Late, late, the prize is drawn, the goal attained,
The Heart’s Desire fulfilled, Love’s guerdon gained.
Wealth’s use is past, Fame’s crown of laurel mocks
The downward-drooping head and grizzled locks.
The end is reached-the end of toil and strife-
The end of life.
Love flowers and fades like grass, and flowers again;
The spendthrift lovers waste themselves in vain;
Their fiery passions burn out one by one,
And then, alas! when their best days are done,
Spirit and body find their perfect mate-
So late! So late!
Long-sought, long seeking, through the lonely years,
The wanderers meet to weep their useless tears
For time and chance irrevocably flown,
Dear hopes outlived and happy faiths outgrown,
Children unborn, the myriad joys unseen
That might have been.
Not for the spring and morning-time of youth
The perfect flower of slow-unfolding truth,
The perfect love, that dreams of youth foretell,
But youth knows not and youth could never tell;
That light celestial, as of sunset fires
When day expires.
Late comes the gift that crowns the hungry quest,
Like ripe wheat-harvest in a land at rest,
And comes alone, a consecrated cup,
To those proved worthy to sit down and sup.
To them-aye, aye, despite their treasure lost,
‘T’is worth the cost.
‘T’is worth the cost to reach the heights at last,
Ere eyes are dim and daylight overpast.
To see one aim achieved, one dream fulfilled,
Ere striving brain and trusting heart are stilled.
To live one glorious hour-its price of pain
Is never paid in vain.
A few random poems:
- Владимир Маяковский – Столп
- I Stood Tip-Toe Upon A Little Hill poem – John Keats poems
- How Do You Know when Someone is in Love with You?
- Power poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Валерий Брюсов – Февраль
- I Will by Vishü Rita Krocha
- I have fallen into unconsciousness by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- I Chide Not At The Seasons poem – Alfred Austin
- Written On A Blank Space At The End Of Chaucer’s Tale Of The Flowre And The Lefe poem – John Keats poems
- Яков Полонский – Памяти С. Я. Надсона
- Are You Content? by William Butler Yeats
- Faery Songs poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Корнилов – Прежнее слово
- O Nightingale! Thou Surely Art by William Wordsworth
- Superior by Rabindranath Tagore
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
- Orlando Furioso Canto 9 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 8 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 7 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 6 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 5 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 4 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 3 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 24 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 23 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 22 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 21 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 20 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 2 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 19 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 18 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 17 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 16 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 15 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso Canto 14 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Orlando Furioso canto 13 by Ludovico Ariosto
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
Ada Cambridge (1844 – 1926), also known as Ada Cross, was an English-born Australian author and poetess. She wrote more than 25 works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works.