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:
- Алексей Толстой – Ты любишь в нем лишь первую любовь
- Birds heavenly by Sunil Sharma
- Address to Wm. Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee by Robert Burns
- Dream With Clam-Diggers by Sylvia Plath
- When that I was and a little tiny boy by William Shakespeare
- The Other Half by Shaunna Harper
- Alfred Lord Tennyson; The Coming Of Arthur poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Kerry Cow by Winifred Mary Letts
- Владимир Маяковский – Сказка о Пете, толстом ребенке, и о Симе, который тонкий
- Николай Глазков – Чингисхан, Батый, Аттила
- Наум Коржавин – Не верь, что ты поэта шире
- Владимир Маяковский – Ты не пошел на фронт бить барона?.. (РОСТА №451)
- Низами Гянджеви – Ради встречи с тобой я до края земли дошел
- Шекспир – Проснись, любовь – Сонет 56
- For Friends Only by W. H. Auden
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.