All Poems
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The Lost Star -- English Translation
© Rabindranath Tagore
When God finished his work of creation
In the vast blue sky
Jerusalem Delivered - Book 03 - part 04
© Torquato Tasso
XLVI
Three times he strove to view Heaven's golden ray,
Tiger--Tiger!
© Rudyard Kipling
What of the hunting, hunter bold?
Brother, the watch was long and cold.
Limerick: There was an Old Man of the East
© Edward Lear
There was an Old Man of the East,
Who gave all his children a feast;
But they all ate so much
And their conduct was such
That it killed that Old Man of the East
Mejerist Esper Andersen, Jebjerg
© Jeppe Aakjaer
De gamle Dage er ikke glemt,
jeg mindes det klart i Dag,
The Plaint
© Adelaide Crapsey
Musicians O Musicians: Heartsease
Heartsease: an you will have me live play heartsease.
Beans Taste Fine
© Sheldon Allan Silverstein
Now a friend of mine, way back in Chicago
You know, he finally made his pile.
Well he got himself a mansion on Butler and Sheff
An' he was livin' in the latest style;
I'm Not Saying Anything Against Alexander
© Bertolt Brecht
Timur, I hear, took the trouble to conquer the earth.
I don't understand him.
With a bit of hard liquor you can forget the earth.
The Botanist's Vision
© Sydney Thompson Dobell
The sun that in Breadalbane's lake doth fall
Was melting to the sea down golden Tay,
Hope
© Joseph Addison
Our lives, discoloured with our present woes,
May still grow white and shine with happier hours.
The Gray Magician
© Margaret Widdemer
I was living very merrily on Middle Earth
As merry as a maid may be
Cape Byron.
© James Brunton Stephens
UPON the orient utmost of the land,
Enfranchised of the world, alone, and free,
To Donneen
© Dora Sigerson Shorter
"Why weep," I whispered by your red gold head,
"Dearest of boys?"
"I cannot hear my new shoes creak," you said,
"There is such noise."
Fires Of Driftwood
© Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
I gather you,
Bitter with salt,
Sun-bleached, rock-scarred, moon-harried,
Fuel for my fire.
The Secretary
© Matthew Prior
While with labour assiduous due pleasure I mix,
And in one day atone for the business of six,
The Duty Of A Brother
© Charles Lamb
Why on your sister do you look,
Octavius, with an eye of scorn,
As scarce her presence you could brook?-
Under one roof you both were born.
