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:
- Олег Григорьев – Схватили за ногу правую
- “Yes! Thou Art Fair, Yet Be Not Moved” by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: The Bonie Lad That’s Far Awa:
- WHAT ENDING by Satish Verma
- Омар Хайям – Не порочь лозы-невесты
- Василий Жуковский – Моя богиня
- Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All. by Walt Whitman
- A Dream, After Reading Dante’s Episode Of Paolo And Francesca poem – John Keats poems
- Psalm 81 poem – John Milton poems
- Юнна Мориц – Это вьюги хрустящий калач
- Don’t Ask Me Why poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Robert Burns: The Fete Champetre:
- Владимир Маяковский – Ты
- The Flower poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Жан де Лафонтен – Орел и Сова
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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.