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:
- Михаил Лермонтов – Всевышний произнес свой приговор
- Saint George the Dragon by Michael Nikoletseas
- In the Home Stretch by Robert Frost
- Cromwell’s Return poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Olney Hymn 40: Peace After A Storm by William Cowper
- Ocean of Forms by Rabindranath Tagore
- On The Wedding Of The Aeronaut poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet CXVII by William Shakespeare
- On Scaring some Water-Fowl in Lock Turit by Robert Burns
- Олег Бундур – Лагуна
- Buddha at Kamakura by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet 13: O, that you were your self! But, love, you are by William Shakespeare
- Night At The Marina by Shreekumar Varma
- Николай Заболоцкий – Монолог в лесу
- City Times and Other 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
- Hear the Voice by William Blake
- Introduction to the Songs of Innocence by William Blake
- French Revolution, The (excerpt) by William Blake
- I Saw a Chapel by William Blake
- I Heard an Angel by William Blake
- Broken Love by William Blake
- Eternity by William Blake
- Holy Thursday (Innocence) by William Blake
- Ah! Sun-Flower by William Blake
- A Cradle Song by William Blake
- Earth’s Answer by William Blake
- A Dream by William Blake
- Infant Joy by William Blake
- Evening Star by William Blake
- Auguries Of Innocence by William Blake
- And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time by William Blake
- Infant Sorrow by William Blake
- If It Is True What the Prophets Write by William Blake
- How Sweet I Roam’d by William Blake
- Holy Thursday (Experience) by William Blake
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