We being so hidden from those who
Have quietly borne and fed us,
How can we answer civilly
Their innocent invitations?

How can we say “we see you
As but-for-God’s-grace-ourselves, as
Our caricatures (we yours), with
Time’s telescope between us”?

How can we say “you presumed on
The accident of kinship,
Assumed our friendship coatlike,
Not as a badge one fights for”?

How say “and you remembered
The sins of our outlived selves and
Your own forgiveness, buried
The hatchet to slow music;

Shared money but not your secrets;
Will leave as your final legacy
A box double-locked by the spider
Packed with your unsolved problems”?

How say all this without capitals,
Italics, anger or pathos,
To those who have seen from the womb come
Enemies? How not say it?

Poetry Monster – Home

A few random poems:

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 

• Another Way Of Love by Robert Browning by Robert Browning
• Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning by Robert Browning
• An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Kar by Robert Browning by Robert Browning
• Among the Rocks by Robert Browning by Robert Browning
• Aix In Provence by Robert Browning by Robert Browning
• Abt Vogler by Robert Browning by Robert Browning
• A Woman’s Last Word by Robert Browning by Robert Browning
• A Toccata Of Galuppi’s by Robert Browning by Robert Browning
• A Serenade At The Villa by Robert Browning by Robert Browning
• A Pretty Woman by Robert Browning by Robert Browning
• A Lovers’ Quarrel by Robert Browning by Robert Browning
• A Light Woman by Robert Browning by Robert Browning
• A Grammarian’s Funeral by Robert Browning by Robert Browning
• The Song of Death by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• The Ploughman’s Life by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• The Ordination by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• The Inventory by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• The Farewell to the Brethren of St. James’s Lodge by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• The Brigs of Ayr by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Suppressed Stanzas of “The Vision” by Robert Burns by Robert Burns

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

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

Poems by Author and Category

The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works