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 Cornfields by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Британишский – Матери моей
- Basic Overhaul by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Wild Soul by Michael Yuan
- From Far, From Eve and Morning poem – A. E. Housman
- Владимир Высоцкий – В этом доме большом раньше пьянка была
- Address to Beelzebub by Robert Burns
- Омар Хайям – Не зарекайся пить бесценных гроздий сок
- Don’t Ask Me Why poem – Alexander Pushkin
- A Fable by William Cowper
- Mr. Apollinax by T. S. Eliot
- Deeply Morbid by Stevie Smith
- Dialogue En Route by Sylvia Plath
- As the Time Draws Nigh. by Walt Whitman
- Николай Глазков – Пятнадцать лет спустя
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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.