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:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мог бы быть я при тёще, при тесте
- Анатолий Жигулин – Дорога
- Bistro Memories by P.J.Reed
- Sonnet 4: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend by William Shakespeare
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня микрофона
- Les Roses de Sâdi poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Sonnet 118: Like as to make our appetite more keen by William Shakespeare
- The Well Of Love by Walter William Safar
- A Song of Peach-Blossom River by Wang Wei
- Becalmed and Bewildered by Thomas J Camp
- The Fairies Break Their Dances by A. E. Housman
- The Carter by William Barnes
- In Our Time by Michael D Wentworth
- Юрий Левитанский – Кто-то так уже писал
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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.