Why stand dumbfounded and aghast,
As at invading armies sweeping by,
Surprised by haggard face and threatening cry,
The storm unheralded, that rose so fast?
Men, with gaunt wives and hungry children, cast
Upon the wintry streets to thieve or die,
They cannot always suffer silently;
Patience gives out. The poor worm turns at last.
And not ear listens to the warning call.
No eye awakes to see the portent dread.
Must brute force reign and social order fall
Ere these starved millions can be clothed and fed?
A strange phenomenon, this unconcern-
To live so fast and be so slow to learn!
A few random poems:
- Beachy Blues poem – Andrew Neil Maternick poems | Poems and Poetry
- Felix Randal poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Robert Burns: Inscription To Miss Graham Of Fintry:
- Ольга Седакова – Баллада
- Низами Гянджеви – Слышишь, звякнул бубенцами
- A Dialogue Between The Soul And Body poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- You Are Mine by Pushpendra Singh Baghel
- Ancient Sins by Satish Verma
- Николай Гумилев – Он воздвигнул свой храм на горе
- Return Of The Heroes by Siegfried Sassoon
- On Being Brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley
- “Brook! Whose Society The Poet Seeks” by William Wordsworth
- The Germans On The Heighs Of Hochheim by William Wordsworth
- Sound And Sense poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- On The Conduct Of The World Seeking Beauty Against Government poem – Allen Ginsberg
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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.