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:
- Constantias Song
- Наум Коржавин – От судьбы никуда не уйти
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись 3 к статуе Петра Великого
- Insomniac by Sylvia Plath
- Though In My Firmament Thou Wilt Not Shine
- Canto I poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Гавриил Державин – К силуэту Ивана Ивановича Хемницера
- Meeting and Passing by Robert Frost
- Федор Сологуб – Ах, лягушки по дорожке
- Inscription to Chloris by Robert Burns
- A Florida Sunday. by Sidney Lanier
- Юлия Жадовская – Заколдованное сердце
- Юнна Мориц – Не вспоминай меня
- I Have a Fire for You in my Mouth by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Sonnet 72: O, lest the world should task you to recite by William Shakespeare
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
