O Homeland! O Eagle,
Plunging, through the bars of my cell,
Your fiery beak in my eyes!
All I possess in the presence of death
Is pride and fury.
I have willed that my heart be planted as a tree,
That my forehead become an abode for skylarks.
O eagle,
I am unworthy of your lofty wing,
I prefer a crown of flame.
O homeland!
We were born and raised in your wound,
And ate the fruit of your trees,
To witness the birth of your daybreak.
O eagle unjustly languishing in chains,
O legendary death which once was sought,
Your fiery beak is still plunged in my eye.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling
- On A Political Prisoner by William Butler Yeats
- I Rose Up at the Dawn of Day by William Blake
- Sacred Epiphany poem – Ammar Nadeem poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Тёплое слово кое-каким порокам
- Sonnet LXIII by William Shakespeare
- Epitaph On H. Walmsley, Esq., by William Lisle Bowles
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись 3 к статуе Петра Великого
- On The High Pedestal by Shahida Latif
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кострожоги
- Pigeon Haiku by Violet Uram
- What Was Lost by William Butler Yeats
- Валерий Брюсов – Е.Т. (Кто глаза ее оправил)
- I the People poem – Alice Notley
- Владимир Костров – Ботанический сад МГУ
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
