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:
- Day And Night by Rupert Brooke
- Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding by T. S. Eliot
- One Hour to Madness and Joy. by Walt Whitman
- Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux
- Farewell to the Court by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Remorse For Intemperate Speech by William Butler Yeats
- Epitaph by Samuel Coleridge
- Soul Receives From Soul by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- A Servant to Servants by Robert Frost
- Омар Хайям – Не оплакивай, смертный, вчерашних потерь
- The sky has never seen such a moon
- All through eternity by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Doomes-Day: The Tenth Houre by William Alexander
- Sonnet 105: Let not my love be called idolatry by William Shakespeare
- Федор Сологуб – Всё зеленее и светлее
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-flash-reverses-time.html
- que-sera-sera.html
- power-of-thought.html
- phantasm.html
- once_was_a_singer_for_god_remembering_nekia.html
- old-boy.html
- lost_love_is_never_lost.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- holiday_letter_for_a_poet_gone_to_war.html
- gratitudes_of_a_dozen_roses.html
- every_hour_henceforth.html
- einstein-defining-special-relativity.html
- cell-mate.html
- calling-the-spirits.html
- angel_of_christmas_love_shining_bright.html
- angel_of_better_days_to_come.html
- All Night in Savannah the Wind Wrote Poetry by Aberjhani
- a-tempest-in-a-teacup.html
- Eveleen’s Bower by Thomas Moore
- Erin! The Tear and the Smile in Thine Eyes by Thomas Moore
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