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:
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Памяти Александра Цатуриана
- In Poetry by Rifat Ilgaz
- (Inner Tube) by Michael Ondaatje
- Year’s End by Weldon Kees
- Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn by Robert Burns
- Омар Хайям – Не смешно ли весь век по копейке копить
- Ask Me by William Stafford
- Владимир Высоцкий – Упрямо я стремлюсь ко дну
- Robert Burns: On A Scotch Bard, Gone To The West Indies:
- Федор Сологуб – Займитесь чтением в вагоне
- I closed my eyes to creation by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Morris Island by William Gilmore Simms
- Gehazi by Rudyard Kipling
- Song—A Fiddler in the North by Robert Burns
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
- The Jungle Flower
- The Hut
- The Hospital On The Shore
- The Garden Of Kama Kama The Indian Eros
- The Garden By The Bridge
- The First Wife
- The First Lover
- The Dying Prince
- The Convert
- The Cactus
- The Cactus Thicket
- The Bride
- The Aloe
- Syed Amir
- Surface Rights
- Surf Song
- Sunstroke
- Story Of Udaipore Told By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Story Of Lilavanti
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
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.