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:
- Кондратий Рылеев – Меня пленяли наши деды
- The Merciful Hand by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Корнилов – Анафемский сон
- Misgiving by Robert Frost
- Владимир Высоцкий – Однако, втягивать живот
- Passion makes the old medicine new: by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Song—Address to the Woodlark by Robert Burns
- ‘Blighters’ by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Маяковский – Что может быть старей кустарей?.. (РОСТА №573)
- On the Danger of Procrastination by Abraham Cowley
- Шекспир – У сердца с глазом тайный договор – Сонет 47
- Haiku: His Little Drum by Monty Gilmer
- Константин Бальмонт – Черный и белый
- Robert Burns: Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly Righteous:
- Indian Weavers by Sarojini Naidu
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
- love.html
- lord_god_have_mercy_on_me.html
- libation.html
- least_in_a_list.html
- interpret_the_light.html
- innocence.html
- in_the_stone_i_rooted.html
- in_between_the_strophes.html
- human_joys.html
- human_charms.html
- he_who_creates_re_creates_himself.html
- hai_kou_unpublished.html
- hai_kou.html
- greek_light.html
- greece.html
- golden_eangle.html
- gesture_theory_a_villanelle.html
- gem_immortality.html
- fruit_leaf_roots_flowers.html
- first_verse.html
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