A poem by Aeschylus (c. 525 – c. 456 Before Christ )
Earth is rocking in space!
And the thunders crash up with a roar upon roar,
And the eddying lightnings flash fire in my face,
And the whirlwinds are whirling the dust round and round-
And the blasts of the winds universal leap free
And blow each other upon each, with a passion of sound,
And æther goes mingling in storm with the sea!
Such a curse on my head, in a manifest dread,
From the hand of your Zeus has been hurtled along!
O my mother’s fair glory! O Æther, enringing
All eyes with the sweet common light of thy bringing,
Dost see how I suffer this wrong?
A few random poems:
- On The Astrologers (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- At Dover by William Lisle Bowles
- Николай Языков – Романс (Угрюм стоит дремучий лес)
- An Excursion Steamer Sunk in the Tay by William Topaz McGonagall
- Алишер Навои – Кто на стезе любви един
- Владимир Маяковский – Смотри, чтоб праздник перешел и в будни
- The Secrets Of Divine Love Are To Be Kept by William Cowper
- The Puzzler by Rudyard Kipling
- There is a Community of Spirit by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- An Evening by William Allingham
- Анатолий Жигулин – Москва
- Eclogues by Thomas Chatterton
- Vegetable Swallow by Tristan Tzara
- Poem of Remembrance for a Girl or a Boy. by Walt Whitman
- A Wife A-Praïs’d 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
- Robinson by Weldon Kees
- The End Of The Library by Weldon Kees
- Late Evening Song by Weldon Kees
- La Vita Nuova by Weldon Kees
- Interregnum by Weldon Kees
- Dead March by Weldon Kees
- Covering Two Years by Weldon Kees
- Colloquy by Weldon Kees
- A Pastiche For Eve by Weldon Kees
- A Musician’s Wife by Weldon Kees
- 1926 by Weldon Kees
- Woods by Wendell Berry
- What We Need Is Here by Wendell Berry
- Water by Wendell Berry
- The Wish to be Generous by Wendell Berry
- The Silence by Wendell Berry
- The Real Work by Wendell Berry
- The peace of wild things by Wendell Berry
- The Man Born to Farming by Wendell Berry
- The Lilies by Wendell Berry
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Aeschylus (525 Before Christ to 456 B.C.) was an ancient Greek author of Greek tragedy, and is often described as the father of tragedy. Academics’ knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in the theatre and allowed conflict among them.