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:
- Анатолий Жигулин – Лесные дороги
- Street Song by Sylvia Plath
- Song—O can ye Labour Lea? by Robert Burns
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сколько чудес за туманами кроется
- Robert Burns: Lines To Mr. John Kennedy:
- Dungeon by Rabindranath Tagore
- Robert Burns: The Deil’s Awa Wi’ The Exciseman:
- Владимир Степанов – Потемнели ветви
- Move Eastward, Happy Earth poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Verses Left by Mr. Pope poem – Alexander Pope
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись 5 к статуе Петра Великого
- Alison Gross poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Василий Жуковский – К Перовскому (Счастливец, ею ты любим)
- A Fixed Idea poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Бундур – Сложный предмет
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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