If truth in hearts that perish
Could move the powers on high,
I think the love I bear you
Should make you not to die.
Sure, sure, if stedfast meaning,
If single thought could save,
The world might end to-morrow,
You should not see the grave.
This long and sure-set liking,
This boundless will to please,
–Oh, you should live for ever,
If there were help in these.
But now, since all is idle,
To this lost heart be kind,
Ere to a town you journey
Where friends are ill to find.
A few random poems:
- I Heard Immanuel Singing by Vachel Lindsay
- Алексей Жемчужников – За днями ненастными с темными тучами
- Владимир Маяковский – Послание пролетарским поэтам
- Яков Полонский – Нищий
- Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament (excerpt) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Sympathies of the Long Married by Robert Bly
- Олег Григорьев – Мазохисту на лавке
- For The Moment by Pierre Reverdy
- Tumult by Nicole M Nugent
- Recipe For A Hippopotamus Sandwich by Shel Silverstein
- Николай Гербель – Меня преследует какой-то демон злой
- Of Three Or Four In The Room by Yehuda Amichai
- Sonnet 95: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame by William Shakespeare
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- last_word_to_childhood.html
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 Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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
