Although my life, which thou hast scarred and shaken,
Retains awhile some influence of thee,
As shells, by faithless waves long since forsaken,
Still murmur with the music of the Sea,
I shall forget. Not thine the haunting beauty,
Which, once beheld, for ever holds the heart,
Or, if resigned from stress of Fate or Duty,
Takes part of life away:–the dearer part.
I gave thee love; thou gavest but Desire.
Ah, the delusion of that summer night!
Thy soul vibrated at the rate of Fire;
Mine, with the rhythm of the waves of Light.
It is my love for thee that I regret,
Not thee, thyself, and hence,–I shall forget!

A few random poems:
- To the Victor by William Ellery Leonard
 - Without exile, who am I? by Mahmoud Darwish
 - Sonnet 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye by William Shakespeare
 - Constancy To An Ideal Object by Samuel Coleridge
 - The joyful things in life by Martin Smith
 - A Conversation At Dawn by Thomas Hardy
 - Владимир Маяковский – Гимн обеду
 - Workin’ It Out by Shel Silverstein
 - Olney Hymn 32: The Shining Light by William Cowper
 - I Wait For You… poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
 - The Lent Lily poem – A. E. Housman
 - Fancy Dress by Siegfried Sassoon
 - My Friend by Rabindranath Tagore
 - Who of you ever
 - The Tollund Man by Seamus Heaney
 
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 Маяковский – Песня-молния
 - Владимир Маяковский – Первый вывоз
 - Владимир Маяковский – Первый из пяти
 - Владимир Маяковский – Первомайское поздравление
 - Владимир Маяковский – Переворот в Германии (Роста №42)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Перекопский энтузиазм
 - Владимир Маяковский – Пахали сохой — запашем трактором (Главполитпросвет №42)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Октябрьский марш
 - Владимир Маяковский – Октябрьские частушки
 - Владимир Маяковский – Октябрь 1917–1926
 - Владимир Маяковский – Офицер! Смотри на эту саблю (РОСТА)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Ода революции
 - Владимир Маяковский – Общее руководство для начинающих подхалим
 - Владимир Маяковский – Обряды кому и на кой ляд целовальный обряд
 - Облако в штанах – Владимир Маяковский: читать поэму онлайн, текст стихотворения полностью – Стихи Poetry Monster
 - Владимир Маяковский – О том, как у Керзона с обедом разрасталась аппетитов зона
 - Владимир Маяковский – О том, как некие сектантцы зовут рабочего на танцы
 - Владимир Маяковский – О патриархе Тихоне
 - Владимир Маяковский – О дряни
 - Владимир Маяковский – О чем в наступающем думаем году мы
 
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.