In the foreground we see time and life
swept in a race
toward the left hand side of the picture
where shore meets shore.
But that meeting place
isn’t represented;
it doesn’t occur on the canvas.
For the other side of the bay
is Heaven and Eternity,
with a bleak white haze over its mountains.
And the immense water of L’Estaque is a go-between
for minute rowboats.
A few random poems:
- Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore by William Shakespeare
- Николай Гумилев – Канцона (Бывает в жизни человека)
- Николай Языков – Услад
- An Empty Threat by Robert Frost
- Вероника Тушнова – Кто-то в проруби тонет
- Алексей Жемчужников – Заметки о некоторой публицистике
- Sonnet LIII by William Shakespeare
- Solar Eclipse by Siegfried Sassoon
- Tim, An Irish Terrier by Winifred Mary Letts
- For a’ that and a’ that by Robert Burns
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Киклоп драма сатиров (перевод)
- Владимир Высоцкий – Тоска немая гложет иногда
- Владимир Маяковский – Разве у вас не чешутся обе лопатки
- Ольга Высотская – Первые заморозки
- Владимир Набоков – Памяти друга
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.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
