God's grandeur
Gerard Manley Hopkins - Hailstorm in May
Gerard Manley Hopkins - Leaden Echo
Gerard Manley Hopkins - I am like the slip of comet
Gerard Manley Hopkins - I wake and feel
Gerard Manley Hopkins - The times are nightfall
Gerard Manley Hopkins - Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend
Hornklofi - The Battle of Hafur's Bay
Ranjit Hoskote - This sky of lost miles
A.E. Housman - On Wenlock Edge
A.E. Housman - The Lent Lily
Chenjerai Hove - A poem for Zimbabwe
Chenjerai Hove - A war-torn wife
Hovhannes Hovhanessian - Song
Hattie Howard - Christmas bells
Joseph Howe - My native pines
Mary Howitt - The Spider and the Fly
Chu Hsi - It is not necessary
Chu Hsi - The Nature
Chang Jo Hsu - A Poet Looks At The Moon
Li Hua - An old battle-field
Zhang Hua - No one can please forever
Peter Huchel - Eastern River
Flexmore Hudson - Mallee scene
Langston Hughes - Dream Variations
Ted Hughes - Wind
Victor Hugo - Boaz asleep
Victor Hugo - I picked this flower for you
Victor Hugo - The Djinns
Victor Hugo - The genesis of a butterfly
Victor Hugo - The ocean's Song
Carmen González Huguet - Day to day
Carmen González Huguet - What solitude you have
Vicente Huidobro - Eclogue
Vicente Huidobro - Night
Vicente Huidobro Prelude to hope
Vicente Huidobro - The Water Mirror
Hồ Xuân Hương - The Temple of Fragrance
Ishion Hutchinson - Fitzy and the revolution
Ahmed Abdul Hussein - In the name of God
Aldous Huxley - Anniversaries
Constantijn Huygens - To the Directors of Amsterdam in Their New Stadthouse
Douglas Hyde - A poem to be said on hearing birds sing
Robin Hyde - The Desolate Star
Robin Hyde - The Wayfarer
Gi Hyeong-do - see Ki Hyung-do
Na Hyeseok - No Need to Savor Youth
Ki Hyung-do - Mother

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Sara de Ibáñez - Island in the light
Sara de Ibáñez - Island on the earth
Henrik Johan Ibsen - A Bird Ballad
Henrik Johan Ibsen - Burnt Ships
Henrik Johan Ibsen - The Miner
Henrik Johan Ibsen - Mountain Life
Henrik Johan Ibsen - Thanks
Henrik Johan Ibsen - Wildflowers and hothouse plants
Abijah M. Ide - The forest reverie
Adamou Idé - I'm scared!
Adamou Idé - Tagalakoy
Ikmal Idham - A blind man
Fujiwara no Ietaka - Everything must end
Luisa Igloria - Cuauhtemoc
David Ignatow - The Bagel
Wazani Adamu Ijarafu - Melody
Ikkyu - Nature's way
Ikkyu - The vast flood
Ikkyu - To Lady Mori
Philo Ikonya - Weave your joy
Tanaka Ikuko - Bird shadow
Naphtali Herz Imber - Hatikvah - a song of hope
Chibuzor Immaculata Ikemenogo - Acrostic
Monique Ilboudo - Black soul
Monique Ilboudo - I suffer
Vojislav Ilić - The Shrub
Gyula Illyés - Poets among each other
Ana Paula Inácio - i'd like you to go with me
Rex Ingamells - Black children
Rex Ingamells - Boomerang
Bernhard Severin Ingemann - Beautiful planet Earth!
Bernhard Severin Ingemann - Dame Martha's fountain
Bernhard Severin Ingemann - The Sun that in the East does rise
Bernhard Severin Ingemann - The Wanderer
Bernhard Severin Ingemann - To a Girl beloved
Lillian Ingonga - The dawn
Pope Innocent III - Although a wretched sinner
Somphavan Inthavon - A Man Is Dead
Volha Ipatava - Chernobyl
Alootook Ipellie - How noisy they seem
Alootook Ipellie - Walking both sides of an invisible border
Bassey Ikpi - Sometimes silence is the loudest kind of noise
Allama Iqbal - The child and the candle
Tomás Iriarte - The bear, the ape and the pig
Tomás Iriarte - The Musical Ass
Julie Irigaray - The Frenchwomen of Fulham
Mark Irwin - My father's hat
Kevin Isaac - Landslides
Isaiah - The glorious new creation
Magda Isanos - Apricot Tree
Magda Isanos - Wisdom
Ali Salem Iselmu - Tiris
Kazi Nazrul Islam - A mountain song
Kazi Nazrul Islam - Woman
Safet Isović - In Istanbul at the Bosphorus
Safet Isović - My Bosnia, Devastated
Kobayashi Issa - a thousand gallons
Kobayashi Issa - cool air
Kobayashi Issa - sparrow parents too
Kobayashi Issa - That wren
Kobayashi Issa - With traveling umbrella hats
Ana Istarú - Where did you come from
Georgy Ivanov - A quarter century has passed...
Georgy Ivanov - Resplendent in their biblical glory
Vyacheslav Ivanov - The Seeking of Self
Dimana Ivanova - The Butterfly
Svetlana Ivanova - O caterpillar, daughter of the butterfly
Jovica Ivanovski - Escape from
Ivar Ivask - In the Circle of the Veranda, 14
Ivar Ivask - In the Circle of the Veranda, 15
Tahir Hamut Izgil - Aséna

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J:

Fadel K Jabr - Waiting for the Marines
António Jacinto - Letter from a contract worker
António Jacinto - Poem of alienation
Jackson - 1932
Porfirio Barba Jacob - Future
Porfirio Barba Jacob - The Sound of the Wind
Jens Peter Jacobsen - Genre-Picture
Jens Peter Jacobsen - In the seraglio garden
Jens Peter Jacobsen - Irmelin
Jens Peter Jacobsen - Silken shoes
Jens Peter Jacobsen - The page sat in the lofty tower
Rolf Jacobsen - Fireflies
Rolf Jacobsen - Guardian Angel
Rolf Jacobsen - Sand
Helen Hunt Jackson - The fir tree and the brook
Ali Sadar Jafri - Who is the enemy?
Nahegat Ben Jaid - Temper
Ibn Jakh - Biscuit of the day
Ali Al Jallawi - Urgent mail
Mahmood Jamal - You & I
Mahmood Jamal - Wedding
King James I of Scotland - Spring song of the birds
Kathleen Jamie - The Tay Moses
Francis Jammes - Clara d'Ellébeuse
Hatif Janabi - Psalm at the end of the night
Hatif Janabi - The Poet
Tihomir Jancovski - Mud is made of earth and water
Degutyte Janina - Journey into night
Arnórr Jarlaskáld - The Battle between Earl Rognvald and Earl Thorfinn
Jacques Jasmin - Castel-Cuille
Hussein Al-Jassmi - I've lost you
Raúl Gómez Jattin - As if you'd remember
Kato Javakhishvili - A left hand made verse 1
Floss M. Jay - Summer paintings in Europe
Jayadeva - Gita Govinda (4th song)
Salma Jayyusi - April woman
Ian Jazzi - Musings
Kate Jennings - Moonshine
Jeongwol - see Na Hyeseok
Sydney Jephcott - White Paper
Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner - Dear Matefele Peinam
Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner - Grounded
Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner - Monster
Zhang Ji - A night-mooring near Maple Bridge
Meng Jiao - A wife's heart
Meng Jiao - Yarns after yarns
Francisco García Jiménez - I Hear Your Voice
Juan Ramón Jimenez - I am not I
Juan Ramón Jimenez - The ship, solid and black
Juan Ramón Jimenez - Winter Song
Marín Jiménez - see Porfirio Barba Jacob
Telstar Jimmy - Oh my beloved land
Jang Jin-sung - For us, Life
Hwang Jini - Do not boast of your speed
Dhal Jirel - see 'Ravi'
Jnanesvar - Cry Hari
Matthías Jochumsson - The king's welcome to Thingvall
Orrick Johns - The Sea Lands
E Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) - At Crow's Nest Pass
E Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) - The Corn Husker
E Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) - The Indian corn planter
E Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) - The song my paddle sings
Samuel Johnson - To a Young Lady, on Her Birthday
James Weldon Johnson - Brer Rabbit you's de cutes' of 'em all
Aistis Jonas - One drop of blood
Erwin Jones - Mama you've done well
Erwin Jones - Recognize Blackman
Jill Jones - The man on the bus
Jill Jones - The white sail
Ben Jonson - A hymn on the nativity of my Saviour
Ben Jonson - A hymn to God the Father
Ben Jonson - Karolin's song
Ben Jonson - To Celia
Suzanne Jorn - My inner zone: the half moon over Mojacar
Joseph of the Studium - The return home
Joseph the Hymnographer - The return home
Adeniran Joseph - A wall and a classroom of black students
Ernst Josephson - Black roses
Frank Joussen - Poverty poem
Pierre-Jean Jouve - We have astonished
James Joyce - From dewy dreams
James Joyce - Gentle lady, do not sing
Attila József - With a pure heart
Maria Clara Sharupi Jua - Like Red-Hot Lava
Elis Juliana - Bekita
Elis Juliana - Bola
Baltrušaitis Jurgis - To the crucified homeland
Bai Juyi - An early cricket chirps

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K:

Abhay K - Patong
Ahmed Kaabour - I'm calling you
Kabir - Are you looking for me?
Kabir - How do you
Kabir - How humble is God
Kabir - What kind of God?
Kabir - Who will serve Thee?
Madeleine Ki Kaboré - see Madeleine de Lallé
Uuno Kailas - In The Bloom Of His Youth - At The Height Of Summer
Kalidasa - The Baby
Kalidasa - Kumudvati's wedding
Kalidasa - Look to this day
Kalidasa - Waking
Eleazar ben Jacob Kalir - Hymn for Tabernacles
Angkarn Kalyanapong - Addicted
Ihor Kalynets - and every day
Kewulay Kamara - Peace
Kewulay Kamara - Word in the Belly of the Word
Anna Kamienska - A path in the woods
Anna Kamienska - I was standing
Anna Kamienska - “Look,” mother says
Anna Kamienska - She gets up
Anna Kamienska - The mouths of the streets
Anna Kamienska - Those who carry
S. Zaynub Kamoonpuri - jumbo jet vs jackdaw
Valenn Kan - My own reality sign
Edith Kanaka'ole - Grant us
Jiaqi Kang - Hayfever
Jiaqi Kang - Love sonnet from the perspective of Rod, a jock mouse who lived on my animal crossing island for 3 months
Mamoudou Lamine Kane - More rich taints yer!
Jorge Kanese / Xorxe Kanexe - see Jorge Canese
Cyril M. Kanhai - The New Land
Dara Kanlagna - There is not only you
Sándor Kányádi - Deluge
Sándor Kányádi - On the shore
Jaan Kaplinski - Bertrand Russell 1872-1970
Jaan Kaplinski - Silence is always here
Jaan Kaplinski - Some Summers and Springs
Jaan Kaplinski - White paper and time
Vasily Kapnist - On Julia's Death
Undjizuva Kaputjaza - What I Am
Mona Kareem - Charles Mingus Egg Nog Recipe
Doris Kareva - When I threw you out
Jonathan Kariara - Grass will grow
Frigyes Karinthy - Nihil
Joseph Kariuki - Come away my love
Erik Axel Karlfeldt - Departure
Kostas Karyotakis - Bitter Oranges
Kostas Karyotakis - Nostalgia
Kostas Karyotakis - Tonight the moon...
Tukupashya Ally Kasongo - Living
Strangers Forever - Amin Kassam
Amin Kassam - Sunset
N. Ullrich Katalin - Fake
Elizabeth Kaufman-Buchel - Free as a bird
Patrick Kavanagh - Innocence
Patrick Kavanagh - Stony grey soil
Bilhana Kavi - Black Marigolds (Chauraspanchasika)
Bilhana Kavi - from: Vikramankadevacarita
Davina Philomena Kawuma - hashtag
Ahmet Kaya - Like Sand
Charles Chuze Kayeyi - A Trip To Heaven
L.M. Kazmierczak - Of flash mobs and a foreshadowing
John Keats - The Human seasons
Annasoltan Kekilova - I have come through torments
Maria Melendez Kelson - Good Friday
Pierre Kemp - Dreams
Pierre Kemp - The light is round
Thomas à Kempis - Suffer with humility
Thomas à Kempis - The Fruits of Patience
Thomas à Kempis - The Joys of Heaven
Henry Kendall - At Euroma
Geoffrey Kennedy - see Woodbine Willie
Brian Kennelly - Yes
Chanbo Keo - Hope
Jack Kerouac - Haiku (The low yellow...)
Jack Kerouac - One flower
Paul Kester - Sleep
Eka Kevanishvili - (Nobody knows) Why I loved Fascist
Euphrase Kezilahabi - Evening Tea
Euphrase Kezilahabi - The Banana Plant
Euphrase Kezilahabi - Welcome Inside
Wael Kfoury - Omri Kello
Mimi Khalvati - An Iranian professor I know asked me
Mimi Khalvati - Curling her tail
Mimi Khalvati - One eye crystal, one eye flame
Mimi Khalvati - The Servant
Abdul Ghani Khan - Entreaty
Abdul Ghani Khan - Nurse
Mariama Khan - Fallen Leaves
al-Khansāʾ - Lament for my Brother
Khushal Khattak - Immortal Youth
Khushal Khattak - The life of man is as the dust
Omar Khayyám - Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Quatrains I-XII)
Omar Khayyám - Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Quatrains XIII - XXIII)
Ivan Khemnitzer - The lion's council of state
Ateif Khieri - Exhortation to the village (8)
Olga Khvostova - Day
Emelihter S. Kihleng - Urohs Sexy
Velemir Khlebnikov - Once again
Velemir Khlebnikov - You are my song, my dark blue dream
Farzaneh Khojandi - A nightingale in the cage of my breast
Amir Khosrow - She wears a round skirt
Amir Khosrow - The cloud rains
Venus Khoury-Ghata - For Noha Al Hegelan
Adel Khozam - Cinema
Adel Khozam - White shame
Arif Khudairi - Song of Peace
Arif Khudairi - The abode of peace
Kim Ki-Taek - Pine tree
Timur Kibirov - After Dorothy Sayers
Timur Kibirov - [When Pontius Pilate, from the vantage]
Gloria Kiconco - Forget (Arua) Remember (Pakwac)
Saba Kidane - War and a woman
Emelihter Kihleng - At Palau Pacific Resort
Takarai Kikaku - Is my dream true?
Awadifo Olga Kili - Come back home Africa
Joyce Kilmer - Trees
Eeva Kilpi - He stepped inside my door
Eeva Kilpi - Love is rest
Kingmerut - Hunger
Andrew King - Do we place you in a tomb?
Andrew King - I am legion
Andrew King - The Community that Lies Between
Andrew King - The Story of Palm Sunday (as told for the young)
Edith L.M. King - The Centipede
Thomas Kingo - What vessel is that passing
Charles Kingsley - Easter Week
Charles Kingsley - My Little Doll
Rudyard Kipling - If
Rudyard Kipling - The beasts are very wise
Søren Kierkegaard - Infinite love
Søren Kierkegaard - You Changeless One, Whom Nothing Changes
Faustas Kirsa - The Tiny Kingdom
Danilo Kiš - On The News Of The Death Of Lady M.T.
Necip Fazil Kisakürek - Waiting
Mtendere Alice Kishindo - Infacto
Mtendere Alice Kishindo - Mis-using
Mtendere Alice Kishindo - Reading Flyers
Aleksis Kivi - My heart's song
Sarah Klassen - Refuge
Jessie Kleemann - The fish is waiting
Jessie Kleemann - The Room
Martin Kloess - I had a dream one sultry summer’s night
Martin Kloess - Remember freedom's fields
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock - The Infinite!
Willem Kloos - Sonnet
Raymond Knister - Change
Raymond Knister - The Quiet Snow
Rui Knopfli - Epigram
Isa (Craig) Knox - Never to know
Edvard Kocbek - Mountain
Edvard Kocbek - Rocket
Jan Kochanowski - Lament I
Jan Kochanowski - Lament II
Jan Kochanowski - Lament III
Jan Kochanowski - Lament IV
Jan Kochanowski - On Health
Joseph Kokou Koffigoh - Hope to the end
Lydia Koidula - My native land
Katlego K Kol-Kes - Before the sun comes up
Olufunke Kolapo - Dust
Olufunke Kolapo - God Is Not Mad At Me
Olufunke Kolapo - No words
Yakub Kolas - Song Of The Bells
Ján Kollár - Change of Taste
Ján Kollár - The Danube
Prince Koloni - No one is doing good
Amir ibn Kolthum - Ode
Amir ibn Kolthum - Pour us Wine
Anise Koltz - When my love was born
Alexey Koltzov - An old man's song
Ono no Komachi - Was I lost in thoughts of love?
Neema Komba - Delinquent Flower
Neema Komba - When you think of technology
Yusef Komunyakaa - Believing in iron
Yusef Komunyakaa - My father's love letters
Gueorgui Konstantinov - How a dragon is born
Ina Kontvainyte - Genesis
Soukias Hacob Koorkchian - see Varand
Rutger Kopland - Light
Dede Korkut - The Wisdom of Dede Korkut
Veikko Antero Koskenniemi - Finlandia
Srecko Kosovel - Close to midnight
Piotr Kostousov - a tribute to emily dickinson
R.H. Lola Koundakjian - Life
Nahabed Koutchak - Love Song
Ahmed Sheik Koya - Pearls
Cresantia Frances Koya-Vaka'uta - Weaving
Kenneth Krabat - This Thick Sound (v1.1)
Ignacy Krasicki - Foreword to the Fables
Jan Křesadlo - In unison of spires uprearing
Alfred Francis Kreymborg- I met four guinea hens
Srilata Krishnan - see K. Srilata
Gustav Krklec - Crazy day
Juris Kronbergs - Wolf One-Eye on Odin's Street
Fatma Krouma - Other banks
Hasso Krull - Right now, right now I would like to change
Friedrich Adolf Krummacher - Mountain and Valley
Marie Krysinska - The Javanese
Kshetrayya - Listening to my moans
Kshetrayya - The courtesan speaks to her lover
Dimash Kudaibergen - Give Me Love
Vincas Kudirka - Not he is a great man
Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe - An African Girlchild
Asmir Kujovic - Journal
Celestine Kulagoe - City Sunset
Cahit Külebi - Song
Elisabeth Kulmann - To my physician
Maxine Kumin - Where I live
Abay Kunanbayev - 1886
Abay Kunanbayev - Black of my eye
Abay Kunanbayev - I shouted from the cliff
Abay Kunanbayev - Spring
Abay Kunanbayev - Summer
Abay Kunanbayev - Word Nine
Mwana Kupona - Utendi (The Book of Mwana Kupona) stanzas 1-11
Mwana Kupona - Utendi (The Book of Mwana Kupona) stanzas 12-21
Der von Kürenberg - The Falcon
Ōtomo no Kuronushi - Mountains of Ōmi
Soad al Kuwari - Modernity in the desert
Soad al Kuwari - Poem

