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:
- On The Death Of A Fair Infant Dying Of A Cough poem – John Milton poems
- Morning Poem #43 by Wanda Phipps
- Ольга Берггольц – Заметь, заметь, Как легчает сердце
- Meeting by William Butler Yeats
- Lohengrin poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Карамзин – Послание к Александру Алексеевичу Плещееву
- Алишер Навои – На лице горит созвездье у красавицы моей
- Георгий Иванов – Танцуй, монах, танцуй, поэт
- Spring & Fall: To A Young Child by Ted Hughes
- Drink To Her by Thomas Moore
- 25 Minutes To Go by Shel Silverstein
- The Garden Of Kama Kama The Indian Eros
- The Wishing-Caps by Rudyard Kipling
- A Florida Sunday. by Sidney Lanier
- An Eccho by William Alexander
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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
