Poems about Lyrics

• A Song

  The world is young today:
  Forget the gods are old,

  by Digby Mackworth Dolben 12 lines
• One Melody (excerpt)

  Bad verse at times I write, I know;
  I'm read but little luckily;

  by Vladimir Vasek 8 lines
• The Beautiful Land of Australia

  All you on emigration bent,
  With home and England ill-content,

  by Anonymous Oceania 78 lines
• Madrigal [Portugese]

  A luz do sol bate na lua...
  Bate na lua, cai no mar...

  by Manuel Bandeira 7 lines
• A Sea Song

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

  by Digby Mackworth Dolben 20 lines
• Dunottar Castle

  
  When Royal pow'r was hunted down,

  by Carolina Oliphant 56 lines
• In the Lone­ly Mid­night

  In the lonely midnight on the wintry hill,
  Shepherds heard the angels singing, “Peace, good will.”

  by Theodore Chickering Williams 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
• Temperance Song: A Parody

  Some love to roam
  Where the glasses foam,

  by John Pierpont 28 lines, 2 comments
• 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 Ramble-eer

  The earth rolls on through empty space, its journey's never done;
  It's entered for a starry race throughout the kingdom come.

  by Anonymous Oceania 22 lines
• Song

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

  by Charles Harpur 24 lines
• Song.—Yes, I had hope

  Yes! I had hope when first we met,
  For hope and joy were in thine eye;

  by Louisa Stuart Costello 12 lines
• To A Star

  Am I the only child awake
  Beneath thy midnight beams?

  by John Bannister Tabb 8 lines
• Sunshine Has Filled The Room

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

  by Anna Akhmatova 10 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 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
• 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
• O, Pity The Slave Mother

  I pity the slave mother, careworn and weary,
  Who sighs as she presses her babe to her breast;

  by Anonymous Americas 24 lines
• girirAjasutA tanaya

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

  by Tyagaraja 13 lines, 1 comment
• The Voice of Spring

  O say, is there ane wha does nae rejoice,
  To hear the first note o' the wee birdie's voice;

  by Carolina Oliphant 18 lines
• Bringing Home the Cows

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

  by Anonymous Oceania 32 lines
• Cauld Kail in Aberdeen

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

  by Carolina Oliphant 41 lines
• Fragment from Aeschylus

  
  The man who rightly acts without coercion

  by Aeschylus 14 lines
• Snowfall blankets the mountain village

  Snowfall blankets the mountain village and buries my rocky lane.
  No need to open the brushwood gate, none will come to see me.

  by Sin Hum 3 lines
• The Challenge: A Court Ballad

  I.
  To one fair lady out of Court,

  by Alexander Pope 63 lines
• Christmas Hymn

  Hail, glorious morn! whose radiant beams,
  Looked down on Christ's nativity,

  by James Monroe Whitfield 24 lines
• Colonization Song

  To The Freed Colored People:
  

  by Anonymous Americas 41 lines
• The Blind Slave Boy

  Come back to me, mother! why linger away
  From thy poor little blind boy, the long weary day!

  by Anonymous Americas 30 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 34 lines, 1 comment

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