Phew! ‘T’is a stuffy and stupid place,
This social edifice by Custom wrought-
This fenced enclosure wherein all are caught,
The great and small, the noble and the base,
And squeezed and flattened to one common face.
Air, air for springing fancy, errant thought!
Scope to make something of the seeming nought!
Room for the fleet foot and the open race!
Break out, O brother, braver than the rest,
Lover of Liberty, whose arm is strong!
Buttress our independence with thy breast,
And fight a passage through the stagnant throng.
Many will press behind thee, but they need
The stalwart captain, not afraid to lead.

A few random poems:
- Ольга Берггольц – Придешь, как приходят слепые
- Николай Карамзин – Impromptu графине Р, которой в одной святошной игре досталось быть королевою
- We Are As The Flute by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Theatre of Illusion by Pierre Corneille
- Алишер Навои – Сердце взял мое сын мага
- Sunflowers by Martin Willitts Jr.
- Phantasm
- Николай Гербель – Изюмцам
- Sonnet 82: I grant thou wert not married to my Muse by William Shakespeare
- Eclogue:–Two Farms In Woone by William Barnes
- The house where I was born (03) by Yves Bonnefoy
- “`Shepherd swains that feed your flocks” poem – Alfred Austin
- Виктор Гусев – Песня о Москве
- Владимир Маяковский – Помощь не придет на такой вой… (Главполитпросвет №14)
- Eucalyptus Grove, morning by Neal Dachstadter
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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
Ada Cambridge (1844 – 1926), also known as Ada Cross, was an English-born Australian author and poetess. She wrote more than 25 works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works.