The Poets
A
Henry Abbey (1842-1911)
Mark Akenside (1721-1770)
Yosano Akiko (1878-1942)
Abdallah Al Ma'arri (977-1057)
Washington Allston (1779-1843)
Isabella Andreini (1562-1604)
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
B
Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694)
Anne Bannerman (1765-1859)
Mary Barber (1685-1757)
Richard Barnfield (1574-1620)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Elizabeth Bath (1776-1844)
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
William Blake (1757-1827)
L.S. Bevington (1845-1895)
Mathilde Blind (1841-1896)
Anne Lynch Botta (1815-1891)
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
Anne Brontë (1820-1849)
Emily Brontё (1818-1848)
C
Luis de Camoẽs (1524-1580)
Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806)
Alice Cary (1820-1871)
Anica Černej (1900-1944)
Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400)
John Clare (1793-1864)
Caroline Clive (1801-1872)
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1679-1749)
D
Ruben Dario (1867-1916)
Samuel Daniel (1562-1620)
Johan Andreas Der Mouw (1863-1919)
Henry Austin Dobson (1840-1921)
Jon Donne (1572-1631)
Edward Dyer (1540-1607)
E
Max Ehrmann (1872-1945)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Yunus Emre (1240-1321)
Florbela Espanca (1894-1930)
F
Teréz Ferenczy (1823-1853)
Jean de La Fontaine (1622-1695)
Theodor Fontane (1819-1898)
Caroline Fry (1787-1849)
G
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Octavian Goga (1881-1938)
Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870)
Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837-1914)
H
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843)
Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
George Moses Horton (1779-1883)
I
Ikkyu (1394-1481)
J
Samuel Johnson (1708-1784)
Ben Jonson (1573-1637)
Étienne de Jouy (1764-1846)
K
John Keats (1795-1821)
Frances Ann Kemble (1809-1893)
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Anne Killigrew (1660-1685)
Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584)
Ignacy Krasicki (1735-1801)
L
Mary Lamb (1764-1847)
Lao-tzu (c.6th BCE)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838)
Thøger Larsen (1875–1928)
Else Laske-Schüler (1869-1945)
Henry Lawson (1867-1922)
D H Lawrence (1885-1930)
Henryka Łazowertówna (1899-1942)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
Lucretius (99BCE-55BCE)
M
Elizabeth Roberts Macdonald (1864-1922)
Clement Marot (1497-1544)
Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
Tadeusz Miciński (1873-1918)
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914)
Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
Susanna Moodie (1803-1885)
N
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Cyprian Norwid (1821-1883)
Julia Nyberg (1784-1854)
O
Charlotta Öberg (1818-1856)
P
Thomas Parnell (1679-1718)
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891-1945)
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374)
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Savitribai Phule (1831-1897)
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1865-1940)
Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837)
Q
Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
R
Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)
James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)
Mary Darby Robinson (1758-1800)
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
S
Anna Seward (1742-1809)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)
Juliusz Słowacki (1809-1849)
Sōgi (1421-1502)
Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618)
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
T
Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Elizabeth Tudor (1533-1603)
V
János Vajda (1827-1897)
Ivan Vazov (1850-1921)
Mihály Csokonai Vitéz (1773-1805)
Renée Vivien (1877-1909)
W
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844-1911)
Anne Wharton (1659-1685)
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
Anna Wickham (1884-1947)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827)
Elinor Wylie (1885-1928)
Stanisław Wyspiański (1869-1907)
Y
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Lin Yining (c.1650-1730)
Z
Xu Zhimo (1896-1931)
Narcyza Żmichowska (1819-1876)
Welcome to Prontobard
An unknown language speaks in us
Fernando Pessoa
which we are at the words of,
fronted from reality.
Welcome to this curious collection of classic poetry, translations, and original work. Prontobard was created to give a voice to past poets, both famous and forgotten, on the ever revolving world of social media. The words were reimagined for the modern world, but their full poems reside here.
Along the way, I have translated various works from different languages. You will find these translations listed below by author, along with a small selection of my own poems.
Original translations
A
Yosano Akiko (1878-1942)
Isabella Andreini (1562-1604)
B
Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694)
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
C
Luis de Camoẽs (1524-1580)
Anica Černej (1900-1944)
D
Ruben Dario (1867-1916)
Johan Andreas Der Mouw (1863-1919)
E
Yunus Emre (1240-1321)
Florbela Espanca (1894-1930)
F
Teréz Ferenczy (1823-1853)
Theodor Fontane (1819-1898)
G
Octavian Goga (1881-1938)
H
Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843)
I
Ikkyu (1394-1481)
J
Étienne de Jouy (1764-1846)
K
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584)
Ignacy Krasicki (1735-1801)
L
Lao-tzu (c.6th BCE)
Thøger Larsen (1875–1928)
Else Laske-Schüler (1869-1945)
Henryka Łazowertówna (1899-1942)
M
Clement Marot (1497-1544)
Tadeusz Miciński (1873-1918)
N
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Cyprian Norwid (1821-1883)
Julia Nyberg (1784-1854)
O
Charlotta Öberg (1818-1856)
P
Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891-1945)
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374)
Savitribai Phule (1831-1897)
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1865-1940)
Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837)
S
Juliusz Słowacki (1809-1849)
Sōgi (1421-1502)
V
János Vajda (1827-1897)
Ivan Vazov (1850-1921)
Mihály Csokonai Vitéz (1773-1805)
Renée Vivien (1877-1909)
W
Stanisław Wyspiański (1869-1907)
Y
Lin Yining (c.1650-1730)
Z
Xu Zhimo (1896-1931)
Narcyza Żmichowska (1819-1876)
Original works
Autumn nights
Dog days
Honey-hipped Adonis
Instapoetry
Love is...
Stargazers
The monster we keep
The taste of Autumn
The unheard cry
The witch hunt
Other features
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