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:
- Invocation To The Earth, February 1816 by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Маяковский – Повествование это о странствии эсера вокруг света (Красный перец)
- The Wind In The Hemlock by Sara Teasdale
- Валерий Брюсов – И снова дрожат они, грезы бессильные
- Weary not of us, for we are very beautiful by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Михаил Лермонтов – Война
- Константин Бальмонт – Надгробные цветы
- Ок Мельникова – Обет молчания
- Felix Randal poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Hymn To Light
- My Heart Screams by Roberto Cocina
- Алексей Толстой – Ты знаешь, я люблю
- Shattered Dreams by SWARAJ PRASAD
- Mark Twain and Joan of Arc by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Маяковский – Чтоб с голодом справиться и с разрухой-дурой (Главполитпросвет)
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
- Chronicle
- Change
- Beauty
- Bathing River
- Bathing In The River
- Answer Copy Verses Sent Me Jersey
- Anacreontics The Swallow
- Anacreontics The Epicure
- Anacreontics Drinking
- An Answer To A Copy Of Verses Sent Me To Jersey
- Against Hope
- Against Fruition
- Summer Moon
- Stars
- Love Is Just Like The Rain
- Boy Running In The Rain
- Xai Kou From Book Seeds Of Faith
- Xai Kou1
- Xai Kou0
- Xai Kou
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
