Blessed are they whose baby-souls are bright,
Whose brows are sealèd with the cross of light,
Whom God Himself has deign’d to robe in white-
Blessed are they!
Blessed are they who follow through the wild
His sacred footprints, as a little child;
Who strive to keep their garments undefiled-
Blessed are they!
Blessed are they who commune with the Christ,
Midst holy angels, at the Eucharist-
Who aye seek sunlight through the rain and mist-
Blessed are they!
Blessed are they-the strong in faith and grace-
Who humbly fill their own appointed place;
They who with steadfast patience run the race-
Blessed are they!
Blessed are they who suffer and endure-
They who through thorns and briars walk safe and sure;
Gold in the fire made beautiful and pure!-
Blessed are they!
Blessed are they on whom the angels wait,
To keep them facing the celestial gate,
To help them keep their vows inviolate-
Blessed are they!
Blessed are they to whom, at dead of night,-
In work, in prayer-though veiled from mortal sight,
The great King’s messengers bring love and light-
Blessed are they!
Blessed are they whose labours only cease
When God decrees the quiet, sweet release;
Who lie down calmly in the sleep of peace-
Blessed are they!
Whose dust is angel-guarded, where the flowers
And soft moss cover it, in this earth of ours;
Whose souls are roaming in celestial bowers-
Blessed are they!
Blessed are they-our precious ones-who trod
A pathway for us o’er the rock-strewn sod.
How are they number’d with the saints of God!
Blessed are they!
Blessed are they, elected to sit down
With Christ, in that day of supreme renown,
When His own Bride shall wear her bridal crown-
Blessed are they!
A few random poems:
- Sleep of the Body the Soul’s Awakening by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Talking Oak poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Homecoming by Robert Lowell
- A Big Idea? by Satish Verma
- Олег Бундур – Кто идет?
- Владимир Степанов – Телефон (Буква Т)
- Late September poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- My Love Is Good by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: Address To The Shade Of Thomson: On Crowning His Bust at Ednam, Roxburghshire, with a Wreath of Bays.
- Identity of Images by Robert Desnos
- I looked here by Stephen Crane
- Tim Turpin by Thomas Hood
- flight_of_stairs.html
- Омар Хайям – Не зарекайся пить бесценных гроздий сок
- Владимир Маяковский – Наши поправки в англо-советский договор (Красный перец)
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- An Arab Shepherd Is Searching For His Goat On Mount Zion by Yehuda Amichai
- A Precise Woman by Yehuda Amichai
- A Pity, We Were Such A Good Invention by Yehuda Amichai
- A Jewish Cemetery In Germany by Yehuda Amichai
- A Dog After Love by Yehuda Amichai
- Straw sandal half sunk by Yosa Buson
- Sparrow singing by Yosa Buson
- Ploughing the land by Yosa Buson
- Old well by Yosa Buson
- Not quite dark yet by Yosa Buson
- My arm for a pillow by Yosa Buson
- Listening to the moon by Yosa Buson
- Lighting one candle by Yosa Buson
- Yosa Buson – Yosa Buson
- Hokku Poems in Four Seasons by Yosa Buson
- His Holiness the Abbot by Yosa Buson
- He’s on the porch by Yosa Buson
- Harvest moon by Yosa Buson
- Evening wind by Yosa Buson
- Elegy to the Old Man Hokuju by Yosa Buson
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
Ada Cambridge (1844 – 1926), also known as Ada Cross, was an English-born Australian author and poetess. She wrote more than 25 works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works.