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:
- Николай Заболоцкий – Сон
- El Cafetal by Rafael Guillen
- Алексей Жемчужников – Забудь их шумное волненье
- Валерий Брюсов – Искушение
- Kraj Majales (King Of May) poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The Lamentation Of The Old Pensioner by William Butler Yeats
- Василий Казин – Гармонист
- Sonnet to Italy by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
- Наум Коржавин – Никакой истерики
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Люблю тебя
- A Necklace by William Strode
- Corn A-Turnen Yollow by William Barnes
- The Hon. Sec. poem – John Betjeman poems
- The Dispossessed by Sylvia Plath
- Robert Burns: The Gowden Locks Of Anna:
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
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