All afternoon
the tree shadows, accelerating,
lengthened
till
sunset
shot them black into infinity:
next morning
darkness
returned from the other
infinity and the
shadows caught ground
and through the morning, slowing,
hardened into noon.
A few random poems:
- The Old Poet poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Lost Time by Rabindranath Tagore
- Вера Полозкова – Это не прихоть, это не блажь
- Шекспир – Прекрасный облик в зеркале ты видишь – Сонет 3
- Владимир Маяковский – Тексты для издательства “Сегодняшний лубок” (Плакаты)
- On A Plant Of Virgin’s-Bower, Designed To Cover A Garden-seat by William Cowper
- Dark Wood, Dark Water by Sylvia Plath
- Виктор Гончаров – Дождь
- What Are Big Girls Made Of? by Marge Piercy
- Sonnet LXIII by William Shakespeare
- The World is with Me by Thomas Hood
- Жан де Лафонтен – Орел и Сова
- Peddler Road Flyover by Vinita Agrawal
- Шекспир – Разлука сердце делит пополам – Сонет 39
- The Appointment by Ruth Padel
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
- Leto and Niobe by Sappho
- It’s no use by Sappho
- It was you, Atthis, who said by Sappho
- It is the Muses by Sappho
- It is the Muses by Sappho
- I took my lyre and said by Sappho
- I have no complaint by Sappho
- Hymn To Aphrodite by Sappho
- Hesperus The Bringer by Sappho
- He is more than a hero by Sappho
- He is more than a hero by Sappho
- Grace by Sappho
- Like the gods. . . by Sappho
- To A Girl In A Garden by Sappho
- Evening by Sappho
- Drapple-thorned Aphrodite, by Sappho
- Dica by Sappho
- Cyprian, in my dream by Sappho
- Claïs by Sappho
- Blame Aphrodite by Sappho
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
Archie Randolph Ammons (1926-2001) was an important American poet, a modern classic, Ammons wrote about our relationship to nature in a way that is both comic and solemn. His poems often address religious and philosophical matters and scenes involving nature in a manner that is almost transcendental.