A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.
They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.
Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering through her wool
Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.
The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band
Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand.
When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie
Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by.
The tigers in the panel that she made
Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid.
A few random poems:
- Василий Тредиаковский – В сем озере бедные любовники
- Look You, I’ll Go Pray by Vachel Lindsay
- Obscurity, the Essay and Poems on Obscurity by Abraham Cowley
- Alciphron and Leucippe by Walter Savage Landor
- Новелла Матвеева – Отражённым светом
- Landowners by Sylvia Plath
- Ольга Берггольц – Стихи о ленинградских большевика
- The Force Of Prayer, Or, The Founding Of Bolton, A Tradition by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: Epitaph On “Wee Johnie”: Hic Jacet wee Johnie.
- Blue-Eyed Ann by Tobias Smollett
- Аля Кудряшева – Ходят катера по Малой Невке
- Lately our poets by Walter Savage Landor
- Омар Хайям – Ни к другу не взывай, ни к небесам
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Весенний дождь
- Robert Burns: I’ll Go And Be A Sodger:
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
- A Little Song poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Little Song poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Lady poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Lady poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Japanese Wood-Carving poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Japanese Wood-Carving poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Gift poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Gift poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Fixed Idea poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Fixed Idea poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Fairy Tale poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Fairy Tale poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Coloured Print by Shokei poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Coloured Print by Shokei poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Blockhead poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Blockhead poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Ballad of Footmen poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Ballad of Footmen poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- 1777 poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- 1777 poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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
Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.