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:
- Pan to Artemis poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Маяковский – Все буржуи мчат на помощь Врангелю… (РОСТА №410)
- The Mother Of A Poet by Sara Teasdale
- Hex by Rachel McKibbens
- Woman by Manmohan Acharya
- How Thought You That This Thing Could Captivate? poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Ночью
- Epigram on Miss Fontenelle by Robert Burns
- Mad Nuclear Mushrooms by Adeola Ikuomola
- The ravings which my enemy uttered I heard within my heart by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- May 19th – the Young Pioneers Day
- Brink Of Eternity by Rabindranath Tagore
- A Superscription On Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, Sent For A Token by William Strode
- Awake by Sara Herlihy
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Ночной пилигрим
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
- Failure by Rupert Brooke
- Dust by Rupert Brooke
- Doubts by Rupert Brooke
- Dining-Room Tea by Rupert Brooke
- Desertion by Rupert Brooke
- Dead Men’s Love by Rupert Brooke
- Day That I Have Loved by Rupert Brooke
- Day And Night by Rupert Brooke
- Dawn by Rupert Brooke
- Clouds by Rupert Brooke
- Choriambics — II by Rupert Brooke
- Choriambics — I by Rupert Brooke
- Charm, The by Rupert Brooke
- Busy Heart, The by Rupert Brooke
- Blue Evening by Rupert Brooke
- Beauty and Beauty by Rupert Brooke
- Ante Aram by Rupert Brooke
- And love has changed to kindliness by Rupert Brooke
- A Memory by Rupert Brooke
- A Letter to a Live Poet by Rupert Brooke
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
