A poem by Alan Dugan
The river brought down
dead horses, dead men
and military debris,
indicative of war
or official acts upstream,
but it went by, it all
goes by, that is the thing
about the river. Then
a soldier on a log
went by. He seemed drunk
and we asked him Why
had he and this junk
come down to us so
from the past upstream.
”Friends,” he said, ”the great
Battle of Granicus
has just been won
by all of the Greeks except
the Lacedaemonians and
myself: this is a joke
between me and a man
named Alexander, whom
all of you ba-bas
will hear of as a god.”
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- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 91. Oh, Ye Dead!. Томас Мур.
- Robert Burns: How Cruel Are The Parents: Altered from an old English song. tune-“John Anderson, my jo.”
- Жан де Лафонтен – Павлин, жалующийся Юноне
- Василий Жуковский – 19 марта 1823
- Николай Заболоцкий – Старая актриса
- My rains by Vinko Kalinic
- Women’s Song Of The Corn poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Insolent couplets
- Freedom And Love by Thomas Campbell
- Robert Burns: On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child: Born in peculiar circumstances of family distress.
- Николай Огарев – С полуночи ветер холодный подул
- Robert Burns: A Waukrife Minnie:
- Илона Грошева – Ира
- Canzone by W H Auden
- Robert Burns: The Cardin O’t, The Spinnin O’t:
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
- The Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.