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:
- Николай Заболоцкий – Лесная сторожка
- The Coin by Sara Teasdale
- “Mike Teavee…” by Roald Dahl
- Sonnet 69: Those parts of thee that the world’s eye doth view by William Shakespeare
- Олег Григорьев – Зашли мы к Сизову с приятелем
- Wet City Night
- Olney Hymn 34: The Waiting Soul by William Cowper
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не отдавайте в физики детей
- Jerusalem by Yehuda Amichai
- Robert Burns: Verses To Clarinda: Sent with a Pair of Wine-Glasses.
- Io v’amo sol perche (I Love You Simply Because) by Torquato Tasso
- Phallus
- Carrion Comfort poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Олег Бундур – Заповедная жизнь
- Владимир Маяковский – Врангель прет… (РОСТА №363)
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
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
