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:
- Алексей Жемчужников – Себе
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот какое обещание молодой солдат дает… (Главполитпросвет №376)
- City of Orgies. by Walt Whitman
- Алексей Толстой – Сижу да гляжу я всe, братцы, вон в эту сторонку
- Song, by a Person of Quality poem – Alexander Pope
- Lost and Found by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Le Christianisme by Wilfred Owen
- Николай Заболоцкий – Горийская симфония
- Conversation 23: On Cause by Rosmarie Waldrop
- Валерий Брюсов – Е.Т. (Кто глаза ее оправил)
- The Artist poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Apologia Pro Poemate Meo by Wilfred Owen
- Lets go by Vinko Kalinić
- Robert Burns: The Gard’ner Wi’ His Paidle:
- Remorse For Intemperate Speech by William Butler Yeats
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 Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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
