A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
Their life, collapsed like unplayed cards,
is carried piecemeal through the snow;
Headboard and footboard now, the bed
where she has lain desiring him
where overhead his sleep will build
its canopy to smother her once more;
their table, by four elbows worn
evening after evening while the wax runs down;
mirrors grey with reflecting them,
bureaus coffining from the cold
things that can shuffle in a drawer,
carpets rolled up around those echoes
which, shaken out, take wing and breed
new altercations, the old silences.
A few random poems:
- Storm and Sunlight by Siegfried Sassoon
- Новелла Матвеева – Василий Андреевич
- Isabella; Or, The Pot Of Basil: A Story From Boccaccio poem – John Keats poems
- Robert Burns: On An Innkeeper Nicknamed “The Marquis”:
- They’ve Put A Brassiere On A Camel by Shel Silverstein
- Николай Языков – Прощальная песня (В последний раз приволье жизни братской)
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- Verses Printed By Himself On A Flood At Olney by William Cowper
- run home, run home butterfly by Raj Arumugam
- Another Weeping Woman by Wallace Stevens
- Robert Burns: How Long And Dreary Is The Night :
- Sonnet 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan by William Shakespeare
- Николай Карамзин – Эпитафия (Он жил в сем мире для того)
- Владимир Луговской – Повелитель бумаги
- Николай Карамзин – Анакреонтические стихи А. А. Петрову
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 Defiance Of Eteocles
- The Decree Of Athena
- The Complaint Of Prometheus
- The Beacon Fires
- The Battle Of Salamis
- Song Of The Furies
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Prayer Artemis
- Lament Two Brothers Slain Each Other039s Hand
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Complaint Prometheus
- Battle Salamis
- A Prayer For Artemis
- On Twitter
- Victory
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Two Songs
- Stepping Backward
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law By Adrienne Rich
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
Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.