was then
by A.C. Zenner
it was…
as yet…
not eaten…
that meal…
which tore…
and drew…
the breath…
of life…
from her…
and all…
she strove…
to be…
to him…
his crust…
too thick…
to cut…
with just…
her meager knife
A few random poems:
- Mr. William Smellie: A Sketch by Robert Burns
- Николай Языков – Песня (От сердца дружные с вином)
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бедняк
- “Give me a roof where Wisdom dwells” poem – Alfred Austin
- Anacreontics The Epicure
- Ольга Берггольц – Я так хочу, так верю, так люблю
- Владимир Набоков – Вдали от берега, в мерцании морском
- Ольга Берггольц – Таков мой подарок тебе за измену
- The Alfresco Moment by Russell Edson
- Robert Burns: Elegy On The Year 1788:
- Владимир Маяковский – Весь провел советский план… (Главполитпросвет №41)
- Prelude: The Troops by Siegfried Sassoon
- “Let the nymph still avoid and be deaf to the swain” by Tobias Smollett
- Владимир Маяковский – Смотри, крестьянин (РОСТА №463)
- Жан де Лафонтен – Третейский Судья, Брат милосердия и Пустынник
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
- Alfred Lord Tennyson; The Coming Of Arthur poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- After-Thought poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- A Farewell poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Villonaud for This Yule poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Villanelle: The Psychological Hour poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Ts’ai Chi’h poem – Ezra Pound poems
- These Fought in Any Case poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Tree poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Summons poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Seeing Eye poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Seafarer poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Return poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Plunge poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Needle poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Lake Isle poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Garret poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Garden poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Fault of It poem – Ezra Pound poems
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