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:
- Ольга Берггольц – А помнишь
- Love by William Shakespeare
- The Holy Mountain of Hope by Thomas Ziemer
- Boris Godunov poem – Alexander Pushkin
- On Late Acquired Wealth (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: On A Swearing Coxcomb:
- Invocation by Siegfried Sassoon
- Robert Burns: O Let Me In Thes Ae Night:
- Wirers by Siegfried Sassoon
- An Address to the Rev. George Gilfillan by William Topaz McGonagall
- The Epic Menageries by MB Moshe
- Sonnet 6: Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface by William Shakespeare
- “`Roses crimson, roses white” poem – Alfred Austin
- A PARANAETICALL, OR ADVISIVE VERSETO HIS FRIEND, MR JOHN WICKS by Robert Herrick
- Valentine In Form Of Ballade poem – Andrew Lang poems
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 Defiance Of Eteocles
- The Decree Of Athena
- The Complaint Of Prometheus
- The Beacon Fires
- The Battle Of Salamis
- Song Of The Furies
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Prayer Artemis
- Lament Two Brothers Slain Each Other039s Hand
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Complaint Prometheus
- Battle Salamis
- A Prayer For Artemis
- On Twitter
- Victory
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Two Songs
- Stepping Backward
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law By Adrienne Rich
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