Poems about Lyrics

• Riverbank Blues

  Went down to the river, sot me down an' listened,
  Heard de water talkin' quiet, quiet lak an' slow:

  by Sterling A Brown 31 lines
• Southern Road

  Swing dat hammer—hunh—
  Steady, bo';

  by Sterling A Brown 54 lines
• A Son Of A Gun

  I wish I had a barrel of rum
  and sugar three hundred pound.

  by Anonymous Americas 24 lines, 2 comments
• Ode to a Lady on the Spring

  She bids the herds bound sportive o'er the meads,
  And with glad songs awakes the joyous grove,

  by Joseph Warton 22 lines
• The Maiden's Vow

  I've made a vow, I'll keep it true,
  I'll never married be;

  by Carolina Oliphant 13 lines
• Frankie And Johnnie

  Frankie and Johnnie were lovers,
      O, my Gawd, how they could love,

  by Anonymous Americas 148 lines, 2 comments
• My Spouse Nancy

  "Husband, husband, cease your strife,
  Nor longer idly rave, Sir;

  by Robert Burns 34 lines, 2 comments
• Ancient Gaelic Melody

  Birds of omen dark and foul,
  Night-crow, raven, bat, and owl

  by Sir Walter Scott 36 lines
• With My Swag All On My Shoulder

  When first I left Old England's shore,
  Such yarns as we were told,

  by Anonymous Oceania 48 lines
• Molly Means

  Sometimes at night through the shadowy trees
  She rides along on a winter breeze.

  by Margaret Walker 58 lines
• Life Brought Me So I Came

  The life brought me so I came; the death takes me away so I go
  Neither I came on my own nor I go with my will

  by Zauq 23 lines
• My Eppie Macnab

  O saw ye my dearie, my Eppie Macnab?
  O saw ye my dearie, my Eppie Macnab?

  by Robert Burns 16 lines
• On the road to Gundagai

  Oh, we started down from Roto when the sheds had all cut out.
  We'd whips and whips of Rhino as we meant to push about,

  by Anonymous Oceania 24 lines
• Love Came Down at Christmas

  Love came down at Christmas,
  Love all lovely, love divine;

  by Christina Georgina Rossetti 13 lines
• I Speak Not, I Trace Not, I Breathe Not Thy Name

  I speak not, I trace not, I breathe not thy name;
  There is grief in the sound, there is guilt in the fame;

  by Lord George Gordon Byron 21 lines, 2 comments
• To-morrow I'm Losing My Darling

  I'm very unhappy, tho' nothing I've done.
  I'll tell you the cause of my sorrow;

  by Anonymous Oceania 40 lines
• Anniversary Hymn

  The ever rolling flood of years,
  Is bearing us, our hopes and fears,

  by David John Scott 60 lines
• Knees Up, Mother Brown

  Oh, knees up, Mother Brown,
    Knees up, Mother Brown.

  by Anonymous British 9 lines, 1 comment
• Prayer (Translated in English)

  
  Lord Rama! My honour is in Your hands.

  by Tulsidas 7 lines
• True Tenderness

  
  True tenderness is silent

  by Anna Akhmatova 9 lines, 1 comment
• Langston Blues

  Your lips were so laughing
  Langston man

  by Dudley Randall 19 lines
• Wilt Thou Unkind Thus Reave Me

  Wilt thou unkind thus reave me
  Of my heart, of my heart,

  by John Dowland 15 lines
• Against The Coming Of May

  Against the coming of May
  That is ful of lustyness,

  by Charles I de Valois, Duke of Orleans 15 lines
• Come Ye Heavy States Of Night

  Come ye heavy states of night,
  Do my father's spirit right,

  by John Dowland 12 lines
• Away Down South In The Land of Traitors

  Away down South in the land of traitors,
  Rattlesnakes and alligators,

  by Anonymous Americas 42 lines
• Alabaster

  Like this alabaster box whose art
  Is frail as a cassia-flower, is my heart,

  by Sarojini Naidu 10 lines, 8 comments
• The Song of the Tempest

  Stern eagle of the far north-west,
  Thou that bearest in thy grasp the thunderbolt,

  by Sir Walter Scott 51 lines
• Neither Do I Condemn Thee

  “Neither do I condemn thee,”
  O words of wondrous grace;

  by Daniel Webster Moody 24 lines
• Suttee

  LAMP of my life, the lips of Death
  Hath blown thee out with their sudden breath;

  by Sarojini Naidu 12 lines
• Mourn, Mourn, Day Is With Darkness Fled

  Mourn, mourn, day is with darkness fled,
  What heavn's then governs earth,

  by John Dowland 11 lines

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