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L:

Alain de L'Isle - Life
Alain de L'Isle - The Nature of Man
Abdellatif Laâbi - The Cup
Yahia Lababidi - What do animals dream?
Louise Labé - Sonnet I: Never was Ulysses
Louise Labé - Sonnet VIII: I live, I die, I burn, I drown
Louise Labé - Sonnet XVII: I flee from town, and temple, and the rest
Louise Labé - Sonnet XX: I always knew
Louise Labé - Sonnet XXIV: Do not reproach me, ladies
Par Lagerkvist - Let My Shadow Disappear Into Yours
Jean Lahor - Moonlight Sleeps Within your Heart
Jean Lahor - Stormy Night
Jack Lahui - The gazelle incident
Eileen Lake - see Eileen Hall
Ryner Lai - Meet
Bihari Lal - How can someone separate you from me
Bihari Lal - Oh Pearl of the nose-ring
Léon Laleau - Cannibal
Chaman Lall - Departure
Chaman Lall - Legends
Madeleine de Lallé - My father
Aquah Laluah see Gladys May Casely-Hayford
Stephen Ciec Lam - I won’t bow my head for anyone
Alphonse Lamartine - Consolation
Charles Lamb - A Parody
Lami'i - see Lâmiî Çelebi Archibald Lampman - Temagami
Archibald Lampman - The Largest Life
Archibald Lampman - The Railway station
Beatrice Lamwaka - Nyeri
Walter Savage Landor - Mild is the parting year
Andrew Lang - Scythe Song
Jane Okot P’ Bitek Langoya - Nature's orchestra
Lao Tzu - Things as beautiful
Philip Larkin - Sunny Prestatyn
Claudia Lars - Ballads of the north and south, No. 1
Else Lasker-Schuler - Can you see me
Else Lasker-Schuler - Jacob and Esau
Else Lasker-Schuler - Oh let me leave this world
Adil Latefi - Laughing blue
Paul Latham - Rain, Sun, Summer
Peni Latu - My Dear Hina!
Ivan Laucík - A March Invocation
Pierre A. Lauffer - Curaçao
John Caspar Lavatar - O Holy Ghost, Thy heavenly dew
D.H. Lawrence - The elephant is slow to mate
D.H. Lawrence - Illicit
Henry Lawson - Above Eurunderee
Henry Lawson - Andy's gone with cattle
Poornima Laxmeshwar - Melancholy
Halldór Kiljan Laxness - Icelandic lullaby
Halldór Kiljan Laxness - The May Star
Barnabé Laye - The Ghetto
Camara Laye - To my mother
Zinaida Lazda - First Night
Jeannie Leane - This cardboard prison Edward Lear - Pobble Who Has No Toes
Walter Learned - The Reservation
Francis Ledwidge - Had I a Golden Pound
Jiwon Lee - When someone tells you "You look smart"
John Robert Lee - Sint Maarten
John Robert Lee - So, faith is certain
Laurie Lee - Home From Abroad
Robert Lee - Skeetes Bay, Barbados
Pedro Requena Legarreta - I would enfold your death and mine
Pedro Requena Legarreta - Idyl
Jordan Legaspi - Jesus the King
Carl Leggo - The Promised Land
R.C. Lehmann - Fluffy, a cat
Roland Leighton - Hédauville
Eino Leino - Nocturne
Hans Leip - Lili Marlene
Shika Kgomedi Lekgothoane - The Crocodile
Yana Lucila Lema - Living with the rain 1
Özge Lena - In Response to a Question
Leng Mei - Sun is in the East!
Michael Lentz - All's well that ends, question
Franco Leoni - My Mother
Leonidas - Home
Leonidas - Infinite was the time
Leonidas - On the picture of an infant
Giacomo Leopardi - Calm after storm
Giacomo Leopardi - Imitation
Giacomo Leopardi - The Infinite
Giacomo Leopardi - To Silvia
Giacomo Leopardi - To the Moon
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon - The Bride of a Year
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon - To my Husband on our wedding day
Eleanor Lerman - That sure is my little dog
Mikhail Lermontov - Captive knight
Mengistu Lemma - Longing
Denise Levertov - Making Peace
Denise Levertov - Salvator Mundi: Via Crucis
Primo Levi - The Survivor
Primo Levi - To my friends
Philip Levine - Gospel
Bruce Levitan - 64
Bruce Levitan - Birthday recollection
Bruce Levitan - For Esther
Bruce Levitan - God and Galaxies (for Remembrance Day)
Bruce Levitan - God's end
Bruce Levitan - Haiku (the spotted moon)
Bruce Levitan - Hands
Bruce Levitan - Imagine the scene
Bruce Levitan - It's about time
Bruce Levitan - Jungle danger
Bruce Levitan - Milestone
Bruce Levitan - Mother to be do you ponder the future
Bruce Levitan - The High Peak
Bruce Levitan - The Spiral
Bruce Levitan - Valentine haiku
Bruce Levitan - We dreamed of restoration
Bruce Levitan - What, no reindeer?
Bruce Levitan - Words on a train
Bruce Levitan - Yesterday
Anne Lewin - Disclosure
C.S. Lewis - Sonnet
Ami Lhago - Straying far from myself
Li Bai - Amidst the Flowers a Jug of Wine
Li Bai - Bringing in the wine
Li Bai - Down Zhonghan Mountain to the pillow and bowl of husi
Li Bai - Drinking alone with the moon
Li Bai - Moon over Mountain Pass
Li Bai - Verses for the Lady Yang
Li Qingzhao (Li Ching Chao) - Autumn Love
Li Qingzhao (Li Ching Chao) - To the tune of To Rouge the Lips
Li Yu - A heavenly woman's imprisoned in the palace
Li Yu - Gratitude for New Bounties
Li Yu - The east wind blows over the water
Li Yu - My Idle Dreams Roam Far (Gazing at the South)
Li Yu - Oh when will autumn moon and spring flowers end?
Liyou Libsekal - Agar
Liyou Libsekal - Childhood was Mud-Play and Dirty Fingernails
Liyou Libsekal - Revival
Alfred Lichtenstein - A warrior's longing
Alfred Lichtenstein - Leaving for the front
Viktar Licvinau - A laboratory
Onam Liduba - Child cry of war
Enrique Lihn - Echo of Another Sonata
Juhan Liiv - A sound
Juhan Liiv - Leaves-fell
Abigail Lim - Phobia
José Lezama Lima - Old surrealist ballad
José Lezama Lima - Portrait of José Cemí
Chang Chiu Ling - The Willow-Leaf
Chloe Ling - Purple
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Broken Shell
Vachel Lindsay - Star of my heart
Timwa Lipenga - Judgement
Liu Qiyu - Woods
Dana Livesay - The Bible in 50 words
Benedikt Livshits - Kuokkala
Luljeta Lleshanaku - In the Absence of Water
Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö - A Reminder to Myself
Loidology - The Conversation
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov - An Evening Reflection upon God's Grandeur
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov - Ode (from Job)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - A Psalm of Life
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Christmas bells
Elias Lönnrot - Proem
Elias Lönnrot - Song of the Sampo: Song of Creation
Adilia Lopes - untitled poem
Jose Lopes - Camões
Jose Lopes - My Country
Federico Garcia Lorca - Ballad of the Moon
Federico Garcia Lorca - Before the dawn
Federico Garcia Lorca - City That Does Not Sleep
Federico Garcia Lorca - The Guitar
Federico Garcia Lorca - The Old Lizard
Audre Lorde - Recreation
Pierre Louÿs - The Flute
Pierre Louÿs - Mnasidika's breasts
Lovelygal - My sinking island, Kiribati
Amy Lowell - The giver of stars
James Russell Lowell - New-Year's Eve, 1850
Dulce María Loynáz - The Mirror
Lưu Trọng Lư - A little love
Lưu Trọng Lư - The Sound of Autumn
Stephen Lubega - Evening
Lucilius - Grammar, music, rhetoric
Lucretius - Nothing Exists Per Se Except Atoms and the Void
Lu Lun - A Night-mooring at Wuchang
Lu Lun - Border Song III
Lu Lun - Border Song IV
Archbishop Khorene Nar Bey de Lusignan - Dawn
Archbishop Khorene Nar Bey de Lusignan - The exile to the swallow
Martin Luther - Cradle Hymn
Martin Luther - Flung to heedless winds
Hulda Dagny Lütken - What have you done with your blue look?
Hour Luy - Back
Theo Luzuka - The Motoka
Oleh Lysheha - The Bear
Óndra Lysohorsky - Room for all
Óndra Lysohorsky - Summer

