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:
- Best Friend by Nicole M Nugent
- Colonel Martin by William Butler Yeats
- On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, my Christian Friend, Deceased Dec. 16, 1646 poem – John Milton poems
- Synge’s Grave by Winifred Mary Letts
- Turtledove of the Green Land – Dedicated to Tunisian poet, Huda Hajji by Nizar Sartawi
- The Journey by Yvor Winters
- Владимир Высоцкий – Водой наполненные горсти
- South Africa by Ronald G. Auguste
- Федор Сваровский – Простая история
- Николай Гумилев – Как труп, бессилен небосклон
- Юлия Друнина – Ржавчина
- A Walk by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Федор Сологуб – Золушка
- Mourning poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Dumb poem – Aleister Crowley 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
- Василий Жуковский – Элизиум
- Василий Жуковский – Дружба
- Василий Жуковский – На смерть Андрея Тургенева
- Василий Жуковский – На первое отречение от престола Бонапарте
- Василий Жуковский – Мщение
- Василий Жуковский – Моя богиня
- Василий Жуковский – Море
- Василий Жуковский – Могущество, слава и благоденствие России
- Василий Жуковский – Младенец: Стих, который легко учится, 28 строк – Стихотворения Жуковского на Poetry Monster
- Василий Жуковский – Мина
- Василий Жуковский – Тоска по милом
- Василий Жуковский – Торжество победителей
- Василий Жуковский – Теснятся все к тебе во храм
- Василий Жуковский – Там небеса и воды ясны
- Василий Жуковский – Светлане
- Василий Жуковский – Суд Божий над епископом
- Вера Павлова – Праздник после праздника
- Вера Павлова – Попытка не пытка
- Вера Павлова – Поколенье, лишённое почерка и походки
- Вера Павлова – Покамест я всем детям тётя
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.