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:
- Miscast I poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Somber Song
- Christmas Oratio by W H Auden
- O You Whom I Often and Silently Come. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: Nithsdale’s Welcome Hame:
- Friend by Rabindranath Tagore
- On Going Unnoticed by Robert Frost
- The Veairy Veet That I Do Meet by William Barnes
- Atmosphere by Robert Frost
- Dalliance of the Eagles, The. by Walt Whitman
- Winter Landscape, With Rooks by Sylvia Plath
- In Spite Of by Patricia Farley
- A Painting Morning
- Mine and Thine by William Morris
- The Child Is Father To The Man by Ted Hughes
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
- Strumpet Song by Sylvia Plath
- Street Song by Sylvia Plath
- Stopped Dead by Sylvia Plath
- Stings by Sylvia Plath
- Stillborn by Sylvia Plath
- Spinster by Sylvia Plath
- Spider by Sylvia Plath
- Sow by Sylvia Plath
- Southern Sunrise by Sylvia Plath
- Snakecharmer by Sylvia Plath
- Sculptor by Sylvia Plath
- Rhyme by Sylvia Plath
- Resolve by Sylvia Plath
- Recantation by Sylvia Plath
- Pursuit by Sylvia Plath
- Purdah by Sylvia Plath
- Prospect by Sylvia Plath
- Private Ground by Sylvia Plath
- Point Shirley by Sylvia Plath
- Poems, Potatoes by Sylvia Plath
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
