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:
- To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time by William Butler Yeats
- Black Cat by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Olney Hymn 32: The Shining Light by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: The Lass O’ Ecclefechan:
- Sonnet 101: O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Высоцкий – Штормит весь вечер, и, пока
- To The Poet, John Dyer by William Wordsworth
- Inscription for the Headstone of Fergusson the Poet by Robert Burns
- On the Subject of Poetry by W. S. Merwin
- XII: Some Verses: Sonnet, To The Authour by William Alexander
- Dirge for Two Veterans. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: There’ll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame:
- Такахама Кёси – О, как ночь коротка
- Михаил Лермонтов – Вид гор из степей Козлова
- Gazing at the Sacred Peak by Tu Fu
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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