Thinking you had a heart that love could break,
A lovely gentle soul that might awake,
I held you tenderly for either’s sake,
And showed you nothing but love’s ecstasy.
Now, though you have no heart to melt or burn,
No soul to wonder, meditate or yearn,
Your beauty is a fact; lie still and learn
Something of passionate love’s intensity.

A few random poems:
- Listen To The Mustn’ts by Shel Silverstein
- Николай Языков – Послание к А. Н. Очкину (О, ты, с которым я, от юношеских лет)
- The Pact by Sharon Olds
- Dark Room( qua vadis) by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Robert Burns: Castle Gordon:
- The Spring by Thomas Carew
- The Storm by Rainbow Reed
- The Sultans Palace
- Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All. by Walt Whitman
- My Spouse Nancy by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: Tarbolton Lasses, The:
- The Nympholept
- Алексей Ржевский – Рок все теперь свершил, надежды больше нет
- Sonnet CXX by William Shakespeare
- Омар Хайям – Муки старят красавиц
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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.