if suddenly you are not living,
I shall go on living.
I do not dare,
I do not dare to write it,
if you die.
I shall go on living.
Because where a man has no voice,
there, my voice
Where blacks are beaten,
I can not be dead.
When my brothers go to jail
I shall go with them.
When victory,
not my victory,
but the great victory
arrives,
even though I am mute I must speak:
I shall see it come even though I am blind.
No, forgive me,
if you are not living,
ifd you, beloved, my love,
if you
have died.
A few random poems:
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 1 poem – Alexander Pope
- Ольга Берггольц – И вновь одна, совсем одна в дорогу
- Half-Ballad of Waterval by Rudyard Kipling
- Наум Коржавин – На побывке
- English Poetry. Robert William Service. Dark Glasses. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
- Long I waited in vain
- In The Train by Sara Teasdale
- Poem For People That Are Understandably Too Busy To Read Poetry by Stephen Dunn
- Manifesto for your smile and my songs by Vinko Kalinic
- Жан де Лафонтен – Волк и Лисица на суде перед Обезьяной
- The Bagpipe Who Didn’t Say No by Shel Silverstein
- A Divine Mistress by Thomas Carew
- Among the Multitude. by Walt Whitman
- Song—Bessy and her Spinnin Wheel by Robert Burns
- Don’t fear death poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
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
- The Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
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