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:
- Who is the Bogeyman? by Ross D Tyler
- Untitled XIV by Yunus Emre
- The Laws of God, The Laws of Man poem – A. E. Housman
- The Witching Hour by Norma Martiri
- Robert Burns: The Bonie Lad That’s Far Awa:
- 1914 IV: The Dead by Rupert Brooke
- Шекспир – Считать часы и спрашивать – Сонет 58
- Ольга Ермолаева – Мир неприбран, подозрителен
- Waking In Winter by Sylvia Plath
- Epigram : The Cottager And His Landlord. A Fable (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- “`Shepherd swains that feed your flocks” poem – Alfred Austin
- He is more than a hero by Sappho
- Unsung Hands by Satish Verma
- Sonnet 117: Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all by William Shakespeare
- Germs. by Walt Whitman
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 Defiance Of Eteocles
- The Decree Of Athena
- The Complaint Of Prometheus
- The Beacon Fires
- The Battle Of Salamis
- Song Of The Furies
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Prayer Artemis
- Lament Two Brothers Slain Each Other039s Hand
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Complaint Prometheus
- Battle Salamis
- A Prayer For Artemis
- On Twitter
- Victory
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Two Songs
- Stepping Backward
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law By Adrienne Rich
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