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Tabitha M'bawa - How silent are you?
Mansour M'henni - Grain of Beauty
Alain Mabanckou - Earthly sojourn
Alain Mabanckou - there is nothing worse
Seosamh MacCathmhaoil - I follow a star
Seosamh MacCathmhaoil - The little yellow road
Finn MacCool - In praise of May
Finn MacCool - The Song of Fionn
Thomas MacDonagh - Is Truagh Gan Mise I Sasana
Thomas MacDonagh - The Stars Stand Up In The Air
Thomas MacDonagh - The Yellow Bittern
George Macdonald - A Christmas Prayer
George Macdonald - A sang o' zion
José Agostinho de Macedo - A meditation
Karel Hynek Mácha - May (Part 1)
Antonio Machado - Has my heart gone to sleep?
Antonio Machado - Rainbow at night
Louise Mack - Before Exile
Isabel Ecclestone MacKay - Indian Summer
Jessie Mackay - October in New Zealand
Percy MacKaye - Christmas: 1915
Ewart Alan Mackintosh - Cha Till Maccruimein (Departure of the 4th Camerons)
Digby Mackworth-Dolben - Requests
Fiona MacLeod - The lonely hunter
Gearóid MacLochlainn - Second Tongue
Lindsay MacRae - How was school?
Lindsay MacRae - Refugee
Peter Macsovszky - Of those things which are known as those things
Osmar Maderna - You will never return
Eveline Maedel - Sermon
Carlo Maggi - Sonnet IX
Carlo Maggi - Sonnet X
Chonggi Mah - Rumour from the past
Nadd Mahmud - Flaw
Mzi Mahola - Everything has changed (except graves)
Mzi Mahola - House of the poor
Mzi Mahola - Impassable bridge
Duy Quang Mai - Lord of the Flies
Duy Quang Mai - The Bathtub
Maironis - News Has Come
Maironis - Song of antiquity
Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor - Freedom
Anuradha Majumdar - Legend
Tsebo Makakole - Drowning
Jully Makini - Civilised girl
Grand Corps Malade - Romeo digs Juliet
Nazik al-Malaika - Love Song For Words
Lopez Maldonado - The Brook
Josh Malihabadi - Beauty and toil
Stéphane Mallarmé - Sea breeze
Stéphane Mallarmé - The Flowers
Stéphane Mallarmé - The Poem's Gift
Munur Mambetaliev - Consider
Osip Emilovich Mandelstam - A young Levite among priests
Osip Emilovich Mandelstam - Brothers, let us glorify freedom's twilight
Osip Emilovich Mandelstam - Every church sings its own soft part
Osip Emilovich Mandelstam - I am sorry it is winter now
Osip Emilovich Mandelstam - Let us go where there are varied crafts
Osip Emilovich Mandelstam - Octaves
Osip Emilovich Mandelstam - This is what I most want
James Clarence Mangan - Siberia
Manikkavachakar - In praise of Shiva
Thomas Mann - Shall I find my life's black story
Eeva-Liisa Manner - The City
Eeva-Liisa Manner - Winter
Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming - The Om
Katherine Mansfield - see Boris Petrovsky
Katherine Mansfield - A Day in Bed
Katherine Mansfield - Voices of the air
Zohra Mansouri - Hallucination
John Mansur (John of Damascus) - Come you faithful, raise the strain
John Mansur (John of Damascus) - Hail the Resurrection day
John Mansur (John of Damascus) - The Day of Resurrection!
Hans Manz - A true story of daily life
Homero Manzi - Afterwards
Homero Manzi - Neighborhood Romance
Jack Mapanje - from: Beasts of Nalunga
Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh - Supplications
Hector Marcó - May I never miss...
Hector Marcó - Your lips will tell me
Walter de la Mare - Martha
Walter de la Mare - Mistletoe
Helda Marie - Lamentations from paradise
Catalina Mariel - see Eunice Odio
Kélétigui Abdourahmane Mariko - Heritage!
Hyllus Noel Maris - Spiritual Song Of The Aborigine
Althea Mark-Romeo - Uninvited
José Mármol - Deus ex Machina
Didier Marouani - Child
Carlos Villagra Marsal - Shadows on the Land, II
Fabien Marsaud - see Grand Corps Malade
Lieke Marsman - Poetry
José Martí - A sincere man am I
José Martí - I have a white rose to tend
José Martí - To Emma
Marcus Valerius Martialis - Liber V.LVIII (To Morrow you will live)
Marcus Valerius Martialis - Liber V.LIX (In sending you no silver plate)
Marcus Valerius Martialis - Liber VII.LXXI (To Postumianus)
Marcus Valerius Martialis - Liber IX.V (You wish to marry)
Marcus Valerius Martialis - De Spectaculis.I (Let not barbaric Memphis)
Marcus Valerius Martialis - De Spectaculis.II (Here where, rayed with stars)
Marcus Valerius Martialis - De Spectaculis.III (What race is set so far)
Marcus Valerius Martialis - De Spectaculis.IV (A crowd dangerous to peace)
Marcus Valerius Martialis - De Spectaculis.V (That Pasiphae was mated)
Marcus Valerius Martialis - De Spectaculis.VI (That warring Mars)
Marcus Valerius Martialis - De Spectaculis.XXX (While a roused hind was flying)
Hemayel Martina - Prologue
Andrew Marvell - A garden
John Masefield - Cargoes
John Masefield - Sailing For Flanders
John Masefield - Up on the downs
John Masefield - Sea-fever
John Masefield - The Seekers
Grandmaster Masese - My Hand
Rethabile Masilo - People in tall buildings
Rethabile Masilo - Sleep blues
Fawziya al Maskiry - A leader's vision
Mathura - Betrothed. Lithograph to Kuutti Lavonen
Mulumba Matia - My Home
Hubert Matiúwàa - Pepsi Cola
Drora Matlofsky - Bless You
Antun Gustav Matoš - Hair comfort
Joaõ Xavier de Matos - Night-Fall
Luis Pales Matos - black majesty
Khaled Mattawa - Date palm trinity
Ted Eric Matthews - A goobie is not a calabash
William Matthews - Job Interview
John Mauburne - Est Virgo Coeli Rore
John Mauburne - Heu! quid jaces stabulo
Mauli - see Jnanesvar
Edouard J. Maunick - A-BO-LI-TION
Seshie Mauriko - My beautiful country
Rabanus Maurus - O Jesus, joy of angel choirs
Rabanus Maurus - O soothe thy servants' woes, and bring (Placare Christe Servulis)
Rabanus Maurus - Vesper hymn for all saints
Ngwatilo Mawiyoo - Spring in Nairobi
Krystina Mawer - A letter from the youth of Britain
Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr - Panegyric of Madog ab Maredudd
Daniel Maximin - the words that I give you
Vladimir Mayakovsky - To All and Everything
Esther Mbale - I know I can
Monique Mbeka - A year of grace
Kithaka wa Mberia - Blood Sunday
Mbuh Tennu Mbuh - Chopstick Diplomacy
Waithira Mbuthia - An ode to Queen Mumbi
Wordsworth McAndrew - Ol' Higue
Carson McCullers - Stone Is Not Stone
John McCrae - In due season
John McCrae - In Flanders fields
Fokkina McDonnell - the statistics of poetry
William McFee - High Tide at 4 A.M.
William Topaz McGonagall - Saving a train
William Topaz McGonagall - The Crucifixion of Christ
Roger McGough - Soil
Roger McGough - Three rusty nails
Claude McKay - The Barrier
Claude McKay - The Spanish Needle
Mechthild of Magdeburg - God speaks to the soul
Edward P. Mead - The Steam King
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger - I am the night
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger - I am the rain
Din Mehmeti - The Investigation
Narsimha Mehta - A godlike man
Narsimha Mehta - One who feels others' grief
Leng Mei - Sun is in the East!
Mildred Plew Meigs - Johnny Fife and Johnny's wife
Mildred Plew Meigs - Moon Song
Meleager of Gadara - Love the runaway
Francisco Manuel de Melo - On ascending a hill leading to a convent
Francisco Manuel de Melo - The Arrabida Convent
Mencius - He measured out
Diego Hurtado de Mendoza - An old woman who was considered beautiful
Íñigo López de Mendoza - Serranilla
Patricia Mercy - War, war, war
W.S. Merwin - Thanks
Metrodorus - The Joy of Life
Nontsizi Mgqwetho - Chizama the poet
Nontsizi Mgqwetho - Listen compatriots!
Nontsizi Mgqwetho - Show me the mountain that packed up and left
Si Mohand ou-Mhand - Compassionate, You are the most merciful
Mwiza Mnyuma Sambo Mhango - Unsung hero
Màiri Mhór - I am weary of the speakers of English
Michelangelo - see Michelangelo Buonarotti
Adam Mickiewicz - Eastward, the Sun
William Mickle - There's nae luck about the house (The Mariner's wife)
Agnes Miegel - The Fair Agnete
Immanuel Mifsud - Birzebbuga 2014
Migjeni - Song of noble grief
Migjeni - Songs unsung
Csokonai Vitéz Mihály - Shy Request
Konstantin Miladinov - Longing for the south
Eduardo Milán - Nakedly Obvious No. 20
Eduardo Milán - That there's no danger
Eduardo Milán - To say you and I
Milarepa - I have forgotten
Nijole Miliauskaite - Basic overhaul
Charles-Hubert Millevoye - The fall of leaves
Alice Milligan - The Dark Palace
Spike Milligan - A silly poem
Spike Milligan - Jumbo Jet
Tedi López Mills - A Riddle
AA Milne - Buckingham Palace
AA Milne - Vespers
AA Milne - Wind on the Hill
Czeslaw Milosz - An hour
Czeslaw Milosz - A poem for the end of the Century
Czeslaw Milosz - Love
Czeslaw Milosz - You who wronged
John Milton - Sonnet XIX
Mimnermus - Youth and Age
Robert Minhinnick - The tooth
Rajab Hamad Buhwaish al-Minifi - No illness but this place
Mirabai - A cowherding girl
Mirabai - Go to that impenetrable realm
Mirabai - Out in a downpour
Mvúra Mirávyo - Pilgrims
Ricardo Miró - My Country
Agi Mishol - Night lamp
Sudesh Mishra - The Rowers
Frédéric Mistral - Marseilles
Frédéric Mistral - The Ballad of Guibour
Gabriela Mistral - Children’s Hair
Gabriela Mistral - Ecstasy
Gabriela Mistral - Pine forest
Gabriela Mistral - The Sad Mother
Gabriela Mistral - To see him again
Floss Mitchell - see Floss M. Jay
Kenji Miyazawa - November 3
Gudugwe Mlilo - The calves are everywhere
Moiso Mlingi - The Dot
Ras Mo - Pink and Blue
Jorgen Ingebrektsem Moe - Kleven
Thomas Mofolo - Yellow One
Abou Mohammed - Majid Al Mohandes - Good Morning Lebanon
Lenelle Moïse - where our protest sound
Juan Ramón Molina - Metempsychosis
Grace Mera Molisa - Custom
Eugenio Montale - I Recall Your Smile
Héctor Hernández Montecinos - I go find sleep
Eugenio Montejo - The earth turned to bring us closer
Rosanna Montemayor - Of course you are still looking for sea glass
Eleanor Elizabeth Montgomery - Adieu!
Emmanuel Monychol - Dilemma
Emmanuel Monychol - Pre-Naivasha days
Susanna Moodie - The Dying Hunter to his Dog
Denny Moonde - Absentee Husband
Denny Moonde - Precipitation is upon us
Bai T. Moore - An elder's prayer
Theresa Ann Moore - Rescued
Clement Clark Moore - A visit from St. Nicholas
Víctor Valera Mora - Rome /1/10/73
Torkilk Mørch - Ice
Pamela Claire Mordecai - Elsie
Benedicta Mordedzi - Extremely Grateful, Yet Disappointed
Edwin Morgan - Good Friday
Iolo Morganwg - see Rhys Goch ap Rhiccert
Christian Morgenstern - Project report
Christian Morgenstern - The midnight mouse
Eduard Mörike - At the wood's edge
Eduard Mörike - It's Spring
Arvid Mörne - The pine trees on the sea rock
Rachel Morpurgo - Sonnet
Adriaan Morrien - A Girl
Edward Morris - The Emmaus Road
Edward Morris - The Gospel in Rhyme
William Morris - Earth The Healer, Earth The Keeper
Sinéad Morrissey - The Millihelen
Jan Andrzej Morsztyn - Fickle
Valzhyna Mort - Factory of Tears
Ian Mortimer - 31 December 1999
Cam Morton / C.A. Morton - see Lord Cam
Moschus - Alas! alas! when in a garden fair
Moschus - Idyl I: The stray Cupid
Julius Mosen - The bridal chamber
Emmanuel Moses - The Black Streets
Tumello Motabola - Memory
Emma Moughabghab - City in the East
George Jehoshaphat Mountain - Mosquitoes (Sonnet XV)
George Jehoshaphat Mountain - On Losing A Pencil In French River (Sonnet XIII)
George Jehoshaphat Mountain - The Indian's Grave
Isaac Al Mouseli - Lines to Haroun and Yahia
Georges Moustaki - In the Mediterranean
Annie Moyo - Murder of an African nation
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - A little fool lies here
William Khalipwina Mpina - Abyss of silence
Oswald Mtshali - Boy on a swing
Oswald Mtshali - Inside my Zulu hut
Du Mu - Given in Farewell
Tina Mucavele - Insídia do tempo
Lynn Mugisha - Purgatory
Natasha Muhoza - Peace need not be a dream
Shrawan Mukarung - Chill
Tom Mukasa - Love for animals
Epiphanie Mukasano - Blindness cure
Epiphanie Mukasano - Her Song
Dhan Gopal Mukerji - Old Courtesan’s Lament
Muktabai - The Land of Topsy-Turvy
Samwiri Kisa Mukuru - Teardrop
Tawanda Mulalu - After History
Larry Mullen - Grace
Dadolin Murak - General!
Sultan Murad II - Rubai
Shirley Erena Murray - God of freedom, God of justice
Mikayil Mushfig - Heartbeat
Alfred de Musset - Fortunio's song
Wallada bint al-Mustakfi - When you told us our glances, soft, timid, and mild
Khuliso Musweswe - Countless Words In My Heart
Al-Mutanabbi - A young soul
Al-Mutanabbi - Face to face with a lion
Al-Mutanabbi - To Sayf al-Dawla
Xasan Sheekh Muumin - Good sense
Xasan Sheekh Muumin - Long life with peace
Togara Muzanenhamo - The Naming of a Child
Togara Muzanenhamo - Portrait of a Water Trough
Enoch Timpunza Mvula - Still Born
Tendai R Mwanaka - I have live
Bantu Mwaura - Cactus
Michelo Mweetwa - A Quiet Palm Sunday
Charles Mwewa - Love
Charles Mwewa - Slow dance
Vincas Mykolaitis - see Putinas

