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:
- A Conceit by Maya Angelou
- bells_pool_and_sleep.html
- Come by Sara Teasdale
- Missing Person by Vinita Agrawal
- May Magnificat poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Валерий Брюсов – Из-за облака скользящий
- The Cloak, The Boat And The Shoes by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: Mark Yonder Pomp Of Costly Fashion:
- In A Letter To C. P. Esq. Ill With The Rheumatism by William Cowper
- Which way does the wind blow? by Thomas J Camp
- The Indian Upon God by William Butler Yeats
- The Mother by Patrick Pearse
- Олег Григорьев – Благо
- Константин Бальмонт – Чудовище с клеймом
- Иван Мятлев – Соловей
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 Hosts
- 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
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
