We severed in Autumn early,

Ere the earth was torn by the plough;

The wheat and the oats and the barley

Are ripe for the harvest now.

We sunder’d one misty morning

Ere the hills were dimm’d by the rain;

Through the flowers those hills adorning —

Thou comest not back again.

My heart is heavy and weary

With the weight of a weary soul;

The mid-day glare grows dreary,

And dreary the midnight scroll.

The corn-stalks sigh for the sickle,

‘Neath the load of their golden grain;

I sigh for a mate more fickle —

Thou comest not back again.

The warm sun riseth and setteth,

The night bringeth moistening dew,

But the soul that longeth forgetteth

The warmth and the moisture too.

In the hot sun rising and setting

There is naught save feverish pain;

There are tears in the night-dews wetting —

Thou comest not back again.

Thy voice in my ear still mingles

With the voices of whisp’ring trees,

Thy kiss on my cheek still tingles

At each kiss of the summer breeze.

While dreams of the past are thronging

For substance of shades in vain,

I am waiting, watching and longing —

Thou comest not back again.

Waiting and watching ever,

Longing and lingering yet;

Leaves rustle and corn-stalks quiver,

Winds murmur and waters fret.

No answer they bring, no greeting,

No speech, save that sad refrain,

Nor voice, save an echo repeating —

He cometh not back again.

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Poems in English 

• everything is a lie by tulip by Poetry In English
• Dreaming of Li Po by Tu Fu by Poetry In English
• Day’s End by Tu Fu by Poetry In English
• Can You See The Pride In The Panther? by Tupac Shakur by Poetry In English
• By the Lake by Tu Fu by Poetry In English
• Ballad of the Old Cypress by Tu Fu by Poetry In English
• Ballad of the Army Carts by Tu Fu by Poetry In English
• Ballad Of The Press-Gang At Shihao Village by Du Fu by Poetry In English
• Aphrodite – The Birth by Uma Maheswari Anandane by Poetry In English
• Alone, Looking for Blossoms Along the River by Tu Fu by Poetry In English
• Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Yankee Doodle by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Written for a Musician by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• With a Bouquet of Twelve Roses by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Who Knows? by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Where Is the Real Non-Resistant by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• Where Is David, the Next King of Israel? by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
• When Bryan Speaks by Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

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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.

 

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