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Njabulo N. - My Tiger Stripes
Mohammed J. Al-Nabhan - A Homeland
Daniel Naborowski - Vanity
Nachmanides - My King
Gustave Nadaud - Carcassonne
Ágnes Nemes Nagy - Like someone
Ágnes Nemes Nagy - The empty sky
Nahuatl indian (anonymous) - A plain song of the Mexicans
Nahuatl indian (anonymous) - A Spring song, an Otomi song, a Plain song
Nahuatl indian (anonymous) - XIV
Nahuatl indian (anonymous) - XXII
Sarojini Naidu - A love song
Sarojini Naidu - Alabaster
Sarojini Naidu - Autumn song
Sarojini Naidu - In the forest
Sarojini Naidu - Past and Future
Sarojini Naidu - Village Song
Edasseri Govindan Nair - When philosophies sleep
Israel ben Moses Najara - God of the world
Abe no Nakamaro - When I look abroad
Mikael Ghazarian Nalbandian - Days of my childhood
Mikael Ghazarian Nalbandian - Liberty
Kunchan Nambiar - The kingdom of the Gandharaka ruler
Namdev - One thing
Namdev - The Heart's Desire
Suniti Namjoshi - Not loved enough
Mvula Ya Nangolo - From exile
Mvula Ya Nangolo - Namibia
Gregory Nanzianzen - To God
Fatima Naoot - A single nose
Fatima Naoot - Watermark
Jit Narain - Working all day, dreaming at night
Nathan - Teach me peace
Ogden Nash - Everybody tells me everything
Ogden Nash - Just keep quiet and nobody will notice
Ogden Nash - More about people
Ogden Nash - My Dream
Ogden Nash - Pretty halcyon days
Thomas Nashe - Fair Summer Droops
Thomas Nashe - Spring
Amjad Nasser - A song and three questions
Amjad Nasser - Stone
Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj - My Native Land
Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj - Three wonders of the world
Jean-Baptiste Nau - Who deserves respect?
Marguerite de Navarre - Epistle
Marguerite de Navarre - Gone with the wind
Alisher Navoi - Ghazal
Alisher Navoi - My Dark Eyed One
Muthaffar al-Nawab - A Poem from the World of Cats
Ghareeb Nawaz - see Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī
Nimah Ismail Nawwab - The Longing
Duma Ndloru - Voices in the wilderness
Emma Neale - After a long hard decade, Miranda asks for a poem about feijoas
Aminath Neena - My country - my Maldives
Laila Neihoum - Butterflies of Meaning
Nejati (Isa Necati) - Gazel
Nikolai Nekrasov - A moral man
Nikolai Nekrasov - I shall soon fall pray to rot
Nikolai Nekrasov - Morning
Nikolai Nekrasov - The Soldier
Bishop Nektarios of Aegina - Christ the Word!
Bill Nelson - Regrets Only
Rastko Nemanjic - Letter on torment
Enrico Nencione - St. Simeon Stylites
Lyubov Nenyang - The personal, grown up song of Ynurti Yantune
Giampiero Neri - Memesis
Giampiero Neri - That pastry and coffee house in Como
Salomėja Nėris - Child of war
Salomėja Nėris - Homeland
Pablo Neruda - If you forget me
Pablo Neruda - Love Sonnet XII
Pablo Neruda - Some Beasts
Pablo Neruda - Water
Pablo Neruda - Your hands
Marie Nervat - I would like to take a walk in the wood
Amado Nervo - A hymn to love
E. Nesbit - Bridal Eve
E. Nesbit - The Magic Flower
Kenn Nesbitt - December 26
Kenn Nesbitt - Swimming pool
Nesimi - Ghazel
Nesma - Cairo
Paulos Netabay - Remembering Sahel
António Agostinho Neto - Bamako!
António Agostinho Neto - Farewell at the moment of parting
Hermann Neumann - Two chambers has the heart
Nezahualcoyotl - He makes the Eagles and Ocelots dance with him!
Ibrahim Nezimi - see Nezin Frakulla
Sandile Ngidi - Home Truths
John Ngong Kum Ngong - Whited sepulchre
Eunice Ngongkum - Green Spirit
Amos Momo Ngumbu - Africa, Wake up
St Nicetas of Remisiana - Te Deum laudamus
Marjory Nicholls - I scarce believed
Grace Nichols - Sun is laughing
Martin Niemöller - First they came
O Anna Niemus - Icarus and Sisyphus
Abdallah Nihauni - Sky-scalers—madcaps—with wine-wetted dresses
Martinus Nijhoff - The song of the foolish bees
Fidelia Nimmons - Have you heard it tell?
Nimrod - The cry of the bird
Anais Nin - Risk
Anais Nin - The Storm
Loa Niumeitolu - When we tell
Ketty Nivyabandi - #Burundi2015
Ketty Nivyabandi - Emerald dunes
Petar II Petrovic-Njegoš - The Mountain Wreath
Petar II Petrovic-Njegoš - The springtime of our lives is brief
Siza Nkosi - corner pritchard
Effie Nkrumah - see Benumah Ayukawa Nobuo - Dreaming of the mountain
Ayukawa Nobuo - In a Dilapidated House
Yone Noguchi - Song of day in Yosemite valley
Yone Noguchi - The Keepsake
Yone Noguchi - The Poet
Yone Noguchi - What about my songs
Kiwao Nomura - On Prose
Nonnus of Panoplis - The Garden of Samothrace
Nonnus of Panopolis - The Tyrian Landscape
Oodgeroo Noonuccal - Last of his tribe
Oodgeroo Noonuccal - Song
Oodgeroo Noonuccal - Song of Hope
Oodgeroo Noonuccal - Understand Old One
Oodgeroo Noonuccal - We are going
Cees Nooteboom - 20
Max Nordau - Confidence
Max Nordau - Conventional lies of our civilization
Max Nordau - The stamp-of-civilization
Henrik Nordbrandt - Danish Manor Ghosts
Henrik Nordbrandt - Sailing
Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl - untitled
Cyprian Kamil Norwid - In an album
Cyprian Kamil Norwid - In Verona
Novalis - Ah, when He is mine
Novalis - Hymns to the night (no. 4)
René Noyau - Legends of Time and Place
Marcelo Ensema Nsang - Elegy in stone
Marcelo Ensema Nsang - Plaza de España
Marcelo Ensema Nsang - Point Cristina and Point Fernanda
Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva - Two Strangers
Saah N´Tow - Symbu
Joao Jose Nunes - The heavens beaming with light
Víctor Rodríguez Núñez - Naval Engineering
Ardakh Nurgaz - A flower
Abu Nuwas - His robe was white like milk
Abu Nuwas - Karkhiyya
Maung Chaw Nwe - Harbour
Selina Nwulu - We have everything we need
Freedom T.V. Nyamubaya - Journey and a half
Peter Anyang’-Nyong’o - Daughter of the low land
Sirbestian Nzula - Shaken but not shattered

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Edward O'Brien - The Last Piper
John O'Brien - Laughing Mary
John O'Brien - Sing me a song
Cathal O’Bryne - A silent mouth
Cathal O’Bryne - Away from Ireland
Cathal O’Bryne - O little green leaf
Cathal O’Bryne - Spring
Cathal O’Bryne - The boy's mother speaks
Cathal O’Bryne - The Fairy Well of Slemish
Cathal O’Bryne - The Grey Feet of the Wind
Cathal O’Bryne - The Mother o' Shaun
Cathal O’Bryne - When I shall come to you
Liam Ó Comain - The Broken wing
Mark O'Connor - The Beginning
Mark O'Connor - To kill an olive
Dermot O'Curnan - Love's despair
Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh - Consecration
John O’Donohue - The Coronation
Bernard Patrick O’Dowd - The Cow
Ernest O'Ferrall - The Settled Bards
Standish Hayes O'Grady - Song of the forest trees
Standish Hayes O'Grady - The Shaving of Murdoch
Thomas O'Hagan - Ripened Fruit
Adelaide O'Keefe - Sophia's Fools-ap
Ellen O’Leary - To God and Ireland true
Moira O'Neill - Corrymeela
Moira O'Neill - Cuttin' Rushes
Moira O'Neill - Sea Wrack
Moira O'Neill - The Fairy Lough
Arthur O'Shaughnessy - Ode
Sheamus O'Sheel - He whom a dream hath possessed
Art Ó Súilleabháin - Broken Line
Seamus O'Sullivan - A piper
Seamus O'Sullivan - Eve and Lilith
Seamus O'Sullivan - Splendid and terrible
Seamus O'Sullivan - The Half Door
Seamus O'Sullivan - Winter
Jonathan Odell - Mary Odell on her birthday
Eunice Odio - First poem: Possession in dream
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger - Christ's birth
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger - Christ's manhood
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger - The Bard
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger - The children in the moon
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger - The Drive
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger - The Gold Horns
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger - There is a charming land
Óengus the Culdee - The Creation of the Universe
Óengus mac Óengobann / Saint Óengus of Tallaght - see Óengus the Culdee
U Sam Oeur - Dream After Composing the Appeal of the Cambodian League for Freedom and Democracy
U Sam Oeur - Only mothers will embrace sorrows
O'tega Oghenechovwen - You
Will H. Ogilvie - Canadians
Olu Oguibe - all because i loved you
Cece Oh! - A Prayer Before Sleep
Ric Ohge - Ascension
Gabriel Okara - Adhiambo
Kunle Okesipe - A few things worth considering
Chinedu Okezuonu - Cinderalla
Christopher Okigbo - Debtor's Lane (with Drums & Ogene)
Andreas Okopenko - Garden
Nana Olapet Olawumi - Star-Struck
Pius Oleghe - A sudden storm
Hamid Olimjon - When the apricot tree blossoms
José F. A. Oliver - easter sunday, travesties
Mary Oliver - Wild Geese
Matilda Olkin - Good morning
Dillon Ollivierre - Must never be in vain
Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen - Together and yet apart
L Ölziitögs - In your absence
Funmilayo Omoniyi - Lamentations
Rasha Omran - Claws
Michael Ondaatje - The first rule of Sinhalese Architecture
Vagif Bayatly Oner - Child who dances for the wedding
Onchoka Ongoro - Bosongo’s Dark Alleys
Don Too Heng Onn - The weeping lady of Kinshasa
Ameila Opie - Song: A youth for Jane with ardour sighed...
Charles d'Orleans - Confession of a stolen kiss
Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa - see Tomás Iriarte
Gregory Orr - Father's song
Gregory Orr - Untitled
Alykul Osmonov - Fatherland
Femi Osofisan - Locusts
Femi Osofisan - Paris Latin Quarter
Zamir Osorov - My English
Zamir Osorov - The flying Elephant
Eugene Ostashevsky - The premises of grass
Niyi Osundare - Not my business
Niyi Osundare - Wishes
Rafael Felipe Oteriño - My poet friends
Rafael Felipe Oteriño - Voices are heard
Carl Emil Otto - Why?
Louise Otto-Peters - Fog
Thomas Otway - The Enchantment
Moncef Ouahibi - If on a winter's night a traveller
Abdellatif Al Ouarari - Chapter VIII
Abdellatif Al Ouarari - The Will to Life
Mubarak Ouassat - Jobs
Richard Outram - Parting at evening
Kees Ouwens - he locks the car and knows...
Hywel ab Owain - The Boast
Hywel ab Owain - My Chosen One
Wilfred Owen - Anthem for doomed youth
Wilfred Owen - Winter Song
Laju Ereyitomi Oyewoli - Mother is gold

