Night Piece
by A. S. J. Tessimond
Climb, claim your shelf-room, far
Packed from inquisitive moon
And cold contagious stars.
Lean out, but look no longer,
No further, than to stir
Night with extended finger.
Now fill the box with light,
Flood full the shining block,
Masonry against night.
Let window, curtain, blind
Soft-sieve and sift and shred
The impertinence of sound.
Now draw the silence up,
A blanket round your ears;
Lay darkness close and sure,
Inverted cup to cup
On your acquiescent eyes:
Dismissing body’s last outposted spies.
A few random poems:
- Far In a Western Brookland poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Владимир Орлов – Кому что снится?
- Эмиль Верхарн – Женщина в черном
- Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Егорий, волчий пастырь
- Fierce Mooning by Satish Verma
- Владимир Маяковский – Права кооперации расширены декретом… (Главполитпросвет №154)
- Merrow Down by Rudyard Kipling
- Ольга Седакова – Старый поэт (Постскриптум)
- An Untold Love by Rixa White
- К нам приходит в день февральский снежною тропой
- John Sutter by Yvor Winters
- The Other by Sylvia Plath
- Tobias Smollett – Tobias Smollett
- Алишер Навои – О сердце, столько на земле
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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