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:
- Elegie IV: On The Death of Prince Henrie by William Alexander
- Владимир Маяковский – Ненавистью древней… (РОСТА № 198)
- Николай Глазков – Пошел тропой
- Sonnet On The Death Of Mr Richard West by Thomas Gray
- Lichtenberg by Rudyard Kipling
- Nightfall In The City Of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu
- On Delia (Bid Adieu, My Sad Heart) by William Cowper
- Владимир Луговской – Остролистник
- Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending? poem – A. E. Housman
- A Sermon
- A Padlock for the Mouth by William Somervile
- An Indian Summer Day on the Prarie by Vachel Lindsay
- Юрий Галансков – Рванулось пламя из ствола
- On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford by William Wordsworth
- Как воздух, математика нужна
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
- Robinson by Weldon Kees
- The End Of The Library by Weldon Kees
- Late Evening Song by Weldon Kees
- La Vita Nuova by Weldon Kees
- Interregnum by Weldon Kees
- Dead March by Weldon Kees
- Covering Two Years by Weldon Kees
- Colloquy by Weldon Kees
- A Pastiche For Eve by Weldon Kees
- A Musician’s Wife by Weldon Kees
- 1926 by Weldon Kees
- Woods by Wendell Berry
- What We Need Is Here by Wendell Berry
- Water by Wendell Berry
- The Wish to be Generous by Wendell Berry
- The Silence by Wendell Berry
- The Real Work by Wendell Berry
- The peace of wild things by Wendell Berry
- The Man Born to Farming by Wendell Berry
- The Lilies by Wendell Berry
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