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:
- Федор Сологуб – Под черёмухой цветущей
- Владимир Британишский – Как из конного двора
- Nature And the Book poem – Alfred Austin
- The Lads in Their Hundreds poem – A. E. Housman
- I Begin To Think by Satish Verma
- Epitaph For Fire And Flower by Sylvia Plath
- The Fountain by Sara Teasdale
- Lonely Poets by Ndue Ukaj
- Untitled XVIII by Yunus Emre
- Sonnet III: Look In Thy Glass, and Tell the Face Thou Viewest by William Shakespeare
- Break, Break, Break poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Oh Who Is That Young Sinner poem – A. E. Housman
- To One False In Love by Sappho
- Shallow Valley by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Grammar by Tony Hoagland
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.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