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:
- On the Death of a Young Gentleman by Phillis Wheatley
- Amabel by Thomas Hardy
- Олег Бундур – Каменный берег
- Willie’s Ladye poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Poems by William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience and the Book of Thel
- Echo by Thomas Moore
- Arithmetic on the Frontier by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Британишский – Екатеринбургский модерн
- On The Death Of The Vice-Chancellor, A Physician (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Cloris, it is not thy disdaine by Sidney Godolphin
- Вера Полозкова – Есть дерево, в лесу всего древней
- Наум Коржавин – Иван Калита
- Владимир Маяковский – Ты хочешь освободиться от тяжести войны?.. (РОСТА №523)
- The Drum-Stick Tree by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
- Иван Барков – Торжественным воротам
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
- Medusa by Sylvia Plath
- Moonrise by Sylvia Plath
- Medallion by Sylvia Plath
- Mirror by Sylvia Plath
- Maudlin by Sylvia Plath
- Midsummer Mobile by Sylvia Plath
- Magnolia Shoals by Sylvia Plath
- Metaphors by Sylvia Plath
- Magi by Sylvia Plath
- Medusa by Sylvia Plath
- Maenad by Sylvia Plath
- Medallion by Sylvia Plath
- Lyonnesse by Sylvia Plath
- Maudlin by Sylvia Plath
- Lorelei by Sylvia Plath
- Magnolia Shoals by Sylvia Plath
- Little Fugue by Sylvia Plath
- Magi by Sylvia Plath
- Maenad by Sylvia Plath
- Lyonnesse 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
