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:
- Barren Woman by Sylvia Plath
- I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night, by Stephen Crane
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- Владимир Маяковский – Рассказ Хренова о Кузнецкстрое и о людях Кузнецка
- Two Songs Of Advent by Yvor Winters
- The Bridge by Russell Edson
- The Licorice Fields at Pontefract poem – John Betjeman poems
- Ballade Of Old Plays poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Владимир Степанов – Телефон (Буква Т)
- Sailing To Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
- Fortune-Hunter, The – Canto 1 by William Somervile
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Комета
- The Ghost by Walter de la Mare
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Человек
- Like A Vocation by W H Auden
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 Hosts
- 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
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