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:
- The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly sarcastic) Jesus by Oliver St. John Gogarty
- A Commonplace Day by Thomas Hardy
- Cruisers by Rudyard Kipling
- The Mother Of God by William Butler Yeats
- The Fading Flower by Will McKendree Carleton
- Smoke Off by Shel Silverstein
- Омар Хайям – Никто не лицезрел ни рая, ни геенны
- Inscription to Miss Graham of Fintry by Robert Burns
- The Morning Of The Day Appointed For A General Thanksgiving. January 18, 1816 by William Wordsworth
- To Alfred Tennyson poem – Alfred Austin
- Villon by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Poor Lover to His Rich Mistress about to Marry His Coxcombly Rival by William Wycherley
- Damayante To Nala In The Hour Of Exile by Sarojini Naidu
- Olney Hymn 60: Abuse Of The Gospel by William Cowper
- Darkness And Light by John Oxenham
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
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Дафнис подслушивает сов
- Толстой Алексей Николаевич стихи: Читать стихотворения Алексея Толстого – Список произведений, стихов поэта на Poetry Monster
- The Hecatomb to his Mistress by John Cleveland
- To the State of Love. Or the Senses’ Festival. By John Cleveland
- I love you
- A Human Being Needs Strong Tea
- Dog racing
- Dissolve in kisses, I would like to dissolve in your kisses
- Tale of the Pope and of His Workman Balda
- Who of you ever
- Аnything can happen
- Outside the Window, Snow
- You must once
- February 23
- May 19th – the Young Pioneers Day
- Море волнуется, манит к себе
- Море огней украшает причалы, вокзалы
- Кипение
- Каждому сроку – свой путь
- Каждый день и каждый миг судьбу благодарю
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