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.”
A few random poems:
- Song, by a Person of Quality poem – Alexander Pope
- Константин Батюшков – Мщение
- Владимир Британишский – Крылов и тверяки
- Is Resume Writing Really That Important?
- A Literature Lesson. Sir Patrick Spens in the Eighteenth Century Manner by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Омар Хайям – Не зарекайся пить бесценных гроздий сок
- The Lady’s Second Song by William Butler Yeats
- The Other Side of Panic by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Огюст Барбье – Любовь к песням
- Not Youth Pertains to Me. by Walt Whitman
- Come, Here Is Adieu To The City by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Константин Бальмонт – Черные вороны
- The Pleasures Of Friendship by Stevie Smith
- Анатолий Жигулин – Где теперь ты, рыжая
- The Lost Star — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.