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:
- A Fairy Song by William Shakespeare
- The Lover’s Song by William Butler Yeats
- Greece
- A Whispered Tale by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan by Shel Silverstein
- Михаил Лермонтов – Жена севера
- Аля Кудряшева – Театр-весна
- Elegie IV: On The Death of Prince Henrie by William Alexander
- Fireflies in the Garden by Robert Frost
- Sonnet 88: When thou shalt be disposed to set me light by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Высоцкий – В тайгу
- Владимир Солоухин – Вдоль берегов Болгарии прошли мы
- The Woodlark poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Days Too Short by William Henry Davies
- Юрий Калугин – Счастье любит тишину
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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