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:
- I Will Sing You One-O by Robert Frost
- Gangrene by Philip Levine
- Apples of Hesperides poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- On The Death of Mr. Snider Murder’d By Richardson by Phillis Wheatley
- Ярослав Смеляков – Стихи, написанные в псковской гостинице
- Олег Сердобольский – Стой, кто идет
- An Epitaph On Mr. Fishborne The Great London Benefactor, And His Executor by William Strode
- Before Day by Siegfried Sassoon
- Southern Sunrise by Sylvia Plath
- Омар Хайям – Не являй друзьям печальный вид
- Олег Бундур – Про затрещины
- The Surgeon At 2 A.M. by Sylvia Plath
- Thee, God, I Come from poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- you are there moon by Raj Arumugam
- That Shadow, my Likeness. by Walt Whitman
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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