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Lubwa p’Chong see A.R. Cliff-Lubwa Surjit Paatar - Candles
Pachacuti - Hailli 1
José Emilio Pacheco - The hour of the children
José Emilio Pacheco - The Lives of Poets
José Emilio Pacheco - The Sider in the Holiday House Motel
José Emilio Pacheco - The Water Drop
Lynn Paden - change
Lynn Paden - unknown
Heberto Padilla - Anne Frank
Isobel Pagan - Ca' the Yowes
Joaquín Arcadio Pagaza - In the night
Joaquín Arcadio Pagaza - Twilight
P.K. Page - Adolescence
Steve Page - I do
Dan Pagis - Scrawled in pencil in a sealed railway car
Anita Pajevic - patronus
Sagara Palansuriya - The Blind Boy
Sagara Palansuriya - Andha Lamaya
Nettie Palmer - The Mother
Vance Palmer - Song of the old Boundary Rider
Panatattu - The Unity of God
Sakya Pandita - The Words of the Wise are Few
Yu Pangson - Outside Town
Takis Papatsonis - Scheme
Dorothy Parker - But Not Forgotten
Dorothy Parker - Inscription for the ceiling of a bedroom
Dorothy Parker - Penelope
Henry Parland My hat
Nicanor Parra - Young poets
Norman Erikson Pasaribu - Before the Melbourne reading
Giovanni Pascoli - Last Dream
Linda Pastan - Vertical
Boris Pasternak - Like the brazier's bronze cinders
Boris Pasternak - On early trains
Boris Pasternak - Railway Station
Boris Pasternak - Spring
Boris Pasternak - The Girl
Boris Pasternak - The Steppe
Boris Pasternak - Three variants
Boris Pasternak - You're here
Neerav Patel - me and my old woman
A B Banjo Paterson - A bush Christening
A B Banjo Paterson - Waltzing Matilda
Coventry Patmore - The Barren Shore
Luís Carlos Patraquim - I draw the curtains of the afternoon
Luís Carlos Patraquim - I think of your hands as gills inside the sea
Luís Carlos Patraquim - Indian Ocean Ode
St. Patrick - An Even-song
St. Patrick - The deer's cry
Sarojini Pattayat - A bird inside the Cage
Brian Patten - In Tintagel Graveyard
Brian Patten - The True Dragon
Lekhnath Paudyal - A parrot in a cage (pinjarako suga)
Lekhnath Paudyal - Himalaya
Paulinus of Nola - The Word of the Cross
Miodrag Pavlovic - The sun setting
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska - Whoever wants me to love him
Octavio Paz - Between going and staying the day wavers
Octavio Paz - Friendship
Octavio Paz - There is a motionless tree
Isabel Maud Peacocke - The Happy Islands
Thomas Love Peacock - Love and Age
Mervyn Peake - With people, so with trees
Augusta Peaux - The Boat,
Adrianna Ennelinda Pedro - Air Pollution
George Peele - Bethsabe's song
George Peele - Hot sun, cool fire
Tatu Pekkarinen - No, Molotov
Juan Sánchez Peláez - Possession
Rahmat Fa'aola Pele - Human speech
Carol Penner - Coming to the city nearest you
Carol Penner - Rain Grace upon us
Penta-our - The Triumph of Rameses II [opening section]
Ernest Pépin - This is my country rising
Alfredo Le Pera - The day when you will love me
Francisco Pérez Perdomo - I Saw Her Wandering
Ayodhya Bandara Perera - The Renunciation
Craig Santos Perez - Family Trees
Isaac Leib Perez - Hope and Faith
Julio Perrenal - see Marcel de Bruin
Fernando Pessoa - +ANTINOUS+: A Poem
Fernando Pessoa - Autopsychography
Fernando Pessoa - In this world where we forget
Fernando Pessoa - Sonnet I
Fernando Pessoa - Sonnet XXX
Fernando Pessoa - Staring at the distance
Fernando Pessoa - The Sheep Keeper (poem II)
Marí Peté - North and South
Marí Peté - Prison Art
Peter of Montboissier - see Peter the Venerable
Peter the Venerable - Mortis portis fractis fortis
Lenrie Peters - Song
Lenrie Peters - The Fence
Petrarch - A stolen glove
Petrarch - Sonnet 7
Petrarch - Sonnet 101
Petrarch - The Forest of Ardenne
Petrarch - What are you doing, Soul?
Boris Petrovsky - There was a child once
Hallgrim Petursson - The Wy of the Cross
John Arthur Phillips - The Factory Girl
Sonia Phillips - A Box of Clouds
Nametso Dorothy Phonchi - African tears
Sunthorn Phu - Lamentations
Sunthorn Phu - Nirat Phu Khao Thong
Sunthorn Phu - Sudsakorn (from Phra Aphai Mani)
Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok - Upon Arriving at Yangleshö
Kiri Piahana-Wong - Kahukeke
Marjorie Pickthall - Marching men
Umberto Piersanti - Red Thistle
Thottakadu Ramakrishna Pillai - see T. Ramakrishna
Pindar - Olympia 12
Pindar - Pythia 7
Dalthon Pineda - How to die in Zapote
Pipa - Raga Dhanashri
Edwin Ford Piper - Have you an eye
Cino da Pistoia - Canzone
Cino da Pistoia - Why sighest thou?
Christine de Pizan - Ballad XI
August Graf von Platen - Would I were as free as my dreams
Sylvia Plath - Sheep in Fog
August von Platen-Hallermünde - Before the Convent of Yuste, 1556
August von Platen-Hallermünde - Fair as the day
August von Platen-Hallermünde - Would I were free as are my dreams
Joseph Mary Plunkett - Christ in creation
Joseph Mary Plunkett - The Stars sang in God's garde
Li Po - see Li Bai
Kushal Poddar - Sewn beneath my lids
Kushal Poddar - The Blood of Fruits
Kushal Poddar - The seeing blindness
Gregor Podlogar - High ride in the streets
Ali Podrimja - And you never forgot
Ali Podrimja - Who will slay the wolf
Edgar Allan Poe - Dream
Anzhelina Polonskaya - Two Birds
Yakov Polonsky - The cosmic fabric
Raoul Ponchon - Sonnet de l'Absinthe
Vasko Popa - A conceited mistake
Vasko Popa - Far within us #1
Vasko Popa - Last news about the Little Box
Vasko Popa - The Little Box
Vasko Popa - The Star Wizard's Legacy
Marguerite Porete - Humility
Aída Cartagena Portalatín - A woman is alone
Jean Portante - The one I saw again
Anne Porter - A list of praises
Ezra Pound - A Girl
Catherine Pozzi - Hail!
Catherine Pozzi - Scopolamine
Manuel Gonzalez Prada - Triolet
Sri Praj - Quatrain
Viplob Pratik - Bliss
E.J. Pratt - The Shark
Jacques Prévert - Breakfast
Jacques Prévert - This Love
Ozy Prince - Dubai
Thomas Pringle - Song of the Wild Bushman
Göran Printz-Pählson - The longest running show on television
Matthew Prior - A simile
Sextus Propertius - Book 2 Elegy 15
Sextus Propertius - Love's madness
Sextus Propertius - Prologue, addressed to Tullus
Debra Providence - While walking up Back Street
Aurelius Clemens Prudentius - Morning
Aurelius Clemens Prudentius - Of the Father's love begotten
Aurelius Clemens Prudentius - The wingèd herald of the day
Aurelius Clemens Prudentius - Ye glooms of night!
Vazha Pshavela - I hate you - I love you
Claudius Ptolemy - Mortal though I be
John Puhiatau Pule - The sun is happy that a sparrow loves its life
Homero Pumarol - Miles Away
Homero Pumarol - This poem
Andrejs Pumpurs - Bearslayer: Canto I The Revelation of Bearslayer (Scene 1)
Andrejs Pumpurs - Bearslayer: Canto I - Bearslayer's destiny is revealed by Perkons (Scene 2)
Al Purdy - The last picture in the worl
Aleksandr Pushkin - I loved you
Aleksandr Pushkin - Save me from madness
Aleksandr Pushkin - The Prophet
Aleksandr Pushkin - The Wish
Aleksandr Pushkin - Three Springs
Putinas -
Mortuos voco
Putinas - Vivos plango
Maung Yu Py - Yangon 2010
Magtymguly Pyragy - In search of
Magtymguly Pyragy - Humankind

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Q:

Qaasim - Bitter and Sweet
Nizar Qabbani - A Damascene Moon
Nizar Qabbani - A lesson in drawing
Nizar Qabbani - Clarification to my poetry readers
Nizar Qabbani - Every time I kiss you
Nizar Qabbani - Jerusalem
Nizar Qabbani - My lover asks me
Ahmed Qabour - see Ahmed Kaabour
Mirza Abd al-Qadir (Bidel Dehlavi) - Ghazal
El Mahdi Qeraz - How to walk on the seashore
Tao Qian - see Tao Yuanming
Li Qingzhao (Li Ching Chao) - Autumn Love
Li Qingzhao (Li Ching Chao) - To the tune of To Rouge the Lips
Liu Qiyu - Woods
Siyanda Qoto - Mania in the Post-Colony
Qu Yuan - see Ch`u Yuan under letter C
Zelda Quakawoot - The Dream
Zelda Quakawoot - If it wasn't for the footprints
Zelda Quakawoot - Your way - Our way - the Truth
Andy Quan - Apple-Pears
Francis Quarles - A Divine Rapture
Francis Quarles - A good night
Imru' al-Qais - May you be happy this morning, worn traces!
Salvatore Quasimodo - Enemy of Death
Salvatore Quasimodo - Street in Agrigentum
Salvatore Quasimodo - Wind at Tindari
Vuyi Qubeka - Wanting for our Fathers
Francisco de Quevedo - I saw my country's walls
Francisco de Quevedo - To a nose
Francisco de Quevedo - Rome
P.P. Quinn - Out Back
Roderic Quinn - Doing Nothing
Roderic Quinn - Stars in the Sea
Roderic Quinn - Sydney Cove, 1788
Humberto Quino - For a mythology of minor things
Mário Quintana - Man and water
Giovanni Quirino - Sonnet
María Soledad Quiroga - I want to be one with you in the water
Abay Qunanbayuli - see Abay Kunanbayev
Michel Quoist - I want to love
Michel Quoist - The Telephone

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Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo - Read
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo - Zebu
Rabi’a of Basri - Brothers, my peace is in my aloneness
Rabi’a of Basri - In two ways have I loved thee
Rabi’a of Basri - O my Lord
Rabi’a of Basri - Reality
Jean Racine - Where ruin'd Sion, do thy glories lie?
Jean Racine - Phaedra, Act V Scene 6
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi - A monkey at the window
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi - A star
Leetile Disang Raditladi - Death
Miklós Radnóti - Forced march
Stella Vinitchi Radulescu - looking for signs
Stella Vinitchi Radulescu - Mozart's Requiem
Raffi - Thou and I
Ziad Rahbani - Living All By Herself Without You
Ziad Rahbani - The bus song
Saif al-Rahbi - No country we headed to
Jennifer Rahim - Lines to Fanon I
Aminur Rahman - The sculpture
Kathleen Raine - Envoi
Rainis - Broken pines
Rainis - Sun, Thunder, Daugava
Elie Rajaonarison - Freedom
Elie Rajaonarison - Most bitter is the bite of hunger
T. Ramakrishna - Lord Tennyson
T. Ramakrishna - The Korathy's lullaby
T. Ramakrishna - The story of the the Royal Huntress
Hermana Ramarui - Being a Palauan
Hermana Ramarui - Calls of youth
Hermana Ramarui - The Unfinished
Jacinta Ramaya - Hibiscus
Jacinta Ramaya - Manglish
Allan Ramsay - Peggy
Flavien Ranaivo - Song of a young girl
Anne Ranasinghe - I have forsworn you
Anne Ranasinghe - Rebekah
Heinrich Rantzau - Golden volumes
Bernard Rascas - The love of god,
Elna Ratabwiy - Homesick
Alfred Victor Ratcliffe - Optimism
Tereeao Teingiia Ratite - Nei Mwanganibuka The legendary fisherwoman
Tshifhiwa Itai Ratshiungo - Mma
Edvīns Raups - if the end is the middle I’m here
Dhal Jirel 'Ravi' - a quanta with fidelity
Dhal Jirel 'Ravi' - i am the richest
Dahlia Ravikovitch - From day to night
Palas Kumar Ray - A window and a wall
Imam Ahmad Raza - Dust we are return to it we must
Imam Ahmad Raza - None like you was ever seen or created
Imam Ahmad Raza - Once again I am overwhelmed
Imam Ahmad Raza - The Arabian desert's dust
Azim Razak - Dear Lord
Luka Razikashvili - see Vazha Pshavela
Francesco Redi - Grief
Henri de Regnier - The Voice
Momoe Malietoa Von Reiche - Solaua, a secret embryo
Hermann of Reichenau - see Hermann Contractus
S. Reinhold - For us! 1915
Ricardo Reis - see Fernando Pessoa
Julio Herrera y Reissig - The Theatre of the Humble
George Remington - The Answer
Mihail Rendžov - The Poem And The Butterfly
Pierre Reverdy - At the edge of time
Pierre Reverdy - Clock
No‘u Revilla - Basket
Jacobus Revius - No, it was not the Jews who crucified
Jacobus Revius - Peace
Rhys Goch ap Rhiccert - The Song of the Thrush
Jean Rhys - Obeah night
Riak Marial Riak - A Little Toy City
Catherine Richardson - Beautiful Ferns
Anne Ridler - For a Child Expected
Anne Ridler - Lyme Regis - Golden Cap
Oktay Rifat - Freedom has hands
Rainer Maria Rilke - By The Last Supper
Rainer Maria Rilke - Fire's Reflection
Rainer Maria Rilke - Growing Blind
Rainer Maria Rilke - Heart-slopes
Rainer Maria Rilke - I am to much alone in this world
Rainer Maria Rilke - Song of the little cripple at the street corner
Rainer Maria Rilke - The Gazelle
Rainer Maria Rilke - The Panther
Rainer Maria Rilke - The Unicorn
Rainer Maria Rilke - World was
Gopal Prasad Rimal - An Address
Gopal Prasad Rimal - Who are you?
Arthur Rimbaud - Dream for Winter
Arthur Rimbaud - Novel
Patrul Rinpoche - Yearning for mountain solitude
Ana Ristovic - Circling zero
Ana Ristovic - Little Zebras
Yannis Ritsos - The earth's attraction
Delphina Robert - Peace be still
Nanche Billa Robert - the inferior
Charles GD Roberts - The Potato Harvest
Roger Robinson - Texaco Oil storage tanks
Georges Rodenbach - Alone
Georges Rodenbach - Deceased are the patrician mansions
Georges Rodenbach - Old canal waters
Georges Rodenbach - Shut out the noise
Georges Rodenbach - The Old quays
Deolinda Rodrigues - Asking
Reina María Rodríguez - Doubts
Reina María Rodríguez - Paradise. Storefront. Monte Street
Romain Rolland - Credo
Maurice Rollinat - The sleep-walker
Althea Romeo-Mark - see Althea Mark-Romeo
Elvio Romero - The Sowl of the Perpetual Dictator
Pierre de Ronsard - Corinna in Vendome
Pierre de Ronsard - My sweet youthfulness is gone
Pierre de Ronsard - Quand vous serez bien vieille
Pierre de Ronsard - Sur la Mort de Marie
Luis d'Antin van Rooten - Un petit d'un petit
René de Rooy - see Marcel de Bruin
Luis Rosales - Growing towards the earth
Mirta Rosenberg - All passion concluded
Hermann von Gilm zu Rosenegg - Silence
Carl Olof Rosenius - Where'er I go
Christian Knorr von Rosenroth - Dayspring of eternity
Gabriel Rosenstock - Clear Air
Christina Rossetti - A Birthday
Christina Rossetti - Love came down at Christmas
Christina Rossetti - The lowest place
Christina Rossetti - White sheep
Edmond Rostand - To my Lamp
José Rótulo - Pregonera
Jacques Roumain - Guinea
Jacques Roumain - When the tom-tom beats
Émile Roumer - The Peasant Declares His Love
Valérie Rouzeau - You dying on the phone
Kamini Roy - In silence
Tadeusz Rózewicz - A Sketch For A Modern Love Poem
Tadeusz Rózewicz - Pigtail
Tadeusz Rózewicz - The survivor
Mirela Roznoveanu - February
David Rubadiri - African Thunderstorm
David Rubadiri - Kampala beggar
Rudaki - Came to me
Rudaki - Generosity
Rudaki - The essence of this world
Alzira Rufino - Police Report
Juan Ruíz - Praise of Little Women
Adi Rumi - Brothers your cries
Jalal al-Din Rumi - Confusion of saints with hypocrites
Jalal al-Din Rumi - Love endures hardships at the hands of the Beloved
Jalal al-Din Rumi - Love is the master
Jalal al-Din Rumi - Praise compared to vapour drawn upwards, and then descending in rain
Jalal al-Din Rumi - The Counsels of the Bird
Jalal al-Din Rumi - The Masnavi, Book I Prologue
Jalal al-Din Rumi - The Masnavi, Book I Story IV
Jalal al-Din Rumi - The answer
Jalal al-Din Rumi - What was told, that
John Ludvig Runeberg - Peasant Pavo
Zhang Ruoxu - see Chang Jo Hsu
Charles Edward Russell - The sixty-second birthday of Swinburne
George William Russell - By the margins of the Great Deep
George William Russell - Forgiveness
George William Russell - The Gift
George William Russell - Star Teachers
Suleyman Rustam - My Tabriz
Raghda Rüstem - real morning
Monica Ruwanpathirana - Remembering Lechchami
Maksym Rylsky - When everything in life's haze
Galina Rymbu - the sleepers wake inside the dream
Taigu Ryokan - The day breaks quietly
Taigu Ryokan - Too lazy to be ambitious
Taigu Ryokan - You do not need many things
Boris Ryzhy - How the granite is covered in ice
Boris Ryzhy - Vessel

