I, who of lighter love wrote many a verse,
Made public never words inspired by thee,
Lest strangers’ lips should carelessly rehearse
Things that were sacred and too dear to me.
Thy soul was noble; through these fifteen years
Mine eyes familiar, found no fleck nor flaw,
Stern to thyself, thy comrades’ faults and fears
Proved generously thine only law.
Small joy was I to thee; before we met
Sorrow had left thee all too sad to save.
Useless my love–as vain as this regret
That pours my hopeless life across thy grave.

A few random poems:
- The Fall by William Barnes
- Федор Сологуб – Во внутреннем дворе отеля
- The Artist by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Валерий Брюсов – Грустный вечер
- Sonnet 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent by William Shakespeare
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Соме le onde
- Untitled XXVI by Yunus Emre
- A Pastoral Upon The Birth of Prince Charles: Presented to the King, and Set by Mr Nic. Laniere by Robert Herrick
- Time’s Defence poem – Alfred Austin
- Berenda Slough by Philip Levine
- Astrophel and Stella: XXXIII by Sir Philip Sidney
- A child said, What is the grass by Walt Whitman
- The Tame Bird Was In A Cage by Rabindranath Tagore
- Time of Roses by Thomas Hood
- Lines written on a Bank-note by Robert Burns
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
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Праздник на биваке
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Пожар
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Потоки
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Пируя праздник возвращенья
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Певец
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Песнь соловья
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Пещеры Кизиль-коба
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Переход
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Переселение
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Отзыв на вызов
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Звездочет
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Знакомое место
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Желания
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Затмение
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Запретный плод
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Южная ночь
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Я знаю, люблю я бесплодно
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Я. П. Полонскому
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Христианские мысли перед битвами
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Вьющееся растение
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.