How will our unborn children scoff at us
In the good years to come,
The happier years to come,
Because, like driven sheep, we yielded thus,
Before the shearers dumb.
What are the words their wiser lips will say?
“These men had gained the light;
“These women knew the right;
“They had their chance, and let it slip away.
“They did not, when they might.
“They were the first to hear the gospel preached,
“And to believe therein;
“Yet they remained in sin.
“They saw the promised land they might have reached,
“And dared not enter in.
“They might have won their freedom, had they tried;
“No savage laws forbade;
“For them the way was made.
“They might have had the joys for which they cried
“And yet they shrank, afraid.
“Afraid to face-the martyr’s rack and flame?
“The traitor’s dungeon? Nay-
“Of what their world would say-
“The smile, the joke, the thinnest ghost of blame!
“Lord! Lord! What fools were they!”
And we-no longer actors of the stage
We cumber now-maybe
With other eyes shall see
This wasted chance, and with celestial rage
Cry “O what fools were we!”
A few random poems:
- Autumn Leaves by Thomas J Camp
- A Ballad That We Do Not Perish poem – Zbigniew Herbert poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Сашки Червня
- Rains Have Come poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Memory As a Hearing Aid by Tony Hoagland
- Conscience by Walter William Safar
- Ольга Ермолаева – Будет весь день долбить
- Нина Воронель – Снег
- Алексей Толстой – Тебя так любят все
- Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries poem – A. E. Housman
- The Song Of The Old Mother by William Butler Yeats
- Notice by Steve Kowit
- Conscious by Wilfred Owen
- I Heard Immanuel Singing by Vachel Lindsay
- Old Times by Rixa white
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 Redeemer by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Rear-Guard by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Poet as Hero by Siegfried Sassoon
- The One-Legged Man by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Old Huntsman by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Last Meeting by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Kiss by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Investiture by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Imperfect Lover by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Heritage by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Hawthorn Tree by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Goldsmith by Siegfried Sassoon
- The General by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Fathers by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Effect by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Dug-Out by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Dreamers by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Dream by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Dragon & The Undying by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Death-Bed by Siegfried Sassoon
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

Ada Cambridge (1844 – 1926), also known as Ada Cross, was an English-born Australian author and poetess. She wrote more than 25 works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works.