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:
- Most Precious by R. L. Karlowsky
- A Tree Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Николай Гумилев – На далекой звезде Венере
- Blackberry-Picking by Seamus Heaney
- It is a Show by Rixa White
- “`Know, Nature, like the cuckoo, laughs at law” poem – Alfred Austin
- The Craftsman by Rudyard Kipling
- Илья Эренбург – Я слышу всё, и горестные шепоты
- Шекспир – Неужто я, приняв любви венец – Сонет 114
- Dinner Date by Rainbow Reed
- Николай Рубцов – Ветер всхлипывал, словно дитя
- Омар Хайям – Кто не грешит?
- Poems On Man by Rabindranath Tagore
- Олег Чупров – Взлетев высоко и прекрасно
- How Sweet It Is, When Mother Fancy Rocks by William Wordsworth
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
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- Kyrenaikos
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- Vivien
- I Loved
- Virginibus Puerisque
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- Fragments
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Eudaemon
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
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
