Expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.
become a stranger
To need of pity
Or, if compassion be freely
Given out
Take only enough
Stop short of urge to plead
Then purge away the need.
Wish for nothing larger
Than your own small heart
Or greater than a star;
Tame wild disappointment
With caress unmoved and cold
Make of it a parka
For your soul.
Discover the reason why
So tiny human midget
Exists at all
So scared unwise
But expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.
A few random poems:
- Crazy Jane On The Mountain by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Маяковский – Служака
- Владимир Маяковский – Только организация урожай умножит… (Главполитпросвет №33)
- Justice by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet III: With how sad steps by Sir Philip Sidney
- Олег Бундур – Если вы придёте в лес
- Владимир Высоцкий – Граждане, ах, сколько ж я не пел
- English Poetry. William Barnes. Third Collection. The Broken Heart. Уильям Барнс.
- The Shadowy Waters: The Harp of Aengus by William Butler Yeats
- Disdain Returned by Thomas Carew
- The Loving Ballad Of Lord Bateman poem – Andrew Lang poems
- No Regrets by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- In the Country by William Henry Davies
- Sonnet. On Peace poem – John Keats poems
- Lines Written In Dejection by William Butler Yeats
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
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
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
