Last Word To Childhood
by A. S. J. Tessimond
Ice-cold fear has slowly decreased
As my bones have grown, my height increased.
Though I shiver in snow of dreams, I shall never
Freeze again in a noonday terror.
I shall never break, my sinews crumble
As God-the-headmaster’s fingers fumble
At the other side of unopening doors
Which I watch for a hundred thousand years.
I shall never feel my thin blood leak
While darkness stretches a paw to strike
Or Nothing beats an approaching drum
Behind my back in a silent room.
I shall never, alone, meet the end of my world
At the bend of a path, the turn of a wall:
Never, or once more only, and
That will be once and an end of end.
A few random poems:
- The Green Linnet by William Wordsworth
- Marriage Thoughts By Morsellin Khan
- Владимир Маяковский – Славянский вопрос-то решается просто
- The Triumph Of Achilles by Paul Celan
- Sonnet 112: Your love and pity doth th’ impression fill by William Shakespeare
- Locations and Times. by Walt Whitman
- To The University Of Cambridge, In New-England by Phillis Wheatley
- Алишер Навои – Цветком, что счастье нам несет
- Федор Сологуб – Солнце, которому больно
- Николай Языков – А. И. Готовцевой (Влюблен я, дева-красота)
- Нина Воронель – Дождливый рассвет
- A Girl Was Singing In A Church Choir poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- The Turnstile by William Barnes
- Николай Заболоцкий – Небесная Севилья
- A Pact poem – Ezra Pound poems
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 Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
More external links (open in a new tab):
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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