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:
- Иван Бунин – Ночь идет, и темнеет
- Огюст Барбье – Хвала Хафизу
- Sealed Appropriate
- To What Serves Mortal Beauty? poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Bangle Sellers by Sarojini Naidu
- Elegy by Siegfried Sassoon
- Такахама Кёси – Ливень прошел
- Crowdie ever mair (Song) by Robert Burns
- Вера Павлова – В ранец тетрадки собраны
- John Bloom In Lon’on by William Barnes
- He Has Lived In Many Houses by Thomas Lux
- The Way poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Burnt in contemplation by Nishant Deherkar
- Parliament Hill Fields by Sylvia Plath
- Trial by Ruth Padel
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
