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:
- Владимир Степанов – Кто хозяин
- Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf by Roald Dahl
- To A Young Girl by William Butler Yeats
- Гавриил Державин – На возвращение графа Зубова из Персии
- Юнна Мориц – Астры
- On a Certain Lady at Court poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Leave This by Rabindranath Tagore
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 85. Oh For the Swords of Former Time. Томас Мур.
- Владимир Гиляровский – Владимирка – большая дорога
- Stanzas poem – John Keats poems
- Beautiful Balmerino by William Topaz McGonagall
- Николай Языков – Виленскому (Не робко пей, товарищ мой)
- Desmond’s Song by Thomas Moore
- The Most Exquisite Creature Of My Dreams by Mac McGovern
- The Mystery by Sara Teasdale
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
- Sonnet I
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
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