Poems by Alfred Austin
Poems by Alfred Austin. A British journalist and a poet, A writer who used to wear quite a few hats throughout his career, Alfred Austin was a literary critic, novelist, and journalist. Trained in law, his professional life revolved around literature. Austin published regularly for half a century and succeeded Lord Tennyson as England’s poet laureate in 1896. Popular in his own lifetime he is now almost forgotten.
A few random poems:
- The Bridge by Shel Silverstein
- Robert Burns: Address Of Beelzebub: To the Right Honourable the Earl of Breadalbane, President of the Right Honourable and Honourable the Highland Society, which met on the 23rd of May last at the Shakespeare, Covent Garden, to concert ways and means to frustrate the designs of five hundred Highlanders, who, as the Society were informed by Mr. M’Kenzie of Applecross, were so audacious as to attempt an escape from their lawful lords and masters whose property they were, by emigrating from the lands of Mr. Macdonald of Glengary to the wilds of Canada, in search of that fantastic thing-Liberty.
- Николай Гумилев – На берегу моря
- The Craftsmen Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- Epitaph for Mr. Walter Riddell by Robert Burns
- Last Wish by Théophile Gautier
- Two Songs Of A Fool by William Butler Yeats
- A Paraphrase on an Ode in Horace’s Third Book, beginning thus:— “Inclusam Danaen turris ahenea.” by Abraham Cowley
- Just A Dance by Tiffany M
- The Blackbird by William Barnes
- Омар Хайям – О друге я мечтал, но им не стал никто
- Иван Крылов – Ода, выбранная из псалма 14-го
- A PARANAETICALL, OR ADVISIVE VERSETO HIS FRIEND, MR JOHN WICKS by Robert Herrick
- Владимир Луговской – Гуниб
- Eden in Winter by Vachel Lindsay
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
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Poems in English
- Far In a Western Brookland poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Far In a Western Brookland poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries poem – A. E. Housman
- Could Man Be Drunk Forever poem – A. E. Housman
- Bring, In This Timeless Grave To Throw poem – A. E. Housman
- Bredon Hill poem – A. E. Housman
- As Through the Wild Green Hills of Wyre poem – A. E. Housman
- Along the field as we came poem – A. E. Housman
- The Haymakers’ Song poem – Alfred Austin
- Love’s Blindness poem – Alfred Austin
- At His Grave poem – Alfred Austin
- Agatha poem – Alfred Austin
- Loves Blindness
- The Haymakers Song
- Loves Blindness
- At His Grave
- Agatha
- Why
- Where Are You
- Tell Me
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
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