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:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня про стукача
- Bleäke’s House In Blackmwore by William Barnes
- Такахама Кёси – Иокогама в утро моего возвращения из Франции
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нынче он закончил вехи
- For The Moment by Pierre Reverdy
- Lead Soldiers poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Extempore On Some Commemorations Of Thomson:
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Распутие
- Николай Некрасов – В полном разгаре страда деревенская
- The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race by Vachel Lindsay
- Glitches by Satish Verma
- The Withdrawal by Robert Lowell
- Олег Сердобольский – Два кораблика
- Like Barley Bending by Sara Teasdale
- dear moon, you will understand by Raj Arumugam
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
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- 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