This passion is but an ember
Of a Sun, of a Fire, long set;
I could not live and remember,
And so I love and forget.
You say, and the tone is fretful,
That my mourning days were few,
You call me over forgetful–
My God, if you only knew!
A few random poems:
- The People by William Butler Yeats
- Now That You’re Gone by Roberto Cocina
- Harp Song of the Dane Women by Rudyard Kipling
- The Proud Farmer by Vachel Lindsay
- Before They Were Mothers by Sappho
- Dialogue Between a Sovereign and a One-Pound Note by Thomas Moore
- Владимир Маяковский – Учитесь! (РОСТА №937)
- The Twins poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Британишский – Гердер в Риге
- Sic Vos Non Vobis
- Sonnet 103: Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth by William Shakespeare
- Lover’s Gifts XIII: Last Night in the Garden by Rabindranath Tagore
- Robert Burns: The Farewell To the Brethren of St. James’ Lodge, Tarbolton:
- On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank poem – A. E. Housman
- A Warning To My Readers by Wendell Berry
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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.