And grasses in the mead renew their birth,
The river to the river-bed withdraws,
And altered is the fashion of the earth.
The Nymphs and Graces three put off their fear
And unapparelled in the woodland play.
The swift hour and the brief prime of the year
Say to the soul, Thou wast not born for aye.
Thaw follows frost; hard on the heel of spring
Treads summer sure to die, for hard on hers
Comes autumn with his apples scattering;
Then back to wintertide, when nothing stirs.
But oh, whate’er the sky-led seasons mar,
Moon upon moon rebuilds it with her beams;
Come we where Tullus and where Ancus are
And good Aeneas, we are dust and dreams.
Torquatus, if the gods in heaven shall add
The morrow to the day, what tongue has told?
Feast then thy heart, for what thy heart has had
The fingers of no heir will ever hold.
When thou descendest once the shades among,
The stern assize and equal judgment o’er,
Not thy long lineage nor thy golden tongue,
No, nor thy righteousness, shall friend thee more.
Night holds Hippolytus the pure of stain,
Diana steads him nothing, he must stay;
And Theseus leaves Pirithous in the chain
The love of comrades cannot take away.
A few random poems:
- Ольга Берггольц – Знаю, чем меня пленила
- On the Countess of Burlington Cutting Paper poem – Alexander Pope
- Wordsworth At Dove Cottage poem – Alfred Austin
- Impresa by Satish Verma
- After Our Likeness
- Lover’s Gifts LVI: The Evening Was Lonely by Rabindranath Tagore
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись на иллюминацию, представленную ее императорскому Величеству от их императорских высочеств в Ораниенбауме 1750 года июля 31 дня
- Eternal Drift by Satish Verma
- Song in the Manner of Housman poem – Ezra Pound poems
- A Woman Waits for Me. by Walt Whitman
- Men Improve With The Years by William Butler Yeats
- The Leaden-Eyed by Vachel Lindsay
- The Theatre of Illusion by Pierre Corneille
- Владимир Маяковский – Театры
- Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop by William Butler Yeats
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
- All Things Will Die poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- 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
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