Before being turned to ashes
by the wrath of the thunderbolt,
he had forced the steer of the tempest
to kneel before his might.
To test
the faith of old
he had worn out his teeth
on the locks of ancient gates.
On the most out-of-the way paths
he struggled,
an unexpected passer-by
whose voice every thicket and bridge
recognized.

A few random poems:
- Sail Away by Rabindranath Tagore
- Вера Полозкова – Манипенни, твой мальчик, видно, неотвратим
- Ярослав Смеляков – Вот опять ты мне вспомнилась, мама
- Robert Burns: Versified Note To Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline:
- The Perch by Seamus Heaney
- Responsibilities; Introduction by William Butler Yeats
- Hudibras and Milton Reconciled by William Somervile
- Низами Гянджеви – Ну, как живешь
- Валерий Брюсов – К моей стране
- On a Certain Lady at Court poem – Alexander Pope
- Who Fancied What A Pretty Sight by William Wordsworth
- A Reminiscence poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- November by Thomas Hood
- Any Soul That Drank the Nectar by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Высоцкий – Москва-Одесса
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
- Far In a Western Brookland poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Far In a Western Brookland poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries poem – A. E. Housman
- Could Man Be Drunk Forever poem – A. E. Housman
- Bring, In This Timeless Grave To Throw poem – A. E. Housman
- Bredon Hill poem – A. E. Housman
- As Through the Wild Green Hills of Wyre poem – A. E. Housman
- Along the field as we came poem – A. E. Housman
- The Haymakers’ Song poem – Alfred Austin
- Love’s Blindness poem – Alfred Austin
- At His Grave poem – Alfred Austin
- Agatha poem – Alfred Austin
- Loves Blindness
- The Haymakers Song
- Loves Blindness
- At His Grave
- Agatha
- Why
- Where Are You
- Tell Me
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