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:
- To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652 poem – John Milton poems
- Ask Me No More poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Вперед, комсомольцы
- The Clime Of My Birth by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- To his Indifferent Mistress by William Wycherley
- Михаил Кузмин – В густом лесу мы дождь пережидали
- Aftershock by William Marr
- Verses on Sir Joshua Reynold’s Painted Window at New College, Oxford by Thomas Warton
- A Peck of Gold by Robert Frost
- A Gravestone Upon The Floor In The Cloisters Of Worcester Cathedral by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Британишский – Ладожский канал
- “Give me a roof where Wisdom dwells” poem – Alfred Austin
- Brasilia by Sylvia Plath
- The New Moon by Sara Teasdale
- O fortunatus nimium, etc., a translation out of Virgil by Abraham Cowley
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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
