A poem by Aeschylus (c. 525 – c. 456 Before Christ )
The man who rightly acts without coercion
Will not be grieved, can never wholly sink in wretchedness;
While the lawless criminal is forcibly dragged under
In the current of time when from the shattered mast
The elements rip down his sails.
He shouts, there is no ear to hear him
Struggling, hopeless, at the maelstrom’s center.
Gods laugh at the transgressor now,
Watching him, his pride now wrecked,
Caught in desperation’s shackles.
He flees the rocks in vain;
His fortunes smash on retribution’s reef
And, unmourned, he is engulfed.

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 - Sonnet 102: My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming by William Shakespeare
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 - Нина Воронель – Бывает, что вещи меня ненавидят
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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
- Владимир Луговской – Лимонная ночь
 - Владимир Луговской – Курсантская венгерка
 - Владимир Луговской – Краски
 - Владимир Луговской – Конек-горбунок
 - Владимир Луговской – Капитанский штиль
 - Владимир Луговской – Игорь
 - Владимир Луговской – Гуниб
 - Владимир Луговской – Фотограф
 - Владимир Луговской – Дорога
 - Владимир Луговской – Береза Карелии
 - Владимир Луговской – Баллада о пустыне
 - Владимир Луговской – Алайский рынок
 - Владимир Высоцкий – Дорожный дневник: Часть IV
 - Владимир Высоцкий – Дорожный дневник: Часть II
 - Владимир Высоцкий – Дорожная история
 - Владимир Высоцкий – Дорога, дорога, счёта нет шагам
 - Владимир Высоцкий – Долго же шёл ты, в конверте листок
 - Высоцкий – Диалог у телевизора (Ой, Вань, смотри какие клоуны): текст стиха Владимира Высоцкого – Poetry Monster
 - Владимир Высоцкий – День рождения лейтенанта милиции в ресторане “Берлин”
 - Владимир Высоцкий – День-деньской я с тобой, за тобой
 
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
	
Aeschylus (525 Before Christ to 456 B.C.) was an ancient Greek author of Greek tragedy, and is often described as the father of tragedy. Academics’ knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in the theatre and allowed conflict among them.