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Ryna.S. - It's not love
Pentti Saarikoski - Potato thief
Umberto Saba - Winter Noon
Umberto Saba - Via del Monte
Umberto Saba - Trieste
Hans Sachs - The Mediator
Nelly Sachs - Whoever comes from the earth
Victoria Sackville-West - Days I Enjoy
Sa’di - Humanity
Jaime Saenz - High above the dark city
Jaime Saenz - So I am persuaded
Jaime Saenz - The basket of wool
Jaime Saenz - Watching the river flow
Kim Sa-In - The Depth of a Landscape
Hayat Saif - Man and Earth
Saigyō - see Priest En'i
Muhammad Salih - An alien land
Bartolomeo di Sant' Angelo - He jests concerning his poverty
Edna St. Vincent Millay - Afternoon on a hill
Edna St. Vincent Millay - I, being born a woman and distressed
Tupac Sakur - The rose that grew from concrete
Hagiwara Sakutaro - Fire
Arja Salafranca - Freedom
Tomaž Šalamun - Legs on the signpost
Tomaž Šalamun - The kiss across the ocean
Tomaž Šalamun - The rise of the zebra
Arabella Salaverry - Upon Naked Skin
Diego de Saldaña - Eyes so tristful
Mohamed Mustafa Mohamed Salem - see Badi
Rua Salem - I did not find Masood
Amadou Lamine Sall - Aurora's Lovers
Amadou Lamine Sall - Wild Veins
Djibril Sall - Let my pen
Amie Sallah - Cry of the African child
Rajathi Salma - Breathing
Rajathi Salma - No traces left
Umayyah ibn Abī aṣ-Ṣalt - Lo, the signs of our Lord are everlasting
Balkrishna Sama - All-Pervading Poetry (Kavitako Vyapti)
Balkrishna Sama - When I want a shapeful dream
Vagif Samadoghlu - Tonight is the last one again
Sonia Sanchez - Ballad
Carl Sandberg - Who am I
Lina Sandell - Hide not your face
Lina Sandell - Lord Jesus, give me shelter
Lina Sandell - The way is hard
Zvisinei C. Sandi - For a Little Sister, not to Grow
Zvisinei C. Sandi - Jacaranda Crown
Robert Charles Sands - The Green Island of Lovers
Chong Sang-pyong - Rivers
Jacopo Sannazzaro - Mors et Vita
George Santayana - I would I might forget that I am I
George Santayana - Sonnet XXV
Aleksa Šantic - Where are you?
Santina - Don’t!
Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo - Total independence (National Anthem)
Sappho - Artemis
Sappho - Come to me here
Sappho - In an age unlike our own
Sappho - Like the very gods
Sappho - Sappho's Ode out of Longinus
Sappho - Some an army of horsemen
Sappho - Stand and face me
Mostafa Sarabzadeh - Isolated breakfast
Michellan Sarile-Alagao - Masks
Ken Saro-Wiwa - The True Prison
Ole Sarvig - Christ In The Corn
Siegfried Sassoon - Everyone Sang
Maia Sarishvili - I got accustomed to being tired
Clementina Suárez - Fray
Sveti Sava - see Rastko Nemanjic
Georgi Savchev - A bar of chocolate
Rati Saxena - The hymn of slippers
Adnan Al-Sayegh - I emerged from the War Inadvertently
Enyam Scandalocks - Zémidjan
Jens August Schade - At the Café
Johann Scheffler - One must go beyond God
Johann Scheffler - The cherubic pilgrim
Johann Scheffler - Thee will I love, my strength, my tower
Friedrich von Schiller - Archimedes
Friedrich von Schiller - Elysium
Friedrich von Schiller - The Fight with the Dragon
Friedrich von Schiller - Three words of strength
Robert Schindel - Discussion of Venus
Robert Schindel - Pitchblende
Robert Schindel - Vertigo 2
Agathius Scholasticus - Beautiful Melite
Agathius Scholasticus - Grammar and Medicine
Agathius Scholasticus - No wine for me!
Agathias Scholasticus - Time's revenge
Solveig von Schoultz - Accept It
Solveig von Schoultz - My time is brief
Solveig von Schoultz - The Lover
Solveig von Schoultz - The Water Butt
Johanna Schouten-Elsenhout - Inspired
Lothar Schwabe - Tempus Fugit
José Carlos Schwarz - Why is the child crying?
Duncan Campbell Scott - Night
Duncan Campbell Scott - Permanence
Duncan Campbell Scott - Rain and the robin
F.R. Scott - Unison
John Scott of Amwell - Elegy Written in the Hot Weather
Sir Walter Scott - Christmas in olden time
Sir Walter Scott - Love
Joannes Secundus - Kiss III
Joannes Secundus - To Lesbia
Alice Sedgwick - The Bible
Coelius Sedulius - Why, impious Herod
Juan Lorenzo Segura - It was the month of May
Mohamed Sehaba - This World Open
Ehsan Sehgal - Like an angel
Jaroslav Seifert - Halley's comet
Jaroslav Seifert - Sometimes we are tied down by memories
Murō Saisei - A Camel
Srgjan Sekulic - Noah in Salonta
Delalorm Sesi Semabia - I think about you Mogadishu
Curvo Semedo - It is a fearful night
Rāmprasād Sen - And after death judgement
Rāmprasād Sen - The foolishness of sacrifice
Rāmprasād Sen - The life to come
Rāmprasād Sen - The Worshipper Complains of the Inequality of Lots
Seneca - The end of being
Wang Seng-ju - Tears
Seng-Ts'an - The Mind of Absolute Trust
Val Sengebau - Ngak
Val Sengebau - Which is which?
Léopold Sédar Senghor - Luxembourg 1939
Léopold Sédar Senghor - To New York
Olive Senior - Her granddaughter learns the alphabet
August Šenoa - On Easter
Zafer Senocak - The Missing Language
Seo Jeong-ju - In the Field Filling Up with Snow
Sohrab Sepehri - I am a Muslim
Betsimar Sepúlveda - Blessed be the butterfly
Margarita Serafimova - The Disappeared
Seranus - see Susan Frances Harrison
Bhupi Sherchan - Midday and the Cold Sleep
Mongane Wally Serote - when lights go out
Robert Service - Birthdays
Robert Service - Five per cent
Robert Service - The Mother
Robert Service - The Mountain and the Lake
Robert Service - The Ordinary Man
Robert Service - The Passing of the Year
Oumar Farouk Sesay - Poem of things and other things
Lesego Setou - A letter to God
Gabriel Setoun - Jack Frost
Anna Seward - An Old Cat’s Dying Soliloquy
Anne Sexton - More than myself
Sinan Seyhi - see Sheykhi
Bewketu Seyoum - Elegy
Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi - The Will to Life
Al-Shafi‘i - On Fatalism
William Shakespeare - Blow, blow thou winter wind
William Shakespeare - Is this a dagger-which I see before me
William Shakespeare - Sigh no more, ladies
William Shakespeare - Sonnet 12
William Shakespeare - Sonnet 113
Mukhtar Shakhanov - The Fickleness of Himalayan Tigers or the Ballad of Human Courage
Parveen Shakir - Where am I?
Ahmad Shamlu - Anthem
Eleazar ben Shammua - see Rabbi Eleazar
Li Shangyin - Vexing
Ravi Shankar - Prabhujee
Ravi Shankar - Shanti Mantra
Ibrahim Sharif - Description of the Trees Beside an Unseen Reservoir
William Sharp - see Fiona MacLeod
Virna Sheard - A song of Poppies
Virna Sheard - When Christmas comes
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias
Cen Shen - On meeting and official courier to the capital
Afanasy Shenshin-Foeth - see Afanasy Afanasevich Fet
Taras Shevchenko - untitled
Sheykhi - Concerning the Degrees in the Ken of Unity
Sheykhi - The Loves of Shirin
Su Shi - New Year's Watch
Hu Shih - Dreams and poetry
Kao-Shih - Desolation
Kao-Shih - Impressions of a traveller
Kao-Shih - Parting from the Eldest Youth of the Tung Family
Warsan Shire - Tribe of woods
Masaoka Shiki - five New Year haiku
Masaoka Shiki - My life
Lady Murasaki Shikibu - Poems from The Tale of Genji (chapters 1 and 2)
Lady Murasaki Shikibu - Poems from The Tale of Genji (chapter 44)
Lady Murasaki Shikibu - Poems from The Take of Genji (chapter 49)
Saadi Shirazi - A story of the great men of the faith
Saadi Shirazi - All Adam's race are members of one frame
Saadi Shirazi - From dust the Holy God created thee (Door IV.I: Humility)
Saadi Shirazi - On Justice and Governing (III)
Reza Shirmarz - Ghost
Aileen Shirra - The price of progress
Sei Shonagon - Adorable things
Sei Shonagon - Things that arouse a fond memory of the past
Sei Shōnagon - Things That Give a Clean Feeling
Nancy Shores - Window song
Dora Sigerson Shorter - The fair little maiden
Dora Sigerson Shorter - The Wnd on the Hills
Olive Shriner - Life's Gifts
Shrinivási - As always me
Shrinivási - In the bird's long silence I step into the day
Siamanto - The Dance
Siamanto - The young wife's dream
Siamanto - Thirst
Ndaba Sibanda - A Healing Heart
Ndaba Sibanda - Of Policies And Capacities
Ribka Sibhatu - Grandmother Moon
Ribka Sibhatu - Mother Africa
Jully Sibolo - see Jully Makini
Calpurnius Siculus - Eclogue II: Idas: Astacus: Thyrsis
Fatoumata Sidibé - My Son
Sæmundr Sigfússon - Odin's Rune Song
Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir - A bird clock
Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson - see Sjón
Siham - Yes, I do love Allah!
Ángelos Sikelianós - The Garden at Mistrá
Paulus Silentiarius - A man wounded by a rabid dog
Paulus Silentiarius - Love in Old Age
Paul the Silentary - see Paulus Silentiarius
Angelus Silesius - see Johann Scheffler
José Asunción Silva - Fixed Stars
José Asunción Silva - Nocturne III
José Asunción Silva - To one sick
Medardo Ángel Silva - My City
Medardo Ángel Silva - To my beloved: With my soul in my lips
Medardo Ángel Silva - You leave with something of mine
Ana Célia da Silva - Joe
Shel Silverstein - Where the sidewalk ends
Sima - I keep forgetting
Antun Branko Šimic - Warning
Simonides of Amorgos - The Tomb of Anacreon
Simonides of Amorgos - Women
Rogelio Sinán - "Fire" First State - Voice of Panic
Rogelio Sinán - "Fire" Second State - Voice of Agony
Rogelio Sinán - "Fire" Third State: Voice of Prayer
Adams Sinarinzi - Le spleen de Buja
Ben Sira - Do not worry for to-morrow
Nicolae Sirius - Eventide
Nicolae Sirius - The road nonpareil
Fily Dabo Sissoko - The Bombax Tree
Edith Sitwell - Aubade
Edith Sitwell - Heart And Mind
Edith Sitwell - Still falls the rain
Hasan Sijzi of Dehli - Ghazal
Abdulqadir Hersi Siyaad - see Yamyam
Sjón - an icelandic economist in soho
Sjón - stones
Sjón - the stone collector's song
Eyvindr skáldaspillir - The death of Hacon
Johanna Skibsrud - Or Perhaps We Will Never Enter Our Lives At All But Remain Always Somewhat at the Door of Things?
Constance Lindsay Skinner - Song of the Full Catch
Constance Lindsay Skinner - Song of the Search
Krzeslawa Skrzypczynska - A path to the Sea
Einarr Skúlason - Lausavísur
Pencho Slavejkov - Sleeps the lake
Kenneth Slessor - Mangroves
Michael Slory - Rosalina
Juliusz Slowacki - In Sophie's diary
Juliusz Slowacki - My Testament
Hristo Smirnenski - The Red Squadrons
Natalia Smirnova - Gas
A.C. Smith - The Waif
Carlyle Smith - Hallowe'en failure
Cicely Fox Smith - A wool fleet chorus
Cicely Fox Smith - British Merchant Service, 1915
Cicely Fox Smith - Home for Christmas - Old Style
Cicely Fox Smith - The Ould Has-Been
Cicely Fox Smith - The Song of the Sword
Cicely Fox Smith - What the old man said
Stevie Smith - In My Dreams
Tobias George Smollett - To Leven Water
Quintus Smyrnaeus - The Shores of Troy
Paul Snoek - A Swimmer Is A Horseman
Reinaldo Perez Só - a chair
Dan Sociu - Excessive song V
Dan Sociu - It's beautiful when
Edith Södergran - Love
Edith Södergran - Now it is autumn
Edith Södergran - The Stars
Raoul Comte de Soissons - Ah! Beauteous maid
Dionysios Solomos - The Day of Easter
Vladimir Solovyov - The Sign
Titilope Sonuga - From a place
Mildred Sope - Act
Nikolina Andova Šopova - A Zipper
Marin Sorescu - With a green scarf
Roberto Sosa - Urgent
Muso Soseki - Toki no ge (Satori poem)
Natsume Soseki - Haiku from The Three Cornered World
Innocenta M. Sound-Kikku - Silent warriors
Philippe Soupault - Odd
William Soutar - Wullie Waggletail
Obed R. Souza - Mirror, my mirror
Wole Soyinka - Civilian and soldier
Wole Soyinka - Dedication
Wole Soyinka - I think it rains
Wole Soyinka - Night
Edmund Spencer - Easter
Spervogel - Heaven and Hell
Spervogel - There is a house in heaven
Carl Spitteler - A shout for joy
Carl Spitteler - A vignette
Carl Spitteler - Another waking
Carl Spitteler - Green fingers
Carl Spitteler - Morning bell
Carl Spitteler - The Beggar
Carl Spitteler - The King of Noon and the Lord of Bells
Carl Spitteler - The Modest little wish
Carl Spitteler - The Silver Maids
Carl Spitteler - Theme (from Bell Songs)
K. Srilata - Arriving shortly
Balys Sruoga - Autumn scenes
AW Schack von Staffeldt - By the lake
AW Schack von Staffeldt - Initiation
Eric Johan Stagnelius - Friend in the desolate time
Eric Johan Stagnelius - Luna
Erik Johan Stagnelius - Memory
Erik Johan Stagnelius - The Birds of Passage
Gaspara Stampa - If Love should render me myself
Gaspara Stampa - Ladies, who of my lord would fain be told
Gaspara Stampa - Deeply repentant of my sinful ways
Nichita Stãnescu - Field In Spring
Nichita Stãnescu - Winter song
Publius Papinius Statius - Silvae Book IV: 3 – The Via Domitiana
Lena Ruth Stefanovic - Excuse me, I think I am dying
Evaleen Stein - The Runaway
Gertrude Stein - Stanzas in Meditation
Ludwig Steinherr - Homo sapiens
St. Stephen the Sabaite - Art thou weary?
A.G. Stephens - The Hanging Judge
James Stephens - Student Taper
Eira Stenberg - Almost without noticing
Fenny Sterenborg - Hope
Fenny Sterenborg - Lullaby
Fenny Sterenborg - Summer colours
Robert Louis Stevenson - A good play
Robert Louis Stevenson - About the Sheltered Garden Ground
Robert Louis Stevenson - Christmas at sea
Robert Louis Stevenson - Fear not, Dear Friend, but Freely Live Your Days
Robert Louis Stevenson - Foreign lands
Robert Louis Stevenson - My shadow
Robert Louis Stevenson - The House Beautiful
Robert Louis Stevenson - The Land of Story-books
Robert Louis Stevenson - Youth and Love: I
Hans Chrestensen Sthen - The gloomy night to morning yields
Francisca Stoecklin - Belovèd
Francisca Stoecklin - The Friend
August L. Storm - Thank you Lord for all your goodness
August L. Storm - Thanks, my God
Theodor Storm - That is Autumn
Alfonsina Storni - I am going to sleep
Alfonsina Storni - Lighthouse in the night
Alfonsina Storni - Little little man
Alfonsina Storni - Sleep peacefully
Alfonsina Storni - They've come to see me
Agnes L. Storrie - A confession
Agnes L. Storrie - A missing ship
Agnes L. Storrie - Twenty Gallons of Sleep
Olya Stoyanova - Small stories
Walafrid Strabo - A Christmas hymn
Antanas Strazdas - Dawn
August Strindberg - Indra
August Strindberg - We waves
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots - O Domine Deus
Ambrosius Stub - Undismayed by any fortune
Mark Stubbs - Manchester TRAFFIC
Viggo Stuckenberg - Autumn evening
Snorri Sturluson - Head ransom
Snorri Sturluson - Skirnismol (The Ballad of Skirnir)
Snorri Sturluson - Vafthruthnismol
Virgil Suarez - When rain speaks of war
Kim Su-Bok - I go walking into a Spring-Tree
Kim Su-Bok - Mud Flats
Guillermo Sucre - I Write with Words That Have Shadow but Don’t Shelter
Rigoberta González Sul - Nan Pix Pix
Muhammad bin Suleyman - see Fuzuli
René-François Sully-Prudhomme - Cradles
Kumalawaty Sundari - I want to walk with Jesus
Jules Supervielle - Projection
Avrom Sutzkever - From the forest
Avrom Sutzkever - Frozen Jews
Lynn Sweeting - Security of person
Jonathan Swift - The Vowels: an enigma,
Algernon Charles Swinburne - A ballad of Sark
Algernon Charles Swinburne - The King's Daughter
Anna Swir - Priceless Gifts
Anna Swir - The Same Inside
Anna Swir - The soul and the body on the beach
Elizabeth Kate Switaj - Our assorted quarantines
William Joseph Faarax Syad - When Dawn Will Rise
Sir Philip Sydney - The Bargain
Afzal Ahmed Syed - A Preliminary Sketch Concerning a Language
Afzal Ahmed Syed - If my voice is not reaching you
Carmen Sylva - Fodder time
Carmen Sylva - The weaver's song
Joshua Sylvester - The Father
Symeon the New Theologian - How are You at once the source of fire
Symeon the New Theologian - How is it I can love you
Symeon the New Theologian - The light of your way
Julian Symons - End of a year
Synesius - Wake, wake, I pray thee, shrill toned lyre
John M. Synge - Beg-Innish
Ajan Syrian - Syrian Mother's Lullaby
Ajan Syrian - The Syrian Lover in Exile Remembers Thee, Light of My Land
Edmond Bordeaux Szekely - Credo
Edmond Bordeaux Szekely - God Speaks to Man
George Szirtes - Even now I cannot help thinking of them
Wislawa Szymborska - Among the multitudes
Wislawa Szymborska - Children of our age
Wislawa Szymborska - Hunger camp at Jaslo
Wislawa Szymborska - In praise of self-deprecation
Wislawa Szymborska - Photograph from September 11
Wislawa Szymborska - Under one small star

