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:
- Николай Языков – Песня (Пусть свободны и легки)
- Ольга Берггольц – Встреча
- Dryads by Siegfried Sassoon
- For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back by Marilyn Hacker
- Зинаида Александрова – Прятки
- In The End by Sara Teasdale
- Lines to a Gentleman who sent a Newspaper by Robert Burns
- Анатолий Жигулин – Москва
- Proud Music of The Storm by Walt Whitman
- The Municipal Gallery Revisited by William Butler Yeats
- Some One by Walter de la Mare
- In A Motel Parking Lot, Thinking Of Dr. Williams by Wendell Berry
- Валерий Брюсов – Из латинской антологии (Нежный стихов аромат услаждает безделие девы)
- To Victory by Siegfried Sassoon
- Федор Сологуб – Там, внизу, костры горели
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- Kyrenaikos
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- Vivien
- I Loved
- Virginibus Puerisque
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- Fragments
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Eudaemon
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works