A poem by Alcaeus of Mytilene (c. 625/620 – c. 580 BC)
The fisher Diotimus had, at sea
And shore, the same abode of poverty–
His trusty boat;–and when his days were spent,
Therein self-rowed to ruthless Dis he went;
For that, which did through life his woes beguile,
Supplied the old man with a funeral pile.
A few random poems:
- As the poets have mournfully sung by W H Auden
- On Shakespear poem – John Milton poems
- Юлий Даниэль – Ах, недостреляли, недобили
- You Ask Me, Why, Tho’ Ill at Ease poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Stony Grey Soil by Patrick Kavanagh
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Gavin Hamilton, Esq.:
- Dirge of the Three Queens by William Shakespeare
- Иван Варавва – Выйду в степь, на поля плодородные
- The Other Half by Shaunna Harper
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – На берегу
- Зинаида Александрова – Ветер на речке
- Sonnet 19: Devouring Time blunt thou the lion’s paws by William Shakespeare
- The Drum-Stick Tree by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
- The End of the Day poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Female Author by Sylvia Plath
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
- I Dream I M The Death Of Orpheus
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- From A Survivor
- Fox
- For This
- For The Record
- For The Dead
- Final Notions
- Diving Into The Wreck
- Diving Wreck
- Cartographies Of Silence
- Burning Oneself Out
- Aunt Jennifer039s Tigers
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- The Ugly Little Bird
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- Mountain Wellhead
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Youth
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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.