Au Salon

A sky intensely blue, a low, white wall

Against it heaps of up-blown yellow sand,

A sleeping figure, holding in her hand

Some scarlet cactus blossom; that was all.

And yet so mellowly the sunbeams fell

Upon the sunburnt limbs, such subtle play

Of rosy light and tender shadow lay

Upon the upturned face, that all could tell

An artist painted with a poet’s eyes;

And warmly an enthusiastic glow

Ran through the groups that criticised, below

While one, who gazed with pleasure and surprise

Said, and I do not think he said amiss,

“He was her lover when he painted this!”

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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 

• On The Tomb Of A Priestess Of Artemis by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• To One who Loved not Poetry by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• To One False In Love by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• To Aphrodite by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• To A Girl In A Garden by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• Before They Were Mothers by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• The Torments Of Love by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• The Silver Moon by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• The Death Of Adonis by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• Like The Sweet Apple by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• In the spring twilight by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• The Silver Moon by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• Sappho To Her Girlfriends by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• To One who Loved not Poetry by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• On The Tomb Of A Priestess Of Artemis by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• Of course I love you by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• Ode To A Loved One by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• My Garden by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• Loneliness by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

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.

 

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