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:
- Fable Of The Rhododendron Stealers by Sylvia Plath
- In Imitation of Cowley : The Garden poem – Alexander Pope
- Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College by Thomas Gray
- Incense by Vachel Lindsay
- Олег Чупров – В лесу просторно, тихо, ясно
- Нина Воронель – Неделю, как сотню, лучше не трогать
- Owen Aherne And His Dancers by William Butler Yeats
- Олег Бундур – Настроение
- The Applicant by Sylvia Plath
- VII: Some Verses: On The Death of John Murray by William Alexander
- Man in a Window by Ralph Angel
- A Comparison. Addressed To A Young Lady by William Cowper
- Drinking-Song, A. To a Formal, Proud, Sober Coxcomb by William Wycherley
- The Lament Of Yasmini The Dancing Girl
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я был слесарь шестого разряда
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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
