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:
- A Wink From Hesper by William Ernest Henley
- Summer poem – Alexander Pope
- A Rustic Seat Near The Sea by William Lisle Bowles
- Kiss by Ruth Padel
- Шекспир – Лелеет лето лучший свой цветок – Сонет 94
- Иван Мятлев – Наставление Гр[афине] Р[астопчиной]
- November by William Cullen Bryant
- Robert Burns: The Banks O’ Doon: Second Version
- Creativity in America and How Italians Can Learn From American Ingenuity
- Ballade Of The Muse poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Михаил Лермонтов – Звуки и взор
- On A Mischievous Bull, Which The Owner Him Sold At The Author’s Instance by William Cowper
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, товарищ! Поищи дома (Главполитпросвет №95)
- The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling
- You Ask Me, Why, Tho’ Ill at Ease poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.html
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
