Poems about Tribute

• Elegy for Owain

  God, consider the soul's need
  of Owain son of Urien!

  by Taliesin 23 lines, 2 comments
• Lincoln Monument: Washington

  Let's go see Old Abe
  Sitting in the marble and the moonlight,

  by Langston Hughes 11 lines, 1 comment
• The Going

  He's gone.
  I do not understand.

  by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 8 lines, 1 comment
• To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison

  The Turn
  Brave infant of Saguntum, clear

  by Ben Jonson 173 lines
• Elegy for Geraint

  Before Geraint, the enemy's scourge,
  I saw white horses, tensed, red,

  by Taliesin 54 lines, 1 comment
• Urien of Yrechwydd

  Urien of Yrechwydd most generous of Christian men,
  much do you give to the people of your land;

  by Taliesin 19 lines
• The Two Fatherlands

  I vow to thee, my country-all earthly things
    above-

  by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice 24 lines
• Celestial Painting (Sunset at Renvyle)

  When painters leave this world, we grieve
  For the hand that will work no more,

  by William Percy French 12 lines, 3 comments
• Iago Prytherch

  Ah. Iago, my friend, whom the ignorant people thought
  The last of your kind, since all the wealth you brought

  by R S Thomas 12 lines
• Columbus

  Behind him lay the gray Azores,
  Behind the Gates of Hercules;

  by Cincinnatus Hiner [AKA JOAQUIN] Miller 40 lines
• Patriotism 1: Innominatus

  BREATHES there the man with soul so dead,
  Who never to himself hath said,

  by Sir Walter Scott 16 lines, 2 comments
• On Getting A Natural (For Gewndolyn Brooks)

  She didn't know she was beautiful,
  though her smiles were dawn,

  by Dudley Randall 23 lines
• To My Brother Miguel In Memoriam

  Brother, today I sit on the brick bench of the house,
  where you make a bottomless emptiness.

  by Cesar Vallejo 19 lines
• Blazon

  The snow-white Olympic swan,
  with beak of rose-red agate,

  by Ruben Dario 43 lines
• Rupert Brooke

  1
  Your face was lifted to the golden sky

  by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 60 lines, 1 comment
• Trilce

  Hay un lugar que yo me sé
  en este mundo, nada menos,

  by Cesar Vallejo 58 lines
• Ode to Tomatoes

  The street
  filled with tomatoes

  by Pablo Neruda 85 lines
• The Kelly Gang

  Oh, Paddy dear, and did you hear
  The news that's going round,

  by Anonymous Oceania 160 lines
• Monody On The Death Of Chatterton

  When faint and sad o'er sorrow's desert wild
  Slow journeys onward poor misfortune's child;

  by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 129 lines
• Langston Blues

  Your lips were so laughing
  Langston man

  by Dudley Randall 19 lines
• Ballad Of The Gibbet

  Brothers and men that shall after us be,
  Let not your hearts be hard to us:

  by François Villon 39 lines
• Black Man O' Mine

  Black Man o' Mine,
  If the world were your lover,

  by Anne Spencer 18 lines
• John Maynard

  John Maynard!
  " Who is John Maynard?"

  by Theodor Fontane 78 lines
• John Gilbert ( Bushranger)

  John Gilbert was a bushranger
  Of terrible renown

  by Anonymous Oceania 64 lines
• This Land

  Give me a harsh land to wring music from,
  brown hills, and dust, with dead grass

  by Ian Mudie 26 lines, 1 comment
• Elegy On The Death Of Mr. Phillips

  No more I hail the morning's golden gleam,
  No more the wonders of the view I sing;

  by Thomas Chatterton 163 lines, 1 comment
• For: Kenneth Slessor

  Hang it all, Slessor, as Pound once said to Browning,
  Why have you sailed so untimely out on the water

  by Douglas Alexander Stewart 52 lines, 1 comment
• The Cutty Comes Back [1926]

  When the old  Cutty Sark  goes to sea again,
  Crowding on her flying kites once more,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 58 lines
• The Waradgery Tribe

  Harried we were, and spent,
  broken and falling,

  by Dame Mary Gilmore DBE 16 lines, 7 comments
• Cicely Fox Smith

  Cicely Fox Smith
  1st February 1882

  by Old Poetry 28 lines

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