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:
- Artilleryman’s Vision, The. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: Willie Brew’d A Peck O’ Maut:
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Home. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Жан де Лафонтен – Старый Кот и Мышонок
- Ольга Берггольц – Беатриче (строгая любовь)
- The Last Flower poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Two Or Three poem – John Keats poems
- Вера Павлова – Ты вольно или невольно
- Михаил Лермонтов – Боюсь не смерти я
- Along The Sun-Drenched Roadside by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Fair Elanor by William Blake
- The rainy Pleiads wester poem – A. E. Housman
- Beautiful Balmoral by William Topaz McGonagall
- Song. Mediocrity in love rejected. by Thomas Carew
- Олег Бундур – Старания
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
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