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:
- Василий Курочкин – Старая песня
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XXIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Two Sonnets On Fame poem – John Keats poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Осеннее утро
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law By Adrienne Rich
- Never Give All The Heart by William Butler Yeats
- Вера Павлова – Снежную бабочку-однодневку
- Новелла Матвеева – Восток, прошедший чрез воображенье
- Orlando Furioso Canto 3 by Ludovico Ariosto
- O Singer in Brown by Mary Gilmore
- Василий Курочкин – Поэту адвокату
- Alone by Siegfried Sassoon
- Sonet 44 by William Alexander
- On The Dunes by Sara Teasdale
- Earth-Moon by Ted Hughes
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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