Poems in Persian

thumb|Plate with a hunting scene from the tale of Bahram V|Bahram Gur and Azadeh. The imagery on this plate represents the earliest known depiction of a well-known episode from the story of Bahram Gur, which seems to have been popular for centuries, but was only recorded in the Shahnameh, centuries after this plate was created. Iran, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]

story of Arab origin, about the 7th-century Arabic poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah and his lover Layla bint Mahdi

Persian poetry. Omar Khayyam’s robāʿiyyāt (“quatrains”). Also Persian-English quatrains translations by Edward Fitzgerald.

thumb|250px| The Masnavi is an extensive Persian masnavi (a poetic form) written by Rumi, and one of the most influential works in the history of Sufism. It is a series of six books of poetry that together amount to around 25,000 verses or 50,000 lines.

Persian tragic romance by Nizami Ganjavi

romantic story

Persian poem by Sufi poet Attar

poem

literary work by Nezami Ganjavi

collection of Classical Persian Poems written by Hafez

epic poem by Nezami Ganjavi

poem written by Nezami Ganjavi

15th century Persian literary work

ancient Greek novel

book by Mohammed Iqbal

Love story in Shahnameh epic poem

poetry book of Allama Iqbal

1927 poetry book by Muhammad Iqbal

book by Mohammed Iqbal

Persian epic

book by Mohammed Iqbal

thumb|right|"Azar Barzin killing a dragon", folio from the Bahman-nameh, presumably interpolated into a Shahnameh manuscript. Created in [[Qazvin, Safavid Iran, dated ]] The Bahman-nameh () is a Persian epic poem of around 9500 lines, which describes the exploits of Kay Bahman, the son of Esfandiyar of the royal Kayanid dynasty. The earliest attestation of this work is in the book Mojmal al-tawarikh, which gives the author as Iranshan ibn Abi'-Khayr (Iranshah).

parthian epic poem

book by Mohammed Iqbal

poem by Persian poet Saadi Shirazi

13th-century poem by Rumi