Tube Station
by A. S. J. Tessimond
The tube lift mounts,
sap in a stem,
And blossoms its load,
a black, untidy rose.
The fountain of the escalator
curls at the crest,
breaks and scatters
A winnow of men,
a sickle of dark spray.

A few random poems:
- Think Of It Not, Sweet One poem – John Keats poems
- Primrose by Patrick Kavanagh
- Alone You Passed by William Ellery Leonard
- A Song at Cock-Crow by Rudyard Kipling
- A Rajput Love Song by Sarojini Naidu
- Robert Burns: Green Grow The Rashes: A Fragment
- Федор Сологуб – Займитесь чтением в вагоне
- Free Fantasia On Japanese Themes poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Британишский – Кваренги
- A Tusculan Question poem – Alfred Austin
- Myfanwy poem – John Betjeman poems
- Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore
- Bringen Woone Gwaïn O’ Zundays by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: On A Bank Of Flowers:
- Олег Бундур – Окошки
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
- The Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
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