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 Death of the Flowers by William Cullen Bryant
- Вера Павлова – Вопрос ребра
- He Tells Of A Valley Full Of Lovers by William Butler Yeats
- Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone. by Walt Whitman
- To Beatrice Stuart–Wortley Ætat poem – Alfred Austin
- On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies by Robert Burns
- Кондратий Рылеев – О милый друг, как внятен голос твой
- Astigmatism poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Untitled XXVI by Yunus Emre
- Владимир Высоцкий – Студенческая песня
- Life, wait for me by Martin Zakovski
- City Dead-House, The. by Walt Whitman
- No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest by Mary Gilmore
- In Absence. by Sidney Lanier
- Sonnet 102: My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming 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
- I Dream I M The Death Of Orpheus
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- From A Survivor
- Fox
- For This
- For The Record
- For The Dead
- Final Notions
- Diving Into The Wreck
- Diving Wreck
- Cartographies Of Silence
- Burning Oneself Out
- Aunt Jennifer039s Tigers
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Poems.html 0
- Mountain Wellhead
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Youth
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
