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 LXVII by William Shakespeare
- Vietnam Vet befriends an immigrant in Pittsburgh, Pa – ( let’s put it that way ) by Vasil Slavov
- Mates
- Wife Killer by Vernon Scannell
- Robert Burns: On A Henpecked Country Squire:
- Ianthe! You are Call’d to Cross the Sea by Walter Savage Landor
- They Wondered Why the Fruit had Been Forbidden by W H Auden
- Владимир Высоцкий – Очи чёрные: Часть I
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот по борьбе с голодом отчет (Главполитпросвет №320)
- Noon by Philip Levine
- Summa poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Sonnet 123: No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Маяковский – Ты не пошел на фронт бить барона?.. (РОСТА №451)
- A Winter Eden by Robert Frost
- Our Abode In Arby Wood by William Barnes
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works