She is glad to receive your turquoise ring,
Dear and dark-eyed Lover of mine!
I, to have given you everything:
Beauty maddens the soul like Wine.
“She is proud to have held aloof her charms,
Slender, dark-eyed Lover of mine!
But I, of the night you lay in my arms:
Beauty maddens the sense like Wine!
“She triumphs to think that your heart is won,
Stately, dark-eyed Lover of mine!
I had not a thought of myself, not one:
Beauty maddens the brain like Wine!
“She will speak you softly, while skies are blue,
Dear, deluded Lover of mine!
I would lose both body and soul for you:
Beauty maddens the brain like Wine!
“While the ways are fair she will love you well,
Dear, disdainful Lover of mine!
But I would have followed you down to Hell:
Beauty maddens the soul like Wine!
“Though you lay at her feet the days to be,
Now no longer Lover of mine!
You can give her naught that you gave not me:
Beauty maddened my soul like Wine!
“When the years have shown what is false or true:
Beauty maddens the sight like Wine!
You will understand how I cared for you,
First and only Lover of mine!”

A few random poems:
- Алексей Жемчужников – Забудь их шумное волненье
 - Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchencruive by Robert Burns
 - Magdalen poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Follow My Directions, Please: A Fun Christian Preschool Activity
 - Алексей Жемчужников – Радостные куплеты
 - A Forest Hymn by William Cullen Bryant
 - On Visiting The Tomb Of Burns poem – John Keats poems
 - Николай Гумилев – Людям будущего
 - Вера Павлова – У святителя вместо спины
 - Poem (The lump of coal my parents teased) by William Matthews
 - On Carpaccio’s Picture: The Dream of St. Ursula poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Наум Коржавин – Нелепые ваши затеи
 - The Dolls by William Butler Yeats
 - Done is a battle by William Dunbar
 - Николай Карамзин – Там всё велико, всё прелестно
 
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
- Denner’s Old Woman by William Cowper
 - On The Death Of The Vice-Chancellor, A Physician (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
 - Catharina : The Second Part. On Her Marriage To George Courtenay, Esq. by William Cowper
 - By Philemon by William Cowper
 - By Moschus by William Cowper
 - By Heraclides by William Cowper
 - By Callimachus by William Cowper
 - On the Burning of Lord Mansfield’s Library by William Cowper
 - Boadicea. An Ode by William Cowper
 - Aspirations Of The Soul After God by William Cowper
 - Apology to Delia by William Cowper
 - Anti-Thelyphthora. A Tale In Verse by William Cowper
 - Answer To Stanzas Addressed To Lady Hesketh By Miss Catharine Fanshawe, In Returning A Poem by William Cowper
 - Annus Memorabilis : Written in Commemoration of His Majesty’s Happy Recovery by William Cowper
 - An Ode, On Reading Mr. Richardson’s History Of Sir Charles Grandison by William Cowper
 - An Epitaph by William Cowper
 - An Epitaph (From The Greek) by William Cowper
 - An Epitaph 4 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
 - An Epitaph 3 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
 - An Epitaph 2 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
 
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.