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:
- Lost Star by Rabindranath Tagore
- Николай Гумилев – Командиру 5-го Александровского полка
- I Strove with None by Walter Savage Landor
- Sonnet 134: So, now I have confessed that he is thine by William Shakespeare
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись на день восшествия на престол Ее Величества 1753 года
- Олег Чупров – Комар
- The Queen’s Complaint by Sylvia Plath
- Attention please! Attention please! by Roald Dahl
- As Consequent, Etc. by Walt Whitman
- In The Forest by Sarojini Naidu
- The Lark by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: Thou Fair Eliza:
- Human Spirit by Shawn Ervin
- Why Write? by Mark Olynyk
- Виктор Гончаров – Скоро, скоро я домой поеду
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
- Note to Reality by Tony Hoagland
- National Trust by Tony Harrison
- Memory As a Hearing Aid by Tony Hoagland
- Marked with D. by Tony Harrison
- Lucky by Tony Hoagland
- Long Distance II by Tony Harrison
- Long Distance I by Tony Harrison
- Jet by Tony Hoagland
- Tony Harrison – Tony Harrison
- In Praise of Their Divorce by Tony Hoagland
- I Have News For You by Tony Hoagland
- Heredity by Tony Harrison
- Grammar by Tony Hoagland
- Don’t Tell Anyone by Tony Hoagland
- Disappointment by Tony Hoagland
- Coming and Going by Tony Hoagland
- Book Ends by Tony Harrison
- Big Grab by Tony Hoagland
- Bible Study by Tony Hoagland
- Beauty by Tony Hoagland
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