O Homeland! O Eagle,
Plunging, through the bars of my cell,
Your fiery beak in my eyes!
All I possess in the presence of death
Is pride and fury.
I have willed that my heart be planted as a tree,
That my forehead become an abode for skylarks.
O eagle,
I am unworthy of your lofty wing,
I prefer a crown of flame.
O homeland!
We were born and raised in your wound,
And ate the fruit of your trees,
To witness the birth of your daybreak.
O eagle unjustly languishing in chains,
O legendary death which once was sought,
Your fiery beak is still plunged in my eye.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- At Algeciras; A Meditaton Upon Death by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: Awa’ Whigs, Awa’:
- To Delia by William Cowper
- Here the Frailest Leaves of Me. by Walt Whitman
- Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old by William Shakespeare
- The Change by Tony Hoagland
- Macer : A Character poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- You and I by Roger McGough
- The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood
- Юнна Мориц – Попрыгать-поиграть
- Федор Сологуб – Ландыши, ландыши, бедные цветы
- Олег Григорьев – С длинным батоном под мышкой
- In A Garden by Sara Teasdale
- The Seeing Eye poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Dedication To M… by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
