Epitaph For Our Children
by A. S. J. Tessimond
Blame us for these who were cradled and rocked in our chaos;
Watching our sidelong watching, fearing our fear;
Playing their blind-man’s-bluff in our gutted mansions,
Their follow-my-leader on a stair that ended in air.

A few random poems:
- Vestiges poem – A. Van Jordan poems
 - Николай Заболоцкий – Генеральская дача
 - Ольга Берггольц – Песня о жене патриота
 - Алексей Плещеев – Лучше гибель без возврата
 - Федор Сологуб – Когда я в бурном море плавал
 - A Song of a Girl from Loyang by Wang Wei
 - A Week by Thomas Hardy
 - To All and Everything by Vladimir Mayakovsky
 - An Eccho by William Alexander
 - Robert Burns: Lines On The Fall Of Fyers Near Loch-Ness.: Written with a Pencil on the Spot.
 - Николай Глазков – Рассчитывая на успех
 - Алишер Навои – Скиталец горький, страсть таю я
 - Prayer For A Profusion Of Sunflowers poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
 - The First Part: Sonnet 10 – Fair Moon, who with thy cold and silver shine by William Drummond
 - Brockley Coomb by Samuel Coleridge
 
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
- Robert Burns: Sappho Redivivus: Fragment
 - Robert Burns: Pegasus At Wanlockhead:
 - Robert Burns: Ode, Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs. Oswald Of Auchencruive:
 - Robert Burns: Robin Shure In Hairst:
 - Robert Burns: Versicles On Sign-Posts :
 - Robert Burns: The Henpecked Husband:
 - Robert Burns: Elegy On The Year 1788:
 - Robert Burns: The Poet’s Progress : A Poem In Embryo
 - Robert Burns: Written In Friars Carse Hermitage: On Nithside
 - Robert Burns: The Parting Kiss:
 - Robert Burns: My Bonie Mary:
 - Robert Burns: Auld Lang Syne:
 - Robert Burns: It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonie Face:
 - Robert Burns: I Reign In Jeanie’s Bosom:
 - Robert Burns: The Fall Of The Leaf:
 - Robert Burns: A Mother’s Lament For the Death of Her Son.:
 - Robert Burns: O, Were I On Parnassus Hill:
 - Robert Burns: The Day Returns:
 - Robert Burns: Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintry: Requesting a Favour
 - Robert Burns: The Fete Champetre:
 
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