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• A Sonnet, to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth

  I that have been a lover, and could show it,
    Though not in these, in rhymes not wholly dumb,

  by Ben Jonson 14 lines
• Wild With All Regrets

  My arms have mutinied against me -- brutes!
  My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,

  by Wilfred Owen 38 lines
• The Song Of Princess Zeb-Un-Nissa In Praise Of Her Own Beauty

  WHEN from my cheek I lift my veil,
  The roses turn with envy pale,

  by Sarojini Naidu 12 lines
• On My Mother's Birthday

  Clad in all their brightest green,
  This day verdant fields are seen;

  by Felicia Dorothea Hemans 13 lines
• Wide Lies Australia

  Wide lies Australia! The seas that surround her
  Flow for her unity – all states in one.

  by Henry Lawson 24 lines
• Old Stormy

  "Stormy's dead," I heard them say, "he's dead and gone to rest";
  Of all the skippers I have known old Stormy was the best,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 45 lines
• To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us

  To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name,
  Am I thus ample to thy book and fame;

  by Ben Jonson 80 lines, 1 comment
• The Prayse Of The Needle

  To all dispersed sorts of arts and trades
  I write the needles prayse (that never fades).

  by John Taylor 10 lines, 1 comment
• Uncle Harry

  Oh, never let on to your own true love
  That ever you drank a drop;

  by Henry Lawson 40 lines
• Farewell to My Mother

  The appointed lot has come upon me, mother,
  The mournful ending of my years of strife,

  by Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes 17 lines, 2 comments
• The Heart of Australia

  When the wars of the world seemed ended, and silent the distant drum,
  Ten years ago in Australia, I wrote of a war to come:

  by Henry Lawson 40 lines
• Excerpts From Laila's Poems For Tauba

  O eye, weep tears continually flowing,
  weep for Tauba in hidden fear;

  by Laila Akhyaliyya 53 lines
• The Fight at Eureka Stockade

  "Was I at Eureka?" His figure was drawn to a youthful height,
  And a flood of proud recollections made the fire in his grey eyes brig

  by Henry Lawson 93 lines
• Moondeen

  Moondeen, the eldest of the river tribe,
  too old for the council of elders,

  by William Hart- Smith 42 lines, 1 comment
• A Baby's Death

  A little soul scarce fledged for earth
  Takes wing with heaven again for goal

  by Algernon Charles Swinburne 78 lines
• To A Friend

  You bid me not to love too well,
  To clip my fancy's wings;

  by Eliza Lee Follen 28 lines
• Epilogue: Cape Horn Days

  Thousands of years, before the ships came by,
  He watched the uncounted sunsets flame and die,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 49 lines
• Epitaph on the Favourite Dog of a Politician

  Here lies a Dog.- may every Dog that dies
  Lie in security - as this Dog lies.

  by Hilaire Belloc 3 lines
• Para Aragón en España (Verso VII)

  Para Aragón, en España,
  Tengo yo en mi corazón

  by Jose Marti 38 lines
• Coastwise

  The ships that trade foreign, to London they bear
  Their cargoes unnumbered both common and rare,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 52 lines
• The Poet's Dead

  The Poet's dead! - a slave to honor -
  He fell, by rumor slandered,

  by Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov 158 lines, 1 comment
• Otter Hunting In Ribblesdale

  Through yon little planting, by yonder streamside,
  Where Ribble's sweet waters flow softly and wide,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 23 lines
• Mist

  Between the grey hill and the sky
  The chill west wind goes wandering by

  by Cicely Fox Smith 22 lines
• Youth

  Juan Ponce de Leon, by the Devil led,
  With years weighed down and crammed with antique lore,

  by Jose Maria de Heredia y Giraud 15 lines
• Brigalow Mick

  A dandy old horserman is Brigalow Mick-
  Which his name, sir, is Michael O'Dowd -

  by Harry Breaker Morant 28 lines
• A Stave At Parting

  Good-night! the horn's faint music
  Through the twilight fades away:

  by Cicely Fox Smith 17 lines
• A Dedication to Soldiers Three

  And they were stronger hands than mine
  That digged the Ruby from the earth--

  by Rudyard Kipling 24 lines
• Robert (Robbie) Burns [1759-1796]

  Robert (Robbie) Burns  [1759-1796]
  A life that spanned less than 40 years but this man has left an indelible mark on the world

  by Oldpoetry 53 lines
• Back To Hilo

  There's a dark an' dirty wineshop on a waterfront I know,
  An' a cross-eyed Dago keeps it — or he kep' it years ago —

  by Cicely Fox Smith 20 lines
• Sonnet On The Sonnet

  To see the moment holds a madrigal,
  To find some cloistered place, some hermitage

  by Lord Alfred Douglas 14 lines, 2 comments

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