THE thirsty earth soaks up the rain,
And drinks and gapes for drink again;
The plants suck in the earth, and are
With constant drinking fresh and fair;
The sea itself (which one would think
Should have but little need of drink)
Drinks twice ten thousand rivers up,
So fill’d that they o’erflow the cup.
The busy Sun (and one would guess
By ‘s drunken fiery face no less)
Drinks up the sea, and when he ‘s done,
The Moon and Stars drink up the Sun:
They drink and dance by their own light,
They drink and revel all the night:
Nothing in Nature ‘s sober found,
But an eternal health goes round.
Fill up the bowl, then, fill it high,
Fill all the glasses there-for why
Should every creature drink but I?
Why, man of morals, tell me why?
A few random poems:
- The Bard by William Gilmore Simms
- Spring – The First Pastoral ; or Damon poem – Alexander Pope
- Extemporaneous Effusion on being appointed to an Excise Division by Robert Burns
- Winter Wind by Vasil Slavov
- Sketch—New Year’s Day, 1790 by Robert Burns
- Sonnet 103: Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth by William Shakespeare
- Couplet 10 poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- In the Country by William Henry Davies
- Ka ‘Ba poem – Amiri Baraka poems | Poems and Poetry
- His Holiness the Abbot by Yosa Buson
- Николай Языков – Услад
- Evening balcony by Vladimir Marku
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – В метро
- Italy
- Among Children by Philip Levine
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
- Олег Бундур – Не боюсь
- Олег Бундур – Настроение
- Олег Бундур – Наши неприятности
- Олег Бундур – Нарасхват
- Олег Бундур – На высоком берегу
- Олег Бундур – На связи
- Олег Бундур – Летняя гроза
- Олег Бундур – Лагуна
- Олег Бундур – Кулинар
- Олег Бундур – Кто идет?
- Олег Бундур – Кто делает весну?
- Олег Бундур – Красивая мама
- Олег Бундур – Копуша
- Олег Бундур – Колыбельная для мамы
- Олег Бундур – Когда я вернусь
- Олег Бундур – Клубника созрела
- Олег Бундур – Каменный берег
- Олег Бундур – Как папа прогуливал школу
- Олег Бундур – Как мама машину выбирала
- Олег Бундур – Из магазина
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
Abraham Cowley (1618 – 1667), the Royalist Poet.Poet and essayist Abraham Cowley was born in London, England, in 1618. He displayed early talent as a poet, publishing his first collection of poetry, Poetical Blossoms (1633), at the age of 15. Cowley studied at Cambridge University but was stripped of his Cambridge fellowship during the English Civil War and expelled for refusing to sign the Solemn League and Covenant of 1644. In turn, he accompanied Queen Henrietta Maria to France, where he spent 12 years in exile, serving as her secretary. During this time, Cowley completed The Mistress (1647). Arguably his most famous work, the collection exemplifies Cowley’s metaphysical style of love poetry. After the Restoration, Cowley returned to England, where he was reinstated as a Cambridge fellow and earned his MD before finally retiring to the English countryside. He is buried at Westminster Abbey alongside Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser. Cowley is a wonderful poet and an outstanding representative of the English baroque.