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:
- Владимир Набоков – Поэт
- Ольга Седакова – Неужели, Мария, только рамы скрипят
- The Call of the Crows by Tanmoy
- Sonnet 11 poem – John Milton poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочие столицы, крестьяне окраины… (Роста №89)
- Владимир Высоцкий – В этом доме большом раньше пьянка была
- Getting There by Sylvia Plath
- And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time by William Blake
- Robert Burns: Young Jockie Was The Blythest Lad:
- Colonel Martin by William Butler Yeats
- Facing West from California’s Shores. by Walt Whitman
- Manhattan Streets I Saunter’d, Pondering. by Walt Whitman
- Николай Некрасов – Весна
- Has Your Soul Sipped? by Wilfred Owen
- To the Right Hon. Lady Anne Coventry by William Somervile
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
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Intruder
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Hellcat
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The White Cliffs
- The Next Chance
- The Melancholy of Birth
- The islands of happiness
- The Internet Romance
- The End of the World
- The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Tears
- Teachers Day special
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
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