Infelix

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.

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Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Poems in English 

• Алексей Жемчужников – Почему by Алексей Жемчужников
• Алексей Жемчужников – Письмо к юноше о ничтожности by Алексей Жемчужников
• Алексей Жемчужников – Пауза by Алексей Жемчужников
• Алексей Жемчужников – Памятник Пушкину by Алексей Жемчужников
• Алексей Жемчужников – Отголосок девятой симфонии Бетховена by Алексей Жемчужников
• Алексей Жемчужников – Осенью в швейцарской деревне by Алексей Жемчужников
• Алексей Жемчужников – О, жизнь by Алексей Жемчужников
• Алексей Хомяков – Русская песня by Алексей Хомяков
• Алексей Хомяков – Ritterspruch – Richterspruch by Алексей Хомяков
• Алексей Хомяков – Раскаявшейся России by Алексей Хомяков
• Алексей Хомяков – Просьба by Алексей Хомяков
• Алексей Толстой – Войдем сюда; здесь меж руин by Алексей Константинович Толстой
• Алексей Толстой – Вновь растворилась дверь by Алексей Константинович Толстой
• Алексей Толстой – Вeсeнние чувства by Алексей Константинович Толстой
• Алексей Толстой – Василий Шибанов by Алексей Константинович Толстой
• Алексей Толстой – В совести искал я долго обвиненья by Алексей Константинович Толстой
• Алексей Толстой – В колокол, мирно дремавший, с налета тяжелая бомба by Алексей Константинович Толстой
• Алексей Толстой – В альбом (Стрелок, на той поляне) by Алексей Константинович Толстой
• Алексей Толстой – Уж ты нива моя, нивушка by Алексей Константинович Толстой
• Алексей Толстой – Уж ласточки, кружась, над крышей щебетали by Алексей Константинович Толстой

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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.

 

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