Infelix

Where is the promise of my years;

Once written on my brow?

Ere errors, agonies and fears

Brought with them all that speaks in tears,

Ere I had sunk beneath my peers;

Where sleeps that promise now?

Naught lingers to redeem those hours,

Still, still to memory sweet!

The flowers that bloomed in sunny bowers

Are withered all; and Evil towers

Supreme above her sister powers

Of Sorrow and Deceit.

I look along the columned years,

And see Life’s riven fane,

Just where it fell, amid the jeers

Of scornful lips, whose mocking sneers,

For ever hiss within mine ears

To break the sleep of pain.

I can but own my life is vain

A desert void of peace;

I missed the goal I sought to gain,

I missed the measure of the strain

That lulls Fame’s fever in the brain,

And bids Earth’s tumult cease.

Myself! alas for theme so poor

A theme but rich in Fear;

I stand a wreck on Error’s shore,

A spectre not within the door,

A houseless shadow evermore,

An exile lingering here.

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Poems in English 

• Sunt Leones by Stevie Smith by Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
• Pad, Pad by Stevie Smith by Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
• Our Bog Is Dood by Stevie Smith by Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
• Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith by Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
• Nor We Of Her To Him by Stevie Smith by Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
• Never Again by Stevie Smith by Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
• My Heart Was Full by Stevie Smith by Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
• My Heart Goes Out by Stevie Smith by Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
• Mother, Among The Dustbins by Stevie Smith by Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
• Infelice by Stevie Smith by Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
• In The Night by Stevie Smith by Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
• I Remember by Stevie Smith by Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
• I Do Not Speak by Stevie Smith by Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
• Happiness by Stevie Smith by Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
• Freddy by Stevie Smith by Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
• Exeat by Stevie Smith by Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
• Edmonton, thy cemetery by Stevie Smith by Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
• Drugs Made Pauline Vague by Stevie Smith by Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
• Deeply Morbid by Stevie Smith by Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
• Conviction (iv) by Stevie Smith by Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith

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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.

 

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