Poems about Lyrics

• Sylvia's Mother

  Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's busy,
  too busy to come to the phone .

  by Sheldon Allan Silverstein 40 lines, 2 comments
• A New Song

  Ah blame me not, Catcott, if from the right way
  My notions and actions run far.

  by Thomas Chatterton 28 lines, 1 comment
• Anna Var I Anders Kær

  Anna var i Anders kær, men knibsk alligevel

  by Jeppe Aakjaer 40 lines
• Sab Maaya Hai

  sab maya hai , sab dhaltee phirtee chaya hai
  iss ishq mein hum nay jo khooya jo paya hai

  by Ibn-e-Insha 44 lines
• The Snake Charmer

  WHITHER dost thou hide from the magic of my flute-call?
  In what moonlight-tangled meshes of perfume,

  by Sarojini Naidu 12 lines
• Humayun To Zobeida (From the Urdu)

  You flaunt your beauty in the rose, your glory in the dawn,
  Your sweetness in the nightingale, your white- ness in the swan.

  by Sarojini Naidu 10 lines
• Oh that I might capture

  Oh that I might capture the essence of this deep midwinter night
  And fold it softly into the waft of a spring-moon quilt,

  by Hwang Chin-i 7 lines
• My body, in its withering

  My body, in its withering, may become a lovely swallow.
  Under the eaves of my loved one's home I'll build my nest of twigs.

  by Anonymous Asian 3 lines, 7 comments
• Botany Bay

  Farewell to old England for ever,
  Farewell to my rum culls as well,

  by Anonymous Oceania 29 lines
• Hunting Song

  Waken, lords and ladies gay,
  On the mountain dawns the day;

  by Sir Walter Scott 32 lines
• The Cold Water Army

  With banner and with badge we come,
  An Army true and strong,

  by John Pierpont 23 lines
• Are Ye Right, There, Michael?

  You may talk of Columbus's sailing
  Across the Atlantical Sea

  by William Percy French 50 lines
• The Grand Consulation

  "Ambubaiarum Collegia Pharmacopeiæ."
  

  by George Canning 53 lines
• Andy McElroe

  My brother Andy said, that for a soldier he would go,
  So great excitement came upon the house of McElroe.

  by William Percy French 37 lines
• Sea Song

  Our boat to the waves go free,
  By the bending tide, where the curled wave breaks,

  by William Ellery Channing 15 lines
• In Praise Of Henna

  A KOKILA called from a henna-spray:
  Lira! liree! Lira! liree!

  by Sarojini Naidu 16 lines
• From The Mountain

  IF I, dearest Lily, did not love thee,
  How this prospect would enchant my sight!

  by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 5 lines, 4 comments
• Corn Grinders

  O little mouse, why dost thou cry
  While merry stars laugh in the sky?

  by Sarojini Naidu 27 lines
• Ay De Mi

  O bird, that used to press,
  Thy head against my cheek

  by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) 14 lines, 1 comment
• The Blind Flower-girl's Song

  Buy my flowers -- O buy -- I pray!
  The blind girl comes from afar;

  by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 46 lines, 3 comments
• Song-Prayer: After King David

  I shall be satisfied
  With the seeing of thy face.

  by George MacDonald 8 lines
• Harvest Hymn

  LORD of the lotus, lord of the harvest,
  Bright and munificent lord of the morn!

  by Sarojini Naidu 35 lines
• Old Dog Tray

  THE morn of life is past,
  And ev'ning comes at last;

  by Stephen C. Foster 22 lines, 3 comments
• The Stars And The Babies

  When the stars go to sleep,
  The babies awake,

  by Eliza Lee Follen 18 lines, 3 comments
• To My Fairy Fancies

  NAY, no longer I may hold you,
  In my spirit's soft caresses,

  by Sarojini Naidu 14 lines, 4 comments
• To The Golden Heart That He Wore Around His Neck

  OH thou token loved of joys now perish'd
  That I still wear from my neck suspended,

  by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 23 lines, 2 comments
• Darwaaza khula rakhna

  Dil dard ki shiddat say khoon gushta-o-see parah
  Iss sheher main phirta hay ek wehshi aawarah

  by Ibn-e-Insha 28 lines
• The Rainbow

  SOFT falls the mild, reviving shower
  From April's changeful skies,

  by Felicia Dorothea Hemans 42 lines
• The Old Bullock Dray

  Oh ! the shearing is all over,
  And the wool is coming down,

  by Anonymous Oceania 73 lines
• The Ring Of Polycrates - A Ballad

  Upon his battlements he stood,
  And downward gazed in joyous mood,

  by Friedrich von Schiller 96 lines

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