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:
- My teacher wasn’t half as nice as yours seems to be by Roald Dahl
- Robert Burns: Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson: A Gentleman who held the Patent for his Honours immediately from Almighty God.
- Robert Burns: On A Henpecked Country Squire:
- Sonnet 131: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art by William Shakespeare
- The Daughter Goes To Camp by Sharon Olds
- Growltiger’s Last Stand by T. S. Eliot
- The Eclipsed Past by Tholana Ashok Chakravarthy
- Wherever You Go, There You Are by Ryssel Guzman
- “To fix her!-’twere a task as vain” by Tobias Smollett
- Others may Praise what They Like. by Walt Whitman
- A Gogyohka and the Forgotten Panopticon
- The Eagle and the Dove by William Wordsworth
- On The New Forcers Of Conscience Under The Long Parliament poem – John Milton poems
- From: The Home We Will Never Live In That Place by Nijole Miliauskaite
- A Galloway Song poem – John Keats poems
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
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Poems in English
- Reason Use It Divine Matters
- Reason The Use Of It In Divine Matters
- Platonick Love
- On The Death Of Sir Henry Wootton
- On The Death Of Mr William Hervey
- On The Death Of Mr Crashaw
- Of Wit
- Not Fair
- Life
- Hymn To Light
- Hymn Light
- Epitaph
- Despair
- Death Sir Henry Wootton
- Davideis Sacred Poem Troubles David Excerpt
- Davideis A Sacred Poem Of The Troubles Of David Excerpt
- Cousel
- Constantias Song
- Constantia039s Song
- Concealment
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works