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• bhUvini dAsuDanE

  Oh one who enchants the wise, did I lie out of greed to be known as your foremost devotee on this earth?

  by Tyagaraja 33 lines
• The Squatter of the Olden Time

  I'll sing to you a fine new song, made by my blessed mate,
  Of a fine Australian squatter who had a fine estate,

  by Anonymous Oceania 25 lines
• Temperance Song: A Parody

  Some love to roam
  Where the glasses foam,

  by John Pierpont 28 lines, 2 comments
• Canadian Folksong

  The doors are shut, the windows fast;
  Outside the gust is driving past,

  by William Wilfred Campbell 24 lines, 1 comment
• The Princess (part 6)

  My dream had never died or lived again.
  As in some mystic middle state I lay;

  by Alfred Lord Tennyson 383 lines
• Fragment from Aeschylus

  
  The man who rightly acts without coercion

  by Aeschylus 14 lines
• Billy Barlow in Australia

  When I was at home I was down on my luck,
  And I earned a poor living by drawing a truck;

  by Anonymous Oceania 96 lines
• The Stockman's Last Bed

  Be ye stockmen or no, to my story give ear.
  Alas! for poor Jack, no more shall we hear

  by Anonymous Oceania 19 lines
• girirAjasutA tanaya

  O son of the daughter of the king of the mountains, O kind hearted one!

  by Tyagaraja 13 lines, 1 comment
• There Grows a Bonnie Brier Bush

  There grows a bonnie brier bush in our kail-yard,
  And white are the blossoms o't in our kail-yard

  by Carolina Oliphant 25 lines
• Come Sign The Vow!

  Come, sign the Temperance pledge,
  Thou on life's tottering edge,

  by John Pierpont 42 lines
• A Sea Song

  In the days before the high tide
  Swept away the towers of sand

  by Digby Mackworth Dolben 20 lines
• Song

  THE world's heart is kindless and grey and unholy,
  As the head of the wandering Jew,

  by Charles Harpur 24 lines
• Bringing Home the Cows

  Shadows of the twilight falling
  On the mountain's brow,

  by Anonymous Oceania 32 lines
• The Clyde-Built Clipper

  A ship there was, and she went to sea
  (Away O, my Clyde-built clipper!)

  by Cicely Fox Smith 64 lines
• Night settles

  Night settles on this mountain village;

  by Ch-on-gum 7 lines, 2 comments
• Sunshine Has Filled The Room

  Sunshine has filled the room
  with clear golden specks of dust.

  by Anna Akhmatova 10 lines
• Wallabi Joe

  The saddle was hung on the stockyard rail,
  And the poor old horse stood whisking his tail,

  by Anonymous Oceania 38 lines
• The Song of The Little Baltung: A.D. 395

  A harper came over the Danube so wide,
  And he came into Alaric's hall,

  by Charles Kingsley 169 lines
• Shearers Song

  Hurrah for the Lachlan, boys, and join me in a cheer;
  That's the place to go to make a cheque every year.

  by Anonymous Oceania 24 lines
• The Old Keg of Rum

  My name is old Jack Palmer,
  I'm a man of olden days,

  by Anonymous Oceania 84 lines
• Song.—If those dark eyes

  If those dark eyes have gazed on me,
  Unconscious of their power—

  by Louisa Stuart Costello 16 lines
• The Story Of Ill May Day, In The Reign Of King Henry VIII

  The Story of Ill May Day, in the reign of king Henry the Eighth, and why it was so called; and how Queen Katherine begged the lives of t

  by Anonymous Olde English 147 lines
• Another Fall of Rain

  THE weather had been sultry for a fortnight's time or more,
  And the shearers had been driving might and main,

  by Anonymous Oceania 29 lines
• Bouquet

  Gather quickly
  Out of darkness

  by Langston Hughes 13 lines
• The Song of Harold Harfager

  The sun is rising dimly red,
  The wind is wailing low and dread;

  by Sir Walter Scott 40 lines
• Lullaby of the iroquois

  Little brown baby-bird, lapped in your nest,
  Wrapped in your nest,

  by Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) 20 lines, 2 comments
• My Religion

  Let Romanists all at Confessional kneel,
  Let the Jew with disgust turn from it,

  by Anonymous Oceania 24 lines, 1 comment
• Cauld Kail in Aberdeen

  There's cauld kail in Aberdeen,
  There's castocks in Stra'bogie,

  by Carolina Oliphant 41 lines
• Song.—I will not ask

  I will not ask one glance from thee,
  Lest, fondly, I should linger yet,

  by Louisa Stuart Costello 8 lines

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