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:
- Огюст Барбье – Мазаччио
- Вероника Тушнова – Яблоки
- Алексей Плещеев – Есть дни, ни злоба, ни любовь
- Николай Рубцов – Весна на берегу Бии
- After the Sea-Ship. by Walt Whitman
- Иван Мятлев – Бывало
- Sonnet 146: Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth by William Shakespeare
- Progress by Michael McGovern
- Beggarly Heart by Rabindranath Tagore
- Road-Song of the Bandar-Log by Rudyard Kipling
- Яков Полонский – Н. А. Грибоедова
- Гавриил Державин – Анакреон у печки
- Валерий Брюсов – Из наблюдений
- Жан де Лафонтен – Дровосек и Меркурий
- Sonnet 95: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame by William Shakespeare
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
- a_choka_is_a_littoral_drift.html
- the_solitary_oak_on_mount_kremlin_bicetre.html
- the_prison_of_the_past.html
- The Dead Woman by Pablo Neruda, La Muerta
- pathos_is_the_skyward_tanka.html
- nominalism_is_a_liquid_kuhi.html
- eclipse_of_love.html
- divided_passion.html
- death039s_claim.html
- dear_bhikkhu_a_eulogy.html
- as_with_a_senryu_s_hardening_ridge.html
- A Gogyohka and the Forgotten Panopticon
- a_faded_postcard_is_a_tanka_daydream.html
- krishna039s_advice_to_arjuna.html
- krishna039s_advice_to_arjuna.html
- Exodus by Michael Nikoletseas
- Saint George the Dragon by Michael Nikoletseas
- heal_me_slowly.html
- gazebo.html
- all-days-seem-same.html
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