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:
- Ок Мельникова – Птицей
- Владимир Маяковский – Заносы не дают железным дорогам жить… (РОСТА №838)
- Independence poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Henry Purcell poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The First Part: Sonnet 1 – In my first years, and prime yet not at height by William Drummond
- Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep by William Shakespeare
- Chaap Tilak poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Языков – Две картины
- An Epitaph 4 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Beloved Ireland by Walter William Safar
- A Humble Heroine by William Topaz McGonagall
- To Thee, Old Cause! by Walt Whitman
- Николай Глазков – Четыре времени года
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- Napoleon by Walter de la Mare
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 Jungle Flower
- The Hut
- The Hospital On The Shore
- The Garden Of Kama Kama The Indian Eros
- The Garden By The Bridge
- The First Wife
- The First Lover
- The Dying Prince
- The Convert
- The Cactus
- The Cactus Thicket
- The Bride
- The Aloe
- Syed Amir
- Surface Rights
- Surf Song
- Sunstroke
- Story Of Udaipore Told By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Story Of Lilavanti
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
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