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:
- XI: Some Verses: To His Worthy Friend Master Walter Quin by William Alexander
- Альфред де Мюссе – Ива (Как придется мне покинуть свет)
- Heroic Simile by Robert Hass
- In The Month When Sings The Cuckoo poem – Alfred Austin
- Николай Тихонов – Гулливер играет в карты
- Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College by Thomas Gray
- Crazy Jane And Jack The Journeyman by William Butler Yeats
- Василий Жуковский – Младенец: Стих, который легко учится, 28 строк – Стихотворения Жуковского на Poetry Monster
- Give me the Splendid, Silent Sun. by Walt Whitman
- Exposure by Seamus Heaney
- Владимир Британишский – Греч: Встреча с Батюшковым
- To His Mistress In Absence by Torquato Tasso
- Николай Заболоцкий – Подводный город
- Константин Бальмонт – Цветок (Я цветок, и счастье аромата)
- Владимир Орлов – Летит корабль
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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
