In a leaden dawn
the horseman stands silent, and
the long mane of his horse is disheveled in the wind.
Oh God, God,
horsemen should not stand still
when things are imminent.
By the burnt hedge
the girl stands silent, and
her thin skirt moves in the wind.
Oh God, God,
girls should not remain silent
when the men, hopeless and weary, grow old.
A few random poems:
- Weird-Bird by Shel Silverstein
- Mingus At The Showplace by William Matthews
- The Iliad: Book VI (excerpt) poem – Alexander Pope
- The Revenge; A Ballad of the Fleet poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare
- On Your Midnight Pallet Lying poem – A. E. Housman
- Resolve by Sylvia Plath
- Aerialist by Sylvia Plath
- The Dreadful Has Already Happened by Mark Strand
- A Good Knight In Prison by William Morris
- The Motherless Child by William Barnes
- Five Ways To Kill A Man poem – Andre Breton poems
- Robert Burns: Address Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her Benefit Night, December 4th, 1793, at the Theatre, Dumfries.:
- The Columbian Exchange Beginning With Spanish Colonization
- Robert Burns: Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly Righteous:
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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
