A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
It will not be simple, it will not take long
It will take little time, it will take all your thought
It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath
It will be short, it will not be simple
It will touch through your ribs, it will take all your heart
It will not take long, it will occupy all your thought
As a city is occupied, as a bed is occupied
It will take your flesh, it will not be simple
You are coming into us who cannot withstand you
You are coming into us who never wanted to withstand you
You are taking parts of us into places never planned
You are going far away with pieces of our lives
It will be short, it will take all your breath
It will not be simple, it will become your will
A few random poems:
- In Praise Of England poem – Alfred Austin
- An Epitaph On Sr John Walter, Lord Cheife Baron by William Strode
- A Drunken Man’s Praise Of Sobriety by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Маяковский – Чтоб жизнь трудовую наладить заново
- Water Strider
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Mr. William Michie: Schoolmaster of Cleish Parish, Fifeshire.
- Mother Earth; Her Beauty And Her Destruction by TMBedell
- The Manor Garden by Sylvia Plath
- Николай Заболоцкий – Я не ищу гармонии в природе
- Cell Mate
- The Princess (part 1) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Seashore by Rabindranath Tagore
- Sonnet 86: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse by William Shakespeare
- Splenda by Rob Leatherman Sr.
- Lover’s Gifts XVI: She Dwelt Here by the Pool by Rabindranath Tagore
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
- Orlando Furioso Canto 9 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 8 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 7 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 6 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 5 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 4 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 3 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 24 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 23 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 22 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 21 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 20 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 2 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 19 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 18 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 17 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 16 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 15 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 14 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso canto 13 by Ludovico Ariosto
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

Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.