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:
- Альфред Теннисон – В долине
- The Fairies by William Allingham
- Elegie IV: On The Death of Prince Henrie by William Alexander
- Альфред де Мюссе – Да, женщины, тут нет ошибки
- “Young England–What Is Then Become Of Old” by William Wordsworth
- The Crystal Gazer by Sara Teasdale
- Омар Хайям – Бокала полного веселый вид мне люб
- Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 1 by Robert Burns
- The Wind In The Hemlock by Sara Teasdale
- In the Blaze.. by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Otho The Great – Act III poem – John Keats poems
- Rosalie by Washington Allston
- Monsters under the bed by Thomas J Camp
- Strada’s Nightingale by William Cowper
- The Solitary by Sara Teasdale
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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
