Out I came from the dancing-place:
The night-wind met me face to face–
A wind off the harbour, cold and keen,
“I know,” it whistled, “where thou hast been.”
A faint voice fell from the stars above–
“Thou? whom we lighted to shrines of Love!”
I found when I reached my lonely room
A faint sweet scent in the unlit gloom.
And this was the worst of all to bear,
For someone had left while lilac there.
The flower you loved, in times that were.

A few random poems:
- first_verse.html
 - Ольга Берггольц – Встреча
 - Владимир Высоцкий – Наши добрые зрители
 - Ольга Седакова – Госпожа и служанка
 - Epigram—Kirk and State Excisemen by Robert Burns
 - Robert Burns: O Thou Dread Power: Lying at a reverend friend’s house one night, the author left the following verses in the room where he slept:-
 - Description of Love by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
 - My Father’s Love Letters poem – Yusef Komunyakaa poems | Poetry Monster
 - A Glimpse. by Walt Whitman
 - Владимир Бенедиктов – Мысль
 - Sonnet CXVIII by William Shakespeare
 - On The University Carrier Who Sickn’d In The Time Of His Vacancy, Being Forbid To Go To London, By Reason Of The Plague poem – John Milton poems
 - Владимир Высоцкий – Жил-был человек, который очень много видел
 - Sonnet 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is by William Shakespeare
 - Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
 
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
- Анатолий Жигулин – Ах, речка, речка Тебердинка
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Ах, как весело листья летят
 - Аля Кудряшева – Зима застыла среди теней
 - Аля Кудряшева – Замылим, потом замолим
 - Аля Кудряшева – Я тут недавно встретила свое прошлое
 - Аля Кудряшева – Я работаю солнечной батареей
 - Аля Кудряшева – Я этой ночью уйду, не спи
 - Аля Кудряшева – Ходят катера по Малой Невке
 - Аля Кудряшева – Все не то чтобы исчезло
 - Аля Кудряшева – Вечер большого дня
 - Аля Кудряшева – В этом городе птичий полет шелестит быстролистыми кленами
 - Аля Кудряшева – Тяжело деревьям зимой
 - Аля Кудряшева – Ты рисуй, девочка, небо пошире
 - Аля Кудряшева – Трилогия перед годом (Цепочка ассоциаций)
 - Аля Кудряшева – Тишина
 - Аля Кудряшева – Театр-весна
 - Аля Кудряшева – Такие слишком медовые эти луны
 - Аля Кудряшева – Снова current
 - Аля Кудряшева – Слишком уж зол ветер
 - Аля Кудряшева – Рыбный вальсок
 
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
	
Violet Nicolson ( 1865 – 1904); otherwise known as Adela Florence Nicolson (née Cory), was an English poetess who wrote under the pseudonym of Laurence Hope, however she became known as Violet Nicolson. In the early 1900s, she became a best-selling author. She committed suicide and is buried in Madras, now Chennai, India.