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:
- Вера Павлова – Нежность больше не делится
- Жан де Лафонтен – Язычник и деревянный Идол
- Владимир Британишский – Переписка
- Terrible Ted poem – Alexander E. Musset poems | Poetry Monster
- On the Burning of Lord Mansfield’s Library by William Cowper
- Smoke by Théophile Gautier
- Lover’s Gifts XVI: She Dwelt Here by the Pool by Rabindranath Tagore
- Федор Сологуб – Собака седого короля
- Flight by Rupert Brooke
- Владимир Маяковский – Детский театр из собственной квартирки
- Now Finale to the Shore. by Walt Whitman
- Essay on Man poem – Alexander Pope
- I Chide Not At The Seasons poem – Alfred Austin
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry. by Walt Whitman
- Vacation by Rita Dove
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
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
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