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:
- Юлия Друнина – В голом парке коченеют клёны
- A DARK HOUSE by Satish Verma
- Noah by Siegfried Sassoon
- Erin! The Tear and the Smile in Thine Eyes by Thomas Moore
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищ! Шахтер раздет… (РОСТА №603)
- Rain After a Vaudeville Show by Stephen Vincent Benet
- A November Note poem – Alfred Austin
- Robert Burns: Sketch In Verse: Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox.
- To a Lady, Who Made Me a Present of a Silver Pen by William Somervile
- Thompson’s Lunch Room – Grand Central Station poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Гиляровский – Песня Дона
- Fleckno, an English Priest at Rome poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Elegy
- on the edge of the seat by Raj Arumugam
- Ways to Make Money Online Easily for Free – 4 Important Tips to Make Money Online
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 Hosts
- 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
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
