O time, great Healer! canst thou still
The crying hearts that feel the knife?
O great Restorer, canst thou fill
The wide gaps broken out of life
By love and duty’s bitter strife?
O Friend, and canst thou, as they say,
Soothe all our troubles on thy breast,
Till, calm in death, they pass away,
And, one by one, are laid to rest
In unknown graves, beyond our quest?
Nay, there’s a wound thou canst not ease;
Nay, there’s a sickness past thine art.
Ah me! while I’m beyond the seas,
There’ll be a sore place in my heart
That, at a touch, will throb and smart.
Nay, nay, with all thy skill-with all
The care and cunning thou mayst spend,
Thou canst but weakly patch the wall
That wrench of parting came to rend,
That gap no mason’s hand can mend.
And as for buried sorrows-one
Hears every sound above its head;
Joys and prosperities may run
With happy footsteps o’er the dead,-
This grief of absence feels the tread.
O Time, thy graveyard is a street-
Thy graves no sculptured records crown;
Yet this one, trod of many feet,
Still shows the heap’d earth, fresh and brown,-
No foot of joy can press it down.
There velvet mosses soon will creep,
And grey and golden lichens grow;
There sweet white snowdrops soon will peep,
And purple violets bud and blow,
From winter’s bosom, cloak’d in snow;
There summer lights and shades will fall,
And soft rains patter through the trees;
There slender grasses, frail and tall,
Will weave and whisper in the breeze-
‘Twill be a grave in spite of these.

A few random poems:
- From: The Home We Will Never Live In That Place by Nijole Miliauskaite
- For the Lute by William Somervile
- Низами Гянджеви – Я долго шел по лугу лет
- Notes for Canto CXX poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Это было давно
- As Once The Winged Energy Of Delight by Rainer Maria Rilke
- About Troy poem – Zbigniew Herbert poems | Poetry Monster
- time by tulip
- Валерий Брюсов – Пифия
- Another by Thomas Carew
- Motel Pool by P. K. Page
- Million Man March Poem by Maya Angelou
- Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (Song) by Robert Burns
- Ballade Of The Bookworm poem – Andrew Lang poems
- A Voice From The West poem – Alfred Austin
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
- Resolution And Independence by William Wordsworth
- Repentance by William Wordsworth
- Remembrance Of by William Wordsworth
- Power Of Music by William Wordsworth
- Picture of Daniel in the Lion’s Den at Hamilton Palace by William Wordsworth
- Personal Talk by William Wordsworth
- On The Same Occasion by William Wordsworth
- On The Final Submission Of The Tyrolese by William Wordsworth
- On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic by William Wordsworth
- On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford by William Wordsworth
- On A Celebrated Event In Ancient History by William Wordsworth
- O’erweening Statesmen Have Full Long Relied by William Wordsworth
- O’er The Wide Earth, On Mountain And On Plain by William Wordsworth
- Ode by William Wordsworth
- Ode To Lycoris. May 1817 by William Wordsworth
- Ode to Duty by William Wordsworth
- Ode Composed On A May Morning by William Wordsworth
- October, 1803 by William Wordsworth
- Occasioned By The Battle Of Waterloo February 1816 by William Wordsworth
- O Nightingale! Thou Surely Art by William Wordsworth
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
Ada Cambridge (1844 – 1926), also known as Ada Cross, was an English-born Australian author and poetess. She wrote more than 25 works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works.