A poem by Alec Derwent-Hope (1907–2000)
by Alec Derwent Hope
Now the heart sings with all its thousand voices
To hear this city of cells, my body, sing.
The tree through the stiff clay at long last forces
Its thin strong roots and taps the secret spring.
And the sweet waters without intermission
Climb to the tips of its green tenement;
The breasts have borne the grace of their possession,
The lips have felt the pressure of content.
Here I come home: in this expected country
They know my name and speak it with delight.
I am the dream and you my gates of entry,
The means by which I waken into light.

A few random poems:
- Николай Гумилев – Леопарди (Набросок)
- A Token by Robert Creeley
- The house where I was born (02) by Yves Bonnefoy
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Светлая заутреня
- Валерий Брюсов – И. Туманьяну надпись на книге (Да будет праведно возмездие)
- Гавриил Державин – Амур и Психея
- The Princess: A Medley: O Swallow poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Special Problems in Vocabulary by Tony Hoagland
- Николай Языков – Дева ночи
- Владимир Гиппиус – Закон чего? – закона нет
- Apple-Blossoms by Will McKendree Carleton
- Владимир Маяковский – Тёплое слово кое-каким порокам
- I have been tricked by flying too close by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Henry Clay’s Mouth by Thomas Lux
- Sarah Cynthia Slyvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out by Shel Silverstein
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
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
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
Alec Derwent-Hope (1907–2000) was an Australian poet and essayist known for his satirical slant. He was also a critic, teacher and academic.