Nursery Rhyme For A Twenty-First Birthday
by A. S. J. Tessimond
You cannot see the walls that divide your hand
From his or hers or mine when you think you touch it.
You cannot see the walls because they are glass,
And glass is nothing until you try to pass it.
Beat on it if you like, but not too hard,
For glass will break you even while you break it.
Shout, and the sound will be broken and driven backwards,
For glass, though clear as water, is deaf as granite.
This fraudulent inhibition is cunning: wise men
Content themselves with breathing patterns on it.
A few random poems:
- A Wren’s Nest by William Wordsworth
- Greece Madum…! by Perugu Ramakrishna
- Жан де Лафонтен – Мельник, Сын его и Осел
- Sonnet II: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow by William Shakespeare
- Point Shirley by Sylvia Plath
- Farewell to London poem – Alexander Pope
- Олег Бундур – Если вы придёте в лес
- Николай Гумилев – Какою музыкой мой слух взволнован
- After a Tempest by William Cullen Bryant
- Вера Полозкова – Губы плавя в такой ухмылке
- Вера Павлова – Учась любовной науке
- Владимир Луговской – Конек-горбунок
- Robert Burns: Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly Righteous:
- Ольга Седакова – Первая тетрадь
- The Stwonen Bwoy Upon The Pillar by William Barnes
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 Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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