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:
- Epistle To My Brother George poem – John Keats poems
- In Memory Of Alfred Pollexfen by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: The Gallant Weaver:
- Владимир Маяковский – Дядя ЭМЭСПЭО
- Ольга Седакова – В незапамятных зимах
- English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. Bellona. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
- A Pact poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Spring Thing by Paul Blackburn
- Half-Man by Satish Verma
- Like The Sweet Apple by Sappho
- An Autumn-Blooming Rose poem – Alfred Austin
- Олег Бундур – Колыбельная для мамы
- Вера Павлова – Перед дальней дорогой
- Epitaph on William Hood, Senior by Robert Burns
- Василий Тредиаковский – Песенка любовна
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
- Unlyric Love Song
- Tube Station
- To Be Blind
- The Man In The Bowler Hat
- the_children_look_at_the_parents.html
- The British
- symphony_in_red.html
- seaport.html
- sea.html
- quickstep.html
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- not_love_perhaps.html
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
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