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T:

Titsian Tabidze - The Birth of Poetry
Eileen R. Tabios - The Hay(na)ku of numbers
Rabindranath Tagore - Baby's way
Rabindranath Tagore - Endless Time
Rabindranath Tagore - The Gardener XIX: You walked
Rabindranath Tagore - The New Year
Baba Tahir - Beneath the canopy of the skies
Hatim al-Tai - How frail are riches and their joys
Hatim al-Tai - On avarice
Hatim al-Tai - Sways, with her trinkets
Li Tai-Po - see Li Bai
Taliesin - A song to the wind
Jean de la Taille - Sonnet
John Tait - The Banks of the Dee
Arai Takako - Specter!
Bam Livinus Tal - Pilgrim Of Amity
Taliesin - The Prophecy
Taliesin - The Song of the Wind
Herman Talingapua - Hidden power
Tchicaya U Tam’si - Brush-fire
Tchicaya U Tam’si - The Belly remains
Lixin Tan (Tan Lixin) - Funeral Song
Joseph ben Tanchum ha-Yerushalmi - Book of the Beds of the Spices, Garden Bed IV:6
Joseph ben Tanchum ha-Yerushalmi - Diwan IV:16
Joseph ben Tanchum ha-Yerushalmi - Diwan IV:17
Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı - i want a country
Kobzar Taras - see Taras Shevchenko
Arseny Tarkovsky - And this I dreamt, and this I dream
Arseny Tarkovsky - The Cricket
Torquato Tasso - Madrigal I
Torquato Tasso - To the Princess Leonora When Forbidden by Her Physicians to Sing
Jean Baptiste Tati-Loutard - Congolese Eve
Jean Baptiste Tati-Loutard - News of my mother
Melaia Taucilagi - The tiles glittering
Kumalau Tawali - The Old Woman's Message
Mariska Taylor-Darko - Mother's touch
Mariska Taylor-Darko - Natural Woman
Richard Taylor - The Mitre, or the goby-fish bait
Teweiariki Teaero - Seeing
Teresia Teaiwa - AmneSIA
Sarah Teasdale - I have loved hours at sea
Esaias Tegnér - Frithiof Saga, Canto I: Frithiof and Ingeborg
Esaias Tegnér - Frithiof Saga, Canto IX: Frithiof at the Court of Angantyr
Esaias Tegnér - The Veteran
Tekahionwake (E Pauline Johnson) - At Crow's Nest Pass
Tekahionwake (E Pauline Johnson) - The Corn Huske
Tekahionwake (E Pauline Johnson) - The song my paddle sings
Francisco José Tenreiro - Blues fragment
Habib Tengour - Four times azure and five
Tenchi Tenno - Coarse the rush-mat roof
Alfred Tennyson - Crossing the bar
Alfred Tennyson - In memoriam
Alfred Tennyson - The Eagle
Alfred Tennyson - The Lady of Shalott
Valerina Tentoni - Inside the Display Fridge it's Always Daytime
Gerhard Tersteegen - Pilgrim Song
Gerhard Tersteegen - The Hearing Ear
Gerhard Tersteegen - The Shadow of His Wings
Tetlepanquetzanitzin - Song in the Chalcan Style
William Makepeace Thackeray - Poem to Curry
N.V. Thadani - A pretty tale of Pakistan
N.V. Thadani - A pretty tale of Pakistan: I. The first shot
Konai Helu Thaman - The way ahead
Dorji Thangzom - The perfect night
Le Thanh-tong - The Stone Dog
Mubarak bin Saif al Thani - Peace to the Amir
Theocritus - The Yokel and the Light-o’-Love
Theodulf of Orléans - Glory, and honour, and laud be to Thee, King
Ivan Theofilov - Ortamezar
Ivan Theofilov - Sunset
Ivan Theofilov - The Fish Market in Athens
Ivan Theofilov - The Old Town of Plovdiv
Theognis of Megara - Song
Theophan the Recluse - Descend from your head into your heart
Thérèse of Lisieux - My Song for Today
Ngugi wa Thiong'o - Dawn of darkness
Dylan Thomas - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas - The Hand that signed the paper
R.S. Thomas - The Bright Field
Anne E Thompson - Sold
James Thomson - Through foulest fogs
Jón Thoroddsen - Curtains!
Jón Thoroddsen - Vita Nuova
Tibullus - The True Life
Tibullus - War is a Crime
Edith Tiempo - The Return
Muhammad din Tilai - Come, my beloved!
Muhammad din Tilai - Ghazad
Umar Timol - For the world's beauty
Guy Tirolien - Ghetto
Guy Tirolien - Islands
John Todhunter - Maureen
Jacopone da Todi - Divine rapture
Jacopone da Todi - Now, a new creature
Masolino da Todi - Of work and wealth
Sankichi Toge - August 6th
Fujiwara no Tokifusa - Wishes are fulfilled
JRR Tolkien - The King
JRR Tolkien - The Man in the Moon came down too soon
Claudio Tolomei - The Evening Star
Charles Tompson - Sonnet to Spring
Trần Minh Tông - A Chant on the Mustard Hut
Stevan Tontic - Your voice
Ogundare Tope - The Shot
Claudia Torres - Sketch #1
Domingos Maximiano Torres - Sonnet
Ahmed Sékou Touré - Women of Africa
Aïda Touré - Kawthar: Princess of Mali
Aïda Touré - The very self of the self
Bedros Tourian - She
Nguyen Trai - A Plough And A Spade
Georg Trakl - At the moor
Georg Trakl - De Profundis
Tomas Tranströmer - Guard duty
Tomas Tranströmer - After a Death
Trefossa - I've gone - I come
Richard Chenevix Trench - Not Thou from us, O Lord, but we
Richard Chenevix Trench - The Magi
Augusta Treverorum - Creator of the earth and sky
Augusta Treverorum - Eternal glory of the sky
Augusta Treverorum - Morning
Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus - From: The Divine Pymander
Delno L.A. Tromp - My Cacti
Hale Tsehlana - Grapevine
Hale Tsehlana - 'Mankokosane
Akaki Tsereteli - Song Of Natela
Akaki Tsereteli - Who can count the sand in oceans?
Bhekumuzi Tshuma - Vashti
Chioniso Tsikisayi - Planting is a heavy thing
Nana Arhin Tsiwah - May I Speak to the Queen...
Yuka Tsukagoshi - Yellow sorry
Tenzin Tsundue - When it Rains in Dharamsala
Marina Tsvetaeva - There is some hour
Marina Tsvetaeva - 'When I watch the flight of leaves'
Nadia Tueni - Nothing but a man
Agron Tufa - Out
Agron Tufa - True Freedom
Ibrahim Tukan - My Homeland
Sant Tukaram - Alone at Your feet
Pushpa Ratna Tuladhar - Kathmandu
Hovhannes Tumanian - In the Armenian mountains
Hovhannes Tumanian - Akhtamar
Mirjam Tuominen - Invocation
Mirjam Tuominen - Make me teach me
Mirjam Tuominen - Wild Roses
Fadwa Tuqan - I found it
Steve Turner - Eastergram
Steve Turner - They had it coming
Telcine Turner-Rolle - The Blue Hills Blues
Arvo Turtiainen - Loveliest Poem
Abu Bakr al-Turtushi - Absence
Abu ʾl-Qasim Ferdowsi Tusi - see Ferdowsi
Sarah Tut - My Why in Life
Floarea Tutuianu - Crossing reality
Julian Tuwim - The common man
Julian Tuwim - Wife
Neisha Tweed - Lady Macbeth's confession
Hilda Twongyeirwe - Circle of women
Pavlo Tychyna - Autumn
Katharine Tynan - Blessings
Katharine Tynan - Easter
Katharine Tynan - Good Friday, A.D. 33
Katharine Tynan - Old song re-sung
Katharine Tynan - The Vision (Katia: Easter Sunday, 1916)
Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev - As ocean's stream
Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev - Autumn evening
Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev - Silentium
Tristan Tzara - Volt
John Tzetzes - Concening Arion
John Tzetzes - Concerning Midas
Lao Tzu - Things as beautiful

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U:

Anne Udui - Why?
Raage Ugaas - Night has fallen
Johann Ludwig Uhland - I had a comrade
Johann Ludwig Uhland - The Castle by the sea
Johann Ludwig Uhland - The Mountain Boy
Johann Ludwig Uhland - The Smith
Augustin Tin Ujevic - Everyday lament
Ndue Ukaj - The emigrant
Ukoo - Were he my child
Lesia Ukrainka - Cast flowers, more flowers
Lesia Ukrainka - Contra spem spero!
Lesia Ukrainka - The Guelder-Rose
Jovanka Uljarevic - A Journey
Caroline Anande Uliwa - Fast Phrases
Caroline Anande Uliwa - Pay attention when it comes
Rumi Ullidov - Your journey
Uloola - When Mother call to dinner
Khalil Reza Uluturk - Handprints
Khalil Reza Uluturk - The Poet's Voice
Ko Un - Majung Village
Ko Un - Your pilgrimage
Marie Under - Ecstasy
Marie Under - Question
Marie Under - The Full Moon
Sigrid Undset - Know ye not Ivar Sir Alfsön?
Giuseppe Ungaretti - He was called
Giuseppe Ungaretti - Once upon a time
Giuseppe Ungaretti - Silence
Giuseppe Ungaretti - You have closed your eyes
John Updike - Evening concert, Sainte-Chapelle
John Updike - Seven Stanzas at Easter
Arthur Upson - Agamede's song
Jozef Urban - Košice
Pope Urban V - O spotless king
Pope Urban VIII - King of the hosts
Pope Urban VIII - No father
Luis G. Urbina - Clear night
Luis G. Urbina - Metamorphosis
Luis G. Urbina - The Moonbeam
Bonaggiunta Urbisani - Wounded of Love
Louis Untermeyer - Only of thee and me
V. Utrenev - O Trinity, our Lord
Jovon Uwimana - How could you?

