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 Riddle
- Ode–Shell The Old City! Shell! by William Gilmore Simms
- Eternal Existence by Mark Miller
- Me Imperturbe. by Walt Whitman
- Вероника Тушнова – Я поднимаюсь по колючим склонам
- Вероника Тушнова – Люблю
- Николай Гумилев – На далекой звезде Венере
- Robert Burns: The Cooper O’ Cuddy:
- Николай Гербель – Бокал
- Нина Воронель – С моим житьем, поспешным и тряпичным
- After Love by Sara Teasdale
- Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever, longing still by William Shakespeare
- Water by Wendell Berry
- Степан Щипачев – Высота
- Robert Burns: Highland Harry Back Again:
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works