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:
- Lyric of Love to Leah poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Religious Obsession — translation from Dharmamoha by Rabindranath Tagore
- Омар Хайям – И сиянье рая, и ада огни
- Николай Рубцов – Воробей
- O Nightingale! Thou Surely Art by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Гиппиус – Слава
- The Poet by Thom Douglas Carlisle
- I’ve dreamt of dreaming ’bout you by Vinko Kalinić
- From Another Sky by Pierre Reverdy
- Parabola
- To One Who Has Been Long In City Pent poem – John Keats poems
- Slough poem – John Betjeman poems
- Вероника Тушнова – Я поднимаюсь по колючим склонам
- How a Little Girl Danced by Vachel Lindsay
- Primrose by Patrick Kavanagh
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 Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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