There are some nights when
sleep plays coy,
aloof and disdainful.
And all the wiles
that I employ to win
its service to my side
are useless as wounded pride,
and much more painful.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Sonet 54 by William Alexander
- Doomes-Day: The Ninth Houre by William Alexander
- The Gardener XVI: Hands Cling to Eyes by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Mermaid poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- What is Poetry? by Mark Olynyk
- Oh could my Mind
- To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu poem – Alexander Pope
- Алексей Ржевский – Рондо (И всякий так живет)
- Mowing by Robert Frost
- Nature’s Law: A Poem by Robert Burns
- Orlando Furioso Canto 1 by Ludovico Ariosto
- On A Mistake In His Translation Of Homer by William Cowper
- Little Of Me by Rabindranath Tagore
- At The End Of The Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- Омар Хайям – До того, как мы чашу судьбы изопьем
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).