The Man In The Bowler Hat
by A. S. J. Tessimond
I am the unnoticed, the unnoticable man:
The man who sat on your right in the morning train:
The man who looked through like a windowpane:
The man who was the colour of the carriage, the colour of the mounting
Morning pipe smoke.
I am the man too busy with a living to live,
Too hurried and worried to see and smell and touch:
The man who is patient too long and obeys too much
And wishes too softly and seldom.
I am the man they call the nation’s backbone,
Who am boneless; playable castgut, pliable clay:
The Man they label Little lest one day
I dare to grow.
I am the rails on which the moment passes,
The megaphone for many words and voices:
I am the graph diagram,
Composite face.
I am the led, the easily-fed,
The tool, the not-quite-fool,
The would-be-safe-and-sound,
The uncomplaining, bound,
The dust fine-ground,
Stone-for-a-statue waveworn pebble-round

A few random poems:
- Юрий Коринец – О стиральной машине
- Vaudracour And Julia by William Wordsworth
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись 1 к статуе Петра Великого
- Николай Языков – Две картины
- Robert Burns: Presentation Stanzas To Correspondents:
- Nothing is Real by Rixa White
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 07 by Torquato Tasso
- The Harvest Bow by Seamus Heaney
- Heredity by Tony Harrison
- Степан Щипачев – По дороге в совхоз
- In shadows of night
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Robert Aiken, Esq.:
- Bottles Of Sunshine by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Years of the Modern. by Walt Whitman
- The Hands That Hang Down
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
- Reason Use It Divine Matters
- Reason The Use Of It In Divine Matters
- Platonick Love
- On The Death Of Sir Henry Wootton
- On The Death Of Mr William Hervey
- On The Death Of Mr Crashaw
- Of Wit
- Not Fair
- Life
- Hymn To Light
- Hymn Light
- Epitaph
- Despair
- Death Sir Henry Wootton
- Davideis Sacred Poem Troubles David Excerpt
- Davideis A Sacred Poem Of The Troubles Of David Excerpt
- Cousel
- Constantias Song
- Constantia039s Song
- Concealment
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