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:
- On Delia (Bid Adieu, My Sad Heart) by William Cowper
- A Hymn to Love by Robert Herrick
- To A Young Beauty by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: Epigram To Miss Jean Scott:
- Вера Павлова – Толстые икры правителей
- Never Sure Which You Are by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Eclogue:–John An’ Thomas by William Barnes
- Ок Мельникова – Профессия рок-звезда
- Channel Crossing by Sylvia Plath
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Водовоз
- Chorus of Youths and Virgins poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Николай Языков – Виленскому (Не робко пей, товарищ мой)
- Parabola
- Not quite dark yet by Yosa Buson
- Answer Me
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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