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
- Cholera Camp by Rudyard Kipling
- Past One O’Clock … by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Николай Языков – Елагиной
- A Pastiche For Eve by Weldon Kees
- The Welcome
- The Fool Rings His Bells by Walter de la Mare
- … and the moon was sleeping by Steve Troyanovich
- lines_and_squares.html
- Our Refuge
- Нина Воронель – Суета
- betrayal.html
- The Heart That Is Pining by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Yes Dear by Mary Etta Metcalf
- To the Duke of Marlborough, upon His Removal From All His Places by William Somervile
- Cousin Nancy by T. S. Eliot
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).
