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
- Days by Philip Larkin
- Approach Of Winter by William Carlos Williams
- Once Upon A Wandering Mind poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
- The Bakchesarian Fountain poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Recollection
- Vietnam Vet befriends an immigrant in Pittsburgh, Pa – ( let’s put it that way ) by Vasil Slavov
- Владимир Корнилов – Трофейный фильм
- Portrait in Black and White by Marjorie Kanter
- Николай Языков – Элегия (Мне ль позабыть огонь и живость)
- Chorus of Athenians poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- A Subaltern’s Love Song poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Ballad of Footmen poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Wanderer
- Love Sonnet XXIX poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Book Ends by Tony Harrison
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