I have never feared death
Even though
Its hands were more fragile
Than banality.
I dread, however, to die
In a land where
The grave digger’s wages
Exceed the price of human freedom.
Looking for,
Discovering,
Choosing freely,
And transforming one’s essence
Into a fortress.
If the price of death is higher than all that,
I deny, in absolute terms,
To have ever feared death.
A few random poems:
- One Lovely Name by Walter Savage Landor
- The Mower’s Song poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Song Of The Enfifa River
- Untitled #13 by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Sunday Morning Blues poem – A. D. Winans poems | Poetry Monster
- Ольга Седакова – Стансы третьи (Вино и плавание)
- Федор Сологуб – Я иду путём опасным
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Despairing Cries. by Walt Whitman
- Ode to Duty by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: One Night As I Did Wander:
- Игорь Северянин – Памяти Н.И. Кульбина
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4 poem – Alexander Pope
- Владимир Маяковский – Буржуй, прощайся с приятными деньками
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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
