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:
- everything is a lie by tulip
- A Petition poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Cry by Sara Teasdale
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот какое обещание молодой солдат дает… (Главполитпросвет №376)
- Жан де Лафонтен – Дровосек и Меркурий
- Back Home by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- The Shepherd O’ The Farm by William Barnes
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- The Hero by Rabindranath Tagore
- Robert Burns: The Lad They Ca’Jumpin John:
- Sonnet 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan by William Shakespeare
- The Lament of the Border Cattle Thief by Rudyard Kipling
- He Said To by Marvin Bell
- A New Broom by Witt Wittmann
- What a beautiful world by Vladimir Marku
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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