Epitaph On A Disturber Of His Times
by A. S. J. Tessimond
We expected the violin’s finger on the upturned nerve;
Its importunate cry, too laxly curved:
And you drew us an oboe-outline, clean and acute;
Unadorned statement, accurately carved.
We expected the screen, the background for reverie
Which cloudforms usefully weave:
And you built the immaculate, adamant, blue-green steel
Arch of a balanced wave.
We expected a pool with flowers to diffuse and break
The child-round face of the mirrored moon:
And you blazed a rock-path, begun near the sun, to be finished
By the trained and intrepid feet of men.
A few random poems:
- Rosemary by Marianne Moore
- A Lesson In Vengeance by Sylvia Plath
- Олег Чупров – Шаньги
- The Instructor by Rudyard Kipling
- English Poetry. Richard Hovey. John Keats. Ричард Хави.
- To Mæcenas by Phillis Wheatley
- Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth
- Wordsworth At Dove Cottage poem – Alfred Austin
- Ode poem – Amr ibn Kulthum poems | Poems and Poetry
- Низами Гянджеви – Мне ночь не в ночь, мне в ночь невмочь
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Средь бега дней моих порой
- My prayers must meet a brazen heaven poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Николай Карамзин – Пророчество на 1799 год, найденное в бумагах Нострадамуса
- To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing by William Butler Yeats
- A Song at Weicheng. by Wang Wei
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
- Sonnet I
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
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