Before me now a little picture lies-
A little shadow of a childish face,
Childishly sweet, yet with the dawning grace
Of thought and wisdom on her lips and eyes.
Fair, oval, broad-brow’d face-small, delicate head-
Transparent skin, with blue veins shining through-
All the soft outlines, beautiful and true,
Bring me the echo of the words “God said.”
Made “in our image”-sure ’tis that we see,
God’s likeness, in the fair face of a child,
By the world’s sin and passion undefiled-
Ay, as I look, it seems quite plain to me.
The light wherein the little features shine,
Strange, mystic light, so undefined and faint,
So far too pure for any words to paint-
‘Tis a reflection of the Face divine.
Some day the earthly shadows will be cast
Across that sunshine-it may be to dim
Awhile the visible countenance of Him;
But ’twill be there-the likeness-to the last.
Some day the lucid waters, in which lie
Pictured those glorious lineaments, will be
Stirred up and troubled like a stormy sea;-
But they will yet re-settle-by-and-by.
They will re-settle when the soul is still’d,
Its passions, its wild longings, and its pain;
The pure reflection will shine out again
When earth’s hopes are relinquish’d, unfulfill’d.
They will re-settle in those after-years
When life’s hard lessons have been conned and learn’d;
When this child’s beauty will have all return’d,
More lovely for the trouble and the tears.
They will re-settle in the calm of death,
When the sweet eyes are laid asleep, and when
The heart is hush’d. Truly God’s likeness then-
The mirror clear, unsullied by a breath.
Ah! while I look, and trace each tender line,
I think most of the day when I shall see
The dear face in that perfect purity,
Its mortal features clothed with the divine.
This self-same face, but with the image bright,
Nevermore undefined, and faint, and dim;
This self-same face, yet like the face of Him,
In glory and in beauty infinite.
A few random poems:
- Prisoner by Rabindranath Tagore
- To One Shortly to Die. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Британишский – Греч: Встреча с Батюшковым
- Владимир Маяковский – Помните
- Invern poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Illusion
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Переход
- At Last She Comes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Вера Звягинцева – Пойдёте пешком на кладбище
- On The Disadvantages Of Central Heating poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Two Lacquer Prints poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочий, не смотри Антанте в рот… (РОСТА №173)
- Let The Weary World Go Round poem – Alfred Austin
- Turn, O Libertad. by Walt Whitman
- Melville And Coghill – The Place Of The Little Hand poem – Andrew Lang poems
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
- Владимир Маяковский – Пример, не достойный подражания
- Владимир Маяковский – Приказ по армии искусства
- Сергей Михалков – Приехавшей из Африки девчушке
- Владимир Маяковский – При свободной торговле… (Главполитпросвет №232)
- Владимир Маяковский – Праздновать способы разные, как мы праздник отпразднуем? (РОСТА № 383)
- Владимир Маяковский – Праздник урожая
- Владимир Маяковский – Права кооперации расширены декретом… (Главполитпросвет №154)
- Владимир Маяковский – Пожарные лозунги (1928)
- Владимир Маяковский – Повествование это о странствии эсера вокруг света (Красный перец)
- Владимир Маяковский – Потрясающие факты
- Владимир Маяковский – Постоял здесь, мотнулся туда
- Владимир Маяковский – Посмотрим сами, покажем им
- Маяковский – Послушайте: Стих Владимира Маяковского – Читать текст стихотворения на Poetry Monster
- Владимир Маяковский – Последняя петербургская сказка
- Владимир Маяковский – Последний баронишко (Главполитпросвет №324)
- Владимир Маяковский – Послание пролетарским поэтам
- Владимир Маяковский – Порядочный гражданин
- Владимир Маяковский – Порт
- Владимир Маяковский – Понедельник – субботник
- Владимир Маяковский – Помощь не придет на такой вой… (Главполитпросвет №14)
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
Ada Cambridge (1844 – 1926), also known as Ada Cross, was an English-born Australian author and poetess. She wrote more than 25 works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works.