A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
Either you will
go through this door
or you will not go through.
If you go through
there is always the risk
of remembering your name.
Things look at you doubly
and you must look back
and let them happen.
If you do not go through
it is possible
to live worthily
to maintain your attitudes
to hold your position
to die bravely
but much will blind you,
much will evade you,
at what cost who knows?
The door itself
makes no promises.
It is only a door.
A few random poems:
- Иван Бунин – Нет солнца, но светлы пруды
- Robert Burns: My Father Was A Farmer:
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- Sonnet 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn by William Shakespeare
- News, lassies, news (Song) by Robert Burns
- The Devon Maid: Stanzas Sent In A Letter To B. R. Haydon poem – John Keats poems
- Along the field as we came poem – A. E. Housman
- Say, Lad, Have You Things to Do? poem – A. E. Housman
- Виктор Кирюшин – Небеса набухшей парусиною
- On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic by William Wordsworth
- An Argument by Thomas Moore
- Федор Тютчев – Как он любил родные ели
- I Am In Pain For You by Patrick Neo Mabiletsa
- Алексей Плещеев – Сердцу
- Natural Theology by Rudyard Kipling
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
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
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
Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.