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V:

Emma Kruse Va’ai - Prescription
Makerita Va'ai - Rain
Elena Văcărescu - Hopeless (Gypsy song)
Elena Văcărescu - Spinning Song III
Elena Văcărescu - The Moon
Elena Văcărescu - Song of the Fire
Judita Vaiciunaite - Blue Earth
Sviatoslav Vakarchuk - Online
Alexandru Vakulovski - an old man
Alexandru Vakulovski - End and repeat
Indre Valantinaite - Shell
Olvido García Valdés - if you let me go with you
Rita Valdivia - Octagonal howl poem
Paul Valéry - Le Cimetière Marin
Cesar Vallejo - Black Stone on Top of a White Stone
Cesar Vallejo - Miguel
Cesar Vallejo - Paris, October 1936
Cesar Vallejo - Under the Poplars
Margaret Vandergrift - The Dead Doll
Bysshe Vanolis - Through foulest fogs
Varand - Year of tango
Blanca Varela - Distant yet never so close
Dimitris Varos - Mind Games
Daniel Varoujan - The Working Girl
Henry Vaughan - The Nativity
Henry Vaughan - Peace
Ivan Vazov - What Is A Poet's Soul Like
Juan José Acevedo Vázquez - Tenancingo shawl
Lope de Vega - see Lope Félix de Vega Carpio
Louise Vella - Odyssey
Vemana - The Unity of Faith
Vergil - Georgics Book I (lines 1-42)
Vergil - The First Book of the Æneis (lines 1-18)
Vergil - The First Book of the Æneis (lines 19-43)
Emile Verhaeren - Life
Emile Verhaeren - The Ferryman
Emile Verhaeren - She of the garden
Emile Verhaeren - The Shining Hours (I)
Emile Verhaeren - The Shining Hours (II)
Emile Verhaeren - The Shining Hours (III)
Emile Verhaeren - The Shining Hours (IV)
Emile Verhaeren - The Shining Hours (V)
Emile Verhaeren - The Shining Hours (VIII)
Emile Verhaeren - The Shining Hours (XI)
Emile Verhaeren - The Shining Hours (XVII)
Emile Verhaeren - The Shining Hours (XXI)
Paul Verlaine - Chanson d'Autonme
Paul Verlaine - Clair de Lune
Paul Verlaine - Colloque sentimentale
Paul Verlaine - 'Tis the Feast of Corn
Mahadevi Verma - Why an introduction, since you are within me
Satish Verma - A queer challenge
Satish Verma - Crossing the fog
Jules Verne - Greenland song
Albert Verwey - Cycle
Alberta Vickridge - In a VAD pantry
Edrice Lewis Viechweg - St Kitts and Nevis independence 33
George Sylvester Viereck - The Buried City
Grigore Vieru - I am
Grigore Vieru - In your language
Magie Vijay-Kumar - see Magie Faure-Vidot
Juan Esteban Yupanqui Villalobos - Hope
Iliana Villanueva - Shadow of the Light
Phillippa Yaa de Villiers - Going down there
François Villon - Ballade
François Villon - Ballade [I die of thirst...]
François Villon - The Ballad of the Dead Ladies
François Villon - The Ballad of the Proverbs
Kudirka Vincas - The National Song
Virgil - see Vergil, above
Wayne Visser - Generation Found
Wayne Visser - Island of Africa
Lina Ramona Vitkauskas - If I Be Waspish, Best Beware My Sting
Antonio Vivaldi - Spring
Walter von der Vogelweide - Blessed be the hour
Walter von der Vogelweide - Give me welcome all with cheer
Walter von der Vogelweide - Longing for Spring
Walter von der Vogelweide - Spring and Women
Walter von der Vogelweide - The Oracle
Walter von der Vogelweide - Under the Linden tree
Voltaire - The Origin of Trade
Joost van den Vondel - Vondel's Lucifer (Act I, lines 1-26)
Joost van den Vondel - Vondel's Lucifer (Act I, lines 27-49)
Joost van den Vondel - Vondel's Lucifer (Act I, lines 51-95)
Joost van den Vondel - Vondel's Lucifer (Act I, lines 96-121)
Joost van den Vondel - Vondel's Lucifer (Act I, lines 122-172)
Joost van den Vondel - Vondel's Lucifer (Act I, lines 173-191)
Joost van den Vondel - Vondel's Lucifer (Act I, lines 192-222)
Joost van den Vondel - Vondel's Lucifer (Act I, lines 223-281)
Joost van den Vondel - Vondel's Lucifer (Act I, lines 282-343)
Joost van den Vondel - Vondel's Lucifer (Act I, lines 344-410)
Joost van den Vondel - Vondel's Lucifer (Act II, lines 1-34)
Joost van den Vondel - Vondel's Lucifer (Act II, lines 35-76)
Joost van den Vondel - Vondel's Lucifer (Act II, lines 77-127)
Joost van den Vondel - Vondel's Lucifer (Act II, lines 128-191)
Joost van den Vondel - Vondel's Lucifer (Act II, lines 192-276)
Andrei Voznesensky- The Cashier
Andrei Voznesensky - Dead still
Andrei Voznesensky - Her story
Andrei Voznesensky - Parabolic ballad
Željana Vukanac - Autumn Afternoon
Samad Vurghun - Listen, Khavar (His Wife)
Brian Vrepont - The Crabs
Aleksandr Ivanovich Vvedensky - I'm-sorry I am not a beast
Vladimir Vysotsky - A song about a friend

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W:

TSW - Hints on pronounciation for forgeigners
Jacqueline Elisabeth van der Waals - Winter silence
Abdourahman Waberi - Desire
Abdourahman Waberi - The Elixir of exile
Abdourahman Waberi - Truce
John Wade - A Second Charles
Saw Wai - February 14th
Saw Wai - The collapse of power
Derek Walcott - A lesson for this Sunday
Derek Walcott - Sea Grapes
Annie Louisa Walker - The Night Cometh
Annie Louisa Walker - Women's rights
Abdulai Walon-Jalloh - Man against Man
Abdulai Walon-Jalloh - Sierra Leone at 48
Silja Walter - My small white dog and I
Erna Loraine Narcisso Walters - Those good old days
Erna Loraine Narcisso Walters - What a Smile Can Do
Mary Alice Walton - Why I love them
Raya Wambui - You work for me
Wang Fanzhi - Other men ride high on horses
Wang Seng-ju - Tears
Timothy Wangusa - Where have all the mushrooms gone?
Saduni Wanniarachchi - Being Sri Lankan
Djeri Wapondi - I, Environment
Djeri Wapondi - The fate of women
Jose Warden - Magic Moments
E. B. Watermeyer - After a storm
Isaac Watts - How doth the little busy bee
Tom Wayman - Did I miss anything?
Thomas Weelkes - Thule, the period of cosmology
Kajetan Wegierski - The Dream Wife
Wang Wei - A farmhouse on the Wei river
Wang Wei - A song of an Autumn night
Wang Wei - Farewell to Xin Jian at Hibiscus Pavilion
Wang Wei - Green Gully
Carolyn Wells - Christmas gifts
Cho Wēn-chün - Song of Snow-white Heads
Wenceslaus II - Now that stern winter each blossom is blighting
Albert Wendt - Flying-Fox
John M Wenitong - The Heart of Auss
John M Wenitong - You still wonder
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley - Monrovia 2008
Emilio Adolfo Westphalen - You came to lean on a leaf from my body
Einar Westling - Childhood faith
Robert Wever - In a Herber Green Asleep Whereas I Lay
Robert Wever - Report me to you
Phyllis Wheatley - A hymn to the evening
Phillis Wheatley - On Being Brought from Africa to America
Walt Whitman - O Captain! My Captain!
John Greenleaf Whittier - After election
John Greenleaf Whittier - King Solomon and the ants
Margaret Widdemer - The Jester
Indah Widiastuti - A naughty game
Indah Widiastuti - a stone
Menno Wigman - Room 421
Richard Wilbur - Year's End
Juan Rodolfo Wilcock - Don't stay far away from me for long
Juan Rodolfo Wilcock - Repulsive being
Ella Wheeler Wilcox - The Year
Oscar Wilde - The Grave of Shelley
Anton Wildgans - I am the city's child
William Carlos Williams - Summer song
William Carlos Williams - To a poor old woman
Woodbine Willie - The Spirit
J.G. Wilson - see Austral
Walter Wingate - Conscience
Wipo of Burgundy - Christ, the victim undefiled
Alemtsehay Wodajo - The Soul Has a Message
Tsering Woeser - Eye of the Empire
Rafal Wojaczek - You have to fear the rose
Karol Wojtyla - Shore of Silence
Selam Kidane Woldu - Optic
Wolf Wondratschek - Nighthawks: after Edward Hopper's painting
Lee Jang Wook - Missing
William Wordsworth - I travelled among unknown men
William Wordsworth - Surprised by Joy
Bryan Thao Worra - A familiar dance
Bryan Thao Worra - Ink recipe
David McKee Wright - Old Mates
James Wright - A Blessing
Judith Wright - South of my days
Mary Wroth - Sonnet I
Wu-men - Ten thousand flowers
Wu-ti - Li Fu-jen
Katama Wui - Little Bird
Sir Thomas Wyatt - The Heart and Service
Sir Thomas Wyatt - My lute awake!
Stanislaw Wyspianski - I want no weeping at my grave

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X:

Erwin X - see Erwin Jones
Ouyang Xiu - Lantern Festival
Ouyang Xiu - Who can explain why we love it
Xuanzang - On Climbing Mount Song Near the Southern Capital
Halima Xudoyberdiyeva - Sacred Woman
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Y:

Yajnavalkya - Man, a tree growing from Brahma
Otomo no Yakamochi - The Mutability of all Earthly Things
Yamyam - I am Somali
Aimée Yangbadji - The Central African Republic
Yannai - The Celestial Fire
Yanqing - see Sung Chih-Wên
Zeineb Yassin - Under the Sycamores
Bouchra Yassine - A City with the Charm A Thousand Beloved
O no Yasumaro - While you decline to cry
John Yau - Russian letter
Peyo Yavorov - Confidentially
Begziin Yavuuhulan - The sound of a silver bridle
DK Osei Yaw - Drown
Yokoi Yayu - the well digger
Yazid I - To My Father
Filippo Ye - The Sky
W.B. Yeats - A Coat
W.B. Yeats - A Drinking song
W.B. Yeats - Against unworthy praise
W.B. Yeats - Brown Penny
W.B. Yeats - Sailing to Byzantium
W.B. Yeats - The Arrow
W.B. Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree
W.B. Yeats - The Sorrow of Love
W.B. Yeats - The Wild Swans at Coole
Akberen Yelgezek - A Night in Hospital
Müesser Yeniay - Now Do not Tell Me of Men!
Sergei Yesenin - Upon green hills
Yevgeny Yevtushenko - Monolog of an effigy
Yevgeny Yevtushenko - The untied shoelaces
Yi Chongbo - May my love become an alder tree
Maung Swan Yi - Fly On O Crane!
Yi Yong-ak - Cholla lass
Yishan - see Li Shangyin
Levi Yitzchak - Where I wander
Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev - see Levi Yitzchak above
Paramahansa Yogananda - Come to me. O Christ
Paramahansa Yogananda - Nature's Nature
Paramahansa Yogananda - One Friend
Akiko Yosano - An essay on birthing
Yose ben Yose - I will flee to my helper
Yose ben Yose - In praise of God (from Avoda)
Andrew Young - This Lane
Alice S. Yousef - You come up
Yu Yoyo- do not fear heights
Chihwan Yu - I do not know
Hsia Yü - Now these objects will move by themselves
Hsia Yü - Somehow
Li Yu - A heavenly woman's imprisoned in the palace
Li Yu - Gratitude for New Bounties
Li Yu - My Idle Dreams Roam Far (Gazing at the South)
Li Yu - Oh when will autumn moon and spring flowers end?
Li Yu - The east wind blows over the water
Li Yu - The wind returns
Sung Yü - Popularity
Tao Tschung Yu - Quarrelling
Ch`u Yuan - Heavenly Questions (Section 1)
Ch`u Yuan - The land of exile
Qu Yuan - see Ch`u Yuan
Tao Yuanming - I couldn't want another life
Tao Yuanming - Returning to the fields
Yueh Fei - Wrath set my hair bristling
Chen Yuhong - 14 • metaphor
Chen Yuhong - 27 • metaphor
Pamelia Sarah Yule - Bright Thoughts for a Dark Day
Pamelia Sarah Yule - Go, dream no more
Pamelia Sarah Yule - Strike the chords softly
Pamelia Sarah Yule - The bird and the storm-cloud
Emperor Yūryaku - Poem by the Emperor
Mahmud Yussop - Country peace
Caasha Lul Mohamud Yusuf - Taste

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Z:

Nikolay Alekseyevich Zabolotsky - The horse's face
Adam Zagajewski - Autumn
Adam Zagajewski - My Aunts
Nadezhda Zaharieva - The world is for me a tough place
Ilire Zajmi - Amnesia
Moufdi Zakaria - Kassaman (We pledge)
Adela Zamudio - The Husband
Adela Zamudio - To be born a man
Alessio Zanelli - Mirroring
Israel Zangwill - Blind Children
Giambattista Felice Zappi - As toward the Ascrean Mount
Ghassan Zaqtan - Beirut, August 1928
Yury Zavadsky - Communication
Najat Zbair - My wound made ablution of Gaza's blood
Anat Zecharia - All that flesh and fat
Anat Zecharia - Always repeating the same mistake
Alfonso Guillén Zelaya - LORD, I ask a garden
Zeyneb - Gazal
Ana Zgonjanin - In search for a soul
Zhang Hua - No one can please forever
Zhang Ji - A night-mooring near Maple Bridge
Cao Zhi - from: The Nymph of the Luo River
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé - jericho
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé - Round the clock
Song Zhiwen - see Sung Chih-Wên
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky - Lalla Ruk
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky - The Bard
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky - The Boatman
Henri Frans de Ziel - see Trefossa
Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf - Jesus, thy blood and righteousness
Nina Živancevic - The queen comes to our city
Ali Znaidi - Can I dream?
Diodorus Zonas - Epigram 9.312
José Zorilla - Moorish ballad
José Zorilla - The Springlet
José Zorilla - To Spain
Zoroaster - Zoroaster devoutly questions Ormazd
Norddine Zouitni - Reflections on death and life...!
Richard de Zoysa - Animal crackers
Claire Zu Bard - In the restaurant
Baha ad-Din Zuhayr - On a blind girl
Baha ad-Din Zuhayr - The Mu'allaqat
Baha ad-Din Zuhayr - The Mu'allaqat
Albinas Zukauskas - The Breadbaker
Uroš Zupan - A Detail
Raúl Zurita - Bruno Bends, Falls (1)
Raúl Zurita - The Desert of Atacama V
Raúl Zurita - The Desert of Atacama VI
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