The rice-birds fly so white, so silver white,
The velvet rice-flats lie so emerald green,
My heart inhales, with sorrowful delight,
The sweet and poignant sadness of the scene.
The swollen tawny river seeks the sea,
Its hungry waters, never satisfied,
Beflecked with fallen log and torn-up tree,
Engulph the fisher-huts on either side.
The current brought a stranger yesterday,
And laid him on the sand beneath a palm,
His worn young face was partly torn away,
His eyes, that saw the world no more, were calm
We could not close his eyelids, stiff with blood,–
But, oh, my brother, I had changed with thee
For I am still tormented in the flood,
Whilst thou hast done thy work, and reached the sea.
A few random poems:
- The blanket is same always by Neelam Sinha
- The Mocking Bird by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Sonnet CXLII by William Shakespeare
- Wilful Missing by Rudyard Kipling
- Fragment Of An Ode To Maia. Written On May Day 1818 poem – John Keats poems
- Comments: A Life Well Lived is Always an Inspiration – My Friend Muniappan Velu of Chennai, India
- On Passing The New Menin Gate by Siegfried Sassoon
- To Autumn poem – John Keats poems
- Conscious by Wilfred Owen
- By The Fire
- At His Grave poem – Alfred Austin
- Houses Of Dreams by Sara Teasdale
- Flowers of Sion: Sonnet 3 – Look how the flower by William Drummond
- Many Inventions by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Корнилов – Державинское
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
- Валерий Брюсов – После ночи бессонной
- Валерий Брюсов – Я жизнью пьян. Напиток жгучий
- Василий Каменский – Из Симеиза в Алупку
- Василий Казин – Письмо
- Василий Казин – Ожидание
- Василий Казин – Ну, тебя ль, далекая
- Василий Казин – Не потому ль к любви вселенской
- Василий Казин – На могиле матери
- Василий Казин – Мой отец простой водопроводчик
- Василий Казин – Кирилл и Мефодий
- Василий Казин – Каменщик
- Василий Казин – Гармонист
- Василий Казин – Эпоха
- Василий Кубанёв – 12 июля
- Василий Курочкин – Юмористическим чутьем
- Василий Курочкин – Старая песня
- Василий Курочкин – Счастливец
- Василий Курочкин – Раздумье
- Василий Курочкин – Поэту адвокату
- Василий Курочкин – Ни в мать, ни в отца
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.