Where is the promise of my years;
Once written on my brow?
Ere errors, agonies and fears
Brought with them all that speaks in tears,
Ere I had sunk beneath my peers;
Where sleeps that promise now?
Naught lingers to redeem those hours,
Still, still to memory sweet!
The flowers that bloomed in sunny bowers
Are withered all; and Evil towers
Supreme above her sister powers
Of Sorrow and Deceit.
I look along the columned years,
And see Life’s riven fane,
Just where it fell, amid the jeers
Of scornful lips, whose mocking sneers,
For ever hiss within mine ears
To break the sleep of pain.
I can but own my life is vain
A desert void of peace;
I missed the goal I sought to gain,
I missed the measure of the strain
That lulls Fame’s fever in the brain,
And bids Earth’s tumult cease.
Myself! alas for theme so poor
A theme but rich in Fear;
I stand a wreck on Error’s shore,
A spectre not within the door,
A houseless shadow evermore,
An exile lingering here.
A few random poems:
- Martin’s Tide by William Barnes
- Encounter In The Chestnut Avenue by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Омар Хайям о Боге и религии: Рубаи, стихи Хайяма про Бога – Poetry Monster
- Михаил Ломоносов – На сочетание стихов Российских
- Ballade Of The Southern Cross poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Олег Бундур – Чем пахнет мама
- Aspirations by SAAJIDA GORA
- Омар Хайям – О, не растите дерево печали
- A Secret by Sylvia Plath
- Олег Бундур – Старания
- Низами Гянджеви – Другим знавала ты меня
- My Mother On An Evening In Late Summer by Mark Strand
- On A Dream poem – John Keats poems
- Альфред де Мюссе – Все мною предано забвенью
- Refrigerator, 1957 by Thomas Lux
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
- Today by Satish Verma
- TIRELESSLY by Satish Verma
- THE WHEELS by Satish Verma
- THE WAX PALACE by Satish Verma
- THE WARS by Satish Verma
- THE MOSAIC by Satish Verma
- The Fall by Satish Verma
- That Is by Satish Verma
- Tall Claims by Satish Verma
- Taking On by Satish Verma
- Taking Off by Satish Verma
- SURVIVAL by Satish Verma
- STUNNED by Satish Verma
- STRIPED NOTHINGS by Satish Verma
- Stray Colors by Satish Verma
- STRANGE HAPPENINGS by Satish Verma
- STONEWASHED by Satish Verma
- STEPPING OUT by Satish Verma
- SOVEREIGNTY by Satish Verma
- Song Of Unquiet Spirit by Satish Verma
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
Adah Isaacs Menken (1835 – 1868) was an American actress and a performer, who painted painter and wrote a number of poems (31 published so far). She was supposedly the highest earning actress of her time. She was best known for her performance in the hippodrama Mazeppa (with libretto based on Pushkin’s work), it is said that the climax of the spectacle featured her apparently nude and riding a horse on stage. After great success for a few years with the play in New York and San Francisco, she appeared in a production in London and Paris, from 1864 to 1866. She was a friend of Alexander Dumas. Adah Menken died in Paris at the age of 33