by Alan Noakes
Yes the ‘if onlys’ seem to persist for ever
As hovering wraithlike used-up dreams.
‘if only ‘ this or that
On such and such a day
Had varied by an hour or an inch
Or something neglected had been done
Or that something done had been neglected
Then ‘perhaps’ the other might have been:
But then
‘perhaps’ and ‘if only’ are first cousins
Addicted to survival only in our minds.
Copyright ©:
Alan Noakes
A few random poems:
- Олег Григорьев – Я спросил электрика Петрова
- Джон Донн – Женская верность
- Федор Сваровский – Об удивительном
- Sonnet 90: Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now by William Shakespeare
- An Imperial Rescript by Rudyard Kipling
- The Gardener LV: It Was Mid-Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- When I Came Last to Ludlow poem – A. E. Housman
- Remorseful Apology by Robert Burns
- Adolescence by P. K. Page
- A Narrow Girdle Of Rough Stones And Crags, by William Wordsworth
- To S.M., A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works by Phillis Wheatley
- The Hymn poem – John Milton poems
- Robert Burns: O Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast:
- Evening by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Virgin Martyr
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
- Chronicle
- Change
- Beauty
- Bathing River
- Bathing In The River
- Answer Copy Verses Sent Me Jersey
- Anacreontics The Swallow
- Anacreontics The Epicure
- Anacreontics Drinking
- An Answer To A Copy Of Verses Sent Me To Jersey
- Against Hope
- Against Fruition
- Summer Moon
- Stars
- Love Is Just Like The Rain
- Boy Running In The Rain
- Xai Kou From Book Seeds Of Faith
- Xai Kou1
- Xai Kou0
- Xai Kou
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
