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:
- Vision by Siegfried Sassoon
- I See Your Beauty by Ronald G. Auguste
- Thee, God, I Come from poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Bereft by Robert Frost
- Владимир Солоухин – Тропа нацелена в звезду
- The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
- Карие глазки, длинные ноги
- Владимир Набоков – Будь со мной прозрачнее и проще
- Ольга Седакова – Московские картинки
- Before an Examination by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The Licorice Fields at Pontefract poem – John Betjeman poems
- Gratitudes Of A Dozen Roses
- Анатолий Жигулин – Марта, Марта! Весеннее имя
- Robert Burns: A Winter Night :
- With Scindia to Delphi by Rudyard Kipling
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
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
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