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:
- The Broncho That Would Not Be Broken by Vachel Lindsay
- Джон Донн – Ничто
- Николай Карамзин – Стихи на слова, заданные мне Хлoeю: миг, картина и дверь
- Song—Anna, thy Charms by Robert Burns
- The Winners by Rudyard Kipling
- Lover’s Gifts LVI: The Evening Was Lonely by Rabindranath Tagore
- Messalina poem – Alfred Austin
- Black Rook In Rainy Weather by Sylvia Plath
- Praying Hurriedly by Satish Verma
- Ольга Седакова – Стансы третьи (Вино и плавание)
- Child by Sylvia Plath
- X: Some Verses: To His Most Affectionate Friend Mr. Lithgow by William Alexander
- Fragments by William Butler Yeats
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Sonnet 39: O, how thy worth with manners may I sing by William Shakespeare
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
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- Kyrenaikos
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- Vivien
- I Loved
- Virginibus Puerisque
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- Fragments
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Eudaemon
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
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
