I have never feared death
Even though
Its hands were more fragile
Than banality.
I dread, however, to die
In a land where
The grave digger’s wages
Exceed the price of human freedom.
Looking for,
Discovering,
Choosing freely,
And transforming one’s essence
Into a fortress.
If the price of death is higher than all that,
I deny, in absolute terms,
To have ever feared death.
A few random poems:
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Геракл (перевод)
- Learning to Study – Hindrances to Study
- Sonnet 84: Who is it that says most, which can say more by William Shakespeare
- On The Death Of A Fair Infant Dying Of A Cough poem – John Milton poems
- Robert Burns: Hey, The Dusty Miller:
- Dinner Date by P.J.Reed
- So You Say by Mark Strand
- Manhattan Streets I Saunter’d, Pondering. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Корнилов – Чистый лист
- Those Born In Obscure Times poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Robert Burns: On The Death Of Robert Dundas, Esq., Of Arniston,: Late Lord President of the Court of Session.
- The Grauballe Man by Seamus Heaney
- Ольга Берггольц – Стихи о себе
- Ольга Седакова – Элегия осенней воды
- Written In A Blank Leaf Of Macpherson’s Ossian by William Wordsworth
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
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
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
