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:
- Sonnet 6: Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface by William Shakespeare
- A Thought by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Robert Burns: Open The Door To Me, Oh:
- What Of The Night
- Николай Заболоцкий – Старая актриса
- Boadicea. An Ode by William Cowper
- Love Expression in Marriage
- Ольга Берггольц – Мой дом
- Knoxville Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni
- Владимир Маяковский – Не эти правильно Октябрь празднуют… (РОСТА №398)
- The Mob
- Pomona by William Morris
- Владимир Маяковский – Шумики, шумы и шумищи
- One Lovely Name by Walter Savage Landor
- I Saw a Chapel by William Blake
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
- Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony by Shel Silverstein
- Listen To The Mustn’ts by Shel Silverstein
- Lemmebesomethin’ by Shel Silverstein
- I’ve Been Working So Hard by Shel Silverstein
- In The Hills Of Shiloh by Shel Silverstein
- In Search Of Cinderella by Shel Silverstein
- I’m So Good That I Don’t Have To Brag by Shel Silverstein
- I’m My Own Grandpa by Shel Silverstein
- If The World Was Crazy by Shel Silverstein
- If I Had A Brontosaurus by Shel Silverstein
- I Once Knew A Woman by Shel Silverstein
- I Can’t Touch The Sun by Shel Silverstein
- I Call That True Love by Shel Silverstein
- Hug O’War by Shel Silverstein
- Hippo’s Hope by Shel Silverstein
- Hector The Collector by Shel Silverstein
- Hard To Please by Shel Silverstein
- Handy Man by Shel Silverstein
- Hamlet As Told On The Street by Shel Silverstein
- For What She Had Done by Shel Silverstein
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works