A poem by Alcaeus of Mytilene (c. 625/620 – c. 580 BC)
From roof to roof the spacious palace halls
Glitter with war’s array;
With burnished metal clad, the lofty walls
Beam like the bright noonday.
There white-plumed helmets hang from many a nail,
Above, in threatening row;
Steel-garnished tunics and broad coats of mail
Spread o’er the space below.
Chalcidian blades enow, and belts are here,
Greaves and emblazoned shields;
Well-tried protectors from the hostile spear,
On other battlefields.
With these good helps our work of war’s begun,
With these our victory must be won.
A few random poems:
- This Day, O Soul. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: Ca’ The Yowes To The Knowes:
- Homage To A Government by Philip Larkin
- Владимир Высоцкий – И в Дубне, и на Таганке что-то ставят, что-то строят
- Шекспир – Любовь к себе моим владеет взором – Сонет 62
- Robert Burns: Ah, Woe Is Me, My Mother Dear: Paraphrase of Jeremiah, 15th Chap., 10th verse
- Омар Хайям – О горе, горе сердцу, где жгучей страсти нет
- Epitaph on William Muir by Robert Burns
- Владимир Маяковский – Голодные! Пан Украину грабит… (РОСТА №106)
- On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies by Robert Burns
- To a friend by Vinko Kalinić
- Федор Сологуб – Круг начертан, и Сивилла
- Такахама Кёси – Мох зеленый примят
- Canto XLIX poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Вера Звягинцева – Моя любовь к Армении похожа
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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Alcaeus of Mytilene ( c. 625/620 – c. 580 Before Christ) ] was a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria.