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:
- Amarene by Rina Ferrarelli
- Before The Law by Michael Major
- The Nymph’s Reply To The Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Sonnet 66: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry by William Shakespeare
- Михаил Лермонтов – Что толку жить!.. Без приключений
- Vocation by Rabindranath Tagore
- An Insolent Jew
- A Warning To My Readers by Wendell Berry
- Вероника Тушнова – Я стою у открытой двери
- ALL THINGS DECAY AND DIE by Robert Herrick
- Inscriptions Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone by William Wordsworth
- Алексей Жемчужников – Привет весны
- Sonnet 15: When I consider every thing that grows by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Степанов – Гусь и цыплёнок
- Dyer Died In Silence poem – Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson poems | Poems and Poetry
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
- The Jungle Flower
- The Hut
- The Hospital On The Shore
- The Garden Of Kama Kama The Indian Eros
- The Garden By The Bridge
- The First Wife
- The First Lover
- The Dying Prince
- The Convert
- The Cactus
- The Cactus Thicket
- The Bride
- The Aloe
- Syed Amir
- Surface Rights
- Surf Song
- Sunstroke
- Story Of Udaipore Told By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Story Of Lilavanti
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
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